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From: felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Felix Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jaz-Drive: No plug and play? Date: 31 Aug 1996 21:37:30 GMT Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich, Switzerland Message-ID: <50abaq$qjp@elna.ethz.ch> I bought one of thouse new Jaz-Drives, but it's not an easy plug and play as I read it here in the news. After connecting it and booting my black machine (as usual from my external scsi-disk with scsi-id 1), I tried to do a "disk -q /dev/rsd2a" (the Jaz has id 3), a panel popped up asking me to insert a disk in external drive 2. I did this and nothing happened (the lights flashed a bit, but there was no noise). I tried it a few more times, but never ever something happened. (I added a disktab-entry to my /etc/disktab as suggested in the news btw.) So I took the drive to school, hooked it up on a Mac Quadra, was able to install the software (parts of it were taken from the Jaz-Medium, so this was the first time a disk was accepted), rebooted the Mac and was unable to insert the disk again. Well, I could insert it, but nothing happened (except the lights flashing of course, but no noise). I went to another place at school and with the help of a friend was able to connect the drive to a NeXT cube. Everything was perfect. We could insert a Medium and it was automatically and correctly mounted as a Mac-removable disk. The "disk -q" worked as well. "Great, so it's ok", I thought, took it home, connected it directly to my NeXT (without any other drives on the scsi-chain this time) and this time, the "disk -q" worked. Strange. After playing around with my other scsi-devices I found out (at least I thought so) that the Jaz has to be the first device on the chain. I was able to format the disk, install a NeXT-filesystem on it, mount it, was happy and switched everything off. Now (a few hours later) I'm again unable to do anything with the drive. When I try to mount a disk or do a "disk -q", the panel pops up, I insert the disk, the lights flash, a noise does NOT occur and nothing happens. As this is not exactly the behaviour I originally expected from a Jaz-drive, I'm asking you for help. Does anybody understand this? Did something similar happen to any of you? Were you able to solve the problem? Any ideas? Any hint is appreciated. - Felix PS: Right after writing this article I tried it again. I did a "disk -q /dev/rsd2h" and inserted the disk immediately without waiting for the panel and it worked! The drive spinned up adn afterwards, I could mount the disk, copy some stuff on it, umount and eject it (with disk -e). But I can't repeat this now :-(. This drive seems to be some kind of a probabilistic drive... -- Felix Rauch, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. internet: felix@nice.ch (NeXT Mail welcome) For pgp public key finger felix.pgp@nice.ethz.ch
From: rencsok@channelu.com (Randall J. Rencsok) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Booting a Next Cube - CDROM Drive Date: 31 Aug 1996 22:02:31 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <50acpn$ta4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <da-2808960751280001@206.5.99.26> <502o0f$q70@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> In <502o0f$q70@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> Mike Paquette wrote: > da@DnAComp.Com (DnA...) wrote: > >I tried to boot my Next Cube with an old single speed Apple CDROM drive > >using the NS 3.1 User cd with the following command: > >Next> bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1a > > >The system didn't seem to recognize the scsi device. Do I need a Next CD > >drive to boot it? > > The 68030 and older 68040 machines don't understand how to boot from > 2048 byte per block devices like CD-ROMs. You might be able to get a > later ROM version for 68040 machines from DecisionOne (formerly Bell > Atlantic's maintenence group). > > The CD-ROMs shipped with a 'blank' floppy which contains a boot block > capable of booting a 2048 byte per block device. If you boot with > this floppy (using bfd at the ROM monitor) you could then boot the > CD-ROM. > > If you're like most Cube owners, you don't have a floppy. If your > system is still bootable, you can put the CDROM boot block onto some > other bootable media, like an optical or second hard disk. > > # disk -B /usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/rod0a > > You could then boot from this optical (or whatever) to boot the > CD-ROM. > > > Then again, it could be that your Apple Single CD drive is just too > funky... Worked fine for me with the floppy. Single speed CD-150. Randy
From: rencsok@channelu.com (Randall J. Rencsok) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Recommended Hard Drives for m68k NS 3.2 (Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail) Date: 31 Aug 1996 22:24:31 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <50ae30$ta4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960830010534.14538E-100000@charisma> In <Pine.NXT.3.95.960830010534.14538E-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > Ok y'all > > I've heard about Quantum (nothing but bad) and Seagate (mixed). I have one vague report from a guy who services DB clients and says they'll never buy quantum again. I have an Atlas Wide 4.3G. XP34300W rev 581H. Seems fine except every few seconds I hear this bbbblip. Regardless of usage. I don't like hearing that Seagate bought Quantum and possible revision of warranties (not in time, but in terms). The same guy swears by the newer Seagates. I take this with a grain of salt, but keep hearing that bbbblip (like the head is reseeking every 10-30seconds). Our 4.3G 4207S conners seem fine so far (cross our fingers). Personally I've had trouble with Maxtor (they take a long time to return a drive, and don't even have the sense to make sure the jumpers have the same settings). With Seagate I usually had good service, but had a number of older drives fail. And havn't heard good things about the Barracudas. Perhaps the newer batches are more robust. Some last comments. My Seagate ST41650 Rev5398 FH 5 1/4" HD seems like a rock. Not one problem (even after power failures) for at least a year now (and I got it used). Also in terms of noise I found my 520M fujitsu to really be quuuuiiiieeet. But I sold that one some time ago (don't remember model number). > Who do we all agree is a good buy? I'll be looking for a 2gig drive > soon (next 12 mos) because my 1 gig is filling up.... I've got a > MicroPolis, and it has been fine for me for the past year, but I know > nothing about them really... I was on hold for a long time on their > 800 #, but that's expected just about with any computer company.... > none of them have enough people on the phones, if there is such a > thing. > > So if you were willing to spend a little more to get a good, solid > drive from a dependable company with a good return policy but also a > good track record, who would it be (and what model #s). > Randy
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail Date: 29 Aug 1996 15:43:18 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > I've heard from others that their Quantum Empires have > failed under NEXTSTEP now too. > > Buy Seagate, dump Quantum. I've avoided Seagate for years because of its lousy warranty service relative to other disk vendors. The vendors I've dealt with authorize immediate warranty replacement from a dealer's stock (e.g., DEC) or will ship a new drive via overnight express (e.g., HP). The Conner disk I purchased last October failed in May, so I was about to have to use disk warranty repair for the first time. I was dismayed to learn that Conner had been bought by Seagate, so Seagate would be responsible for warranty repair under their, not Conner's, terms :-( My dealer said that Seagate's warranty repair policy required the dealer to thoroughly test the disk to determine whether the disk was really broken which would require several days because of other priorities of my dealer's small technical staff. Then if a problem was found, the dealer would return the disk to Seagate for replacement which was taking at least 1 month!! So I bought a new HP disk because I couldn't be without a disk for so long. 2 months later, I still didn't have a replacement disk from Seagate. It turns out that Seagate will wait as long as it takes to get an exact replacement and that no Conner disks were available. Seagate doesn't care about customer inconvenience apparently. I demanded a comparable replacement, but Seagate offered an old discontinued 5400-RPM low-tech OEM Seagate disk to replace my 7200-RPM high-tech top-of-the-line Conner disk. I refused. After 2 weeks of very time-consuming calls to Seagate with several broken promises ("Your replacement disk will be shipped out tomorrow" - but no disk arrived), I finally called the Seagate V.P. of Repair and threatened to file a complaint with the CA Attorney General's office. A Barracuda arrived. But after this experience, I will continue avoiding Seagate's products. If warranty repair service is important to you (and it should be), consider other disk vendors before buying a Seagate disk. -- 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: hukriede@sally.ifm.uni-kiel.de (Wolfgang Hukriede) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: device driver Conner QIC 80, tape streamer, NS/I ? Date: 29 Aug 1996 23:29:23 GMT Organization: Institute of Computer Science, University of Kiel, Germany Message-ID: <50594j$jke@gutemine.informatik.uni-kiel.de> Hi, Does anyone know whether a such a driver exists? The system is NS 3.3 / Intel. I'm asking for a friend, original mail follows. > Hi wolfgang, > weisst Du ob es einen Treiber fuer einen Tapestreamer (format QIC 80) > fuer Intel-NeXT gibt? Ich wuerde mir naemlich gerne mal ein backup > von meinem Rechner machen. Streamer ist vorhanden (Marke Conner). > Grusz, Thomas Thanks! - Wolfgang.
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From: Christian Vollmert <b0445889@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail config Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 10:40:48 +0200 Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <32294A47.28C0@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi, i'm using ns 3.3 for intel and everything works really fine but i have 2 little problems: first i have an account to my university - so how can i tell ns that he only use my account and don't put my username and localmachinename i think i have to change this in the sendmail.cf but what where and how? i only need one address for every ns user second ghostscript - do anybody know where i get an complete version of ghostscript for ns readymade ! thanxx chris
From: Admin Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Network Performance Problems (Cogent EM 960) Date: 30 Aug 1996 23:25:41 GMT Organization: MARCON - Evstathios Marinos Consulting, Karlsruhe/Germany Message-ID: <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de> Hi, I changed my network card from SMC Elite 16 to a Cogen EM 960 PCI card. From one moment to the other the complete network performance went down at least 200%. I am getting messages like netinfo [lookupd] rpc timed out. Also the NFS performance became bad. Does anybody had a similar problem in the past? My configuration: Processor: Intel 80486 (wrong P6) Primary Memory: 128.00 MB Hostname: bianca Kernel: NeXT Mach 4.0: Sun Apr 21 18:06:55 PDT 1996; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.25.obj~6/RELEASE_I386 System Version: OPENSTEP 4.0 for Mach(Lantern3V1) Drivers Installed: Boot Drivers: DECchip21040NetworkDriver DPTSCSIDriver ISASerialPort Floppy PS2Keyboard PCIBus EISABus Details: DECchip 21040 Network Driver 4.00 PCI bus EATA PCI Controller 4.03 PCI bus System Serial 4.00 EISA bus at IRQ 4 ports 0x3f8-0x3ff Floppy 4.00 at IRQ 6 DMA 2 ports 0x3f2-0x3f7 PS2Keyboard 4.00 at IRQ 1 ports 0x60-0x65 PCIBus 4.00 EISABus 4.00 at IRQ 2 ports 0x00-0x0f 0x20-0x21 0x40-0x4b 0x70-0x71 0x81-0x8F 0x92-0x92 0xc0-0xcf PS2Mouse 4.00 at IRQ 12 System Parallel 4.00 at IRQ 7 ports 0x378-0x37f ELSA WINNER Adapter 1.3A PCI bus map 0x7c000000-0x7fffffff ELSA WINNER Adapter 1.3A PCI bus map 0x78000000-0x7bffffff Omni Pentium Pro Driver 1.0 My netinfo server is a NeXTstation turbo with NS 3.3 + the latest patches, NFS-Server is an HP 712/80. I never had performance problems until I swapped the network card. Would be great if somebody can help me, Thanks Stathis
From: Sean Russell <ser@javalab.uoregon.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Serial problems on large outgoing packets(?) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:06:09 -0700 Organization: University of Oregon Message-ID: <322765D1.4CDD@javalab.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! I've mailed the PPP crowd about this, and great people they are, have already gotten two responses within 30 minutes of the original post. Since I can't check their suggestions until tomorrow, and since neither were very definative about their solutions, I thought I would run this question through a forum that might be more appropriate to the problem. I'm running PPP on my Intel over a serial port. I'm performing this on a highwire, since I'm using the NeXT supplied serial driver and a 28.8KB modem at 57,600 setting. All incoming packets arrive nicely, but outgoing packets die when the sending program tries to transfere anything larger than a couple of KB. This happens with both sendmail (large attached files cause mail to bounce back) and FTP (the first 2K or so go through, and then FTP hangs). I know I need to install Mux. When I first did this two years ago, it was a breeze. This time around I'm having problems with it, but that's a topic for a different HELP!!! request. Suffice to say that I'm looking for a solution for the interim. It has already been suggested (by Steve Dekorte and Art Isbell... thanks guys!) that I reduce the MTU on PPP, and I will certainly try this when I get back to the machine tomorrow. In the meantime, can anyone give me any information about why this might be occuring, and if it is circumventable? Thank you, in advance, for any assistance. -- Sean Russell Software Engineer ser@javalab.uoregon.edu Department of Physics http://jersey.uoregon.edu/ser University of Oregon "Even the Mongols rejected Communism... are we more dumb?" --- Russian newspaper headline supporting Yeltzin's 1996 campaign
From: khader@katie.vnet.net (R. D. Khader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Installing NS3.3 on Intel? Date: 1 Sep 1996 13:39:43 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779 Message-ID: <50c3mv$iqg@ralph.vnet.net> Hi there, I am trying to install NS3.3 on an Intel TRICAD machine, I have 2GB partioned into 4 segments. and a Sony CD, all controlled by a scsi driver. The machine was configured by our PC-Admin, to run both NT/dos windows. I would like to use on of the disks for NS. The Installation disks loads device drivers that can't find the CD to contiue the load. I searched for SONY/CDU55 in the NextAnswers and it looks like its there and there is a support for it, but the driver is on the CD, So: 1) How can I get the installation to load the correct driver that can read the CD to ... 2) If I need to load the CD driver on a floppy, which I understand it has to be unix/NS formatted disk, How Can I load that driver on an additional floppy If I cant read them further write to them from NT/Windows? Is there an other way to do that? or is there a complete floppy set of all the drivers available from Next? Any help or direction will be very appreciated. Thanks, khader@vnet.net
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: JAZ disk Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 11:06:17 -0400 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm having trouble getting my new JAZ disk to work. I have the JAZ scripts from NeXTAnswers and have been following them. When it comes to the builddisk part, however, the JAZ disk ejects and the app asks for me to put a disk in the drive; when I do, it turns for a while, then ejects and I get the same message again. Any suggestions? Stefano
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: JAZ disk Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 11:11:42 -0400 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stefano Pagiola wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting my new JAZ disk to work. I have the JAZ scripts > from NeXTAnswers and have been following them. When it comes to the builddisk > part, however, the JAZ disk ejects and the app asks for me to put a disk in the > drive; when I do, it turns for a while, then ejects and I get the same message > again. Any suggestions? Following up on my own post, I tried it again and this time it did try to build the disk, complete with the warning about deleting the current contents. But then the build failed almost at once, with a 'wrong disk' message. So I'm still looking for suggestions. Stefano
From: khader@katie.vnet.net (R. D. Khader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Installing NS3.3 on Intel? Date: 1 Sep 1996 16:22:38 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779 Message-ID: <50cd8e$kfs@ralph.vnet.net> Hi there, I am trying to install NS3.3 on an Intel TRICAD machine, I have 2GB partioned into 4 segments. and a Sony CD, all controlled by a scsi driver. The machine was configured by our PC-Admin, to run both NT/dos windows. I would like to use on of the disks for NS. The Installation disks loads device drivers that can't find the CD to contiue the load. I searched for SONY/CDU55 in the NextAnswers and it looks like its there and there is a support for it, but the driver is on the CD, So: 1) How can I get the installation to load the correct driver that can read the CD to continue the installation ! 2) If I need to load the CD driver on a floppy, which I understand it has to be unix/NS formatted disk, How Can I load that driver on an additional floppy If I cant read them further write to them from NT/Windows? Is there an other way to do that? or is there a complete floppy set of all the drivers available from Next? Any help or direction will be very appreciated. Thanks, khader@vnet.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: exporting disks Message-ID: <Dx1oJy.EG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <509uos$ejm@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 08:21:34 GMT In article <509uos$ejm@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: > In <507veu$dt4@nntp5.u.washington.edu> Robert Singleton wrote: > > I'm running the black hardware with NS3.2, and I'm wanting to > > export my disk to another machine. I don't know much about > > networking, so I thought I would seek advice here. I've been > > told to add an entry in /etc/exports; however, the NeXT doesn't > > seem to have such a file. So how does one export disks to other > > machines? You can reply via email to this account, or send > > mail to the account below. Thanks very much. > > If you have written a valid exports entry, then check the man > page for niload. This entry has to be made into netinfo, rather > than /etc/exports. (also sent by email) > On NEXTSTEP there's a NFSManager.app in /NextAdmin. Just in case you haven't found it yet... ;-) And, of course, there should be a online manual in /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf that I can strongly recommend for anybody intending to make such postings (this was meant as a very polite form of RTFM, you see!). -- 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: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 1 Sep 1996 18:04:32 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <50cj7g$99p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > In <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> Hans Shimizu Karlsson wrote: > > The problem: > > > > When I deliver a mail, it is not stored until the PPP connection is made. > > Instead, my machine immediately tries to connect to a name server - the > > recipients provider. > > I would recommend > running 8.7.5 if you aren't already. For those of us who aren't sysadmin's and who don't fully understand what we're doing :-) adding a non-standard utility to a system that's not working correctly just needlessly complicates the problem. What Hans Shimizu Karlsson is trying to do works just fine with standard OS 4.0 utilities, so adding sendmail 8.7.5 isn't necessary to fix his problem and may even hinder the solution to his problem. The KISS principle seems to apply very well to UNIX system administration. Once he's solved his problem, if he feels that enhancing sendmail is worth the effort, then installing sendmail 8.7.5 might make sense. -- 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: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 1 Sep 1996 16:01:48 -0400 Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Distribution: world Message-ID: <50cq3cINNinm@NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> | Art Isbell wrote: | reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: | > In <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> Hans Shimizu Karlsson wrote: | > > The problem: | > > | > > When I deliver a mail, it is not stored until the PPP connection is made. | > > Instead, my machine immediately tries to connect to a name server - the | > > recipients provider. | > | > I would recommend | > running 8.7.5 if you aren't already. | | For those of us who aren't sysadmin's and who don't fully understand what | we're doing :-) adding a non-standard utility to a system that's not working | correctly just needlessly complicates the problem. What Hans Shimizu | Karlsson is trying to do works just fine with standard OS 4.0 utilities, so | adding sendmail 8.7.5 isn't necessary to fix his problem and may even hinder | the solution to his problem. | | The KISS principle seems to apply very well to UNIX system | administration. | | Once he's solved his problem, if he feels that enhancing sendmail is | worth the effort, then installing sendmail 8.7.5 might make sense. | I didn't see the original article but I believe I recognize what the problem is: mail sent when you are offline gets bounced. The solution, assuming you forward all mail to a hub after dialup, is quite simple: 1) use the NeXT-supplied sendmail.subsidiary.cf file (I'm running 3.2). 2) enter the name, IP number, and alias "mailhost" for the mail hub machine in netinfo. 3) sendmail, as started up from the NeXT-supplied /etc/rc will attempt delivery of mail in the queue every hour. If that's not good enough, you can force delivery of the queue with the sendmail command after dialing up. The name lookup will succeed even when you are offline and your mail will be queued. You can adjust queueing parameters in sendmail.cf though there's probably no need to. All of which, as Art observes, doesn't depend on having a newer version of sendmail. Tom
From: westes@usc.com (Will Estes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compiled Sendmail 8.6 for NS 3.2 Intel? Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 07:27:05 GMT Organization: U.S. Computer Message-ID: <322a8c2f.17663178@nntp.best.com> Can someone point me to a compiled sendmail 8.6 for NS for Intel 3.2? -- Will Estes U.S. Computer Internet: westes@usc.com POB 3150 Saratoga, CA 95070 FAX: 408-446-1013
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Initializing an EIDE drive that was DOS under NS 3.3 Date: 2 Sep 1996 08:20:40 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <50e5co$dnk@news.digifix.com> Hmmmm What type of voodoo do I need to do to get this to work? I've got a second EIDE drive that I want to initialize for use as a NEXTSTEP drive. Selecting it in Workspace and going to Initialize leaves me with an IO error. Yet the drive is fine under Windows.. I think I remember seeing something about this, but I can't remember what it was, and can't find it on NeXT's WWW site.. Any ideas? -- 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 2 Sep 1996 09:20:35 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <50e8t3$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu In <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > In <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> Hans Shimizu Karlsson wrote: > > The problem: > > > > When I deliver a mail, it is not stored until the PPP connection is made. > > Instead, my machine immediately tries to connect to a name server - the > > recipients provider. > > This might not be a problem of connecting to a name server and failing due to > not having the ppp connection up, but of not have a fully qualified name > server in netinfo so that the mail is then placed in a sendmail queue. This also happens if you have 3.3 with patches. The solution is to use the old behaviour of lookupd; this sounds dumb but works. Edit /etc/rc to add the -R flag to lookupd startup. The patch changes to lookupd were a serious backwards step to anyone using a stand-alone system with intermittent ppp connections (i.e. almost all home users of NeXTSTEP). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP & the DOCK Date: 2 Sep 1996 11:36:13 GMT Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany Message-ID: <50egrd$2ii@omega.gmd.de> References: <504grb$qg3@scsing.switch.ch> I had the old AltDock from NS 1.0 converted for NS 3.3. Now I took this as first exercise for conversion to OPENSTEP 4.0. If I succeed, I can offer it. You may ask by e-mail for the progress. j.k. -- Jelske Kloppenburg, +49 2241 14-2433, <Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de> GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology "Don't kill the Winners!" Dennis Tsichritzis
From: Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS40: command in /Net -> nameserver Date: 2 Sep 1996 12:02:45 GMT Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany Message-ID: <50eid5$2ii@omega.gmd.de> Hello, when in /Net I give the command 'ls' my machine asks the nameserver for ls.gmd.de and ls (gmd.de is my domain). Is that a bug or what sense does it make? The bad thing is that my machine at home calls the nameserver over ISDN every night when 'daily' and '/usr/lib/find/updatedb' run. hopefully j.k. -- Jelske Kloppenburg, +49 2241 14-2433, <Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de> GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology "Don't kill the Winners!" Dennis Tsichritzis
From: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TeX in 3.3? Date: 30 Aug 1996 00:31:25 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <505cot$848@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Just installed 3.3, then installed TeX afterwards as suggested. Now I get, Running MakeTeXPK cmr8 91 100 magstep(-0.5) MakeTeXPK doesn't have a guess for 100 dpi devices. Put the mode in a config file, or update MakeTeXPK. .... This is dvipsk 5.55a Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro Never had to look into this before. What adjustments are necessary to get LateX and dvips to work on 3.3? John W.
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 15:57:27 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960902155507.9543G-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <50cq3cINNinm@NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <50cq3cINNinm@NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> On 1 Sep 1996, Tom Blenko wrote: > I didn't see the original article but I believe I recognize what the > problem is: mail sent when you are offline gets bounced. > > The solution, assuming you forward all mail to a hub after dialup, is > quite simple: > > 1) use the NeXT-supplied sendmail.subsidiary.cf file (I'm > running 3.2). > Even works with standard sendmail.cf link. > 2) enter the name, IP number, and alias "mailhost" for the > mail hub machine in netinfo. > You can use the HostConfig.app for this. It's much more convinient for managing hosts etc. Just add mailhost to the known hosts. No need to fiddly with NetInfoManager if you can do it with HostManager, too. Greetings, Boerny.
From: Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS40: command in /Net -> nameserver Date: 2 Sep 1996 14:12:54 GMT Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany Message-ID: <50eq16$s4f@omega.gmd.de> References: <50eid5$2ii@omega.gmd.de> I wrote: > Hello, > when in /Net I give the command 'ls' my machine asks the nameserver > for ls.gmd.de and ls (gmd.de is my domain). > I have '.' in my path and the shell asks for the filename 'ls' in the current directory - which is /Net. > Is that a bug or what sense does it make? > The bad thing is that my machine at home calls the nameserver > over ISDN every night when 'daily' and '/usr/lib/find/updatedb' > run. > Both make a find over the whole filesystem and thereby ask for files in /Net. > hopefully j.k. > still hopefully j.k. -- Jelske Kloppenburg, +49 2241 14-2433, <Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de> GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology "Don't kill the Winners!" Dennis Tsichritzis
From: Jason Heideloff <jheidelo@alleg.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tpage Date: 2 Sep 1996 15:44:43 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <50evdb$qvp@speering.alleg.edu> Has anyone been successful in porting tpage v. 2.4 to NEXTSTEP 3.3? Thanks, Jason Heideloff Allegheny College Meadville, PA 16335
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 2 Sep 1996 15:58:27 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <50f073$1g1@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <50cq3cINNinm@NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) wrote: > I didn't see the original article but I believe I recognize what the > problem is: mail sent when you are offline gets bounced. > > The solution, assuming you forward all mail to a hub after dialup, is > quite simple: > > 1) use the NeXT-supplied sendmail.subsidiary.cf file (I'm > running 3.2). Or sendmail.mailhost.cf if the PPP client is a mail server. -- 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: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 2 Sep 1996 16:05:22 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <50f0k2$1g1@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> <50e8t3$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) wrote: > In <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > > In <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> Hans Shimizu Karlsson wrote: > > > The problem: > > > When I deliver a mail, it is not stored until the PPP connection is > made. > > > Instead, my machine immediately tries to connect to a name server - > the > > > recipients provider. > > This might not be a problem of connecting to a name server and failing > due to > > not having the ppp connection up, but of not have a fully qualified name > > server in netinfo so that the mail is then placed in a sendmail queue. > This also happens if you have 3.3 with patches. The solution is to use > the old behaviour of lookupd; this sounds dumb but works. Edit /etc/rc to > add the -R flag to lookupd startup. The patch changes to lookupd were a > serious backwards step to anyone using a stand-alone system with > intermittent ppp connections (i.e. almost all home users of NeXTSTEP). I guess I didn't experience this problem under patched NS 3.3 because my machine is configured as a NetInfo server even though it's on a network with only a single host, itself :-) It has a section of thinnet hung off of the network port so it can easily connect to any machine that happens to appear. So maybe a different workaround for the patched NS 3.3 lookupd problem is to configure one's standalone machine as a NetInfo server and attach a properly-configured network wire (not sure what would happen without the network wire). -- 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: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hd1a mounting peculiarities. Date: 2 Sep 1996 12:36:29 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <50f2ed$669@papoose.quick.com> References: <32276384.3F9D@javalab.uoregon.edu> In article <32276384.3F9D@javalab.uoregon.edu>, Sean Russell <ser@javalab.uoregon.edu> wrote: >Har. Welcome to a new series titled "Dumb Questions from Someone Who >Should Know Better." > >Today's topic is fstab. > >I'm pretty familiar with SysV (Solaris) vfstab and how Solaris deals >with this entry. The BSD version, under NS 3.3, confuses me. I have an >entry in /etc/fstab detailing my two harddrives, master and slave. Both >are fscked upon unsynced reboot, but the slave is mounted (apparantly) >only when someone actually logs in, and is unmounted afterwards. The >most puzzling question I have is "why," and the second most puzzling >question is "how do I stop it from doing this." The real problem I have >is that no matter how I chown/chgrp the second disk and everything on >it, whenever I log out and log back in again everything is chowned to >the user who just logged in, and chgrped to something bizarre. You can >imagine the headaches this has caused. Furthermore, since it does not >mount the disk at boot time, all of the applications on that disk are >unavailable until NS gets around to mounting the disk when a user logs >in; Oh, they show up eventually, but too late for them to be >auto-started by the FileManager. > >So, in brief: what do I need to do to force NS to mount a slave when it >first boots, rather than when a user logs in. Look at the entries in fstab. See the keyword, noauto? noauto declares to the OS that you do not want to have the partition mounted automatically at boot time. This will cause the first partition of each drive to be mounted when a user logs in. The owner and mode are set to that of the user who last mounted the drive via login. How to fix: 1. remove the noauto keyword from /etc/fstab from each additional partition you want to be mounted at boot time (leave the root partition '/' as it is). 2. niload fstab < /etc/fstab The system will work normally for most purposes if you omit step 2. The only thing broken will be if you manually unmount a partition, you will then be forced to remount it with 'mount devname pathname' instead of 'mount pathname' This is because the /etc/fstab file is no longer consulted when the Workspace is running, so it will not find the correct info unless you load it into netinfo. -- ___ ___ | 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.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Subject: IBM disk woes solved! (summary) Message-ID: <Dx4HIG.9HJ@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 20:42:16 GMT Hi all- A week and a half ago I began to try to install one of the new IBM UltraStar 4 gigabyte hard disks. Like many others in this group I have had bad luck with the reliability of the LOUSY UNRELIABLE SEAGATE BARRACUDA drives. I've installed 8 of them in the past year and a half and I've had 4 I-DON'T-KNOW-I'M-A-SCSI-DEVICE SEND-ME-BACK-TO-SINGAPORE failures in that time. 50% failure in 18 months is a lot worse than the published MTBF. As far as I Quantum looks to be even worse. So, I've been looking around for another solution. I found that I could buy an IBM DFHSS4UF 4 gigabyte for $879 in an external enclosure. The specs looked good (8.5 ms access, 7200 rpm, etc.) so I decided to give it a try. The disk refused to allow itself to be formatted by a NeXTstation. I spent a good deal of time attempting to tweak a disktab, and finally realized that there was something fundamentally wrong when "disk /dev/rsd1a" would let me perform read tests, but refused to let me perform write tests. Many kind folks on this group helped me work out the solution to this problem. Thanks to James Quick, Randy, and rencsok@channelu.com for suggestions about possible solutions with disktab. Timm Wetzel finally came up with the solution. The IBM drives have the ASPDE (Additional Save Data Pointer Enable) bit set to 0 in the SCSI page 0. This bit needs to be set to 1 in order to work with black hardware. You can do this with the old version of scsitools "sense" and "select" commands. Unfortunately, these tools seem to have been lost from the archives when nova.cc.purdue.edu went away. One more person (Ernst Kloecker) came to my rescue with a copy of the scsitools and now I'm up and running. The IBM disk is much quieter than the LOUSY UNRELIABLE SEAGATE BARRACUDA drives. Let's hope that it lasts longer.... So far, I'm quite pleased with the drive. Now, here's how to modify the IBM defaults so that the drive can be used on black hardware. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If (be sure to check!) your drive's page 0 is laid out like the DFHS, then the following will work. IBM will send you a fax of the relevant docs if you call 800-IBM-3333 in the US. I'll be uploading a copy of scsitools.new.tar.gz to next-ftp.peak.org as soon as my new machine name propagates through DNS so that peak will let me ftp. Here's how to set the ASDPE bit for an IBM OEM DFHSS4F: 1. Make sure you know which scsi drive to send to: inquire will come back with a listing of the devices. Suppose your IBM drive is listed as "-t 2 -l 0" 2. Get a copy of the page 0 bytes: sense -t 2 -l 0 -p 0 > somefile.orig 3. Make a copy of "somefile.orig" to "somefile.new" and change the line that reads -mp00 0003 31 ff # b1 ff 80 b1 to read -mp00 0003 b1 ff # b1 ff 80 b1 4. Now make the change: select -t 2 -l 0 -p 0 -f somefile.new You should now be able to use "disk" to format the drive. I ended up using the following disktab entry: DFHSS4F|DFHSS4F-512|IBM OEM DFHSS4F:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#4194304:sb#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD: Remember, if you copy this disktab from your newsreader, that blank space at the beginning of each line but the first has to be _one_ tab. Not spaces. One tab. Good luck! Steve -- Steven M. Boker (219) 631-4941 (office) (219) 631-8883 (fax) boker@virginia.edu http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/ Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Canon: Was Re: Hard Drive Failures - Was Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail Date: 2 Sep 1996 22:01:29 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <50flfp$mo@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <505ol9$g3j@news.digifix.com> <505ruh$gft@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <505ruh$gft@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> On 08/30/96, Art Isbell wrote: > We have about 10 rarely-used object.stations. Most are used for customer > training only, and you know how easy it is to find customers for NS products > :-( One has had a bad power supply replaced, another has non-functional > serial ports, and another has some sort of problem with its SCSI hardware > that makes it frequently unable to find the boot disk. Contrast this with > our much older and continually-used NeXT hardware, some of which has been > thrown around by airline baggage handlers on scores of sales calls. We had > to replace one NeXTstation CPU board after a baggage handler dropped the > computer so hard that a couple of plastic memory SIMM sockets broke! That's > it! > > I don't know if these object.stations are just typical PC quality, or > worse. But they've certainly been a big disappointment from a quality/cost > perspective. > I've been holding back on sending this as I heard a rumour that things might have got moving on the Canon front and that support was likely to come through. Sadly this appears not to be the case. Here's a first draft of a letter I intend to send to Canon by September 16; if anyone has any comments, wants to add anything etc, please let me know asap. If you follow up on the newsgroup, please also cc me by email as I don't always get everything I should on news. Best wishes, mmalc. Haruo Murase One Canon Plaza Lake Success, NY 11042 (516) 488-6700 Dear Sir I read with interest the section on your Company's WWW site (http://www.usa.canon.com/noamorg.html) entitled "Maintaining a healthy customer bond": As with any sales-driven organization, success at Canon U.S.A. is determined by a high level of customer satisfaction, making the activities of our Sales and Marketing network vitally important. This vast network of regional offices is instrumental in forging solid relationships with our dealerships, who in turn are better able to serve our customers. It is with much regret, therefore, that I enclose a copy of an email I sent recently to the comp.sys.next.advocacy newsgroup, and a bulletin board for NEXTSTEP-users in the UK which summarises grievances I hold against Canon for the lack of support for the object.station developed, manufactured and sold by Canon ATO. In my humble opinion, the actions of Canon CCSI in ignoring the plight of Canon ATO's customers both here and in the USA (since posting my message I have had reports of similar misfortunes suffered by customers in the USA) have been both dishonourable and damaging to the reputation of Canon. We feel that an apology is in order, as well as some sort of reparation, in the form of hardware made available by Canon to those of us who have disabled machines. Even something that can only run NT is more useable than something that is inoperative. I look forward to your reply Yours faithfully Malcolm Crawford X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3) Sender: Malcolm Crawford <malc> From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 16:47:21 +0100 To: uk-nextstep-users@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: Canon Reply-To: m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk Home-Page-Url: ”http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~malc/ As I write, I'm looking at one of the brochures Canon produced a while back, introducing the object.station 41. When I saw it first -- almost two years ago was it now? -- I found it inspiring and reassuring. There are sentences such as: "Every customer appreciates good serive. At Canon, we'll customize a service and support plan that caters for your needs." "Your investment is safe for the long haul, too." and "THE SAFE CHOICE FOR NEXTSTEP... Need to go beyond the standard 1-year warranty with free 7-day 24-hour phone support? We've got the depth and flexibility to do it." Today the emptiness of these promises is sickening. As is I believe the case with many object.station owners (it took a lot of effort just to become an owner, but that's a different story), I've had a few problems. I think I've been luckier than many. The hard drive failed sometime in Q1 this year -- after Canon had "withdrawn" their product, and left support up to Bull Information systems. I was fortunate that friends here happened to know just who to contact -- I don't recall any communication from Canon about where to go for maintenance. I was extremely fortunate in that the friendly people at Bull replaced my drive at no cost. Now the floppy controller has failed. For anyone in a similar situation, Bull have told me that the problem can often be worked around by simply telling the BIOS that there is no A: intalled -- this means you can't use the floppy, but at least your system will boot. This doesn't work in my case. (Nor, as far as I can tell, though I'm not a hardware expert and may have got things wrong, does altering jumper settings to disable it, nor adding an IDE card with floppy controller.) Bull have also told me that despite numerous phone calls, letters, complaints etc. Canon will neither supply further replacement parts, nor pay for repairs and servicing that Bull have already undertaken. Canon UK refers any enquiries to Canon USA, who in turn pass the buck to Canon Japan, who point back to Canon UK. Regrettably, therefore, whilst they will do their best to help me out this one last time (and they cannot guarantee to be able to fix the problemn this time -- it depends on what parts they can scavenge from other machines), in the future they will not be able to service my machine. Up until recently I had been very impressed with Canon. Now, although I understand that Canon ATO seems to have been a "special case", and that Canon Japan is still doing "good things" with NeXT in the Far East, the fact that the parent company seems to have completely disinherited its admittedly prodigal offspring leaves me wondering just how far they can be trusted in future. Bull, on the other hand, comes out of this very well: on the basis of my experience so far, I would recommend their services without hesitation -- call them on +44 (0)161 486 5234 If anyone has any suggestions for the appropriate people to contact at Canon, I would be most grateful. Best wishes, mmalc. . --
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-R and OPENSTEP Date: 2 Sep 1996 23:50:41 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <50frsh$5gn@scsing.switch.ch> Hi ! Is it possible to uns a CD-R under OPENSTEP mach ? What software should I use ? Thanks LiONEL -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CYBERLaB NeTWORK<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< lionel@cyberlab.ch (MiME & NeXTmail WELCOME !!) Tel: +41 (0)21 623.66.10 http://www.cyberlab.ch Fax: +41 (0)21 626.40.00 Ask for or my PGP public key ------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Asking a favor Date: 3 Sep 1996 02:40:21 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <50g5ql$11g@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <01bb9798$69b121e0$331543a4@lullaby> "Duncan Idaho" <everblue@ucla.edu> wrote: > I'm looking to utilize the Recycler animation in NeXTSTEP in a > Windoze app I'm currently working on. Unfortunately I sold my > copy a while back so I have to get the bitmaps from someone else. "Utilize", as in "copy" and "use without permission"? My guess is that you'll be treading on some copyright issues that you should not be treading on. What makes you think you have the right to use those images for some application you're writing? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Network Performance Problems (Cogent EM 960) Date: 2 Sep 1996 07:15:32 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <50e1ik$81u@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> References: <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Admin In <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de> Admin wrote: > I changed my network card from SMC Elite 16 to a Cogen EM 960 PCI card. From one moment to the other the complete network performance went down at least 200%. I am getting messages like > netinfo [lookupd] rpc timed out. > Also the NFS performance became bad. > > Does anybody had a similar problem in the past? > System Version: OPENSTEP 4.0 for Mach(Lantern3V1) > My netinfo server is a NeXTstation turbo with NS 3.3 + the latest patches, NFS-Server is an HP 712/80. > > I never had performance problems until I swapped the network card. > > Would be great if somebody can help me, Thanks I cannot speak for OS 4.0, but under NS 3.3 the EM 960 works like charm for me. ftp throughput is up to 700-800 KB/s to a Win95-Pentium equipped with the same EM 960 adapter. You did not mention the chipset of your P6 board. If it is an early Orion, you might run into trouble of disabled PCI burst transfers. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: foo@bar.com (Lurker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 03:34:22 -0400 Organization: barfuss Distribution: world Message-ID: <foo-ya023060040309960334220001@news.tiac.net> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> <50cj7g$99p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <50cj7g$99p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) wrote: > Once he's solved his problem, if he feels that enhancing sendmail is > worth the effort, then installing sendmail 8.7.5 might make sense. Right! The manuals alone are enough to discourage me, and I've yet to hear of any real advantage to offset the misery of creating workable control files. On my Mac, I enter my email address, as well as POP and SMTP server into the Eudora preferences, and that's it. My ISP takes care of routing. On my NeXT, I either accept being operator@foo.bar and hope that the recipient notices the reply-to line, or waste a week trying to update/patch sendmail. And if you want to use the machine to route incoming POP mail for a group, you have to add build/add procmail to your system and then configure that. But that, at least and in contrast to messing with sendmail, adds useful capabilities. Bah and humbug! (with apologies to Robert LF and Mangan, who've tried to help us along the rocky path). Barney
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 03:50:16 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <jbf-ya023060040309960350160001@news.tiac.net> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> <50cj7g$99p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <foo-ya023060040309960334220001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <foo-ya023060040309960334220001@news.tiac.net>, foo@bar.com (Lurker) foolishly forgot that he had set up an experiment to see if he could hide his identity. (Evidently not) Sorry about that! Barney
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Initializing an EIDE drive that was DOS under NS 3.3 Date: 3 Sep 1996 10:10:58 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <50h07i$a3u@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> References: <50e5co$dnk@news.digifix.com> In article <50e5co$dnk@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) writes: > Hmmmm .. > I think I remember seeing something about this, but I can't remember what > it was, and can't find it on NeXT's WWW site.. .. Yes, it was me. But no one was able to give a solution. Henry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.next From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: Cogent EM 110 Combo Message-ID: <Dx5Lp1.255@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:10:13 GMT Hello, We have tried to use two of these cards in our intel machines. But they are refusing to work. Either with the Cogent EM 110 setting in the DecChip21140 Driver or with generic DecChip 21140. We are using Version 3.33 of that driver. Propably it depends on the CSR 12 value in the driver. Without CSR 12 the card is completly "blind". It is not blinking. When the CSR 12 is set (without any value) the card starts blinking, but is already not communicating with our net. Has anyone made similar observations, or much better has a solution ? Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH Developer Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! sendmail returns host unknown in OS4.0 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:23:07 GMT Organization: NOW GmbH, Baar, Switzerland Message-ID: <Dx5MAJ.91.0.astra@now.ch> Help! It's exactly the same problem as it occurs after applying the patch to NS3.3. But there one could ad the option -R to lookupd and the problem was sort of solved. Now, that won't do it anymore. How do i get sendmail to just queue the mail, regardless wether the host is known or not????? I tried sendmail 8.7.5, where I could specify the option -oI, but I have big troubles with the .cf-file. And I can't get this m4-thing to work (nor do I understand it...) Any help (PLEASE!) would be greatly appreciated Thanks Daniel -- Daniel Scheidegger Software Engineer, System Administrator NOW GmbH, Scheideggstr. 73, CH-8038 Zuerich ++41-1-2898025 / dscheide@now.ch
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: IBM DORS hard disc and BLACK Hardware Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 3 Sep 1996 13:14:33 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <50havp$epd@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <DwyM3M.M8@oic.de> Juergen Moellenhoff (jurgen@oic.de) wrote: > how can I use an IBM DORS (2GB) hard disc with black Hardware? I can > remember that the hard disc needs modifications, but I can't remember > what it was. Never done it myself (I was too chicken the disk wouldn't work, so I went for the Quantum Fireball instead). I've heard however it *must* be jumpered to asynchronous SCSI mode, which is easy if you've managed to get hold of the docs. I was told the jumper settings can be found from IBM's Web site. Since you post from a German domain: Ask in de.comp.sys.next. I think the DORS was discussed there some weeks ago. Hope this helps, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Addresses in Next mail Date: 3 Sep 1996 13:53:03 GMT Organization: Interport Communications Corp. Message-ID: <50hd7v$94u@park.interport.net> Can anyone tell where the addresses in Next mail are stored (which file and if it is in the mail server or the local machine)? Thanks Shourav udas@northstar.com
From: root@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ASSERT error when booting Date: 3 Sep 1996 15:24:06 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <50hiim$48o@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Keywords: uucp assert I'm running 3.2 with EOF 1.1 installed. I've had no problems until today, when I came back in to login. When I logged in and tried to print, a console message said no such device. Then my file browser went screwy, not redrawing, etc. I couldn't log out. I had to reboot. During reboot got the error ASSERT FAILED /usr/spool/uucp couldn't chdir (-1) then things hung. I'm not running uucp and never have. I finally managed to get rebooted but still get the same message. Now I can only log in as root. my account just bounces. If I su to my account, i get "No shell" and don't get my account. If I go to another account, I can su to it (not mine, though). I've recreated accounts, etc. If I do nu -a to create the account, I get the messae ASSERT FAILED, /usr/spool/uucp..... as before What is uucp doing involved in any of these things? I've removed all references to uucp in the rc* files and in the netinfo services , /etc/inetd.conf, etc. Why can't the system chdir to /usr/spool/uucp? I've looked at protections, ownerships, etc. they all look okay. What is causing the "No Shell" message? The system acts like even the root account doesn't have a shell., but it does at least in netinfo. Should I start over with a "fresh" netinfo? thanks, John W. Wooten
From: root@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ASSERT error when booting Date: 3 Sep 1996 16:34:49 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <50hmn9$9b4@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <50hiim$48o@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> In article <50hiim$48o@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> root@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (Operator) writes: > I'm running 3.2 with EOF 1.1 installed. I've had no problems until today, when > I came back in to login. When I logged in and tried to print, a console > message said no such device. Then my file browser went screwy, not redrawing, > etc. I couldn't log out. I had to reboot. During reboot got the error > > ASSERT FAILED /usr/spool/uucp couldn't chdir (-1) then things hung. > I also get the following when doing mailq woonext:69# mailq ASSERT ERROR () pid: 283 (9/3-16:32) CHDIR FAILED /usr/spool/uucp (-1) Help eagerly accepted. > > thanks, > > John W. Wooten
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Network Performance Problems (Cogent EM 960) Date: 3 Sep 1996 17:37:10 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <50hqc6$m3u@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de> <50e1ik$81u@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> In-Reply-To: <50e1ik$81u@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> On 09/01/96, Markus Wenzel wrote: >I cannot speak for OS 4.0, but under NS 3.3 the EM 960 works like >charm for me. Me too. 700 kbps ftps between Pentium NeXTs with Cogent cards. All machines running NS 3.3. This is a good, quick network card. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <322373C1.7443@ibm.net> Control: cancel <322373C1.7443@ibm.net> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 19:48:52 +0200 Message-ID: <322C6F84.7FDA@ibm.net> References: <322373C1.7443@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This message was cancelled from within Mozilla.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Initializing an EIDE drive that was DOS under NS 3.3 Date: 3 Sep 1996 21:03:30 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <50i6f2$qqs@news.digifix.com> References: <50e5co$dnk@news.digifix.com> <50h07i$a3u@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> In-Reply-To: <50h07i$a3u@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> On 09/03/96, Henry Koplien wrote: >In article <50e5co$dnk@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) >writes: >> Hmmmm >... >> I think I remember seeing something about this, but I can't remember what >> it was, and can't find it on NeXT's WWW site.. >... > >Yes, it was me. But no one was able to give a solution. > Really? I find it hard to believe that you can't have but one EIDE drive under NEXTSTEP.... -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: JAZ disk Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 17:31:44 -0400 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <322CA3C0.5D4E@worldbank.org> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stefano Pagiola wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting my new JAZ disk to work. Well, after reading of someone else having problems with a ZIP drive, which turned out to result from the sample disk that comes with the drive being write-protected, I tried using a new Jaz disk and everything seems to work just fine. One problem left: The postbuild script from NeXTAnswers tries to copy a file /private/Drivers/i386/System.config onto the Jaz drive. That file doesn't seem to exist on my 3.2 system. Is this a 3.3 feature? Where can I get this file? Thanks again to everyone who e-mailed me helpful suggestions. Stefano
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 4 Sep 1996 02:17:39 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-25.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <50ios3$76b@usc.edu> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> <50cj7g$99p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Cc: aisbell@ix.netcom.com In <50cj7g$99p@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell wrote: > reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > > In <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> Hans Shimizu Karlsson wrote: > > > The problem: > > > > > > When I deliver a mail, it is not stored until the PPP connection is made. > > > Instead, my machine immediately tries to connect to a name server - the > > > recipients provider. > > > > I would recommend > > running 8.7.5 if you aren't already. > > For those of us who aren't sysadmin's and who don't fully understand what > we're doing :-) adding a non-standard utility to a system that's not working > correctly just needlessly complicates the problem. What Hans Shimizu > Karlsson is trying to do works just fine with standard OS 4.0 utilities, so > adding sendmail 8.7.5 isn't necessary to fix his problem and may even hinder > the solution to his problem. > > The KISS principle seems to apply very well to UNIX system > administration. > > Once he's solved his problem, if he feels that enhancing sendmail is > worth the effort, then installing sendmail 8.7.5 might make sense. Okay, my apologies for screwing around with the KISS principle which I wholeheartedly support! To explain why I suggested the upgrade, though, was because I did it without problem or complication, and I am not a sysadmin, or a unix person at all. I just found that certain things became very easy to configure under 8.7.5 and seem simpler to deal with. Currently I'm exploring Qmail, which seems even simpler to administer and configure. So, in that case, if it is 'easier', I still won't advocate it here because people will feel that the switch over is too much work. Despite the fact that after switching over, EVERYTHING is extremely easy to administer (100x easier than sendmail). I always figure that a little work in the beginning that pays off a lot in the end is better than an easy short-term solution. So, anyway, I don't take back my opinion about upgrading, but I never said you HAVE to do it at all. In fact I said there was a way to fix it, OR you could upgrade and things would be easier to administer. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: westes@usc.com (Will Estes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Canon input overrun Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 02:35:52 GMT Organization: U.S. Computer Message-ID: <322cea15.172770560@nntp.best.com> I have the following message in my /private/adm/messages log repeated over and over again. What does it mean? Sep 3 19:31:21 uscnext last message repeated 2226 times Sep 3 19:31:21 uscnext mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun Sep 3 19:31:21 uscnext mach: tty481: canon input overrun -- Will Estes U.S. Computer Internet: westes@usc.com POB 3150 Saratoga, CA 95070 FAX: 408-446-1013
From: "Duncan Idaho" <everblue@ucla.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Asking a favor Date: 4 Sep 1996 03:01:34 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <01bb99ca$41ed87f0$871443a4@lullaby> References: <01bb9798$69b121e0$331543a4@lullaby> <50g5ql$11g@usenet.rpi.edu> Actually, it's for personal use.
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Canon input overrun Date: 4 Sep 1996 09:42:14 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <50jitm$d8v@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <322cea15.172770560@nntp.best.com> Will Estes (westes@usc.com) wrote: > I have the following message in my /private/adm/messages log repeated > over and over again. What does it mean? > Sep 3 19:31:21 uscnext last message repeated 2226 times > Sep 3 19:31:21 uscnext mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun > Sep 3 19:31:21 uscnext mach: tty481: canon input overrun Input overrun on the serial device. Did you add a modem and are running getty on it? In that case, re-configure it to "silent" mode (no "OK" and error messages etc). Hope this helps, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Initializing an EIDE drive that was DOS under NS 3.3 Date: 4 Sep 1996 12:12:59 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <50jrob$9vr@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <50e5co$dnk@news.digifix.com> <50h07i$a3u@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <50i6f2$qqs@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > Really? I find it hard to believe that you can't have but one > EIDE drive under NEXTSTEP.... You can in fact have four EIDE drives without a problem. Maybe there is some old DOS partition table on the disk that Workspace Manager finds confusing? You should try a manual fdisk /dev/rhd1h and then disk -i /dev/rhd1a Depending on your system's BIOS you might have to use the additional -useAllSectors option with fdisk. --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 Mail: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (MIME/NeXT accepted) WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 4 Sep 1996 16:59:21 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-22.usc.edu Message-ID: <50kch9$elr@usc.edu> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> <50e8t3$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Cc: paul@plsys.co.uk In <50e8t3$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Paul Lynch wrote: > In <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > > In <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> Hans Shimizu Karlsson wrote: > > > The problem: > > > > > > When I deliver a mail, it is not stored until the PPP connection is > > > made. Instead, my machine immediately tries to connect to a name > > > server - the recipients provider. > > > > This might not be a problem of connecting to a name server and failing > > due to not having the ppp connection up, but of not have a fully > > qualified name server in netinfo so that the mail is then placed in a > > sendmail queue. > > This also happens if you have 3.3 with patches. The solution is to use > the old behaviour of lookupd; this sounds dumb but works. Edit /etc/rc to > add the -R flag to lookupd startup. The patch changes to lookupd were a > serious backwards step to anyone using a stand-alone system with > intermittent ppp connections (i.e. almost all home users of NeXTSTEP). Paul - I'm using 3.3 patched and I'm stand-alone without being configured as a netinfo server (although that sounds neat and I probably will switch over to Art's ever ready method) but I've never experienced this problem at all. Could you explain what the "serious backwards step" has been for stand-alone systems? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Initializing an EIDE drive that was DOS under NS 3.3 Date: 4 Sep 1996 21:19:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <50krpr$5rc@news.digifix.com> References: <50e5co$dnk@news.digifix.com> <50h07i$a3u@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <50i6f2$qqs@news.digifix.com> <50jrob$9vr@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> In-Reply-To: <50jrob$9vr@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> On 09/04/96, Marcel Bresink wrote: >sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: >> Really? I find it hard to believe that you can't have but one >> EIDE drive under NEXTSTEP.... > >You can in fact have four EIDE drives without a problem. Maybe there is some >old DOS partition table on the disk that Workspace Manager finds confusing? > >You should try a manual > > fdisk /dev/rhd1h >and then > disk -i /dev/rhd1a > >Depending on your system's BIOS you might have to use the additional >-useAllSectors option with fdisk. > Wow, I'm not sure what is different here than what I had already done, but thi worked great! Thanks -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: (Old Subject & I thought I'd archived the answer)--How does one open up NextMail attachments from commandline? Date: 5 Sep 1996 01:53:59 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-31.usc.edu Message-ID: <50lbrn$kf4@usc.edu> (Old Subject & I thought I'd archived the answer)--How does one open up NextMail attachments from commandline? Since everyone probably already knows it, you can e-mail me if you want to. TIA -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: nielsen_maa@ccsu.ctstateu.edu (Dark Jedi MAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CGI scripts Date: 5 Sep 1996 00:57:32 GMT Organization: Connecticut State University System Message-ID: <50l8hs$jtu@csunet.ctstateu.edu> Hi, I've been thrown into a very awkward situation. I'm a student with root access on our NeXTSTEP system and we want our students to be able to have acces to write a CGI-scripts...the only thing is, I have no clue how to do this. Any info on this would be extremely helpful. Mark A. Nielsen nielsen_maa@ccsu.ctstateu.edu
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,de.comp.sys.next,comp.unix.solaris,alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.managers,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: problem with nis/nis+ with NeXTstep 3.3/Solaris 2.5.1 Date: 5 Sep 1996 08:14:00 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Distribution: inet Message-ID: <50m248$i4q@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> Hi, I am having a severe problem with my nis/nis+ setup: Server: Solaris 2.5.1, nis+ in nis compatability mode client: NeXTstep 3.3, nis and netinfo When I login to nextstep with a nis account, the group gets not set, and I wind up in wheel. On the Solaris console the following error is printed: Sep 3 22:50:58 rrws27 nisd[92]: WARNING: db_query::db_query: bad index Sep 3 22:50:58 rrws27 nisd[92]: No table /var/nis/data/group.org_dir for object group.org_dir.lehner.wiwi.uni-regensburg.de., status = 4 Note that: logins on the Solaris machine are ok, ypcat passwd and ypcat group are ok, I can chgrp a file to the offending group and it shows correctly with ls -lg. The + line in /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the NeXT side is there. On the Solaris side: # showrev -p Patch: 103663-01 Obsoletes: Packages: SUNWcsu, SUNWhea Patch: 103594-03 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01 Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 103630-01 Obsoletes: Packages: SUNWcsu, SUNWcsr Patch: 103680-01 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01 Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 103683-01 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01 Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 103817-01 Obsoletes: Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 103582-01 Obsoletes: Packages: SUNWcsr Patch: 103743-01 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01 Packages: SUNWfns Patch: 103686-01 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01 Packages: SUNWnisu On the NEXTstep side: 3.3 patch 1 What is causing this? Can anybody help me? Thank you very much in advance, Wolfgang --- Dipl.-Wirtsch.Inf. Voice: +49 941 943 3205 Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 941 943 4986 Uni Regensburg E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de Universitaetsstr. 31 Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de D-93053 Regensburg (MIME and NeXTmail ok) Germany WWW: http://www.whu-koblenz.de/~wolfgang/ GCM/B d-- s: a- C++ US+++$ UX+++ P+ L E? W++ N++ w-- O-(++) M+ !V PS++ PE Y+ PGP(++) t+ 5? X? R+ tv b++ DI D++ G e+++>++++ h+ r++>% y? (Geek Code V3.x)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce) Subject: getting DNS to work? Message-ID: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:45:06 GMT sorry. definitely new to this. networking a NeXT box is easy but i can't get DNS to work :-( it would be nice to just type in names instead of numbers... bryce -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\ Classical Studies, the College, the University of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce) Subject: remote printing? Message-ID: <Dx91Kx.8D9@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:46:09 GMT printing a remote queue seems to have baffled me. there is no /etc/printcap like on SunOS machines, and the print tool doesn't seem to let me do it... what the heck am i doing wrong? bryce -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\ Classical Studies, the College, the University of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce) Subject: Re: Help-- how to share NextStep 3.0 printer? Message-ID: <Dx91pz.8Kp@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago References: <4vtdiq$p1g@mack.rt66.com> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:49:10 GMT go ahead and add attila to /etc/hosts.lpd should be on a line by itself. that should do it. hosts.lpd is like hosts.equiv... allows the host to use that service from that machine as "nobody" without having a password, &c. -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\ Classical Studies, the College, the University of Chicago
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: getting DNS to work? Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 05:50:28 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qm=e9YS00iVDE0oOgB@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Sep-96 getting DNS to work? by bryce@midway.uchicago.ed > sorry. definitely new to this. networking a NeXT box is easy but i can't > get DNS to work :-( it would be nice to just type in names instead of > numbers... You should create an /etc/resolv.conf file which describes which name servers are available. Read "man 5 resolver". Depending on your needs, you might also want to run the DNS daemon (/usr/etc/named) locally. -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: remote printing? Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 05:56:18 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gm=eD2_00iVD00oPZm@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Dx91Kx.8D9@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <Dx91Kx.8D9@midway.uchicago.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Sep-96 remote printing? by bryce@midway.uchicago.ed > printing a remote queue seems to have baffled me. there is no > /etc/printcap like on SunOS machines, and the print tool doesn't seem to > let me do it... what the heck am i doing wrong? There's this strange and sometimes wonderful concept for managing network databases under NEXTSTEP called NetInfo, which is comparible to Sun's YP/NIS. Read the documentation under Digital Librarian. In particular, look at command-line utilities 'niload' and 'nidump', which convert NetInfo information to and from standard Unix flatfiles.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jes@rednsi.com (Josep Egea i Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anyone Have a PPP "pap-secrets" File? Date: 5 Sep 1996 14:49:12 GMT Organization: NEXUS Servicios de Informacion, s.l. Message-ID: <50mp98$ds8@artemis.ibernet.es> References: <4v3cm0$4gk@news2.cais.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960817102327.15509B-100000@charisma> Hi, I had to switch to PAP with PPP and found that the right solution was to use the -u option along with a file containing the username and the password. PPP documentation states that this is an obsolete option and that you have to use the more modern "pap-secrets" approach but I didn't manage to get it working so I gave in and used the old but functional one Regards -- Josep Egea - jes@rednsi.com - NeXTMail & MIME OK Nexus Servicios de Informacion - Barcelona (Spain) Telf: + 34 3 285 00 70 - Fax: + 34 3 285 00 70 > On 17 Aug 1996, Danny Stevenson wrote: > > > My internet provider has recently implemented Password Authentication > > Protocol (PAP) for connection via dial-in. They give instructions for the > > PC and Mac, but not Unix. It works fine on my Mac, but I've been unable > > to create a "pap-secrets" file per the pppd man page that works. > > > > Does someone have a sample "pap-secrets" file that works with pppd on > > NeXT? > > [snip] > > Danny Stevenson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: getting DNS to work? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112525.19820E-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 11:27:37 -0400 References: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> To: bryce <bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Edit /etc/resolv.conf which will look something like this: domain uchicago.edu nameserver ns1.uchicago.edu nameserver ns2.uchicago.edu nameserver ns3.uchicago.edu (your nameserver machines are listed in 'nslookup' if you enter your domain name) That should do it.... TjL -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat Email Auto-Responder: for PGP key, use SUBJECT: send-ascii pgpkey for NeXT info, use SUBJECT: send-ascii info Also, see: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next LOOKING FOR NS 3.3 (m68k) User/Dev (cheap ;-) On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, bryce wrote: > sorry. definitely new to this. networking a NeXT box is easy but i can't > get DNS to work :-( it would be nice to just type in names instead of > numbers... > > bryce > > -- > > ()-() Bryce B. Sady > (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady > /\o/\ Classical Studies, the College, the University of Chicago > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609051459.KAA03769@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 96 10:59:42 -0400 Subject: halting 'shutdown' Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I was making a script last night using the 'shutdown' command' Having 'kill'd the process before the reboot (just to test the script) I didn't realize it had left /etc/nologin present. Is there a way to kill 'shutdown' so that it will clean up /etc/nologin automatically? Thanks TjL -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat Email Auto-Responder: for PGP key, use SUBJECT: send-ascii pgpkey for NeXT info, use SUBJECT: send-ascii info Also, see: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next LOOKING FOR NS 3.3 (m68k) User/Dev (cheap ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Help-- how to share NextStep 3.0 printer? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112954.19820G-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 11:46:38 -0400 References: <4vtdiq$p1g@mack.rt66.com> <Dx91pz.8Kp@midway.uchicago.edu> To: bryce <bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu>, falc@rt66.com In-Reply-To: <Dx91pz.8Kp@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I don't know much about this, but you must remember that the regular /etc files are not usually used once NetInfo is running If I may, I suggest you read: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1060.htmld/1060.html "relating NetInfo to classic UNIX" http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1271.htmld/1271.html "Getting_Acquainted_With_NetInfo" http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1280.htmld/1280.html "Typical_NetInfo_Setup" NetInfo is a love/hate thing.... most people hate it.... precisely because they have to learn a new way of doing everything they thought they knew how to do already.... TjL ps -- to do printing you may have to use SAMBA (I don't know) see: http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat Email Auto-Responder: for PGP key, use SUBJECT: send-ascii pgpkey for NeXT info, use SUBJECT: send-ascii info Also, see: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next LOOKING FOR NS 3.3 (m68k) User/Dev (cheap ;-) On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, bryce wrote: > go ahead and add attila to /etc/hosts.lpd > should be on a line by itself. > > that should do it. > > hosts.lpd is like hosts.equiv... allows the host to use that service from > that machine as "nobody" without having a password, &c. > > -- > > ()-() Bryce B. Sady > (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady > /\o/\ Classical Studies, the College, the University of Chicago > > > >
From: brian@cs.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using NeXT as X terminal Date: 5 Sep 1996 20:11:52 GMT Organization: University of California, Riverside Message-ID: <50nc68$1uj@noise.ucr.edu> For various reasons which I won't go into here, I need to setup a NeXTstation here to act as an X terminal. I already have the X software that works with Xfe.app and X windows works fine through this method. However, I need to have the NeXT running as an Xterm all the time (ie boots right into a X terminal). If anyone has tried this before, I'd greatly appreciate any help you can give me. -- Brian Harvey brian@cs.ucr.edu
From: "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: JAZ disk Date: 5 Sep 1996 20:33:08 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> I've installed a Jaz drive on Next 3.3 for Intel. My first mistake was not checking with NeXT about Jaz drive disk geometry issues. I attempted to format the disk as installed. I thought the format was successful, but found that the disk was not recognized, after I rebooted. I then installed the NeXT driver: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2153.htmld/2153.html The disk was still not recognized. So I pulled the Jaz drive to a Win95 workstation, with Jaz Tools installed, and successfully formatted it in DOS. I went back to NeXT ver 3.3, and was able to boot without the disk ejecting. I issued the "sdform" command in a shell, then successfully formatted it in NeXT. If you follow the NeXT Jaz driver instruction, you can copy your current NeXT system files accross to the Jaz drive. If you set the Jaz SCSI id to 0, you are now running NeXT off of Jaz! Steve Roller sroller@msn.com ~~~~~~~~~~~ Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> wrote in article <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org>... > Stefano Pagiola wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble getting my new JAZ disk to work. I have the JAZ scripts > > from NeXTAnswers and have been following them. When it comes to the builddisk > > part, however, the JAZ disk ejects and the app asks for me to put a disk in the > > drive; when I do, it turns for a while, then ejects and I get the same message > > again. Any suggestions? > > Following up on my own post, I tried it again and this time it did try to build the > disk, complete with the warning about deleting the current contents. But then the > build failed almost at once, with a 'wrong disk' message. > > So I'm still looking for suggestions. > > Stefano >
From: jamah@dazeclub.stu.rpi.edu.stu.rpi.edu (Jon Mah (JaMah!)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP Deskjet 540 using JetPilot driver under Mach 4.0 Date: 5 Sep 1996 17:18:49 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <50n21p$ic5@usenet.rpi.edu> Hello, Has anyone tried using JetPilot (Printer Drivers for Non-Postscript printers) for an HP Deskjet 540? I am trying to use this driver (on a demo license) for my HP Deskjet 540. I finally got the hardware to be recognized correctly, so that pp0 was correctly registered upon startup. However, upon sending test pages through PrintManager, the printer simply sits there as if nothing as happening, yet an lpq says that the printer should be printing, but nothing happens. Jon Mah (mahj@rpi.edu)
From: root@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't login as anything but root Date: 5 Sep 1996 21:27:46 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <50ngki$grd@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> I've managed to get into the position where I can log in as root at the console, but can't get logged in as any other user. woonext:117# telnet -l woo woonext Trying 128.219.80.95... Connected to woonext.cmo.ornl.gov. Escape character is '^]'. NeXT Mach (woonext) (ttyp3) Password: No directory /Users/woo! Connection closed by foreign host. woonext:118# ls -agl /Users total 28 drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 8192 Apr 19 1993 lost+found/ drwxr-xr-x 25 woo wheel 3072 Sep 3 15:17 woo/ drwxr-xr-x 7 www other 1024 Feb 17 1996 www/ It seems to have something to do with being in the group wheel, but changing that all places doesn't fix anything. When I boot up I get the message ASSERT ERROR() can't chdir to /usr/lib/uucp I've examined netinfo for errors, checked /etc/shells, can't see why telnet thinks that there is no directory /user/woo Here is what nidump passwd . gives www:usM0PMXZYBXF6:100:20:World Wide Web Server:/Users/www:/bin/csh wooten:AmLFBC/hgFWS6:27604:20:John W. Wooten:/Users/woo:/bin/csh what would be generating the can't chdir message during boot up? I can't find it in the rc scripts. Why would uucp even be attempting to looked at? I've never used uucp on this machine. thanks,
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 18:20:21 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023060040509961820210001@news.tiac.net> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> <50e8t3$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <50kch9$elr@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <50kch9$elr@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > In <50e8t3$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Paul Lynch wrote: (snip) > > This also happens if you have 3.3 with patches. The solution is to use > > the old behaviour of lookupd; this sounds dumb but works. (snip) > Paul - > > I'm using 3.3 patched and I'm stand-alone without being configured as a > netinfo server (although that sounds neat and I probably will switch over to > Art's ever ready method) but I've never experienced this problem at all. > > Could you explain what the "serious backwards step" has been for stand-alone > systems? (snip) I, like Art, find it convenient to set up a two level netinfo, so I can add visiting machines to my local enet. And, like Art and Matthew, I've yet to have a lookupd problem with the 3.3 patches. I handle the intermittent ppp problem, with two potential ppp links, by reading the connection message from pppd in ip-up to find out who I've connected to. Ip-up then links the correct file to resolv.conf and restarts lookupd and named. On bringing the link down, ip-down removes the link and then kills lookupd and named again. (Based on memory as to the daemons, since I'm not on the NeXT now.) "It just works." Barney
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce) Subject: postscript font printing problem Message-ID: <DxA7GE.MAq@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 22:50:38 GMT i have a font (Sgreek) which edits just fine on my NeXT and shows up beautifully on my screen. to print it, i save it as a postscript file, and take it to a computer to be printed with lpr (it's a Sun, not a NeXT), and all the fonts show up fine except Sgreek which shows up as helvetica for the keystrokes i used in Sgreek. any ideas? bryce -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\ Classical Studies, the College, the University of Chicago
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: postscript font printing problem Date: 5 Sep 1996 23:31:31 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <50nnsj$ikp@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <DxA7GE.MAq@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <DxA7GE.MAq@midway.uchicago.edu> On 09/06/96, bryce wrote: > i have a font (Sgreek) which edits just fine on my NeXT and shows up > beautifully on my screen. to print it, i save it as a postscript file, > and take it to a computer to be printed with lpr (it's a Sun, not a NeXT), > and all the fonts show up fine except Sgreek which shows up as helvetica > for the keystrokes i used in Sgreek. > > any ideas? > Are you saving the file "with fonts for chosen printer" (cf the pop-up menu in the Print/Save panel)? If not, and the computer you're printing to doesn't have the font, it won't print out properly. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: "John Harris" <john@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to configure NeXt to print to an HP printer Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:10:54 -0600 Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Message-ID: <01bb9b87.dee720c0$9c466e80@pc4.nurs.utah.edu> We recently acquired an HP Laserjet 5N (we also have some 4M plus'), which can use the TCP/IP protocol. I would like to assign it an IP address and print to it from a NeXt workstation. Is this possible? If so, how do I go about doing it?
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 6 Sep 1996 02:28:08 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <50o27o$35m@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> References: <960901002327.576AAC1G.hanske@raven> <50b24g$6o3@usc.edu> <50e8t3$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <50kch9$elr@usc.edu> <jbf-ya023060040509961820210001@news.tiac.net> jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote: > I, like Art, find it convenient to set up a two level netinfo, so I can > add visiting machines to my local enet. And, like Art and Matthew, I've > yet to have a lookupd problem with the 3.3 patches. I handle the intermittent > ppp problem, with two potential ppp links, by reading the connection message > from pppd in ip-up to find out who I've connected to. Ip-up then links the > correct file to resolv.conf and restarts lookupd and named. On bringing the > link down, ip-down removes the link and then kills lookupd and named again. > (Based on memory as to the daemons, since I'm not on the NeXT now.) "It just > works." In NS 3.3, but not in OS 4.0 :-( The OS 4.0 lookupd is much enhanced vs. the NS 3.3 version(s), but one feature that was omitted was the ability to send it a HUP signal to force it to read /etc/resolv.conf (presumably a different version). Simply killing and restarting lookupd will cause the operating system to spiral downhill rapidly (it's amazing the scope of what lookupd affects :-) Rebooting is the only way to install a different resolv.conf. NeXT is aware of the need for this feature. I don't know whether a fix is scheduled for a future release or patch. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: edw@bucky.precipice.com (Ed Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Addresses in Next mail Date: 6 Sep 1996 05:03:52 GMT Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc. Message-ID: <50obbo$nlj@chinx10.thoughtport.net> References: <50hd7v$94u@park.interport.net> In article <50hd7v$94u@park.interport.net> udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas) writes: > Can anyone tell where the addresses in Next mail are stored (which file > and if it is in the mail server or the local machine)? > > Thanks > > Shourav > udas@northstar.com -- Under OpenStep 4.0 they are located in ~/.OpenStep/.mailalias Under NextStep 3.3 they are probably in ~/.NeXT/.mailalias Hope this helps. Edw edw@precipice.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ThoughtPort, Inc. 212-645-7970 edw@thoughtport.com Precipice, Inc. 212-620-4968 edw@precipice.com Wrightware, Inc. 212-620-4969 edw@wrightware.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Salvo@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: can't reasb on a MICROP 1991-27SC21020AV drive Date: 6 Sep 1996 07:03:05 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <50oib9$h0@kanga.accessone.com> References: <4v0llm$hq8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4v46aj$dl@turbocat.turbocat.de> <4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr> Cc: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr In <4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr> Hugues RICHARD wrote: > dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) wrote: > >I would never suggest someone to buy a Micropolis drive. 2 out of 3 we have > >are making "problems" (If you call MEDIA ERRORS a problem:-( > > me too :-) > > I had 1 Microplis 4110 that was up 24/24h. > After one year, it became loud. One year later, it died with > MEDIA ERRORS, and lost files :-( These don't sound anything like my drives. My 2-year 2217, 1-year 3423, and 1-month 3423 have performed flawlessly. Perhaps the BusLogic EISA 747S or active terminator are factors. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: Salvo@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bootable Magneto Optical Observations Date: 6 Sep 1996 07:21:28 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <50ojdo$h0@kanga.accessone.com> I have been able to make a 256MB disk bootable by way of fdisk, disk, newfs, and ditto using NeXT's ditto FAQ(OpenStep Journal, Spring 1995). Ultimately, however, I end up experiencing unreadable block errors after some usage; this has been my experience with two 256MB disks and one 128MB disk. I'm beginning to wonder if my MO is not suitable for such endeavours. scsimodes is unable to use Mode Sense, and reports the following: 8447 bytes per sector 0 sectors per track 0 tracks per cylinder 32 cylinder per volume 4096 alternate tracks per volume 495413 useable sectors on volume The sector and track count have me concerned. Manufacturer specs for the 256MB indentify 40-60 sectors(25 sectors for the 128MB) per track using 10,000 tracks; perhaps Mach or the BusLogic driver cannot handle variable sector counts per track, though the 128MB would not factor into this reasoning. I tried defining a disktab entry: most256|MOST256:Ocean V384 MOST256:\ :ty=removable_rw_optical:nc#32:nt#0:ns#0:ss#512:rm#2400:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#:z0#64:z1#192:hn=salvo:ro=a:\ :pa#0:sa#495413:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#4:da#2048:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: Being new to disktab, I'm not confident of the above. disk would complain when I tried to initialize most256. Has anyone seen their way past a similar scenario? Is there a unix tool(beyond sdformat) that is able to identify bad blocks and add them to the Bad Block table? -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help-- how to share NextStep 3.0 printer? Date: 6 Sep 1996 08:50:35 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <50ookr$q15@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <4vtdiq$p1g@mack.rt66.com> <Dx91pz.8Kp@midway.uchicago.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112954.19820G-100000@charisma> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112954.19820G-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > I don't know much about this, but you must remember that the regular > /etc files are not usually used once NetInfo is running > > On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, bryce wrote: > > > go ahead and add attila to /etc/hosts.lpd > > should be on a line by itself. > > > > that should do it. > > > > hosts.lpd is like hosts.equiv... allows the host to use that service from > > that machine as "nobody" without having a password, &c. hosts.equiv and hosts.lpd are all used even when netinfo is running. Just one of those things. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Rock It! <rnr@io.com> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with authentification file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets Date: 6 Sep 1996 11:27:07 GMT Organization: Rock It! Message-ID: <50p1qb$dou@avalon.imaginet.fr> A provider I'm trying launch immediatly ppp and is asking for authentification. I've built a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. But it doesn't work. ppp complains that the file is not there! What is the exact format. I've found the manual very iprecise on that subject. I need exemples!!! TIA mc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: Re: Cogent EM 110 Combo Message-ID: <DxB30u.74B@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <50hhi8$3ld@news.blkbox.com> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:12:30 GMT Hello, In article <50hhi8$3ld@news.blkbox.com> dkramer@loki.blkbox.com (Daniel L. Kramer) writes: > In article <Dx5Lp1.255@onevision.de> roland@onevision.de (Roland > Schwingel) writes (about the Cogent EM-110 cards): > > > We have tried to use two of these cards in our intel machines. But they > > are refusing to work. Either with the Cogent EM 110 setting in the > DecChip21140 > > Driver or with generic DecChip 21140. We are using Version 3.33 of that > driver. > > Has anyone made similar observations, or much better has a solution ? > > > > Roland > > Cogent, for some reason, moved information around on their newer cards. > The en0 address should be 00.00.92... something. If the card posts > differently, you need to add - "Address Offset" = "20" to the expert > settings for the driver. Neat, huh? A new driver which will autodetect > such things is being rumbled about. > > Cheers and good luck! > > -- > Daniel L. Kramer > Bifrost Workstations, Inc. > 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270 > Houston, TX 77042 > > (713) 952-9949 voice > dkramer@onramp.net, for now, as the ISDN setup is only half-working... I have tried it today. And it works. Thanks Daniel ! Bye, Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH Developer Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: getting DNS to work? Date: 6 Sep 1996 15:29:27 GMT Organization: Rockwell Avionics - Collins Message-ID: <50pg0n$7bg@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112525.19820E-100000@charisma> Cc: luomat@nerc.com I have a similar problem. Only one machine on our small network can see the outside world during a ppp session. The machine connected to the modem can perform all of the normal network operations, but none of the other machines can. Have I overlooked something simple ?
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Intel install with Dell and Motion 771?? Date: 6 Sep 1996 16:36:42 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII O.K., it's been a week, three SCSI cards and at least five complete runs through installation (it took me a while to even get that far). I'm closer than I've ever been, but still no working operating system. At this point everything installs and seems to be fine..."remove disk and press return to restart." However, after restarting only the first line of text comes up declaring the nextstep version; then it freezes there. I've tried booting off of floppy and specifying hd(1,a)mach_kernel. It actually starts booting off the hd and then it asks me to insert the disk with the additional drivers. If I do this, the computer reboots. If I don't, the kernel panics (obviously it doesn't have the drivers it needs). AAARRGH. I'm trying to install on the first 700MB partition on the second EIDE hard drive. I have Win95 and OS/2 Warp on two partitions on the first drive. I have a 500MB DOS FAT parition on the second hard drive and 300MB of free space. My system: Dell Pentium XPS133 16MB RAM #9 Motion 771 PCI video Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI Sony CDU8012 external CDROM (SCSI 0) Syquest EZ135 external (SCSI 1) Two EIDE hard drives ATAPI Nec CDROM:273 (internal) I've installed the 3.37 version of the Adaptec 2940 driver and the 3.31 EIDE/ATAPI driver. The NeXT CD is in the Sony CDROM (the nec is totally unsupported). I know that my video card is a problem but I have no way of loading the drivers or issuing any commands to the effect of no boot graphics. I'm going to go buy generic ISA video card today to see what happens. It's always good to have a cheap, backup video card around anyway. Any suggestions other than this? Please. ------ Peace, Arpi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Arpad Geller (312) 862-2941 arpad@tezcat.com Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: can't reasb on a MICROP 1991-27SC21020AV drive Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133524.9099B-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:36:55 -0400 References: <4v0llm$hq8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4v46aj$dl@turbocat.turbocat.de> <4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr> <50oib9$h0@kanga.accessone.com> In-Reply-To: <50oib9$h0@kanga.accessone.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 6 Sep 1996, Marc Salvatori wrote: > In <4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr> Hugues RICHARD wrote: > > dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) wrote: > > >I would never suggest someone to buy a Micropolis drive. 2 out of 3 we > have > > >are making "problems" (If you call MEDIA ERRORS a problem:-( > > > > me too :-) > > > > I had 1 Microplis 4110 that was up 24/24h. > > After one year, it became loud. One year later, it died with > > MEDIA ERRORS, and lost files :-( > > These don't sound anything like my drives. My 2-year 2217, 1-year 3423, and > 1-month 3423 have performed flawlessly. Perhaps the BusLogic EISA 747S or > active terminator are factors. My 1gig MICROP /1598-15MD1066702/DD24/ has been working fine for over a year (probably more than 3, but I've only had the drive for a year... I think Carl had it for at least 2) on my m68k system.... However, I have heard from several people that Micropolis drives have given then many many headaches. TjL -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next for email-autoresponder info, NeXTPrinter FAQ, Swapdisk&Swapfile FAQ and more
From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Plextor 8Plex CDROM on Black Date: 6 Sep 1996 18:00:23 GMT Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Message-ID: <50porn$g1c@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Has anyone successfully connected a Plextor 8Plex CD-ROM drive to a black NeXT? I can get it to work most of the time, but at boot I get a message every time saying something like sd3: UNIT ATTENTION and then NeXT takes some time for ``drive to become ready''. It wouldn't be a major problem, but I have tried installing OpenStep 4.0 from this CD-ROM and I can't do it (the machine hangs some 2% of the way of the second phase of the installation process). I seem to remember from somewhere that disk drives connected to black hardware have to have the Unit Attention switch set to Yes (as opposed to Mac drives which must have it set to No), but this CD-ROM drive at least does not seem to have a Unit Attention switch. Any ideas? Thank you very much. Tomaz Slivnik
From: kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kyle Hearfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and Motion 771?? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 6 Sep 1996 18:03:02 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <50pp0m$bjl@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com> have you tried loading the device drivers for the video card from a floppy just after you load the drivers for the HD and CDROM. It worked for me. Arpad Geller (arpad@tezcat.com) wrote: : O.K., it's been a week, three SCSI cards and at least five complete runs : through installation (it took me a while to even get that far). I'm closer : than I've ever been, but still no working operating system. : At this point everything installs and seems to be fine..."remove disk and : press return to restart." However, after restarting only the first line of : text comes up declaring the nextstep version; then it freezes there. I've : tried booting off of floppy and specifying hd(1,a)mach_kernel. It actually : starts booting off the hd and then it asks me to insert the disk with the : additional drivers. If I do this, the computer reboots. If I don't, the : kernel panics (obviously it doesn't have the drivers it needs). AAARRGH. : I'm trying to install on the first 700MB partition on the second EIDE hard : drive. I have Win95 and OS/2 Warp on two partitions on the first drive. I have : a 500MB DOS FAT parition on the second hard drive and 300MB of free space. : My system: : Dell Pentium XPS133 16MB RAM : #9 Motion 771 PCI video : Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI : Sony CDU8012 external CDROM (SCSI 0) : Syquest EZ135 external (SCSI 1) : Two EIDE hard drives : ATAPI Nec CDROM:273 (internal) : I've installed the 3.37 version of the Adaptec 2940 driver and the 3.31 : EIDE/ATAPI driver. The NeXT CD is in the Sony CDROM (the nec is totally : unsupported). I know that my video card is a problem but I have no way of : loading the drivers or issuing any commands to the effect of no boot graphics. : I'm going to go buy generic ISA video card today to see what happens. It's : always good to have a cheap, backup video card around anyway. Any suggestions : other than this? Please. : ------ : Peace, : Arpi : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : David Arpad Geller : (312) 862-2941 arpad@tezcat.com : Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu -- I don't wan't the world, I just want your half. -Unknown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kyle D. Hearfield kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PGP FINGERPRINT = 8A 3C 24 C9 86 F5 E6 3C 7B 91 D2 B1 CF 32 B7 E9 **finger for public Key**
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: getting DNS to work? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906135614.9099D-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:58:23 -0400 References: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112525.19820E-100000@charisma> <50pg0n$7bg@castor.cca.rockwell.com> To: "Erik M. Buck" <embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com> In-Reply-To: <50pg0n$7bg@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 6 Sep 1996, Erik M. Buck wrote: > I have a similar problem. Only one machine on our small network can see the > outside world during a ppp session. The machine connected to the modem can > perform all of the normal network operations, but none of the other machines > can. Have I overlooked something simple ? Hmm... I don't know the answer to this one.... sounds like a routing problem, but I could be wrong. You might want to ask the NeXTStep PPP mailing list: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com TjL ps -- it appears you sent a CC of this message directly to me. However, I did not receive it. Did it bounce? -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next for email-autoresponder info, NeXTPrinter FAQ, Swapdisk&Swapfile FAQ and more
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with authentification file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets Date: 6 Sep 1996 18:14:44 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <50ppmk$j2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <50p1qb$dou@avalon.imaginet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rock It! <rnr@io.com> wrote: > I've built a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. But it doesn't > work. ppp complains that the file is not there! > > What is the exact format. I've found the manual very iprecise on that > subject. I need exemples!!! This is an excerpt from a ppp installation instructions paper I've written (I hope the conversion from RTF to ASCII doesn't make for too much confusion):
only in case of synchronous PPP (ISDN) /etc/ppp/pap-secrets # This file provides the login passwords for different ISPs of different users # of this computer. It is used for synchronous PPP (ISDN) connections which # need PAP authentification. username ISPshortcut password These data will be read by the options file for a synchronous PPP connection. username is the name with which you log in into your ISP (Internet Service Provider). ISPshortcut is a name for the ISP you can freely choose. password is the password you need to authentify to your ISP. Note that there can be as many of these lines as you want for different combinations of users, ISP's and respective passwords. 2.2 user specific configuration files GateKeeper groups the user specific configuration files in .Gate document wrappers. Generally, you need one of two types of .Gate documents depending on whether you use a synchronous PPP/ISDN connection or an analogous modem connection. „ for synchronous PPP/ISDN Note that the NEXTSTEP PPP implementation is asynchronous; for use with ISDN therefore you need a asynchronous/synchronous conversion. At the moment only the ZyXEL Elite 2864 ISDN adaptor is able to perform this conversion. The following templates therefore are adjusted for the use with this device. To make full use of an ISDN connection you'll need a speed multiplier serial card. options # user specific options file; supplements resp. overwrites # /etc/ppp/options # # synchronous PPP/ISDN connection according to pppup # to ISP ISPshortcut 57600 name username remotename ISPshortcut connect "/usr/local/ppp/bin/chat -vf ./pppup" This file chooses the maximum DTE speed (57600 × 4 = 230400 with a speed multiplier card), reads the password needed for the login procedure from /etc/pap-secrets and connects according to pppup. username is the name with which you log in into your ISP (Internet Service Provider). There must be an entry for this username in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. ISPshortcut is the name for the ISP you have chosen in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. pppup ABORT BUSY ABORT ERROR ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO ANSWER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" "" ATZ OK ATB40 OK ATDI123456 CONNECT This file sets the ZyXEL in asynchronous/synchronous conversion mode and determines the ISDN login procedure. Besides the phone number no user specific editing is necessary. 123456 is the phone number of your ISP (Internet Service Provider).
If you want to, I can mail you the RTF version via NeXTMAil. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTMail pictures Date: 6 Sep 1996 18:53:39 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <50prvj$7ok@inet-prime.comshare.com> Can someone refresh my memory as to how user images are set up in NeXT Mail? The online help doesn't say, and I don't have the old hardcopy stuff readily available. I thought "user.tiff" in /LocalLibrary/Images/People would do it, but apparently not... TIA, Alan Frabutt mailto://alanf@izzy.net Disclaimer: My opinions are my own.
From: hans@hermes.louisville.edu (Hans Fiedler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: breaking in if locked out Date: 6 Sep 1996 14:58:02 -0400 Organization: University of Louisville, Louisville KY USA Message-ID: <50ps7r$2ln@hermes.louisville.edu> We've had a couple of next stations donated to us, but noone where they came from seems to know the passwords (evidently they've just sitting around for a while). Is there a way to force the boot to single-user, or some other mode where I can clear the passwords so we can get into them? I was hoping to get into them so we can use them for something other a neat (but large) set of bookends. -- Hans K. Fiedler Information Technology Communications Analyst Communications Services hans@hermes.louisville.edu University of Louisville (502)852-7427 Louisville, Ky. 40292
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem compiling iomanip.h Date: 6 Sep 1996 20:17:55 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <50q0tj$quu@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Please reply to randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu, NOT randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu -- thank you. If there is a faq I can be pointed to for the solution to my problem, please help me locate it. Otherwise, I'd appreciate advise. When I #include <iomanip.h> and attempt to compile a c++ program, I get the following error messages: lowana> cc read.cc -lg++ In file included from read.cc:4: /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:61: parse error before `>' /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:63: parse error before `>' /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:141: semicolon missing after declaration of `smanip<int>' /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h: In function `int setbase (int)': /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:141: aggregate value used where an integer was expected /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h: At top level: /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:61: parse error before `>' /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:63: parse error before `>' /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:146: semicolon missing after declaration of `smanip<long unsigned int>' /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h: In function `int resetiosflags (long unsigned int)': /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++/iomanip.h:146: aggregate value used where an integer was expected cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1objplus got fatal signal 10 lowana> I am currently only using iomanip.h for the "endl" output constant, and my program compiles and runs just fine when I substitute "\n" for endl and comment out the iomanip.h include. However, I intend to use the other manipulators in the future, so I need to discover the compilation problem. Any helpful advice will be appreciated. Thanks. Randy Jackson Please reply to randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu, NOT randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu -- thank you. -- -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: nicolai@dannug.dk (Nicolai Henriksen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTMail pictures References: <50prvj$7ok@inet-prime.comshare.com> Message-ID: <323087bc.0@dannug.dk> Date: 6 Sep 96 20:21:16 GMT alanf@izzy.net writes > Can someone refresh my memory as to how user images are set up in NeXT Mail? > The online help doesn't say, and I don't have the old hardcopy stuff readily > available. > I thought "user.tiff" in /LocalLibrary/Images/People would do it, but > apparently not... > TIA, > Alan Frabutt > mailto://alanf@izzy.net > Disclaimer: My opinions are my own. You also need a "passwd" file and a "aliases" file in that directory. From mine /LocalLibrary/Images/People: nicolai@marvin:/LocalLibrary/Images/People> ls -l total 378 -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 57804 Sep 3 02:35 Susanne.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 36 Sep 5 00:47 aliases -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 57804 Sep 3 03:32 fstef@dannug.dk.tiff -rw-r--r-- 1 nicolai daemon 12492 Sep 5 00:47 jacob@dannug.dk.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 24756 Sep 3 03:01 karthy@dannug.dk.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 14004 Sep 3 04:39 magnus@hum.auc.dk.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 16474 Sep 3 03:57 nicolai.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 388 Sep 5 00:47 passwd -rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolai daemon 24756 Sep 3 03:34 peter@control.auc.dk.tiff nicolai@marvin:/LocalLibrary/Images/People> cat passwd fstef@dannug.dk:*:-2:-2:Fstef@dannug.dk:/nodir:/noshell jacob@dannug.dk:*:-2:-2:Jacob@dannug.dk:/nodir:/noshell karthy@dannug.dk:*:-2:-2:Karthy@dannug.dk:/nodir:/noshell magnus@hum.auc.dk:*:-2:-2:Magnus@hum.auc.dk:/nodir:/noshell nicolai:*:-2:-2:Nicolai:/nodir:/noshell peter@control.auc.dk:*:-2:-2:Peter@control.auc.dk:/nodir:/noshell susanne:*:-2:-2:Susanne Juhl Paaske:/nodir:/noshell (I use the excelent MailPictures.app to maintain those passwd and aliases) - Nicolai -- Nicolai Henriksen <nicolai@dannug.dk> WWW: http://www.dannug.dk/~nicolai
From: thedrjay@aol.com (The Dr Jay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: object.station boot problem Date: 6 Sep 1996 16:44:13 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <50q2et$sar@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> I have a friend who also has a Cannon Object Station that had similar problems. After ignoring suggestion to check the battery for a few months he finally listened to me and checked the CMOS backup battery. It had less than 2V (3.6 is the standard for most PC's) and was not retaining the setup information. This caused the computer to on most of the cold boots to give floppy errors and needed multiple boots to get up and running. After replacing the battery all the problems where solved. The battery in under the CD ROM, and there is a connector for an external battery. I wouldn’t try to solder on any mother board as you will most likely cause damage, most have internal traces that are easily damaged. Cut the old one off with a small pare of angle cutters and install a new external battery as a replacement. Considering the age of the computer it’s time to replace the battery if you own one of these computers. When most CMOS backup batteries get more than 3 years old it is not uncommon for them to start leaking battery acid on to the mother board. This acid then starts to eat the traces and soon the mother board has non repairable damage. I have a large pile of boards that have been destroyed like this by there old batteries. Almost all PC’s are at risk of this problem so anyone with a computer more that 3 years old should remove there old battery and install a new external battery before it’s too late.
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: getting DNS to work? Date: 6 Sep 1996 21:41:35 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <50q5qf$1cns@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112525.19820E-100000@charisma> <50pg0n$7bg@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Cc: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com In <50pg0n$7bg@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Erik M. Buck wrote: > I have a similar problem. Only one machine on our small network can see the > outside world during a ppp session. The machine connected to the modem can > perform all of the normal network operations, but none of the other machines > can. Have I overlooked something simple ? I have been unable to get the original posting. However, my guess is that this is not a routing problem at all. Unless you have been assigned a subnet by your provider (which you may have stated earlier), then one IP address is not enough to let your whole LAN access the net. Linux users can do such a thing with IP Masquerading. Unfortuantely we can't. The best I can suggest is that you run proxies on your PPP connected machine and have your LAN machines use the proxies. Squid is a good WWW proxy. 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/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: breaking in if locked out Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906175054.11988E-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:53:42 -0400 References: <50ps7r$2ln@hermes.louisville.edu> To: Hans Fiedler <hans@hermes.louisville.edu> In-Reply-To: <50ps7r$2ln@hermes.louisville.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII when they begin to power-up, hold down both COMMAND keys and press the ~ (over the 7 on the KEYPAD) that will dump you to the ROM monitor. do "bsd-s" to boot to single user mode If it asks for a hardware password, remove the NeXTStation cover and remove the battery for a few minutes, replace and then try again. TjL ps -- when you get logged in, use 'nu -m' and modify the root password. Then logout, reboot, and login normally (as root). Run UserManager.app to setup/delete accounts. ps2 -- who is donating NeXTStations????? On 6 Sep 1996, Hans Fiedler wrote: > We've had a couple of next stations donated to us, but noone where they came > from seems to know the passwords (evidently they've just sitting around for a > while). Is there a way to force the boot to single-user, or some other mode > where I can clear the passwords so we can get into them? > > I was hoping to get into them so we can use them for something other a neat > (but large) set of bookends. > -- > Hans K. Fiedler Information Technology > Communications Analyst Communications Services > hans@hermes.louisville.edu University of Louisville > (502)852-7427 Louisville, Ky. 40292 > > >
From: zimmer@huskynet.com (Zimmer) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with authentification file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 23:32:34 -0500 Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <zimmer-0609962332340001@news2.cais.com> References: <50p1qb$dou@avalon.imaginet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Set the file permissions using "chmod 600 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets" and make sure the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /usr/sbin/pppd files are owned by root. If you start pppd by some account other than root, then run "chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd" to make it run setuid. Tim Z. ----------- In article <50p1qb$dou@avalon.imaginet.fr>, rnr@io.com wrote: > A provider I'm trying launch immediatly ppp and is asking for > authentification. I've built a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. But it doesn't > work. ppp complains that the file is not there! > > What is the exact format. I've found the manual very iprecise on that > subject. I need exemples!!! > > TIA > > mc
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: object.station RAM-EDO?! Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 01:05:56 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <32311093.2DA7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <50q2et$sar@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know if the Canon object.station 41 supports EDO RAM?! Also, is there any better upgrades to the CPU than the Intel Pentium Overdrive 83 Mhz? :) ---------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: taweil@skat.usc.edu (taweil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Booting NT from second SCSI harddrive... Date: 6 Sep 1996 23:06:57 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: taweil@skat.usc.edu Message-ID: <c4a20gesvt3.fsf@skat.usc.edu> Hi, I just install the Windows NT server on the second SCSI harddrive where the first drive is NeXTSTEP 3.3 with its boot manager. I'd like to know how I can boot into the second harddrive in this case. By the way, the SCSI controller is DPT 2144W in case it may help. Any information is appreciated. -- Ta-Wei Li
From: telf@lys.vnet.net (ROLAND TELFEYAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTMail pictures Date: 7 Sep 1996 15:31:51 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. Message-ID: <50s4h7$1el@ralph.vnet.net> References: <50prvj$7ok@inet-prime.comshare.com> alanf@izzy.net wrote: : Can someone refresh my memory as to how user images are set up in NeXT Mail? Hi Alan, In /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/06_Mail.rtfd it tells you how. See "Adding Pictures for Users". Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: object.station RAM-EDO?! Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:23:45 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmAOyVS00iWPE2tU0T@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <50q2et$sar@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <32311093.2DA7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <32311093.2DA7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 7-Sep-96 Re: object.station RAM-EDO?! by "Eric A. Dubiel"@rs6000. > Does anyone know if the Canon object.station 41 supports EDO RAM?! It probably does not. > Also, is there any better upgrades to the CPU than the Intel Pentium > Overdrive 83 Mhz? The object.station has a 237/238-pin ZIF socket, right? If so, I believe that the P-83 is the fastest genuine Intel CPU you can use. One of the clones like an AMD or a Cyrix might offer a faster version, although I'd be concerned with whether that would work with NEXTSTEP.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: dwy@walrus.com (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and Motion 771?? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 7 Sep 1996 19:47:56 GMT Organization: Intellitech Corporation Message-ID: <50sjhc$k3k@alice.walrus.com> References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com> Arpad Geller (arpad@tezcat.com) wrote: : O.K., it's been a week, three SCSI cards and at least five complete runs : through installation (it took me a while to even get that far). I'm closer : than I've ever been, but still no working operating system. [snip] Very much like my system, only I don't have any EIDE devices. If it's a 2940UW, did you load the 2940 driver off the additional drivers disk as opposed to the drivers disk? Also, how much memory is on your Motion771? --- . . . . .. david young / ace.net internet technologies // . . . . .. dwy@ace.net / 1.201.798.5217 / 1.917.923.6461 // . . . .. www.ace.net: a playground for the truly digital //
From: dwy@walrus.com (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 540 using JetPilot driver under Mach 4.0 Date: 7 Sep 1996 19:44:12 GMT Organization: Intellitech Corporation Message-ID: <50sjac$k3k@alice.walrus.com> References: <50n21p$ic5@usenet.rpi.edu> Jon Mah (JaMah!) (jamah@dazeclub.stu.rpi.edu.stu.rpi.edu) wrote: : Has anyone tried using JetPilot (Printer Drivers for Non-Postscript : printers) for an HP Deskjet 540? I am trying to use this driver (on a demo : license) for my HP Deskjet 540. I finally got the hardware to be : recognized correctly, so that pp0 was correctly registered upon startup. : However, upon sending test pages through PrintManager, the printer simply : sits there as if nothing as happening, yet an lpq says that the printer : should be printing, but nothing happens. I had a similar problem with my HP DeskJet 320. Seems I had to use lpc to restart lpd, and then the pages started printing fine. Haven't really had time to track down the problem, but this may be a temporary fix for you. --- . . . . .. david young / ace.net internet technologies // . . . . .. dwy@ace.net / 1.201.798.5217 / 1.917.923.6461 // . . . .. www.ace.net: a playground for the truly digital //
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: getting DNS to work? Date: 7 Sep 1996 20:56:02 GMT Organization: <<<>>> Message-ID: <50snh2$3op@news.zipnet.net> References: <Dx91J6.88w@midway.uchicago.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960905112525.19820E-100000@charisma> <50pg0n$7bg@castor.cca.rockwell.com> <50q5qf$1cns@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In <50q5qf$1cns@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Stephen J. Perkins wrote: > In <50pg0n$7bg@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Erik M. Buck wrote: > > I have a similar problem. Only one machine on our small network can see > > the outside world during a ppp session. The machine connected to the > > modem can perform all of the normal network operations, but none of the > > other machines can. Have I overlooked something simple ? > > I have been unable to get the original posting. However, my guess is that > this is not a routing problem at all. Unless you have been assigned a subnet > by your provider (which you may have stated earlier), then one IP address is > not enough to let your whole LAN access the net. Linux users can do such a > thing with IP Masquerading. Unfortuantely we can't. > Right... this is probably not a routing problem. If you are just dialing into your typical ISP, you are probably being dynmically assigned one IP address. There *is* a way to get multiple machines on a network to use one IP address. RFC 1631 -- The IP Network Address Translator (NAT) describes how this works. In short, there is enough information in a TCP segment to allow an intermediary to translate your private IP addresses and ports into one external IP address (i.e. the address allocated to you by your ISP) and port. This is a really great solution for a small/home office situation. NAT has the added benefit that the translation that occurs adds a degree of security/anonymity to your internal network. There are a couple shareware software routers out there that support NAT. (Commercial routers are supporting NAT as well). The one you might want to check out can be found at http://www.mischler.com --- it's called IPRoute. Very impressive. I've been running it for over a week on an old 20MHz '286 with just a floppy and a $26 network card. It demand-dials whenever an IP packets needs to be routed off of the local net. This is an impressive package and really configurable. Another implementation can be found at http://willow.canberra.edu.au/~chrisc/nat.html I don't know much about this one except that it runs Windoze 95. :) ASM ---- Allan MacKinnon mailto:allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA (617) 424-0615
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: object.station RAM-EDO?! Date: 7 Sep 1996 21:50:37 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <50sqnd$8sh@news.digifix.com> References: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <50q2et$sar@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <32311093.2DA7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <32311093.2DA7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> On 09/06/96, "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: >Does anyone know if the Canon object.station 41 supports EDO RAM?! >Also, is there any better upgrades to the CPU than the Intel Pentium >Overdrive 83 Mhz? > >:) I doubt it supports EDO.. If you are considering an upgrade, in my opinion, your money would be better spent on building a machine. The OS 41's are not supported by Canon CCSI, and they have no interest in even taking care of those machines that are less than 18 months old. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: jclemens@big.aa.net (Jonathan Clemens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: halting 'shutdown' Date: 7 Sep 1996 16:07:22 -0700 Organization: Alternate Access Inc. - Affordable, Reliable Internet Access Sender: jclmeens@aa.net Message-ID: <50sv7a$h1f@big.aa.net> References: <199609051459.KAA03769@nerc3.nerc.com> Summary: Don't In article <199609051459.KAA03769@nerc3.nerc.com>, Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > >I was making a script last night using the 'shutdown' command' > >Having 'kill'd the process before the reboot (just to test the >script) I didn't realize it had left /etc/nologin present. > >Is there a way to kill 'shutdown' so that it will clean up >/etc/nologin automatically? From O'Reilly's _Essential System Administration_, 2nd Ed., p. 133: "It's only safe to kill a shutdown command during its grace period; once it has actually started closing down the system, you're better off letting it finish and then rebooting." Jonathan Clemens http://www.aa.net/~jclemens
From: Ray <ray@cynapses.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bad Sectors Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 22:39:27 -0600 Organization: Cynapses Computer and Internet Services Message-ID: <32324DFF.2B51@cynapses.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I've discovered I have a few bad sectors on my HD. They seem to be in horrible locations, too. I can't get half of the admin tools to run. I can't even get to a terminal prompt. At anyrate, fsck can't repair or mark the sectors. It just runs in a loop forever. Is there a way that I can mark the sectors and re-install is OS so it won't use them? I also need to figure out a way to do whatever it is i Need to do without a term prompt or being able to use any admin tools.. :) Tough, eh? I'll probably have to boot from the CD or something. Anyway, ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated. ray ray@cynapses.com
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Booting NT from second SCSI harddrive... Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 00:04:42 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <323253CE.465A@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <c4a20gesvt3.fsf@skat.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit taweil wrote: > I just install the Windows NT server on the second SCSI harddrive > where the first drive is NeXTSTEP 3.3 with its boot manager. I'd like > to know how I can boot into the second harddrive in this case. I wish to do the same, but I have an Canon object.station 41, with dual boot NS and 95...can I triple boot and add NT 4.0?! Thanks for tips in advance ---------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mosh@kino.ch (Dennis Michl) Subject: Re: Canon input overrun Message-ID: <DxE8D8.4E1@news.limmat.ch> Sender: news@news.limmat.ch (News Admin) Organization: Limmat-Net, Zuerich - http://www.limmat.ch References: <322cea15.172770560@nntp.best.com> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 03:00:43 GMT In article <322cea15.172770560@nntp.best.com> westes@usc.com (Will Estes) writes: > I have the following message in my /private/adm/messages log repeated > over and over again. What does it mean? Do you have a terminal attached to your serial port? When it's turned off, the (long, unshielded) cable acts as an antenna and picks up radio waves. These signals confuse the getty. -MoSH
From: Rock It! <rnr@io.com> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with authentification file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets Date: 8 Sep 1996 14:12:46 GMT Organization: Rock It! Message-ID: <50uk8u$746@avalon.imaginet.fr> References: <50p1qb$dou@avalon.imaginet.fr> <50ppmk$j2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Cc: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de Well thanks Uli! I've passed this! You explanations are perfectly clear! (to the contrary of the man pages...) My secrets file was correct but I didn't put 'name username / remotename ISPshortcut' in the options file... But now though I connect I can't go nowhere! It looks like I'm rejected... This is the log: ( I think that the authentification fails...) Sep 8 11:45:06 tupelo pppd[4306]: Serial connection established. Sep 8 11:45:07 tupelo pppd[4306]: Using interface ppp0 Sep 8 11:45:07 tupelo pppd[4306]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa Sep 8 11:45:07 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x7bee130f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Sep 8 11:45:08 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x7bee130f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth upap> <magic 0xcef6712d> <pcomp> <accomp>] Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (a0000) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (REJ) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (cef6712d) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth upap>] Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth upap> <magic 0xcef6712d> <pcomp> <accomp>] (...) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (a0000) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (REJ) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (cef6712d) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Sep 8 11:45:09 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x4 <auth upap>] Sep 8 11:45:10 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x7bee130f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Sep 8 11:45:14 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x7bee130f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Sep 8 11:45:14 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x7bee130f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Sep 8 11:45:14 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU Sep 8 11:45:14 tupelo pppd[4306]: (1500) Sep 8 11:45:14 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) (...) Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: (36f33045) Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: (NAK) Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: (ACK) Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFNAK. Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x5 <magic 0x6ea1e49c>] Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x5 <magic 0x6ea1e49c>] Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: Serial line is looped back. Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x6] Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x6] Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x6] Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x6] Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: Connection terminated. Sep 8 11:45:17 tupelo pppd[4306]: Exit.
From: Eric Weakland <eweaklan@us.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXT PINE Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 10:53:48 -0400 Organization: A word to the wise, organise. Message-ID: <3232DDFC.6B64@us.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi! Has anyone out there successfully ported pine to nextstep 3.3 i have gotten the files and when i try to build - i get lots o' errors i think that the port i have is for 2.x I can post the errors if need be any ideas eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Bad Sectors Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960908122409.9141A-100000@charisma> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 12:26:39 -0400 References: <32324DFF.2B51@cynapses.com> To: Ray <ray@cynapses.com> In-Reply-To: <32324DFF.2B51@cynapses.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII checkout 'man reasb' yes you will probably have to boot from CD and mount your HD using a command which might look something like this: mount -o rw /sd0a /Disk If you can't access that manpage, send me an email with the SUBJECT: send-ascii reasb.man or send-mime reasb.man and a copy of the manpage (in plaintext format) will be sent to you immediately, either as a regular message or a MIME attachement, respectively. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Ray wrote: > Hello, > > I've discovered I have a few bad sectors on my HD. They seem to be in horrible locations, too. I can't get > half of the admin tools to run. I can't even get to a terminal prompt. At anyrate, fsck can't repair or mark > the sectors. It just runs in a loop forever. Is there a way that I can mark the sectors and re-install is OS > so it won't use them? I also need to figure out a way to do whatever it is i Need to do without a term > prompt or being able to use any admin tools.. :) Tough, eh? I'll probably have to boot from the CD or > something. Anyway, ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated. > > ray > ray@cynapses.com > > >
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: object.station RAM-EDO?! Date: 8 Sep 1996 16:59:34 GMT Organization: <<<>>> Message-ID: <50uu1m$p7t@news.zipnet.net> References: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> <50q2et$sar@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <32311093.2DA7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <kmAOyVS00iWPE2tU0T@andrew.cmu.edu> In <kmAOyVS00iWPE2tU0T@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 7-Sep-96 Re: > object.station RAM-EDO?! by "Eric A. Dubiel"@rs6000. > > Does anyone know if the Canon object.station 41 supports EDO RAM?! > > It probably does not. > > > Also, is there any better upgrades to the CPU than the Intel Pentium > > Overdrive 83 Mhz? > > The object.station has a 237/238-pin ZIF socket, right? If so, I > believe that the P-83 is the fastest genuine Intel CPU you can use. One > of the clones like an AMD or a Cyrix might offer a faster version, > although I'd be concerned with whether that would work with NEXTSTEP.... > > -Chuck > > > Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- > I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist. > > The AMD 5x86-P75 (133MHz) works fine with NEXTSTEP. I've never heard of any '486 chipset that supports EDO RAM. ASM -- Allan MacKinnon mailto:allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA (617) 424-0615
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and ps/2 mouse? Date: 8 Sep 1996 20:16:55 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <50v9jn$n3v@tepe.tezcat.com> References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I'm almost there, the system runs. I've got to learn to read instructions more carefully. Apparently, the install disk needs to be the primary disk to boot and install properly (at least that was my solution). So I have two problems left: 1. My mouse is stuck at IRQ12. It is a PS/2 mouse (Logitech cordless). I tried to edit the Default.table in /usr/Devices/PS2Mouse.config so that everything points to IRQ12 but the mouse still isn't recognized (yes, I type config=Default at boot). Am I missing something in the Default.table? I changed two lines (the only two with IRQ references). 2. I can only get the nextstep partition to boot as hd1a from floppy. It won't do it from the OS/2 boot manager. I changed the /etc/fstab line to /dev/hd1a instead of /dev/hd0a and still no luck. Is there something else I need to change? Thanks in advance. In article <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com>, arpad@tezcat.com says... > >I'm trying to install on the first 700MB partition on the second EIDE hard >drive. I have Win95 and OS/2 Warp on two partitions on the first drive. I have >a 500MB DOS FAT parition on the second hard drive and 300MB of free space. > >My system: >Dell Pentium XPS133 16MB RAM >#9 Motion 771 PCI video >Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI >Sony CDU8012 external CDROM (SCSI 0) >Syquest EZ135 external (SCSI 1) >Two EIDE hard drives >ATAPI Nec CDROM:273 (internal) > -- Peace, Arpi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Arpad Geller (312) 862-2941 arpad@tezcat.com Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: NEXT PINE Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960908151539.1040B-100000@charisma> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 15:22:09 -0400 References: <3232DDFC.6B64@us.net> To: Eric Weakland <eweaklan@us.net> In-Reply-To: <3232DDFC.6B64@us.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII You dodn't mention what arch you are using. I will assume that you are using m68k: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin-compressed/pine-bin.next.Z (1704321 bytes) You can also find the newest stuff there as well. I have not heard of anyone having problems with the compile, but then I haven't asked much either ;-) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Eric Weakland wrote: > hi! > > Has anyone out there successfully ported pine to nextstep > 3.3 > > i have gotten the files and when i try to build - i get lots o' errors > i think that the port i have is for 2.x > > I can post the errors if need be > > any ideas > > eric > > >
From: Robert Lutwak <robert@amo.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hiding printers via Netinfo ? Date: 8 Sep 1996 21:30:13 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <50vdt5$kj8@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Hi. I seem to recall that there's a property one can add to a printer in NetInfo that prevents its appearing in the print panel. I can't find any mention in the online docs. Does anyone recall how to do this ? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory ---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609082015.QAA07925@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 96 15:14:11 -0400 Subject: panic error message, anyone decrypt?? Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com My system paniced twice today, the second time I got the information recorded. Of course, it doesn't really mean anything to me. Here it is: # begin unexpected kermel page fault failure trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0x155f66 trap: pc 0x1115d 884 sp 0x3ffe66c sr 0x2000 trap: cpu 0 th 0x1014773c proc 0x0 pid 0 pcb 0x1115510 traceback: fp 0x155f68 last fp 0x155f68 #end If anyone knows what this might be trying to tell me, or knows how to decode this info, please let me know Thanks TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
From: jclemens@big.aa.net (Jonathan Clemens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXT PINE Date: 8 Sep 1996 16:35:17 -0700 Organization: Alternate Access Inc. - Affordable, Reliable Internet Access Message-ID: <50vl7l$5s4@big.aa.net> References: <3232DDFC.6B64@us.net> In article <3232DDFC.6B64@us.net>, Eric Weakland <eweaklan@us.net> wrote: >hi! > >Has anyone out there successfully ported pine to nextstep >3.3 > >i have gotten the files and when i try to build - i get lots o' errors >i think that the port i have is for 2.x About 4 weeks ago I successfully built pine on NS 3.3p1 Intel (developer), by telling it I was a NeXT. It says it only supports black hardware, but it worked/ran just fine for me--no errors at all. Get a current copy from ftp.cac.washington.edu if you don't have one. Jonathan Clemens http://www.aa.net/~jclemens
From: "John McPherson" <mcphersj@sojourn.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking NeXTstep with a NT primary domain controller Date: 8 Sep 1996 23:47:50 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems, Lansing, MI (USA) Message-ID: <01b99231$be2afb60$807fb1c7@thunder> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know how I can get my NeXT NSFIP machine communicate with my NT primary domain controller. What I want to know is how to setup NeXTSTEP to recognize the NT server. I have TCP/IP installed on the NT machine and I have IPX/SPX also. Any ideas? Thanks! John t. Thanks! John
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NT filesystems on JAZ disk Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 23:42:57 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <32339E10.46D7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Roller <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Steve Roller wrote: > > I've installed a Jaz drive on Next 3.3 for Intel. I'm thinking of putting NT 4.0 Workstation on a Jaz, and am wondering if anyone knows if there's a way in NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP MACH to read NTFS filesystem or the new Win95 FAT32 filesystems? For that matter, does it even support the long file names of 95, i.e. VFAT? ---------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: jlauret@tgv.com (Jerome LAURET) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need help to attempt to repair BIG screw up Date: 8 Sep 1996 00:22:04 GMT Organization: SUNYSB/EDU Distribution: world Message-ID: <50t3jc$44k@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> Keywords: Boot,protection,netinfo,NFS Hello there, I hope one of you will know how to solve my problem. Here it is : The NeXt I unfortunatly have the tasj to manage was initialy setup in a very perticular way. The fstab did contain an entry to mount the disk of another NeXt we have (nfs) and several directories where linked to /Net/next1/whatever from next2. Even if I have been warned about this "small" setting perticularity by the preceding system manager, I thought only un-important directories were linked that way. Recently, I got a problem with the fstab in the netinfo database. So I thought about nidump the fstab in the /etc/fstab file, delete entries with the NetInfoManager and restart the machine. Well, it does not boot anymore and I believe it is due to this damned nfs mount of the next1, next2 uses. I tried to boot in single user mode and attempted to access the netinfo database but I can't. The symptoms are : - First, all files appears as read-only. I cannot change any of them. - nidomain -l tells me : cannot connect to server localhost and therefore I cannot modify the file (if I only I could) to restore the nfs mount of the next1 disk. - Related to it I tried to nidump hosts . and I get cannot to netinfo server : Communication failure Well, It does not seem to me I have many options. I have exhausted my list of ideas ... Help will be greatly (even "hugely") appreciated. Basically, what I need to do is to find a way to restore the ftsab entry in the netinfo database and then reboot the damned machine. THANKS FOR ANY SUGGESTIONS, TIPS, TRICK -- Jerome LAURET S.U.N.Y. @ Stony Brook ,,,,, Dept. of Chemistry ( o o ) Stony Brook NY 11794-3400 ---m---U---m--------------------------------------------- E-mail: jlauret@sbchem.chem.sunysb.edu URL : http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/people/jlauret.html
From: rx7power@ix.netcom.com (Water) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH**** Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:27:58 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> I was scanning thru a NEWSGROUP and saw an article stating to GET CASH FAST!! I thought..."Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll just have to see what schemes could possibly 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 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!!! OK, Read this carefully. Get a printout of this information, if you like, so you can easily refer to it as often as needed. STEP 1. Write your name and address on 5 separate pieces of paper with the words "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST". 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! Fold a $1 note or money order or bank draft in each of the pieces of paper and mail them to the following five addresses: ********************************************************** * 1. Jason Dessenberg * Whispering Way #10 * Grand Rapids, MI 49546 * * 2. Michael W. Graham * 7342 146th St. SW Apt. C * Tacoma, WA 98439 * * 3. Dave Alexus * 918 Sunridge Dr. * Sarasota, FL 34234 * * 4. Greg Farries * 119 Mount Crandell Crescent West * Lethbridge, Alberta * Canada T1K 6L7 * * 5. John Wise * 2130 Cameron Cir. * Birmingham, AL 35242-6411 ****************************************************************** STEP 2. Now remove the 1st name on the list, move the other 4 names up (5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3 etc) and put your name and address as number 5 on the list. You can do this by re-typing this article or simply editing and re-posting it in this or another newsgroup. STEP 3. Post your amended article to at least 200 new groups (there are 17 000 of them). You are now in the Mail Order Investment Business and you will start receiving $1 returns by mail within a week or two. The more newsgroups you post to, the bigger your return will be. HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS Of every 200 postings I made, I received an average of 5 replies, YES - ONLY 5, each with a $1 bill enclosed. You make $5 for every 200 postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 5. Each person who sent you $1, now also makes let's say, only 200 additional postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 4, i.e. 1000 postings. On average therefore, 25 people will send you $1 with your name at number 4. You make $25. Your 25 new agents make 200 posting each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 3 or 5 000 postings - average return 125 at $1 each is $125. They make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 2 = 25 000 postings = 625 returns at $1 each = $625. Finally, 625 people make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 1 and you get a return of $3125 (for every 200 postings) before you name drops off the list. Total income in one cycle = $3905. AND THAT'S IF EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE ONLY MAKES 200 POSTINGS! From time to time, when your name is no longer on the list, you take the latest posting that is appearing in the newsgroups, SEND OUT ANOTHER $5 TO THE NAMES THAT ARE ON THE LIST, PUT YOUR NAME IN AT NUMBER 5 AND START POSTING AGAIN. Remember, 200 postings is only a guideline. The more you post, the greater the return. Let's review the reasons why you should do this THE ONLY COST FACTORS ARE 5 STAMPS 5 ENVELOPES 5 $1 BILLS Anyone can afford five dollars to put into such an effortless investment with SPECTACULAR RETURNS. Some people have said to me "What happens if the scheme is 'played out' and no one sends me any money"? Big deal! So you lose $5 - but what are the chances of that happening? Do you realise how many Internet Users there are? Do you realise how many times this scheme can be utilised over and over again - with COMPLETELY NEW people participating? Remember, read the instructions carefully and play FAIRLY...that's the only way this will work. Get a printout so you can refer back to this article easily. Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the newsgroup postings to make sure everyone is playing fairly. You know where your name should be. REMEMBER - HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. ENJOY!
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting 'dos' as the default selection in the NeXT boot process Date: 9 Sep 1996 07:25:11 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <510gon$9s6@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <01b99231$7c4e2c30$807fb1c7@thunder> "John McPherson" <mcphersj@sojourn.com> wrote: > Does anyone know how I can select 'dos' to be the primary selection in the > NeXT boot up proccess? Start FDISK and set the NT partition "active". Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 Mail: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (MIME/NeXT accepted) WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: rx7power@ix.netcom.com (Water) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Control: cancel <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Date: 09 Sep 96 12:25:11 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <cancel.510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Article cancelled by news@service3.uky.edu.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609091324.JAA08482@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 96 09:24:36 -0400 Subject: I always get these great Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Just showed up in console: Sep 9 09:17:30 charisma syslog: astounding arguments. But there's nothing in syslog from that time! The last message was ten minutes before that message.... Anyway, just thought it was interesting. Thought someone might know what it was.... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH**** Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:07:02 -0400 References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> To: Water <rx7power@ix.netcom.com>, abuse@netcom.com In-Reply-To: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please delete this SPAMMER's account: From: Water <rx7power@ix.netcom.com> Path: NERCWINNT2!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-14.sprintlink.net!newsfeeder.servtech.co m!news1.io.org!clio.trends.ca!ki.net!winternet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.pr imenet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: rx7power@ix.netcom.com (Water) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,c omp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,co mp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,c omp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer .mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.ne xt.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp .sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi .admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.si nclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH**** Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:27:58 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 160 Message-ID: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bir-al6-23.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Sep 09 4:28:52 AM PDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: NERCWINNT2 comp.sys.mac.graphics:5628 comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:14086 comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:5767 comp.sys.mac.hardware.video:3827 comp.sys.mac.hypercard:2197 comp.sys.mac.portables:11054 comp.sys.mac.printing:3816 comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior:9124 comp.sys.mac.programmer.help:7298 comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc:2960 comp.sys.mac.system:26525 comp.sys.mac.wanted:11794 comp.sys.newton.misc:12036 comp.sys.next.advocacy:3171 comp.sys.next.hardware:2138 comp.sys.next.sysadmin:2058 comp.sys.palmtops:10235 comp.sys.pen:1558 comp.sys.powerpc:9104 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:2333 comp.sys.sgi.admin:6023 comp.sys.sgi.graphics:1703 comp.sys.sgi.hardware:2885 comp.sys.sgi.misc:2610 comp.sys.sinclair:5117 comp.sys.sun.admin:8236 comp.sys.sun.hardware:4228 On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Water wrote: > I was scanning thru a NEWSGROUP and saw an article stating to > GET CASH FAST!! I thought..."Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll just > have to see what schemes could possibly 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 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!!! > > OK, Read this carefully. Get a printout of this information, if you > like, so you can easily refer to it as often as needed. > > STEP 1. Write your name and address on 5 separate pieces of paper with > the words "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST". 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! Fold a $1 note or money order or bank draft in each of the > pieces of paper and mail them to the following five addresses: > ********************************************************** > * 1. Jason Dessenberg > * Whispering Way #10 > * Grand Rapids, MI 49546 > * > * 2. Michael W. Graham > * 7342 146th St. SW Apt. C > * Tacoma, WA 98439 > * > * 3. Dave Alexus > * 918 Sunridge Dr. > * Sarasota, FL 34234 > * > * 4. Greg Farries > * 119 Mount Crandell Crescent West > * Lethbridge, Alberta > * Canada T1K 6L7 > * > * 5. John Wise > * 2130 Cameron Cir. > * Birmingham, AL 35242-6411 > ****************************************************************** > > STEP 2. Now remove the 1st name on the list, move the other 4 names up > (5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3 etc) and put your name and address as number 5 > on the list. You can do this by re-typing this article or simply editing > and re-posting it in this or another newsgroup. > > STEP 3. Post your amended article to at least 200 new groups (there are > 17 000 of them). > > You are now in the Mail Order Investment Business and you will start > receiving $1 returns by mail within a week or two. The more newsgroups > you post to, the bigger your return will be. > > > HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS > > > Of every 200 postings I made, I received an average of 5 replies, YES - > ONLY 5, each with a $1 bill enclosed. You make $5 for every 200 > postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 5. > > Each person who sent you $1, now also makes let's say, only 200 > additional postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 4, i.e. 1000 postings. > On average therefore, 25 people will send you $1 with your name at > number 4. You make $25. > > Your 25 new agents make 200 posting each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 3 > or 5 000 postings - average return 125 at $1 each is $125. They > make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 2 = 25 000 postings > = 625 returns at $1 each = $625. > > Finally, 625 people make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 1 > and you get a return of $3125 (for every 200 postings) before you name > drops off the list. Total income in one cycle = $3905. AND THAT'S IF > EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE ONLY MAKES 200 POSTINGS! > > From time to time, when your name is no longer on the list, you take > the latest posting that is appearing in the newsgroups, SEND OUT > ANOTHER $5 TO THE NAMES THAT ARE ON THE LIST, PUT YOUR NAME IN > AT NUMBER 5 AND START POSTING AGAIN. Remember, 200 postings is only > a guideline. The more you post, the greater the return. > > Let's review the reasons why you should do this > > THE ONLY COST FACTORS ARE > > 5 STAMPS > 5 ENVELOPES > 5 $1 BILLS > > Anyone can afford five dollars to put into such an effortless investment > with SPECTACULAR RETURNS. > > Some people have said to me "What happens if the scheme is 'played > out' and no one sends me any money"? Big deal! So you lose $5 - but > what are the chances of that happening? > > Do you realise how many Internet Users there are? Do you realise how > many times this scheme can be utilised over and over again - with > COMPLETELY NEW people participating? > > > Remember, read the instructions carefully and play FAIRLY...that's > the only way this will work. Get a printout so you can refer back > to this article easily. > > Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and always keep > an eye on the newsgroup postings to make sure everyone is playing > fairly. You know where your name should be. > > REMEMBER - HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. > > ENJOY! > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: P.W.Gould@liverpool.ac.uk (Paul Gould) Subject: Re: Using NeXT as X terminal Message-ID: <DxGzMn.EMv@liverpool.ac.uk> Sender: news@liverpool.ac.uk (News System) Cc: brian@cs.ucr.edu Organization: The University of Liverpool References: <50nc68$1uj@noise.ucr.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 14:44:46 GMT In <50nc68$1uj@noise.ucr.edu> Brian Harvey wrote: > For various reasons which I won't go into here, I need to setup a > NeXTstation here to act as an X terminal. I already have the X software > that works with Xfe.app and X windows works fine through this method. > However, I need to have the NeXT running as an Xterm all the time (ie boots > right into a X terminal). I don't know if this will work with Xfe.app (I suppose it depends largely on whether Xfe comes with a version of xdm), but these are the instructions given for doing just that with Cub'X version 4. 1. Login as root 2. Edit the file /etc/ttys 3. Find the following lines: # If you do not want to start the window server by default, you can # uncomment the first entry and comment out the second. # # console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure \ window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600" 4. Add # to comment out the second line (beginning "console /usr/lib/NextStep...") 5. Save the file. 6. Edit /etc/rc.local 7. At the end of this file, add the following: DISPLAY=unix:0 export DISPLAY /usr/bin/X11/xdm & 8. Save the file. 9. Reboot To return to booting into NEXTSTEP, delete the above lines from /etc/rc.local, and the # from /etc/ttys If you can't get this to work with Xfe, then I would recommend purchasing Cub'X by Intuitive Systems Inc. The manual for version 5 has no instructions for turning the NeXT into an X Terminal, but xdm is still there, so I would imagine it would work. DISCLAIMER: I haven't tried this, and I take no responsibility if it renders your system totally unbootable. I have no affiliation with Intuitive Systems Inc except as a satisfied user of Cub'X. I'd be interested to hear how you get on. Regards, Paul -- Paul Gould, Network Support Officer +44 151-794 5118 (Tel) CTI Biology, Donnan Laboratories +44 151-794 4401 (Fax) University of Liverpool, PO Box 147 P.W.Gould@liverpool.ac.uk Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NT filesystems on JAZ disk Date: 9 Sep 1996 16:16:57 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bb9e05$eb58a1a0$a985eea5@home> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <32339E10.46D7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> NeXT 3.3 does not see Win95 long file names. They are seen as DOS 8.3 names. NeXTAnswers does not show information on NTFS, FAT32, and VFAT file sharing issues. I would guess that NTFS could not be read by NeXT, but I will find out later this month, when I will load NT 4.0 Server with NTFS. Steve Eric A. Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote in article <32339E10.46D7@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>... > Steve Roller wrote: > > > > I've installed a Jaz drive on Next 3.3 for Intel. > > I'm thinking of putting NT 4.0 Workstation on a Jaz, and am wondering if > anyone knows if there's a way in NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP MACH to read NTFS > filesystem or the new Win95 FAT32 filesystems? For that matter, does it > even support the long file names of 95, i.e. VFAT? > ---------------------------------------- > Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie > mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP > ok. > * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" > Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University > > Understanding is best learned via experience > ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY >
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't restart inetd on NeXT Date: 8 Sep 1996 20:41:27 GMT Organization: Californi State University, Fresno Message-ID: <50vb1n$qbj@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi, I installed POP daemon on our NeXT server. I edited /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files. Then, I send a hang up signal to restart inetd. However, it doesn't seem restart inetd daemon. I am curious can I restart daemon without reboot machine? Is it something relate to /etc/portmap? I did similar thing on Solaris system. It just work fine. If anyone know answer, please email me. Thanks --Kin ****************************************************************************** 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/ ******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.p From: John Deacon <johnd@sig.net> Subject: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH**** Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <32344AD9.477C@sig.net> Sender: news@sig.net (Signet ISP Network news) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: ROSS Microcomputer References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:50:33 GMT Everyone complain about this idiot dont fall for it its a federal offence to send this shit in the mail
From: uxscs@montana.edu (Christian Stryker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI Disk Problem: Please Help! Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 10:13:25 -0600 Organization: Montana State University Message-ID: <uxscs-0909961013250001@news.montana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have an urgent problem. I've been a black hardware owner since 1991. I recently upgraded my cube to OpenStep 4.0. Last evening I was copying files in the WorkSpace while logged in as root. They were being copied from one partition of my external disk to another. The copy operation complained halfway through and gave me the option of proceeding or aborting. I chose to abort and when I went looking to see what had caused the problem, I found that my external disk no longer appeared to be mounted. It was about 2:30 AM, and, not wanting to fiddle too much, I logged out and restarted--figuring that that would fix the problem. During the boot, when it tried to check filesystems, I got the message: /dev/rsd0a clean skipping check /dev/rsd1a can't check filesystem can't read label on /dev/rsd1a (null pointer) unexpected inconsistency run fsck manually I was then dumped into single-user mode and tried to run fsck manually which failed again still complaining it couldn't read the label on /dev/rsd1a FYI, /dev/rsd1a is an external 4 GB Seagate drive which I've paritioned into 3 parts: /rsd1a /rsd1b /rsd1c It holds all user accounts and LocalApps. It has been functioning fine for the past 1.5 years in its current configuration. It is not the startup disk. I tried one more restart. Early in the boot process as it probes for SCSI devices, I noticed something I missed the last time--it had correctly ID'd the external drive and had retrieved the manufacturer and drive type but also indicated can't read label on /dev/rsd1a I'm sure you can all anticipate my question. How can I go about fixing this? Can I restore the Disk Label to /rsd1a without re-initializing? If so, how? Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. As usual, it's been some time since my last backup and I'd had to have to kiss everything goodby and start from scratch. -Chris
From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Booting NT from second SCSI harddrive... Date: 9 Sep 1996 16:26:24 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bb9e07$3d233da0$a985eea5@home> References: <c4a20gesvt3.fsf@skat.usc.edu> <323253CE.465A@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> I use "System Commander" to handle my boot issues for Intel PC's on NeXT 3.3, Win95, OS/2, NT Server, NT Workstation, and DOS. Visit their web site for more information: http://www.v-com.com Remember that NeXT needs to be on your first bootable partition. Otherwise visit NeXTAnswers to learn other boot configs. Steve Eric A. Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote in article <323253CE.465A@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>... > taweil wrote: > > I just install the Windows NT server on the second SCSI harddrive > > where the first drive is NeXTSTEP 3.3 with its boot manager. I'd like > > to know how I can boot into the second harddrive in this case. > > I wish to do the same, but I have an Canon object.station 41, with dual > boot NS and 95...can I triple boot and add NT 4.0?! > > Thanks for tips in advance > ---------------------------------------- > Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie > mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP > ok. > * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" > Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University > > Understanding is best learned via experience > ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Disk Problem: Please Help! Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960909200510.24028B-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:07:50 -0400 References: <uxscs-0909961013250001@news.montana.edu> To: Christian Stryker <uxscs@montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <uxscs-0909961013250001@news.montana.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I believe that you want the 'disk' command. My confusion is that the disk command has two options which seems appropriate, one is -L and the other is -l: -l labelname The labelname of a disk is printed in the message log when the system boots. For optical media this is also the name used as the mount point in the / directory when the disk is automounted. -L labelname This flag can be used to change the labelname field of the disk label without disturbing other fields in the label. Since I can't really tell you which one to use (ie what the difference is) then I'll have to leave it up to you. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Christian Stryker wrote: > I have an urgent problem. > > I've been a black hardware owner since 1991. I recently upgraded my cube > to OpenStep 4.0. Last evening I was copying files in the WorkSpace while > logged in as root. They were being copied from one partition of my > external disk to > another. > > The copy operation complained halfway through and gave me the option of > proceeding or aborting. I chose to abort and when I went looking to see > what had caused the problem, I found that my external disk no longer > appeared to be mounted. > > It was about 2:30 AM, and, not wanting to fiddle too much, I logged out > and restarted--figuring that that would fix the problem. > > During the boot, when it tried to check filesystems, I got the message: > > /dev/rsd0a clean skipping check > > /dev/rsd1a > can't check filesystem > can't read label on /dev/rsd1a (null pointer) > unexpected inconsistency > run fsck manually > > I was then dumped into single-user mode and tried to run fsck manually which > failed again still complaining it couldn't read the label on /dev/rsd1a > > FYI, /dev/rsd1a is an external 4 GB Seagate drive which I've paritioned into 3 > parts: > > /rsd1a > /rsd1b > /rsd1c > > It holds all user accounts and LocalApps. It has been functioning fine > for the past 1.5 years in its current configuration. It is not the > startup disk. > > I tried one more restart. Early in the boot process as it probes for SCSI > devices, I noticed something I missed the last time--it had correctly ID'd > the external drive and had retrieved the manufacturer and drive type but > also indicated > > can't read label on /dev/rsd1a > > I'm sure you can all anticipate my question. > > How can I go about fixing this? > > Can I restore the Disk Label to /rsd1a without re-initializing? > > If so, how? > > Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. > > As usual, it's been some time since my last backup and I'd had to have to > kiss everything goodby and start from scratch. > > -Chris > > >
From: John Rudd <kzin@isc.sjsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Date: 9 Sep 1996 23:20:41 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> Cc: sroller@worldnet.att.net In <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> "Steve Roller" wrote: [] I've installed a Jaz drive on Next 3.3 for Intel. [] [] My first mistake was not checking with NeXT about Jaz drive [] disk geometry issues. I attempted to format the disk as [] installed. I thought the format was successful, but found that [] the disk was not recognized, after I rebooted. [] [] I then installed the NeXT driver: [] http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2153.htmld/2153.html [] [] The disk was still not recognized. So I pulled the Jaz drive to a [] Win95 workstation, with Jaz Tools installed, and successfully [] formatted it in DOS. [] [] I went back to NeXT ver 3.3, and was able to boot without the [] disk ejecting. I issued the "sdform" command in a shell, then [] successfully formatted it in NeXT. [] [] If you follow the NeXT Jaz driver instruction, you can copy your [] current NeXT system files accross to the Jaz drive. If you set [] the Jaz SCSI id to 0, you are now running NeXT off of Jaz! Does anyone know if you can do similar things with a ZIP disk? Does it require the same package of tools as the Jaz disk, or not? I'm trying to decide between a Zip drive and a Jaz drive.. while 1GB/disk is nice, it's not something I _require_. 100mb is plenty. However, a) I Don't know if ZIP drives are supported under Nextstep at all.. and if they are, what I need to do to make them work propperly b) The thought of booting on one sounds interesting.. if nothing else, it sounds like it would be nice to have one as an emergency book disk in case something goes wrong on the main partition (for example, if I accidently nuke netinfo again) John -- John "kzin" Rudd kzin@email.sjsu.edu http://icb.sjsu.edu/~kzin =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ "And, ironically, that's how the founding fathers expected it to work: either the government stays clean, or the people shoot them." -- ttk
From: mcutler@u.washington.edu (Mark Cutler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NAT (RFC 1631) for NeXTSTEP? Date: 10 Sep 1996 01:44:02 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <512h52$t14@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: mcutler Does anyone know of an implementation of NAT for NeXTSTEP? Thanks for any assistance. MC
From: steve@brecher.reno.nv.us (Steve Brecher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Reporting spammers (Was: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 19:50:33 -0700 Organization: none, in Reno NV USA Message-ID: <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> > Please delete this SPAMMER's account: > From: Water <rx7power@ix.netcom.com> [Quotation of entire spam deleted] I couldn't agree more with those sentiments but posting a followup to 30 newsgroups with a quote of the entire spam is not helpful. The newsgroups are read by people like us who are interested in their subjects -- not by the spammer, and very probably not by the administrator of the server that the spammer is using. Netcom has an email address to which to report spammers: abuse@netcom.com AOL also has an abuse@aol.com mailbox. More generally, a report via email to postmaster@<domain> or root@<domain> where <domain> is the domain name from which the spam originated. Include all the header information from the offending post so that the offender can be identified. Examine this header information prior to sending your report -- sometimes the "From:" address is bogus, but the "Path:" information indicates the news server to which the spam was posted. A polite request for help in preventing additional abuse by the spammer, preceding your quote of the spam, can't hurt, especially if you are sending the report to a postmaster or root of an organization smaller than Netcom or AOL. -- steve@brecher.reno.nv.us (Steve Brecher)
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Install NeXT to a notebook computer Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 03:59:52 GMT Organization: j%nki~w€RJ3M-26XPLZ8L-BFGD44CT-1EA6BC82 Message-ID: <512sgb$99n@netnews.hinet.net> Hi, I am planing to install OpenStep or NeXTStep v3.3 to a notebook computer. The notebook is P586/100, 16MB RAM with 1GB EIDE HD. I also use an Adaptec SlimSCSI card to attach my CD-ROM. The problem is when I use the boot-up disk and set the CD-ROM driver to Adaptec PCMCIA 6x60 Card, HD to EIDE driver;, it only found my HD and said there is no SCSI device or CD-ROM. I did check with NeXTanswers and it says NeXT does support Adaptec SlimSCSI card. Is there any other driver I have to load or any procedure I have to do for NeXT to be able to find the Slim SCSI card??
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:57:21 -0400 References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net> To: John Rudd <kzin@isc.sjsu.edu> cc: sroller@worldnet.att.net In-Reply-To: <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 9 Sep 1996, John Rudd wrote: > > Does anyone know if you can do similar things with a ZIP disk? Does it > require the same package of tools as the Jaz disk, or not? I'm trying to > decide between a Zip drive and a Jaz drive.. while 1GB/disk is nice, it's > not something I _require_. 100mb is plenty. I'd probably buy a SyQuest EZFlyer 230 ($300 with a 230meg cart, $30/cart). > However, > a) I Don't know if ZIP drives are supported under Nextstep at all.. and if > they are, what I need to do to make them work propperly YES, ZIP is supported. Some people have trouble with the disk which comes with the drive (firmware write protect??) but apparently this can be fixed if you have access to a DOS/MAC which you can hook the ZIP to... It should be plug&play, other than that.... > b) The thought of booting on one sounds interesting.. if nothing else, it > sounds like it would be nice to have one as an emergency book disk in case > something goes wrong on the main partition (for example, if I accidently > nuke netinfo again) With 3.2 you can install the base system (no extra pkgs) on about 70 megs. You can install the very very very basics on about 5 megs. I think booting from the CDrom is the best idea, but 2ea his own. TjL
From: Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: 10 Sep 1996 00:57:03 -0700 Organization: Brotherhood of Lost Souls Message-ID: <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you. Ronin
From: bspyropoulos@siumed.edu (Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:05:57 -0500 Organization: SIU School of Medicine Message-ID: <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote: > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, > reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a > crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent > them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It > took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers > to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you. > > Ronin Why don't we all send each other $1 !? -- Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD SIU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
From: Tim Triemstra <Tim.T@asiatlanta.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mailing to an SMTP server Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:14:46 -0400 Organization: Alpha Star International Message-ID: <323569C6.2D0C@asiatlanta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have setup a Windows NT SMTP/POP3 mail server under the same subnet as my NeXT network. Using a little program I grabbed from an FTP site called PopOver I am able to grab e-mail in all the network accounts from this server, however I'm trying to find a way to all the sending of e-mail over this SMTP server. This server is used on my Windows network (which shares alot of things with the NeXT network) and is also handling my Internet connection. Currently the NeXT mail is being handled by one of my NeXT machines configured as a server. The NeXT computers, although all using TCP/IP in the same subnet are not in a fully qualified domain, the Windows computers are however. I'm wondering if there is simply a Mail replacement I could use rather than get all caught up in trying to change my mail configuration since, as I said, I don't have any problem receiving mail as of right now and am only concerned with the rare occasions that someone may want to send an Internet e-mail from their NeXT desktop. Thanks. -- Tim Triemstra .............. Tim.T@asiatlanta.com Alpha Star International ... Info Systems Manager
From: uxscs@montana.edu (Christian Stryker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SCSI Disk Problem: Solved (for the moment) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:27:02 -0600 Organization: Montana State University Message-ID: <uxscs-1009961127020001@news.montana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After work yesterday, I went home ready for an evening of tinkering to try and get my cube operational again. To my surprize, it booted just fine. The problem that I described in my previous post was gone. Of course, I immediately backed up all the data on the problem drive. After the back up, I continued using the system until the wee hours and it work perfectly the entire time. Several pieces of helpful advice came in. Tom Blenko at Yale appears to have correctly attributed the problem to a faulty drive and/or power supply. Many thanks to those who responded. I've summarized the key responses below. Tom M. Blenko wrote: Sounds like a (hard) disk failure. You don't want to write the label, you want to repair the disk and get the data recovered. Timothy J. Luoma and someone named Albert from Clark Internet Services both suggested using the 'disk' command. to correct the problem. I didn't use disk to fix anything, but fired it up and dumped the label and other pertintnet data just in case. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dr. Christian Stryker || Burns Telecommunications Center | | Educational Technologist || Montana State University | | 406-994-4660 (voice) || 204 Culbertson Hall | | 406-994-6546 (fax) || Bozeman, MT 59717-0260 | | uxscs@montana.edu || http://www.montana.edu/wwwxs | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Networking NeXTstep with a NT primary domain controller Message-ID: <DxIKKL.34v@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01b99231$be2afb60$807fb1c7@thunder> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:14:45 GMT In article <01b99231$be2afb60$807fb1c7@thunder> "John McPherson" <mcphersj@sojourn.com> writes: > Does anyone know how I can get my NeXT NSFIP machine communicate > with my NT primary domain controller. What I want to know is how > to setup NeXTSTEP to recognize the NT server. I have TCP/IP > installed on the NT machine and I have IPX/SPX also. Any ideas? > Run HostManager.app on NEXTSTEP and enter the hostname and IP-address of the NT machine and there we go! And, preferably, have a look onto the chapter on "Mixed Networks" in 'SysAdmin.bshlf'. -- 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: "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Date: 10 Sep 1996 17:49:07 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bb9f41$3ba23f40$2f85eea5@sroller> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> The IOMEGA ZIP drive works with NeXT. Its transfer rate is about 1.5MBs, so it's not good drive to run an OS on. Also Zip disks are only 100MB in size. The IOMEGA Jaz drive transfers data a 6MBs and can run the NeXT OS. The Jaz disks are 1GB, and costs $124 at most retail outlets (I purchased mine at Egghead). The Jaz Drive costs $399 (Internal), $499 (External). One NeXT OS / Jaz Caveat - You cannot directly install the NeXT OS on the Jaz drive. NeXTAnswers will let you download drivers to build your current NeXT OS onto the Jaz drive. I saw that IOMEGA was advertising ZIP drives with $50 rebates recently, but I think the rebates expire on 9/15/95... EPSON also sells Zip drives for less than IOMEGA - check them out! Steve Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote in article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma>... > > On 9 Sep 1996, John Rudd wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if you can do similar things with a ZIP disk? Does it > > require the same package of tools as the Jaz disk, or not? I'm trying to > > decide between a Zip drive and a Jaz drive.. while 1GB/disk is nice, it's > > not something I _require_. 100mb is plenty. > > I'd probably buy a SyQuest EZFlyer 230 ($300 with a 230meg cart, > $30/cart). ... > TjL > > > >
From: Ernest Aleixandre Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric Subject: Quick and Easy Money (NOT A SCAM!) Date: 10 Sep 1996 19:24:12 GMT Organization: First Nations Network Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <514f8s$a1e@fin.firstnations.ca> *********************************************************************** This works, I did it and have already received $682.00 in the past week. ************************************************************************ Hello! I've got some awesome news that I think you need to take two minutes to read if you have ever thought "How could I make some serious cash in a hurry???" , or been in serious debt, ready to do almost anything to get the money needed to pay off those bill collectors. So grab a snack, a warm cup of coffee, or a glass of your favorite beverage, get comfortable and listen to this interesting, exciting find! Let me start by saying that I FINALLY FOUND IT! That's right!. I found it! And I HATE GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES!! I hate those schemes like multi-level marketing, mail-order schemes, envelope stuffing scams, 900 number scams... the list goes on forever. 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 there, $24.95 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 thought..."Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll just have to see what schemes could possibly be on the internet." The article described a way to MAIL A ONE DOLLAR BILL TO ONLY FIVE PEOPLE AND MAKE $50, 0000 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 a 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 people 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 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 loud (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!!! 10. (This comment added by Mike Lorincz) Hell dude, this is great, just send the money and wait like 1 week, then all of a sudden, BOOOOOOM! Mail flood full of dollar bills. Hahahah its great ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** THE NAMES LIST THE NAMES LIST THE NAME LIST ****************************************************************** * HONESTY IS WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL!!! * * 1. Shane Uhlir * 121 S. Beltwoods Dr. * DeSoto, TX 75115 * * 2. Sandy Kim * 3047 David Ave #10 * Campbell, CA 95128 * * 3. Kevin Warkentin * 1709 Ulex * McAllen, TX 78504 * * 4. Ernie Hunter * 1179 Chestnut Avenue * Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, S6H 1A9 * * 5. Ernest Aleixandre * 108 Cedar Meadow Drive * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4X 3J6 * *********************************************************************** This works, I did it and have already received $682.00 in the past week. ************************************************************************
From: Jeff Fischer <fischej@ofc005a.sce.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:38:40 -0700 Organization: Southern California Edison Message-ID: <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> Ronin wrote: > > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, > reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a > crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent > them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself. Jeff Fischer (My opinions are my own and do not represent those of any other organization.)
From: walter_gorlitz@mindlink.bc.ca (walter görlitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:29:20 GMT Organization: I'm not organized Message-ID: <514j80$6k9@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu> bspyropoulos@siumed.edu (Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD) wrote: >Why don't we all send each other $1 !? because then only the postal systems make money :) -------------------------------------------------------------- | walter gorlitz | "The Christian life is about | | Vancouver, BC, Canada | the beginning of hope, | | walter_gorlitz@mindlink.bc.ca | not the end of struggle." | | or CIS:70404,416 | Brent Bourgeois | --------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Need help to attempt to repair BIG screw up Message-ID: <DxIKEB.347@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <50t3jc$44k@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:10:59 GMT In article <50t3jc$44k@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> jlauret@tgv.com (Jerome LAURET) writes: > Hello there, I hope one of you will know how to solve my > problem. Here it is : > > The NeXt I unfortunatly have the tasj to manage was initialy > setup in a very perticular way. The fstab did contain an entry > to mount the disk of another NeXt we have (nfs) and several > directories where linked to /Net/next1/whatever from next2. Even > if I have been warned about /this "small" setting perticularity > by the preceding system manager, I thought only un-important > directories were linked that way. > > Recently, I got a problem with the fstab in the netinfo > database. So I thought about nidump the fstab in the /etc/fstab > file, delete entries with the NetInfoManager and restart the > machine. Well, it does not boot anymore and I believe it is due > to this damned nfs mount of the next1, next2 uses. > This was a very undesirable way to set this up. And it was rather unwise to tamper with it after having been warned ;-) The problem lies with mounting NFS partitions from /etc/fstab. This file is only meant to control the mounting of physical volumes during boot time. All dynamical and permanent linking of automounted and network monted partitions is to be controlled through NetInfo (via NFSManager.app). You'll have to edit 'fstab' to only contain physical volumes. And, after a reboot, you'll need to run NFSManager to define the correct NFS volumes and their properties. Probably you'll need to clean up messed entries through NetInfoManager first. Or if the NFS volumes were imported from some non-NEXTSTEP machines read the chapeter on "Mixed Networks" in the online 'SysAdmin.bshlf' manual. The really hard part would start if the former sysadmin was a real trickster, ie. if he had used this dirty trick to mount NFS volumes at a time the proper NFS deamons were not yet initialized (for instance if he had moved some vital filesystem tree off to a remote disk). In this case you'd need a even more arcane trick to roll that back. My advice: reinstall NEXTSTEP! > I tried to boot in single user mode and attempted to access > the netinfo database but I can't. The symptoms are : > > - First, all files appears as read-only. I cannot change any of > them. Proper behaviour! You need to remount all filesystems read/write if you want to access them for writing. > - nidomain -l > tells me : cannot connect to server localhost and therefore > I cannot modify the file (if I only I could) to restore > the nfs mount of the next1 disk. You must manually run /etc/rc.net or parts of it to have network services available in standalone mode. By default they're not started! > - Related to it I tried to nidump hosts . And I get cannot to > netinfo server : > Communication failure > Same as above. > > Well, It does not seem to me I have many options. I have > exhausted my list of ideas ... > > > Help will be greatly (even "hugely") appreciated. Basically, > what I need to do is to find a way to restore the ftsab entry in > the netinfo database and then reboot the damned machine. > That's what backups were meant for :-) But in case of utter desperation you can always revert the machine into the out of the box state (DANGER! you'll loose all local conf). In standalone (if necessary) copy over from /usr/templates/client/etc (possIbly from CD if damaged on disk) to /private/etc the files 'hostconfig' and 'netinfo/*'. Then reboot and run SimpleNetworkStarter to configure the network, and subsequently redo any local customization in NetInfo. -- 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: "Lansing ASC" <mcphersj@tpd.eds.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc Subject: Networking NeXTSTEP and NT Date: 10 Sep 1996 20:57:31 GMT Organization: Somewhere in EDS... Message-ID: <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> Does anyone have any experience networking NeXTSTEP and NT. I cacn't seem to find out how to user the sysadmin utils under NeXTSTEP to get it to point to an NT Primary Domain Controller. I only want to share files between the two, manage the printer queue on the NT machine and that is it. I can install LPD (Line Printer Daemon) on the NT machine. I have TCP/IP,. IPX/SPX, and NFS installed on the NT server. When I started NeXTSTEP I get the error message 'could not connect to Network Configuration Sever' press CTRL-C to start without a network connection. I think the problem is the configuration of the NeXT machine. HELP! Thanks! John McPherson
From: Ernest Aleixandre Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric Control: cancel <514f8s$a1e@fin.firstnations.ca> Subject: cmsg cancel <514f8s$a1e@fin.firstnations.ca> Date: 10 Sep 96 19:57:44 GMT Organization: First Nations Network Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <cancel.514f8s$a1e@fin.firstnations.ca> Article cancelled by news@service3.uky.edu.
From: "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and ps/2 mouse? Date: 10 Sep 1996 17:41:15 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bb9f40$2269c120$2f85eea5@sroller> References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com> <50v9jn$n3v@tepe.tezcat.com> Is your mouse on COMB and Modem on COMA? If so, modify your Default.table COM=0 to COM=1 Steve Arpad Geller <arpad@tezcat.com> wrote in article <50v9jn$n3v@tepe.tezcat.com>... > 1. My mouse is stuck at IRQ12. It is a PS/2 mouse (Logitech cordless). I > tried to edit the Default.table in /usr/Devices/PS2Mouse.config so that > everything points to IRQ12 but the mouse still isn't recognized (yes, I type > config=Default at boot). Am I missing something in the Default.table? I > changed two lines (the only two with IRQ references). > Thanks in advance.
From: uxscs@montana.edu (Christian Stryker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Request for complied PPPMeter.v1.5.app Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:39:17 -0600 Organization: Montana State University Message-ID: <uxscs-1009961139170001@news.montana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If someone knows where I can get a compiled copy of PPPMeter.v1.5.app, could you please let me know. Or, if you have a copy, you could email it directly to me. I upgraded from NS Developer 3.1 to OS Developer 4.0. PPPMeter wouldn't compile under 3.1 and is also reluctant to compile under 4.0. I've linked in the 3.3-compatible header directories in 4.0, and that made 'make' happier, but it only gets so far and then complains that (as I recall) it can't find "lsys" Note: If anyone intends to NeXTMail me a copy, please it send to: chris@montana.campus.mci.net and not to the uxscs address. -Chris -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dr. Christian Stryker || Burns Telecommunications Center | | Educational Technologist || Montana State University | | 406-994-4660 (voice) || 204 Culbertson Hall | | 406-994-6546 (fax) || Bozeman, MT 59717-0260 | | uxscs@montana.edu || http://www.montana.edu/wwwxs | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:59:37 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <514oc9$2n7@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net> In-Reply-To: <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net> On 09/10/96, John Rudd wrote: > In <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> "Steve Roller" wrote: > [...] > [] If you follow the NeXT Jaz driver instruction, you can copy your > [] current NeXT system files accross to the Jaz drive. If you set > [] the Jaz SCSI id to 0, you are now running NeXT off of Jaz! > > Does anyone know if you can do similar things with a ZIP disk? Does it > require the same package of tools as the Jaz disk, or not? I'm trying to > decide between a Zip drive and a Jaz drive.. while 1GB/disk is nice, it's > not something I _require_. 100mb is plenty. > > However, > a) I Don't know if ZIP drives are supported under Nextstep at all.. and if > they are, what I need to do to make them work propperly > b) The thought of booting on one sounds interesting.. if nothing else, it > sounds like it would be nice to have one as an emergency book disk in case > something goes wrong on the main partition (for example, if I accidently > nuke netinfo again) > From what I've read, ZIP drives seem to work better with NS than do Jazs -- I've been very happy with my Zip for a while now. Note, however, that you only have a choice of 5 or 6 for the SCSI IDs for Zips; this may not be a worry, depending on what other devices you have, on the other hand it may be quite limiting. If I were given the choice, though, and had the money, I think I'd opt for the Jaz... you'd be amazed at just how quickly you can get through 100MB. Actually, you probably wouldn't! :-) Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: untulis@best.com (Jason Untulis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: Reporting spammers (Was: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****) Followup-To: poster Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:02:24 -0800 Organization: Starfleet Headquarters Message-ID: <untulis-1009961502240001@nntp.best.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [followups to poster] In article <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us>, steve@brecher.reno.nv.us (Steve Brecher) wrote: :More generally, a report via email to postmaster@<domain> or root@<domain> :where <domain> is the domain name from which the spam originated. You can also check news.admin.net-abuse.misc to see if other people have complained about it. Don't post there unless you read the group and make sure no one else has posted about it... -- Jason Untulis, Ravenous Media Consumer /\ / untulis@netcom.com <http://www.best.com/~untulis/> \ /==\ / untulis@shellx.best.com fingerable PGP 2.62 key soon .sig v2 \/ \/ untulis@leland.stanford.edu Read my copyright restrictions <http://www.best.com/~untulis/copyright.html>
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: IBM DORS hard disc and BLACK Hardware Message-ID: <157@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 10 Sep 96 17:13:52 GMT References: <DwyM3M.M8@oic.de> Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands In article <DwyM3M.M8@oic.de> jurgen@oic.de (Juergen Moellenhoff) writes: > how can I use an IBM DORS (2GB) hard disc with black Hardware? I can > remember that the hard disc needs modifications, but I can't remember > what it was. Hmm, I cannot say for sure whether you need to modify the disc (I am using one now, in a 25 Mhz 68040 Nextstation Colour), because it was installed for me, but I do know there's an effect to watch out for: Because the device is slightly larger than 2 Gb, on formatting, NEXTSTEP (3.3) decides to split it into two partitions, each around 1 Gb. The reason for this is that the OS can't deal with partitions > 2 Gb (largest possible 32 bit _signed_ [sigh] integer). Unfortunately, that fact is not reflected in the /etc/fstab configuration file, so booting up the first time, *you'll only see ONE 1 Gb partition*. The other one is there, but you'll have to guess its device name to be able to mount it ... -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MET DST ending shifts to last Sunday of October Keywords: daylight saving time timezone Message-ID: <158@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 10 Sep 96 17:45:00 GMT Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Lectoribus Salutem, I tried the SysAdmin Manual and NextAnswers on this, but I can't find a clue. For the MET time zone this year (1996) will be the first the end of daylight saving time occurs on the last Sunday of October instead of the last Sunday of September, as it has been since its inception in the seventies. Unfortunately, this decision was made in early 1995, months after NEXTSTEP 3.3 came out, so we can't expect that version of the OS to implement the change (if it is even possible to have it change over automatically, which I doubt). Does anyone have an idea what configuration file / Preferences option to mangle to get this correct ? Note that I won't take "upgrade to 4.0" as an answer :-} TIA, -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Request for complied PPPMeter.v1.5.app Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910151628.19372A-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:18:19 -0400 References: <uxscs-1009961139170001@news.montana.edu> To: Christian Stryker <uxscs@montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <uxscs-1009961139170001@news.montana.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, so as to prevent you from getting more than one copy, I'll do this: If no one has sent you a copy, send me an email with the subject: send-ascii pppmeter.uue or send-mime pppmeter.uue And you will be sent a 68510 byte file which is the uuencoded app which has been compressed (ie when you uudecode it you will get PPPMeter.app.tar.gz) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Christian Stryker wrote: > If someone knows where I can get a compiled copy of PPPMeter.v1.5.app, > could you please let me know. Or, if you have a copy, you could email it > directly to me. > > I upgraded from NS Developer 3.1 to OS Developer 4.0. PPPMeter wouldn't > compile under 3.1 and is also reluctant to compile under 4.0. I've linked > in the 3.3-compatible header directories in 4.0, and that made 'make' > happier, but it only gets so far and then complains that (as I recall) it > can't find "lsys" > > Note: If anyone intends to NeXTMail me a copy, please it send to: > > chris@montana.campus.mci.net > > and not to the uxscs address. > > -Chris > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Dr. Christian Stryker || Burns Telecommunications Center | > | Educational Technologist || Montana State University | > | 406-994-4660 (voice) || 204 Culbertson Hall | > | 406-994-6546 (fax) || Bozeman, MT 59717-0260 | > | uxscs@montana.edu || http://www.montana.edu/wwwxs | > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >
From: bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System hangs on Shutdown Date: 10 Sep 1996 18:08:34 GMT Organization: New York University Message-ID: <514ar2$jrk@news.nyu.edu> I'm running 3.3 on an intel system. When I attempt to reboot, either at the login window or manually with shutdown, the system hangs. The only option is to reboot the system with a warm boot (hardware reset button). After a disk check (during which I'm, of course, holding my breath), the system reboots flawlessly. When I use shutdown I get the following errors: unexpected kernel trap d eip 148815 frame 5927f5c called by 145969 args 4933e00 17e018 5927fa0 11 frame 5927f94 called by 1519ab args 4933e00 ffffffff 11 1 frame 5927fc0 called by 17fd6d args 0 0 495c918 1 frame 5927ff4 called by 175ec3 args 495c918 0 9092 7189 invalid frame pointer 495c930 failed instruction exception (2,d,0) panic: unexpect kernel ..... Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how it might be corrected? The system was functioning well for many months. The trouble started when I tried to monkey with the swaptab (increase lowat). I've since restored the original swaptab and that seems to be functioning properly (16 MB swapfile on boot, with swapfile.font pointer; no error messages on boot). Sincerely, Brian McElree -- Brian McElree Experimental Psychology New York University 6 Wasington Place, 8th Floor NY, NY, 10003 <bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu> NeXT Mail <bdm@vayu.psych.nyu.edu>
From: jlauret@tgv.com (Jerome LAURET) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help to attempt to repair BIG screw up Date: 10 Sep 1996 17:54:17 GMT Organization: SUNYSB/EDU Distribution: world Message-ID: <514a09$4t2@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> References: <50t3jc$44k@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> Keywords: Boot,protection,netinfo,NFS Thanks to all for their answer and especially Timothy and Yufeng who have pointed on the problems. If it interest anyboddy, the problem was that the /dev/sda0 entry from fstab disapeared (I do not remenber having deleted that one). So the disk was as read-only at single user boot. Also, it is interesting to note that swapping is disabled when the disk is not mounted so a lot's of command does not seem to work at all. I also figured out that commands have though to be in a certain order . It goes as follow: NeXt> bsd -s # mount -n -o remountchange,rw /dev/sd0a / then cd to /etc and make apropriate changes (using your prefered editor) in fstab including the folowing line (if it does not exists) : /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 The you are ready for the # sh /etc/rc & and now I had to do # nidomain -l before any other ni* command otherwise those last one would freeze. I don't know why but but as far as it worked ... # niload fstab . </etc/fstab # shutdown -r now All fixed. Thanks again to you all, -- Jerome LAURET S.U.N.Y. @ Stony Brook ,,,,, Dept. of Chemistry ( o o ) Stony Brook NY 11794-3400 ---m---U---m--------------------------------------------- E-mail: jlauret@sbchem.chem.sunysb.edu URL : http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/people/jlauret.html
From: ŸŸŸŸŸúÈ6·jim@acb2.cgs.edu (Jim Kieley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network nonsense Date: 10 Sep 1996 23:28:37 GMT Organization: Office of Information Technologies, Pomona College Message-ID: <514tj5$dfv@epcot.pomona.edu> I have NeXT machines set up as servers that have problems in a switched network (using a 3COM Linkswitch 1000). Machine A (ip XX.YY.8.249) running NeXTstep 3.3 intermittently can't reach Machine B running NeXTstep 3.3 (ip XX.YY.11.90). If I telnet to Machine C (ip XX.YY.11.111) running Solaris 2.5 and ping Machine B, Machine A can all at once find Machine B. This problem is not specific to these two NeXTs. It occurs with others as well. It does not occur between machines running other OS's. Could this be a problem with the Ethernet controllers on the old NeXT's or NeXTstep OS or ??? A class C broadcast and netmask is used throughout the network. 4 class C's are defined on the same CISCO router port. ip address XX.YY.8.254 255.255.255.0 secondary ip address XX.YY.10.254 255.255.255.0 secondary ip address XX.YY.9.254 255.255.255.0 secondary ip address XX.YY.11.254 255.255.255.0 Jim Kieley jim@cgs.edu
From: casper@nb.net (Timothy K Scoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:29:56 -0400 Organization: http://www.warroom.com Message-ID: <casper-1009962029580001@oats-20.nb.net> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote: ~I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... ~today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the ~participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, ~reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a ~crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent ~them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It ~took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers ~to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you. ~ ~Ronin Also sending e-mail to the user "postmaster@" and their domain name helps stop this cancer. -- Timothy K. Scoff casper@nb.net "DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." ( New York Times, November 26, 1991)
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hiding printers via Netinfo ? Date: 10 Sep 1996 20:59:14 GMT Organization: BDM International, Inc. Message-ID: <514kr2$q0m@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com> References: <50vdt5$kj8@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> In article <50vdt5$kj8@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Robert Lutwak <robert@amo.mit.edu> writes: > Hi. > > I seem to recall that there's a property one can add to > a printer in NetInfo that prevents its appearing in > the print panel. I can't find any mention in the > online docs. On the machine that is acting as the print server and exporting the printers to netinfo, you can make the printer private, or not available. You can also select the NetInfo Domains that it is exported to. I haven't used these capabilities, but its probably what you are looking for. HTH -- Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not System Administrator | worth chewing through the <jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting 'dos' as the default selection in the NeXT boot process Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:07:51 GMT Organization: BDM International, Inc. Message-ID: <514lb7$q6g@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com> References: <01b99231$7c4e2c30$807fb1c7@thunder> In article <01b99231$7c4e2c30$807fb1c7@thunder> "John McPherson" <mcphersj@sojourn.com> writes: > Does anyone know how I can select 'dos' to be the primary selection in the > NeXT boot up proccess? I have an NT server on the same machine and want it > to default to that. Its actually pretty easy. Boot in NT. Login as Administrator or other user with appropriate permissions under NT. Under the Administrative Tools Icon start up Disk Administrator. Using Disk Administrator set the Active partition to the NT partition. It is under the first pull down menu and called: Set Active Partition (or something like that). The next time you reboot NT will be the default operating system. HTH -- Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not System Administrator | worth chewing through the <jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
From: cjc1@tiac.net (cjc1) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: 11 Sep 1996 02:05:51 GMT Organization: Personnel Copy Message-ID: <5156pv$m8e@news-central.tiac.net> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 May, I have your name and address? Smile In article <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu>, bspyropoulos@siumed.edu says... > >In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote: > >> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... >> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the >> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, >> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a >> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent >> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It >> took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers >> to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you. >> >> Ronin > > >Why don't we all send each other $1 !? > >-- >Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD >SIU School of Medicine >Department of Psychiatry
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS DNS problem Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:18:49 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <32360566.CA@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NS DNS problem. I can't telnet to NS 3.3 Intel now. It did work a couple days ago, I recently messed with the hosts, host.conf, and resolv.conf files, as well as playing with named...Netware works, and I can telnet out if I type the IP, but not the DNS equivalent...Apache httpd is also unable to get it's hostname... Can someone help? Thanks ---------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: jtodd@ss4.digex.net (John Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 4.0 and HP 80 gig jukebox - Whoo-hoo! Date: 11 Sep 1996 04:19:16 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA: 800-969-9090 Message-ID: <515ek5$5mr@news4.digex.net> Summary: Need a hand with my new 80 gig toy and OPENSTEP 4.0 Keywords: SureStore, OPENSTEP, huge tracts of land I've just laid my hands on an HP SureStore 80 gig optical jukebox. It's got a SCSI bus on the back, which I've plugged into my Axil (Sparc clone) and it sees the 4 optical drives with no problems. However, I'm not having any luck with getting OPENSTEP to talk to the drives in a meaningful way. Is there a tool (other than "disk", which sees the drives, but won't do anything with them) that I can use to get things started? I hear that NetBSD has device drivers built in that can grok the removable media and control the robot arm, and I would assume that the clever people at NeXT have put similar drivers in the current release. However, not being as clever as they are, I am unable to find where those jewels are stored. Summary: How do I make the HP talk to OPENSTEP on the SCSI chain and control the robot arm sanely? The lucky person that can help me get this drive up and running wins a free envelope of "lucky air" that can help them win the lottery, get free prizes, and help rid them of that unsightly ring around the collar. Send SASE. You'll also get my undying gratitude and access to the NeXT archive that I might be building on the drives. :) JT -- John Todd jtodd@digex.net
From: Dylan Larson <dlarson@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 23:10:27 -0700 Organization: California Polytechnic State University Message-ID: <32350653.5868@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was wondering if anyone could tell me if OpenStep ships with an expanded selection of drivers or if users will still need to download the additional driver disks from NeXT. This is not a big deal, but I have some users who are itching for the upgrade and I have to know what to look out for. Thanks Dylan Larson Call America Business Communications http://www.callamer.com/newhome dlarson@spork.callamer.com
From: Dylan Larson <dlarson@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep PPP Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 23:17:30 -0700 Organization: California Polytechnic State University Message-ID: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have another question about OpenStep 4.0 if anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. The NeXT homepage indicated that OpenStep 4.0 for mach has new "support for Samba, PPP, Perl5, and Taylor UUCP". I am most interested in the "support" for PPP and Perl5. Are these included in the distribution? Has anyone had used these? I would appreciate any thoughts on these that anyone may have. Dylan Larson Call America Business Communications http://www.callamer.com/newhome dlarson@spork.callamer.com
From: dennis@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de (Dennis Schulze) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ISDN support for NeXTSTEP under Intel Date: 11 Sep 96 06:29:50 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <dennis.842423390@bibo> Hello, is there or will there be support for passive ISDN cards under NeXTSTEP so that I can make a rawip or PPP connection? Even non-professional systems like Linux support that now... Regards, Dennis -- Dennis Schulze Free University of Berlin Department of Meteorology Email: dennis@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/~dennis/ #include <standard.disclaimer>
From: lukeh@xedoc.com.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc Subject: Re: Networking NeXTSTEP and NT Date: 11 Sep 1996 09:25:41 GMT Organization: Xedoc Software Development Pty Ltd (Melbourne) Message-ID: <5160il$m9s@lynx.aba.net.au> References: <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> It's not so simple, unfortunately. NT uses one set of administrative utilities and protocols, based around NT RPCs and the SAM (as well as being backwardly compatible with LAN Manager). NEXTSTEP uses NetInfo for storing its configuration information. NetInfo isn't compatible with the NT security services. For what you want to do, you would probably be best off running SAMBA, which is a freely available SMB server for Unix, on your NEXTSTEP machine and using that to share files and printers. Or, you could buy an NFS client or server for your NT machine. -- Luke Howard Xedoc Software Development lukeh@xedoc.com.au; +61-3-9428-0788; http://www.xedoc.com.au/
From: trevor@trevsoft.com (Trevor Harrison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT and IP Masquerading Date: 11 Sep 1996 08:46:06 GMT Organization: Internet Technology Systems, Provo UT USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <515u8e$g0v@itchy.itsnet.com> Are there any packages/kernal patches/etc to do IP Masquerading on a Next box? I've got a 68040/25 black cube (purchased it from a company that was getting rid of their inventory). One of the ports in the back looks like a nine-pin rs-232 serial port, but the ideogram shows a printer. Would this port support a modern pc compatible modem? If yes, what speeds can the port handle? (ie. at least 28.8k?) Thanks, Trevor
From: pcal@agora.rdrop.com (Patrick Calahan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 01:50:53 -0800 Organization: RainDrop Laboratories/Agora(sm) Message-ID: <pcal-1109960150530001@slip-d2.rdrop.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote: > Ronin wrote: > > > > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... > > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the > > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, > This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely >... > committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself. I agree that it might be a waste of time, though I doubt it could be considered libelous, as the complaint isn't really published. -- Patrick Calahan pcal@agora.rdrop.com Portland, Oregon http://www.rdrop.com/~pcal
From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MET DST ending shifts to last Sunday of October Date: 11 Sep 1996 08:31:48 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <515tdk$mhm@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <158@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Cc: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Toon Moene schrieb in comp.sys.next.sysadmin: > Lectoribus Salutem, > > I tried the SysAdmin Manual and NextAnswers on this, but I can't find > a clue. For the MET time zone this year (1996) will be the first the > end of daylight saving time occurs on the last Sunday of October > instead of the last Sunday of September, as it has been since its > inception in the seventies. Unfortunately, this decision was made in > early 1995, months after NEXTSTEP 3.3 came out, so we can't expect > that version of the OS to implement the change (if it is even > possible to have it change over automatically, which I doubt). > > Does anyone have an idea what configuration file / Preferences option > to mangle to get this correct ? Note that I won't take "upgrade to > 4.0" as an answer :-} > Get the package from: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/\ admin/zoneinfo.96e.sd.tar.gz > TIA, > CIAO Volker -- Volker Safran, Berlin, Germany ___________________________________ --- / Phone: +49 30 45482196 (private) volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de / +49 30 45058062 (at work) vsafran@ukrv.de (at work) / FAX : +49 30 45482198 (private) ______________________________/ +49 30 45058904 (at work)
From: ian@onestep.co.uk (Ian Clark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MET DST ending shifts to last Sunday of October Date: 11 Sep 1996 09:38:04 GMT Organization: PSINet UK Public Usenet Site Message-ID: <51619s$aou@pub.news.uk.psi.net> References: <158@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> In-Reply-To: <158@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> On 09/10/96, Toon Moene wrote: >Lectoribus Salutem, > >I tried the SysAdmin Manual and NextAnswers on this, but I can't find a >clue. For the MET time zone this year (1996) will be the first the end of >daylight saving time occurs on the last Sunday of October instead of the >last Sunday of September, as it has been since its inception in the >seventies. Unfortunately, this decision was made in early 1995, months >after NEXTSTEP 3.3 came out, so we can't expect that version of the OS to >implement the change (if it is even possible to have it change over >automatically, which I doubt). > >Does anyone have an idea what configuration file / Preferences option to >mangle to get this correct ? Note that I won't take "upgrade to 4.0" as >an answer :-} > There was a similar problem in the UK in 1994. Check out the man page for zic. zdump also helps, but NeXT don't ship it, so I've got a small app (but still 300k) that will make life easier (with a GMT fix example). Please mail sales@onestep.co.uk if you'd like a (free) copy. Regards Ian -- Ian Clark OneStep Solutions plc 351 London Road Phone: +44 (0)1702 551010/426400 Hadleigh Fax: +44 (0)1702 551515 Essex. SS7 2BT Email: ian@OneStep.co.uk England (NeXTmail, MIME welcome)
From: gquinonez Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing more RAM, up to 64 Mb Date: 11 Sep 1996 09:49:43 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5161vn$1ii@paraguay.earthlink.net> Hello everyone, I just installed more ram from 16 to 64 MB. I read in the newsgroup someone having a similar problem with the system locking up. My system boots up regularly with 16 mb. When I installed the 64 mb my system locks up with either of the following on boot up. starting early daemons: syslogd starting RPC and network services: portmap Sep 10 22:46:04 haemophilus syslog gd: /usr/adm/lpd-errs: No such file or directory netinfo lookupd Mounting remote filesystem starting file service daemons:. starting network daemons: inetd printer or setting host name to haemophilus sep 10 22:57:10 haemophilus syslogd: going down on signal 15: no such file or directory erase^? intr^C kill^U Ive already checked and changed the video mapped memory to (0X4000000) using configure.app apparently 64 mb. it was at its default with the 16 mb. However with 16 mb it works in either configutation. WIth 64 mb i cant seem to boot up regardless without getting the above messages. I have the diamond stealth driver 2 mb Vram, adaptec 2940 scsi, award bios, and GMB-P54IPS motherboard, P90. any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gerardo -- ============================================ G. Quinonez, M.D. quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net __ /\__/\ \/__\/ NeXTMail/Sun/MIME Welcome http://www.emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez =============================================
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:56:35 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Dylan Larson wrote: > I have another question about OpenStep 4.0 if anyone can help, I would > really appreciate it. The NeXT homepage indicated that OpenStep 4.0 for > mach has new "support for Samba, PPP, Perl5, and Taylor UUCP". I am most > interested in the "support" for PPP and Perl5. Are these included in the > distribution? Has anyone had used these? I would appreciate any thoughts > on these that anyone may have. > It _exactly_ the same as you get for NS3.3. That's it. The support is just the compiled public version of PPP and Perl5 as well as Taylor UUCP and Samba. No big deal IMHO. Greetings, Bernhard.
From: Nicholas Alexander Bastin <nbastin@bgnet.bgsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:40:34 -0400 Organization: Bowling Green State University Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960911104002.1769A-100000@sigma.bgsu.edu> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <pcal-1109960150530001@slip-d2.rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <pcal-1109960150530001@slip-d2.rdrop.com> On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Patrick Calahan wrote: > In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote: > > > Ronin wrote: > > > > > > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... > > > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the > > > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, > > > This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely > >... > > committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself. > > I agree that it might be a waste of time, though I doubt it could be > considered libelous, as the complaint isn't really published. > -- > Patrick Calahan pcal@agora.rdrop.com > Portland, Oregon http://www.rdrop.com/~pcal Remember, it's only libel if its not true, published or not. Nick
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: man pages with bold headlines? Date: 11 Sep 1996 14:43:15 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <516j63$1q8@news.tuwien.ac.at> Although a lot of man pages have commands for bold writing in their source, Next's nroff doesn't seem to generate the correct terminal escape codes for bold writing. Is there a simple way to hack /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an.new so that bold writing is generated? (I don't want to buy the TROFF/NROFF manuals just for that little hack!) Thanks in advance for any help! Robert F. Tobler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/ post a change of address. Have someone else complain that his name got to #1 on the list without receiving any money, then post something completely anonymously saying that you got $35 from the scam without sending anyone any money. It could be kind of fun sabotaging the reputations of the money scams, and it seems to me to be the only way to stop it. By the way, in the interest of not spamming, I am only posting to the NG's that I read, and not the full spectrum that this thread has been running on. Jeff Fischer (fischej@ofc005a.sce.com) wrote: : This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely : having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that : one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do : not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have : committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself. I hate to flame someone, but this guy is weiner. If you had to have hard proof that someone was committing a crime before reporting it, no one would ever report anything. "Well, I saw one guy hitting another with a pipe, but they could have been making a movie, or acting it out for fun. I had no hard proof that that was blood which was flowing out of his cranium." Jeff, learn a little about what libel is. -pete
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: multi-volume DOS disks? Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:40:27 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0mBhpfG00WBOQ1pOBh@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <516j07$p0a@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <516j07$p0a@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 11-Sep-96 multi-volume DOS disks? by mmalcolm crawford@shef.a > Is there any way of creating a multi-volume set of DOS disks under > NEXTSTEP? I have a big (5MB) file I want to transfer to a standalone > Wintel PC... You're looking for a binary split. There is actually a program named 'bsplit' somewhere, or you can use GNU split (from textutils). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modify Font (N3.3) Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:57:00 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <516ngc$p8h@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> On NEXTSTEP 3.3: i've a font that i want modify to become a latin font. How can i do ? -- Xavier NICOLAY | Ecole Polytechnique / SITX Architecte Systeme UNIX | 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr | Tel: 33 (1) 69 33 35 85
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:42:21 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <516mkt$mdc@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> Dylan Larson <dlarson@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> writes: > interested in the "support" for PPP and Perl5. Are these included in the > distribution? Has anyone had used these? I would appreciate any thoughts > on these that anyone may have. It's just the same as the ppp for 3.3 - 'cept NeXt ftp'd it and choveled it out on the Cd-ROM. If you;ve used 2.2 before then it should be identical. -bat.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960911102800.15551C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:29:27 -0400 References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> To: dlarson@spork.callamer.com In-Reply-To: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII PPP support: OS 4.0 comes with the free PPP already installed. AFAIK that is the only additional support OS 4.0 has for PPP.... which is basically the same as 3.2, except I had to ftp and install it.... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver/ On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Dylan Larson wrote: > I have another question about OpenStep 4.0 if anyone can help, I would > really appreciate it. The NeXT homepage indicated that OpenStep 4.0 for > mach has new "support for Samba, PPP, Perl5, and Taylor UUCP". I am most > interested in the "support" for PPP and Perl5. Are these included in the > distribution? Has anyone had used these? I would appreciate any thoughts > on these that anyone may have. > > Dylan Larson > Call America Business Communications > http://www.callamer.com/newhome > dlarson@spork.callamer.com > > >
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: multi-volume DOS disks? Date: 11 Sep 1996 14:40:07 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <516j07$p0a@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Is there any way of creating a multi-volume set of DOS disks under NEXTSTEP? I have a big (5MB) file I want to transfer to a standalone Wintel PC... If any replied could be cc-ed to me by email it would be much appreciated. Best wishes, mmalc. <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Networking NeXTSTEP and NT Message-ID: <DxKnxK.3Fu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:22:31 GMT In article <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> "Lansing ASC" <mcphersj@tpd.eds.com> writes: > Does anyone have any experience networking NeXTSTEP and NT. I > cacn't seem to find out how to user the sysadmin utils under > NeXTSTEP to get it to point to an NT Primary Domain Controller. > I only want to share files between the two, manage the printer > queue on the NT machine and that is it. I can install LPD (Line > Printer Daemon) on the NT machine. I have TCP/IP,. IPX/SPX, and > NFS installed on the NT server. When I started NeXTSTEP I get > the error message 'could not connect to Network Configuration > Sever' press CTRL-C to start without a network connection. I > think the problem is the configuration of the NeXT machine. > The setup of your NEXTSTEP machine seems to be set for an autoconfigured client who can't find a NetInfo server willing to provide her conf on the network she's attached to. Either the machine is misconfigured or the network has been changed in a way the broadcasts don't reach the server anymore. In the first case you should run SimpleNetworkStarter.app to configure the NEXTSTEP machine properly (standalone networked, for instance?). In the second case you need an experienced network admin to setup the subnetworks and the NetInfo domain servers properly. I might have some advice on this matter in my archive. Unfortunately, it is too voluminous to post just in case... -- 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: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: 11 Sep 1996 17:00:38 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <516r7m$15at@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Cc: scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de In <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Dylan Larson wrote: > > > I have another question about OpenStep 4.0 if anyone can help, I would > > really appreciate it. The NeXT homepage indicated that OpenStep 4.0 for > > mach has new "support for Samba, PPP, Perl5, and Taylor UUCP". I am most > > interested in the "support" for PPP and Perl5. Are these included in the > > distribution? Has anyone had used these? I would appreciate any thoughts > > on these that anyone may have. > > > It _exactly_ the same as you get for NS3.3. That's it. The support is > just the compiled public version of PPP and Perl5 as well as Taylor UUCP > and Samba. No big deal IMHO. Actually... I understand that it has been modified to remove all POSIX code. NeXT has promised to release the modified source. I don't know if the LKS was modified or not. - 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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: man pages with bold headlines? Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:49:56 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MmBjj4W00WBOM364BA@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <516j63$1q8@news.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <516j63$1q8@news.tuwien.ac.at> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Sep-96 man pages with bold headlines? by rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at > Although a lot of man pages have commands for bold writing in their source, > Next's nroff doesn't seem to generate the correct terminal escape codes for > bold writing. Is there a simple way to hack /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an.new so > that bold writing is generated? Are you asking for Terminal.app to switch to another font for "bold"? I don't believe Terminal will do that. However, it is possible to get a different color. Try using the GNU nroff package instead of NeXT nroff. -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: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Mailing to an SMTP server Message-ID: <DxKIyn.3Ep@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <323569C6.2D0C@asiatlanta.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 12:35:11 GMT In article <323569C6.2D0C@asiatlanta.com> Tim Triemstra <Tim.T@asiatlanta.com> writes: > I have setup a Windows NT SMTP/POP3 mail server under the same subnet as > my NeXT network. Using a little program I grabbed from an FTP site > called PopOver I am able to grab e-mail in all the network accounts from > this server, however I'm trying to find a way to all the sending of > e-mail over this SMTP server. This server is used on my Windows network > (which shares alot of things with the NeXT network) and is also handling > my Internet connection. > > Currently the NeXT mail is being handled by one of my NeXT machines > configured as a server. The NeXT computers, although all using TCP/IP > in the same subnet are not in a fully qualified domain, the Windows > computers are however. > > I'm wondering if there is simply a Mail replacement I could use rather > than get all caught up in trying to change my mail configuration since, > as I said, I don't have any problem receiving mail as of right now and > am only concerned with the rare occasions that someone may want to send > an Internet e-mail from their NeXT desktop. > There is nothing like a proper sendmail conf! Even if there were things like remote displaying (or running in an emulator) of a Windows mailing client (none known to me) they can't compete with a full sendmail functionality, IMHO. Please read the approriate section on 'sendmail' in the SysAdmin.bshlf online reference. The procedure should be quite straigt forward. -- 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: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 11 Sep 1996 19:01:07 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <51729j$g1@sun168.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> > I am stuck in a mail/network mystery and hoping for help. > > The problem started when I switched from uucp to ddn as my main mailer. I installed PPPMeter and reconfigured sendmail to deliver by ddn. > > PPPMeter is set up to automatically download and send mail when the PPP connection comes up. > > I am using sendmail.cf (the one that comes with NS 3.3). > > The problem: > > When I deliver a mail, it is not stored until the PPP connection is made. Instead, my machine immediately tries to connect to a name server - the recipients provider. My solution to any such problems of delayed mailing is to really delay the sendmail call until a connection to the net is up. Provided you are useing Mail.app you can specify a mailer different from sendmail (in Preferences/Expert). For me there are additional advantages. e.g. mail won't pop back after being undelivered for 3 days and recipient names may be 'cut right' (which may also be solved by a better sendmail). BTW here are my perl-scripts (for the Preferences/Expert and your pppup/slipup-script respectively): ------------- spoolmail.pl #!/usr/local/bin/perl sub tempFileName # tmpfile-prefix { my($prefix)=@_; while (-e ($ret=$prefix.int(rand(10000)))) { print $ret."\n" if(0); } $tempFileList[++$#tempFileList]=$ret; } sub refineEmailAddresses { my($addrs, $plain)=@_; $addrs =~ s/-odb/-odi/g; #set sendmail interact.mode $addrs =~ s/\(.*\)//g; #eliminate parantheses $addrs =~ s/<([^>]*)>/$1/eg; #eliminate '<' and '>' ($addrs,$plain)=split(/\s(?=[^\@]+$)/,$addrs,2); #save plain args in the end $addrs =~ s/\s[^-\s][^\@\s]*(?=(\s|$))/ /g; #eliminate any non @-fields $addrs." ".$plain; } #main $ARGC @ARGV @ENV srand(); $home="HOME"; $dstFileNm=tempFileName($ENV{$home}."/tmp/mqueue/mail"); open(SPOOLFILE,">$dstFileNm"); print SPOOLFILE refineEmailAddresses(join(' ',@ARGV)),"\n"; while (<STDIN>) { print SPOOLFILE $_; } close(SPOOLFILE); exit(0); ----------------------- purgemail.pl #!/usr/local/bin/perl #main $ARGC @ARGV %ENV $home="HOME"; $mailer='/usr/lib/sendmail -f stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de'; #$mailer="~/bin/copyArgs"; $queueDir=$ENV{$home}."/tmp/mqueue/"; open(LSCMD,"ls ${queueDir}mail*|"); while (<LSCMD>) { print "Now mailing:$_\n"; open(MAILFILE,"$_"); #print "$queueDir$_|$mailer ".($args=<MAILFILE>),"\n"; open(MAILCMD,"|$mailer ".<MAILFILE>); while (<MAILFILE>) { print MAILCMD $_; } close(MAILCMD); close(MAILFILE); } close(LSCMD); system("rm ${queueDir}mail*"); #print "rm ${queueDir}mail*"; exit(0); -------------- end If anybody is interested I've similar solutions for posting (Alexandra). - Stefan Boehringer
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc Subject: Re: NeXT compiled version of SAMBA, as a MAB? Was:Networking NeXTSTEP and NT Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:20:37 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <32371ECF.3F9@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> <5160il$m9s@lynx.aba.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lukeh@xedoc.com.au Does anyone know the location of a NeXT compiled version of SAMBA, as a MAB? Thanks! lukeh@xedoc.com.au wrote: > For what you want to do, you would probably be best off running SAMBA, which > is a freely available SMB server for Unix, on your NEXTSTEP machine and using > that to share files and printers. Or, you could buy an NFS client or server > for your NT machine. ---------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Initialize Drive on Startup? Date: 11 Sep 1996 19:26:23 GMT Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA Message-ID: <5173ov$fik@camelot.dsccc.com> Each time I start up NeXTSTEP 3.3 I get a message asking me whether I want to initialize a partition. The partition is already formatted for HPFS, Linux, or OS/2 boot manager, NeXTSTEP doesn't tell me which partition it is. How do I get rid of the check? THanks, Jason
From: John Rudd <kzin@isc.sjsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: 11 Sep 1996 19:51:54 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <51758q$atg@nuke.csu.net> References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <516r7m$15at@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Cc: perkins@cps.msu.edu In <516r7m$15at@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Stephen J. Perkins wrote: [] In [] <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> [] Bernhard Scholz wrote: [] > On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Dylan Larson wrote: [] > [] > > I have another question about OpenStep 4.0 if anyone can help, I would [] > > really appreciate it. The NeXT homepage indicated that OpenStep 4.0 for [] > > mach has new "support for Samba, PPP, Perl5, and Taylor UUCP". I am most [] > > interested in the "support" for PPP and Perl5. Are these included in the [] > > distribution? Has anyone had used these? I would appreciate any thoughts [] > > on these that anyone may have. [] > > [] > It _exactly_ the same as you get for NS3.3. That's it. The support is [] > just the compiled public version of PPP and Perl5 as well as Taylor UUCP [] > and Samba. No big deal IMHO. Did they at least put a nice GUI front end on PPP? -- John "kzin" Rudd kzin@email.sjsu.edu http://icb.sjsu.edu/~kzin =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ "And, ironically, that's how the founding fathers expected it to work: either the government stays clean, or the people shoot them." -- ttk
From: mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: 11 Sep 1996 19:30:19 GMT Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Message-ID: <51740b$mof@alpha1.auspex.com> References: <516mkt$mdc@netty.york.ac.uk> In article <516mkt$mdc@netty.york.ac.uk> pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) writes: > Dylan Larson <dlarson@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> writes: > > interested in the "support" for PPP and Perl5. Are these included in > > the distribution? Has anyone had used these? I would appreciate any > > thoughts on these that anyone may have. > > It's just the same as the ppp for 3.3 - 'cept NeXt ftp'd it and > choveled it out on the Cd-ROM. If you;ve used 2.2 before then it > should be identical. > It's not exactly the same. There was some deep-level work that went into making sure PPP on 4.0 worked well. I used to listen to the developer complain about it. ;) - Mark -- Mark Dadgar - Systems Engineer - Auspex Systems - http://www.auspex.com mark_dadgar@auspex.com - (408) 986-2429 (office) - (408) 980-0121 (fax) "I had nothing on but the radio" - Marilyn Monroe, on modeling NeXTMail and MIME happily accepted
From: Larry Westfall <westfall@netset.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:13:51 -0400 Organization: NetSet Internet Services -- Columbus, Ohio Message-ID: <323747AF.5803@netset.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff Fischer wrote: > > Ronin wrote: > > > > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... > > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the > > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, > > reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a > > crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent > > them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. > > This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely > having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that > one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do > not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have > committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself. > > Jeff Fischer > > (My opinions are my own and do not represent those of any other > organization.) Well I sent the last make money sceme back to root of the server is came from and this is what came back. Subject: Re: make $$$ fast ! THIS IS CRAP Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:45:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: swa@ub4b.eunet.be (Swa Frantzen) To: westfall@netset.com (Larry Westfall) > Olivier Arcadipane wrote: > > > > Taking 5 minutes to read what follows can change your life : > > > > I saw an article in an internet newsgroup telling me I could > > make $50,000 within a month for an investment of only $5. [...] To our regret these things do happen. We have taken following measures: - posting account has been blocked for the time being - management of ping has been notified, removal of account is up to them. Both Eunet Belgium and Ping have a clear Acceptable Use Policy against this. To my knowledge it is illegal in Belgium. SWA (news@Belgium.EU.net) -- --------- ____ ----- -------- / / / ___ ___ _/_ ------ ------- /---- / / / / /___/ / ------- ------ /____ /___/ / / /___ / -------- ----- --------- News Support tel: +32 (0)16 23 30 02 EUnet Belgium N.V./S.A. fax: +32 (0)16 23 20 79 Stapelhuisstraat 13, http://www.Belgium.EU.net B-3000 Leuven e-mail: news@Belgium.EU.net
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc Subject: Re: NeXT compiled version of SAMBA, as a MAB? Was:Networking NeXTSTEP and NT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc Date: 11 Sep 1996 23:47:12 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <517j20$du0@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> <5160il$m9s@lynx.aba.net.au> <32371ECF.3F9@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric A. Dubiel (eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) wrote: : Does anyone know the location of a NeXT compiled version of SAMBA, as a : MAB? : Thanks! You shouldn't be afraid of compiling it. Try it and then if you have problems ask for assistance. Kamen
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: multi-volume DOS disks? Date: 12 Sep 1996 02:29:01 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <517shd$549@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <516j07$p0a@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <0mBhpfG00WBOQ1pOBh@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 11-Sep-96 multi-volume DOS > disks? by mmalcolm crawford@shef.a > > Is there any way of creating a multi-volume set of DOS disks under > > NEXTSTEP? I have a big (5MB) file I want to transfer to a standalone > > Wintel PC... > > You're looking for a binary split. There is actually a program named > 'bsplit' somewhere, or you can use GNU split (from textutils). Or /NextAdmin/Installer.app/chunk: [~]% chunk Usage: chunk chunk_size [+first_chunk_pad] filename [dest_dir] chunk_size is in bytes and first_chunk_pad allows space on the first floppy for a README, etc. Nice binary split that ever NS user already has. -- 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: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: man pages with bold headlines? Date: 12 Sep 1996 02:39:07 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <517t4b$549@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <516j63$1q8@news.tuwien.ac.at> <MmBjj4W00WBOM364BA@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Sep-96 man pages with > bold headlines? by rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at > > Although a lot of man pages have commands for bold writing in their source, > > Next's nroff doesn't seem to generate the correct terminal escape codes for > > bold writing. Is there a simple way to hack /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an.new so > > that bold writing is generated? > > Are you asking for Terminal.app to switch to another font for "bold"? I > don't believe Terminal will do that. However, it is possible to get a > different color. Try using the GNU nroff package instead of NeXT nroff. Terminal appears to support the standard VT100 Bold, Normal, Blinking, etc. text attributes in its Preferences panel using colors to distinguish. -- 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: takis@superior.eng.ohio-state.edu (Panagiotis Velissariou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ISDN+Nextstation+NS3.3 Date: 12 Sep 1996 03:40:42 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5180nq$3f0@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Hi to all, I want to use ISDN on a Nextstation running NS3.3. I have an ISDN line (National ISDN-1), an ISDN modem Zyxel Elite 2864IU connected to the DSP (I am using TTYDSP). I need help on : 1) What software do I need for network connections? Does PPP2.2 work in the above setup? What about DataCore1.113? 2) When I am connecting with the modem (using Stuart.app or Terminal.app) at DTE speeds greater than 57600 the only thing I get on my screen as the modem responds to my AT commands is carbidge. For this reason PNI SLIP won't work at DTE speeds > 57600. What I am doing wrong here? (I have the same problem with a Hayes Accura 288 V.FC+FAX too) If anybody is using ISDN can he or she kindly respond to this post? Thank you for your time P. Velissariou
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT and IP Masquerading Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:27:03 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <jbf-1209960027030001@news.tiac.net> References: <515u8e$g0v@itchy.itsnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <515u8e$g0v@itchy.itsnet.com>, trevor@trevsoft.com wrote: > Are there any packages/kernal patches/etc to do IP Masquerading on a > Next box? What might that be? It will relay IP traffic between a PPP link and a local ethernet. It will not proxy for the hosts on the ethernet unless you install the TIS firewall or equivalent. Works fine w/o proxy if you get a subnet's worth of IP addresses from an ISP who also enters them into his DNS and router. > I've got a 68040/25 black cube (purchased it from a company that was getting > rid of their inventory). One of the ports in the back looks like a nine-pin > rs-232 serial port, but the ideogram shows a printer. Would this port support > a modern pc compatible modem? If yes, what speeds can the port handle? (ie. > at least 28.8k?) Port for a proprietary laser printer that relies on the display postscript system for rasterizing. Useless for a modem. Use the DIN-8 (or is it 9) serial ports with a special hardware handshaking cable from MacConnection. Supports 57.6K on the Turbos, and at least 38.4K on the 25MHz machines. Barney
From: RenHa <renha@slipshot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,com Subject: cmsg cancel <323707A2.583F@slipshot.com> Control: cancel <323707A2.583F@slipshot.com> Date: 12 Sep 1996 05:02:35 GMT Organization: Net Access - Philadelphia's Original ISP Message-ID: <cancel.323707A2.583F@slipshot.com> Originator: handler@access.netaxs.com This article was a "Make Money Fast" / Dave Rhodes-type Ponzi scheme, posted to USENET by a user of Net Access <netaxs.com>. As these schemes are highly illegal and fraudulent under United States law, the postings are being cancelled, and the user has been suspended and possibly terminated. Michael Handler <handler@netaxs.com> Net Access System Administration -- Michael Handler <handler@netaxs.com> Net Access System Administration Voice: (215) 576-8669 Support: support@netaxs.com DNS: hostmaster@netaxs.com USENET: news@netaxs.com "I know karate / voodoo too / I'm gonna make myself / available to you."
From: willers@swissbank.com (Moritz Willers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hiding printers via Netinfo ? Date: 11 Sep 1996 08:11:30 GMT Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation, Swiss Bank Center, Zurich Airport Message-ID: <515s7i$704@op1d56cmp.il.us.swissbank.com> References: <50vdt5$kj8@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> > I seem to recall that there's a property one can add to > a printer in NetInfo that prevents its appearing in .. you could set the value '_ignore' in the dir in netinfo for the printer. - Moritz
From: willers@swissbank.com (Moritz Willers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hiding printers via Netinfo ? Date: 11 Sep 1996 08:13:16 GMT Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation, Swiss Bank Center, Zurich Airport Message-ID: <515sas$70h@op1d56cmp.il.us.swissbank.com> References: <50vdt5$kj8@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> > I seem to recall that there's a property one can add to > a printer in NetInfo that prevents its appearing in .. you could set the value '_ignore' in the dir in netinfo for the printer. - Moritz ---- I need more text in here than the text I quote or NG won't send it. Why this? If the answer is as simple as a line, it's stupid that I have to write so much more. Grrr.
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: 12 Sep 1996 09:50:46 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <518mdm$81m@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <51740b$mof@alpha1.auspex.com> mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) writes: > It's not exactly the same. There was some deep-level work that went into > making sure PPP on 4.0 worked well. I used to listen to the developer > complain about it. ;) Oh good - maybe they fixed some of the bugs that I couldn't be bothered to track down. I sort of lost entheusiasm for doing the PPP work when I heard that 4.0 came shipped with it ! Seemed pointless - now theres irony for you ! :-) -bat.
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Networking NeXTSTEP and NT Date: 12 Sep 1996 13:42:17 GMT Organization: BDM International, Inc. Message-ID: <5193vp$9a7@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com> References: <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> In article <01bb9f5b$5fdd4e80$a73b55c0@davinci.tpd.eds.com> "Lansing ASC" <mcphersj@tpd.eds.com> writes: > Does anyone have any experience networking NeXTSTEP and NT. I cacn't seem > to find out how to user the sysadmin utils under NeXTSTEP to get it to > point to an NT Primary Domain Controller. I only want to share files > between the two, manage the printer queue on the NT machine and that is it. > I can install LPD (Line Printer Daemon) on the NT machine. I have TCP/IP,. > IPX/SPX, and NFS installed on the NT server. When I started NeXTSTEP I get > the error message 'could not connect to Network Configuration Sever' press > CTRL-C to start without a network connection. I think the problem is the > configuration of the NeXT machine. AFAIK NS cannot get its network information from WINNT. If your NS machine is standalone, you need to configure it that way. You can share files through NFS, if you export your file system from NT through NFS and import in onto your NS machine. In addition you probabley need to put the NT machines name and IP address into the /machines directory in your root NetInfo Domain for your NS Box. The 'could not connect to Network Configuration Sever' means that your machine is looking for its name and IP address from a NS Configuration server. If your machine is not part of an existing NS Netinfo Domain, you will need to join one or put the NS machine's name and IP information into your /etc/hostconfig file. HTH -- Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not System Administrator | worth chewing through the <jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:39:17 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960912163703.17279B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <516r7m$15at@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <51758q$atg@nuke.csu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <51758q$atg@nuke.csu.net> On 11 Sep 1996, John Rudd wrote: > > Did they at least put a nice GUI front end on PPP? > You are joking, aren't you? This would mean they put some effort in the user environment.... Greetings, Bernhard.
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't restart inetd on NeXT Date: 12 Sep 1996 13:24:19 GMT Organization: BDM International, Inc. Message-ID: <5192u3$8ur@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com> References: <50vb1n$qbj@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> In article <50vb1n$qbj@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) writes: > Hi, > > I installed POP daemon on our NeXT server. I edited /etc/services and > /etc/inetd.conf files. Then, I send a hang up signal to restart inetd. > However, it doesn't seem restart inetd daemon. > > I am curious can I restart daemon without reboot machine? Is it > something relate to /etc/portmap? I did similar thing on Solaris > system. It just work fine. According to the man pages inetd should reread its config file when it receives the kill -1 signal (SIGHUP). This is not a restart of the inetd, but just a change in its configuration. If it did not seem to take, go ahead and reboot your machine. Inetd is started in your /etc/rc startup script, and it is strongly discourged to start it up any other way. HTH -- Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not System Administrator | worth chewing through the <jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: ISDN support for NeXTSTEP under Intel Message-ID: <DxM6zE.3nH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <dennis.842423390@bibo> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:11:38 GMT In article <dennis.842423390@bibo> dennis@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de (Dennis Schulze) writes: > Hello, > > is there or will there be support for passive ISDN cards under > NeXTSTEP so that I can make a rawip or PPP connection? Even > non-professional systems like Linux support that now... > A clear no! Not unless you write your own driver package. The reason? You already said: 'non-pro'! No pros are paying for it or even seriously asking for it. Only small budget types like Linux-hackes demand this feature. All other pros are either already sold to Microsoft or have the money to buy a commercial ISDN-router. The small budget solution is a as cheap as possible AT-compatible, ISDN-adapter, Ethernet-adapter and ka9q-software to build a ISDN-router from that... -- 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: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960912162530.22144B-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:28:22 -0400 References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <516r7m$15at@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <51758q$atg@nuke.csu.net> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960912163703.17279B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960912163703.17279B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:39:17 +0200 > From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP > > On 11 Sep 1996, John Rudd wrote: > > > > > Did they at least put a nice GUI front end on PPP? > > > You are joking, aren't you? This would mean they put some effort in > the user environment.... I'm confused as to what would be desired in a GUI for PPP. I doubt very much that they could do something to make writing a 'chat' script nicer.... Or do you mean something as simple as an easy way to do 'pppdown' and 'pppup'? If that's all you want, email me with the SUBJECT: send-ascii pppmeter.uue and uudecode that into PPPMeter.app, which is a nice little GUI tool for doing that.... what specifically did you want NeXT to add? TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris Subject: (No transparent image) Netscape on NeXT X server Date: 11 Sep 1996 22:04:12 GMT Organization: Californi State University, Fresno Distribution: inet Message-ID: <517d0s$sde@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi Folks, We are running MouseX 2.3 X server on mono NeXTstation. We can remote access X window Netscape and run Netscape on NeXT X server. Our remote machine is Sun Sparc 10 and running Solaris 2.5. We use Netscape 2.02 and 3.0. However, we can't get transparent image working. Did anyone know why is it? Is the transparent image depend on NeXT X window server? We also get some warning messages when we launch netscape from remote machine. Warning: Name: menuBar Class: XmRowColumn Illegal mnemonic character; Could not convert X KEYSYM to a keycode Warning: Name: popup Class: XmRowColumn Illegal mnemonic character; Could not convert X KEYSYM to a keycode If anyone know the answer, please email me at kinau@csufresno.edu. Thanks. --Kin ****************************************************************************** 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: lukeh@xedoc.com.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep PPP Date: 13 Sep 1996 00:00:25 GMT Organization: Xedoc Software Development Pty Ltd (Melbourne) Message-ID: <51a86p$kur@lynx.aba.net.au> References: <323507FA.26DD@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960911175455.15681A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <516r7m$15at@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <51758q$atg@nuke.csu.net> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960912163703.17279B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960912162530.22144B-100000@charisma> With regard to nice GUIs for managing PPP, Datacore's PPP package (http://www.datacore.ch if I recall correctly) has a very nice PPPManager.app which lets you configure PPP and manage running instances of pppd. It's commercial, but you can get evaluation keys... -- Luke Howard Xedoc Software Development lukeh@xedoc.com.au; +61-3-9428-0788; http://www.xedoc.com.au/
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: GNUstep/MediaBook Developer CD-ROM OUT!!! Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:58:29 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <3238B1A7.46C6@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit WOW, check it out at: http://www.net-community.com GNUstep/MediaBook Developer CD CD purchase Price: $30 The purchase of the CD-ROM comes with installation support; resolution of problems concerning installation of the software from the CD onto the user's system as well as help with basic setup tasks comes free of charge. Summary description of CD contents GNU Objective-C compiler and many GNU binary utilities The well known GNU compiler with the most up-to-date enhancements to the Objective-C Runtime Library. GNUstep Base Library A library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective-C classes. It includes classes for strings, collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations, notifications, notification dispatchers, times, network ports, remote object messaging support (distributed objects), event loops, and random number generators. GNUstep GUI Library The frontend library of general-purpose, graphical Objective-C classes. It includes classes for events, fonts, colors, applications, menus, windows, views, controls such as buttons, textfields, rich text, sliders, and popup buttons. A backend library is required for a specific graphics system. GNUstep GUI X/DPS Backend A backend library for the X/Windows graphics system. Work is continuing to interface with the Display Ghostscript System so that a completely full-functional postscript imaging system will be available. MediaBook WIN32 Backend A backend library for the Win32 API. MediaBook Objective-C Random Library A freely distributable set of Objective-C classes for psuedo-random number generators and distributions. MediaBook Objective-C 3D Graphics Library A library of 3D graphical Objective-C classes based on top of OpenGL and integrated with the GNUstep GUI Library. It includes classes for lights, shape hierarchies, polygons, polyhedrons, rendering and viewpoint control, and graphical primitives such as cones, cylinders, spheres, and points. Also includes a parser for the Manchester Scene Description language (MSDL) and the Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) Version 1.0 specification. MediaBook Objective-C Speech Synthesis Library A library of Objective-C classes for text to speech synthesis. Currently supports the Eloquent speech synthesis engine and is only available for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95. NET-Community is committed to developing and supporting free software. Five dollars from the sale of each CD will goes towards the continued development of GNUstep. Please support free software. ---------------------------------------- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BIND 4.9.4 for NS 3.3 m68k? Date: 13 Sep 1996 02:36:33 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-34.usc.edu Message-ID: <51ahbh$8fv@usc.edu> Does anyone have BIND 4.9.4 for NS 3.3 m68k? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 550 user unknown? Date: 13 Sep 1996 04:26:12 GMT Organization: CADVision Message-ID: <51anp4$kpm@elmo.cadvision.com> The following showed up on my console this evening. Am I being paranoid to think someone is trying to break into my machine? I was hooked up via PPP to my dial-in service provider at the time. here's the text ... testing... 550 User unknown I thought it looked like a FTP message, but that dosen't make any sense. Any ideas? -- Bill Scollard - Scollard Holdings Ltd. Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave Calgary, Alberta, Canada
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT and IP Masquerading Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 04:41:43 GMT Organization: j%nki~w€RJ3M-26XPLZ8L-BFGD44CT-1EA6BC82 Message-ID: <51as2n$rqj@netnews.hinet.net> References: <515u8e$g0v@itchy.itsnet.com> trevor@trevsoft.com (Trevor Harrison) wrote: >Are there any packages/kernal patches/etc to do IP Masquerading on a Next box? > >I've got a 68040/25 black cube (purchased it from a company that was getting >rid of their inventory). One of the ports in the back looks like a nine-pin >rs-232 serial port, but the ideogram shows a printer. Would this port support >a modern pc compatible modem? If yes, what speeds can the port handle? (ie. >at least 28.8k?) > >Thanks, >Trevor > This port is for Printer. There are two rounded connectors with A and B sign on them are the ports for modem. I think you can use any PC compatible modem to connect with NeXT Cube with the right modem cable. Best Regards, Batmon@abico.com.tw Mon-Sen Yang Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd.
From: charlesa@netventures.co.uk (Charles Ashley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: skittish mouse? Date: 13 Sep 1996 11:04:17 GMT Organization: MatriX Publishing Network Message-ID: <51bf3h$lkn@nebula.mpn.com> Hi all - I've got a mouse curser which seems to occasionally jump about 2cm in any direction, which get quite annoying. Has anyone seem this, and/or have a remedy? The essestials: NS/I 3.3 on an object.station 41 ps/2 mouse driver 3.32 serial post driver 3.33 Thx, C. -- ========================================================================= Charles Ashley charlesa@netventures.co.uk tel.+44.171.603.1267 =========================================================================
From: agrewe@efi-nms.de (Andreas Grewe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble with OPENSTEP NT Date: 13 Sep 1996 13:17:08 GMT Organization: NetzService Nortorf Message-ID: <51bmsl$hcb@manhattan.netzservice.de> Hi, I've got a little problem: I've tried to install OPENSTEP Developer (4.0 Final and 4.1 Beta) on a Windows NT 4.0 Server (Final Release) without any success. When I try to start up the "Window Server" I get this error message: The instruction at "0x00527f77" referrenced memory at "0x00000010". The memory could not be "read". The system worked fine with all NT 4.0 Betas/Finals in combination with OPENSTEP Prerelease 1. Any idea? -- Andreas Grewe agrewe@efi-nms.de EfI GmbH Tel: (+49) 4321-9005-0 Rungestrasse 4 Fax: (+49) 4321-9005-99 24537 Neumuenster, Germany
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hiding printers via Netinfo ? Date: 13 Sep 1996 13:49:16 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <51boos$k0c@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <515s7i$704@op1d56cmp.il.us.swissbank.com> In article <515s7i$704@op1d56cmp.il.us.swissbank.com> willers@swissbank.com (Moritz Willers) writes: > > I seem to recall that there's a property one can add to > > a printer in NetInfo that prevents its appearing in > .. > > you could set the value '_ignore' in the dir in netinfo for the printer. OK, I did that, it STILL shows up. Now what? prompt > niutil -read /mydomain /printers/MyPrinter name: MyPrinter sd: /usr/spool/NeXT/MyPrinter rm: myhost rp: Local lp: ty: HP LaserJet 5MP note: This is my printer _ignore: YES lo: lock -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: multi-volume DOS disks? Date: 13 Sep 1996 10:50:44 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <51bea4$rfv@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <516j07$p0a@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <0mBhpfG00WBOQ1pOBh@andrew.cmu.edu> <517shd$549@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <517shd$549@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> On 09/12/96, Art Isbell wrote: > Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 11-Sep-96 multi-volume DOS > > disks? by mmalcolm crawford@shef.a > > > Is there any way of creating a multi-volume set of DOS disks under > > > NEXTSTEP? I have a big (5MB) file I want to transfer to a standalone > > > Wintel PC... > > > > You're looking for a binary split. There is actually a program named > > 'bsplit' somewhere, or you can use GNU split (from textutils). > > Or /NextAdmin/Installer.app/chunk: > Thanks to all who have helped: I think I have to credit Art with the most elegant solution on the NEXTSTEP side of things, however a number of people wondered how to recombine the file chunks on the other side... The solution eluded me for a while. I even started installing the GNUish utilities, since DOS seemed to lack the equivalent of cat. As an aside here, this is a perfect example of the nonsense of the claim that DOS is easier than Unix. I know exactly what I'd have done in Unix ( cat file.? >> newfile ) and it would have been easy. On DOS, I hadn't a clue, and there wasn't anywhere obvious to look. I learned a lot trying to find the answer (primarily just how truly appalling DOS / Windows95 are), however I finally had to ask for a hint for the solution (frustrating as I normally like to work things out for myself -- I just didn't have another day to waste). "Aha!" I'm sure the DOS-users will retort, "But you only knew how to do things the Unix way because you'd learned it -- if you'd learned DOS it would have been easy." This is, of course, exactly my point: there's nothing intuitive about either DOS or Unix, they both have to be learned, and it's probably about as easy to lean one as the other... except that Unix seems more powerful and more consistent. Let's look at the solution. You use the copy command. Want to find out about the copy command? Use "copy /?". Obvious, eh? This givens you about as much information as you're likely to get, the equivalent of "cp -h" with a little more detail. Nothing like the richness (or pervasiveness) of "man". So, the DOS equivalent of cat file.? >> newfile is copy /b file.1+file.2+file.3+file.4 newfile the /b indicates it's a binary file (else you end up with garbage). You're supposed to be able to do this with wildcards, but it seemed reluctant to do so when I tried. Obvious really. <sigh> Now I know how Jerry Pournelle manages to keep finding material for his column... OK, back to work! Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MET DST ending shifts to last Sunday of October Message-ID: <1996Sep13.142843.46882@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 13 Sep 96 14:28:43 MET References: <158@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) wrote: > Lectoribus Salutem, > > I tried the SysAdmin Manual and NextAnswers on this, but I can't find a > clue. For the MET time zone this year (1996) will be the first the end of > daylight saving time occurs on the last Sunday of October instead of the > last Sunday of September, as it has been since its inception in the > seventies. Unfortunately, this decision was made in early 1995, months > after NEXTSTEP 3.3 came out, so we can't expect that version of the OS to > implement the change (if it is even possible to have it change over > automatically, which I doubt). > > Does anyone have an idea what configuration file / Preferences option to > mangle to get this correct ? Note that I won't take "upgrade to 4.0" as > an answer :-} > > TIA, > > -- > Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) > Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands > Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 > URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam I looked at the Poland time zone info file (using linux's zdump) and from what I can make from the dump, it seems that NeXT made a (correct) guess that this will happen. The settings are for the last Sunday in Oktober starting with the year 1996. -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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: luomat@nerc.com (Timothy J. Luoma) Subject: Re: 550 user unknown? Message-ID: <9d7cc$c222b.387@NERCWINNT2> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:34:43 GMT References: <51anp4$kpm@elmo.cadvision.com> To: scollarw@cadvision.com Cc: luomat@nerc1.nerc.com I think it was more likely to be a Mail (sendmail) message, but I don't know why you'd see it unless you send a message to 'testing' (either in CC or TO) could be something else, but I don't know what.. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 550 user unknown? Date: 13 Sep 1996 13:43:08 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <51c6fc$og@papoose.quick.com> References: <51anp4$kpm@elmo.cadvision.com> In article <51anp4$kpm@elmo.cadvision.com>, guzzibill <scollarw@cadvision.com> wrote: >The following showed up on my console this evening. Am I being >paranoid to think someone is trying to break into my machine? > >I was hooked up via PPP to my dial-in service provider at the time. > >here's the text ... > >testing... 550 User unknown > >I thought it looked like a FTP message, but that dosen't make any >sense. > >Any ideas? That is sendmail talking. Either a person or a mailer connected to your sendmail port and submitted an address verify request for an account named 'testing'. e.g. VRFY testing There is no account (or mail alias) named testing, thus the message '550 User unknown'. It could be that someone tried to simply send an email message to: testing@yourhost.do.main It could also be that someone was using sendmail to probe for accounts named 'testing' on a series of hosts because a hacker happens to know the default password for a testing account as delevered on a particular OS release or as installed by a particular software package. If the latter is true you still have nothing to worry about. You obviously have no such account. It's a dangerous world out there. . . Always have up to date backups, and always use secure passwords. -- ___ ___ | 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: brockway@aone.com (Jared Brockway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: man pages with bold headlines? Date: 13 Sep 1996 17:58:23 GMT Message-ID: <51c7bv$i0o@news.aone.com> References: <516j63$1q8@news.tuwien.ac.at> There's an app called ManOpen by Harald Schlangmann that bolds the headers of man pages--the output looks like Terminal's should. You can find it at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/tools/ManOpen.compressed -Jared
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: luomat@nerc.com (Timothy J. Luoma) Subject: tcp wrappers (was Re: 550 user unknown?) Message-ID: <9d7cc$e2ac.340@NERCWINNT2> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 19:42:12 GMT References: <51anp4$kpm@elmo.cadvision.com> <51c6fc$og@papoose.quick.com> > Either a person or a mailer connected to your > sendmail port and submitted an address verify > request for an account named 'testing'. e.g. > VRFY testing Can one install a TCP wrapper for this sort of thing, to record the IP of the request? I've done so for finger, telnet, etc. Also, it there anyway to do something like this for 'ping'? Otherwise it seems like 'ping' is a pretty anonymous tool to see if your computer is even turned on..... Conspiracy minded, TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
From: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:28:58 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Hi, ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i create one? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Sean Sun <sun@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:00:40 -0700 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it into two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the partition is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk space back? By the way, I just bought this machine and have never dealt with next machines in extensive detail. When one inserts in a floppy drive, it should just pop up in workspace, right? Well, nothing happens with my drive. I also cannot boot off of floppies. It simply says something like no floppy present. Anyway, how can I be sure if the floppy is working? Thanks a lot. Sean.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Initialize Drive on Startup? Message-ID: <Dxnvxu.40A@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5173ov$fik@camelot.dsccc.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:08:18 GMT In article <5173ov$fik@camelot.dsccc.com> jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel) writes: > Each time I start up NeXTSTEP 3.3 I get a message asking me > whether I want to initialize a partition. The partition is > already formatted for HPFS, Linux, or OS/2 boot manager, NeXTSTEP > doesn't tell me which partition it is. How do I get rid of the > check? > Enter the partition into 'fstab' with mnt_type of 'ignore' (man-page on 'fstab'). The partition is to be named according to the scheme that is described in the man-page on 'sd'. -- 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: jenr@Eng.Sun.COM (Jennifer Rice) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lighthouse/SUN Date: 13 Sep 1996 21:40:13 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Distribution: usa Message-ID: <51ckbt$mn2@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> All Positions Located in San Mateo, California Lighthouse Design, a newly acquired Sun Microsystems, Inc. business, is a leading innovator in Internet/Intranet development tools and productivity applications. If you're interested in creating, marketing or selling next generation products and development tools for Javat, OpenStep and the Web, Lighthouse Design is at the forefront of this burgeoning marketplace. For more info on our technology, visit our Web site at: www.lighthouse.com. Java/OpenStep Application Engineer Responsible for OO programming, Obj-C/C++/Java, Solarisr/WinNT and NeXTSTEP. Requires experience in creating shipping products, and a taste for small, highly energized teams. Knowledge of productivity applications (as user or developer), 1+ years of experience and a BA/BSCS preferred. Job Code: JOAE Java/OpenStep Application Development Managers You will work with OO programming, Obj-C/C++/Java, Solaris and NeXTSTEP. Requires a minimum 2 years of experience managing a group of at least 4 people, experience in managing shipping products, and the ability to manage/motivate small teams. A BS/MSCS or equivalent is preferred, as is knowledge of productivity applications (as user or creator). Job Code: JOADM Software Quality Assurance Manager Qualifications include experience in testing, specifically on software for a shipping product, client/server development, test automation; the ability to manage, create and execute test plans and a minimum of 2 years of experience managing a group of at least 4 people. Requires solid software QA practice and communication skills. A BS/MSCS or equivalent is preferred. Job Code: SQAM Software Quality Assurance Engineer Requires experience with OO programming and C++/Java, plus solid software QA practices and solid communication skills. You must have the ability to create and execute test plans, and possess an aptitude for troubleshooting and working in a team environment. Experience with client/ server development and test automation is preferred, as is a BA/BSCS or equivalent. Job Code: SQAE Java Product Development Managers You will manage design/development of Java applications and components for a broad product line. You'll also have the opportunity to guide next generation Internet application development. Requires a BA/BSCS, a background with OO programming, Java/C++/Obj-C (architecture preferred), a minimum of 2 years' experience managing a group of at least 4 Engineers and creating/shipping products. Knowledge of productivity applications (as user or developer) is preferred. Job Code: JPDM System Administrator Assist in supporting the day-to-day operations of the company. This will include Web site maintenance, writing of tools, helping users find solutions to their problems, user accounts, back-up maintenance, installing new versions of software and FTP site maintenance. Requires a BS in a related field; 1-3 years of experience; strong skills in C/C++, OO technologies, UNIXr, HTML and web site maintenance. Experience in system admin., NT/Solaris/Java, PC hardware installation and OpenStep/NeXTSTEP a plus. Job Code: SA Technical Writer Primary responsibilities include documenting object-based software tools, creating whitepapers and other technical marketing materials. Requires 3+ years of relevant experience, software documenting experience, an understanding of OO technology (some programming experience with Java, C++, Obj- C, or SmallTalkr preferred), as well as excellent writing skills. Job Code: TW Sales Systems Engineer This position requires 3-5 years of relevant experience, OO programming experience, knowledge of software development tools and market, as well as Java, Obj-C or other OO languages. Job Code: SSE Sales Representative Requires knowledge of software industry trends, OO and Java development tools. Requirements also include 5+ years of relevant experience and advanced technical selling skills. Job Code: SR Graphic Designer This position requires Web design experience, user interface knowledge, experience with Adobe Photoshopr, Illustratorr or equivalent package, as well as a productivity software background. Human Computer Interaction (HCI) experience is a plus. Job Code: GD Play an important part in the development of Sun's OpenStep programming environment. Working with a small group, you will make strong contributions from working with the original NeXT source to designing new code and functionality. OpenStep Application Engineer Requires a BSCS or equivalent and OO programming, C++, Solaris and NeXTSTEP experience. Job Code: OAE OpenStep AppKit Engineer Requires a background in OO programming, ToolKit design, XWindows and NeXTSTEP and a MSCS or equivalent. Job Code: OAE2 OpenStep Compiler Engineer Requires an MSCS and Obj-C/C++ Compiler and Solaris experience. Job Code: OCE For consideration, please send your resume, INDICATING JOB CODE, to: Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave., Dept. NSF0908AB/JR, M/S MPK16-203, Mountain View, CA 94043-1100; or email to staffing33@bruin.corp.sun.com or fax to (415) 786-9556. Sun is proud to ensure that equal talent always gets equal opportunity.
From: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Striped Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:31:57 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <51cgbt$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Are striped Filesystems possible under NextStep? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Filesystem Buffers? Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:33:40 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Is there a way to modify and or view the efficiency of the filesystem buffers? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: dami@cui.unige.ch (Laurent Dami) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: solving the halting problem... Date: 13 Sep 1996 18:02:28 GMT Organization: University of Geneva - CUI Message-ID: <51c7jk$t2q@uni2f.unige.ch> Since a couple of weeks ago, my system (i386/NS3.3) does not sync properly upon shutdown, which means that at each reboot I need to wait several minutes for a complete fsck. I checked that both the "halt" and the "shutdown" files in /usr/etc are not corrupted (equal to the standard CD-ROM distribution). When running "halt -p -e" by hand I get the message: Cannot unmount root 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .... When running "shutdown -h" I get a system panic (kernel trap). I can't thing of any recent change in the configuration of the system. Any hint? Thanks in advance, ========================================================================= Laurent DAMI | tel: +41 (22) 705 76 63 Centre Universitaire d'Informatique | secr: +41 (22) 705 77 70 24, rue General-Dufour | fax: +41 (22) 705 77 80 1211 Geneve 4 | email: dami@cui.unige.ch SWITZERLAND | WWW: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~dami =========================================================================
From: jgriffin@spectranet.ca (John Griffin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:59:09 -0400 Organization: Still Point Message-ID: <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote: >Ronin wrote: >> >> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... >> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the >> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, >> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a >> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent >> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. > >This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely >having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that >one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do >not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have >committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself. > Well I for one think it is a very courageous thing to do!!! I think we should all vote Ronin a vote of thanks. It¹s about time someone did something to rid the Internet of this kind of crap! These assholes are using the Internet like a buzzard uses the desert. To them it is an invitation to get whatever they can for the least amount of effort or money. Surely there is something that the common plain-vanilla Internet user can do in collective effort to rid the net of these preditors! John G. ________________________________________________________ | John and | jgriffin@spectranet.ca | | Valerie | jgriffin@astral.magic.ca | | Griffin | johnweg@aol.com | |--------------------------------------------------------| | "Still Point" | It's Not To Late... | | Moffat Ontario Canada | To have a Happy Childhood | --------------------------------------------------------
From: otto@olcs.com (Otto Lind) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving the halting problem... Date: 14 Sep 1996 00:45:23 GMT Organization: Softwire Corporation Message-ID: <51cv73$s2o@olcs.olcs.com> References: <51c7jk$t2q@uni2f.unige.ch> In article <51c7jk$t2q@uni2f.unige.ch>, >When running "halt -p -e" by hand I get the message: > > Cannot unmount root > 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .... I've seen this problem when an application is run which has been compiled with the -posix flag (and hence uses the libposix.a library), and has written data to the file system. I think it caused by a posix library bug which marks the disk as "inuse", and never clears the flag. Have you recently installed a posix compiled executable? The following script is a quick hack I wrote to try and find out if an executable has been compiled with the posix library linked in: #!/bin/sh # # # Use gnu grep if possible # if test -x /usr/local/gnu/bin/egrep then GREP="/usr/local/gnu/bin/egrep -sq" else GREP="egrep -s" fi for F in $* do otool -l $F | $GREP libsys_s if test $? -ne 0 then file $F | $GREP "Mach-O executable" if test $? -eq 0 then ls -l $F fi fi done I have not tested the thing extensively, but it did find the posix programs on my machine. Otto P.S. Did Next ever fix the POSIX implementation in 4.0? -- Otto Lind Softwire Corporation (North office) otto@olcs.com 12125 285th street, Lindstrom, MN 55045 skypoint!olcs!otto voice:(612)257-1259 fax:(612)257-0923
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving the halting problem... Date: 14 Sep 1996 03:45:34 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <51d9ou$nhh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> References: <51c7jk$t2q@uni2f.unige.ch> <51cv73$s2o@olcs.olcs.com> otto@olcs.com (Otto Lind) wrote: > P.S. Did Next ever fix the POSIX implementation in 4.0? I can't find any evidence that any sort of POSIX support was included with OS 4.0. There's no libposix.a. I guess the POSIX support could be in a framework, but I don't believe so. I have been unable to build a simple little mkfifo utility that uses the POSIX mkfifo() function. The 3.3 mkfifo build continues to function under OS 4.0, though. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:31:06 -0400 References: <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> To: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 13 Sep 1996, Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:28:58 GMT > From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? > > Hi, > ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i create > one? > > Regards > --- > Konstantin Wiesel > Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de I believe that you are looking for what is commonly called a 'swapdisk' under NeXTStep. This is quite possible, and in fact I maintain an FAQ which you can find at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.tar.gz or you can get an email copy : for ascii, send an empty email with SUBJECT send-ascii swapfaq.txt for an RTF or PS version, send email with the SUBJECT: send-mime swapfaq.ps or send-mime swapfaq.rtf (note the version on the ftp site has all 3). it was available via HTTP with nice links to NeXTanswers and everything but some idiot (ME!!!!) accidentally deleted the files when cleaning his HD too late at night.... TjL ps -- if you have any questions/problems, please email me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Filesystem Buffers? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914003251.6904D-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:33:37 -0400 References: <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> To: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII not sure what you mean.... there's 'top', 'ps' and 'vm_stat' My guess is 'vm_stat' is closest to what you want, but that's a guess.... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver On 13 Sep 1996, Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:33:40 GMT > From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Filesystem Buffers? > > Is there a way to modify and or view the efficiency of the filesystem > buffers? > > > Regards > --- > Konstantin Wiesel > Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de > > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914004211.6904E-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:51:43 -0400 References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> To: Sean Sun <sun@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Sean Sun wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:00:40 -0700 > From: Sean Sun <sun@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: NeXT cuts the disk in half? > > Hello all, > > I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. > My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it into > two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the partition > is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk space back? Are you saying that one of the partitions is entirely being used as swapspace? This is not likely, unless one of the partitions was named 'swapdisk' and I don't even think then.... More than likely 'df' reports something that makes it look that way... In fact, /private/vm/swapfile is only on one of the partitions... ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.tar.gz will explain more. send me email with SUBJECT send-ascii swapfaq.txt to get an ascii copy of it... > By the way, I just bought this machine and have never dealt with next > machines in extensive detail. When one inserts in a floppy drive, it > should just pop up in workspace, right? Well, nothing happens with my > drive. I also cannot boot off of floppies. It simply says something like > no floppy present. Anyway, how can I be sure if the floppy is working? You can't boot NeXTStep off floppies.... the most you can do is insert a floppy disk will boot to a CD-ROM... Reboot the computer. See if that helps. Otherwise get this: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/The-Disk-Scripts.tar.gz or send me an email with the SUBJECT send-ascii mntdisk.sh and run (AS ROOT) the command 'mntdisk' (or mntdisk,sh) and see if that works to manually mount the disk. email me if I can be any more help TjL
From: wcsmh@superior.carleton.ca (Mark Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Does NT or Win95 run on the Canon object.station 41? Date: 14 Sep 1996 03:06:50 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <51d7ga$6uo@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> NNTP-Posting-User: wcsmh Hi all, I have an object.station 41 at home running NS 4.0 and I would like to install NT or Windows 95 on the system as well. Has anyone had any success getting those operating systems to run on the Canon? I presume that if there is a problem it is with driver support. Comments appreciated. Regards, Mark Henry wcsmh@ccs.carleton.ca
From: jhills@unix.infoserve.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Double-sided printing of .ps files Date: 14 Sep 1996 17:16:30 GMT Message-ID: <51ep9e$rcb@news.infoserve.net> Hi I am looking for pointers to a utility to enable double-sided printing of .ps files. I seem to vaguely remember a reference from years back. Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Message-ID: <Dxq00u.9F@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:31:42 GMT In article <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel) writes: > > > Hi, ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, > how can i create one? > Would need some driver programming for block mode device. Donno if the Driver Kit would provide a sufficient basis for that. And then there would be the problem to steal some real memory from 'kmem'. Certainly a more advanced stunt! We used to do such things on SysIII, but then we had the source to most of the kernel... -- 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: Filesystem Buffers? Message-ID: <Dxpzq7.8p@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:25:19 GMT In article <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel) writes: > > Is there a way to modify and or view the efficiency of the filesystem > buffers? > No, and since you don't have source code from NeXT you can't do anything about it. For further reading refer to the original publication on the construction of the Berley Fast Filesystem (around 1986 either ACM or IEEE, I suppose). Might be also on some of the BSD archives... --- 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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tcp wrappers (was Re: 550 user unknown?) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:26:05 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmChmRC00WBOA140g0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <51anp4$kpm@elmo.cadvision.com> <51c6fc$og@papoose.quick.com> <9d7cc$e2ac.340@NERCWINNT2> In-Reply-To: <9d7cc$e2ac.340@NERCWINNT2> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Sep-96 tcp wrappers (was Re: 550 u.. by Timothy J. Luoma) >> Either a person or a mailer connected to your >> sendmail port and submitted an address verify >> request for an account named 'testing'. e.g. >> VRFY testing > > Can one install a TCP wrapper for this sort of thing, to record the IP of the > request? I've done so for finger, telnet, etc. It's not desirable. TCP_wrapper only works (usefully) for daemons that get started for every new connection request (ie, fingerd, telnetd, etc). Daemons that remain around to service new requests can't take advantage of TCP_wrapper, since it will only monitor the first request and none of the others. This is why you can't use TCP_wrapper with nfsd, and you can't use it with sendmail normally (since sendmail normally runs forever). It's possible to start sendmail via inetd for every connection, and doing so would let you used TCP_wrapper, but restarting sendmail like that is fairly expensive and it prevents sendmail's connection caching and so forth from working usefully. In any event, modern sendmails include a lot of the same security features that TCP_wrappers does. You should check the /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog file and grep for "testing". Note that whoever was connecting may have been doing so for legitimate reasons (trying to verify that your machine's sendmail works okay). > Also, it there anyway to do something like this for 'ping'? Otherwise it > seems like 'ping' is a pretty anonymous tool to see if your computer is even > turned on..... Not without access to the kernel sources. The system responds to ICMP/IP packets at a pretty low level-- without interacting with user-controllable processes very much, if at all. ICMP messages deal with basic networking fault diagnostics, routing/address mask requests or broadcasts, and similar issues and are supposed to be handled automatically. -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: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: tcp wrappers (was Re: 550 user unknown?) Message-ID: <Dxq0Ms.A3@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <9d7cc$e2ac.340@NERCWINNT2> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:44:52 GMT In article <9d7cc$e2ac.340@NERCWINNT2> luomat@nerc.com (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: > > Can one install a TCP wrapper for this sort of thing, to record > the IP of the request? I've done so for finger, telnet, etc. > > Also, it there anyway to do something like this for 'ping'? > Otherwise it seems like 'ping' is a pretty anonymous tool to see > if your computer is even turned on..... > TCP wrapping should work. But as the name implies only for TCP (not even UDP?). And 'ping' uses ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)! 'ping' (using ICMP) belongs to the network layer, TCP and UDP are session layer protocols (as far as the IP stack can be mapped to ISO layers). -- 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: edx@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Message-ID: <1996Sep14.185700.84990@cc.usu.edu> Date: 14 Sep 96 18:56:59 MDT References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> Organization: Utah State University In article <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu>, Sean Sun <sun@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> writes: > I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. > My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it into > two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the partition > is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk space back? I have quite the opposite problem. I have a 4 gig drive that was partitioned into 4 1 gig partitions. I would like to use one of the partitions as my swap drive. How can I do that? - HRC - edx@cc.usu.edu
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Striped Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 14 Sep 1996 18:29:45 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <51etip$ek@marsu.navigator.de> References: <51cgbt$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de In <51cgbt$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > Are striped Filesystems possible under NextStep? Yes, but only hardware-based with a DPT controller. Then you can run RAID 0,1,5. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: rob@ebon.demon.co.uk (Rob Kinninmont) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I mount a floppy in single user boot? Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:41:26 GMT Organization: home Message-ID: <842726384.27112.0@ebon.demon.co.uk> Can anyone let me know how to mount a dos format floppy in a single user (-s) boot. (Or for that matter mount a dos partition on the hard drive) I've tried assortted variants on mount -t dos /dev/fd0a /floppy but to no avail. Cheers for any help/hints. rob ------------------------------------ Rob Kinninmont rob@ebon.demon.co.uk
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Filesystem Buffers? Date: 14 Sep 1996 18:28:21 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <51etg5$ek@marsu.navigator.de> References: <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de In <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > Is there a way to modify and or view the efficiency of the filesystem > buffers? You can enhance filesystem buffering dramatically with a DPT cache controller :-) Apart from that, few is left for tuning. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 14 Sep 1996 18:30:59 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <51etl3$ek@marsu.navigator.de> References: <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de In <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > Hi, > ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i create > one? For what reason? You will most probably blow up your swapfile and nothing more. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: changing IP addresses and NetInfo confusion Date: 15 Sep 1996 10:20:15 GMT Organization: Kralizec Dialup Internet Sydney, http://www.zeta.org.au/ Message-ID: <51gl8v$1uh@phaedrus.kralizec.net.au> Keywords: NetInfo addresses mixednet Hi, I have a client with a rather unusual problem. They are running mixed network of Solaris, NT and NS/FIP 3.2 machines. All had been runnign quite happily until their ISP said that they needed to change their IP Addresses. The solaris and NT boxes were changed quite easily but the two NS/FIP boxes proved to be a nightmare. One of the NS/FIP boxes is the NetInfo Server and the other is a client. Initially, someone changed the addresses of the machines in just one place as per the solaris and NT scenario. This caused the Server not to be able to find the configuration server (itself) because it was expecting it to be on another network that it could get to. Anyway, I managed to get that machine back to square one and booted with a configuration server and it was quite happy. The fun really started with the client. After many attempts to get them to talk I resorted to resetting the machine to a virgin state by copying hostconfig and netinfo from /usr/template/client/etc to /etc. I also removed any knowledge of this machine from the configuration server. This should force the machine to be readded to the network ( Automatic host addition is enabled ). When I rebooted the client things were looking good for a while. The system something along these lines: Machine not recognised by network. Give it a name. done. Add machine to network (y) done. Found the configuration server at a.b.c.172 OK. Resetting my address to a.b.c.178 OK one of the free addresses. setting netmask to ffffffe0 255.255.255.224 OK. setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- Wrong. The system then waited a while and reported that it could not contact the administration server and to press 'c' to boot without user accounts. It also could not automountnfs because it could not find its own address. How could the system find the right IP address but not the name even after typing it in. This didn't even work if the machine identity was added by hand to HostManager.app including its ethernet address. Any pointers would be appreciated. I thought that restting the netinfo and hostconfig files should be enough to start afresh. Thanks, Greg Shaw.
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 15 Sep 1996 02:01:40 GMT Organization: Telf Design Corp. Message-ID: <51fo24$70g@ralph.vnet.net> References: <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel writes > Hi, > ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i create > one? If you're really serious, you could buy SCSI devices that emulate hard disks, but are really RAM. Best regards, Roland Telfeyan roland@telf.com
From: ramdrive@ee.snu.ac.kr (Seongbae Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Date: 15 Sep 1996 12:07:13 GMT Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Message-ID: <51grhh$h2h@worak.kaist.ac.kr> References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> <1996Sep14.185700.84990@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu wrote: > I have quite the opposite problem. I have a 4 gig drive that > was partitioned into 4 1 gig partitions. I would like to > use one of the partitions as my swap drive. I'm using NeXTSTEP3.3J for RISC. But, as far as I know, there's no way to use one 4GBytes partition. NS3.3 will support up to 2GB. I also use 4G disk, but I have partitioned it into two 2GB pieces. -- Seongbae Park (¹Ú¼º¹è) http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~ramdrive ASCII,MIME,NeXT Mail To: ramdrive@thor.snu.ac.kr School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Message-ID: <163@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 15 Sep 96 14:12:11 GMT References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914004211.6904E-100000@charisma> Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914004211.6904E-100000@charisma> luomat@nerc.com (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: > On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Sean Sun wrote: > > Hello all, > > I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. > > My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it > > into two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the > > partition is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk > > space back? > Are you saying that one of the partitions is entirely being used as > swapspace? This is not likely, unless one of the partitions was named > 'swapdisk' and I don't even think then.... No, what he is seeing is what I described a few days ago: Because the device is slightly larger than 2 Gb, on formatting, NEXTSTEP (3.3) decides to split it into two partitions, each around 1 Gb. The reason for this is that the OS can't deal with partitions > 2 Gb (largest possible 32 bit _signed_ [sigh] integer). Unfortunately, that fact is not reflected in the /etc/fstab configuration file, so booting up the first time, *you'll only see ONE 1 Gb partition*. The other one is there, but you'll have to guess its device name to be able to mount it ... -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam
From: nielsen_maa@ccsu.ctstateu.edu (Dark Jedi MAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CGI...How can it be done? Date: 14 Sep 1996 15:18:48 GMT Organization: Connecticut State University System Message-ID: <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> Keywords: CGI I'm trying to get CGI to work on our NeXTSTEP machines but apparently I don't have all the info on how this to be done. Any info on this subject mailed to me would be helpful. Thanks, Mark Nielsen CCSU Unix Sys. Admin. nielsen_maa@ccsu.ctstateu.edu
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Date: 15 Sep 1996 16:36:41 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-53.usc.edu Message-ID: <51hbap$2d1@usc.edu> References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> <1996Sep14.185700.84990@cc.usu.edu> Cc: edx@cc.usu.edu In <1996Sep14.185700.84990@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu wrote: > In article <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu>, Sean Sun <sun@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> writes: > > I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. > > My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it into > > two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the partition > > is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk space back? > > I have quite the opposite problem. I have a 4 gig drive that > was partitioned into 4 1 gig partitions. I would like to > use one of the partitions as my swap drive. > > How can I do that? HERE'S THE SOURCE OF SWAPFILE ENLIGHTENMENT (otherwise known as TJL): ========beg============== Author: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: 7 Sept 1996 Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ Version 2.0 This is an update to the Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ. This is primarily a "bug fix" of the document. While there were no known errors in the previous version, I felt like some things could be explained better, expanded upon, etc. The main purpose for this release is because it is now available in HTML format (¬http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html). This release also comes in a few different formats: PS RTF ASCII This release is also available via email-autoresponder, in either ASCII, RTF, or PS format (note: if you are going to request the file be sent to you via ASCII, make sure you ONLY request the ASCII version. I don't think the others would work.) The files are: swapfaq.ps swapfaq.rtf swapfaq.txt the commands (to be used in the SUBJECT) are: send-ascii FILE (note: Again, this should only be used to request the FILE 'swapfaq.txt') send-mime FILE send-nextmail FILE (note: There may be a delay is responding to request for NeXTMail) ie: send-mime swapfaq.ps would get the file 'swapfaq.ps' sent to you by return mail. To find out more about the email auto-responder system, including other files which are available, request the FILE "info". TjL Submitted as: ¬f tp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.README ¬f tp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.tar.gz Should migrate to: ¬f tp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.README ¬f tp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.tar.gz ALSO ON PEANUTS: Should appear soon at: ¬f tp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Documents/faq/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.README ¬f tp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Documents/faq/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_2.0.tar.gz -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> ¬http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: ¬http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next for email-autoresponder info, NeXTPrinter FAQ, Swapdisk&Swapfile FAQ and more ========end============== -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609151812.OAA22908@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 96 14:12:18 -0400 Subject: Re: How do I mount a floppy in single user boot? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com In article <842726384.27112.0@ebon.demon.co.uk>, you wrote: > Can anyone let me know how to mount a dos format floppy in a single > user (-s) boot. (Or for that matter mount a dos partition on the > hard drive) > > I've tried assortted variants on > mount -t dos /dev/fd0a /floppy > but to no avail. mount -t dos -o rw,removable /dev/rfd0b /floppy My shell script 'mntdisk' (aka mntdisk.sh) will lead you through this properly for many setups, if you take a few minutes to set it up right. (it should handle floppy disks without any re-config for a NeXT machine) send me an email with the SUBJECT: send-ascii mntdisk.sh to get a copy via email. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: luomat@nerc.com (Timothy J. Luoma) Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Message-ID: <9f7cc$e3834.308@NERCWINNT2> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 19:56:52 GMT References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914004211.6904E-100000@charisma> <163@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) wrote: > In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914004211.6904E-100000@charisma> > luomat@nerc.com (Timothy J. Luoma) writes: > > > On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Sean Sun wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. > > > My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it > > > into two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the > > > partition is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk > > > space back? > > > Are you saying that one of the partitions is entirely being used as > > swapspace? This is not likely, unless one of the partitions was named > > 'swapdisk' and I don't even think then.... > > No, what he is seeing is what I described a few days ago: > > Because the device is slightly larger than 2 Gb, on formatting, NEXTSTEP > (3.3) decides to split it into two partitions, each around 1 Gb. The > reason for this is that the OS can't deal with partitions > 2 Gb (largest > possible 32 bit _signed_ [sigh] integer). Unfortunately, that fact is not > reflected in the /etc/fstab configuration file, so booting up the first > time, *you'll only see ONE 1 Gb partition*. The other one is there, but > you'll have to guess its device name to be able to mount it ... I believe the original poster was mistaken, and it just LOOKED like it had been split. 'df' and 'mount -p' will both make it look like that if you don't know what it looks like, because they report two mount points. Does a 2.1 gig drive still remain >2.0 gig when formatted for NS? I wouldn't think so, but I don't know TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: luomat@nerc.com (Timothy J. Luoma) Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Message-ID: <9f7cc$f836.1b2@NERCWINNT2> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:08:54 GMT References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> <1996Sep14.185700.84990@cc.usu.edu> > I have quite the opposite problem. I have a 4 > gig drive that was partitioned into 4 1 gig > partitions. I would like to use one of the > partitions as my swap drive. I think you have to create a 'swapfs' entry in /etc/fstab see 'man -k swap' entries, as well as man fstab TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Summary: MET DST ending shifts to last Sunday of October Message-ID: <165@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 15 Sep 96 20:29:46 GMT References: <158@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands In article <158@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) writes: [ ... Question about how to change the turn-over date for daylight saving time, as it changes to "last Sunday in October" for MET ... ] Got a lot of useful replies; the most hopeful one from Robert Frank <frank@ifi.unibas.ch>, who stated: > I looked at the Poland time zone info file (using linux's > zdump) and from what I can make from the dump, it seems > that NeXT made a (correct) guess that this will happen. > > The settings are for the last Sunday in October starting > with the year 1996. OK, I'll await that, then .... Again, thanks to all who replied ! -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 16 Sep 1996 13:06:42 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> writes: > > On 13 Sep 1996, Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:28:58 GMT > > From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> > > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > > Subject: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? > > > > Hi, > > ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i create > > one? A RAM disk is something toy computers use when they don't know how to implement swapping file systems. You can increase the number of memory buffers on NeXT during boot. Memory management is one of the great things you get with UNIX, Mach, or NeXTStep over the other toy systems. - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: changing IP addresses and NetInfo confusion Date: 16 Sep 1996 13:04:11 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <51jj8b$2uh@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <51gl8v$1uh@phaedrus.kralizec.net.au> In article <51gl8v$1uh@phaedrus.kralizec.net.au> gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw) writes: > Hi, > .... symptoms omitted. > > How could the system find the right IP address but not the name even after > typing it in. This didn't even work if the machine identity was added by > hand to HostManager.app including its ethernet address. > > Any pointers would be appreciated. I thought that restting the netinfo > and hostconfig files should be enough to start afresh. > > Thanks, Greg Shaw. I had a similar problem. It appeared to be related to either the arp cache or something temporary that isn't in netinfo. I kept fighting, but suddenly the problem went away. Nothing I had done immediately before seemed to be related. I did check the caches on the various machines and found ethernet numbers and old ip numbers long after I had changed things. I tried clearing the caches but that didn't seem to help. I may not have cleared them everywhere, however. Later I found the new IP addresses with the new ethernet numbers. I don't know how long it takes for this to happen or if it is for sure the reason. -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: Jean-Henri Duteau <jeand@myrias.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multiple filesystem types under NeXTStep Date: 16 Sep 1996 09:21:57 -0600 Organization: Myrias Computer Technologies Sender: jeand@moe.Myrias.AB.CA Message-ID: <xkt4tkybi3u.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> Hi all, I'm beginning a move sideways from my black '040 station (for sale, if anyone's interested!) to a white '486. I'm also planning on running Linux, GNU's HURD, and a minimal DOS section. My question concerns the following (and I've searched NeXTAnswers and the FAQ and missed the answer if it's there)...is there a way to have a 5th partition setup that all the UNIXes can read? I will have set of files that I will want to access from every system. If it's possible, having all the GNU sources, for instance, would be a prime candidate for this partition. I know I can see things on a ext2fs system between Linux and HURD, I know that Linux and DOS can see DOS partitions. How can I integrate NeXTstep into this mix? I'll be running NS3.3. Should I use the DOS partition as the multiple-readable partition? Can NS read DOS partitions? (Having no white-NS experience I wouldn't know.) Or does NS have support for reading something like ext2fs systems? Any info would be appreciated. -- Jean-Henri Duteau jeand@myrias.com (work) jeand@west-teq.net (home) Fantasy Sports Guru -- Commissioner of RHL, RHHL, UFHL, CFFL, Owner of teams in RHL, RHHL, FHL, UFHL, FFL, RCFFL, CFFL Current projects -- Working on a hockey simulator (RHS) and a ton of APBA Hockey utilities Interested in fantasy sports??? Check out my home page: http://west-teq.net/~jeand/
From: larry@spike.rprc.washington.edu (Larry Shupe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Filesystem Buffers? Date: 16 Sep 1996 16:51:20 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <51k0i8$9gr@nntp5.u.washington.edu> References: <51etg5$ek@marsu.navigator.de> In <51cgf4$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > Is there a way to modify and or view the efficiency of the filesystem > buffers? I think that on black hardware you can change the number of filesystem buffers in the ROM monitor. Use the 'p' command to inspect/modify parameters, and set nbuf to the number of buffers you want. I don't know of any way to calculate the efficiency of any change you might make except perhaps with a stop watch, but I wouldn't expect any speed increse from larger values of nbuf unless you are seriously pushing your machine's i/o system. -- Larry Shupe
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Date: 16 Sep 1996 16:59:30 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <51k11i$kd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net>? <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> On 09/09/96, "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: . . . . > >YES, ZIP is supported. Some people have trouble with the disk >which comes with the drive (firmware write protect??) but apparently >this can be fixed if you have access to a DOS/MAC which you can hook >the ZIP to... > >It should be plug&play, other than that.... > I have a ZIP drive, and have never had NS recognize it. Plug&play? Does that mean that I don't need to do anything more than Disk->Check for Disks? Or is there some configuration step I have yet to take? Thanks. -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: root@mathserv1.math.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: hard disk spinning down Date: 16 Sep 1996 14:56:30 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <51jpqu$mu2@news.doit.wisc.edu> On two occasions recently I have had my hard disk spin down wihout warning in the middle of doing something. Needless to say this crashed my system (wouldn't sync, etc). This has never happened before. The drive is a 2.9GB Seagate 43400N - I bought it refurbished from onsale.com earlier this year. I'm wondering if this could somehow be caused by the NeXT sending it a spin down command (does such a thing exist?) or is it the drive itself acting up, it is after all refurbished but its been fine till now? Oddly, this happened on both occasions while the drive was running (i.e. its not sticking when you try and spin up), it spun up fine after switching if off and waiting 15 minutes, and the weather has been cooler recently than all summer (i.e. I doubt its from overheating). Its in an external case and the fan is OK and power supply seems OK too (the drive spins down but doesn't turn off). All I can think is that the drive is for some reason overheating (why now?) and automatically spinning itself down. Do Seagate drives do this? Any other ideas? - Gareth
From: nospam@---see.real.addr.below (G Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:30:25 -0400 Organization: Hate junk mail, see real email address Message-ID: <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote: > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, > reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a > crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent > them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It > took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers > to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you. > > Ronin Good ! Here are some web references to dealing with junk email: http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~shawn/junkmail.html http://www.public.asu.edu/~dtopping/ojen.html http://www.metareality.com/~nathan/visit.cgi/html.JunkMail From the us gov: http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm "Recently, high-tech chain letters have begun surfacing. They may be disseminated over the Internet, or may require the copying and mailing of computer disks rather than paper. Regardless of what technology is used to advance the scheme, if the mail is used at any step along the way, it is still illegal. " Address questionable practices to : Postal Inspector Postoffice Your city, state -- gbrown@va.med.umich.edu -- real address
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960916153910.19015B-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:40:15 -0400 References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net>? <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> <51k11i$kd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> To: Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <51k11i$kd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 16 Sep 1996, Randy Jackson wrote: > Date: 16 Sep 1996 16:59:30 GMT > From: Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) > > On 09/09/96, "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > >YES, ZIP is supported. Some people have trouble with the disk > >which comes with the drive (firmware write protect??) but apparently > >this can be fixed if you have access to a DOS/MAC which you can hook > >the ZIP to... > > > >It should be plug&play, other than that.... > > > > I have a ZIP drive, and have never had NS recognize it. Plug&play? Does that > mean that I don't need to do anything more than Disk->Check for Disks? Or is > there some configuration step I have yet to take? I don't really know that much about it, I've got an EZ135, which worked immediately. I was saying this based on what I've heard on the newsgroups. Don't know what to suggest you try... TjL
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 16 Sep 1996 19:59:51 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> Hello, I've posted several times about this problem, have gotten several responses, but still haven't managed to find the solution... now I at least have a semi-decent way of inducing the problem. Our NEXTSTEP based web server (Apache 1.1.1) "pauses" from time to time. It simply goes to never-never-land and doesn't emerge for 30 seconds to 10 minutes. If I'm logged into a shell, I can move around... I can do "ls", but not "ls -al"... If I'm trying to log in, I'll connect, but the login prompt won't appear until the machine wakes up. This is running 3.3 w/ the patch. I've tried NCSA httpd w/ the same results. I have discovered that I can induce the problem *sometimes* by running netstat. In fact, if the server is getting a decent amount of traffic at the time I invoke netstat, I'm almost guaranteed a "hang"... Anyone have any idea where I should go from here? Thanks, John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Message-ID: <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 22:57:14 GMT >Our NEXTSTEP based web server (Apache 1.1.1) "pauses" from time to time. >It simply goes to never-never-land and doesn't emerge for 30 seconds to >10 minutes. If I'm logged into a shell, I can move around... I can do >"ls", but not "ls -al"... If I'm trying to log in, I'll connect, but the >login prompt won't appear until the machine wakes up. When I see this behavior, it is caused by a problem on the SCSI bus, usually a timeout. I know that in two ways: The "disk operating" light stays on solid on one of my external disk drives. And there is a message in either /tmp/console or /usr/adm/messages (or maybe both). -- Bob Cook (415) 926-2769 bobcook@slac.stanford.edu Stanford Linear Accelerator Center PGP public key: ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/bobcook/pgp.publickey
From: root@mathserv1.math.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Date: 16 Sep 1996 14:42:13 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <51jp05$3maa@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> In article <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> Sean Sun <sun@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> writes: > I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. > My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it into > two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the partition > is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk space back? I had something similar happen with my 2.9 GB drive - it got partitioned in halves automatically by BuildDisk into two approx 1.7GB drives (after formatting, etc). Instead, I wanted the largest 2GB partition possible and whatever was left over in the other one. I ended up writing a disktab for it and formatting the drive manually. Its not very hard, you just need to figure out the right number of block sizes to put in. Check NeXTanswers and search for "disktab" - they have a good example of one you can use as a template. BTW: NeXT - how about adding an option to BuildDisk for uxer- specified partition sizes rather than guessing? - Gareth
From: Roque_Jacobo Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pcnfs help Date: 16 Sep 1996 23:04:30 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <51kmdu$aql@BLaCKSMITH.com> Does anyone knows how to configure pcnfsd server on NeXT (3.3 or 4.0) and having NT as clients (like samba). Thank you in advance. Roque Jacobo rjacobo@balt.blacksmith.com
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:43:24 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MmDXdwa00WBOA6GpMj@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 16-Sep-96 NEXTSTEP's mysterious "paus.. by John Ray@bigmac.ag.ohio- > Our NEXTSTEP based web server (Apache 1.1.1) "pauses" from time to time. > It simply goes to never-never-land and doesn't emerge for 30 seconds to > 10 minutes. If I'm logged into a shell, I can move around... I can do > "ls", but not "ls -al"... If I'm trying to log in, I'll connect, but the > login prompt won't appear until the machine wakes up. This is running > 3.3 w/ the patch. I've tried NCSA httpd w/ the same results. > > I have discovered that I can induce the problem *sometimes* by running > netstat. In fact, if the server is getting a decent amount of traffic > at the time I invoke netstat, I'm almost guaranteed a "hang"... You are probably encountering some sort of delay involving DNS lookups through lookupd. Are you running BIND on this machine? If not, you should-- DNS lookups do better when there's a name server running locally. You might also want to disable reverse DNS lookups when logging if you have that enabled. You might further want to compile Apache using the libresolv.a library from the BIND distribution (pass a '-m' to ld to ignore the multiply referenced symbols)-- this would eliminate all (or at least most) of the interactions with NetInfo/lookupd. You might consider enabling logging of lookupd via the '-L' or '-l' options (consult "man lookupd") and checking whether there is a correspondance between "pauses" and lookup delays as seen in the logfile. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "GECA USER" <kettlr@gna.capital.ge.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Northern California Jobs Date: 16 Sep 1996 18:04:09 GMT Organization: GECA Message-ID: <01bba3fa$eb616240$f4c88303@temp1123.gna.capital.ge.com> Our firm needs an NT Administrator. The candidate needs to be a GURU/God and able to drill to to low level problems such as socket issues. On the mainframe side of our shop, we need COBOL, COBOL II, CICS/MVS, IMS, VSAM people. These positions are located in Northern California and are available ASAP. We offer flex scheduling, casual dress, competetive salaries, company bonus, 401K with matching and a great team environment. If interested, fax your resume in confidence to Ralph at (510)653-1209. CONTRACT POSITION If you know Access AND FileMaker Pro for Macintosh, lets talk. We have a small group of Mac users at our office (12-15 people) using filemaker. We want to get them over to a mainstream Windows based RDBMS. (I know Claris has a relational version of FileMaker for Windows 95, but I don't think we want to take that route.) This contract position is located in Northern California and is available ASAP. If interested, fax your resume in confidence to Ralph at (510)653-1209. Thanks! (By the way, we are not a search firm. We are the actual potential employer.)
From: cw028212@bcm.tmc.edu (C R Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 21:18:14 -0500 Organization: BCM Message-ID: <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> In article <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu (G Brown) wrote: > In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote: > > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... -snip- > > took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers > > to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you. > > > > Ronin > Good ! -snip again- > Address questionable practices to : > Postal Inspector > Postoffice > Your city, state You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy to have it. The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however. Charlie
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: hard disk spinning down Date: 17 Sep 1996 06:27:34 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <51lgcm$33c@nntp1.best.com> References: <51jpqu$mu2@news.doit.wisc.edu> <jbf-1709960123340001@news.tiac.net> In-Reply-To: <jbf-1709960123340001@news.tiac.net> On 09/16/96, James B. Frazer wrote: >> I'm wondering if this could somehow be caused by the NeXT sending it a >> spin down command (does such a thing exist?) > >I can't find such a command in the Seagate manuals, which are pretty >thorough. And it certainly doesn't happen with all drives. The SCSI command set does indeed include motor start (spin-up) and motor stop (spin down) commands but NeXTSTEP (and most other OSs) never send these as far as I know. >> All I can think is that the drive is for some reason overheating (why >> now?) and automatically spinning itself down. Do Seagate drives do this? > >It happens without overheating on boot, so that doesn't seem the most >likely explanation. It could certainly be a drive response to a detected >error, but this isn't documented. (There's no real reason it should be.) I have a dim memory that certain drives in this series had a bug in their SCSI firmware which would result in exactly the behavior you describe (inappropriate spin-down) under certain usage conditions. I believe the only fix was a BIOS upgrade or perhaps a logic-board swap. If this is a refurbished drive it may be grey market and not covered by warranty in which case you could be SOL. I'd suggest reposting your inquiry on comp.periphs.scsi. - Chris --
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP needed on ns 3.3 install on EIDE hd + cdrom Date: 17 Sep 1996 07:30:12 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <51lk24$29p@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> Hi, I tried to install 3.3 on my pentium triton-II system with a 3.2 GB quantum EIDE drive + a 8x Toshiba cdrom. I used the EIDE/ATAPI driver (v.3.34). Installation goes fine; then systems boots itself (normal), the config.app appears and allows me to inspect the driver settings (normal). When I save the settings, the hd does something and then the screen goes black and the systems appears to hang. Rebooting doesn't work then either, it says " can't find $LBL " (what does this mean ?). During the first boot, I can read somewhere a line saying "EIDE config error", maybe this is connected to the problem. The HD + CDROM are both connected to the first EIDE port (master+slave). I had the EIDE port 2 enabled in the BIOS. Can somebody give me useful advice ? This would be greatly appreciated :) Abraham. P.S.: also using - diamond stealth video 3240 card (S3 968 chip) _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Technical Mathematics & Informatics The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 78 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Date: 17 Sep 1996 10:39:01 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <51lv45$ao5@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net>? <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> <51k11i$kd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <51k11i$kd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 09/16/96, Randy Jackson wrote: > I have a ZIP drive, and have never had NS recognize it. Plug&play? Does > that mean that I don't need to do anything more than Disk->Check for Disks? > Or is there some configuration step I have yet to take? > Hmm -- I presume you plugged it in?! :-) I've never had any problems -- I just halted the machine, attached the cable, rebooted, and bingo... put a disk in and it shows up on the desktop a couple of seconds later. You might want to check out the Zip Drive Radical Solution on http://www.radical.com/ (there's a page on the Jaz as well). Many thanks to the chaps (in a gender-neutral sense of the word :-) at Radical for the info. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: hard disk spinning down Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:23:34 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-1709960123340001@news.tiac.net> References: <51jpqu$mu2@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <51jpqu$mu2@news.doit.wisc.edu>, bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > On two occasions recently I have had my hard disk spin down wihout warning > in the middle of doing something. Drive spin down seems to be normal for Seagate Hawks during boot on Suns and NeXTs. I've never been able to find out what causes it on this news group or from Seagate Tech Support. As I recall, you don't get spindown on NeXT unless it's the boot disk. So, to understand it, you would need to disassemble the boot code and see what's being sent to the disk. > I'm wondering if this could somehow be caused by the NeXT sending it a > spin down command (does such a thing exist?) I can't find such a command in the Seagate manuals, which are pretty thorough. And it certainly doesn't happen with all drives. > All I can think is that the drive is for some reason overheating (why > now?) and automatically spinning itself down. Do Seagate drives do this? It happens without overheating on boot, so that doesn't seem the most likely explanation. It could certainly be a drive response to a detected error, but this isn't documented. (There's no real reason it should be.) Barney
From: felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Felix Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:34:28 GMT Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich, Switzerland Message-ID: <51m2c4$l1r@elna.ethz.ch> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net>? <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> <51k11i$kd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <51lv45$ao5@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford (m.crawford@shef.ac.uk) wrote: > You might want to check out the Zip Drive Radical Solution on > http://www.radical.com/ > (there's a page on the Jaz as well). Unfortunately, the Jaz-page is still under construction :-( I hope I'll soon find some information there to get my drive to work. - Felix -- Felix Rauch, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. internet: felix@nice.ch (NeXT Mail welcome) Usenet-Rules: http://nice.ethz.ch/Usenet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gsl@netcom.com (Greg Lindholm) Subject: gnutar and SCSI tape Message-ID: <gslDxv18D.AAL@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 04:45:48 GMT Sender: gsl@netcom22.netcom.com I have NS/FIP 3.3 and a SCSI tapedrive 8mm. I try to backup the system using gnutar and I get an error message after a couple of minutes. gnutar: only wrote 10237 of 10240 bytes to /dev/rst0 What is strange is I can read tapes that I created earlier. My hard disk crashed and I had to reload the NS then restore everthing else from tape - this worked fine. Can anyone help? -- Greg Lindholm BlueSky Software gsl@netcom.com (NeXTMail & MIME happily accepted!) PGP 2.6 key available via finger. Fax: (805) 296-5928
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:04:55 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960917135335.18380C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> On 16 Sep 1996, John W. Wooten wrote: > > > Hi, > > > ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i create > > > one? > A RAM disk is something toy computers use when they don't know how to implement > swapping file systems. You can increase the number of memory buffers on NeXT > during boot. Memory management is one of the great things you get with UNIX, > Mach, or NeXTStep over the other toy systems. > Not true in general. Usually these 'toy computers' handled file systems much nicer than any UNIX does today (thinking about my beloved Amiga). The advantage of a RAM disk was to virtually have floppy disks available. These disk could be used to e.g. store programs on disk to RAM and get a much faster loading etc. One could also create floppy disk distributions much easier and faster than using real disks in the first place. UNIX never had these restrections, but there are other advantages of these virtuell disks (as a RAM disk is). A RAM disk is just a virtuell file system, which might reside either in memory (small size) or on disk. In either cases you have the advantage to use disk I/O on the disk. E.g. you could format your RAM disk to use 2048Byte blocks x sectors and y tracks, etc. Try building a CD-ROM under UNIX! You'll either have to find a program which converts your filesystem to a CD-ROM format (mkisofs) or use 'dd' to dump the filesystem to a single file Both options create a new 'CD-ROM' image file. The best option would be to get a drive which is formatable to 2048Bytes/sector and dump this drive directly to CD-ROM. With virtuell disks a'la RAM disks, you could virtually create filesystems on your harddrive and use this disk to handle your master. (Something like SoftPC does with harddisk files). Best regards, Bernhard.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Message-ID: <1996Sep17.104558.3626@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:45:58 GMT jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu wrote >Our NEXTSTEP based web server (Apache 1.1.1) "pauses" from time to time. >It simply goes to never-never-land and doesn't emerge for 30 seconds to >10 minutes. If I'm logged into a shell, I can move around... I can do >"ls", but not "ls -al"... If I'm trying to log in, I'll connect, but the >login prompt won't appear until the machine wakes up. This is running >3.3 w/ the patch. I've tried NCSA httpd w/ the same results. I have had the same problem when running NCSA httpd, and I believe I have traced it to lookupd. This is the daemon that handles lookup requests for various sorts of information (including the uid -> name mapping needed by ls -l). NeXT's lookupd is single-threaded and queued. Sometimes there are a lot of calls to the nameserver to try to resolve addresses (which will be the case if you are running a WWW server, or when you run netstat). Some of these calls take a long time (up to 1 minute or longer, for me, depending on your nameserver's default timeouts) and in the meantime, everything else must wait. NeXT: If you are listening.... Please give us a fully threaded version of lookupd! There is nothing worse than waiting several minutes to list a directory or open a terminal window. g. -- I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. ---Leo Tolstoy Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf@math.rochester.edu> http://www.cirp.org/~gtf/
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ISDN support for NeXTSTEP under Intel Date: 17 Sep 1996 13:46:14 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <51ma36$k1@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <dennis.842423390@bibo> <DxM6zE.3nH@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: > In article <dennis.842423390@bibo> dennis@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de (Dennis > Schulze) writes: > > > Hello, > > > > is there or will there be support for passive ISDN cards under > > NeXTSTEP so that I can make a rawip or PPP connection? Even > > non-professional systems like Linux support that now... > > > A clear no! Not unless you write your own driver package. A clear Yes! Just have a look into the new issue of NEXTTOYOU (out in a few days)... Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with authentification file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:17:38 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <51mbu2$k1@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <50p1qb$dou@avalon.imaginet.fr> <50ppmk$j2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <50uk8u$746@avalon.imaginet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rock It! <rnr@io.com> wrote: > Well thanks Uli! > I've passed this! You explanations are perfectly clear! (to the contrary of > the man pages...) I know... It took me some time to "translate" their version into mine ;-) > My secrets file was correct but I didn't put 'name username / remotename > ISPshortcut' in the options file... > > But now though I connect I can't go nowhere! It looks like I'm rejected... > This is the log: > ( I think that the authentification fails...) No, it's another line that shows your problem: > Sep 8 11:45:16 tupelo pppd[4306]: Serial line is looped back. Unfortunately I don't know the answer to this one right now as I never encountered it, but I do remember that it's a common problem that has nothing to do with authentification (it's something with the IP routing I think). Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Alexander Much <alex@gauss.franken.de> Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Message-ID: <x7n2yptjy4.fsf@gauss.franken.de> Organization: KNF KommunikationsNetz Franken e.V. References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:17:07 GMT jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) writes: > I've posted several times about this problem, have gotten several > responses, but still haven't managed to find the solution... now I at > least have a semi-decent way of inducing the problem. > [...] > > I have discovered that I can induce the problem *sometimes* by running > netstat. In fact, if the server is getting a decent amount of traffic > at the time I invoke netstat, I'm almost guaranteed a "hang"... > > Anyone have any idea where I should go from here? > I don't think the httpd causes this problem. Perhaps timeouts from lookupd? messages like: lookupd: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out -- Alex +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alexander Much Voice: +49-9131-207850Q | | alex@gauss.franken.de PGP-Key: finger much@mi.uni-erlangen.de | | <A HREF="http://www.franken.de/users/gauss/alexander/"> | | PGP: 2048/27AA0F71 FD90 F80A 1B58 F7B3 D8A3 D564 CA8B 409F | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:09:54 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <UmDfx2a00WBOE1c5M9@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 16-Sep-96 Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious ".. by Bob Cook@rhea.slac.stanf > When I see this behavior, it is caused by a problem on the SCSI bus, usually > a timeout. I know that in two ways: The "disk operating" light stays on > solid on one of my external disk drives. And there is a message in either > /tmp/console or /usr/adm/messages (or maybe both). You should have said that before-- it makes a difference. :-) To deal with SCSI problems, try (in order of difficulty): removing and reattaching _every_ connection verifying termination and termination power replacing old SCSI cables with shorter/newer/better cables (swap in other cables if you have them available, or else buy some new ones) swapping hard drives with other systems Make sure that all fans are working and that none of the drives get excessively hot. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:32:53 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <51mnc5$qef@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <1996Sep17.104558.3626@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> In article <1996Sep17.104558.3626@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) writes: > jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu wrote > >Our NEXTSTEP based web server (Apache 1.1.1) "pauses" from time to time. > >It simply goes to never-never-land and doesn't emerge for 30 seconds to > >10 minutes. If I'm logged into a shell, I can move around... I can do > > I have had the same problem when running NCSA httpd, and I believe > I have traced it to lookupd. This is the daemon that handles lookup > requests for various sorts of information (including the uid -> > name mapping needed by ls -l). > NeXT's lookupd is single-threaded and queued. Sometimes there are .. > NeXT: If you are listening.... Please give us a fully threaded > version of lookupd! There is nothing worse than waiting several > minutes to list a directory or open a terminal window. NEXT released a patch to NEXTSTEP-3.3 that fixes this (look at http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers for details). The one we use was called 3.3Intel68kPatch.pkg. Of course, it's different if you're using hppa or sparc. Our patched NS-3.3 functions as webserver nicely. -- 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: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:38:51 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960917135335.18380C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960917135335.18380C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Sep-96 Re: In-memory Filesystem un.. by Bernhard Scholz@informat >> A RAM disk is something toy computers use when they don't know how to >> implement swapping file systems. You can increase the number of memory >> buffers on NeXT during boot. Memory management is one of the great >> things you get with UNIX, Mach, or NeXTStep over the other toy systems. > > Not true in general. Prove it. > Usually these 'toy computers' handled file systems > much nicer than any UNIX does today (thinking about my beloved Amiga). How so? > The advantage of a RAM disk was to virtually have floppy disks available. > These disk could be used to e.g. store programs on disk to RAM and get a > much faster loading etc. One could also create floppy disk distributions > much easier and faster than using real disks in the first place. RAM disks are only "much faster" under operating systems without demand-paged VM, like MS-DOS et cetera. A RAM disk is the rough equivalent of wiring down physical memory pages under a virtual-memory system for a user-selectable filespace (whatever the user decides to put on the RAM disk). However, systems with good VM already understand how to cache physical disk blocks into RAM based on current memory usage and smart selection algorithms like LRU, and they almost always use a given amount memory more efficiently than you'd get by dedicating it as a RAM disk. RAM disks of meaningful size generally _reduce_ performance under systems with good VM systems because they reduce the amount of physical RAM available to the paging system. > UNIX never had these restrections, but there are other advantages of these > virtuell disks (as a RAM disk is). A RAM disk is just a virtuell file > system, which might reside either in memory (small size) or on disk. A "RAM disk" that does not reside in memory is a contradiction in terms. Ditto for "virtual disks" or "virtual filesystems" which resides on a physical device. What you've said here cannot possibly make sense. > In either cases you have the advantage to use disk I/O on the disk. E.g. > you could format your RAM disk to use 2048Byte blocks x sectors and y > tracks, etc. And what good does that do? Changing the block size on a physical hard drive (or other physical device) has a meaningful effect because it changes the number of sectors and sector prologues (hence, the total volume available, and the number of low-level "read-a-sector" operations available, and it interacts with rotational latency when doing non-sequential operations). Varying the "sector size" on a RAM disk should make no meaningful difference whatsoever, unless the RAM disk implementation is broken. > Try building a CD-ROM under UNIX! You'll either have to find a program > which converts your filesystem to a CD-ROM format (mkisofs) or use 'dd' to > dump the filesystem to a single file Both options create a new 'CD-ROM' > image file. That's correct. > The best option would be to get a drive which is formatable to > 2048Bytes/sector and dump this drive directly to CD-ROM. With virtuell > disks a'la RAM disks, you could virtually create filesystems on your > harddrive and use this disk to handle your master. (Something like SoftPC > does with harddisk files). Unless you have a machine with 600+ MB of RAM, you cannot create a RAM disk large enough to hold the entire CD_ROM image. -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: ensuing@netcom.com (Ensuing Technologies) Subject: How to make intel box auto reboot on panic Message-ID: <ensuingDxw4v7.Iz6@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:01:55 GMT Sender: ensuing@netcom13.netcom.com stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket I'm running a NeXTSTEP Intel box as a PPP server between home and work. Occasionally the Intel box at work panics, and becomes unusable from remote. How can I set the Intel box to reboot automatically when it panics? Thanks for any info
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Multiple filesystem types under NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917180531.11102F-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:07:00 -0400 References: <xkt4tkybi3u.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> To: Jean-Henri Duteau <jeand@myrias.com> In-Reply-To: <xkt4tkybi3u.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > I'll be running NS3.3. Should I use the DOS partition as the > multiple-readable partition? Can NS read DOS partitions? (Having no > white-NS experience I wouldn't know.) Or does NS have support for > reading something like ext2fs systems? NeXTStep can read DOS disks, so I would assume that it could read partitions as well. However, that might not help because the Unix sources might not fit in that awful 8.3 filenames... your .sig is a little long... TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Running BIND locally (was: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"...) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917181342.11102G-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:15:26 -0400 References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> <MmDXdwa00WBOA6GpMj@andrew.cmu.edu> To: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <MmDXdwa00WBOA6GpMj@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've been toying with this idea lately because when I've got my PPP running it seems to do tons better with IP addresses than hostnames (which I assume means the extra time is doing DNS lookups). Can anyone tell me how complex this is to setup? Anyone have a guide/ their notes? Where's the latest version of BIND? Thanks! TjL
From: di804@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mario Stargard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pcnfs help Date: 17 Sep 1996 12:48:13 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Sender: di804@freenet2.carleton.ca (Mario Stargard) Message-ID: <51m6md$mjm@freenet-news.carleton.ca> References: <51kmdu$aql@BLaCKSMITH.com> (Roque_Jacobo) writes: > Does anyone knows how to configure pcnfsd server on NeXT (3.3 or 4.0) and > having NT as clients (like samba). > > Thank you in advance. > > Roque Jacobo > rjacobo@balt.blacksmith.com nfs and smb (samba) are different protocols. pcnfs gets started in rc.local (or a similar suitable place). Samba requires you to get the source, compile and install the software. If someone's nice, they might let you have some binaries. SMB is what Microsoft's systems like to use. NFS is what's been around on unix for some years. I recommend that if you want to have MS systems communicate with a unix box, make server side changes, ie. install Samba on the unix box. There's less to maintain that way. Cheers, Mario -- Mario Stargard | It is easy to filter email Patents Examiner | using unix shells. Canadian Intellectual Property Office | Visit comp.unix.shell 819 997 4643 | Just say no to mass email!
From: Bryce Coxhead <bryce@empire.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multiple IP Addresses Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:21:23 +1100 Organization: Empire Ridge Message-ID: <323F3273.4E81@empire.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We're running NS 3.2 and an http server on black hardware, and in order to provide some extra services without doubling up on hardware we'd like to take advantage of the virtual host support that our software offers. Problem is this: It requires multiple ip addresses (on the one interface in this case) to differentiate which configuration will handle a given request and I can't seem to find any information on how to apply a second address to the built-in interface. Perhaps this isn't possible? Any experiences/suggestions etc would be appreciated... TIA ./bryce BTW: Yes, I am aware that I could run two servers on different ports, but I'd prefer to use this as a last resort in this case. -- ............................................................................ : mailto:bryce@empire.com.au : : :.......................................:"I don't take food from clowns...": : Empire Ridge Pty Ltd :..................................: : Ph +61 3 96964388 Fax +61 3 96964626 : : : mailto:info@empire.com.au : Improve your life. Ride a ZX-9R : : http://www.empireridge.com.au/ : : :.......................................:..................................:
From: mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 17 Sep 1996 18:11:03 GMT Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Message-ID: <51mpjn$kni@alpha1.auspex.com> References: <1996Sep17.104558.3626@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> In article <1996Sep17.104558.3626@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) writes: > NeXT: If you are listening.... Please give us a fully threaded > version of lookupd! There is nothing worse than waiting several > minutes to list a directory or open a terminal window. > Upgrade to OS4.0/Mach. The lookupd is completely rewritten, very powerful, completely customizable, and very cool. Oh, and multithreaded. :) - Mark -- Mark Dadgar - Systems Engineer - Auspex Systems - http://www.auspex.com mark_dadgar@auspex.com - (408) 986-2429 (office) - (408) 980-0121 (fax) "I had nothing on but the radio" - Marilyn Monroe, on modeling NeXTMail and MIME happily accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Message-ID: <Dxw96A.1JC@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:34:58 GMT In article <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Bob Cook > <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> writes: > >Our NEXTSTEP based web server (Apache 1.1.1) "pauses" from time > >to time. It simply goes to never-never-land and doesn't emerge > >for 30 seconds to 10 minutes. If I'm logged into a shell, I > >can move around... I can do "ls", but not "ls -al"... If I'm > >trying to log in, I'll connect, but the login prompt won't appear > >until the machine wakes up. > > When I see this behavior, it is caused by a problem on the SCSI > bus, usually a timeout. I know that in two ways: The "disk > operating" light stays on solid on one of my external disk drives. > And there is a message in either /tmp/console or /usr/adm/messages > (or maybe both). > Most likely the problem is associated with the known lookup deamon (mis)behaviour. In cases the lookup deamon can't get a timely response from a parent NetInfo domain or a DNS or NIS server it locks up the system (due to its single threaded implementation) and, matter of factly, becomes a lockup deamon :-) The NS 3.3 patch and OS/Mach versions should mend this misbehaviour. -- 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: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 18 Sep 1996 02:40:30 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes > RAM disks are only "much faster" under operating systems without > demand-paged VM, like MS-DOS et cetera. Maybe so, maybe not - without a set of benchmarks to point at, we've got no basis for measurement... > A RAM disk is the rough equivalent of wiring down physical memory > pages under a virtual-memory system for a user-selectable filespace > (whatever the user decides to put on the RAM disk). However, systems > with good VM already understand how to cache physical disk blocks into > RAM based on current memory usage and smart selection algorithms like > LRU, and they almost always use a given amount memory more efficiently > than you'd get by dedicating it as a RAM disk. > > RAM disks of meaningful size generally _reduce_ performance under > systems with good VM systems because they reduce the amount of > physical RAM available to the paging system. That's assuming that paging activity is your performance bottleneck - a very likely occurence of demand-paged systems, but not a sure thing. One of the big uses of RAM disks on the systems that support them is as a crutch for software that's too stupid to use the VM system correctly. Scripting languages are a good example of this. If you have a program that performs lots of small writes to the filesystem interleaved with many small reads, you might find that the file system caching performance ain't so great. In one set of benchmarks I performed on a system using a 500KB file for communicating between two programs, a dedicated ramdisk beat out a dedicated disk cache handily. The cache certainly helped the read operation, but the initial write was the killer... One of these days, when I have a little too much time on my hands, I'll have to try whipping up a ram disk driver for NEXTSTEP... -Mark -- Mark Bessey NeXT Software, Inc Software Quality Assurance -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gsl@netcom.com (Greg Lindholm) Subject: Re: gnutar and SCSI tape Message-ID: <gslDxwpKr.M07@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <gslDxv18D.AAL@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:29:15 GMT Sender: gsl@netcom19.netcom.com Here is some more data: I've tried 3 different tapes. I've cleaned the drive twice. I can write to it with cpio. The command I used was... $ su # cd / # gnutar -cv . Greg Lindholm (gsl@netcom.com) wrote: : I have NS/FIP 3.3 and a SCSI tapedrive 8mm. : I try to backup the system using gnutar and I get an error message : after a couple of minutes. : gnutar: only wrote 10237 of 10240 bytes to /dev/rst0 : What is strange is I can read tapes that I created earlier. : My hard disk crashed and I had to reload the NS then restore : everthing else from tape - this worked fine. : Can anyone help? -- Greg Lindholm BlueSky Software gsl@netcom.com (NeXTMail & MIME happily accepted!) PGP 2.6 key available via finger. Fax: (805) 296-5928
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 17 Sep 1996 22:21:58 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <51n8a6$ek@marsu.navigator.de> References: <51cg6a$1pq8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <51fo24$70g@ralph.vnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: roland@telf.com In <51fo24$70g@ralph.vnet.net> Roland Telfeyan wrote: > Konstantin Wiesel writes > > Hi, > > ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i > create > > one? > > If you're really serious, you could buy SCSI devices that emulate hard > disks, but are really RAM. Yeah, and solid state disks cost a serious amount of money... -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CGI...How can it be done? Date: 17 Sep 1996 22:24:00 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <51n8e0$ek@marsu.navigator.de> References: <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: nielsen_maa@ccsu.ctstateu.edu In <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> Dark Jedi MAN wrote: > I'm trying to get CGI to work on our NeXTSTEP machines but > apparently I don't have all the info on how this to be done. Any info on > this subject mailed to me would be helpful. There's a good book from O'Reilly about CGI programming. It mainly aims at perl programming under Unix, and Nextstep makes no difference here from any other Unix. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DxvvwJ.3M2@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:48:19 GMT References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.slac.stanford.edu>, Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> wrote: >>Our NEXTSTEP based web server (Apache 1.1.1) "pauses" from time to time. >>It simply goes to never-never-land and doesn't emerge for 30 seconds to >>10 minutes. If I'm logged into a shell, I can move around... I can do >>"ls", but not "ls -al"... If I'm trying to log in, I'll connect, but the >>login prompt won't appear until the machine wakes up. > >When I see this behavior, it is caused by a problem on the SCSI bus, usually >a timeout. I know that in two ways: The "disk operating" light stays on >solid on one of my external disk drives. And there is a message in either >/tmp/console or /usr/adm/messages (or maybe both). > It can also be caused by the doofus lookupd, which goes spastic on some occasions and refuses new lookup requests because it's single-threaded. If you're running 3.3 the patch from NeXTanswers changes this behaviour. -- 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: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 17 Sep 1996 22:32:32 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.843024483@shellx> References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> <DxvvwJ.3M2@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > It can also be caused by the doofus lookupd, which goes spastic on some >occasions and refuses new lookup requests because it's single-threaded. If >you're running 3.3 the patch from NeXTanswers changes this behaviour. To clarify, everyone is saying you need the patch when I think what they mean is the patch to the 3.3 patch... It's just a little post-install script. Sorry I don't have the NeXTanswers # handy, but it isn't too tough to find. Hope that solves your problem. -sam
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Booting from non startup disk Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:57:22 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <323FF1B2.15FB@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Problem: I have a Pentium based system with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller which has OPENSTEP 4.0 installed on a second disk. I have a boot manager that boots of this disk but when the boot manager of NeXTSTEP starts then it looks for the first disk rsd0a to boot from. Is it possible to configure the next bootmanager to boot from rsd1a instead of rsd0a. I can type sd(1,)mach_kernel and it works but I would like to boot automatically without any keyboard commands. Does anyone know if it is possible to change the configuration setup for the boot manager one a second NeXT disk. Please email if possible. 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: Kevin Behrooz <behrooz@nscl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Boot fails after installing network card Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:36:24 +0000 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I changed the network card, installed the driver, etc. on a Intel based NeXt, but now it does not boot. Since it does not boot, I can't go back to the original config. because it does not boot. I can boot to single user mode, but don't know what to do next. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated. Kevin Behrooz
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Running BIND locally (was: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"...) Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:02:50 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <51p2ur$10b9@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> <MmDXdwa00WBOA6GpMj@andrew.cmu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917181342.11102G-100000@charisma> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: : I've been toying with this idea lately because when I've got my PPP : running it seems to do tons better with IP addresses than hostnames : (which I assume means the extra time is doing DNS lookups). My advice is not to bother. I got very decent performance by a) setting a proxy server, and b) adding the proxyservers name and IP number to the netinfo database. Or simply give the proxy server address as IP number. You'll have no unnecessary DNS lookups anymore. Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:41:16 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <51mdac$ftu@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> John W. Wooten (woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov) wrote: : In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. : [...] : A RAM disk is something toy computers use when they don't know how to : implement swapping file systems. You can increase the number of memory : buffers on NeXT during boot. Memory management is one of the great : things you get with UNIX, Mach, or NeXTStep over the other toy systems. Although I like a non-toy OS too :-), I wouldn't put away with a RAM disk device so soon as most of the times it is still faster than a mechanical disk (although this could be argued about), but it certainly can help to prevent fragmentation of a file system if you redirect short temporary or intermediate files to it. So it can still be a nice feature to have. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: gtaylor@msn.fullfeed.com (Gregory Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: JAZ disk Date: 18 Sep 1996 09:24:37 -0500 Organization: FullFeed Communications (Internet +1.608.246.2701 info) Message-ID: <51p0n5$5g9@fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> In that little folder thing that no one reads that comes with the drive, it says that the disk which comes with the JAZ drive (i.e., the first one you have, unless you order additional blank ones) is write protected, and you've gotta clear it off using the software (or using another JAZ drive on a friend's machine). The rest of the install stuff (and the sdform) went flawlessly. I don't think you'll have that trouble with a newly bought blank cartridge. -- The arts are the field on which we place our own dreams, thoughts, and desires alongside those of others, so that solitudes can meet, to their joy sometimes, or to their surprise, and sometimes to their disgust.(R. Hughes) Gregory Taylor WORT-FM 89.9 Madison, Wisconsin http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~gtaylor/RTQE.html
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CGI...How can it be done? Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:18:04 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <51p3rc$o3i@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> <51n8e0$ek@marsu.navigator.de> In-Reply-To: <51n8e0$ek@marsu.navigator.de> In <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> Dark Jedi MAN wrote: > I'm trying to get CGI to work on our NeXTSTEP machines but... If you want to write forms etc in Perl, I've been very impressed with Lincoln Stein's CGI.PM library. Stein has written an OOP-style CGI function set in Perl, and it makes writing good forms a snap. Here's the URL: http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/cgi_docs.html -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: popper? Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:55:08 GMT Organization: Interport Communications Corp. Message-ID: <51p60s$okv@park.interport.net> Are there any POP servers out there for NeXT machines running NextStep 3.3 that I could download? Thanks. Shourav udas@northstar.com
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:50:26 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <51p5o2$q63@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <1996Sep17.104558.3626@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <51mpjn$kni@alpha1.auspex.com> mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) wrote: > In article <1996Sep17.104558.3626@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> > gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) writes: > > NeXT: If you are listening.... Please give us a fully threaded > > version of lookupd! There is nothing worse than waiting several > > minutes to list a directory or open a terminal window. > Upgrade to OS4.0/Mach. The lookupd is completely rewritten, very > powerful, completely customizable, and very cool. Oh, and multithreaded. But it can't be restarted without rebooting, so if you need to use more than 1 set of nameservers specified in different resolv.conf files, you should probably stick with NS 3.3 until NeXT releases a fix which I'm confident they will. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: RADIUS on NS ????????? Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:12:44 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <51p71s$q1@scsing.switch.ch> Hello there Is there someone who compiled RADIUS on NS3.3 or 4.0 ?? -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CYBERLaB NeTWORK<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< lionel@cyberlab.ch (MiME & NeXTmail WELCOME !!) Tel: +41 (0)21 623.66.10 http://www.cyberlab.ch Fax: +41 (0)21 626.40.00 Ask for or my PGP public key ------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
From: abf@rednsi.com (Andres Bustos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ifconfig problems Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:49:11 GMT Organization: NEXUS, Servicios Informacion Message-ID: <51p967$27i@artemis.ibernet.es> I try to configure more than 10 interfaces (ppp0,ppp1,...pp10,ppp11,...) for virtual hosting, but ifconfig only recognizes up to ppp9. I've tried with PPP LKS and with ps_if, compiling them for working with more than 10 interfaces, they seem to install well, but when I configure ppp10 (or ps10) it modifies ppp1 (or ps1). What's the problem? Please, help. Thanks in advance, -- AndrÝs Bustos - abf@rednsi.com ------------------------------------ NEXUS Servicios de Informaciín, s.l. http://www.rednsi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960918143452.00693a8c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:34:52 +0200 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Subject: JAZ? Hello I have a Jaz drive but I cannot format new Dos cartrige in NeXTStep filesystem. I have NeXTSTEP 3.3, and the cartrige is not the JazTools but a new DOS cartrige. - Micropolis 2GB ID 0 - NEC CD-ROM ID 1 - Jaz Drive ID 2 (iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1) - HP 1GB ID 3 - Controller Adaptec 1542CF ID 7 I added the following disktab entry to the file /etc/disktab: (Nextanswers 2154) IOMEGAJAZ-1G!iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1!iomega jaz 1GB G.60!iomega jaz 1GB!iomega jaz!jaz 1GB!jaz1GB!jaz:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ :fp#160:bp#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: I used the disk command to initialize Jaz disk: localhost:1# disk -i -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G /dev/rsd2a disk name: IOMEGAJAZ-1G disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: insufficient space in super block for rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2. File system performance may be impaired. cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1) then I used the sdform command to format the disk: localhost:2# sdform /dev/rsd2a device = /dev/rsd2a block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes ***FORMATTING THIS DISK CAUSES ALL DISK DATA TO BE LOST*** This will take approximately 34 minutes. Do you wish to proceed? (Y/anything) y Format Aborted When I Initialize the disk from Workspace (NeXTstep filesystem): probing for DOS probing for CDROM probing for mac probing for cdaudio /usr/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "Various_Stuff" -d 1070610432 /dev/rsd2a disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: insufficient space in super block for rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2. File system performance may be impaired. cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1) But if I Initialize the disk from Workspace (Macintosh filesystem): probing for DOS probing for CDROM probing for mac probing for cdaudio /usr/filesystems/mac.fs/mac.util -i sd2 "Various_Stuff" removable -d 2 device = /dev/rsd2h block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes Disk Format in progress... ***Format Complete*** probing for DOS probing for CDROM probing for mac Sep 13 21:09:19 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /Various_Stuff After if I use this commands: localhost:1# disk -F /dev/rsd2a disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1 disk type: removable_rw_scsi device = /dev/rsd2a block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes Disk Format in progress... ***Format Complete*** localhost:2# disk -l Various_Stuff -i /dev/rsd2a disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: insufficient space in super block for rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2. File system performance may be impaired. cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1) localhost:3# I tried also: localhost:2# disk -q /dev/rsd2h no label on disk localhost:3# disk -q /dev/rsd2a no label on disk localhost:4# disk -F /dev/rsd2a disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1 disk type: removable_rw_scsi device = /dev/rsd2a block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes Disk Format in progress... ***Format Complete*** localhost:5# disk -l Various_Stuff -i -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G /dev/rsd2a disk name: IOMEGAJAZ-1G disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: insufficient space in super block for rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2. File system performance may be impaired. cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1) localhost:6# When boot there are these messages on video (NO cartrige on jaz): - * - Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: sd2: iomega jaz 1GB G.60 Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 2 LUN 0 at sc0 Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: Registering: sd2a Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: sd2: Waiting for drive to come ready.............. Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: sd2: Disk Not Ready - * - I DON'T WANT to use Dos or Macintosh filesystem: the fist has not long filenames the second has a bug when you have deep directory tree (this is on NeXT Hardware digest Number 1034). How can I format a Jaz cartrige in NeXTstep filesystem? I have purchased the drive because I would use it like Backup, and I would use the same drive and the backup cartrige when I upgrade to Openstep for Mach (NeXTSTEP 4.0); I heard this is impossible: cartrige formatted in NeXTSTEP 3.3 is unreadible on NeXTSTEP 4.0 I hope is not true. Have somebody experience on this. Thanks in advance. ************************************************************************ * Zanitti Leo * * Viale Regina Elena, 299 * * I-00161 ROME * * * * TEL +39 6 82.09.70.77 * * TEL +39 6 49.90.24.10 * * E-Mail: zleo@istsan.interbusiness.it * ************************************************************************
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:15:55 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-1809961218520001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> References: <jray-1609961602470001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> <2rrao2131x.fsf@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> <DxvvwJ.3M2@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <sams.843024483@shellx> In article <sams.843024483@shellx>, sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) wrote: > dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > > It can also be caused by the doofus lookupd, which goes spastic on some > >occasions and refuses new lookup requests because it's single-threaded. If > >you're running 3.3 the patch from NeXTanswers changes this behaviour. > > To clarify, everyone is saying you need the patch when I think > what they mean is the patch to the 3.3 patch... It's just > a little post-install script. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. I've installed the patch and run the script - back when I first installed 3.3. In fact, I've uninstalled the patch and reinstalled it to make sure... Doesn't make any difference... Watching the lookupd log file, I see the bottleneck in: gethostbyaddr That procedure "hangs" for periods up to 50000+ ms - it seems to happen quite regularly, as well. --- John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Re: HELP! Boot fails after installing network card Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <960918111812.410AAFcF.magnus@darwin> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:18:12 GMT > From: Kevin Behrooz <behrooz@nscl.msu.edu> > Subject: HELP! Boot fails after installing network card > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:36:24 +0000 > Reply-To: behrooz@nscl.msu.edu > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > > Hello all, > > I changed the network card, installed the driver, etc. on a > Intel based NeXt, but now it does not boot. Since it does not > boot, I can't go back to the original config. because it does not > boot. I can boot to single user mode, but don't know what to do > next. This is probably because your machine is configured to be a stand-alone Internet host (i.e. has an IP address, router, etc.). An NS/Intel system configured this way will not boot multi-user without a network card (various NetInfo related things hang). It seems to me that this is a bug that could be fixed by mucking with the rc* scripts, but I don't know how. A work- around is to boot single user, and # cd /etc # mv hostconfig hostconfig.tmp # mv netinfo netinfo.tmp # cp -p /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig . # cp -pr /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo . # shutdown -r now Your machine will now boot (as "localhost") and you can get your network card working. Once it works, restore your original configuration by reversing the above actions and reboot. The usual caveat applies: This works for me. It is, however, not dangerous because it can easily be reversed. -Magnus --- Magnus Nordborg Department of Ecology & Evolution The University of Chicago 1101 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637-1573 USA magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME) +1.312.702-1093 phone (lab) +1.312.667-5331 phone (home) +1.312.702-9740 fax
From: csmith@gmu.edu (Christian Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 09:51:10 -0500 Organization: Never in my life Message-ID: <csmith-1509960951420001@192.0.2.1> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, there is something that YOU can do about this. Every time you see one of these scam letters, send it to postamster@where.ever.it.came.from.com Also, use Internic to get the admin contact for the domain that the email came from and send it to them. Generally these people will tell the user not to do this again. If they continue they will generally loose their email account. In article <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca>, jgriffin@spectranet.ca (John Griffin) wrote: > In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote: > > >Ronin wrote: > >> > >> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... > >> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the > >> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, > >> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a > >> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent > >> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. > > > >This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely > >having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that > >one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do > >not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have > >committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself. > > > > Well I for one think it is a very courageous thing to do!!! > > I think we should all vote Ronin a vote of thanks. It¹s about time someone > did something to rid the Internet of this kind of crap! These assholes are > using the Internet like a buzzard uses the desert. To them it is an > invitation to get whatever they can for the least amount of effort or > money. > > Surely there is something that the common plain-vanilla Internet user can > do in collective effort to rid the net of these preditors! > > John G. > ________________________________________________________ > | John and | jgriffin@spectranet.ca | > | Valerie | jgriffin@astral.magic.ca | > | Griffin | johnweg@aol.com | > |--------------------------------------------------------| > | "Still Point" | It's Not To Late... | > | Moffat Ontario Canada | To have a Happy Childhood | > --------------------------------------------------------
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:50:51 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mE2Vf200WBO02ZLQF@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> In-Reply-To: <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Sep-96 Re: In-memory Filesystem un.. by Mark Bessey@next.com > Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes >> RAM disks are only "much faster" under operating systems without >> demand-paged VM, like MS-DOS et cetera. > > Maybe so, maybe not - without a set of benchmarks to point at, we've got > no basis for measurement... Certainly. I won't argue against the value of real-world benchmarking. However, we don't have a specified real-world configuration-- we're all talking generalities. In general, then, RAM disks are valuable under MS-DOS and that ilk, and are not terribly useful for systems with demand-paged VM. >> A RAM disk is the rough equivalent of wiring down physical memory >> pages under a virtual-memory system for a user-selectable filespace >> (whatever the user decides to put on the RAM disk). However, systems >> with good VM already understand how to cache physical disk blocks into >> RAM based on current memory usage and smart selection algorithms like >> LRU, and they almost always use a given amount memory more efficiently >> than you'd get by dedicating it as a RAM disk. >> >> RAM disks of meaningful size generally _reduce_ performance under >> systems with good VM systems because they reduce the amount of >> physical RAM available to the paging system. > > That's assuming that paging activity is your performance bottleneck - a > very likely occurence of demand-paged systems, but not a sure thing. Sure. If you've got a system which has tons of RAM and can fit the working sets of all the tasks currently active _and_ still have room left over for the RAM disk, than adding a RAM disk wouldn't negatively impact the performance of the active tasks. However, if you've got a system with loads of RAM, you can also increase the memory usage of some of the processes (say by memory-mapping files, or creating large SysV shared memory regions [or Mach messages, or whatever other metaphor for shared memory/IPC you'd like]) and be able to use that "unused" RAM better than you could by hard-wiring it into a RAM disk. > One of the big uses of RAM disks on the systems that support them is as > a crutch for software that's too stupid to use the VM system correctly. > Scripting languages are a good example of this. If you have a program > that performs lots of small writes to the filesystem interleaved with > many small reads, you might find that the file system caching > performance ain't so great. You're describing a classic cause for thrashing. If NeXT provided support for developers to create their user-level pagers (*), the program would be able to manage the set of pages provided to it by the operating system significantly better than the default system pager does. Heck, even providing a mechanism for a task to indicate that it is going to perform anomalous VM activity (eg, a LISP or Java interpreter performing garbage collection) would help a lot. > In one set of benchmarks I performed on a system using a 500KB file for > communicating between two programs, a dedicated ramdisk beat out a > dedicated disk cache handily. The cache certainly helped the read > operation, but the initial write was the killer... That's believable, since using an intermediate file for IPC is a pretty inefficient design. If you tried one of the real IPC mechanisms I mentioned above (like Mach messaging, or SysV shared memory, etc), I'd bet you could communicate significantly faster than the RAM disk. I'd be interested in seeing someone come up with a real-world scenario where a system would perform better using physical memory for a RAM disk instead of using physical memory controlled by user-level pagers to provide IPC and manage the resident sets. > One of these days, when I have a little too much time on my hands, I'll > have to try whipping up a ram disk driver for NEXTSTEP... That would be cool. However, providing a means for the outside world to create user-level pagers would be far more useful, IMHO. CMU's version of Mach 2.5 provided that support; in fact, that was one of the two major improvements from Mach 2.0 to Mach 2.5, and the other was support for NFS. I've never understood why NeXT incorperated NFS without supporting EMM and user-level pagers. --------- (*): In fact, user-level pagers are _supposed_ to be used to memory-map files, databases, or even hardware devices like a disk drive; and to provide an IPC communication mechanism for shared memory and distributed shared memory. (From "Programming Under Mach", Boykin et al, p282, ISBN 0-201-52739-1.) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: mouser@zercom.net (Martin-Gilles Lavoie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:50:00 GMT Organization: Groupimage, inc. Message-ID: <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> In article <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1>, cw028212@bcm.tmc.edu (C R Wright) wrote: [snip] > You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to > even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal > Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the > matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy > to have it. > > The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they > originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes > are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A > polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best > course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal > addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however. > Postage is also not necessary if mailing to a canadian post office within Canada. Also, such pyramid schemes and chain letters (and any derivative of such) are also illegal in Canada. I beleive that the US and Canada cooperate on such issues, so reporting a canadian chain letter to a US post office (vice et versa) does some good. We're a bit behind though, as far as electronic mail is concerned, and am not aware of particular policies regarding uncolicited e-mail (though, this does not mean there is no policy on this issue). One thing for sure, US and CANADA residents can fight toguetter on this. -- Martin-Gilles Lavoie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: popper? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960918140819.29624H-100000@charisma> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:08:54 -0400 References: <51p60s$okv@park.interport.net> To: Shourav Udas <udas@northstar.com> In-Reply-To: <51p60s$okv@park.interport.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I think is what you want: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/PopOver.v1.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz TjL On 18 Sep 1996, Shourav Udas wrote: > Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:55:08 GMT > From: Shourav Udas <udas@northstar.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: popper? > > Are there any POP servers out there for NeXT machines running NextStep 3.3 > that I could download? > > Thanks. > > Shourav > udas@northstar.com > > >
From: pln@egret1.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Driver DPT 2012 not configured Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:23:47 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <51pb73$d79@nntp.Stanford.EDU> We had a power failure last night, and our 486 with NS 3.2 won't boot. I think these are the relevant lines from the screen: class 'DPT 2012Version' not linked into application<3> WARNING: driver DPT 2012 uses incompatible DriverKit version 310 Driver DPT 2012 not configured <stuff omitted> panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root <stuff omitted> Kernel panic exception (6,3,1) I'm working on the assumption that some important information on the disk got corrupted. Can anyone tell me what it is? I can see a couple of possibilities here. 1. Complete re-installation of the operating system from scratch. 2. Add in a 200 MB disk that I have sitting around; install NS on it and boot; try to repair current disk somehow. What do you think? -- * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 * * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) * * Stanford University *
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:37:50 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Distribution: world Message-ID: <51pc1e$sr9@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <51p5o2$q63@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <51p5o2$q63@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> you wrote: > mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) wrote: > > Upgrade to OS4.0/Mach. The lookupd is completely rewritten, very > > powerful, completely customizable, and very cool. Oh, and multithreaded. > But it can't be restarted without rebooting, so if you need to use more 'kill -HUP <lookupd_pid>' no longer results in a restart in OS4.0/Mach as in NS3.3? -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: mouser@zercom.net (Martin-Gilles Lavoie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: 17 Sep 1996 12:15:09 GMT Organization: Groupimage, inc. Message-ID: <mouser-1709960815230001@204.191.6.170> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca> In article <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca>, jgriffin@spectranet.ca (John Griffin) wrote: > In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote: > > >Ronin wrote: > >> > >> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... [...] > Surely there is something that the common plain-vanilla Internet user can > do in collective effort to rid the net of these preditors! I was told by an internet provider that one of his custommers did something like this (newsgroup spamming). The root@... account received *hundreds* of quoted replies, enough to get the user kicked out after zero warning. The users' name, address, and various coordinates where also kept in a database for futur reference. Apparently, local internet providers keep a list of undesirable users. Whenever I get unsolicited e-mail, I always end-up replying to the sende'rs root@... account. I'm never certain it works, but it leaves me with an impression that I'm doing something about it. -- Martin-Gilles Lavoie
From: shess@tundra.winternet.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:28:26 -0500 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@tundra.winternet.com Message-ID: <acsp8fikcl.fsf@tundra.winternet.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960917135335.18380C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> In-reply-to: Charles William Swiger's message of Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:38:51 -0400 In article <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: RAM disks are only "much faster" under operating systems without demand-paged VM, like MS-DOS et cetera. The one case I can think of where a RAM filesystem wins even on a decent OS (define "Decent OS" as "UNIX" in this case) is when you are working with a large number of temporary files. In that case, the overhead of updating the directory entries for files which only last for a couple seconds can be a significant concern. My understanding of Unix is that this is pretty core. It's unlikely that Unix will ever aquire the ability to short-circuit the directory entry creation/deletion overhead for files which don't last long. The problem is that you are then taking risks with files which _should_ last longer. A RAM based filesystem also has the directory entry overhead, but said overhead is a couple orders of magnitude faster to execute ... I believe that Sun has a /tmp driver which writes large or long-lived files through to the filesystem, but keeps the rest in RAM. I have no idea where to look, though. [BTW, the only thing I do which would possibly be addressed by this would be compiling projects. I just use the -pipe option to gcc, which skips the problem entirely, at the cost of greater RAM usage, which was our entire point, right?] Later, -- scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/") Work: 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208 <I want to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: kzin@arcadia.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple filesystem types under NeXTStep Date: 18 Sep 1996 21:47:28 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <51pqlg$qjq@nuke.csu.net> References: <xkt4tkybi3u.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917180531.11102F-100000@charisma> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917180531.11102F-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: [] [] []> I'll be running NS3.3. Should I use the DOS partition as the []> multiple-readable partition? Can NS read DOS partitions? (Having no []> white-NS experience I wouldn't know.) Or does NS have support for []> reading something like ext2fs systems? [] []NeXTStep can read DOS disks, so I would assume that it could read []partitions as well. However, that might not help because the Unix []sources might not fit in that awful 8.3 filenames... [] Nextstep/Intel _CAN_ read Dos partitions. But I think it has a limit that only the first login of a session can read the first Dos partition of a hard drive (at least, that's a limitation MY system has.. I have 1 NS disk (420 mb) and one disk with 2 Dos partitions (240mb, used to be 100mb Dos, and 140mb OS/2, but I got rid of OS/2).. the first time I log in after booting up NS, I can see the 100mb dos partition, but the WorkspaceManager console says the second partition is "busy" and "fails" to mount it. If I log out and log back in, then I don't get _any_ dos partitions.. to get dos partitions back, I have to reboot). (Btw: I use NS3.3 right now.. If it's fixed in OS4.0, I don't know) John
From: teichner@alison.berkeley.edu (Peter Teichner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NeXTslab freezes Date: 18 Sep 1996 21:07:09 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <51po9t$fq5@agate.berkeley.edu> I recently purchased a NeXTslab, and the previous owner assures me that it was OK for the five years he owned it before selling it to me. However, in the last week or so (I've had it for about a month), the machine has started to lock-up at random moments. It may be related to TeX, but the machine locks COMPLETELY, and CMD-ALT-* is required to get any response from it. There are no messages in the console.log, no message in /usr/adm, and generally no indication whatsoever of what might be wrong. The machine is running user/developer 3.3; does anyone have any idea what might be affecting the machine and how it might be fixed? Thanks in advance, Peter Teichner teichner@math.berkeley.edu
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 18 Sep 1996 21:10:52 GMT Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE Message-ID: <51pogs$2th@darkstar.ucsc.edu> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> In article <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com>, Mark Bessey <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> wrote: >One of the big uses of RAM disks on the systems that support them is as >a crutch for software that's too stupid to use the VM system correctly. >Scripting languages are a good example of this. If you have a program >that performs lots of small writes to the filesystem interleaved with >many small reads, you might find that the file system caching >performance ain't so great. One thing that I thought RAM disks would be good for is doing development on a laptop. I think it would extend the battery life a bit if I could have the compiler use the RAM disk for temp files rather than using the main hard drive. Of course, I guess I'm not supposed to be doing development work on battery power anyways. What else can we do on the plane? Play Xoxeroids and Billiards? :) >One of these days, when I have a little too much time on my hands, I'll >have to try whipping up a ram disk driver for NEXTSTEP... Oh, that would be cool. Do you think you could add ACL's and journalling while you are at it? :) -- -- Alvin Jee alvin@cse.ucsc.edu NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
From: dale@storm.frontrange.ab.ca (Dale A. Schack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Virtual Hosting Date: 18 Sep 1996 20:13:20 GMT Organization: NAVOCEANO Message-ID: <51pl50$h45@tomcat.msrcnavo.navy.mil> Hello, I have been reading through Apache documentation concerning virtual hosting of web pages. They mention that inorder to do this, I need either a machine with multiple physical network connections (which I don't), or a OS that supports virtual interfaces. My question is this: does the NeXT OS support virtual interfaces? And if not, has anyone out there ever tried updating the kernel to allow this? Thanks in advance. --- Dale A. Schack Tel: +1 (403) 270 3737 Front Range Publishing Corp. Fax: +1 (403) 270 0387 727 - 4A Street N.W. email: Dale.Schack@frontrange.ab.ca Calgary Alberta T2N 1P6 CANADA
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:26:26 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MmE9Amu00WBOA5YL9K@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> <51pogs$2th@darkstar.ucsc.edu> In-Reply-To: <51pogs$2th@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Sep-96 Re: In-memory Filesystem un.. by Alvin Jee@cse.ucsc.edu > One thing that I thought RAM disks would be good for is doing > development on a laptop. I think it would extend the battery life a bit > if I could have the compiler use the RAM disk for temp files rather > than using the main hard drive. Try compiling with 'cc -pipe'. (It's probably a moot point, since the hard drive is still going to have to be spun up for reading the header files, libraries, and source code files, etc.) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Masaharu Fukuyama <masa@alcatrazd.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple IP Addresses Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:19:47 -0700 Organization: ALCATRAZ digital image, inc. Message-ID: <324091A2.70D5@alcatrazd.com> References: <323F3273.4E81@empire.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You can use "ps_if" to set up multiple IP addresses on one box. But you need to compile it under NS3.3 (probably 3.2 or even 3.0) but not under OS4.0. Also nothing about this is mentioned on documents attached, the number of IP addresses to be supported can be increase in Makefile, but you you set more than 11, 11th address (ps10) is strarting to bother ps1 interface. I had sent e-mail to original author about this, but haven't got any comments yet. If you have any workaround, please e-mail me. "ps_if" can be retrieve from: ftp://ftp.stellar.co.jp/pub/NEXTSTEP/InternetTools/ps_if.tar.gz Bryce Coxhead wrote: > > We're running NS 3.2 and an http server on black hardware, and in order to > provide some extra services without doubling up on hardware we'd like to > take advantage of the virtual host support that our software offers. > > Problem is this: It requires multiple ip addresses (on the one interface in > this case) to differentiate which configuration will handle a given request > and I can't seem to find any information on how to apply a second address to > the built-in interface. Perhaps this isn't possible? > > Any experiences/suggestions etc would be appreciated... > > TIA > ./bryce > > BTW: Yes, I am aware that I could run two servers on different ports, but > I'd prefer to use this as a last resort in this case. > > -- > ............................................................................ > : mailto:bryce@empire.com.au : : > :.......................................:"I don't take food from clowns...": > : Empire Ridge Pty Ltd :..................................: > : Ph +61 3 96964388 Fax +61 3 96964626 : : > : mailto:info@empire.com.au : Improve your life. Ride a ZX-9R : > : http://www.empireridge.com.au/ : : > :.......................................:..................................: -- Masaharu Fukuyama ALCATRAZ digital image, inc. 13907 Artesia Blvd. Cerritos, CA 90703 310/802-5899 310/802-7004 (Fax) 310/802-2789 (FirstClass BBS) masa@alcatrazd.com http://www.alcatrazd.com
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:31:57 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmE9Fxa00WBO85YMNG@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960917135335.18380C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <acsp8fikcl.fsf@tundra.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <acsp8fikcl.fsf@tundra.winternet.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Sep-96 Re: In-memory Filesystem un.. by Scott Hess@tundra.winter > A RAM based filesystem also has the directory entry overhead, but said > overhead is a couple orders of magnitude faster to execute ... > > I believe that Sun has a /tmp driver which writes large or long-lived > files through to the filesystem, but keeps the rest in RAM. I have no > idea where to look, though. Check out the tmpfs filesystem type under a modern Solaris system. You're right that this is one of the few areas where using a RAM disk may be a win (for holding short-lived temporary files). > [BTW, the only thing I do which would possibly be addressed by this > would be compiling projects. I just use the -pipe option to gcc, > which skips the problem entirely, at the cost of greater RAM usage, > which was our entire point, right?] That's precisely the point. It's a good example of how a complex system can choose to use memory instead of temporary files to communicate. It even provides a possible basis for a real world comparision-- compiling using 'gcc' with a tmpfs RAM disk versus compiling using 'gcc -pipe' without the tmpfs RAM disk active on a Solaris box. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 19 Sep 1996 03:15:40 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <51qdss$osq@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> References: <51p5o2$q63@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <51pc1e$sr9@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) wrote: > 'kill -HUP <lookupd_pid>' no longer results in a restart in OS4.0/Mach as in > NS3.3? Well, if I recall, it does half of what it did in NS 3.3 - it kills lookupd, but it doesn't restart it :-) Restarting it manually results in fairly rapid degradation as few, if any, lookups succeed. It's sort of fun to watch one's home icon turn into a plain folder as one's home directory can no longer be determined, NFS-mounted volumes disappear, processes in "ps" output become owned by "unknown", ports for services like ftp cannot be found, etc., etc. Reboot time... -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Date: 19 Sep 1996 05:40:55 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <51qmd7$579@kanga.accessone.com> References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> <1996Sep14.185700.84990@cc.usu.edu> <9f7cc$f836.1b2@NERCWINNT2> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <9f7cc$f836.1b2@NERCWINNT2> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > > I have quite the opposite problem. I have a 4 > > gig drive that was partitioned into 4 1 gig > > partitions. I would like to use one of the > > partitions as my swap drive. > > I think you have to create a 'swapfs' entry in /etc/fstab > > see 'man -k swap' entries, as well as man fstab Just point it(via /etc/swaptab) towards whatever directory you mount the partition on. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cuts the disk in half? Date: 19 Sep 1996 05:49:46 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <51qmtq$579@kanga.accessone.com> References: <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> Cc: sun@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu In <3239CB78.41C67EA6@bubba.cchem.berkeley.edu> Sean Sun wrote: > I just put in a new harddrive, the quantum fireballtm 2.1gig. > My NeXT turbo color recognized it and automatically partitioned it into > two 1gig paratitions. After install, I notice that one of the partition > is mounted as the swapfile. How can I get some of that disk space back? It would be much easier to comment on your situation if you ran 'df', and shared the results with us. BuildDisk is a lame tool that I have learned best to avoid. 'disk' and 'ditto' can give you the same desired results while allowing you much more control over the kind of results you might like to have. Beware that Next does a poor job of explaining how to use 'ditto' for creating bootable disks. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: kzin@arcadia.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple filesystem types under NeXTStep Date: 19 Sep 1996 06:58:37 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <51qqut$fdh@nuke.csu.net> References: <xkt4tkybi3u.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917180531.11102F-100000@charisma> <51pqlg$qjq@nuke.csu.net> Cc: kzin@arcadia.SJSU.EDU In <51pqlg$qjq@nuke.csu.net> John Rudd wrote: []In <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917180531.11102F-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" []wrote: [] [] [] [] [] []> I'll be running NS3.3. Should I use the DOS partition as the [] []> multiple-readable partition? Can NS read DOS partitions? (Having no [] []> white-NS experience I wouldn't know.) Or does NS have support for [] []> reading something like ext2fs systems? [] [] [] []NeXTStep can read DOS disks, so I would assume that it could read [] []partitions as well. However, that might not help because the Unix [] []sources might not fit in that awful 8.3 filenames... [] [] [] []Nextstep/Intel _CAN_ read Dos partitions. But I think it has a limit that []only the first login of a session can read the first Dos partition of a hard []drive (at least, that's a limitation MY system has.. I have 1 NS disk (420 []mb) and one disk with 2 Dos partitions (240mb, used to be 100mb Dos, and []140mb OS/2, but I got rid of OS/2).. the first time I log in after booting up []NS, I can see the 100mb dos partition, but the WorkspaceManager console says []the second partition is "busy" and "fails" to mount it. If I log out and log []back in, then I don't get _any_ dos partitions.. to get dos partitions back, []I have to reboot). [] [](Btw: I use NS3.3 right now.. If it's fixed in OS4.0, I don't know) [] Well, apparently I hadn't tried it under NS3.3 either. I still have the problem with the second dos partition on the same drive never being recognized, but apparently NS3.3 fixes the problem with the first partition disappearing between logins. I was playing around with it today (setting my fiancee's account up) and the partition sticks around from session to session without rebooting. Now if only 4.0/4.1 would fix the multiple-partition's problem :-}
From: rwong@direct.ca (Robert Wong Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip disk (was Re: JAZ disk) Date: 19 Sep 1996 09:12:08 GMT Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <51r2p8$fsr@orb.direct.ca> References: <3229A669.33B4@worldbank.org> <3229A7AE.4C02@worldbank.org> <01bb9b6a$81414e40$2184eea5@sroller> <5128o9$nh3@nuke.csu.net> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960910005308.28332D-100000@charisma> <01bb9f41$3ba23f40$2f85eea5@sroller> "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> wrote: [munch] > I saw that IOMEGA was advertising ZIP drives with $50 rebates recently, > but I think the rebates expire on 9/15/95... EPSON also sells Zip > drives for less than IOMEGA - check them out! I was just at a reseller trade show, where I talked to the Iomega rep. They have apparently extended the rebate to Sept 30. I own the Iomega version. It is a nice funky purple colour. Unfortunately, it comes with a mondo sized power brick. If you buy the Epson Zip, it comes with a very nice, compact power brick. RWW. -- Robert W. Wong Jr. rwong@direct.ca (NeXTmail capable) Crasher of Automated Banking Machines, Keeper of the ZyXEL modem FAQ, University of British Columbia NeXT Users Group Leader and collector of titles.
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SNIFFER for NS Date: 19 Sep 1996 11:18:22 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <51ra5u$cvn@scsing.switch.ch> Hello there ! Is there a proctcol analyser "SNIFFER" taht run on NeXTSTEp 3.3 or 4.0 ? Thanks in advance -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CYBERLaB NeTWORK<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< lionel@cyberlab.ch (MiME & NeXTmail WELCOME !!) Tel: +41 (0)21 623.66.10 http://www.cyberlab.ch Fax: +41 (0)21 626.40.00 Ask for or my PGP public key ------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
From: root@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 18 Sep 1996 22:23:35 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <51psp7$9hs@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <51mdac$ftu@sun3.uni-essen.de> In article <51mdac$ftu@sun3.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) writes: > John W. Wooten (woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov) wrote: > : In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. > : [...] > : A RAM disk is something toy computers use when they don't know how to > : implement swapping file systems. You can increase the number of memory > : buffers on NeXT during boot. Memory management is one of the great > : things you get with UNIX, Mach, or NeXTStep over the other toy systems. > > Although I like a non-toy OS too :-), I wouldn't put away with a RAM > disk device so soon as most of the times it is still faster than a > mechanical disk (although this could be argued about), but it certainly > can help to prevent fragmentation of a file system if you redirect short > temporary or intermediate files to it. So it can still be a nice feature > to have. As soon as you implement a RAM disk system on a swapping machine, unless you lock the RAM against swapping out, you will find that it gets swapped if its not needed. If you allocate enough buffers and if you use the data a lot, then it will tend to be there when you need it. If you haven't used it lately, then it's not. What a concept. To me, disk drives are pretty fast today, memory is cheap, and swapping systems have gotten us out of the PC mentality (Bill Gates, 640K is enougth for anyone!). Why waste time? Add a second scsi controller and put your swap area on a high speed disk attached to it. Add lots of memory (which you'd need for a RAM disk anyway) and increase the number of system buffers upward a bit. The system will already automagically take care of flushing, cacheing, etc. Just some thoughts!
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CGI...How can it be done? Date: 19 Sep 1996 14:11:33 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <51rkal$q9v@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> <51n8e0$ek@marsu.navigator.de> Markus Wenzel (mow@navigator.de) wrote: > There's a good book from O'Reilly about CGI programming. > It mainly aims at perl programming under Unix, and Nextstep > makes no difference here from any other Unix. <plug> Yeah.. and there's another cool book on the subject from International Thomson Publishing (ITP). It was actually written on a NeXT slab by a NeXT enthusiast.. so if you want to learn about Perl and CGI scripting, why dontcha check it out ;-) </plug> As for running CGI under NEXTSTEP, piece of cake. Install Webserver package by doubleclicking. Install Perl package by doubleclicking. Drop CGI Perl script in cgi-bin directory, chmod a+x, you're done. I love this platform. Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: root@mathserv1.math.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS questions Date: 19 Sep 1996 16:55:18 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <51rttm$35ni@news.doit.wisc.edu> Two questions: 1) How do you setup NS so that it automatically mounts an imported NFS filesystem _without_ using NetInfo (I'm trying to integrate a bunch of NeXTstations into a Sun-based NIS system and since I'm leaving soon I want to keep it as similar to current setup as possible; i.e. as little or no NetInfo as possible). I've tried adding the stuff to /etc/fstab but it seems to get ignored. Reading the man pages implies fstab is only used at boot time to mount BSD 4.3 hard disks, not remote filesystems. Mounting works OK if I use NetInfo but I'd prefer not to. 2) On a related subject, if I mount some NSF stuff and try to use the Workspace file viewer to poke around, the Workspace crashes and logs me out as soon as I try to open a subdir of the NFS directory. I can cd around fine in Terminal, just not in the Workspace. Everything in the NFS directory is ugo+rx Oh, we're running NS 3.0 too Thanks in advance, - Gareth bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
From: krice@admin.vhs.davis.k12.ut.us (KEN RICE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:39:33 GMT Organization: DCSD Message-ID: <51s413$dmb@svc.slc.uen.org> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <casper-1009962029580001@oats-20.nb.net> casper@nb.net (Timothy K Scoff) wrote: >In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote: Congratulations. I would also like to see these Bozos stop cluttering up the bandwidth with their nonsense. HOWEVER, I'm very concerned that this approach may establish some precedent that using the Internet somehow falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Postal Service. When using the Internet, I don't consider myself as using the U.S. Mail. For one thing, I don't have to pay $0.32 for shoddy service. There's nothing the U.S. Postal Service would like more than to be able to charge a fee for every message going across the Net. At some future trial, could they drag up those scam complaints citing the reference of fraudulent activity via the U.S. Mail? And, if you think that's ridiculous, do a mental replay of the O.J. Simpson trial Best regards, >~I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers... >~today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the >~participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area, >~reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a >~crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent >~them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It >~took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers >~to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you. >~ >~Ronin >Also sending e-mail to the user "postmaster@" and their domain name helps >stop this cancer. >-- >Timothy K. Scoff >casper@nb.net > "DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." > > ( New York Times, November 26, 1991)
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: NFS questions Message-ID: <1996Sep19.192941.10591@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <51rttm$35ni@news.doit.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:29:41 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <51rttm$35ni@news.doit.wisc.edu> root@mathserv1.math.wisc.edu (Operator) writes: > Two questions: > > 1) How do you setup NS so that it automatically mounts an imported > NFS filesystem _without_ using NetInfo (I'm trying to integrate > a bunch of NeXTstations into a Sun-based NIS system and since I'm > leaving soon I want to keep it as similar to > current setup as possible; i.e. as little or no NetInfo as possible). > I've tried adding the stuff to /etc/fstab but it seems to > get ignored. Reading the man pages implies fstab is only used > at boot time to mount BSD 4.3 hard disks, not remote filesystems. > Mounting works OK if I use NetInfo but I'd prefer not to. I don't think NeXTSTEP supports getting mounts from NIS. I'd suggest laying down a procedure that involves editing the fstab files, and then running niload to get it into netinfo. > 2) On a related subject, if I mount some NSF stuff and try to use the > Workspace file viewer to poke around, the Workspace crashes and > logs me out as soon as I try to open a subdir of the NFS directory. > I can cd around fine in Terminal, just not in the Workspace. > Everything in the NFS directory is ugo+rx This probably isn't connected, but if you are logged on as root, and you attempt to read a directory from the File Viewer than nobody doesn't have read permission for, the Workspace will crash. This bug has always been there. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:32:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <51sakv$kq3@news.digifix.com> References: <51pl50$h45@tomcat.msrcnavo.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: <51pl50$h45@tomcat.msrcnavo.navy.mil> On 09/18/96, Dale A. Schack wrote: > >Hello, > > I have been reading through Apache documentation concerning virtual >hosting of web pages. They mention that inorder to do this, I need either >a machine with multiple physical network connections (which I don't), or a >OS that supports virtual interfaces. > yes, thats correct. > My question is this: does the NeXT OS support virtual interfaces? And >if not, has anyone out there ever tried updating the kernel to allow this? > No it doesn't... However, a gentleman from Japan has written a loadable driver that does this. I've tried it with different site addresses locally (ding/dang/dong) and all three worked! Setup was trivial, it comes with the source, and seems to work OK.. One note those, all those virtual sites were in my c-class, so I'm not sure what happens with foreign c-classes. >Thanks in advance. Its on ftp.thoughport.com /pub/next/ppp -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP driver Web site request for driver info. Date: 19 Sep 1996 15:30:07 -0400 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <51s6vv$bme@Vir.com> Hello, I'd like to ask all of you out there who are looking for a driver or have written a driver and want the NeXTSTEP user community to know about it to send me an email message at stefanos@uniscape.com Those of you who are feeling more generous could submit a "How I developed a SUPERFOO driver" to help other people learn to build/modify drivers to customize them to meet their own needs. (Assuming they know how to program.) Any help would be appreciated, stef
From: Pete Spomer <spomer@apple.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:08:09 -0700 Organization: Apple Computer Message-ID: <3241EE7A.6CB0@apple.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca> <mouser-1709960815230001@204.191.6.170> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Martin-Gilles Lavoie wrote: > I was told by an internet provider that one of his custommers did > something like this (newsgroup spamming). The root@... account received > *hundreds* of quoted replies, enough to get the user kicked out after zero > warning. The users' name, address, and various coordinates where also > kept in a database for futur reference. Apparently, local internet > providers keep a list of undesirable users. > Whenever I get unsolicited e-mail, I always end-up replying to the > sende'rs root@... account. I'm never certain it works, but it leaves me > with an impression that I'm doing something about it. What I usually do is send a reply back explaining what they've done wrong, and why it's wrong. I also explain that I'm cc-ing a copy of the entire message, including the headers, to their ISP for further action. I usually never hear from them again, although I have recieved a couple of messages back that say "sorry, I won't do it any more". You can do the same for newsgroup spammers. BTW- If the offender uses Netcom as their ISP, the correct address to email complaints to is: abuse@netcom.com Pete ------- The opinions expressed here are not those of anyone, including myself. No gerbils were harmed in the making of this message. Your mileage may vary.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: HELP! Boot fails after installing network card Message-ID: <DxzopG.2z9@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:03:16 GMT In article <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu> Kevin Behrooz <behrooz@nscl.msu.edu> writes: > Hello all, > > I changed the network card, installed the driver, etc. on a > Intel based NeXt, but now it does not boot. Since it does not > boot, I can't go back to the original config. because it does not > boot. I can boot to single user mode, but don't know what to do > next. > > Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated. > > > Kevin Behrooz Have you tried config=Default (you have to type this in at the Next Boot Prompt); this often allows you to boot your machine, even after catastrophic failure. If this doesn't work, boot in single user mode, "cd /usr/Devices"; you will find a directory there that's called System.config, so "cd System.config"; with an easy to use editor, called pico, you can edit the configuration files in this directory (they're ASCII). There are usually two config files there, Default.table (used when booting config=Default, normally shouldn't be changed) and Instance0.table (the highest Instancex.table file is used for normal booting, at least I think so...); so type in "pico Instance0.table" (type "ls" to see wheter you have an Instance-file different from Instance0) and remove the network card driver. (see below for advice) Save the file and reboot your machine ("halt" etc.); if it still doesn't boot, your netinfo may have become damaged; (Disclaimer: Even if the system doesn't boot, your netinfo needn't be damaged, it's just a tip...) You can overwrite your netinfo with standard values created during the installation process, but... 1) All user information (accounts, passwords etc.) 2) All printers installed 3) All hosts created in the local domain 4) and some other information will be lost! This could mean a LOT of work, if your system is set up as a network server and you have a lot of user accounts created etc....); This step may have far-reaching consequences, so be extremely careful! If you want to try, first make a backup copy of the existing netinfo; "cd /etc"; "mv netinfo netinfo.old"; "mv hostconfig hostconfig.old" write the new netinfo: "cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo ."; (mind the dot) "cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig ."; reboot; if it still doesn't boot, the only advice I can give is to reinstall your system; but perhaps somebody else has some different ideas... Here are some hints for using pico: (press and hold Strg or Ctrl key and press the key described below) <Ctrl>-<n>: move to next line <Ctrl>-<p>: move to previous line <Ctrl>-<f>: move forward one character <Ctrl>-<b>: move backward one character <Ctrl>-<o>: write file <Ctrl>-<x>: exit pico <Ctrl>-<g>: help screen All commands described here are written in quotes ("..."), to execute the commands, leave out the quotes! To restore your netinfo, boot in single user mode, "cd /etc", "rm -r netinfo", "rm hostconfig", "mv hostconfig.old hostconfig", "mv netinfo.old netinfo", reboot system; Perhaps this helps; Robert. ========================================================================== Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ==========================================================================
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 19 Sep 1996 23:51:13 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> In article <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com>, Mark Bessey <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> wrote: >Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes >> RAM disks are only "much faster" under operating systems without >> demand-paged VM, like MS-DOS et cetera. > >Maybe so, maybe not - without a set of benchmarks to point at, we've got >no basis for measurement... > >> A RAM disk is the rough equivalent of wiring down physical memory >> pages under a virtual-memory system for a user-selectable filespace >> (whatever the user decides to put on the RAM disk). However, systems >> with good VM already understand how to cache physical disk blocks into >> RAM based on current memory usage and smart selection algorithms like >> LRU, and they almost always use a given amount memory more efficiently >> than you'd get by dedicating it as a RAM disk. >> >> RAM disks of meaningful size generally _reduce_ performance under >> systems with good VM systems because they reduce the amount of >> physical RAM available to the paging system. (munch) Charles, the RAM disk design you are speaking of is certainly the most common, and for implementations of that kind your statements are true. A traditional RAM disk driver allocates a contiguous block of memory in kernel space when it is initialized. Since kernel memory has traditionally been wired down, this prevented it's re-use when the RAM disk pages were not the most active VM pages (which was, on average, most of the time). Both the LRU chain of buf pages and the demand paging of file blocks by the rest of the VM subsystem are much more effective uses of memory than a traditional RAM disk. Now, two other approaches are possible: In some Unix kernels, memory returned by kalloc can be unwired, thus allowing it to be paged out when demand for VM is high and other pages have more hits. Another approach is to allocate the memory in user space, and let the driver copy pages in and out of kernel space when needed. This is the approach used by the BSD 4.4 Memory File System (mfs). Both of these approaches can make the use of a RAM disk less of a burden on system resources. If you use a lot of pages for your RAM disk, the system can still re-use the memory elsewhere when demand calls for it. The second approach has another huge benefit on systems which have sophisticated VM support. When the memory is allocated, via malloc or by using mmap on pre-extended file(s), physical pages are not actually bound to the address space until they are first read or written. This means that if you create a standard Unix file system in the RAM disk only the blocks which are written by newfs (or mkfs) initially cause allocation of memory pages. The rest, the blocks for storing data, remain virtual until they are read or written. >One of the big uses of RAM disks on the systems that support them is as >a crutch for software that's too stupid to use the VM system correctly. >Scripting languages are a good example of this. If you have a program >that performs lots of small writes to the filesystem interleaved with >many small reads, you might find that the file system caching >performance ain't so great. Mark, an even more heinous aspect of most file system use in scripts is that these small reads and writes are likely to be in the context of (gasp) create+delete activity. For these the meta-data (inodes and directories) must be synched to disk. something > TEMP_FILE do other stuff . . . rm TEMP_FILE For instance just creating TEMP_FILE takes 5 separate seeks + I/OS. 2 of the writes are synchronous (writing the file inode and then writing the directory), and often the seeks are between different cylinder groups. A couple of more synchronous I/Os to remove it again. This makes the case for RAM disk speed even more compelling. With a memory based file system, you still need to page the data out to disk eventually, but it will be asynchronous, spread out more evenly in time, and in ascending/descending sort order to minimize head movement. >In one set of benchmarks I performed on a system using a 500KB file for >communicating between two programs, a dedicated ramdisk beat out a >dedicated disk cache handily. The cache certainly helped the read >operation, but the initial write was the killer... > >One of these days, when I have a little too much time on my hands, I'll >have to try whipping up a ram disk driver for NEXTSTEP... I'm thinking of writing an mfs-like, memory disk driver soon myself. I don't think I'll port all of mfs directly because I don't like the idea of rewriting the newfs+mkfs portions for the 4.3 fs that NeXT uses. I'd rather send the init code to another section of the driver (maybe a raw device entry point) and then let the stock mkfs handle the rest. Much of the internal logic should be portable, though. The mfs port is actually just a test-bed for something else. My real goal is to write my own file system, capable of spanning chunks of native file systems on fixed disk or removable platters, and volumes of 4mm tape. I figure the easiest way to get to that goal is to write a RAM tape driver (yeah I know that one sounds useless) and a RAM disk driver so that I can test out various designs without dying of old age waiting on seeks, writes, and rewinds. >-Mark >-- >Mark Bessey >NeXT Software, Inc >Software Quality Assurance >-->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <-- p.s. Mark, sort of related to this topic (and yes I did read and understand the last line of your .sig). Can you shed any light on why NeXT doesn't allow more than 255 buf structures? I tried to cheat, by initializing nbuf to a larger value in mach_kernel, but the early initialization code set it back to 255 before allocating the buffers. Why so chintzy with block device buffers? I ask, because my eventual file system will probably do best in an environment with plentiful bufs. -- ___ ___ | 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: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple filesystem types under NeXTStep Date: 20 Sep 1996 08:20:31 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <51u26f$302@papoose.quick.com> References: <xkt4tkybi3u.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917180531.11102F-100000@charisma> <51pqlg$qjq@nuke.csu.net> <51qqut$fdh@nuke.csu.net> In article <51qqut$fdh@nuke.csu.net>, John Rudd <kzin@arcadia.sjsu.edu> wrote: >Well, apparently I hadn't tried it under NS3.3 either. I still have the >problem with the second dos partition on the same drive never being >recognized, but apparently NS3.3 fixes the problem with the first partition >disappearing between logins. I was playing around with it today (setting my >fiancee's account up) and the partition sticks around from session to session >without rebooting. NS will only automatically mount the first partition on any drive during login. If you want to have more partitions mounted put the in the fstab, then load the fstab into netinfo. After doing this, the drives will be mounted at system boot rather than during login. They will remain mounted unless you subsequently unmount them as root. -- ___ ___ | 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: smbakh@milind (Milind Bakhle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to post-mortem system panic? Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:05:38 GMT Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center Message-ID: <51u4r2$565@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> Hello all! My NeXTstation Turbo has been crashing often (five times in the last two months). I have not been able to identify any trend in the system panics. The only new thing is that we have an additional disk on our server, which I have nfs-mounted, and use frequently. How can I go about diagnosing the cause of this rash of system panics? When the panic window pops up, the contents scroll by quite quickly, so that I miss most of the messages. I tried to look at /usr/adm/messages, but all I see is a line like "going down on signal 15", followed by the usual boot messages. Any suggestions/pointers would be appreciated. Sorry about the incomplete "From: " field, I have not figured out how to correct that, yet. Milind -- Milind A. Bakhle Milind.A.Bakhle@lerc.nasa.gov
From: jsowers@lehman.com (Justin Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using a NeXT kermit session as a console for another box Date: 20 Sep 1996 09:30:55 -0400 Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc. Sender: jsowers@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com Message-ID: <v6hk9tp5n5c.fsf@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com> I'm pleading for help from someone who's done this before because I have little experience with Sun hardware... I'm trying to boot a SPARC 1 "headless" (no monitor, no frame buffer) and I can't seem to get anything from serial port A as a console. I've hooked my NeXT's serial A (/dev/cua) to the Sun's serial A using a null-modem cable. In kermit, I connect to /dev/cua and wait for anything to come through when I power-up the SPARC. I get nothing. As recommended in the Sun-Hardware-Reference I set line speed to 9600, 8 bits, 1 stop, no parity, etc. I've tried the same procedure with /dev/ttya, with the same lack of results. Does anyone out there have experience using a NeXT in this capacity for booting a Sun? Any suggestions/ideas will be greatly appreciated. -Justin. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Justin K. M. Sowers email: jsowers@lehman.com Fixed Income Analytics Lehman Brothers, Inc. vox: (212)526-9197 3 World Financial Center fax: 528-9268 New York, NY 10285-1100 Proud alumnus (Bioengineering '93) University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science *** The opinions expressed herein are solely my own. ***
From: falk@born. (Adam Falk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: modem hangs up on data calls Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:26:24 GMT Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Message-ID: <51u2hg$i1t@news.jhu.edu> I have a mysterious problem with a modem installed on an Intel machine running NS3.3. I've had this problem both on the original modem and on the current modem, which I replaced the original one with for other reasons. So I think the problem isn't the physical modem itself. The problem is that the modem appears to hang up on incoming data calls. It hangs up immediately; as far as I can tell, it hardly even begins a negotiation. I can't figure out why. I'm dialing up from a Mac with a Global Village modem. 1) The Mac can send a fax to the modem on the Next, no problem, so the modems can establish a fax connection. 2) The Mac can connect to the university modem pool to run PPP, no problem, so I don't think the problem is that the Global Village modem has some problem with data calls. 3) But the Mac can't establish a data connection with the Next! Finally, this happens whether I have NXFax set up to answer the phone, or call answering on NXFax is turned off and the modem has been instructed by hand to answer. So I don't think the problem is NXFax. Any help, ideas, guesses would be most appreciated. In particular, if you've had or seen a problem like this, please let me know! Thanks. -- Adam F. Falk Assistant Professor falk@jhu.edu Department of Physics and Astronomy http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu The Johns Hopkins University (410) 516-7817 (phone) 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218 (410) 516-7239 (fax)
From: Judith Elaine Bush <bush@bohr.physics.upenn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:59:23 -0400 Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <3242B14B.41C6@bohr.physics.upenn.edu> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <casper-1009962029580001@oats-20.nb.net> <51s413$dmb@svc.slc.uen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit KEN RICE wrote: > HOWEVER, I'm very concerned that this approach may establish some > precedent that using the Internet somehow falls under the > jurisdiction of the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS can prosecute because the cash is sent through the US mail. Now, if the Make Mone Fast changes to something like, "email to me your credit card number," the USPS can do nothing about it. j -- +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Judith Elaine Bush bush@bohr.physics.upenn.edu Physics Department, 209 S 33rd St. Lab: 215-898-8832 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396 USA FAX: 215-898-2010 +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple filesystem types under NeXTStep Date: 20 Sep 1996 14:35:50 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <51ua46$8n9@news.next.com> References: <51u26f$302@papoose.quick.com> In article <51u26f$302@papoose.quick.com> jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) writes: #NS will only automatically mount the first partition on any drive #during login. If you want to have more partitions mounted put #the in the fstab, then load the fstab into netinfo. Actually, you only put NFS file system mounts in NetInfo. Local system harddisk mounts are done before NetInfo starts, so they need to just be in /etc/fstab. joe
From: giammarc@cs.unibo.it Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail and next..... Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:11:32 +0200 Organization: NETTuno Message-ID: <3242C234.26A0@cs.unibo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have an account limited to mail. I can ftp, telnet, www only to my provider, then there is a firewall that separes me to the rest of the internet. With linux and smail, I use the command sendmail -q to sendmail (POP to receive); with nextstep when I use sendmail -q, it checks that the "TO:" hosts exist and stop in the firewall. How can I modify the sendmail.cf file to be less pedantic?? Where is the faq? Please reply me to giammarc@cs.unibo.it Thank You in advance.
From: "John K. Troxell" <jktroxe@fpe.erenj.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: multi-volume DOS disks? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:24:28 -0700 Organization: Exxon R&E, NJ; Opinions not those of the Company. Message-ID: <3242EF6C.550@fpe.erenj.com> References: <516j07$p0a@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <0mBhpfG00WBOQ1pOBh@andrew.cmu.edu> <517shd$549@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <51bea4$rfv@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit mmalcolm crawford wrote: > > You use the copy command. > Want to find out about the copy command? Use "copy /?". Obvious, eh? > This givens you about as much information as you're likely to get, the > equivalent of "cp -h" with a little more detail. Nothing like the richness > (or pervasiveness) of "man". Or type "help copy" which gives you more info. Or just "help" which gives you a menu of the commands that help is available for. John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to post-mortem system panic? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960920124808.9233D-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:54:08 -0400 References: <51u4r2$565@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> To: Milind.A.Bakhle@lerc.nasa.gov In-Reply-To: <51u4r2$565@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 20 Sep 1996, Milind Bakhle wrote: > Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:05:38 GMT > From: Milind Bakhle <smbakh@milind> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: How to post-mortem system panic? > > Hello all! > > My NeXTstation Turbo has been crashing often (five times > in the last two months). I have not been able to identify > any trend in the system panics. The only new thing is that > we have an additional disk on our server, which I have > nfs-mounted, and use frequently. > > How can I go about diagnosing the cause of this rash of > system panics? When the panic window pops up, the contents > scroll by quite quickly, so that I miss most of the > messages. I tried to look at /usr/adm/messages, but all I > see is a line like "going down on signal 15", followed by > the usual boot messages. I don't know where the panic messages are stored, if anywhere. It would be nice if they were. I usually use pen and paper and write down what I can see (also, use the 'msg' command in the mini-nmi window that appears, it will show you what scrolled past. > Any suggestions/pointers would be appreciated. > Sorry about the incomplete "From: " field, I > have not figured out how to correct that, yet. > Milind.A.Bakhle@lerc.nasa.gov Try adding this line to your headers in TIN (not sure how exactly, but...) Reply-To: Milind.A.Bakhle@lerc.nasa.gov It's easy in PINE, but I don't know how it is done in TIN TjL
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Remote login as root? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:24:08 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-2009961324080001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I would like to be able to telnet to my NeXT on my home LAN, but it seems that login is configured to reject root login on any tty (even the local tty used by Terminal). This restriction doesn't seem to be documented in the man pages. Does anyone know if it can be disabled? (Yes, I understand there are security risks but consider them acceptable.) Barney
From: Jean-Henri Duteau <jeand@myrias.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Kernel Panics Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:37:08 -0600 Organization: Myrias Computer Technologies Sender: jeand@moe.Myrias.AB.CA Message-ID: <xktenjx2fu3.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> Hi all, Hopefully someone can help me out here. I've just reinstalled NS3.3 on my '040 station. I've installed the latest PPP for NeXT. This was the same version I was using before. But now I'm getting Kernel Panics (where the NMI comes up and you have to reboot) almost every PPP session. I've never noticed these before. In the PPP docs, it talks about an optimization that works with the new serial drivers that is supposed to solve these panic attacks. First question -->These new serial drivers are for intel machines right? There aren't new m68k drivers, are there? Next, I might have actually compiled the source before where I'm now using the pre-compiled stuff? Could that make a difference? I probably should download the source stuff, but I just thought of that question now. Anyways, if anyone can help with this panic attack problem, that would be most appreciative. -- Jean-Henri Duteau jeand@myrias.com (work) jeand@west-teq.net (home) Fantasy Sports Guru -- Commissioner--RHL,RHHL,UFHL,CFFL.Owner--FFL,RCFFL Interested in fantasy sports??? Check out http://west-teq.net/~jeand/ Currently working on RHS -- a GNU Hockey Simulator system. 8-)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:43:28 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmEjDUq00WBOQ3rC0h@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com> In-Reply-To: <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Sep-96 Re: In-memory Filesystem un.. by James E. Quick@papoose.q > Charles, the RAM disk design you are speaking of is certainly the > most common, and for implementations of that kind your statements > are true. A traditional RAM disk driver allocates a contiguous > block of memory in kernel space when it is initialized. [ ... ] I didn't want to quote everything you said up to this point, but I did want to acknowledge this section and agree with it. [ ... ] > Now, two other approaches are possible: > > In some Unix kernels, memory returned by kalloc can be unwired, thus > allowing it to be paged out when demand for VM is high and other pages > have more hits. > > Another approach is to allocate the memory in user space, and let the > driver copy pages in and out of kernel space when needed. This is > the approach used by the BSD 4.4 Memory File System (mfs). > > Both of these approaches can make the use of a RAM disk less of > a burden on system resources. If you use a lot of pages for your > RAM disk, the system can still re-use the memory elsewhere when > demand calls for it. If you don't wire the memory for the RAM disk down, it's subject to being paged out. This can very easily cause thrashing as something using the RAM disk fights for pages while the VM system's swapper is trying to page them out. This is because the virtual memory behavior of a RAM disk in terms of locality of reference and so forth is likely to be anomalous, just as would be the case when doing garbage collection in an interpreted language or when a database tries to buffer too much of the database and can't fit all of it's working set into physical RAM. Now, if you write an external pager for the RAM disk driver, you could be much smarter about handling a RAM disk whose memory is not wired down. But then, if you could write an external pager for the RAM disk driver, you could write an external pager for whatever application(s) are being run and use physical memory more efficiently than you could by using it for a RAM disk. This was the point I was trying to make before. I don't want to say that RAM disks are useless, because they can offer significant improvements under a limited range of circumstances. Obviously, it's not practical to create your own pager if all you're doing is creating and deleting a lot of small, temporary files from a shell script. [ ...and you follow with a good analysis of I/O operations et cetera for updating filesystem metainformation when creating and deleting lots of small files... ] -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 20 Sep 1996 20:58:47 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <01bba6d2$27429ac0$3e031281@bananajr> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com> James E. Quick <jq@papoose.quick.com> wrote in article <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com>... > p.s. Mark, sort of related to this topic (and yes I did read > and understand the last line of your .sig). Can you shed > any light on why NeXT doesn't allow more than 255 buf > structures? I tried to cheat, by initializing nbuf to > a larger value in mach_kernel, but the early initialization > code set it back to 255 before allocating the buffers. > Why so chintzy with block device buffers? I ask, because > my eventual file system will probably do best in an > environment with plentiful bufs. Sorry, Mach internals aren't my area of expertise. I'd guess it's just one of those hard limits that seemed reasonable when NEXTSTEP was first implemented...(rushes off to the "find..." panel in NT) Sure enough, I found this code in unix_startup.c... #if NeXT if ((nbuf = bufpages) < 16) nbuf = 16; if (nbuf > 255) nbuf = 255; #endif And, is like the last time this file was changed was a few years ago. I don't imagine anyone has even thought about the 255-buffer limit in a while, either... -Mark -- Mark Bessey Software Quality Assurance NeXT Software, Inc. --->Not an official NeXT spokesperson<--
From: michael@windchaser (Michael F. DeMan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CGI...How can it be done? Date: 20 Sep 1996 22:09:09 GMT Organization: Network Access Services, Inc. Message-ID: <51v4m5$o8@barad-dur.nas.com> References: <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> <51n8e0$ek@marsu.navigator.de> <51p3rc$o3i@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Cc: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca In <51p3rc$o3i@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Gary Finley wrote: > In <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> Dark Jedi MAN wrote: > > I'm trying to get CGI to work on our NeXTSTEP machines but... > > If you want to write forms etc in Perl, I've been very impressed with > Lincoln Stein's CGI.PM library. Stein has written an OOP-style CGI > function set in Perl, and it makes writing good forms a snap. Here's > the URL: > > http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/cgi_docs.html > > > > You should also check out the free version of WebObjects from www.next.com
From: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de (Gerald Wildgruber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: restore beyond theory ? Date: 21 Sep 1996 22:50:42 +0200 Organization: Apatheia Corp. Sender: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <x7zq2jbnj1.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Can anyone give a realistic appreciation of a restore process done from DAT tape: if i have fresh level-0-dumps what would be the approppriate way of recovering after a fatal system crash. Installing a new system from cd and inserting things from tape afterwards; or is it possible to do a direct restore from tape. In this case what must be prepared to do so (creating a file system on disk, scsi tape driver, etc), what would be the necessary steps and what their order ? Thanks for your help Gerald -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gerald Wildgruber No one can have an idea gewil@ue801be.ppp. once he starts really lrz-muenchen.de listening. - John Cage (NeXTMail and MIME welcome)
From: danie@di.denel.co.za (Danie Malan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem on boot off NS 3.3 Installation Floppy Date: 13 Sep 1996 12:59:14 GMT Organization: Rand Afrikaans University Message-ID: <51blr2$luq@misty.rau.ac.za> Strangest installation problem yet - Out of memory ?!! I've just tried to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on an Intel 486 DX4-100 system PH4500AM Motherboard (ISA, VL & PCI) with Award BIOS V4.50G. I boot off the install floppy and get NEXTSTEP boot1 V 3.3.3.8 Sizing memory .......32768K Out of memory ..And the machine promptly hangs. The BIOS reports no problems and picks up the memory OK. I've also tried various changes to the BIOS setup (disabling cache etc.) and swapped memory with known good memory from other machines, but no luck. For the hell-of-it I tried the OpenStep 4.0 install floppy and this didn't cause the same error. (Only problem is that I need to install 3.3) Any ideas ? Please mail me and I'll summarize to newsgroup - My mail provider is unreliable TIA ! Regards Danie Malan Mailto: DanieM@di.denel.co.za (NeXTmail, MIME & ASCII welcome) CAIRO=NT+OPENSTEP !
From: ashley@digalt.com (Ashley Campbel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:55:46 -0500 Organization: Digital Alternatives Message-ID: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to > even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal > Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the > matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy > to have it. > > The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they > originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes > are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A > polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best > course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal > addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however. > My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster, root, hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward them ten. It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get quite irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a little extreme, but I'm getting sick of junk mail. -Ash
From: bmw@visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! Boot fails after installing network card Date: 21 Sep 1996 20:37:54 -0400 Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Message-ID: <5221p2$dve@ampere.visgen.com> References: <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu> Summary: a simple fix In article <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu>, Kevin Behrooz <behrooz@nscl.msu.edu> wrote: >Hello all, > >I changed the network card, installed the driver, etc. on a >Intel based NeXt, but now it does not boot. Since it does not >boot, I can't go back to the original config. because it does not >boot. I can boot to single user mode, but don't know what to do >next. A very simple fix is to boot single-user then edit /etc/hostconfig (after backing it up) and alter the IP address to be the loopback address. That will satisfy the daemons et al. Then log out of the single-user shell to let the booting continue. Example: boot: -s [...] % cd /etc % cp hostconfig hostconfig.save Edit /etc/hostconfig so it contains, other than comments, just these lines: HOSTNAME=localhost INETADDR=127.0.0.1 ROUTER=-NO- IPNETMASK=-AUTOMATIC- IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC- NETMASTER=-NO- YPDOMAIN=-NO- TIME=NO Then logout... % ^D (That's Ctrl-D) to log out and the boot will continue to multi-user. You may get complaints, but you will get a login window. Now you can login as root and continue your setting up. -bmw -- Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com | Suite 1000, Box 333 | Phone: 416-813-3282 | 700 Bay Street | FAX: 416-813-3250 | Toronto M5G 1Z6 |
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help on configuring dns lookups Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 19:38:34 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <32448A4D.1935@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone help me configure dns lookups for telneting and web serving and OmniWeb usage? I notice at startup that the Apache httpd can't determine its hostname. I've recently had it working, but made some changes, and can't get back to where I was before. I've already booted single user and restored NetInfo to its original settings. I am able to see the NetWare network and telnet out by IP only. I have added settings to /etc/hosts and /etc/hostconfig and /etc/resolv.conf files. Does anyone know what file(s) the SimpleNetworkStarter and HostManager write to? Also, could this be someone else is using the same IP address? How can I determine this? I'm really baffled. Runnning NS 3.3 Intel, no other NS or OS 4 MACH boxes on the local network. I'm not providing any NetInfo services. Thanks in advance. Any suggestions are appreciated. -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. ytalk: eadubie@138.87.201.11 * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University "Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac." - Tim Leary ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: bmw@visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Sender: bmw@visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 21 Sep 96 12:21:12 GMT Subject: cmsg cancel <5221p2$dve@ampere.visgen.com> Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Control: cancel <5221p2$dve@ampere.visgen.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5221p2$dve@ampere.visgen.com> These cancels are issued as a service to the Internet providers not wishing to carry articles from computer geeks and eggheads. Sites that do not wish to take advantage of this free service can easily can opt out of these cancels by "aliasing out" the geekcancel pseudosite.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Remote login as root? Message-ID: <Dy2uLI.28q@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <jbf-2009961324080001@news.tiac.net> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 10:03:18 GMT In article <jbf-2009961324080001@news.tiac.net> jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) writes: > I would like to be able to telnet to my NeXT on my home LAN, but > it seems that login is configured to reject root login on any tty > (even the local tty used by Terminal). This restriction doesn't > seem to be documented in the man pages. Does anyone know if it can > be disabled? (Yes, I understand there are security risks but consider > them acceptable.) > Same as on any BSD Unix! You need to declare the port to be secure in /etc/ttys (by default they're either 'off' or 'network' and, therefore, either accept no access at all or no root access). And probably you'd want to have a .rhosts file in your (root's) home directory. And yes, it is in the man-pages (see 'ttys', for instance!) and the DigitalLibrarian version is indexed and could even have been searched automatically ;-) -- 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: How to post-mortem system panic? Message-ID: <Dy2tsz.27p@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <51u4r2$565@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:46:10 GMT In article <51u4r2$565@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> smbakh@milind (Milind Bakhle) writes: > Hello all! > > My NeXTstation Turbo has been crashing often (five times > in the last two months). I have not been able to identify > any trend in the system panics. The only new thing is that > we have an additional disk on our server, which I have > nfs-mounted, and use frequently. > > How can I go about diagnosing the cause of this rash of > system panics? When the panic window pops up, the contents > scroll by quite quickly, so that I miss most of the > messages. I tried to look at /usr/adm/messages, but all I > see is a line like "going down on signal 15", followed by > the usual boot messages. > What you need as basic info is to be found in section 9 "StartShut" of the SysAdmin online manual (/NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf) and possibly in appendix E of the same manual! -- 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: ashley@digalt.com (Ashley Campbel) Sender: ashley@digalt.com (Ashley Campbel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Date: 21 Sep 96 12:21:12 GMT Subject: cmsg cancel <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> Organization: Digital Alternatives Control: cancel <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> Message-ID: <cancel.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> These cancels are issued as a service to the Internet providers not wishing to carry articles from computer geeks and eggheads. Sites that do not wish to take advantage of this free service can easily can opt out of these cancels by "aliasing out" the geekcancel pseudosite.
From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pioneer CD-ROM X10 on NeXT Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:44:53 GMT Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe Message-ID: <523jd5$j0m@speedy.grolier.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Just for information : The "PIONEER CD-ROM DR-U10X Rev 1.07" works very well on my NeXTstation. It is a very speed CD-ROM reader. I use it to reinstall NS 3.3 on my internal hard disk with success. And I can read CD-Photo (my old Toshiba XM-3401B doesn't) ! Eric. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Éric Lévénez "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" mailto:levenez@club-internet.fr Publius Vergilius Maro, (NeXTMail, MIME) Georgica, II-489 --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IBM HD 4GB on NeXT Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:56:57 GMT Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe Message-ID: <523k3p$j0m@speedy.grolier.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Just for information : I put the hard disk "IBM DFRSS4F Rev 4B4B", a 4 GB in external on my NeXTstation. And it works fine. I put a jumper on "D TI SY" and on "DIS PAR", and I build 3 partitions with a disktab : DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ :pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ :ic:tc=4.3BSD: I have warning with "disk", but it works. I have two 2 GB and one 400 MB partitions. Eric. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Éric Lévénez "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" mailto:levenez@club-internet.fr Publius Vergilius Maro, (NeXTMail, MIME) Georgica, II-489 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> Sender: "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 21 Sep 96 12:21:12 GMT Subject: cmsg cancel <01bba6d2$27429ac0$3e031281@bananajr> Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Control: cancel <01bba6d2$27429ac0$3e031281@bananajr> Message-ID: <cancel.01bba6d2$27429ac0$3e031281@bananajr> These cancels are issued as a service to the Internet providers not wishing to carry articles from computer geeks and eggheads. Sites that do not wish to take advantage of this free service can easily can opt out of these cancels by "aliasing out" the geekcancel pseudosite.
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP Kernel Panics Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 10:27:53 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <Dy6L2I.E8@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <xktenjx2fu3.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> In article <xktenjx2fu3.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> Jean-Henri Duteau <jeand@myrias.com> writes: > Hi all, > > Hopefully someone can help me out here. I've just reinstalled NS3.3 > on my '040 station. I've installed the latest PPP for NeXT. This was > the same version I was using before. But now I'm getting Kernel > Panics (where the NMI comes up and you have to reboot) almost every > PPP session. I've never noticed these before. My PPP was working fine until a few days ago when it started playing up. It was crashing EVERY time, at the instant that the connection was established. In the end I was able to make the problem go away be tweaking with the speed on the terminal line. Strangly enough, not be actually changing in, but by changing how it was set... I use the NeXT(Black hardware) as the server for my other machine, and was connecting via ttya. Once running everything works at 38400, but I've been unable to find a way to convinve ttys to set the port to 38400. I had an invalid entry in the speed field, which was defaulting to 9600. I was then connecting at 9600, and sttying up to 38400. Correcting the entry in ttys to be 9600, and proceding in the same way worked fine. Does anyone know the correct way to specify gettys to run at faster than 9600? Simlarly (I know this has been asked before) can ttys be run faster than 38400? (the printer config panel allows faster connections to be specified, I've no evidence that these actually work). $an
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP's mysterious "pauses"... Date: 23 Sep 1996 13:50:14 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5264im$93f@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <jray-1809961218520001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> In article <jray-1809961218520001@test-128-146-143-254.net.ohio-state.edu> jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) writes: > Doesn't make any difference... > Watching the lookupd log file, I see the bottleneck in: gethostbyaddr > That procedure "hangs" for periods up to 50000+ ms - it seems to happen > quite regularly, as well. This means connections to your DNS nameserver is slow. I'd recommend installing/setting up a local cacheing named DNS daemon. -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple filesystem types under NeXTStep Date: 23 Sep 1996 08:02:20 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <525u8c$fic@papoose.quick.com> References: <51u26f$302@papoose.quick.com> <51ua46$8n9@news.next.com> In article <51ua46$8n9@news.next.com>, Joe Keenan <Joe_Keenan@next.com> wrote: >In article <51u26f$302@papoose.quick.com> jq@papoose.quick.com (James >E. Quick) writes: > >#NS will only automatically mount the first partition on any drive >#during login. If you want to have more partitions mounted put >#the in the fstab, then load the fstab into netinfo. > >Actually, you only put NFS file system mounts in NetInfo. Local system >harddisk mounts are done before NetInfo starts, so they need to just be >in /etc/fstab. True for most purposes, but doing that one niload can later prevent confusion: if you ever need access to that info again, it will not be found by the workspace. example: umount -a -t 4.3 do a bunch of stuff mount -a -t 4.3 I do this kind of thing when I am working on dangerous stuff, (like driver development and testing). If I wedge the system, I will not have to fsck the the unmounted partitions on the way back up. If the information was not loaded into netinfo, then you have to use individual mount comands with both device name + mount path for each of the partitions. So, having netinfo match /etc/fstab is not strictly needed, but will make the system work under all conditions, not just the most common ones. -- ___ ___ | 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: rhca80@fsrams.sps.mot.com (Henry Melton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp. Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:41:29 -0600 Organization: Semiconductor Products Sector Distribution: world Message-ID: <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com> References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net>, ashley@digalt.com (Ashley Campbel) writes: > > > My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster, > root, hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward > them ten. > It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get > quite irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a > little extreme, but I'm getting sick of junk mail. > > -Ash Let me tell you a little story, from the other side. I am helping a small school in Texas host a web site. To make it prettier, we applied for, and received a mint-new *.edu domain name and my ISP set up the virtual domain on its machines. In addition to the web site, we also got the whole email feed for that domain into one mail box. Since there are no real email addresses for that domain, I forwarded all email to my newton, which I could check via PPP and POP once a week or so. Everything worked fine. Over in California, a MMF spammer prepared a notice for many, many usenet newsgroups. Through a mis-configured header, it appeared as if the email address of the spammer was from my domain. Unsuspecting admin, (me), connected his newton and began to download the mailbox. When my newton crashed due to memory exhaustion, I began to suspect that something was wrong. After a day or so getting my newton back in working order, and unsuccessful attempts to deduce the real email address of the culprit, I just gave up and /dev/null'ed all the irate user mail. My point: Some people take the tack "I can't hurt the spammer, so I'll spam the admin." I no longer have any sympathy for that point of view. ONE email to me detailing the problem would have been enough. The header and first few lines of the offending message is all that is needed, no one looks at the rest of it anyway, especially after the first one.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure? In-Reply-To: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca's message of 23 Sep 1996 15:10:06 GMT Message-ID: <ukv20fti5h7.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:03:16 GMT croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) said: > > > Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to > automatically power on after a power failure? Ewwwww! Now THIS would be tricky. My off-the-cuff suggestion would be a seperate controller plugged into the same outlet as the cube. You'd need to set up something capable of operating what would be, in essence, an electronic momentary switch to temporarily shunt pins 6 and 19 on the monitor connector whenever power is applied to the controller. ****WARNING!!!!!!****** I am no electronics wizard, and I take ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY for ANYTHING that happens if you follow any part of the ideas below. If it works, great. If something goes wrong, it's not my fault. *********************** I'm not sure of the exact setup (check one of the electronics newsgroups...), but it sounds like you'd need a stepdown transformer to change the 120VAC to 12V (or even 5V)DC, and then have that voltage charge a capacitor. The cap would be connected to a relay (hopefully opto-isolated...we don't want voltage on those pins, other than what's already there), and the relay would sit between pins 6 and 19, in series with a 470-Ohm resistor. When the cap charges to capacity (caused by power being applied to the circuit), it would discharge, causing the relay to momentarily close, thus completing the circuit between pins 6 and 19 temporarily, causing the cube to power up. The BIG trick would be to use that same cap discharge to OPEN a relay in front of the cap, so that this only occurs once (the AC power will continue to be fed to the transformer). A possibility would be to use a normally-closed relay, which would open and stay open after it receives a certain amount of voltage. That amount would be the output of the transformer plus the output of the cap discharge. Either one by itself would not be sufficient to break the circuit, therefore allowing the cap to charge once. When powered up, the relay before the cap would close, the cap would charge and subsequently discharge, temporarily closing the optoisolated relay bridging the resistor between pins 9 and 19, and simultaneously forcing the relay in front of the cap to open, breaking the circuit. The device would sit in this state until power was again applied to it (e.g., once the AC line came back on after a power outage). Alternately, you could use other pins providing voltage from the monitor port to hold the pre-cap relay open. Of course, you're now stuck with a device that would in effect refuse to let you turn off your cube for an extended period of time. :) Hope it was interesting, if not helpful. :) --Mark C. Langston University of Chicago -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure? Date: 23 Sep 1996 15:10:06 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to automatically power on after a power failure? -- 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: fh3s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (dy=p(ya-y[t])dt) Subject: How to override a upper limit of NeXT ID number? Message-ID: <Dy72Cv.98B@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:41:18 GMT Help, pleeease. We are trying to create an account for a new grad student to our group. All members of our group have the same ID numbers for both NeXT system and University maintained Unix system which is RS6000. Our university assigns a unique Unix ID number to any new student. Our new student unfortunately was given a higher Unix ID number that our NeXTStep does not allow any account ID of "3200" or greater. If our NeXT System assigned an ID number greater than 3200 to our new acount, then it is no longer able to NFS mount university based unix systems to a directory for a new person. Even if we assign a lower number to a person, a discrepancy between NeXT ID number and University ID number causes a problem for NFS mount again. Is there any way possible to override an upper limit of NeXT account ID number? Say, upto 100000 rather than 32000. Aki Hamagami Department of Psychology University of Virginia 102 Gilmer Hall -- \\|// \\|// ******* ******* @@@@@ @@@@@ @@===========================@@
From: daniels@mindspring.com (Alan Daniels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp. Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:24:54 GMT Organization: Mindspring Enterprises, Inc. Message-ID: <5262v8$1b3@camel0.mindspring.com> References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com> rhca80@fsrams.sps.mot.com (Henry Melton) wrote: [snip...] >My point: Some people take the tack "I can't hurt the spammer, so I'll >spam the admin." I no longer have any sympathy for that point of view. >ONE email to me detailing the problem would have been enough. The >header and first few lines of the offending message is all that is needed, >no one looks at the rest of it anyway, especially after the first one. Depending on the newsgroup, a full *ten percent* of the traffic is related to Make Money Fast (MMF) scams. Stamping out the MMFs is as futile as trying to get rid of cockroaches: Sure, you can step on them, but what happens when you have a million cockroaches? Over the last year or so, the percentage of postings with substance in them has dropped off noticeably. Between the MMFs, the finance and insurance ads, the sex-related web site ads, the "me too" postings, and so on and so on, its gotten pretty damn noisy in here. An estimate in PCWeek said that the Internet was going to grow by 60% next year. It's only going to get worse. It isn't going to last forever, though. Between Java-enabled pages, the web-enabled version of Notes, and the next version of Netscape that will integrate Collabra, web-based discussion sites will be common within a year. There are a few out there already, but they are still in the experimental stage. All the intelligent discussions will eventually move off of Usenet and onto the Web. The downside of this is that most discussions will be moderated. Also, with everything centralized on the web, no one will say "comp.lang.c++" anymore, but rather "The c++ discussion site at MIT". I can live with this, though. Look on the good side: No more ads, no more MMFs, and no more of someone jumping into a group about topic A and yelling "topic A sucks!". Also, no obvious way for a third party to collect a thousand e-mail addresses to send spam to. I'll miss Usenet, but it is in the middle of being killed off by advertisers and MMF spammers. Once the exodus begins, it will snowball until there's nothing left but ads. Usenet will be dead in three years. -- ============ Alan Daniels daniels@mindspring.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143049.7292A-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:35:52 -0400 References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> To: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@cs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I don't think so.... Some of the later turbos and some nonturbos with the turbo chipsets had this capacity, but I don't think any of the cubes had them. I think I remember sometime back about some keyboard hack that would fool the NeXT into thinking the power button was always pressed (ie you were always telling it to power on, even when it was) but I didn't really like that idea, so I don't think I kept the article. Aslo, at least around here, the power is notorious for going out, coming back on for a few seconds, and going out again (probably because the instant it comes back online there is a huge demand for power because of all the people who didn't turn their electrical equipment OFF when the power went down (ie: when the power goes off, you should turn off everything that will ask for power the second the power comes back on, or you could have a very large surge.) My uncle works for an electrical company, and says this is a very common problem (a few attempts needed before power really comes back on).... even seen a few surges->fires over the years.... Moral of the story is that I think I'd rather turn it back on manually about 15 minutes after I am _sure_ the power is back to stay.... Of course, you may have other ideas.... TjL On 23 Sep 1996, Chris Roehrig wrote: > Date: 23 Sep 1996 15:10:06 GMT > From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@cs.ubc.ca> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.next.hardware > Subject: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure? > > Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to > automatically power on after a power failure? > > > -- > 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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure? Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:40:00 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <omFha0W00UzxE214Ei@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 23-Sep-96 Hardware mod to turn NeXT c.. by Chris Roehrig@cs.ubc.ca > Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to > automatically power on after a power failure? Your cube may already be able to do that. On my NeXTstation Turbo, there is a 'Startup Preferences' module in Preferences.app which includes a checkbox for "turn the computer on after power off or failure". I forget which generation of black hardware first had this functionality, but if you've upgraded your cubes' motherboard to an '040 and have a recent revision of the ROM, perhaps your system can do this too. Of course, you could do an end-run around the problem and get yourself a UPS, which will prevent your computer from going down when the power blinks. -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.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp. From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143727.7292B-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:50:20 -0400 References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com> Followup-To: alt.current-events.net-abuse In-Reply-To: <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:41:29 -0600 > From: Henry Melton <rhca80@fsrams.sps.mot.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, > comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.hardware.video, > comp.sys.mac.hypercard, comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant, > comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.printing, > comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior, comp.sys.mac.programmer.help, > comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc, comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools, > comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.wanted, comp.sys.newton.misc, > comp.sys.next.advocacy, comp.sys.next.hardware, > comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.palmtops, comp.sys.pen, > comp.sys.powerpc, comp. > Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... > > In article <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net>, ashley@digalt.com (Ashley > Campbel) writes: > > > > > > My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster, > > root, hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward > > them ten. > > It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get > > quite irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a > > little extreme, but I'm getting sick of junk mail. Oh yes, this seems to make sense: "This person (the sysadmin) gave an account to someone who happened to be an idiot, so I'm going to abuse my email capabilities to show them how much it upsets me when someone abuses email." If you think you're sick of getting junk mail, how sick do you think the sysadmins are at having to respond to mail about it? I sent one report to a sysadmin (the same day the spam appeared on my newsfeed) who reported to me that I was the 457th *different* person to have sent them a copy of the entire message. Moral of the story: the sysadmins get hassled plenty by legimate complaints without people sending them multiple copies of the message. TjL
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: c++ help needed Date: 23 Sep 1996 19:06:28 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <526n3k$7ci@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have a C++ program I am trying to run with NS3.3 with the developer patch installed. When I make, I get the following: lubra> make cc -Wall -O -c sim.cc cc -Wall -O -c input.cc cc -Wall -O -c nrutils.cc cc -Wall -O -c initdata.cc cc -Wall -O -c rn.cc cc -Wall -O -c rfd.cc cc -Wall -O -c ry.cc cc -Wall -O -c rpop.cc cc -Wall -O -c rconout.cc cc -Wall -O -c west.cc cc -Wall -O -c wrap.cc cc -Wall -O -o model sim.o input.o nrutils.o initdata.o rn.o rfd.o ry.o rpop.o rconout.o west.o wrap.o -lg++ ld: Undefined symbols: __vt$3ios __vt$istream$3ios __vt$8ifstream$3ios *** Exit 1 Stop. lubra> my makefile load statement is: model: sim.o input.o nrutils.o initdata.o rn.o rfd.o ry.o rpop.o rconout.o west.o wrap.o sim.h cc -Wall -O -o model sim.o input.o nrutils.o initdata.o rn.o rfd.o ry.o rpop.o rconout.o west.o wrap.o -lg++ Meanwhile, I can compile and link a simple test program that reads from a file and writes to a file, using ios::in (which is used in the problem program also), using cc -Wall test.cc nrutils.cc -lg++. In the problem program, I do little more with io states than use ios::in and << and >> operators. I'm baffled Any help will be appreciated. -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: c++ help needed Date: 23 Sep 1996 19:57:10 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <526q2m$80r@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <526n3k$7ci@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <526n3k$7ci@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 09/23/96, Randy Jackson wrote: >I have a C++ program I am trying to run with NS3.3 with the developer patch >installed. When I make, I get the following: + It might also help to know that this program runs without problem on a NS3.3 for intel with the unpatched developer package. The problem machine is also Intel. Randy >-- > Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o > __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, > _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | >(*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, > FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu > -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: ashley@digalt.com (Ashley Campbel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:55:46 -0500 Organization: Digital Alternatives Message-ID: <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. > You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to > even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal > Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the > matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy > to have it. > > The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they > originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes > are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A > polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best > course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal > addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however. > My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster, root, hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward them ten. It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get quite irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a little extreme, but I'm getting sick of junk mail. -Ash
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Remote login as root? Message-ID: <R.Pine.NXT.3.95.960921153804.2838D-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:39:49 -0400 References: <jbf-2009961324080001@news.tiac.net> To: "James B. Frazer" <jbf@frazer.com> In-Reply-To: <jbf-2009961324080001@news.tiac.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. see 'man ttys', especially the parts relating to the 'secure' entry. make a backup of /etc/ttys before you edit it. Trust me. If you screw things up you might only be able to boot into single user mode. TjL On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, James B. Frazer wrote: > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:24:08 -0400 > From: "James B. Frazer" <jbf@frazer.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Remote login as root? > > I would like to be able to telnet to my NeXT on my home LAN, but > it seems that login is configured to reject root login on any tty > (even the local tty used by Terminal). This restriction doesn't > seem to be documented in the man pages. Does anyone know if it can > be disabled? (Yes, I understand there are security risks but consider > them acceptable.) > > Barney > > >
From: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de (Gerald Wildgruber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: restore beyond theory ? Date: 21 Sep 1996 22:50:42 +0200 Organization: Apatheia Corp. Sender: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <R.x7zq2jbnj1.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. Can anyone give a realistic appreciation of a restore process done from DAT tape: if i have fresh level-0-dumps what would be the approppriate way of recovering after a fatal system crash. Installing a new system from cd and inserting things from tape afterwards; or is it possible to do a direct restore from tape. In this case what must be prepared to do so (creating a file system on disk, scsi tape driver, etc), what would be the necessary steps and what their order ? Thanks for your help Gerald -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gerald Wildgruber No one can have an idea gewil@ue801be.ppp. once he starts really lrz-muenchen.de listening. - John Cage (NeXTMail and MIME welcome)
From: bmw@visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! Boot fails after installing network card Date: 21 Sep 1996 20:37:54 -0400 Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Message-ID: <R.5221p2$dve@ampere.visgen.com> References: <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu> Summary: a simple fix Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. In article <323FB488.38F0@nscl.msu.edu>, Kevin Behrooz <behrooz@nscl.msu.edu> wrote: >Hello all, > >I changed the network card, installed the driver, etc. on a >Intel based NeXt, but now it does not boot. Since it does not >boot, I can't go back to the original config. because it does not >boot. I can boot to single user mode, but don't know what to do >next. A very simple fix is to boot single-user then edit /etc/hostconfig (after backing it up) and alter the IP address to be the loopback address. That will satisfy the daemons et al. Then log out of the single-user shell to let the booting continue. Example: boot: -s [...] % cd /etc % cp hostconfig hostconfig.save Edit /etc/hostconfig so it contains, other than comments, just these lines: HOSTNAME=localhost INETADDR=127.0.0.1 ROUTER=-NO- IPNETMASK=-AUTOMATIC- IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC- NETMASTER=-NO- YPDOMAIN=-NO- TIME=NO Then logout... % ^D (That's Ctrl-D) to log out and the boot will continue to multi-user. You may get complaints, but you will get a login window. Now you can login as root and continue your setting up. -bmw -- Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com | Suite 1000, Box 333 | Phone: 416-813-3282 | 700 Bay Street | FAX: 416-813-3250 | Toronto M5G 1Z6 |
From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 21 Sep 1996 17:06:03 GMT Organization: meow!!! (private site) Message-ID: <R.52179r$1bg@zoodle.robin.de> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <4mE2Vf200WBO02ZLQF@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4mE2Vf200WBO02ZLQF@andrew.cmu.edu> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. On 09/18/96, Charles William Swiger wrote: > I'd be interested in seeing someone come up with a real-world scenario > where a system would perform better using physical memory for a RAM disk > instead of using physical memory controlled by user-level pagers to > provide IPC and manage the resident sets. Not exactly the same, but similar thing: A while ago the German computer magazine C't did some benchmarking on systems with cache SCSI controllers compared to the same system with the cache memory moved to the main memory (using VM and disk caches in main memory). If I remember correctly, the RAM on the controller was never worth the issue, except if you had an extraordinary big amount of RAM already in your system. On the other hand, they've not been working with a real operating system doing those benchmarks, but with a Microsoft product... (I would have to dig a bit to produce specific results. Email me, for I might miss a news posting, if you really need the numbers. Isn't worth it, for at least for me it proved what I suspected anyway.) (That is not meant to miscredit cache controllers - if your main system holds significantly more memory than the controller, i.e. 128 MB compared to 8 MB, then it's ok. But adding an 8MB dedicated cache to an 8MB main memory system is waste.) Bye, Uli
From: Randy Jay Yarger <randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No services or root preferences Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:41:07 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960923173249.17275A-100000@hs1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I just installed NS3.3 on a Dell P166. Everything sorta works fine except for one problem. No services show up in the services menu, nor do other installed services seem to register. For instance, I installed Developer, yet .project files still have have the 'text' icon. When I run 'make_services' I get an error to the effect of 'can't find applist file' or something of the sort. Also, root's preferences don't stick. When I log out the screen goes to the default color when I log back in as root most of the prefs have reset to default. (But the dock works fine, and apps remember their window positioning). I copied over the entire /.NeXT directory from another working NeXT, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Any suggestions? TIA, Randy Jay Yarger | Department of Physics, Michigan State University randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu | http://hs1.hst.msu.edu/randy/randy.html
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: autonfsmount problem Date: 23 Sep 1996 23:12:38 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5275h6$qrc@news.tamu.edu> We've inherited a bunch of NextStations from a lab on campus and I'm trying to reconfigure them for our use, and I have 9 correctly set up, but one is giving me fits. On booting everything seems normal until "Starting file services:" Then there is a pause and eventually an error message from autonfsmount stating that "Can't get my name". Then the boot continues, but once you log in, no network services are working. Can't ping other machines on the network, etc. Also, although hostname returns the correct value, if you open NetInfoManager, the title bar of the browser shows (something like) "no name specified" instead the name of the machine. Can someone please suggest what might be wrong with the configuration. Thanks. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.p From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Sender: news@rci.ripco.com Message-ID: <R.Dy44I7.M5J@rci.ripco.com> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:34:54 GMT References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <casper-1009962029580001@oats-20.nb.net> <51s413$dmb@svc.slc.uen.org> Organization: Ripco Communications Inc. Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.misc Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. In article <51s413$dmb@svc.slc.uen.org>, KEN RICE <krice@admin.vhs.davis.k12.ut.us> wrote: > HOWEVER, I'm very concerned that this approach may establish some >precedent that using the Internet somehow falls under the >jurisdiction of the U.S. Postal Service. Don't worry- that's not the reason you send these to the Postal Service. > When using the Internet, I don't consider myself as using the U.S. >Mail. For one thing, I don't have to pay $0.32 for shoddy service. > At some future trial, could they drag up those scam complaints >citing the reference of fraudulent activity via the U.S. Mail? And, if >you think that's ridiculous, do a mental replay of the O.J. Simpson >trial The reason you send these posts to the USPS is because the money is being sent to the participants via Postal Mail, making it a Federal 'mail fraud' crime. If the letter was being distributed by fax, that wouldn't give the Postal Service authority over phone lines. -- David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased dr@ripco.com (312) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!
From: TS-Automation@datacomm.ch (Thomas Schaertel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetWare 4.1 & nuc.nlm Problems (FS) Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:48:38 GMT Organization: TS-Automation Message-ID: <R.09960821175152.OUI93.TS-Automation@datacomm.ch> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. Hi, we are using a NetWare 4.1 server. Just now, I wanted to establish a NS 3.3 connection to this NW server. 4 Volumes exists on this server: SYS, ACCT, ENG, UNIX. UNIX has NFS name space assigned. I created a user netware within the server context (because NS logs on in bindery mode, and the bindery context is the server context). I also assigned full rights to volume UNIX for this user. After configuring NS accordingly, I was able to use the volume correctly - everything work fine, except that I had to use FAT filenames (8.3 format), remember the volume UNIX had NFS name space assigned. To gain full UNIX access for my Intel NeXTSTEP 3.3 computer, I loaded nuc.nlm on the netware server and created the files /etc/nfsusers /etc/hosts /etc/nfsgroup. After loading, strange things happened: 1. From the GUI od NeXTSTEP I had no access (symbol with a ?) to the UNIX volume, but I could access SYS and ENG (full rights but FAT and HPFS enabled). 2. I tried the same with a terminal window. Guess what! It worked, I could access the UNIX volume, created some directories with long filenames and even copy some files with long names to it. It turns out, that Volume and Directories belong always to root and wheel. Obviously there´s a mismatch between a terminal view and the GUI view. But I couldn´t change the user and group assignments. Within the terminal session it was possible to delete all files and the directies I created. Some more details: Protocol is 802.2 (according to NeXTAnswers #1823), the NUC.NLM is version 2.0 (it copied this NU Client from UNIXWARE 2.0 with all necessary support files) Any suggestions or help much appreciated. Thomas Thomas Schaertel, Automation - Germany eMail: TS-Automation@datacomm.ch
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to override a upper limit of NeXT ID number? Date: 23 Sep 1996 19:22:51 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <526o2b$6fn@news.next.com> References: <Dy72Cv.98B@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Aki Hamagami writes: > our NeXTStep does not allow any account ID of "3200" or greater. [...] > Is there any way possible to override an upper limit of NeXT > account ID number? Say, upto 100000 rather than 32000. Do you mean 3200 or 32000? If UserManager complains about a limit of 3200, there must be a limit set in the NetInfo domain where you are creating the new account. Examine the defaults using UserManager's Defaults command (in the User menu). If you actually mean that you can't create user accounts with a UID greater than 32767, then there's nothing you can do. NEXTSTEP's user ID numbers are 16 bit signed integers, so the maximum UID is 32767. -- Marc Majka
From: leahy@math.rutgers.edu (Andrew Leahy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Buggy NS3.3? Can't export CD-ROM via NFS Date: 23 Sep 1996 21:28:36 -0400 Organization: Rutgers University LCSR Message-ID: <527dg4$9tf@math.rutgers.edu> We've been trying to get a NeXTStep machine (NS 3.3, canon object.station 41) to export a CD-ROM mounted in its SCSI CD-ROM drive to several other machines via NFS. No matter how we go about doing this, we end up with the following situation: The most the remote machines can do is view the directory structure on the CD-ROM. They cannot access the files themselves. (It's possible to move around through the various directories on the CD-ROM and an 'ls -axl' will show the correct file sizes, but 'cat filename' will get the prompt right back, as if the file was empty.) The permissions of the files aren't an issue. Throw the CD-ROM in the Linux box right next to the NeXTStep machine, mount it, export it, and you can see the files with no problem. Also, is there any way to disable the automounting of a CD-ROM? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. Andrew Leahy leahy@math.rutgers.edu
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help on configuring dns lookups Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 19:38:34 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <R.32448A4D.1935@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. Can anyone help me configure dns lookups for telneting and web serving and OmniWeb usage? I notice at startup that the Apache httpd can't determine its hostname. I've recently had it working, but made some changes, and can't get back to where I was before. I've already booted single user and restored NetInfo to its original settings. I am able to see the NetWare network and telnet out by IP only. I have added settings to /etc/hosts and /etc/hostconfig and /etc/resolv.conf files. Does anyone know what file(s) the SimpleNetworkStarter and HostManager write to? Also, could this be someone else is using the same IP address? How can I determine this? I'm really baffled. Runnning NS 3.3 Intel, no other NS or OS 4 MACH boxes on the local network. I'm not providing any NetInfo services. Thanks in advance. Any suggestions are appreciated. -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok. ytalk: eadubie@138.87.201.11 * PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key" Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University "Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac." - Tim Leary ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SNIFFER for NS Date: 24 Sep 1996 02:49:23 GMT Organization: <<<>>> Message-ID: <527i7j$lon@news.zipnet.net> References: <51ra5u$cvn@scsing.switch.ch> Cc: lionel@cyberlab.ch In <51ra5u$cvn@scsing.switch.ch> Lionel Tinguely wrote: > Hello there ! > > Is there a proctcol analyser "SNIFFER" taht run on NeXTSTEp 3.3 or 4.0 ? > > Thanks in advance > > I think you are looking for the 'tcpdump' application. The jury is still out on whether or not tcpdump works under NS 3.3 or 4.0. This is mainly due to the lack of a decent BPF LKS. I recompiled a BPF that was written to work under NS3.2, but I'm having some problems with it under OS4.0. The timestamps don't get recorded correctly and it really slows down the OS... It did work with the latest tcpdump from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov. ASM -- Allan MacKinnon mailto:allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA (617) 424-0615
From: pc25@ Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lib Foundation Patch for NeXTStep 3.2?? Date: 24 Sep 1996 09:59:13 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik 3.3 Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen Distribution: world Message-ID: <528bdh$ft6@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> Dear NeXT Users, I found the libFoundation Patch -- but only for NeXTSTep 3.3. I have NeXTStep 3.2 and cant use several tools due to incorrect libs. Someone told me there would be a patch to get the right libs. But not for NeXTStep 3.2!! Am I wrong??? Where can I get it?? For any help thanks in advance!!! Armin -----------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: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 21 Sep 1996 22:12:04 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <521p7k$suc@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com> <01bba6d2$27429ac0$3e031281@bananajr> "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> wrote: > Sorry, Mach internals aren't my area of expertise. I'd guess it's > just one of those hard limits that seemed reasonable when NEXTSTEP > was first implemented...(rushes off to the "find..." panel in > NT) > > Sure enough, I found this code in unix_startup.c... > #if NeXT > if ((nbuf = bufpages) < 16) > nbuf = 16; > > if (nbuf > 255) > nbuf = 255; > #endif > > And, is like the last time this file was changed was a few years > ago. I don't imagine anyone has even thought about the 255-buffer > limit in a while, either... It might also be that algorithms in the code depend on the value being < 256, and would need to be looked at. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: autonfsmount problem Message-ID: <1996Sep24.105408.10500@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <5275h6$qrc@news.tamu.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:54:08 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <5275h6$qrc@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) writes: > Then the boot continues, but once you log in, no network services are > working. Can't ping other machines on the network, etc. Also, > although hostname returns the correct value, if you open NetInfoManager, > the title bar of the browser shows (something like) "no name > specified" instead the name of the machine. This normally indicates that there is no host entry in netinfo for this machine. Use HostManager to add a suitable record. Various other optiosn occur, but this is the most likely. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: bmw@visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help on configuring dns lookups Date: 24 Sep 1996 07:39:22 -0400 Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Message-ID: <528h9a$fjn@ampere.visgen.com> References: <R.32448A4D.1935@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In article <R.32448A4D.1935@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, Eric A. Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote: > >Does anyone know what file(s) the SimpleNetworkStarter and HostManager >write to? They write to hostconfig and the netinfo db. >Also, could this be someone else is using the same IP address? How can >I determine this? Try pinging that address from another machine when the NeXT box is off the net. See if someone responds... >Runnning NS 3.3 Intel, no other NS or OS 4 MACH boxes on the local >network. I'm not providing any NetInfo services. When I want a lone NeXT box to play nicely on a net (eg 192.2.200.x), I do this: Start with a clean configuration (you've done that already by copying in a fresh netinfo tree). Set /etc/hostconfig like this: HOSTNAME=myhostname INETADDR=192.2.200.1 ROUTER=-ROUTED- IPNETMASK=-AUTOMATIC- IPBROADCAST= YPDOMAIN=-NO- NETMASTER=-NO- TIME=-NO- Set /etc/resolv.conf to point to your net's DNS server(s)... domain mydomain.com nameserver 192.2.200.3 Set /etc/hosts to be as simple as possible, eg: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.2.200.1 myhostname 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost Then use niload to set the netinfo hosts, % niload -d hosts . < /etc/hosts And remove the netinfo master dependency, % niutil -destroyprop . /machines/broadcasthost serves (that's the only really "secret" part ;-) Then reboot. Things should go well after that. -bmw -- Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com | Suite 1000, Box 333 | Phone: 416-813-3282 | 700 Bay Street | FAX: 416-813-3250 | Toronto M5G 1Z6 |
From: IlUildi <IlUildi@ares.csd.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Newbie Q: regarding swapfiles Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 07:55:34 -0600 Organization: Computer Systems Design Company Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960924075306.27469A-100000@ares.csd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is there a way to flush my swapfile without rebooting? If so, is there a way to set a max swapfile size and have it flush FIFO when max size is reached? I like NeXT, from what I've seen of it so far, but I don't much like watching the swapfile eat up my drive. Thanks, Bill ***Brain Candy*** The future is bright, fruitful and positive. -Bob Marley
From: tlegvold@jagor.srce.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Changing boot-block on NS-only disk (HELP) Date: 24 Sep 1996 14:43:01 GMT Organization: Public host at University Computing Centre, Zagreb, CROATIA Distribution: world Message-ID: <528s1l$796@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I have NS 3.3 installed on primary EIDE disk, NS uses the whole disk, there are no DOS style partitions. When I boot NS starts automagically ;-) I just bought a SCSI card and new hard disk to install Linux and (ick...) Windows95. I simply disconnected the IDE drive, installed everything and it works great. The only problem is that I have to disconnect physically the IDE drive to boot Win or Linux. Question: Is it possible (advisable, a Good Idea(TM)) to install LILO onto the first IDE disk (where NS lives) so that I can put the cover back on my machine, and simply type "next" at the LILO prompt? If do, how (i.e. what do I need in LILO config for it to recognize and find the NeXT boot block and boot loader)? Ps: The reason I didnt install NS on the new disk is that the BIOS wont recognize the SCSI disk so NeXTs fdisk wont work. After playing for a week with Linux, DOS, Windows and NeXTs fdisk and finding how compatible they really are(nt!) I chose the simple and easy config described above. It works and I don't wan't to spend more time playing with it. Regards, Thor Legvold presently in exile in Croatia
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CDROM can no longer mount DOS CDs! Help! Date: 24 Sep 1996 15:32:40 GMT Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <528uuo$hbe@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> I have black hardware, with an original NeXT CDROM drive and NS3.3. So far I could mount DOS CDROMs without problems, but recently the drive simply spits out the DOS CD! (Well, I kind of sympathise with the drive....). I can mount NS (bsd) Unix disks, no problem. I can also play Audio-CD-disks. No problem. I don't have a Mac disk handy to test it. All it does, is to check for all different file systems, including DOS, but not recognising it as DOS! Can this be due to a dirty CDROM-drive? I tried several DOS CDROMs (including those that i could read before), all with the same result! I am not aware that I changed anything on the system intentionally --- has anyone on the net experienced s.th. similar? Or any ideas what can be wrong? I can mount DOS *floppies* without problems! Any help (best via an e-mail) would be greatly appreciated!! Helmut -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Internet address question ?? Date: 24 Sep 1996 15:59:35 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <5290h7$bo8@scsing.switch.ch> Hello there ! Is it possible, on OPENSTEP 4.0, to make an account like: myname.othername@domain.ch If yes how can I do that ? Thanks in advance LiONEL -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CYBERLaB NeTWORK<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< lionel@cyberlab.ch (MiME & NeXTmail WELCOME !!) Tel: +41 (0)21 623.66.10 http://www.cyberlab.ch Fax: +41 (0)21 626.40.00 Ask for or my PGP public key ------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
From: Jon Cohen <J_Cohen@hp4700.desk.hp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:16:13 -0700 Organization: HP -- Commercial Systems Division Message-ID: <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ashley Campbel wrote: > > <snip> > but I'm getting sick of junk mail. > > -Ash I, too, hate junk mail, especially e-mail & wasteful newsgroup postings. However, there are some distinctions. A company can legally send me junk mail using the U.S. Post Office and the mailbox on my house's door. However, it is ILLEGAL (in the U.S.) for the same company to send me junk mail to my e-mail address or to my fax machine. The distinction is as follows: when a company sends junk mail to my door, that company incurs the full cost of the delivery of the junk mail; when that company sends to my e-mail or fax machine, I bear some of the cost of the delivery -- I pay my ISP for e-mail; I pay for my fax machine's paper; I pay for the electricity used to deliver either. So, make no mistake junk e-mail is not legal in the U.S. I have a canned pitch quoting the relevant U.S. laws that I use to reply to all such e-mail. I like cc'ing their postmasters, too. -- Jon Cohen jon_cohen@hp.com Hewlett Packard -- Commercial Systems Division (The opinions expressed here gotta be mine, 'cause no one else will own up to 'em.)
From: duncanc@datacom1.com (Duncan Campling) Newsgroups: houston.jobs.offered,us.jobs.offered,misc.jobs.offered,comp.jobs.offered,biz.jobs.offered,tx.jobs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: US-TX - NeXTSTEP administrator - URGENT!!! Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:43:45 GMT Organization: Datacom Technology Group Inc. Message-ID: <5292u6$9mj@mid.way.com> Our client, an international organization that builds financial trading applications and products urgently requires a NeXTSTEP administrator. This position is located in our client’s Texas office. Salary: $70K to $85K plus bonus and benefits. Successful candidates must have at least 3 years NeXT administration skills preferably gained in a large-scale environment. In addition, knowledge of Sybase would be desirable but not essential. Contact me at this address with a full resume and I will call you within 24 hours to discuss this position in detail. Duncan Campling Datacom Technology Group Inc. duncanc@datacom1.com http://www.datacom1.com 212-629-5720 Ext:230 (voice) 212-629-3374 (fax) Please mark all fax correspondence with my name - thank you
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: No services or root preferences Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960924145709.4185D-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:57:49 -0400 References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960923173249.17275A-100000@hs1> To: Randy Jay Yarger <randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960923173249.17275A-100000@hs1> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is usally a sign that the root account it assumed to be /Users/root or /users/root rather than / Check UserManager.app's listing... TjL On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Randy Jay Yarger wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:41:07 -0400 > From: Randy Jay Yarger <randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: No services or root preferences > > Hi, > I just installed NS3.3 on a Dell P166. Everything sorta works > fine except for one problem. No services show up in the services > menu, nor do other installed services seem to register. For instance, > I installed Developer, yet .project files still have have the 'text' > icon. When I run 'make_services' I get an error to the effect of 'can't > find applist file' or something of the sort. > > Also, root's preferences don't stick. When I log out the screen goes > to the default color when I log back in as root most of the prefs have > reset to default. (But the dock works fine, and apps remember their window > positioning). I copied over the entire /.NeXT directory from another > working NeXT, but it didn't seem to make a difference. > > Any suggestions? > > TIA, > Randy Jay Yarger | Department of Physics, Michigan State University > randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu | http://hs1.hst.msu.edu/randy/randy.html > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: lib Foundation Patch for NeXTStep 3.2?? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960924145858.4185F-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:00:42 -0400 References: <528bdh$ft6@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> To: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de In-Reply-To: <528bdh$ft6@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have the 3.3 user patch running on my 3.2 with no problems whatsoever. You can find the NeXTanswer (ie the patch itself) linked to: htp://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next It just says it is for 3.3, but it has worked for many under 3.2 (YMMV don't blame me etc) TjL On 24 Sep 1996, it was written: > Date: 24 Sep 1996 09:59:13 GMT > From: pc25@ > Reply-To: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: lib Foundation Patch for NeXTStep 3.2?? > > Dear NeXT Users, > > I found the libFoundation Patch -- but only for NeXTSTep 3.3. > I have NeXTStep 3.2 and cant use several tools due to incorrect > libs. Someone told me there would be a patch to get the right > libs. But not for NeXTStep 3.2!! Am I wrong??? > Where can I get it?? > > For any help thanks in advance!!! > > Armin > > -----------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 > > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.p From: katman@uchicago.edu (Eileen 'Lee' Katman) Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Message-ID: <katman-2409961413390001@bio-8.bsd.uchicago.edu> Summary: Pet a dog to lower blood pressure (the dog's bp too) Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: looseness References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143727.7292B-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:13:39 GMT Keyword: R. Dog Kate HI, I think it's just going to get worse. Newbies get on and don't know that these pyramid schemes can't work, or that Craig Shergold recovered, or that you can't get GOOD TIMES. Unfortunately, at least the directed advertising spams must work, or they wouldn't do it. Service bureaus are now being set up to send out e-mail for you, or sell you addresses etc. I've gotten directed spams for Pooper Scoopers and for Beef (who knows why) among other things. It seems like those phone calls you get at dinner asking you to give to charity of the week. A friend who is on staff of one here in Chicago says that the calls really work. I NEVER give that way (though I am always polite to the poor person having to do the call) but lots of people must. Lee Lee Katman katman@uchicago.edu Think - Vote Bad people are put into office by good people who don't vote
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Newbie Q: regarding swapfiles Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960924150158.4185G-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:05:57 -0400 References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960924075306.27469A-100000@ares.csd.net> To: IlUildi <IlUildi@ares.csd.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960924075306.27469A-100000@ares.csd.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, IlUildi wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 07:55:34 -0600 > From: IlUildi <IlUildi@ares.csd.net> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Newbie Q: regarding swapfiles > > Is there a way to flush my swapfile without rebooting? No, there isn't. It's a bad setup on NeXTs part. All you swapfile questions will be answered by reading: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver/swapfaq.txt or download: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver/swapfaq.ps http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver/swapfaq.rtf or email me with the SUBJECT: send-ascii swapfaq.txt or send-mime swapfaq.rtf or send-mime swapfaq.ps TjL
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No services or root preferences Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:58:42 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Sep24.105842.10573@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960923173249.17275A-100000@hs1> In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.960923173249.17275A-100000@hs1> Randy Jay Yarger <randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu> writes: > I just installed NS3.3 on a Dell P166. Everything sorta works > fine except for one problem. No services show up in the services > menu, nor do other installed services seem to register. For instance, > I installed Developer, yet .project files still have have the 'text' > icon. When I run 'make_services' I get an error to the effect of 'can't > find applist file' or something of the sort. > > Also, root's preferences don't stick. When I log out the screen goes > to the default color when I log back in as root most of the prefs have > reset to default. (But the dock works fine, and apps remember their window > positioning). I copied over the entire /.NeXT directory from another > working NeXT, but it didn't seem to make a difference. These may be the same problem. Use UserManager to check what root's home is. There was an old bug that could set it to /root. Change it back to /. -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to override a upper limit of NeXT ID number? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:27:19 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmG3MLu00Uzx82UxxN@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Dy72Cv.98B@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <526o2b$6fn@news.next.com> In-Reply-To: <526o2b$6fn@news.next.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 23-Sep-96 Re: How to override a upper.. by Marc Majka@next.com > If you actually mean that you can't create user accounts with a UID > greater than 32767, then there's nothing you can do. NEXTSTEP's user ID > numbers are 16 bit signed integers, so the maximum UID is 32767. Negative UIDs must be allowed-- consider the standard user "nobody" with UID -2. Or are negative UIDs handled as special cases? -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: Newbie Q: regarding swapfiles Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:37:55 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmG3WHq00UzxI2UlpL@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960924075306.27469A-100000@ares.csd.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960924075306.27469A-100000@ares.csd.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Sep-96 Newbie Q: regarding swapfiles by IlUildi@ares.csd.net > Is there a way to flush my swapfile without rebooting? Sort of. The swapfile will shrink down to the highest page still being referenced if you free all of the higher pages by terminating the processes which own them. The best way of accomplishing this is to log out and type "exit" at the login window to restart the WindowServer. > If so, is there a way to set a max swapfile size and have it flush > FIFO when max size is reached? Read "man swaptab" with reference to the "hiwat" mark, or consult TJL's swapfile FAQ (check his signature). However, setting a high-water-mark simply prevents the swapfile from growing larger-- it doesn't flush the swapfile. > I like NeXT, from what I've seen of it so far, but I don't much > like watching the swapfile eat up my drive. Most likely, you aren't providing enough drive space to swap on for the actual virtual memory usage needs of your system. Providing 100MB free or more to swap on is likely to solve your problems-- and drive space is running at $0.30 per MB, so it's not very expensive.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: remote logout Date: 24 Sep 1996 20:06:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <529f11$gio@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, Is there a way, from a telnet session, to gracefully logout a user who is logged into the console? Occasionally, I forget to logout before leaving work and I want to telnet in from home and log myself out. I have root privilege if that is neccessary. Also, what about unsaved documents? Thanks, Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.p From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960924205142.1486A-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:58:31 -0400 References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143727.7292B-100000@charisma> <katman-2409961413390001@bio-8.bsd.uchicago.edu> Followup-To: alt.current-events.net-abuse To: Eileen 'Lee' Katman <katman@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <katman-2409961413390001@bio-8.bsd.uchicago.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII It is a good time to learn how to use 'procmail'. It is very simple to setup a program which will bounce mail messages which come from hosts/people who you know are spammers. Once you have it setup, adding new names is as easy as echo "spamguy@baddomain.com" >> ~/.procmail.spamlist I'd suggest adding "@interramp.com" to that spamlist, as they have advertised as being willing to spam people for a price. TjL
From: "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 20 Sep 1996 20:58:47 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <R.01bba6d2$27429ac0$3e031281@bananajr> References: <UmDgM=S00WBO81c=8o@andrew.cmu.edu> <51nneu$mvv@news.next.com> <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. James E. Quick <jq@papoose.quick.com> wrote in article <51t4bh$1gh@papoose.quick.com>... > p.s. Mark, sort of related to this topic (and yes I did read > and understand the last line of your .sig). Can you shed > any light on why NeXT doesn't allow more than 255 buf > structures? I tried to cheat, by initializing nbuf to > a larger value in mach_kernel, but the early initialization > code set it back to 255 before allocating the buffers. > Why so chintzy with block device buffers? I ask, because > my eventual file system will probably do best in an > environment with plentiful bufs. Sorry, Mach internals aren't my area of expertise. I'd guess it's just one of those hard limits that seemed reasonable when NEXTSTEP was first implemented...(rushes off to the "find..." panel in NT) Sure enough, I found this code in unix_startup.c... #if NeXT if ((nbuf = bufpages) < 16) nbuf = 16; if (nbuf > 255) nbuf = 255; #endif And, is like the last time this file was changed was a few years ago. I don't imagine anyone has even thought about the 255-buffer limit in a while, either... -Mark -- Mark Bessey Software Quality Assurance NeXT Software, Inc. --->Not an official NeXT spokesperson<--
From: michael@windchaser (Michael F. DeMan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CGI...How can it be done? Date: 20 Sep 1996 22:09:09 GMT Organization: Network Access Services, Inc. Message-ID: <R.51v4m5$o8@barad-dur.nas.com> References: <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> <51n8e0$ek@marsu.navigator.de> <51p3rc$o3i@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Cc: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. In <51p3rc$o3i@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Gary Finley wrote: > In <51eico$tto@csunet.ctstateu.edu> Dark Jedi MAN wrote: > > I'm trying to get CGI to work on our NeXTSTEP machines but... > > If you want to write forms etc in Perl, I've been very impressed with > Lincoln Stein's CGI.PM library. Stein has written an OOP-style CGI > function set in Perl, and it makes writing good forms a snap. Here's > the URL: > > http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/cgi_docs.html > > > > You should also check out the free version of WebObjects from www.next.com
From: peter@eline.com (peter marinac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:26:06 GMT Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <52a1f9$cib@news1.slip.net> References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> <omFha0W00UzxE214Ei@andrew.cmu.edu> >> Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to >> automatically power on after a power failure? Sure, sell your cube and by a slab (or another cube) that supports the feature. With slabs going for as little as 200 bucks it is probably the least expensive solution
From: "PENG, KUANG-YAO" <K0P7185@acs.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: newbie's question: dual boot NT and Nextstep Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:44:47 +0000 Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <Pine.VMS.3.91-vms-b4-acs.960924214250.518B@VMS1.TAMU.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can anybody tell me the procedure to dual boot NT and Nextstep on a pentium PC? Thanks, Peng
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newbie's question: dual boot NT and Nextstep Date: 25 Sep 1996 07:40:02 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <52anki$eas@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> References: <Pine.VMS.3.91-vms-b4-acs.960924214250.518B@VMS1.TAMU.EDU> "PENG, KUANG-YAO" <K0P7185@acs.tamu.edu> writes > Can anybody tell me the procedure to dual boot NT and Nextstep on a > pentium PC? > > Thanks, > > Peng The procedure should like this: - first install NS in the first partition (this installs also the NS bootmanager in the Master Boot record) - then make with DOS (startup from a:) a primary partition on the hard drive - install NT in this primary partition (NT installs it's boot loader then in this partition) -> now pressing 'd' or '2' at the NS boot manager should result in booting NT, that is, starting the NT boot manager in the second partition. Abraham G. _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Technical Mathematics & Informatics The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 78 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disk Bad Block Removal Date: 25 Sep 1996 10:58:48 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <52b398$pvq@kanga.accessone.com> Is reasb the best way to remove bad disk blocks? sdformat apparently does not work with bad block tables, so I am reluctant to use it. A crude way around bad blocks would be to give them their own partition. Perhaps it's my dying magneto-optical drive, which fails to reflect the results of reasb. Has anyone made good use of this command, or any other command? -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Q:NeXT and Fujitsu 2513 MO (3.5" 640mb MO Solutions) Date: 25 Sep 1996 11:55:28 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <52b6jg$hlv@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> In case anyone is curious a Fujistsu M2513A is a 3.5" Direct Overwrite MO drive capable of storing 640mb (2048 b/s media). Great drive! The following was posted here a while ago: > In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <4q3dd0$qam@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> > you wrote: > > > >Hallo! > >I'v brought a Fujitsu 2513 MO and want to use a Medium with > blocksize of 2048 > >Byte! > >1.: > >If I want to use the Medium, the Console output is: > >"Note: This device's > >block size (2048) is too big to coerce to DEV_BSIZE (1024). You > won't be > >able to use it with software versions earlier then Release 3.0" > >2.: > >If I want to formatted a Medium with 512 Byte blocksize the Output is: > >"Device Init Panel - Cannout select the default (choosing NeXT instead) > >->can't write label -- diskunusable !: I/O error" > > > >Can anybody help me with that Problems and can someone tell me whitch > >Program must be updated! > > > >I'm use Next Release 3.3 on an Intel Prozessor! Recently, these drives became available in the US. Although I did not get the exact errors, I did experience similar difficulties. The problem mentioned above probably arises from the device driver getting confused when using the 2513 with both 512 and 2048 b/s media. Use one or the other during any given session. Otherwise, once this occurs I've needed to reboot to get things back in order. Workspace initializer/BuildDisk do not properly initialize the media for this drive. The workaround involves disktab entries and a small program which covers for newfs. For some reason disk and newfs produce different results using the same disktab entry. On the 230mb media I needed to double the sa value when using disk instead of newfs. The following disktab entries have been working for me, although, they could probably stand some tweaking. # # Fujitsu 640mb 3.5" MO SCSI M2513A-2048 # # M2513A-640|M2513A-2048|M2513A-640-2048|FUJITSU M2513A-640-2048:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#808:nt#2:ns#192:ss#2048:rm#3600:\ :fp#80:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=mach_kernel:z0#16:z1#48:ro=a:\ :pa#0:sa#310272:ba#8192:fa#2048:ca#16:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: # # Fujitsu 230mb 3.5" MO SCSI M2513A-512 # # M2513A-230|M2513A-512|FUJITSU M2513A 1000 -512|FUJITSU M2513A 1000-512:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#348:nt#2:ns#320:ss#512:rm#3600:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=mach_kernel:z0#64:z1#192:ro=a:\ :pa#0:sa#223002:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: With just these disktab entries you can initialize the 2513 from the command line. I wrote the following short program so that I could use Workspace/Buildisk to initialize disks. If anyone has a more elegant solution I would like to hear about it. //***************************************************************************** // // newfs cover -- newfsCover.c // // When placed at /usr/etc/newfs this program will cover for and // subsequently call newfs.org (the system supplied original). // This is just a quick hack to allow Workspace manager to properly // initialize a Fujitsu M2513A 3.5" 640mb MO drive. The system // supplied newfs miscalculates its values with this drive. // // This hack was necessary because I was unable to get BuildDisk // or the Workspace initializer to take my disktab otherwise. // // Using: // // 1. cc newfsCover.c -o newfs // 2. mv /usr/etc/newfs /usr/etc/newfs.org // 3. copy this newfs cover to /usr/etc/newfs. // 4. Append the M2513A disktab entries to your /etc/disktab // // Bugs: // // The M2513A is capable of using a variety of media, this program // should be extended to support these by looking at the label info // written down by disk. Currently, this program only supports two // media types: 640-2048 and 230-512 which must be defined in disktab. // // When using different block size media the driver can get confused, // it may be possible to reset it using this thing. // // It might be better if this program covered for disk instead of newfs // // This code is hereby placed into the public domain. Use at your own risk. // // Felipe A. Rodriguez 9/23/96 far@ix.netcom.com // //***************************************************************************** #import <sys/param.h> #import <signal.h> #import <bsd/dev/disk.h> #import <bsd/dev/scsireg.h> #import <libc.h> #import <stdlib.h> #import <sys/file.h> #import <sys/disktab.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd; static struct drive_info di; char Path[MAXPATHLEN + 1]; strncpy(Path, *argv++, MAXPATHLEN); strncat(Path, ".org ", MAXPATHLEN - strlen(Path)); while(*argv) { if(**argv == '/') { fd = open(*argv, O_RDWR, 0); ioctl(fd, DKIOCINFO, &di); // get info about device printf("drive type name -- %s\n", di.di_name); close(fd); } strncat(Path, *argv++, MAXPATHLEN - strlen(Path)); strncat(Path, " ", MAXPATHLEN - strlen(Path)); } // if an M2513A and disktab not already specified on commLine if(strstr(di.di_name, "M2513A") && (!strstr(Path, "M2513A"))) { printf("Fujitsu M2513A drive, media block size of %d\n", di.di_devblklen); if(di.di_devblklen == 512) strncat(Path, "M2513A-230", MAXPATHLEN - strlen(Path)); else strncat(Path, "M2513A-640", MAXPATHLEN - strlen(Path)); } printf("%s", Path); printf("%s", "\n"); system(Path); // call the real newfs exit(0); } -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Connect Sun Ext. HD to NeXTstation Date: 23 Sep 1996 19:37:24 GMT Organization: Californi State University, Fresno Message-ID: <526otk$l1v@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi, I am thinking to move Sun Ext. HD and connect to NeXTStation. I thought NeXT uses SCSI-2 because it has a SCSI-2 port. However, I am wrong. NeXTStation only recognizes SCSI HD not SCSI-2 HD. And our Sun Ext HD is SCSI-2 device. Will it be ok to run in asynchronous mode on Sun Ext. HD? Do we need to open case of external HD and play around jumper? Second, I read FAQ and it says: >Subject: M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I >cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs? > >Yes. This cable is the same as the one used by Sun SparcStations >andDecStation 5000's (but not DecStation 3100's which use 68-pin >microrather than the 50pin micro connector used on NeXT 040, Suns and >DecStation 5000). > >[Carl Lowenstein adds] > >The implication that a Sun SparcStation cable can be used with NeXT >peripherals is generally false. NeXT themselves, and DEC, and nearly >everyone else who makes SCSI peripherals, puts Telco-50 (centronics) >connectors on their devices. Sun in their infinite wisdom uses DD50 >which are quite different. Telco-50 is an approved connector type in >the SCSI spec. > >Probably the original point was that the 50-pin microSCSI on the NeXT >and Sun and some DecStations was different from the 68-pin microSCSI on >the DecStation 5000. But this does not address the other end of the >cable. I am curious can we use Sun SCSI-2 cable for NeXTStation? Please help.... Thanks. --Kin ****************************************************************************** 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: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: lib Foundation Patch for NeXTStep 3.2?? Date: 24 Sep 1996 20:42:45 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <529h45$odk@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <528bdh$ft6@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> pc25@ wrote: > Dear NeXT Users, > > I found the libFoundation Patch -- but only for NeXTSTep 3.3. > I have NeXTStep 3.2 and cant use several tools due to incorrect > libs. Someone told me there would be a patch to get the right > libs. But not for NeXTStep 3.2!! Am I wrong??? Where can I get > it?? The text of the NeXTanswer claims that it is only for NeXTSTEP 3.3. If you ignore that and pick up the package, I'm pretty sure the package itself claims that it was written for NeXTSTEP 3.2 (certainly the initial version of these changes were made for NS-3.2, because 3.3 wasn't even available at the time). Several people (including me) have applied the patch to NS-3.2 systems, and I haven't heard of anyone who had problems with it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (wilfrid Gaboriaud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: LaserWriter 16 600PS Date: 25 Sep 1996 14:47:19 GMT Organization: Universite de La Rochelle Message-ID: <52bgln$2oj@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr> Hello, Has anybody a LaserWriter 16 600 on NextStep ? There isn't driver fot it! /******************************************* * Wilfrid Gaboriaud * Service Informatique * Institut Universitaire de Technologie * La Rochelle * 15 rue de Vaux de Foletier * 17026 La Rochelle cedex * France * Phone. (33) 46 51 39 24 * Fax. (33) 46 51 39 39 * e-mail: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr * NeXTStep and Mime Mail are Welcome *******************************************/
From: chris@vespucci.iquest.com (Chris Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Precompiled httpd with proxy support? Date: 25 Sep 1996 10:40:20 -0500 Organization: interQuest Online Services -- Huntsville, AL Distribution: world Message-ID: <52bjp4$l95@vespucci.iquest.com> Could someone please point me to a precompiled httpd with proxy support or simply nextmail me a copy? thanks, chris -- "If unix were easy, Microsoft would have made a version by now." - Me (NeXTmail accepted) FreeBSD/NeXTstep/OSF/VSTa/Ultrix/SunOS/ URLs: www.nsa.org www.unix.org Linux/Unixware/Sco/Solaris/MicrosoftOS*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fh3s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (dy=p(ya-y[t])dt) Subject: our printer is rebellious! Message-ID: <DyAwwM.8An@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:33:58 GMT One of our printers has been acting up weird all of sudden. That is, when we spool a printing job to this printer, the machine recognizes its print job. However, when it has done its role, what we get is an unintelligible garbage. Everything is blackened as if a paint roller would have been run on a zerox paper. What could be a problem? We rebooted a local NeXT machine to which this problematic printer is attached and we tried to print a file again. We have got the same black printout. Could it be a just physical problem on the printer? Or could we do some manipulation on the NeXTStep to avert this nasty problem? If some of you could point out what's going on, it would be very appreciated. Aki Hamagami Department of Psychology University of Virginia email: fh3s@virginia.edu -- \\|// \\|// ******* ******* @@@@@ @@@@@ @@===========================@@
From: jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Initialize Drive? Date: 25 Sep 1996 18:36:11 GMT Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA Message-ID: <52bu2r$24f@camelot.dsccc.com> Every time I boot up NeXTSTEP 3.3 I get a warning that a partition is unreadable and the default button is "Initialize". I have 4 different OS's installed on this PC and think that the unreadable partition is either used by Linux or by the OS/2 boot manager. I don't like this warning box coming up because I am liable to hit enter on accident one of these days intialize that partition which will delete data or hose my boot system. Anyone know how to get rid of this? Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Initialize Drive? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960925172133.5253A-100000@charisma> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:22:30 -0400 References: <52bu2r$24f@camelot.dsccc.com> To: James Michel <jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com> In-Reply-To: <52bu2r$24f@camelot.dsccc.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Since you have 3.3... Use 'ignore' option in writing the '/etc/fstab' entry for that partition. I think it is explained in 'man fstab' but since I'm on 3.2 I can't say for sure... TjL On 25 Sep 1996, James Michel wrote: > Date: 25 Sep 1996 18:36:11 GMT > From: James Michel <jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Initialize Drive? > > Every time I boot up NeXTSTEP 3.3 I get a warning that a partition is unreadable > and the default button is "Initialize". I have 4 different OS's installed on > this PC and think that the unreadable partition is either used by Linux or by > the OS/2 boot manager. I don't like this warning box coming up because I am liable to hit enter on accident one of these days intialize that partition which > will delete data or hose my boot system. Anyone know how to get rid of this? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > >
From: "PENG, KUANG-YAO" <K0P7185@acs.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newbie's question: dual boot NT and Nextstep Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:02:46 +0000 Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <Pine.VMS.3.91-vms-b4-acs.960925180014.49312A-100000-100000-100000-100000@VMS2.TAMU.EDU> References: <Pine.VMS.3.91-vms-b4-acs.960924214250.518B@VMS1.TAMU.EDU> <52anki$eas@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <52anki$eas@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> Hi Abraham, I will try it. Thanks. Peng > > Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 > Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft > Faculty Technical Mathematics & Informatics The Netherlands > Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 78 5969 > E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome > >
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.admin.policy From: adamm@world.std.com (Adam S. Moskowitz) Subject: WIP slots still available at LISA! Message-ID: <DyBJI8.Bu7@world.std.com> Organization: Menlo Computing, Sunnyvale, CA Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 02:42:08 GMT The 10th Annual Systems Administration Conference, Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE, is happening October 2nd - 4th, at the Chicago Marriott Downtown, in Chicago, IL. (Where else would the Chicago Marriott be?) The time to submit papers is long past, but we still have room at the Works-In-Progress session (Thursday, 10/3, 16:00 - 17:30). These are short (about 10 minutes) and less polished than the refereed papers. Pretty much anything is fair game: A paper that's not quite finished, an idea you have for a paper, or just stuff you're working on that you think other people will find interesting, or you want feedback. (However, product announcements are not cool -- take those to the vendor exhibit.) If you're going to be at the conference and would like to present a WIP report, send mail to lisawips@usenix.org with your proposed topic. See you there! AdamM
From: Gerald Wildgruber <gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <R.x7zq2jbnj1.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Control: cancel <R.x7zq2jbnj1.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Date: 24 Sep 1996 11:29:35 +0200 Organization: Apatheia Corp. Sender: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <x7ybi0fegw.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> This is a cancel message from gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de (Gerald Wildgruber).
From: hd@friday.cs.rice.edu (Hubert Daugherty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: JAZ? Date: 26 Sep 1996 04:33:35 GMT Organization: Rice University Message-ID: <52d12v$ba5@listserv.rice.edu> References: <1.5.4.32.19960918143452.00693a8c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Cc: zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it Hello, In <1.5.4.32.19960918143452.00693a8c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Zanitti Leo wrote: > Hello > I have a Jaz drive but I cannot format new Dos cartrige in NeXTStep filesystem. I couldn't figure out how to reprogram a DOS jaz disk to NeXTstep format, but I did discover I could reformat a MAC disk with no problems at all. So, if you still have your receipt, exchange the DOS jaz disk for a MAC jaz disk and your problem will be solved. The disktab you are using works for me. H. -- Hubert Daugherty Rice University / Rice Video, Cable and OWLink Project hd@rice.edu (713) 527-4035 / Fax (713) 523-0259 / NeXTMail accepted Creating the future requires only an active participation in the present.
From: cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Chih Nam Yap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2MB disk space gone everyday Date: 26 Sep 1996 10:16:25 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Message-ID: <52dl5p$aml@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Hi, I have a computer at home, almost everyday it has problem booting up NeXTSTEP the first time and I have to reboot again. This means that everyday, the system has to gone through the time consuming "Check disk". However, I notice that I lost 2MB of harddisk space everytime I reboot the system. I have check the directory called lost&found, but noting is there. I would be appreciate if somebody can tell me where can I retrieve the 2MB of diskspace, ie which directory or files I can delete after I reboot the system in order to retrieve back that 2MB of disk space. Thank you. C.Yap
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: multi-volume DOS disks? Date: 26 Sep 1996 09:49:12 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <52djio$acs@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <516j07$p0a@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <0mBhpfG00WBOQ1pOBh@andrew.cmu.edu> <517shd$549@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <51bea4$rfv@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <3242EF6C.550@fpe.erenj.com> In-Reply-To: <3242EF6C.550@fpe.erenj.com> On 09/20/96, "John K. Troxell" wrote: > mmalcolm crawford wrote: > > > > You use the copy command. > > Want to find out about the copy command? Use "copy /?". Obvious, eh? > > This givens you about as much information as you're likely to get, the > > equivalent of "cp -h" with a little more detail. Nothing like the > > richness (or pervasiveness) of "man". > > Or type "help copy" which gives you more info. > Or just "help" which gives you a menu of the commands that help is > available for. > Um, yes, that's the second thing I tried: c:> help copy Bad command or filename Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: knguyen@callisto.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: export Dos partition Date: 26 Sep 1996 14:01:34 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <52e2bu$kr5@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, Could someone tell me how can I export my DOS partion, so the other machines can see and use it? Thanks a lot, Khanh Nguyen,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: lib Foundation Patch for NeXTStep 3.2?? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DyAMFy.DIs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:47:58 GMT References: <528bdh$ft6@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <528bdh$ft6@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>, <pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> wrote: >Dear NeXT Users, > >I found the libFoundation Patch -- but only for NeXTSTep 3.3. >I have NeXTStep 3.2 and cant use several tools due to incorrect >libs. Someone told me there would be a patch to get the right >libs. But not for NeXTStep 3.2!! Am I wrong??? >Where can I get it?? > The description of the Foundation User Patch lies. It works fine on 3.2. -- 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: jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Initialize Drive? Date: 26 Sep 1996 14:47:01 GMT Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA Message-ID: <52e515$kks@camelot.dsccc.com> References: <52bu2r$24f@camelot.dsccc.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960925172133.5253A-100000@charisma> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: : Since you have 3.3... : Use 'ignore' option in writing the '/etc/fstab' entry for : that partition. I checked /etc/fstab and it only references one partition which is the one NS partition my PC has. The "Initialize?" message doesn't tell me what partition it can't recognize. Thanks, Jason : I think it is explained in 'man fstab' but since I'm on 3.2 I can't : say for sure... : TjL : On 25 Sep 1996, James Michel wrote: : > Date: 25 Sep 1996 18:36:11 GMT : > From: James Michel <jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com> : > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin : > Subject: Initialize Drive? : > : > Every time I boot up NeXTSTEP 3.3 I get a warning that a partition is unreadable : > and the default button is "Initialize". I have 4 different OS's installed on : > this PC and think that the unreadable partition is either used by Linux or by : > the OS/2 boot manager. I don't like this warning box coming up because I am liable to hit enter on accident one of these days intialize that partition which : > will delete data or hose my boot system. Anyone know how to get rid of this? : > : > Thanks, : > : > Jason : > : > : >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Newbie Q: regarding swapfiles Message-ID: <DyCK0s.EM@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960924075306.27469A-100000@ares.csd.net> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:50:51 GMT In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.960924075306.27469A-100000@ares.csd.net> IlUildi <IlUildi@ares.csd.net> writes: > Is there a way to flush my swapfile without rebooting? If so, > is there a way to set a max swapfile size and have it flush FIFO > when max size is reached? I like NeXT, from what I've seen of > it so far, but I don't much like watching the swapfile eat up my > drive. > Not really, to the first. And also no to the second question (it will only stop to grow and if no other swapfile is available it will lockup the machine). Swapfiles will only shrink when a conscutive block adjacent to the end of file will be freed completely. Most times this will happen if you logout and kill the WorkspaceManager by typing the username 'exit' in the login window. But only a reboot will shrink a swapfile to its lowat size. -- 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: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help installing a HP 4G tape drive. Date: 26 Sep 1996 12:00:29 -0400 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <52e9at$v5h@Vir.com> Hello all, I'm trying to install a HP C1533A 4Gig tape backup. But I'm having a few problems. On a ThinkPad 755CX, with an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card the computer can see the tape drive on windows 3.11, but when I boot with NeXTSTEP 3.3 Intel the computer does not see the tape back up. Can NeXTSTEP deal with 4Gig tape backup system? Are there any special drivers I need to install? I've checked the termination. Any help would be appreciated, stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu> Message-ID: <9609241638.AA16862@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, 24 Sep 96 09:38:44 -0700 Subject: Losing Mounts on the Network Hello, After upgrading to 3.3 on our Servers, we are losing mounts from differents sites on random basis. Has anyone experienced this, and what can we do to eliminate this problem. We are using NetInfo on all our servers. If you would like to respond directly, my e-mail is mpatel@valverde.edu. Would like to thanks everyone in advance and hopefully we can resolve this problem. Thank-you Mac Patel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609250243.WAA04572@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 22:44:14 -0400 Subject: auto-resboot on panic Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I think I remember hearing that one could set the NeXT to reboot automatically after a panic. However, I couldn't find anything about it... There was something about a boot flag to _prevent_ the NeXT from rebooting automatically after panicing, is there a boot flag to FORCE rebooting after a panic? How is that done? Is it only on some NeXTs? Thanks TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609260530.BAA05806@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 96 01:31:24 -0400 Subject: ROM: boot extended diagnostics Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I tried selecting the 'boot extended diagnostics' and it looked as if it could not find the bootfile. Is this an old feature or does it need to be setup somehow first? Thanks TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 96 16:27:28 -0400 Subject: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I need to find someone who has a 'backfinger' program working on their NeXT (m68k preferably). Backfinger is a program which records people who 'finger' you (ip/domain name) and/or who (user or user@domain.ext or user@ip) Thanks TjL
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is there a more recent MUA for NS 3.3 than the one shipped with it? Date: 26 Sep 1996 18:33:29 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-69.usc.edu Message-ID: <52ei9p$dvu@usc.edu> Is there a more recent MUA compiled for NS 3.3 other than the one shipped with it? The date on mine reads: 57344 Oct 19 1994 /usr/ucb/Mail* -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sha3y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steven H. Aggen) Subject: NeXt3.3 (intel) printing to HP 4MP printer Message-ID: <DyCvIM.311@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:59:09 GMT I am trying to get my Intel NeXtStep 3.3 system to print to my HP laserJet 4MP printer using a parallel port. I have been unable to get the proper configuration for printing from the NeXt side (my hard disk is partitioned for Unix and DOS areas). Someone suggested to get the script HP LaserJet 5MP ppd and that it should clear up the problem. I found the script but am not sure how to use it in my NeXt configuration. Any ideas??? ___________________________________ [ Jefferson Psychometric Laboratory ]///////////////////////////| | _____________ Steven H. Aggen Ph.D. | | | ____ Department of Psychology | | | |___)| University of Virginia | | | | | Charlottesville, VA 22903-2477 | | (____| | |____ | | voice:(804) 982-5062 fax: (804) 982-4766 | | e-mail: sha3y@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu | |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////| -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | _____________ Steven H. Aggen sha3y@virginia.edu | | | ____ Dept. of Psychology |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: 2MB disk space gone everyday Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960926161258.14291B-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:13:28 -0400 References: <52dl5p$aml@bignews.shef.ac.uk> To: Chih Nam Yap <cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <52dl5p$aml@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If this disk is larger than 2gig you have to partition it to be no larger than 2gig per partition or NeXTStep will have trouble with it. TjL On 26 Sep 1996, Chih Nam Yap wrote: > Date: 26 Sep 1996 10:16:25 GMT > From: Chih Nam Yap <cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: 2MB disk space gone everyday > > Hi, > > I have a computer at home, almost everyday it has problem booting up NeXTSTEP > the first time and I have to reboot again. This means that everyday, the > system has to gone through the time consuming "Check disk". However, I > notice that I lost 2MB of harddisk space everytime I reboot the system. I have > check the directory called lost&found, but noting is there. > > I would be appreciate if somebody can tell me where can I retrieve the 2MB of > diskspace, ie which directory or files I can delete after I reboot the system > in order to retrieve back that 2MB of disk space. > > Thank you. > > > C.Yap > > >
From: Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfo woes--help please Date: 26 Sep 1996 23:11:02 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52f2i6$7fu@news.tamu.edu> Originator: colin@snaefell I was just forced to rebuild the netinfo databases for our network server snaefell.tamu.edu (never again!). All the network accounts and nfsmounts etc. are working correctly, but there's a residual problem that has me stumped. Although the hostname command produces the correct response, various programs, including pine, httpd, and Pnews, are having problems getting the machine name. Here are the symptoms: Pine: On startup-- Incomplete maildomain "snaefell". Return address in mail you send may be incorrect. Pnews: On send--- Article not accepted by server; not posted. From: address not in Internet syntax httpd: On startup--- httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use ServerName to set it manually. Why can't these programs find the host.domain correctly? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Date: 26 Sep 1996 23:44:46 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-54.usc.edu Message-ID: <52f4he$o4e@usc.edu> References: <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc3.nerc.com In <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > I need to find someone who has a 'backfinger' program working on > their NeXT (m68k preferably). > > Backfinger is a program which records people who 'finger' you > (ip/domain name) and/or who (user or user@domain.ext or user@ip) Okay, okay. It was me and some friends after we'd had a bit too much booze! Please make available when you've got it. BTW - did you ever get the info off your question about maxing out mtu for ftp and for interactive? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & 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: mount removeable disk? Date: 27 Sep 1996 00:15:23 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <52f6ar$bdt@news.tamu.edu> Is there a way to mount a removeable disk from the command line, so that it is removeable? I don't see a 'removeable' option for mount. I have only been able to mount it as a regular scsi drive but then I can't eject it w/o restarting the machine :-( Stephen Johnson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960926220218.18847A-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:05:48 -0400 References: <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> <52f4he$o4e@usc.edu> To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <52f4he$o4e@usc.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > In <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" > wrote: > > > > I need to find someone who has a 'backfinger' program > > working on their NeXT (m68k preferably). > > > > Backfinger is a program which records people who 'finger' > > you (ip/domain name) and/or who (user or user@domain.ext or > > user@ip) > Please make available when you've got it. Sure, except that no one seems to have this. I've gotten a few suggestions about tcp_wrappers, which I already have installed, but that's not what I need. > BTW - did you ever get the info off your question about > maxing out mtu for ftp and for interactive? You mean about PPP? MTU max is 1500, for interactive I set it around 250. Didn't get a lot of info about it beyond that. I've just setup 2 'options' files for 'ppp' (options.ftp and options.int) and link them as /etc/ppp/options as needed. TjL
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Auto Login, How? Date: 27 Sep 1996 02:23:13 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net> Remember after you first install NEXT/OPENSTEP, how it automatically logs into the 'me' account. Howd they do that? After you make new accounts, that ability goes away. If I still have an account w/o a password (say a guest account), is there a way to have the machine automagically log into that account? Thanks. -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: mount removeable disk? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960926220627.18847B-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:11:58 -0400 References: <52f6ar$bdt@news.tamu.edu> To: srjohnson@tamu.edu In-Reply-To: <52f6ar$bdt@news.tamu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ASSUMING that the drive is not mac/dos, AND that it is located at /dev/sd1a, you can use this: mount -t 4.3 -o rw,removable /dev/sd1a /Drive you _might_ have to use /dev/rsd1a instead, but I don't think so. I must assume you are mounting this drive at some weird moment, because it should be automatically found (or use Check for Disks in WM) and mounted for you. Anyway, that line above should work. Make sure you know what /dev/ to use (what the SCSI id is). Email me if you have too much trouble, TjL On 27 Sep 1996, Stephen Johnson wrote: > Date: 27 Sep 1996 00:15:23 GMT > From: Stephen Johnson <stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu> > Reply-To: srjohnson@tamu.edu > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: mount removeable disk? > > Is there a way to mount a removeable disk from the command line, so that > it is removeable? I don't see a 'removeable' option for mount. I have only > been able to mount it as a regular scsi drive but then I can't eject it > w/o restarting the machine :-( > > Stephen Johnson > > >
From: Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Auto Login, How? Date: 27 Sep 1996 04:45:09 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52fm4l$m6q@news.tamu.edu> References: <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net> Originator: colin@snaefell John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >Remember after you first install NEXT/OPENSTEP, how it automatically logs >into the 'me' account. Howd they do that? After you make new accounts, >that ability goes away. If I still have an account w/o a password (say a >guest account), is there a way to have the machine automagically log into >that account? I believe the autologin to "me" is entirely controlled by whether or not the me account has a password set (in local netinfo). This apparently happens after the /etc/rc script exits. There's almost certainly no simple way to make it respond to a different account. Remember, too, the default behavior on logging out from a passwordless me account is to log you right back in. Sounds to me like you probably don't want that either. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 27 Sep 1996 05:10:14 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> References: <52f2i6$7fu@news.tamu.edu> Originator: colin@snaefell Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote: >Although the hostname command produces the correct response, >various programs, including pine, httpd, and Pnews, are having >problems getting the machine name. A bit more investigation reveals that it is the domain (tamu.edu) that is not being properly appended to the hostname. Apart from the domain statement in /etc/resolv.conf (I've checked it and it's correct) how else does the machine know what domain to add to the hostname to get a full internet address? -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netgroups and rsh and rlogin Message-ID: <1996Sep27.115633.46929@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 27 Sep 96 11:56:32 MET Hello everybody I'm once again stumped with the access control of NEXTSTEP 3.3. I have a NeXT Cube acting as network server (NetInfo server, DNS secondary cache, NIS, ...) and several NeXT stations and HP 712's as clients. All are running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched). One Intel based DEC PC running OPENSTEP4.0. This is also the clone server for the NetInfo databases and it contains the line NETMASTER=-YES- in /etc/hostconfig (as is given in the server's hostconfig). I have a 3 level NetInfo hierarchy, in which the two top most levels have identical entries for our local network (let's call it lnet), defining the netgroup (name and address). All machines have a file /etc/hosts.equiv with the entry +@lnet as the only entry in it (no spaces). This allows any of our users to rsh (and rlogin) without having to supply a password when initiating the command from a host within the netgroup. On the server, and only on the server, this also enables *anybody* with a name of one of our users to login from *any* machine *anywhere*! Even from outside our site! It must be some configuration problem. But where should I start looking? For the time beeing, I've modified the /ets/hosts.equiv of our server to contain the names of all hosts on our network. This ensures correct access control. Can anybody enlighten me? Thanks for any help in advance. -Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Date: 27 Sep 1996 07:05:59 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <52fucn$5s9@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> wrote: > > I need to find someone who has a 'backfinger' program working on > their NeXT (m68k preferably). > > Backfinger is a program which records people who 'finger' you > (ip/domain name) and/or who (user or user@domain.ext or user@ip) How about ident? it might be on the archives as something like nident or pident, I forget now. An actual back-finger program is not a great idea, in the case where the host who is fingering you also has a back-finger program. You end up with two machines in a loop trying to finger each other. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help installing a HP 4G tape drive. Date: 27 Sep 1996 08:09:46 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <52gg6a$2iu@papoose.quick.com> References: <52e9at$v5h@vir.com> In article <52e9at$v5h@vir.com>, Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@Vir.com> wrote: >Hello all, > >I'm trying to install a HP C1533A 4Gig tape backup. But I'm having >a few problems. > >On a ThinkPad 755CX, with an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card the computer can >see the tape drive on windows 3.11, but when I boot with NeXTSTEP 3.3 >Intel the computer does not see the tape back up. > >Can NeXTSTEP deal with 4Gig tape backup system? Are there any special >drivers I need to install? You need to install the SCSITape driver. In Configure.app go into the SCSI section, and show all drivers. The tape driver should show up in the window. Install it, and reboot. The tape devices will then show up as /dev/rst0 and /dev/nrst0. You do not mention what rev of the OS you are running. The latest version is 3.32, and I know there were several minor problems with the earlier versions on both 3.2 and 3.3. (I call them minor because most people did not seem to ancounter them, not because they weren't show-stoppers for those who ran into them). Check NeXTanswers to download a copy if the one on your CD is not the latest, but give the one from CD a try first. -- ___ ___ | 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 27 Sep 1996 12:40:57 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> In article <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> writes: > A bit more investigation reveals that it is the domain (tamu.edu) that > is not being properly appended to the hostname. Apart from the domain > statement in /etc/resolv.conf (I've checked it and it's correct) how > else does the machine know what domain to add to the hostname to get a > full internet address? The "official" and "proper" thing to do is to set the machines hostname to be a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name), hostname = myhost.mysubdomain.mydomain -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Auto Login, How? Date: 27 Sep 1996 09:51:53 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <veewwxg9ibq.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net> In-reply-to: John Kheit's message of 27 Sep 1996 02:23:13 GMT In article <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net>, John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: Remember after you first install NEXT/OPENSTEP, how it automatically logs into the 'me' account. Howd they do that? After you make new accounts, that ability goes away. If I still have an account w/o a password (say a guest account), is there a way to have the machine automagically log into that account? I know this will be annoying, but here goes ... howard:/Users/scott> man loginwindow LOGINWINDOW(8) UNIX Programmer's Manual LOGINWINDOW(8) ... If there is an account for the user me (or the user named by the DefaultUser option) and that account has no password, then loginwindow does not actually go through the login pro- cedure; it immediately executes the Workspace for that user. This can be disabled by holding down the left mouse button while loginwindow is starting. ... Sooo, just do "dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser MyUser", and away you go. On the other hand, it can be annoying to have to live through all of the default user startup in order to log them back out and hold that left mouse button down every time you forget. You might do better to just attach a post-it note to the monitor saying "Login with guest, no password, to play." Later, -- scott hess <shess@winternet.com> http://www.winternet.com/~shess/ Work: 288 Rampart Court #105, Ft Mitchell, KY, 41017 (606) 578-0412 (Was) 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208 <address and phone work now, I am already in Cincinnati. No new email, yet.>
From: root@snaefell.tamu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 27 Sep 1996 14:12:37 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >The "official" and "proper" thing to do is to set the machines hostname to be >a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name), >hostname = myhost.mysubdomain.mydomain Many thanks---that appears to have "solved" the problem. It's puzzling though that hostname has just been set to "snaefell" for the past 6.5 years of running this machine, and everything worked fine up to now. Also other machines work without having a FQDN as hostname. All the best,
From: udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Apps acting weird Date: 27 Sep 1996 14:42:56 GMT Organization: Interport Communications Corp. Message-ID: <52gp5g$iqe@park.interport.net> I am hiving some weird problems on two of my color NeXT machines, once in a while. Applications residing on the file server (Word Perfect.app) fails to come up. I would think this is because of some NFS related problem. However, when I try to bring up Terminal.app to check what is going on, that fails too. So I rsh to that machine (and check to make sure that the cpu load average is normal) and kill the proccesses and try to run them again. The applications (both wp and terminal) still does not work. However, the problem is fixed when I reboot the machine. Could this be a swap problem by any chance. If it is, how can I find out and what dolution do I have aside from rebooting the mahine (and increasing the swap space to some rediculus amount)? Thanks for your help. Shourav udas@northstar.com
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Workspace icon for removable SCSI ? Date: 27 Sep 1996 15:34:49 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <52gs6p$nt3@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> I would like the Workspace to display my MO disks using the WM.app optical.tiff images instead of the scsi.tiff images. I vaguely recall someone posting a dwrite which would accomlish this. It seems that by default the optical.tiff images are only used with the old NeXT optical drive. Does anyone know if there is a dwrite or some other non brute force mechanism whereby I can achieve this? Btw, I know I can just place these images on each MO disk or just rename the tiff images 8-) These are just not elegant solutions. -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:47:01 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <EmH0I5m00Uzx01sLct@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Sep-96 Re: netinfo woes--help plea.. by Rex Dieter@math.unl.edu > The "official" and "proper" thing to do is to set the machines hostname to > be a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name), > hostname = yhost.mysubdomain.mydomain I agree, but there are (or at least were) major problems doing so under NEXTSTEP. I've been a NEXTSTEP sysadmin for years now, and I have _never_ been able to get NetInfo and FQDNs to work together. It hasn't worked under NS 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.2, or 3.3. I even addressed the following question to NeXT's Premium Technical Support, but they were unable to provide an answer. Cal Thixton of NeXT said that he had once gotten it working, but it had proven to be so difficult that he could not remember what had to be done, so he recommended not using FQDNs with NEXTSTEP. I would greatly appreciate it if someone from NeXT would give us a coherent explanation of why this is such a problem. =============================================================== Message-Id: <199509141845.OAA23859@tertius.res.cmu.edu> From: Charles Swiger <chuck@its.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 95 14:45:32 -0400 To: its_psst@next.com Subject: FQDN hostname problems Hello, How can I give my machine a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) under NEXTSTEP? Background: ----------- It appears that portions of NeXT's software simply cannot handle a canonical hostname in the form of a FQDN. An example would be naming my machine "tertius.res.cmu.edu" instead of just "tertius". For example, one major problem that occurs if I name my machine "tertius.res.cmu.edu" instead of "tertius" is the pasteboard server fails with a "pasteboard server error -102" message to the console whenever I try to do drag-n-drop or cut-copy-paste. (There appear to have been other problems in NetInfo as well, but a NEXTSTEP system with the pasteboard not working is effectively unusable, so I have not investigated in more detail.) What's wrong with not using FQDN's? Well, you break the following invariant: gethostbyname(gethostname()) == gethostbyaddr(primary_interface_address) ...so every application such as mail readers, newsreaders, sendmail, and so forth has to contain a few hundred of lines of fairly involuted code to reliably determine what the real FQDN of the machine is. Having to use an unqualified hostname to get the pbs and NetInfo working has also historically resulted in a large number of NeXT systems who send email or post to newsgroups as "user@tertius" instead of "user@tertius.res.cmu.edu". -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Date: 27 Sep 1996 17:42:34 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <52h3ma$d3d@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> <52fucn$5s9@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: >"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> wrote: >> >> I need to find someone who has a 'backfinger' program working on >> their NeXT (m68k preferably). >> >> Backfinger is a program which records people who 'finger' you >> (ip/domain name) and/or who (user or user@domain.ext or user@ip) > >How about ident? it might be on the archives as something like >nident or pident, I forget now. > >An actual back-finger program is not a great idea, in the case >where the host who is fingering you also has a back-finger >program. You end up with two machines in a loop trying to >finger each other. I don't beleive that is allowed under congresses' indecency act! --Ryan
From: jferreira@cfn.ist.utl.pt (Jorge S. Ferreira) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost Hardware Password Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 19:22:56 +0100 Organization: CFN Message-ID: <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt> I have a old-NeXTstation and I lost the hardware password. Is it possible to erase it? I need to do a fsck (in monitor) because there is a problem (media error) with the harddisk. Please, email me some solutions to solve the problem. Thanks, Jorge Ferreira
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:48:52 -0400 References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> To: Operator <root@snaefell.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is there something wrong with running: /bin/domainname my.domain in rc.local? TjL
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Initialize Drive? Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 18:54:42 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <52h844$72o@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <52bu2r$24f@camelot.dsccc.com> jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel) wrote: >Every time I boot up NeXTSTEP 3.3 I get a warning that a partition is unreadable >and the default button is "Initialize". I have 4 different OS's installed on >this PC and think that the unreadable partition is either used by Linux or by >the OS/2 boot manager. I don't like this warning box coming up because I am liable to hit enter on accident one of these days intialize that partition which >will delete data or hose my boot system. Anyone know how to get rid of this? You can make an entry in /etc/fstab for the partition, giving it a mount type of 'ignore': /dev/rhd0h /NOT_USED ignore rw 1 2 The 'ignore' mount type is used to show disk partitions which are currently not used. Disks that are specified as a 'ignore' are also not automounted by the Workspace in NEXTSTEP. This is useful when your disk has data in a format that NEXTSTEP doesn't recognize, and you want it to ignore the disk. See 'man fstab' in the user Unix documentation for details. 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: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Auto Login, How? Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 18:55:21 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <52h85c$72o@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >Remember after you first install NEXT/OPENSTEP, how it automatically logs >into the 'me' account. Howd they do that? After you make new accounts, >that ability goes away. If I still have an account w/o a password (say a >guest account), is there a way to have the machine automagically log into >that account? Someday I've gotta write a book... This is pretty easy to do. 1) You need to have an account for the autologin user in the local NetInfo domain with no password. (Security hazard! BEWARE!) 2) The root defaults database needs an entry to tell loginwindow what the autologin user account is: % su root # dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser bubba The autologin can be defeated, getting you a login panel, by pressing and holding down the left mouse button as soon as the Window Server cursor appears in the upper left part of the screen, either on startup or after logging out from the default user account. (Look closely. The cursor goes away for a second when you log out from the default user account.) The following Evil Hack script will set up Bubba Gump as your default user when run as root. Tweak the user account and home directory as appropriate. #!/bin/csh cat > /tmp/passwd$$ << EOF_HEREE bubba::42:0:Bubba Gump:/Users/bubba:/bin/cshh EOF_HEREE nidump passwd . | egrep -v '^bubba:' >> /tmp/passwd$$$ niload passwd . < /tmp/passwd$$$ /bin/rm -f /tmp/passwd$$$ dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser bubbaa exit 0 ===== 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: nidump and niload questions Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927150123.2305G-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:03:17 -0400 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm still working on a hackscript that will remove my password from the netinfo database during the boot cycle (ie I will get automatically logged back in) and then automatically replace my password back into netinfo when I am logged in (using a LoginHook). So far it isn't quite working. It seems like niload and nidump work fine, but the database does not immediately recognize this change. Anyone know enough about them to be able to suggest why these changes are not immediately seen? Do I need to restart netinfod? Thanks! TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Auto Login, How? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927143559.2305E-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:47:13 -0400 References: <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net> <52fm4l$m6q@news.tamu.edu> To: jkheit@cnj.digex.net, Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <52fm4l$m6q@news.tamu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 27 Sep 1996, Colin Allen wrote: > John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > >Remember after you first install NEXT/OPENSTEP, how it automatically logs > >into the 'me' account. Howd they do that? After you make new accounts, > >that ability goes away. If I still have an account w/o a password (say a > >guest account), is there a way to have the machine automagically log into > >that account? > > I believe the autologin to "me" is entirely controlled by whether or > not the me account has a password set (in local netinfo). This > apparently happens after the /etc/rc script exits. There's almost > certainly no simple way to make it respond to a different account. Actually that isn't true. There is a remarkably easy way to make it respond to a different account. If the "me" account exists and IF it has no password, then YES it will autologin. However, this is a security hole of gigantic proportions if your machine is ever online.... However, you can do this as root by adding this dwrite: dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser myloginname The account 'myloginname' can't have a password. If it does, it will just bring up the login panel. > Remember, too, the default behavior on logging out from a passwordless > me account is to log you right back in. Sounds to me like you > probably don't want that either. Well, that's true. However, you could simply change that dwrite when you want to logout. For those of us who never logout except to reboot, this wouldn't be a problem. A simple LogoutHook pops up a panel on my machine when I logout and asks me if I want to powerdown the machine, reboot, or just logout. I'm still working on a hackscript that will remove my password from the netinfo database during the boot cycle (ie I will get automatically logged back in) and then automatically replace my password back into netinfo when I am logged in (using a LoginHook). So far it isn't quite working. It seems like niload and nidump work fine, but the database does not immediately recognize this change. Hmm... That seems worthy of a post asking for netinfo help from someone..... Anyway, you CAN have the auto-login using that dwrite and an account with no password. Isn't NeXTStep great? TjL ps -- for a list of other "little known dwrites" send me an email with SUBJECT: send-ascii dwrites and a list will be sent back to you automatically, with explanations included. You can also get the same file from: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver/dwrites.txt
From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP/Web browsers under 3.0 Date: 27 Sep 1996 18:35:44 GMT Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation Message-ID: <52h6q0$pc8@news.jf.intel.com> I've got an original '030 NeXTcube which I've been running NS 2.1 on for umpteen years now... I tried to upgrade it to NS3.3 last year so I could run PPP and WWW browsers, but the performance was so god awful slow that I downgraded it back to 2.1. I'm wondering if NS 3.0 might run a little bit better (yes, I know about the 2.x optimized for 030, 3.x optimized for 040 problem), and if it could run PPP and any of the modern-day NS browsers (SpiderWoman, Omniweb, etc.). I can take a little bit of a performance hit (this system started out as a OD-only system!), but 3.3 was completely unacceptable... I've got 24 MB of ram, and a 1/2 gig Fujitsu drive. And yes, the OD still works too! Scott
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP/Web browsers under 3.0 Date: 27 Sep 1996 22:05:33 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <52hj3d$qfq@news4.digex.net> References: <52h6q0$pc8@news.jf.intel.com> sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) wrote: > I've got an original '030 NeXTcube which I've been running > NS 2.1 on for umpteen years now... I tried to upgrade it to NS3.3 > last year so I could run PPP and WWW browsers, but the performance > was so god awful slow that I downgraded it back to 2.1. Well, Probably the best functionality/performance mix for you would be (of course other than to get a new machine or upgrade :) using system 3.2. It was probably the last version without a big performance hit on black hardware. You'll also be able to use fat binary apps (all the newest apps) and can install the foundation patch and even use the newest software... PPP will work fine under it as well... Of course if you upgrade to an 040 and or 32megs of ram that would help... Both are 040's and memory are going rather cheap these days... But then again, so is intel hardware :) However...even with the OS running decently well, the WWW browsers maybe a bit too slow. They kind of demand a fast cpu (rendering all the graphics and downloading etc)... Plus, a 28.8k modem will really tax the 030 serial ports, you likely wont be able to get the full speed of the modem in through the old serial ports (not a problem if you're using 14.4k or slower modems...). It really maybe time to upgrade... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Auto Login, How? Date: 27 Sep 1996 22:12:02 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <52hjfi$qfq@news4.digex.net> References: <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net> <52h85c$72o@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) wrote: > Someday I've gotta write a book... I'd buy it :) Thanks much for the pointer Mike :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What's the dump command to backup a drive to a HP tape? Date: 27 Sep 1996 19:39:38 -0400 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <52hojq$fd8@Vir.com> Hello all, I'm trying to do a backup of a disk drive using the dump command on NS3.3 Intel, but whatever I try I always get a DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: Tape write error 1318 feet into tape 1 I'm using BusLogic946C SCSI controller and an HP C1533A DDS-2 tape back up. I've installed the SCSI tape driver but I'm still having trouble. with the above message. The error occurs at different places in the tape. I've tried /dev/nrst0 /dev/rst0 and the following dump commands dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 5000000 dump 0ufsd /dev/st0 400 20000000 I've left compression on on the tape drive so it should be able to contain 8G of data. Is this supported by NeXTSTEP? Any help would be appreciated, stef
From: par@mcs.net (Peter A. Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: E-Mail/MIME problems Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 01:33:31 GMT Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <52hv8j$duq@Nntp1.mcs.net> I am having some very weird things happen with the e-mail on my NeXT. I don't have any experience with MIME, so this may "just be the way it is". I have people on various systems send me files using MIME to attach them. Looking at the MIME headers on one of the messages it says filename="foo.zip" application=zip. Yet when I open the message in the mail program it thinks it has a gzip file. when I click on it, the opener.app tries to read it as a gzip file and fails. I drag it to the workspace and the file name is "foo.zip.gz". If I rename it to foo.zip, then opener.app reads it fine as PKZIP file. The same type of thing happened with a file the was actually a uuencoded copy of "foo.zip" In this instance the filename showed the name of the file that is uuencoded. After copying it to the workspace, finding "foo.zip", renaming it to "foo.uue" and uudecodeing "foo.uue" I had "foo.zip" which the opener.app could then read. Is there something that needs to be set up to get the mail.app properly pay attention to the contents and applications headers? or is this just something stupid with the mail that I should find another mail program to deal with? Thank you for any suggestions Peter Richardson
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Date: 28 Sep 1996 02:42:30 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-57.usc.edu Message-ID: <52i3am$okv@usc.edu> References: <199609252027.QAA05329@nerc3.nerc.com> <52fucn$5s9@usenet.rpi.edu> <52h3ma$d3d@mark.ucdavis.edu> Cc: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu In <52h3ma$d3d@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan Scott wrote: > Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: > >program. You end up with two machines in a loop trying to > >finger each other. > > I don't beleive that is allowed under congresses' indecency act! That was an accident waiting to happen! -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609272050.QAA08330@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <9609262301.AA04548@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 96 16:50:33 -0400 Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) References: <9609262301.AA04548@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Well, I've been unable to find anyone with 'backfinger' working, but I was able to find a workaround. Thanks for all those who offered help. Solution, for those who might be interested: I wrote a program to do what I wanted to do when fingered, then replaced 'fingerd' with that program (and renamed the orig fingerd fingerd.orig). My new program is executed, and then it calls fingerd.orig. yet another hack solution that works TjL
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost Hardware Password Date: 28 Sep 1996 03:15:02 GMT Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated Message-ID: <52i57m$482@news.istar.ca> References: <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt> In-Reply-To: <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt> On 09/27/96 in the group comp.sys.next.hardware you wrote: > I have a old-NeXTstation and I lost the hardware password. > Is it possible to erase it? If you can login as root, then an application called "Hardware Password" can retrieve the password setting. You can find this program at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/ HardwarePassword.N.b.tar.gz The other option is to open the cover of the computer and detach the battery for a few moments. This will reset and turn off the hardware password. Jean-Paul Samson jsamson@istar.ca -- -===================================================================- Jean-Paul Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca -==- NeXTmail welcome, no MIME -===================================================================-
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to avoid flash terminal windows when double-clicking scripts in dock icons? Date: 28 Sep 1996 03:39:40 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-25.usc.edu Message-ID: <52i6ls$qb8@usc.edu> This is how I've been activating Edit.app asroot from my user account (which is a script that I double-click on on a Fiend dock level): asroot /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit >/dev/null 2>&1 & The only problem is that a terminal/stuart window always flashes and then is gone whenever I double click the dock icon. After that everything works. How can I have a dock icon to click this script a 'flash window'? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Date: 28 Sep 1996 03:42:04 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-25.usc.edu Message-ID: <52i6qc$qb8@usc.edu> References: <9609262301.AA04548@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> <199609272050.QAA08330@nerc3.nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc3.nerc.com In <199609272050.QAA08330@nerc3.nerc.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > Solution, for those who might be interested: > I wrote a program to do what I wanted to do when fingered, then > replaced 'fingerd' with that program (and renamed the orig fingerd > fingerd.orig). My new program is executed, and then it calls > fingerd.orig. > > > yet another hack solution that works So, TJL, what's the program? Or are you going to make it available via e-mail/ftp/telnet/www/snail/mail/horse/fly? I hope you do. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP/Web browsers under 3.0 Date: 28 Sep 1996 03:42:21 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <52i6qt$lra@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <52h6q0$pc8@news.jf.intel.com> <52hj3d$qfq@news4.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > Plus, a 28.8k modem will really tax the 030 serial > ports, you likely wont be able to get the full speed of the modem in > through the old serial ports (not a problem if you're using 14.4k or slower > modems...). It really maybe time to upgrade... The serial ports on 030 Cubes don't support hardware flow control, so 9600 is the maximum reliable serial port speed. Even a 14.4 modem with compression requires a 57.6 serial port speed for full performance. So using a 030 Cube for Web browsing would be an exercise in total frustration. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Auto Login, How? Date: 28 Sep 1996 03:55:33 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <52i7jl$lra@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <52fdqh$iin@news4.digex.net> <52h85c$72o@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) wrote: > Someday I've gotta write a book... Before rushing out to do that, you might speak with Mike Mahoney about the hourly wage for writing a NS book. It's even less than you make at NeXT :-) -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: 'backfinger' for NeXT (m68k) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960928003919.9204A-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 00:45:34 -0400 References: <9609262301.AA04548@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> <199609272050.QAA08330@nerc3.nerc.com> <52i6qc$qb8@usc.edu> To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <52i6qc$qb8@usc.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > yet another hack solution that works > > > So, TJL, what's the program? Or are you going to make it > available via e-mail/ftp/telnet/www/snail/mail/horse/fly? > > I hope you do. Oh, it isn't anything anyone else would be interested in. All I did was modify my tcp_wrappers (publically available everywhere). Ie if 'tcp' calls 'telnetd' then rename it to 'telnetd.real' and write a script like does this: #!/bin/sh echo "Hey look, it works" >/dev/console someprog another_command /path/to/telnetd.real exit 0 In my case I was using it for a rather bizarre purpose which won't interest 99.9% of the population. Matthew, as you might be the .01%, feel free to email me if interested. TjL
From: salvo@accessone.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: JAZ? Date: 28 Sep 1996 06:34:57 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <52iguh$7gm@kanga.accessone.com> References: <52d12v$ba5@listserv.rice.edu> <1.5.4.32.19960918143452.00693a8c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Summary: DOS or Mac Format In Re: JAZ? comp.sys.next.sysadmin hd@friday.cs.rice.edu (Hubert Daugherty) writes, > I couldn't figure out how to reprogram a DOS jaz disk to NeXTstep format, but > I did > discover I could reformat a MAC disk with no problems at all. So, if you > still have your > receipt, exchange the DOS jaz disk for a MAC jaz disk and your problem will > be solved. You can work with either format. Simply precede the NextAnswers Jaz Package instructions with a low level format(using either sdform or sdformat) of the disk, and you're in business.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcruz@bart.inescn.pt (Jose Manuel de Magalhaes Cruz) Subject: Color monitor keeps black Message-ID: <DyFxD2.1Jw@animal.inescn.pt> Sender: news@animal.inescn.pt (USENET News System) Organization: INESC-Porto, Portugal Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 11:31:50 GMT Hello, We have a Color Station (black hardware) whose monitor, after a period of non-utilization and when a user wants to start working, sometimes turns on and "come to life" quite naturally, but other times it simply keeps black, and refuses to show images! Those monitors can be powered off separately from the CPU box, but the problem is not related to the fact that the monitor is, sometimes powered off and other times it is just black by control of the Screen Saver. Anyone can help us? Many thanks Jose' ---jmcruz@fe.up.pt---
From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What's the dump command to backup a drive to a HP tape? Date: 28 Sep 1996 15:45:16 GMT Organization: CADVision Development Corp. Message-ID: <52jh6c$6e4@elmo.cadvision.com> In-Reply-To: <52hojq$fd8@Vir.com> On 09/27/96, Stefanos Kiakas composed a News article about What's the dump command to backup a drive to a HP tape?: ~Hello all, ~ ~ I'm trying to do a backup of a disk drive using the dump command ~on NS3.3 Intel, but whatever I try I always get a ~ ~ DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] ~ DUMP: Tape write error 1318 feet into tape 1 ~ ~ I'm using BusLogic946C SCSI controller and an HP C1533A DDS-2 ~tape back up. I've installed the SCSI tape driver but I'm still having ~trouble. with the above message. The error occurs at different places in ~the tape. ~ ~ I've tried ~ ~ /dev/nrst0 ~ /dev/rst0 ~ ~ and the following dump commands ~ ~ dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 5000000 ~ dump 0ufsd /dev/st0 400 20000000 ~ ~ I've left compression on on the tape drive so it should be able ~to contain 8G of data. Is this supported by NeXTSTEP? ~ ~Any help would be appreciated, ~stef ~ ~ don't know about "dump", but I used "TAR" on my machine before I got lazy and bought SafteyNet which btw, has saved my system MANY times :) SafteyNet is avail from Systemix.com -- Bill Scollard - Scollard Holdings Ltd. Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Lost Hardware Password Message-ID: <DyFv2s.wG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:42:28 GMT In article <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt> jferreira@cfn.ist.utl.pt (Jorge S. Ferreira) writes: > > I have a old-NeXTstation and I lost the hardware password. > Is it possible to erase it? I need to do a fsck (in monitor) > because there is a problem (media error) with the harddisk. > Please, email me some solutions to solve the problem. > Open the box and look for the lithium battery on the main board. Remove it and ground the socket leads, then put it back in... -- 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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 13:26:23 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YmHJyzu00Uh741eL4F@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Sep-96 Re: netinfo woes--help plea.. by "Timothy J. Luoma"@nerc. > Is there something wrong with running: > > /bin/domainname my.domain > > in rc.local? In practical terms, probably not. It's a reasonable workaround (and one I've used in the past), but it's still a workaround for a problem that should not exist. There is something else you can do that helps somewhat, and that is to provide a FQDN as an alias of the unqualified hostname. For instance, my /etc/hostconfig for a networked system without any external NetInfo servers looks like like: HOSTNAME=tertius INETADDR=128.2.99.3 ROUTER=-ROUTED- IPNETMASK=255.255.0.0 IPBROADCAST=128.2.255.255 NETMASTER=-NO- YPDOMAIN=-NO- TIME=-NO- ...and NetInfo contains the following host information ('nidump hosts .'): 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback lb 128.2.99.3 tertius tertius.res.cmu.edu 128.2.35.50 netserver.andrew.cmu.edu 128.2.13.21 lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu Simply changing 'tertius' to 'tertius.res.cmu.edu' in /etc/hostconfig results in the problems I described earlier. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 28 Sep 1996 23:39:32 +0100 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT Message-ID: <x7zq2a6yj1.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> In-reply-to: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:48:52 -0400 To: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Originator: uucp@nice.ethz.ch Originator: news@nowhere.ethz.ch In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> writes: > Is there something wrong with running: > > /bin/domainname my.domain > > in rc.local? yes, this sets the yellow pages domain name, which has nothing to do with the other domain name. What I have been doing now for several years is having the unqualified hostname in /etc/hostconfig, and having both the qualified and unqualified hostname (in this order !) in the machines entry for the host in it's local netinfo domain. Charles William Swiger wrote: > What's wrong with not using FQDN's? Well, you break the following invariant: > gethostbyname(gethostname()) == gethostbyaddr(primary_interface_address) well, with the above setup, this is true and drag-and-drop and cut-copy-paste still work. christian -- Christian Limpach, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. http://nice.ethz.ch/~chris --- System-Administration VIS/NiCE member of the managing board of VIS (http://www.vis.inf.ethz.ch/)
From: shane@quad-ckrl212.colorado.edu (Shane Clements) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting SBAWE32 PnP to work Date: 29 Sep 1996 03:05:44 GMT Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Message-ID: <52kp28$bb5@lace.colorado.edu> I cannot get any of the drivers to work with my card. I know the configuration of the card and I have gotten my old SoundBlaster working. Could it be a problem with PnP or something? I can't figure it out. If anyone has gotten this to work please tell me how... Shane Clements shane@quad-ckrl212.colorado.edu
From: burnettn@math.enmu.edu (Nathan C. Burnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compiling pine mailer NIH FAT Date: 29 Sep 1996 02:53:46 GMT Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <52kobq$72t@sahara.enmu.edu> Has anybody been able to hack the pine 3.95 build script into compiling a NeXT, Intel, hppa FAT binary? I've been trying lately but with no luck. thanks, Nate --- Nathan C. Burnett "If nobody quotes you, you probably nathan.burnett@math.enmu.edu haven't said anything worth saying." http://chestnut.enmu.edu/~burnettn PGP Key: finger -l burnettn@mojave.enmu.edu -- KMFDM
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 29 Sep 1996 04:50:41 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52kv71$stq@news.tamu.edu> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> <x7zq2a6yj1.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> Christian Limpach <chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> wrote: >yes, this sets the yellow pages domain name, which has nothing to do >with the other domain name. This much I had also figured out from the man page for domainname. >What I have been doing now for several years is having the unqualified >hostname in /etc/hostconfig, and having both the qualified and >unqualified hostname (in this order !) in the machines entry for the >host in it's local netinfo domain. ok---this worked! And it fixed all three of the problems that I mentioned to start the thread. I had tried to do something similar previously, but I had put the unqualified name first. I guess that's a problem because the first entry is what gets returned by calls to gethostname. Correct? Thanks for everyone's help in contributing to this thread. Seems like this should go into a FAQ somewhere. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: ttoe0057@rz.uni-hildesheim.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: boot a NS on non startup disk using the NT bootmanager and NEXTSDWX.BIN .......was: Booting from non startup disk Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:39:00 GMT Organization: RRZN - Newsserver Message-ID: <324c9b56.4460932@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> References: <323FF1B2.15FB@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> SounDWorX NeXTstep loader 1.0.0 Using this boot-program and the Windows NT Bootmanager, you can boot your NeXTstep from drive 81h (D:). In fact you can not just use it for NeXTstep but for any OS that needs to have its boot drive on 80h (C:). If you have your NeXTstep on drive 80h and just want to use the NT Bootmanager, you don't need my boot-loader. All you have to do is use a disk-editor and get your primary bootsector (physical: Cyl:0,Head:0,Sect:1) into a file and add it to your C:\BOOT.INI file (as done in step 7). The SounDWorX NeXTstep loader does fairly simple things: It installs an interrupt-handler for software INT 13h (BIOS drive functions). This little program patches the drive parameter for all functions (proc.reg. DL) from x0h to x1h (and vice versa) and then calls the original INT 13h handler. So if any program tries to load a sector from your first HDD, it will in fact load it from the second HDD. I found this trick in BOOTB.BIN (LiLo) and implemented it in my own boot-loader. (don't know the original author) If you want to install NeXTstep on your second harddrive you have to do some work to get it runnning. ---- (install NeXTstep) 1. First, before installing NeXTstep, you need to disconnect your first harddrive (C:). 2. Install NeXTstep. 3. Open the Configure.App go to the System.Config-Section (/usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table) and change: value of KERNEL_FLAGS to "rootdev=sd1" or "rootdev=hd1" value of KERNEL to "sd(1)mach_kernel" or "hd(1)mach_kernel". "sd" means SCSI drive, "hd" means IDE drive ;) 4. Edit your /etc/fstab; change your boot-disk from sd0/hd0 to sd1/hd1. Before changing: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 After changing: /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 5. Reconnect the first harddrive (C:). ---- (install NEXTSDWX.BIN) 6. Now you have to install the NEXTSDWX.BIN. Copy it to C:\. 7. Add the following line at the end of your BOOT.INI (should also be located in C:\): C:\NEXTSDWX.BIN="NeXTstep" 8. You are ready to boot NeXTstep with the NT Bootmanager... If the NeXTstep boot program (boot0) keeps on annoying you with this boot-partition-question: "press 'n' or 'd' ..." you may install a diffrent boot program (boot1). boot1 is located in /usr/standalone/i386. To install it you have to manually patch it into your primary boot-sector. I use the Central Point Disk Editor (DOS) to manipulate my drives directly. CAUTION: Do not overwrite your partition-table (physical sector 1, offset 01BEh-01FEh). To prevent a garbled partition-table, get the partition-table from your hdd, patch it into the boot1-file and write this complete boot-sector (including partition-table) back to your hdd. (TOOLS->WRITE OBJECT in DE.EXE) ARE THERE BETTER/CLEANER WAYS TO DO THAT ? -> please email ! or better -> write an App that does the work automatically ;) Contacting The Author: WWW: http://www.rz.uni-hildesheim.de/~ttoe0057 E-Mail: ttoe0057@rz.uni-hildesheim.de (NeXTmail Wellcome!) _________________ __ __ _ _ _ >>>>>>>>>>> MiDPLAY 0.60 is on the AIR <<<<<<<<<<<< http://www.rz.uni-hildesheim.de/~ttoe0057/mp060.zip _ _ _ __ __ _________________
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Please Help: Problem with NeXT Laser Printer Date: 25 Sep 1996 18:15:45 GMT Organization: Californi State University, Fresno Message-ID: <52bssh$5b4@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi Folks, We have a problem with one of our printers. The print out shifts downward. So, part of print out near bottom of paper can not print out. Did anyone has similar problem and can't give me a direction to fix? If you know solution, could you email me at kinau@csufresno.edu . Thanks!! --Kin ****************************************************************************** Kin Hung Au Internet Address: kinau@csufresno.edu Instructional Computing Consultant California State University, Fresno Tel# 209-278-3915 School of Natural Science FAX# 209-278-7139 Office of Dean, MS #90 Fresno CA 93740 http://maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu:8001/~kinau/ ******************************************************************************
From: nreck@ix.netcom.com (Nancy Reck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Copying a floppy via dd Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 07:44:04 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <52l98g$fhs@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Hello All, Has anyone successfully copied a floppy with dd? I am using a PLI drive on a 040 cube. The command I use is : dd if=<floppy> of=<filename> bs=512 dd if=<filename> of=<floppy> bs=512 Everything seems to work fine except its not an exact copy. Further more, I get an error in the console say that the copied floppy is out of inodes. What am I missing ??? TIA, Lance
Message-ID: <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:59:16 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton <amcnaughton@hort.cri.nz> Organization: No junk mail please MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jon Cohen wrote: > However, there are some distinctions. A company can legally > send me junk mail using the U.S. Post Office and the mailbox > on my house's door. However, it is ILLEGAL (in the U.S.) for > the same company to send me junk mail to my e-mail address or > to my fax machine. The distinction is as follows: when a > company sends junk mail to my door, that company incurs the > full cost of the delivery of the junk mail; when that company > sends to my e-mail or fax machine, I bear some of the cost of > the delivery -- I pay my ISP for e-mail; I pay for my fax > machine's paper; I pay for the electricity used to deliver > either. This is interesting. Is it illegal under US law for a US person to inflict such costs on users in other countries? Under New Zealand law (privacy act), it is Illegal for a company to divulge personal details, including any form of address, without written consent from the individual to who the information pertains. Is there any parallel legislation in the US?
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sun Sep 29 11:10:27 MET 1996 ???? Message-ID: <183@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 29 Sep 96 10:13:06 GMT Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Sorry, NeXT Inc., but this is not correct: % date Sun Sep 29 11:10:27 MET 1996 It should be: % date Sun Sep 29 12:10:27 MET DST 1996 (NEXTSTEP 3.3) -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: ROM: boot extended diagnostics Message-ID: <1996Sep27.224647.9564@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <199609260530.BAA05806@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:46:47 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <199609260530.BAA05806@nerc3.nerc.com> writes: > > I tried selecting the 'boot extended diagnostics' and it looked as > if it could not find the bootfile. > > Is this an old feature or does it need to be setup somehow first? You had to have a special optical/floppy that was only available to NeXT engineers (and probably some lucky Campus Consultants, which shows how long ago this all was). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: Help installing a HP 4G tape drive. Message-ID: <1996Sep27.224152.9491@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <52e9at$v5h@Vir.com> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:41:52 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <52e9at$v5h@Vir.com> stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) writes: > I'm trying to install a HP C1533A 4Gig tape backup. But I'm having > a few problems. > > On a ThinkPad 755CX, with an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card the computer can > see the tape drive on windows 3.11, but when I boot with NeXTSTEP 3.3 > Intel the computer does not see the tape back up. > > Can NeXTSTEP deal with 4Gig tape backup system? Are there any special > drivers I need to install? Have you installed the scsitape driver? Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul an optical, either. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: Auto Login, How? Message-ID: <1996Sep27.223901.9363@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <52fm4l$m6q@news.tamu.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:39:01 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <52fm4l$m6q@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> writes: > John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > >Remember after you first install NEXT/OPENSTEP, how it automatically logs > >into the 'me' account. Howd they do that? After you make new accounts, > >that ability goes away. If I still have an account w/o a password (say a > >guest account), is there a way to have the machine automagically log into > >that account? NeXTSTEP is coded to work that way. It doesn't depend on making new accounts; it depends upon having a password on the me account. > I believe the autologin to "me" is entirely controlled by whether or > not the me account has a password set (in local netinfo). This > apparently happens after the /etc/rc script exits. There's almost > certainly no simple way to make it respond to a different account. > > Remember, too, the default behavior on logging out from a passwordless > me account is to log you right back in. Sounds to me like you > probably don't want that either. You can do it. It is a parameter in the /etc/ttys file, on loginwindow: -DefaultUser. As you say, it may not be desirable. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: ROM: boot extended diagnostics Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DyE5H4.2Is@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:31:52 GMT References: <199609260530.BAA05806@nerc3.nerc.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <199609260530.BAA05806@nerc3.nerc.com>, Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > >I tried selecting the 'boot extended diagnostics' and it looked as >if it could not find the bootfile. > >Is this an old feature or does it need to be setup somehow first? > It needs some code installed on the disk that NeXT never released publically. -- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pdepuydt@uia.ua.ac.be. (Peter Depuydt) Subject: NT-file system Message-ID: <DyI4ry.1p0@uia.ua.ac.be> Sender: news@uia.ua.ac.be (News database) Organization: U.I.A. University of Antwerp Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:07:10 GMT Hello NeXT-files Is there a discription file for the NT file system ?? Many greetings Peter The NeXTSTEP is the only step forward -- ============================================================== Peter Depuydt | pdepuydt@uia.ua.ac.be Student Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP University of Antwerp | NeXTSTEP 3.3 using PPP2.2 Belgium (Europe) | http://www.uia.ac.be/u/pdepuydt ==============================================================
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: 29 Sep 1996 17:33:59 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <52mbu7$92p@news3.digex.net> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz> Andrew McNaughton <amcnaughton@hort.cri.nz> wrote: > This is interesting. Is it illegal under US law for a US person to inflict such costs on users in other countries? > Under New Zealand law (privacy act), it is Illegal for a company to divulge personal details, including any form of address, without written consent from the individual to who the information pertains. Is there any parallel legislation in the US? I don't know this for sure, but I think it's different in the US. At the very least, I think there might not be anything to stop people from distributing the same information that is found in a phone directory. I.E. Your name, address, and phone number. Now if other bits of information are added there, like your age, social security number, etc., that may violate the persons privacy and the company would be liable for invasion of privacy... Of course all the above is just speculation on my part...I don't know for sure. -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: humanist@interport.net (Michael Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: got an extra ns3.3/3.2 CD to sell? Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 18:23:00 GMT Organization: Humanist Movement Message-ID: <52mem8$43c@park.interport.net> I'd like to try out NS on my PC, I'm curious about what it's like. Does anyone have an extra "old" version CD, like 3.3 or 3.2?? ------------------- "Computers are like people; the old generation can never figure out the software that moves the newer generation. And it's better that way-- otherwise the new generation will be stuck, and the old one will behave like they are stupid and just don't get it." Michael Howard=humanist@interport.net=www.interport.net/~humanist -------------------
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sun Sep 29 11:10:27 MET 1996 ???? Message-ID: <185@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 29 Sep 96 18:28:02 GMT References: <183@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands In article <183@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) writes: [ ... NeXT doesn't show DST while still in effect for MET timezone ... ] OK, should have read .announce first - problem is tackled adequately by Pascal Leroy's solution. It _is_ strange, however, that nothing is mentioned in NeXTAnswers about this - a change that should have been foreseen for a year and a half ... (Try searching for MET, daylight or CET - doesn't return anything useful). -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sun Sep 29 11:10:27 MET 1996 ???? Message-ID: <186@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 29 Sep 96 19:23:41 GMT References: <185@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands In article <185@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> I wrote: > (Try searching for MET, daylight or CET - doesn't return anything > useful). Even that has changed since I last looked [ note the date, realising that PDT = MDT - 9:00 ] Title: OPENSTEP Time Zone Patch Entry Number: 2463 Creation Date: September 27, 1996 Last Updated: <<Date September 27, 1996>> Procedure Valid for Release: Time Zone Patch Keywords: OPENSTEP, NEXTSTEP, patch, hppa, sparc, intel, m68k, system Overview This README document describes how to install the TimeZone Patch Update and describes the fixes contained in the update. This update is to be installed only on computers running NEXTSTEP 3.3, NEXTSTEP 3.3risc, OPENSTEP 4.0 for Mach, OPENSTEP 4.0 for NT, OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach, and OPENSTEP 4.1 for NT. The 7th European Union Directive on Summer Time specifies that starting in 1996, daylight savings time in the European Union will terminate on the last Sunday in October of each year. NeXT current software (including NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP for Mach, and OPENSTEP for NT) thinks that daylight savings time in the European Union terminates on the last Sunday in September of each year. To guarantee the integrity of the fixes included in this patch, you should only install this software when received from an authorized NeXT representative or a NeXT server. Your existing NeXT Software License Agreement governs the use of this software update. This patch updates only binary data files containing timezone information. It does not update any executables or scripts or documentation. ... etc. URL: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2463.htmld/2463.html [ Note that my preference is for Pascal Leroy's solution, as it gives some tools to manage timezone info with ] Regards, -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Phone: +31 346 214290; Fax: +31 346 214286 URL: http://www.knmi.nl/hirlam
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 29 Sep 1996 18:40:53 +0100 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT Message-ID: <x7iv8xnrru.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> <x7zq2a6yj1.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> <52kv71$stq@news.tamu.edu> In-reply-to: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu's message of 29 Sep 1996 04:50:41 GMT To: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Originator: uucp@nice.ethz.ch Originator: news@nowhere.ethz.ch In article <52kv71$stq@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) writes: > ok---this worked! And it fixed all three of the problems that I > mentioned to start the thread. I had tried to do something similar > previously, but I had put the unqualified name first. I guess that's > a problem because the first entry is what gets returned by calls to > gethostname. Correct? almost, gethostname and /bin/hostname return the unqualified hostname, but gethostby(name|addr) will return the qualified name as the "official name of host" in h_name. christian -- Christian Limpach, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. http://nice.ethz.ch/~chris --- System-Administration VIS/NiCE member of the managing board of VIS (http://www.vis.inf.ethz.ch/)
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:04:58 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52mo9q$pt0@news.tamu.edu> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <x7zq2a6yj1.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> <52kv71$stq@news.tamu.edu> <x7iv8xnrru.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> Christian Limpach <chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> wrote: >almost, gethostname and /bin/hostname return the unqualified hostname, >but gethostby(name|addr) will return the qualified name as the >"official name of host" in h_name. And this (presumably) explains why some programs were working correctly while others were not--depending on whether they called gethostname or gethostbyname. Thanks. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.po From: rmah@angel.net (Robert S. Mah) Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Organization: Angel Networks, Inc. Message-ID: <rmah-3009960028330001@axe.angel.net> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:28:33 GMT amcnaughton@hort.cri.nz wrote: > Under New Zealand law (privacy act), it is Illegal for a company > to divulge personal details, including any form of address, without > written consent from the individual to who the information pertains. > Is there any parallel legislation in the US? Hell, in the U.S. companies SELL such information to third parties. It is a very common practice in many industries. A noteable example would include most publishers. Cheers, Rob ..................................................................... Robert S. Mah 212-366-0881 Angel Networks, Inc. rmah@angel.net
From: Tomaz Sustar <tomaz.sustar@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Window server error Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 05:58:29 +0100 Organization: Komunikacijsko Informacijski Servis SOU - KISS Message-ID: <324F5375.260@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have an Intel box with NS 3.2. I have no problems with it until last week. (BTW : I haven't change any system file) I'm receiving error message from window server : Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: WindowServer: Exception caught: PS-108.1 on host `sustart', user `tomaz': Illegal instruction (SIGILL), Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: [ eip = 0x16890 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x15216 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x978c Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x904a Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x84b78 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0xa357 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x11206b Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0xa592 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x3863 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: ] Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WM[187]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext b27d0, data -102 If someone please point out what's going on, it would be very appreciated. -- Thanks in advance Tomaz =============================================== Tomaz Sustar (Ljubljana / Slovenija) Private : Tomaz.Sustar@net.zaslon.si Work : tomaz.sustar@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to avoid flash terminal windows when double-clicking scripts in dock icons? Date: 30 Sep 1996 00:22:17 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <veeohio4op2.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <52i6ls$qb8@usc.edu> In-reply-to: reichman@usc.edu's message of 28 Sep 1996 03:39:40 GMT In article <52i6ls$qb8@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: This is how I've been activating Edit.app asroot from my user account (which is a script that I double-click on on a Fiend dock level): asroot /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit >/dev/null 2>&1 & The only problem is that a terminal/stuart window always flashes and then is gone whenever I double click the dock icon. After that everything works. How can I have a dock icon to click this script a 'flash window'? That's because Workspace doesn't really know how to execute that program, so it tosses it off to your DefaultTerminalApp, be it Terminal or Stuart. You might try renaming the script to have a .daemon extension. Might not work, of course, but it might. Actually, let me check, quick ... yeah, that seems to work fine. You could even wrap it in a small C program and give it an icon, but that's a problem for another time. Later, -- scott hess <shess@winternet.com> http://www.winternet.com/~shess/ Work: 288 Rampart Court #105, Ft Mitchell, KY, 41017 (606) 578-0412 (Was) 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208 <address and phone work now, I am already in Cincinnati. No new email, yet.>
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to avoid flash terminal windows when double-clicking scripts in dock icons? Date: 30 Sep 1996 06:37:09 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-03.usc.edu Message-ID: <52npql$qd6@usc.edu> References: <52i6ls$qb8@usc.edu> <veeohio4op2.fsf@shell.one.net> Cc: shess@shell.one.net In <veeohio4op2.fsf@shell.one.net> Scott Hess wrote: > You might try renaming the script to have a .daemon extension. Might > not work, of course, but it might. Actually, let me check, quick ... > yeah, that seems to work fine. You could even wrap it in a small C > program and give it an icon, but that's a problem for another time. Unfortunately, when I renamed the script from "rootedit" to "rootedit.daemon", and double-clicked its icon, I got the following error message: Cannot exec /usr/local/pkgs/matt/rootedit.daemon : Exec format error This is the script I have been using: /usr/local/bin/asroot /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit >/dev/null 2>&1 & Any suggestions? ALSO - running it as an app would be nice (so I could give it its own icon), but do I need a developer set-up to do that? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ftpd logging Date: 30 Sep 1996 01:43:28 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Message-ID: <52nq6g$7a6@plains.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I finally started reading all the various manpages for the daemons on my NS 3.3 system. ftpd can be started with the -l option to log things to syslog. according to the syslog man page, daemons use the daemon facility for logging. well, in my syslog.conf (whic is still the system default) there's a line kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages yet, if i add the -l parameter to ftpd in /etc/inetd.conf and restart inetd, or reboot, or whatever. ftp access still aren't being logged. is sometihing not being done right? or is the logging in ftpd not fully implemented. i really don't want to configure wuftpd, or anything else mainly cuz i'm too lazy, and since i don't really need to configure the ftp server./ it's just a toy to me. but it'd be cool if i can get it to work. thanks andy -- ------------------ Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT or MIME mail OK ------------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://space.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------ awang@plains.nodak.edu -------------------------------
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Timezone package by P. Leroy Date: 30 Sep 1996 08:14:42 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <52nvhi$s9q@news.xs4all.nl> Now that's what I call exhaustive timezone information! Excellent initiative! I do have one remaining problem, however. Oddly enough when I installed Pascal Leroy's timezones96 package it worked, once, as root. (An impressive, even though somewhat superfluous choice of timezones.) But when I logged in as a normal user Preferences crashes when I clicked on the time/date button. That was at home. Now I'm trying this at my work and it doesn't function at all. Can anyone guess at why Preferences.app crashes? Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: Tomaz Sustar <tomaz.sustar@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Window server error Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:01:53 +0100 Organization: Komunikacijsko Informacijski Servis SOU - KISS Message-ID: <324F560B.2C33@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have an Intel box with NS 3.2. I have no problems with it until last week. (BTW : I haven't change any system file) I'm receiving error message from window server : Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: WindowServer: Exception caught: PS-108.1 on host `sustart', user `tomaz': Illegal instruction (SIGILL), Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: [ eip = 0x16890 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x15216 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x978c Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x904a Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x84b78 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0xa357 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x11206b Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0xa592 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: , from 0x3863 Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: ] Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WM[187]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext b27d0, data -102 The above message was generated while I was logged in but inactive. If someone please point out what's going on, it would be very appreciated. -- Thanks in advance Tomaz =============================================== Tomaz Sustar (Ljubljana / Slovenija) Private : Tomaz.Sustar@net.zaslon.si Work : tomaz.sustar@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si
From: nicolai@dannug.dk (Nicolai Henriksen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? Date: 17 Sep 1996 23:56:37 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group (DanNUG) Distribution: world Message-ID: <51ndrl$jb@marvin.dannug.dk> References: <51jjd2$30f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> John W. Wooten writes > In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960914002526.6904C-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. > Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> writes: > > > > On 13 Sep 1996, Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > > > Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:28:58 GMT > > > From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> > > > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > > > Subject: In-memory Filesystem under NextStep? > > > > > > Hi, > > > ist it possible to have a RAM Disk under NextStep and if, how can i create > > > one? > A RAM disk is something toy computers use when they don't know how to implement > swapping file systems. You can increase the number of memory buffers on NeXT > during boot. Memory management is one of the great things you get with UNIX, > Mach, or NeXTStep over the other toy systems. > Toy computers? Like SUN workstations? As far as I am informed the /tmp filesystem under SunOS 5.x (I do not know about SunOS 4.x) is a RAM disk. E.g. when (un)packing a .tar.gz archive, doing it in /tmp on a SUN is quite fast, which is very nice. Of cause it requires lots of RAM to be usefull, but what the heck, RAM is cheap nowadays. - Nicolai. -- Nicolai Henriksen <nicolai@dannug.dk> WWW: http://www.dannug.dk/~nicolai
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: C++ environment/configuration help? Date: 30 Sep 1996 12:41:23 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <52of5j$dqf@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Hi, I am really hoping that some kind individual is out there who wouldn't mind to contacting me via email to help me get c++ up and running on an Intel running NS3.3. I have two of these platforms. On one, I am using Developer 3.2, with no problems -- except that it doesn't seem to support templates and therefore chokes on <iomanip.h>. On the other, I have installed the Developer patch. I no longer have any problem with iomanip.h, but when I try to link multi-source files, I get errors that I've been told are related to virtual tables not being generated, but I have no idea how to remedy this. I also tried to make the newest gcc on the machine that hasn't been patched, but although I can make the compiler successfully, the header files etc. aren't collected and transfered to the appropriate directories. Is there anyone out there willing to help me move all this in the right direction? I would really appreciate the assistance. Randy Note the need to reply to randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio.state.edu, not lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Latext2html for NeXT? Date: 27 Sep 1996 18:15:23 GMT Organization: Californi State University, Fresno Message-ID: <52h5jr$bfp@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi, Did anyone success to use latex2html on NeXT? I installed perl 5.000a and ghostscript on our NeXT stations. But, I still can't get it working. Can anyone give me a hint? --Kin ****************************************************************************** Kin Hung Au Internet Address: kinau@csufresno.edu Instructional Computing Consultant California State University, Fresno Tel# 209-278-3915 School of Natural Science FAX# 209-278-7139 Office of Dean, MS #90 Fresno CA 93740 http://maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu:8001/~kinau/ ******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to avoid flash terminal windows when double-clicking scripts in dock icons? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960930090515.2733A-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:11:50 -0400 References: <52i6ls$qb8@usc.edu> <veeohio4op2.fsf@shell.one.net> <52npql$qd6@usc.edu> To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> cc: shess@shell.one.net In-Reply-To: <52npql$qd6@usc.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Scott -- thanks for that .daemon tip! That's VERY handy. My shell scripts just took on new life. Matthew -- Try this script as the *.daemon file: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/asroot /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit >/dev/null 2>&1 & That worked fine for me. Just a chance to point out that this would be a perfect place for a tickleservice with an NXCommandKey, also. Assign it 'R' or something like that and with the proper pasteboard type you can start Edit.app from inside almost any application at any time, rather than having to find the command to double-click on it. If you are interested and have trouble, let me know and I can probably help you figure it out. TjL On 30 Sep 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > Date: 30 Sep 1996 06:37:09 GMT > From: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> > Cc: shess@shell.one.net > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: How to avoid flash terminal windows when double-clicking scripts in dock icons? > > In <veeohio4op2.fsf@shell.one.net> Scott Hess wrote: > > You might try renaming the script to have a .daemon > > extension.. > > Unfortunately, when I renamed the script from "rootedit" to > "rootedit.daemon", and double-clicked its icon, I got the > following error message: > > Cannot exec /usr/local/pkgs/matt/rootedit.daemon : Exec > format error > > > This is the script I have been using: > > /usr/local/bin/asroot /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit >/dev/null > 2>&1 & >
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Timezone package by P. Leroy Date: 30 Sep 1996 13:57:00 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <52ojjc$est@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <52nvhi$s9q@news.xs4all.nl> Jan-Willem de Bruijn <jwdb@fygir.nl> wrote: : Now that's what I call exhaustive timezone information! Excellent initiative! : I do have one remaining problem, however. Oddly enough when I installed : Pascal Leroy's timezones96 package it worked, once, as root. (An impressive, : even though somewhat superfluous choice of timezones.) But when I logged in : as a normal user Preferences crashes when I clicked on the time/date button. : That was at home. Now I'm trying this at my work and it doesn't function at : all. Can anyone guess at why Preferences.app crashes? /etc/zoneinfo/localtime must be a symbolic link to the appropriate file. After 'make install' of the timezones96 package it is a hard link which Preferences appearantly doesn't like.... -- 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: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Window server error Date: 30 Sep 1996 13:59:12 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <52ojng$est@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <324F560B.2C33@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si> Tomaz Sustar <tomaz.sustar@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si> wrote: : I have an Intel box with NS 3.2. I have no problems with it until last : week. (BTW : I haven't change any system file) : I'm receiving error message from window server : : Sep 29 17:28:37 sustart WindowServer[182]: WindowServer: Exception : caught: PS-108.1 on host `sustart', user `tomaz': Illegal instruction : (SIGILL), Check your hardware: Processor fan, seating of simms etc. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199609300427.AAA11174@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 00:27:46 -0400 Subject: NS 3.2: problems with nu -d Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Do you want to delete this entry? (y or n) [y] y rm -rf /Users/test rm -f /usr/spool/mail/test nu: '/etc/nulib/nu4.sh test /Users/test /Users/test /usr/adm/nu.log 0 ' failed, status 2560 nu: No such file or directory Anyone seen this before? It seems I can't use 'nu -d' to delete accounts. I can use UserManager.app, although this appears in the console: Removing /users/test from NetInfo domain. but the path is really /Users/test Something which is fixed in 3.3? TjL
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sun Sep 29 11:10:27 MET 1996 ???? Date: 30 Sep 1996 14:31:31 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <52olk3$ehb@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <185@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> <186@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) wrote: : This README document describes how to install the TimeZone Patch Update : and describes the fixes contained in the update. This update is to be : installed only on computers running NEXTSTEP 3.3, NEXTSTEP 3.3risc, : OPENSTEP 4.0 for Mach, OPENSTEP 4.0 for NT, OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach, and : OPENSTEP 4.1 for NT. Well, that's really interesting! Provided that the patch is quite simple and non-critical, nevertheless a high annoyance, I'd expect that it would make it into a release even if it was found just a few days before the deadline. But then that would mean that it has already been too late to incorporate the patch into 4.1... Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit Mathematisches Institut, Uni HD | | flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany | | (NeXTmail, MIME) (49)6221 54-5771 fax 54-8312 | | PGP Key fingerprint = 23 8F B3 38 A3 39 A6 01 5B 99 91 D6 F2 AC CD C7 |
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Toshiba Tecra and modem Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 10:52:01 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@firebird10.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.960930105148.2997A-100000@firebird10.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone have a Tecra 720 CDT with the internal modem? I'm trying to get one to dial in to campus, but can't even get a dial tone. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done this from NeXTStep or some other form of Unix. Robert rob@rjacobs.stanford.edu
From: Eric Bodily <bdlyeh@srv.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with 2.0 bootup. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:40:46 -0700 Organization: SRVnet, Inc. Message-ID: <32503008.3BEF@srv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a N1100 that wont boot, I made a direct duplicate from another N1100 hard drive and thought that I could simply put the hard drive back into the first machine and have it boot. I had it create new links (whatever that means) while copying from the first hard drive to the second one. When booting it starts out by indicating it is loading from disk, then it breaks out into a small dialog box labeled "System Panic" and in that dialog it says: --------- Load of /etc/init failed, errno 83 trap: type 0xc fcode 8450 rw 8192 faultaddr 0x2081 trap: pc 0x4001edc sp 0x10006d68 sr 0x2004 trap: cpu 0 th 0x10007098 proc 0x10006c38 pid 1 pc traceback: fp 0x4089528 last fp 0x4089528 panic: (Cpu 0) address error NeXt ROM Moitor 2.1 v59 panic: NeXT Mach 2.0: Wed Nov 21 12:46:53 PST 1990 ; /phi_source/projects/mk-108.1/RELEASE Killing all processes --------- Can anybody help me out with this problem? Or tell me where I can get System 2.0 on disk so that I can install it agian. Thanks in advance Eric Bodily bdlyeh@srv.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: HELP! Black slab won't boot! Message-ID: <ukvzq2723qy.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:37:41 GMT Hi...I'm posting this for a friend, but all responses may be sent to me. Basically, he was deleting files to get some needed disk space, and now the slab won't boot. I have no idea which files he deleted, nor where he was in the dirtree when he was doing it. He did however provide me with the entire boot output, which is as so: >I don't recall which directory I was in at the time. If the OS has a >recovery I am unaware of it. I am not very familiar with these machines at >all. That's why I wanted to get one of them so I could see what they were >like. The Problem exibits itself on bootup. >It starts out by indicating it is loading from disk, then it breaks out >into a small dialog box labeled "System Panic" and in that dialog it says: >Load of /etc/init failed, errno 83 >trap: type 0xc fcode 8450 rw 8192 faultaddr 0x2081 > >trap: pc 0x4001edc sp 0x10006d68 sr 0x2004 >trap: cpu 0 th 0x10007098 proc 0x10006c38 pid 1 pc >traceback: fp 0x4089528 >last fp 0x4089528 >panic: (Cpu 0) address error >NeXt ROM Moitor 2.1 v59 >panic: NeXT Mach 2.0: Wed Nov 21 12:46:53 PST 1990 >; /phi_source/projects/mk-108.1/RELEASE > >Killing all processes >Thats what it says. Im sorry to make it so wordy, but not being familiar >with the computer or UNIX I figured I better list it all. My guess is that >it needs to find the file /etc/init and so it shows error number 83. I have >checked that directory on the hard drive by connecting it to the other >machine booted to the hard drive with the good system files and I can >locate this file where it is indicated by the error message, but I have had >no luck in bringing it up. > >Any Ideas? AFAIK, /etc/init still exists on that machine (I could be wrong). Not being familiar with NeXTs, I can't interpret the boot failure entirely, except that it seems that either /etc/init failed to load, or some file /etc/init was looking for failed to load. Can anyone provide a better interpretation of the above output, or provide commands that, when issued from the debugger, would help get this machine back on its feet? (He has another slab with a working OS, but because he's no UNIX or NeXT expert, I was hesitant to suggest mounting the bad drive in the working slab and diffing the entire dirtrees...I don't know if he could do this without causing further damage...) Any help greatly appreciated! thanks! Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Has anyone compiled for NS v.3.3 m68k - sendmail 8.8 and/or mailx 5.5? Date: 30 Sep 1996 21:03:04 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-66.usc.edu Message-ID: <52pci8$f32@usc.edu> Has anyone compiled for NS v.3.3 m68k - sendmail 8.8 and/or mailx 5.5? I have the souce for mailx 5.5 but haven't had time and opportunity to try it out. There are patches for Sun, but I am assuming that I wouldn't need them for NS. I don't have the source for sendmail 8.8 (tho it's not too hard to get). Just a bit initimidated to try it out. Anyone running either of these? Curious especially about reactions to mailx 5.5 with NS. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: Mark Kushigian <mkush@normac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mach64 video trouble Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:03:14 -0400 Organization: Normac, Inc. Message-ID: <325043A1.2BBE@normac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I've got an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (Mach 64) under OS 4.0 and it appears to be functioning basically correctly. The NeXT web page lists an 1152x896 mode that I don't have in my list, however. Anyone know a way to get this resolution? The tech-support guy said that maybe an older driver (3.34) would do the trick because it doesn't use the card's BIOS. Anyone have a copy of this driver? Or is there a way to get this to work with the 4.01 driver (the one on the OS 4.0 CD)? Thanks for any help. If you wouldn't mind, could you carbon-copy any replies to my e-mail address... -- Mark Kushigian Normac, Inc. E-mail: mkush@normac.com Tel: +1.704.684.1002 x31
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