This is Sys-10.gz in view mode; [Up]
From: "Paul Hoffman" <phoffman@iwaynet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dos hangs windows95 Help Date: 30 Sep 1996 23:03:53 GMT Organization: Message-ID: <01bbaf23$a40f4180$7b2af4ce@phoffman.iwaynet.net> When going to a dos window I went full screen and changed font, now when I exit I get "Fatal Error" ant help as to why?
From: Santino Rizzo <santino@earthlink.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.po Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:54:29 -0400 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <32505DB5.B26@earthlink.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> <rmah-3009960028330001@axe.angel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert S. Mah wrote: > > 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 I would have to agree here. The entire premise behind the most popular scam today is that you send your address and $1 to five names on a list asking each of them to include your name and address on a mailing list. This makes the scam legal, whether the sell the mailing list or not doesn't matter.
From: tmccarth@usc.edu (Thomas McCarthy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SinpleNetworkStarter quits Date: 1 Oct 1996 04:23:17 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: tmccarth@comserv-h-51.usc.edu Message-ID: <52q6bl$1ei@usc.edu> I have run into trouble building a small (2 machine) network using SimpleNetworkStarter, and I would appreciate any help I can get. The problem is that SimpleNetworkStarter quits before telling me it is time to physically connect the cable. The machine doesn't function as a NetInfo server; when I boot, I get a message to press "c" to continue to boot without the network. Any ideas what's wrong? Here is the background information. The machine I want to configure as a NetInfo server is a color station with 32 megs of RAM, running 3.2. The planned client is a mono station with 8 megs of RAM, running 3.0J. I am pretty certain the cables, etc. are One possible source of the problem: I have previously used SimpleNetworkStarter to configure the color station as a stand-alone machine (this was required in order to use a Japanese program called SimpleInternextStarter). And here is some of what I get when I boot in verbose mode: --- Sun Sep 29 15:51:58 PDT 1996 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries en0: netmask set to 0.0.0.0 lo0: netmask set to 255.0.0.0 Settig hostname to sumo Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up /etc/nologin mixdriver release 2.1 started ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapSep 29 15:52:11 sumo mach: Still searching for parent network administration (NetInfo) server. Please wait, or press 'c' to continue without network user accounts. See your system administrator if you need help. --- I am hoping it's something simple to fix! Thanks in advance, -- Tom --- Thomas McCarthy Note new address: tom@minus9.com (NeXTmail and MIME mail welcome) Still valid: tmccarth@usc.edu (NeXTmail and MIME) tmccarth@afs2000a.usc.edu (ASCII only)
From: Winston <clayton@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PCMCIA Modems Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 07:51:34 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <32512FF6.5E5C@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know how to get a PCMCIA modem to work under NS3.3? I have a MegaHertz. The NeXTANSWERS page on the PCMCIA bus implies you can treat a modem card as a simple serial device but it doesn't give any specifics. thanks, -winston
From: aalto@uvula.nmt.edu (Eugene Aalto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Proxy server for NeXT? Date: 1 Oct 1996 07:42:02 GMT Organization: New Mexico Insitute of Mining and Technology Message-ID: <52qi0a$ole@newshost.nmt.edu> Since I have a whole network of machines that must connect to the net by a single ppp link running on a NeXT, I need to set up a proxy server program to run under NextStep. I would like to be able to pass most or all types of packets. What is the best software to use under NextStep on black hardware? I am using ppp 2.2 with the 0.4.6 release of the loadable kernel server. Please reply via email, my news feed sucks! Thanks, Eugene Aalto aalto@nmt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP with network installation of OS4.0 on sparc stations Message-ID: <1996Oct1.110800.46946@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 1 Oct 96 11:08:00 MET Oh boy, this is getting on my nerves: I always advocated how easy it is to install NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (which is still is!), but now I'm stuck with trying to install OPENSTEP 4.0 on a bunch of Sparc station 5's. The configuration: We have two physically separated networks (A and B, which are subnets of a class B network), connected to each other via two routers (there's another network inbetween). The master NetInfo server (a NeXT cube) is on network A and hosts a three level domain. A clone server (a sparc station 5) is on network B. This machine has been set up as install server according to the manuals provided with the OPENSTEP release. All NetInfo entries of the machines on that subnet are correct. They contain the host name, ip address, ethernet address, the system type of 'Sun SPARC', as well as the appropriate bootparams. The server correctly enters all ethernet addresses in the internal arp table on booting. When I boot any client station with the 'boot net' command (as given in the OPENSTEP installation manual), I only get the message 'timeout waiting for ARP/RARP ...'. I know that OPENSTEP doesn't use the rarp protocoll, but bootp instead. I ran both the bootpd and the bootparamd in debug mode but received no output from either when trying to boot a client. I then booted a Solaris server and started in.rarpd in debug mode and saw that the arp request arrived at this machine, but the server claimed that it could not resolve the ethernet address to the ip address (I had entered the pair manually using arp) - and once again, I received the timeout messages on the client. My next thought was that the client may be receiving false information from somewhere else so I disconnected the network from the router and tried it with the OPENSTEP server again - same results. Has anyone managed to install OPENSTEP4.0 across the network on sun sparcs? Unfortunately I don't have a SUN CDrom I could attach to each system to do an initial installation and I don't want to move around the server's internal CDrom (too many machines!). Any hints or help would be greatly appreciated. -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: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Timezone package by P. Leroy Date: 1 Oct 1996 08:47:52 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <52qlro$bbi@news.xs4all.nl> References: <52nvhi$s9q@news.xs4all.nl> <52ojjc$est@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) wrote: > : all. Can anyone guess at why Preferences.app crashes? > > /etc/zoneinfo/localtime must be a symbolic link to the appropriate > file. After 'make install' of the timezones96 package it is a hard link > which Preferences appearantly doesn't like.... localtime was a symbolic link, but it was a very good suggestion anyway, because I had made /etc/zoneinfo a symbolic link too (to /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo) in my obsessive quest to keep alterations separate from the original distribution as much as possible. As soon as I stopped being a sissy and made it into a real directory, Preferences.app did not crash anymore. -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to avoid flash terminal windows when double-clicking scripts in dock icons? Date: 01 Oct 1996 09:55:24 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <vee20fihjqr.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <52i6ls$qb8@usc.edu> <veeohio4op2.fsf@shell.one.net> <52npql$qd6@usc.edu> In-reply-to: reichman@usc.edu's message of 30 Sep 1996 06:37:09 GMT In article <52npql$qd6@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: 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 Hmm. The script file is set to be executable? Perhaps put "#!/bin/sh" as the first line? Let me know if it still doesn't work once those are in place - it definitely worked for me under NS3.2, so it's doable. 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: Jean-Henri Duteau <jeand@myrias.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Old Sony CD-ROM drive Date: 01 Oct 1996 09:36:24 -0600 Organization: Myrias Computer Technologies Sender: jeand@moe.Myrias.AB.CA Message-ID: <xktybhqlmrr.fsf@moe.Myrias.AB.CA> I have just got a hold of an old Sony non-SCSI cd-rom drive. I believe it's of the CDU-53x type. Anyways, I'd like to use it on my NS/Intel box (which I'm just starting to set up). Has anyone written a driver for it? There's a driver for Linux for it, so that's a start. Having never been a NS/Intel person (I've been a NS/m68k all my life 8-]), I've never delved into the Driver Kit. Is writing a device driver a doable thing, given that I have access to the Linux driver source?? Any help would be appreciated. -- Jean-Henri Duteau jeand@myrias.com (work) jeand@west-teq.net (home) Fantasy Sports Guru -- Commissioner--RHL,RHHL,LFHL,CFFL.Owner--FHL,FFL,RCFFL Interested in fantasy sports??? Check out http://west-teq.net/~jeand/ Currently working on RHS -- a GNU Hockey Simulator system, and NeXTzip, a Z-Machine Interpreter for NeXTstep.
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Timezone package by P. Leroy Date: 1 Oct 1996 15:41:07 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <52re2j$56f@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> References: <52nvhi$s9q@news.xs4all.nl> <52ojjc$est@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <52qlro$bbi@news.xs4all.nl> jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) wrote: > kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) wrote: > > /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.... > localtime was a symbolic link, but it was a very good suggestion anyway, > because I had made /etc/zoneinfo a symbolic link too (to > /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo) in my obsessive quest to keep alterations separate > from the original distribution as much as possible. > As soon as I stopped being a sissy and made it into a real directory, > Preferences.app did not crash anymore. I did exactly the same thing for the same reason and experienced the same result. I really appreciate the work those who contribute nice enhancements to NS provide, but it would be really nice if these enhancements could be separated from NeXT's distribution so that the next upgrade won't wipe them out. It's too easy to forget about these changes by the time the upgrade occurs. -- 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: Carl Hoefer <hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install NS 3.3 on Intel w/o SCSI Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 10:28:58 -0700 Organization: University of California, Riverside Message-ID: <325154DA.6695@citrus.ucr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there, I have a new office machine, Dell Optiplex with 32meg, IDE controller and internal CD. I was anguished to learn I can't install NS using the internal CD, and will have to work up some juryrigged solution. I've thought of three ways, please give me advice on what's best! 1) haul my old pizza box (already running 3.3) into the new office, link the two machines by Ethernet cable, and try a "network install". This option looks scary, as I'm no sysadmin, just an ignorant enduser. 2) buy an Adaptech SCSI adapter for the Dell, and use my old NeXT CD-ROM drive to install. Will this even work? What model do I need? 3) Get a SCSI Zip or Jaz drive with the SCSI accelerator card, and use that as my SCSI input for the NeXT CD-ROM. Again, would this even work? If so, it's a good option for me because I want to get such a drive anyway. 'Course, if option 2) works, I suppose I can get the SCSI Zip drive anyway. Advice, or pointers to the approp. FAQ, will be greatly appreciated! Carl Hoefer Dept. of Philosophy UC Riverside
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dyaeb@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston) Subject: Can I make a sparc 4 dual-boot NS 3.3 and Solaris? Message-ID: <DyLyr5.GwD@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:47:29 GMT I have installed Solaris 2.5 on a sparc 4 with a 1Gbyte internal disk. The disk is partitioned by Solaris so that slice 7 is about 500Mbyte and does not get mounted. I then tried to install NS3.3, hoping that it would recognise the Solaris partitions so that I could make a dual-boot system but, no, it wants to take over the entire disk. Does anyone know if/how I can make this scheme work? -- Dave Aston......Internet: dyaeb@slac.stanford.edu; BitNet: RIP *8-( MS62 Voice: (415)926-2457; Fax: (415)926-3587 SLAC, Stanford U, and DOE are not responsible for _anything_ I say.
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SinpleNetworkStarter quits Date: 1 Oct 1996 18:58:44 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52rpl4$4fa@news.tamu.edu> References: <52q6bl$1ei@usc.edu> In article <52q6bl$1ei@usc.edu>, Thomas McCarthy <tmccarth@usc.edu> wrote: >One possible source of the problem: I have previously used >SimpleNetworkStarter to configure the color station as a stand-alone >machine (this was required in order to use a Japanese program called >SimpleInternextStarter). It is known that SimpleNetworkStarter chokes on anything but the brand new machine configuration, so this is the source of your problems. Here's what I've found in such cases... If you have a very simple setup and don't mind starting from scratch you may be able to restore the original configuration files using the restore script in the /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app/ folder and if necessary by copying the local.nidb to /etc/netinfo from /usr/template/client/netinfo. If you do this you may be able to run SNS successfully. (All the mights and maybes are deliberate here!) If not, you'll need to configure the machine by hand by using the HostConfig program. Hopefully that will be enough, but if not you may need to edit /etc/hostconfig directly using vi or emacs or your favorite editor, or use NetInfoManager to tweak the netinfo database accordingly. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to avoid flash terminal windows when double-clicking scripts in dock icons? Date: 1 Oct 1996 19:55:42 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-21.usc.edu Message-ID: <52rsvu$abk@usc.edu> References: <52i6ls$qb8@usc.edu> <veeohio4op2.fsf@shell.one.net> <52npql$qd6@usc.edu> <vee20fihjqr.fsf@shell.one.net> Cc: shess@shell.one.net In <vee20fihjqr.fsf@shell.one.net> Scott Hess wrote: > Hmm. The script file is set to be executable? Perhaps put > "#!/bin/sh" as the first line? Let me know if it still doesn't work > once those are in place - it definitely worked for me under NS3.2, so > it's doable. Yes, I'd already got it working, thanks. Should've told you. Works wonderfully. Now to figure out how to effect what Tim was suggesting as tickleservice actions. -- 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: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: connecting scsi---seagate st-43400n Date: 1 Oct 1996 20:30:24 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <52rv10$86b@news.tamu.edu> Has anyone had any success connecting a SEAGATE ST43400N to black hardware? During boot up we get some kind of recognition that there is a drive attached, but the machine hangs just after showing: Rev as sd1 at sc0 target 2 Missing drive type and Rev # seem like bad signs. Could this just be a termination problem? We've tried a bunch of alternatives, but nothing has worked yet. Thanks for any pointers. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Copying a floppy via dd Date: 1 Oct 1996 19:09:21 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <01bbafcd$813c74c0$3e031281@bananajr> References: <52l98g$fhs@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> The problem is almost certainly that you're not using the right value for <floppy>. I'd expect a command like this: dd if=/dev/rsd2h of=/tmp/floppyimage bs=1440k Would work, assuming that your PLI floppy is device sd2 (the third SCSI device). Using the 1440k block size will speed things up amazingly. -Mark Nancy Reck <nreck@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article <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 > >
From: Santino Rizzo <santino@earthlink.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.po Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 18:10:01 -0400 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <325196B9.3E60@earthlink.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> <rmah-3009960028330001@axe.angel.net> <32505DB5.B26@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Santino Rizzo wrote: > > Robert S. Mah wrote: > > > > 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 > > I would have to agree here. The entire premise behind the most popular scam today is > that you send your address and $1 to five names on a list asking each of them to include > your name and address on a mailing list. This makes the scam legal, whether the sell the > mailing list or not doesn't matter. I must apologize for my post to USENET. My intention was to sarcasticly ask if that made the scam legal. I made an error in typing the message and obviously made the wrong impression. I have researched the legality of the MMF scam, but have found that there's a lot of uncertainty concerning the use of the Internet, and only recently has any prosecution begun (and weak prosecution at that). As a MLM entrepreneur, I would like to caution many of the people eager to "witchhunt" others using the Internet for MLM purposes, a majority of our endeavors are perfectly legal and safe to invest in.
From: Mark Kushigian <mkush@normac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mach64 video trouble Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 20:10:14 -0400 Organization: Normac, Inc. Message-ID: <3251B2E6.2DEB@normac.com> References: <325043A1.2BBE@normac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Kushigian wrote: > > 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. My original post seems to have generated some interest, so here's what I found: There's a copy of the 3.31 driver (I think) on the additional CD that comes with OS 4.0. If you remove the 4.01 driver and install this one, you can select the mode I describe above. HOWEVER, the refresh rates leave something to be desired. My Win NT 4.0 installation (on the same computer) lets me select 11XX x 8XX (forgot the exact numbers), 16bpp, 80Hz refresh. With OS, I can't get anywhere near that (66Hz is the best I can do). Well, that's it. Thanks for the responses and thanks especially to Stefan Ried who sent me a copy of the (3.31) driver. If by chance someone out there has the 3.34 driver, I'd still be interested in trying it to see if it does better on the refresh rates. -- Mark Kushigian Normac, Inc. E-mail: mkush@normac.com Tel: +1.704.684.1002 x31
From: nospam@spammer-suck.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.po Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: 2 Oct 1996 01:50:25 GMT Organization: Sojourn Systems, Lansing, MI (USA) Message-ID: <52shp1$d2@tkhut.sojourn.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> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz> <rmah-3009960028330001@axe.angel.net> <32505DB5.B26@earthlink.net> <325196B9.3E60@earthlink.net> Cc: santino@earthlink.net In <325196B9.3E60@earthlink.net> Santino Rizzo wrote: > Santino Rizzo wrote: > I must apologize for my post to USENET. My intention was to sarcasticly ask if that made > the scam legal. I made an error in typing the message and obviously made the wrong > impression. I have researched the legality of the MMF scam, but have found that there's > a lot of uncertainty concerning the use of the Internet, and only recently has any > prosecution begun (and weak prosecution at that). As a MLM entrepreneur, I would like > to caution many of the people eager to "witchhunt" others using the Internet for MLM > purposes, a majority of our endeavors are perfectly legal and safe to invest in. I send every Money Scam I see (about 10 per day) to the IRS, (Internal Revenue Service), they can sort out the addresses and see if the people are paying taxes on the money they claim to be getting.... (oh, I also send a copy with a note to their ISP, and to the FBI, BTW.....) Now that would be illegal if you don't claim it on your taxes, in the USA.... hehehehehe 8-)
From: Sidsel Regnell <sidsel.regnell@admin.uio.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP??Difficult Boot Problems Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 09:34:31 -2050 Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Message-ID: <3351CDAF.199@admin.uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Everyone I have unfortunately had a major panic on my system and since that happened I have not been able to enter my system which is slightly annoying, but the problem is that the normal boot process (bsd) reaches checking disks and starts running the fsck -p and the traps/panic. It then show the following message: -Checking disks -trap: type 0x2c fcode 2 rw 1 faultaddr 0x500f068 -trap: pc0x4002e2c sp0x3fffc30 sr 0x201b -trap: cpu0 th 0x10137f70 proc 0x101338f0 pid 11 pcb 0x101380fc -traceback: fp 0x101386f0 -called from pc 0x00180505 fp 0x03fffc6c 4-args 429a30dc 03fffc60 00000000 00000000 -last fp: 0x3fffc6c -panic:(Cpu0) 1111 emulator trap -NeXT ROM Monitor 2,2 v63 -panic> I have also tried to boot in single-user mode (bsd -s) and have gotten to see the files on the disk in the mach window, but then when I try to run fsck (-p,-P and with no flag) it starts to run the fsck, but after a little while it panics and shows the same message as mentioned above. I have also tried to boot from the orginal NS3,3 boot floppy and CD, but when I do that it comes up with a different problem. That problem message is as follows: -NeXT>bfd -boot fd(0,0,0) -Searching for CD-ROM drives -blk0 boot: sd(1,0,0)sdmach -trap 11 at pc0x43825b0, sr0x2714 -d0 0xffffffe6 a0 0x43aa206 -d1 0x10 a1 0x439f510 -d2 0x0 a2 0x43aa200 -d3 0x0 a3 0x43aa1fc -d4 0x43aa1fc a4 0x43972a0 -d5 0x438a03c a5 0x0 -d6 0x2 a6 0x43bbf5c -d7 0x1000 a7 0x43bbf38 What ever this problem is I am not knowledgeable enough to understand what has happened and how to solve it. Any help from everyone out there is greatly appreciated. I have asked a friend about this problem, but he was as bewildered as I am. Thank you very much for you help. Regards Knut-Erik Regnell knre95ab@hp2.econ.cbs.dk Please respond to the above E-mail address. Thank you
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install NS 3.3 on Intel w/o SCSI Date: 2 Oct 1996 11:16:12 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <52tits$pac@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> References: <325154DA.6695@citrus.ucr.edu> Carl Hoefer <hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu> writes > Hi there, > I have a new office machine, Dell Optiplex with 32meg, IDE controller > and internal CD. I was anguished to learn I can't install NS using the > internal CD, and will have to work up some juryrigged solution. > Who told you this nonsense ???? It is perfectly possible to install NS using an EIDE drive + EIDE cdrom !!!! It is true that the installation procedure asks you which scsi controller your cd-rom is connected to, but the NextAnsers tell us this is a bug. When you simply tell it you have an Adaptec 154x (and something) controller for your cd-rom and after that tell it you have an EIDE/ATAPI controller for your hard drive; everything will install just fine. (It is possible that you have to supply the EIDE/ATAPI driver (v. 3.34) yourself on a seperate floppy (get the driver from NextAnswers if not provided by the Next cdrom)) Hope this helps, Abraham Guyt. _____________________________________________________________________ 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BusLogic Wide SCSI support? Date: 2 Oct 1996 14:48:25 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Distribution: world Message-ID: <52tvbp$rau@crcnis3.unl.edu> Keywords: scsi, wide, buslogic I've looked in NeXTanswers without a definitive answer... so I'll ask the community at large... Does the NEXTSETP BusLogic Family SCSI Driver support WIDE-SCSI? NeXTanswers claims to support the Wide version of the adapter, but does not include the Wide SCSI connector type. I don't want to have to go to Adaptec or other more expensive options (like DPT) for Wide support... ____ Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install NS 3.3 on Intel w/o SCSI Date: 2 Oct 1996 14:49:26 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <52tvdm$gu6@news.next.com> References: <325154DA.6695@citrus.ucr.edu> In article <325154DA.6695@citrus.ucr.edu> Carl Hoefer <hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu> writes: #Hi there, # I have a new office machine, Dell Optiplex with 32meg, IDE # controller and internal CD. I was anguished to learn I can't install # NS using the internal CD, and will have to work up some juryrigged # solution. You certainly can, if it's an ATAPI compliant EIDE CD-ROM. You'll need to grab the latest boot/driver disk images from the web site. If you don't have a working NextStep system, you can create the floppies from the images on DOS using rawrite.exe (also on the web site). When the boot sequence asks for a SCSI controller, just pick the Adaptec 1542. It'll load the driver, but it won't hurt any. Then install the latest EIDE driver (3.34 or so, I think). Makde sure that the CD and the target hard disk are both on the primary EIDE controller. That's all. joe
From: arno@lysis.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: autonfsmount problem Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:05:40 +0200 Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <325276B4.23B@lysis.ch> References: <5275h6$qrc@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Colin Allen wrote: > > 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!-I know this problem, i just solve it this morning. If you didn't use netinfo, that mean you have to enter you ip address into you hosts file and the remote hosts. But if you use DNS you have to check the file resolv.conf, to enter the correct domain name and ip address of the server. I think that's all. arno Network administrator arno@lysis.ch
From: carl.gustafson@no.spam.welcome (Carl Gustafson) 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 Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam... Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 12:25:44 -0400 Organization: Imaging and Computer Vision Center, Drexel University Message-ID: <carl.gustafson-0210961225440001@n1-12-184.macip.drexel.edu> References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz> <rmah-3009960028330001@axe.angel.net> In article <rmah-3009960028330001@axe.angel.net>, rmah@angel.net (Robert S. Mah) wrote: > amcnaughton@hort.cri.nz wrote: > > > Under New Zealand law (privacy act), it is Illegal for a company > > to divulge personal details, including any form of address, without > > written consent from the individual to who the information pertains. > > Is there any parallel legislation in the US? > > Hell, in the U.S. companies SELL such information to third parties. > It is a very common practice in many industries. A noteable example > would include most publishers. The difference is that New Zealand is a CIVILIZED country. (GDR) -- Carl Gustafson carl.gustafson at ece.drexel.edu (busily trying to avoid spammers) Imaging and Computer Vision Center Drexel University, Philadelphia, Penna ------------------------------------------------------------ I don't speak for Drexel, and Drexel doesn't listen to me...
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install NS 3.3 on Intel w/o SCSI Date: 2 Oct 1996 11:55:18 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Message-ID: <52u6pm$qrv@plains.nodak.edu> References: <325154DA.6695@citrus.ucr.edu> <52tits$pac@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <52tits$pac@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl>, A. Guyt <guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl> wrote: >Who told you this nonsense ???? > >It is perfectly possible to install NS using an EIDE drive + EIDE cdrom >!!!! > >It is true that the installation procedure asks you which scsi controller >your cd-rom is connected to, but the NextAnsers tell us this is a bug. >When you simply tell it you have an Adaptec 154x (and something) >controller for your cd-rom and after that tell it you have an EIDE/ATAPI >controller for your hard drive; everything will install just fine. > >(It is possible that you have to supply the EIDE/ATAPI driver (v. 3.34) >yourself on a seperate floppy (get the driver from NextAnswers if not >provided by the Next cdrom)) the above is not entirely true. Look on the NeXTAnswers page. there's a whole list of supposedly ATAPI-compliant drives that don't work with NEXTSTEP. i found it out the hard way when i tried to intall 3.3 the day i got it with my NEC-272. ended up having to go out and buy a cheap double speed cdrom to do the installation. thank god the NEC-272 is the only piece of shit EIDE/ATAPI device i have. 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: rencsok@argus.cem.msu.edu (Randall J. Rencsok) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP??Difficult Boot Problems Date: 2 Oct 1996 17:34:51 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <52u93r$1a4c@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <3351CDAF.199@admin.uio.no> Cc: sidsel.regnell@admin.uio.no In <3351CDAF.199@admin.uio.no> Sidsel Regnell wrote: > Dear Everyone > I have unfortunately had a major panic on my system and since that > happened I have not been able to enter my system which is slightly > annoying, but the problem is that the normal boot process (bsd) > reaches > checking disks and starts running the fsck -p and the traps/panic. It > then show the following message: > -Checking disks > -trap: type 0x2c fcode 2 rw 1 faultaddr 0x500f068 Might not be relevant but.. I'm not sure what that trap type is but the faultaddr above looks like a RAM address.. Same with 0x400000 below > -trap: pc0x4002e2c sp0x3fffc30 sr 0x201b > -trap: cpu0 th 0x10137f70 proc 0x101338f0 pid 11 pcb 0x101380fc > -traceback: fp 0x101386f0 > -called from pc 0x00180505 fp 0x03fffc6c 4-args 429a30dc 03fffc60 > 00000000 00000000 > -last fp: 0x3fffc6c > -panic:(Cpu0) 1111 emulator trap > -NeXT ROM Monitor 2,2 v63 > -panic> > > I have also tried to boot in single-user mode (bsd -s) and have > gotten > to see the files on the disk in the mach window, but then when I try > to > run fsck (-p,-P and with no flag) it starts to run the fsck, but after > a > little while it panics and shows the same message as mentioned above. > I > have also tried to boot from the orginal NS3,3 boot floppy and CD, but > when I do that it comes up with a different problem. That problem > message > is as follows: > -NeXT>bfd > -boot fd(0,0,0) > -Searching for CD-ROM drives > -blk0 boot: sd(1,0,0)sdmach > -trap 11 at pc0x43825b0, sr0x2714 > -d0 0xffffffe6 a0 0x43aa206 > -d1 0x10 a1 0x439f510 > -d2 0x0 a2 0x43aa200 > -d3 0x0 a3 0x43aa1fc > -d4 0x43aa1fc a4 0x43972a0 > -d5 0x438a03c a5 0x0 > -d6 0x2 a6 0x43bbf5c > -d7 0x1000 a7 0x43bbf38 > > What ever this problem is I am not knowledgeable enough to understand > what has happened and how to solve it. Any help from everyone out > there > is greatly appreciated. I have asked a friend about this problem, but > he > was as bewildered as I am. Thank you very much for you help. Well given the above (and the comment on 'after the first panic') you could have a number of problems. Either something faulty on the SCSI bus (connections or drives), or something on the MB. Like simm gone bad (would have cause first and sucessive panics.. A PROM Memory check might pick it up), or some controller acting up.. If it were me I'd start with RAM and work from there. (0) Set your PROM to check memory on boot up. (1) Actually might as well enable all diagnostics you might pick up something else on MB or SCSI. (2) Reseat the RAM (3) Start swapping RAM around, and swapping with known good sets. Then I'd go to SCSI. (0) Remove all external devices (1) Add CD w/ terminator (2) Remove &/or swap internal SCSI Drive All along the way checking cabling/termination. If you still have problems a motherboard swap would probably help isolate the problem (i.e. having a second system to try components/cables/chips on is useful). Hope this helps and Good luck, Randy
From: eli <elainea@proserv.wustl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NIS+ and netinfo Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 18:56:43 -0500 Organization: washington university Message-ID: <3253013B.4E3A@proserv.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone gotten openstep for mach to speak nis+? I have a sparc that runs nis+ and keeps the disks and info and would like the nexts to be clients. any ideas would be welcome as im a bit under the gun at the moment.
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Possible network problem Date: 2 Oct 1996 18:53:14 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <52udmq$48h@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> One of our customers has configured its network in a very unusual manner due to the recommendation of a consultant. The HP-UX database server has also been made the file server for all NS clients so that /LocalApps, /Users, etc. is actually on the HP-UX machine and NFS-mounted to NS 3.3 clients which are memory-starved (16 MB?), low-end IBM ValuePoint PCs. I think that /etc for the NetInfo server is also NFS-mounted from the HP-UX machine which seems bad because the NetInfo database is in /etc. Anyway, running our database client app works reasonably well on their local Ethernet network. But when attempting to run it across a T-1 line to remote sites, the app hangs when Help is accessed or when printing is attempted (the Print panel never appears). The app executable, bundles, and nibs load fine and all other functions seem to work fine. This feels like some sort of network problem, but I don't know what it might be. Someone has suggested that the HP-UX NFS block sizes might be too large since NS' nfsd is quite old. What is the maximum NFS read and write block sizes supported by NS? The NS 3.3 patch has not been installed, but this seems to be the cause of delays, not hanging. But I have recommended that the patch be installed anyway. Does any of this ring a bell? Any ideas what might be wrong? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: jrudd@arcadia.cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: kerberos for nextstep? Date: 3 Oct 1996 00:37:31 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Message-ID: <52v1sc$oel@majipoor.cygnus.com> Does anyone know if anything special needs to be done for compiling/implimenting kerberos on Nextstep (specifically NS 3.3, and in a few weeks 4.0, on both Sparc and Intel)? -- 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: Bin <binclare@iconn.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: error message when booting, need help Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 21:26:34 -0400 Organization: i-conn Message-ID: <3253164A.71CF@iconn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit can anyone help me with an error message i get when i try to start my NeXT Cube? it does not boot into the os, it gets stuck on the "loading from disk" screen and searches for the "boot_rc" did i delete something? what is wrong. i am a new user of the next system can anyone help? please, please try to help, email me -thanx
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BusLogic Wide SCSI support? Date: 3 Oct 1996 01:53:42 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <52v6b6$1o9@nntp1.best.com> References: <52tvbp$rau@crcnis3.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <52tvbp$rau@crcnis3.unl.edu> On 10/02/96, Rex Dieter wrote: >I've looked in NeXTanswers without a definitive answer... so I'll ask the >community at large... > >Does the NEXTSETP BusLogic Family SCSI Driver support WIDE-SCSI? NeXTanswers >claims to support the Wide version of the adapter, but does not include the >Wide SCSI connector type. > >I don't want to have to go to Adaptec or other more expensive options (like >DPT) for Wide support... > >____ >Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) >Computer System Manager >Mathematics and Statistics >University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ If you're looking for relatively cheap Wide SCSI support under NeXTSTEP consider purchasing a controller based on the Symbios (previously NCR) 825 chipset. These controllers are manufactured by a variety of companies and work terrific with the Symbios SCSI drivers for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP and only cost about 1/2 (or less) of what an Adaptec 2940W costs. - Chris --
From: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DNS not working in my PPP setup Date: 2 Oct 1996 20:01:11 -0700 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <52va9n$8lp@crl.crl.com> I am trying to get my PPP setup working but I can't get the domain name resolution working. I can telnet and ftp using IP#'s and PopOver also works with an IP number, but when I use a name they just sit there. I have tried using nslookup and it also just sits there, even when I give it a IP# of a nameserver as the 'server' argument. My resolv.conf reads: domain crl.com nameserver 165.113.1.36 nameserver 165.113.1.37 Any little tips where to continue searching for the problem would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks in advance.... HCS
From: wellin@telospub.com (Paul R. Wellin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Compile problems under 3.3 Date: 3 Oct 1996 04:20:09 GMT Organization: Pagesat, Inc. Message-ID: <52vetp$g4n@jolt.pagesat.net> I am having some troubles compiling certain apps and the problems seem to point to the same source. On my black turbo with 3.3, during a compile (of both Gatekeeper and samba) I get the following error: django:6# make Using CFLAGS = -O -DSMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/samba/var/log.smb" ... stuff... Compiling server.c /NextDeveloper/Headers/netdb.h:66: header file 'sys/bitypes.h' not found includes.h:591: warning: could not use precompiled header '/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/libc.p', because: includes.h:591: warning: header 'arpa/inet.h' overridden, includes.h:591: warning: /NextDeveloper/Headers/arpa/inet.h vs. /NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/arpa/inet.h (within the precomp) /NextDeveloper/Headers/arpa/inet.h:68: header file 'sys/bitypes.h' not found *** Exit 1 Stop. I can find the file bitypes.h nowhere on my system and during each of my two recent compiles, this is where the Exit occurs. Am I doing something rather unintelligent here? Has anyone seen this before or have a clue what I can do to prevent this? Thanks, Paul Wellin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961003054325.0066c26c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 06:43:25 +0100 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Subject: daemon Hello I am developing a program for monitoring my UPS This application consists of two parts: 1) Power.daemon: a daemon responsibility is to check the status of UPS, provide syslog messages, shutdown when the battery runs low 2) PowerMonitor.app : a App only for monitoring the UPS (only report data to the video) The daemon and the App comunicate through Message (implemented with Listener and Speaker) I would try my Power.damon with Terminal App (for debug) is it possible that PowerMonitor.app find the Power.daemon running in Terminal Window? my Power.daemon comunicates to console too, but on my account when I select Console from Workspace nothing happens, why? Thanks ************************************************************************ * Zanitti Leo * * Viale Regina Elena, 299 * * I-00161 ROME * * * * E-Mail: zleo@istsan.interbusiness.it * * * * TEL +39 6 82.09.70.77 * * TEL +39 6 49.90.24.10 * ************************************************************************
From: andy@socrates.rnb.com (Andreas Kapatsoulias) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS Mount on NT an exported directory from a NEXT machine Date: 3 Oct 1996 12:35:57 GMT Organization: Republic National Bank Message-ID: <530bvd$l12@ultron.rnb.com> Hi, We are trying to use NFS Maestro by hummingbird to mount NFS directories from a NeXT to a PC running NT4.0. There is no access control on the next side (anyone can mount it) and the NT sees the exported directories. If we try to map the directory to a drive, a panel comes up to ask for user name and passwd and even if we give the correct passwd, we keep getting "access denied error". The NFS server is a NeXT and it is on a different subnet as the NT PC. Any hints? Also questions about samba. We have samba somewhat working but only NT4.0 PCs on the same network as the samba server can see the services. It looks like it does not work across routers. Any hints? ------------- Andreas Kapatsoulias NeXTMail:andy@rnb-bankinv.com Republic National Bank of N.Y. Voice: (212) 525-6635
From: orion@rsc.co.uk (Orion Engineering Services Ltd.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting NS3.3 Intel to WinNT4? Anyone? Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 21:35:46 GMT Organization: The Roaring Silence Company Message-ID: <3253c11a.0@data.rsc.co.uk> Hi there, Im interested in connecting a NS Intel 3.3 Machine to a WinNT4 network. Any suggestions on how to go about this? Ive heard of Novell to NS connections but never anything to do with NT. Is it possible and if so what addtional software/hardware would I need? Any Info greatfully received, Thanks Duncan Duncan Murray Orion Engineering Services Ltd Aberdeen, Scotland UK orion@rsc.co.uk
From: mgw@apache.com (Mark Wauchope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting NS3.3 Intel to WinNT4? Anyone? Date: 3 Oct 1996 17:39:49 GMT Organization: Frontier Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <530tp5$c5h@molas.frontier.net> References: <3253c11a.0@data.rsc.co.uk> In article <3253c11a.0@data.rsc.co.uk> orion@rsc.co.uk (Orion Engineering Services Ltd.) writes: > Hi there, > Im interested in connecting a NS Intel 3.3 Machine to a WinNT4 > network. Any suggestions on how to go about this? Ive heard of > Novell to NS connections but never anything to do with NT. Is it > possible and if so what addtional software/hardware would I need? Running Samba on the NS machine does the job very nicely. It is included with OpenStep but you can get the source from http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/ and it compiles without a hitch. -- Mark Wauchope 777 Main Ave. mailto:mgw@apache.com Dir. of Engineering Suite 211 http://www.apache.com Apache Digital Corp Durango CO 81301 Voice: (970) 259-8153 Proverbs 16:20,1:7,21:21 Psalm 128 Fax: (970) 259-8145 High Performance, U*NIX-Based PCs, SPARCs, and ALPHA Systems
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: NFS Mount on NT an exported directory from a NEXT machine Message-ID: <1996Oct3.190831.10547@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <530bvd$l12@ultron.rnb.com> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:08:31 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <530bvd$l12@ultron.rnb.com> andy@socrates.rnb.com (Andreas Kapatsoulias) writes: > Also questions about samba. We have samba somewhat working but > only NT4.0 PCs on the same network as the samba server can see the > services. It looks like it does not work across routers. Any hints? Samba is a NetBEUI emulation. NetBEUI is not a routable protocol, so it will not work across routers. Unless, that is, you have a router that spoofs NetBEUI. -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: jbarnes@porch.pal.engsoc.carleton.ca (J. Barnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo won't start, can't get root access back Date: 3 Oct 1996 19:16:15 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <5313dv$mfs@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ __ / \ / | _ _ _ | / / \ / \/ \ jbarnes@engsoc.carleton.ca \ / \ / / / / jen@vv.carleton.ca ____/_____X__/ / / ax758@freenet.carleton.ca / / \___jbarnes@chat.carleton.ca______ | / \__/ to find out more about me look at: http://engsoc.carleton.ca/~jbarnes Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a gift, that's why they call it the Present. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: autonfsmount problem Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 17:07:43 -0400 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <32542B1F.70A9@worldbank.org> References: <5275h6$qrc@news.tamu.edu> <325276B4.23B@lysis.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Colin Allen wrote: > > > > 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. I once had the exact same symptoms, and the bottom line then was that the ethernet connector wasn't working. Since that's on the motherboard, the only solution was to swap it. Stefano
From: jbarnes@engsoc.carleton.ca (J. Barnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo won't start, can't get root access back Date: 3 Oct 1996 21:48:50 GMT Organization: Carleton Engineering Message-ID: <531cc2$47s@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> NNTP-Posting-User: jbarnes Subject: NetInfo won't start, can't get root access back Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Summary: Keywords: oops, Hello, Our small company is using a NEXT machine as our main server, and we do not have any NEXT guru's on staff. The machine is in a cruel loop at the moment. We have access to root in single-user mode however we are prevented from using root to access the administration GUIs. This started when the machine was moved to a different sub-net. After trying to change the GUIs accordingly, someone tried to change the /etc/.. files manually. Now the system cannot start any network daemons when it is booted, and we do not have access to the admin tools. I would appreciate any information about how to get root control back in the GUI environment, and what to do once we get control. Please let me know if there is any more information that you need. Thank you in advance Jen Barnes jbarnes@engsoc.carleton.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: NetInfo won't start, can't get root access back Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961003191449.1332B-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:22:40 -0400 References: <531cc2$47s@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> To: "J. Barnes" <jbarnes@engsoc.carleton.ca> In-Reply-To: <531cc2$47s@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE =20 > =09 The machine is in a cruel loop at the moment. We have access to > root in single-user mode however we are prevented from using root to=20 > access the administration GUIs. Awwww, single user is all you need to do all the important stuff... If you want real trouble, just turn /dev/console into a FIFO or some other really stupid thing like that ;-) =20 > =09This started when the machine was moved to a different sub-net. =20 > After trying to change the GUIs accordingly, someone tried to change > the /etc/.. files manually. Now the system cannot start any network > daemons when it is booted, and we do not have access to the admin tools. >=20 > =09I would appreciate any information about how to get root control > back in the GUI environment, and what to do once we get control. Please > let me know if there is any more information that you need. I think you can restore everything back to normal by copying them /usr/template/client/etc/ Of course, if you have more specific info as to what the problem is (ie boot in verbose mode, say what error you get. If you need to restore to a default NetInfo stuff, checkout NeXTAnswer #1295: Q: How do I restore a system to the default NetInfo set-up? Q: How do I undo a machine that has been made a NetInfo Configuration Server? A: You need to do three things: obtain a default NetInfo database, an original hostconfig file, and an original hosts file. =09csh =09cd /etc/netinfo =09foreach db (*.nidb) =09=09mv ${db} ${db}-old =09end =09cp -rp /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb . =09cd .. =09mv hostconfig hostconfig.old =09mv hosts hosts.old =09cp -p /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig . =09cp -p /usr/template/client/etc/hosts . =09halt =09DISCONNECT THE COMPUTER FROM THE NETWORK =09REBOOT NOTE that this is NOT sufficient for undoing a clone server! See =2E./NEXTSTEP/NetInfo/undoing_a_netinfo_clone_server.rtf for how to undo a clone configuration server. Warning Don't change any values in the localhost and broadcasthost entries in the machines directory of the local NetInfo domain. Don't edit the localhost address in /etc/hosts=D0the localhost address is reserved and is not to be altered. QA400 Valid for 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.software Subject: [HELP] Intel NS 3.3 boots, runs, keyboard/mouse frozen?!?!! Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 20:08:09 +0100 Organization: Zeus Enterprises Message-ID: <jray-0310962008090001@news.netset.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, I have a rather annoying problem. I just got OS 4.0, and went to perform the upgrade today on our NS 3.3 server. I sat down at the console and went to type... and nothing happened. It seems that the mouse and keyboard no longer function at the login screen (I don't even see the cursor). *Sometimes* I can get to to type a character, but not even the one I press. If I boot into single user mode, its fine. The only thing I've done recently is install a Intel EtherExpress PRO/100... So, I looked at the driver configuration, and noticed that the driver was version 4.03... I had installed a OS 4.0 driver on a NS 3.3 machine. I have no idea if that's what caused the problem (driver incompatibility) or if it is a problem w/ settings on the card...or if it has nothing to do with either. When the card was installed, I didn't even attempt to log in at the console, so I can't pinpoint when the problem started (tho' I would guess it was then). BTW - The system *runs* fine. I can log in remotely, etc... just can't do a thing at the console. So... I'm in trouble. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to know, is it possible to do a standard boot w/o network support? If not, how can I disable the Intel driver from single user mode? (I moved the .config file, and that kept the driver from loading, but the boot hung after loading lookupd. I'm more than slightly concerned, and would really appreciate any help. cc's in email greatly appreciated, Thanks, John -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- John E. Ray "You're only a loser while you believe you're a loser, ray.30@osu.edu after that you're a self-delusional fool" ============================================================================ Network Specialist I The Ohio State University Extension ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: beaucham@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (James Beauchamp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reading Mac floppies Date: 4 Oct 1996 02:51:45 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <531u41$e44@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: Macintosh floppy I would like to read a Macintosh double density floppy on my Black NeXT (NS 3.2). Is this possible? So far it just gives me the choice to initialize or eject. Please reply to me directly at the address below. Jim Beauchamp j-beauch@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info In-Reply-To: Charles William Swiger's message of 29 Sep 1996 02:26:23 JST Message-ID: <FUKASE.96Oct3230718@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> Sender: news@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp Organization: College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Japan References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <52gi0p$hn0@crcnis3.unl.edu> <52gncl$7si@news.tamu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> <YmHJyzu00Uh741eL4F@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:07:18 GMT In article <YmHJyzu00Uh741eL4F@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: ... > There is something else you can do that helps somewhat, and that is to > provide a FQDN as an alias of the unqualified hostname. I think that your host's official name must be use a FQDN style and add short name as alias. An official name is named for IP address corresponding with network interface. A host name (which is set with hostname command) is named for a host on itself. > For instance, > my /etc/hostconfig for a networked system without any external NetInfo > servers looks like like: > > HOSTNAME=tertius ... It's a short name (one word) which is used with hostname command on boot time. It is set with /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app. ... > ...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 128.2.99.3 tertius.res.cmu.edu tertius --- FUKASE, Mikio
From: "Mario Ferrari" <mariof@cdc.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk on OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 4 Oct 1996 09:13:21 GMT Organization: Softdesign Message-ID: <01bbb14a$6da8dce0$02ac2ac0@mario> Hi all, Hopefully someone can help me out here. I've upgrade my old Cube to OPENSTEP 4.0 and Apple button in the Preferences is vanished. I desperate need to see the Mac on network. Any suggestions? -- Mario Ferrari mariof@cdc.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <kpc@enteract.com> Message-ID: <v01540b01ae7a14fb68ea@[206.54.253.97]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:23:58 -0500 From: kpc@enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Subject: panics attempting AppleShare in NS 3.3 Hello, Can someone shed some light on this problem? As per earlier discussions in this news group, I have attempted to install the AppleShare deamon et al. from NS 3.0 on my Nextstation now running 3.3. At boot, it appears that AppleShare and AppleTalk get loaded OK: Oct 3 19:00:38 nextbox ashared: /Net/AppleShare mounted.\ Oct 3 19:00:45 nextbox reboot: Reboot complete\ Oct 3 19:00:49 nextbox atalkd: AppleTalk Phase 2 initialized on etlk.\ Oct 3 19:00:49 nextbox atalkd: etlk Network Range: 0-65534, Network ID: 65280, Node ID: 1, Zone: \ Oct 3 19:00:52 nextbox mach: audio kernel server initialized\ Oct 3 19:01:14 nextbox loginwindow[204]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace\ Attempting to run AppleShare, however, causes an instant system panic: Oct 3 19:43:20 nextbox mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure\ Oct 3 19:43:20 nextbox syslogd: going down on signal 15\ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: Killing all processes .NFS readdir failed for server AppleShare (146): RPC: Timed out\ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: \ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: continuing\ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: unmounting HD-2 ... done\ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: unmounting AppleShare ... done\ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: unmounting /Net ... done\ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done\ Oct 3 19:48:21 nextbox mach: rebooting Mach...\ Can someone translate ".NFS readdir failed for server AppleShare (146): RPC: Timed out" for me? thanks in advance, -Kevin
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk on OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 4 Oct 1996 10:40:04 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <532pi4$j36@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <01bbb14a$6da8dce0$02ac2ac0@mario> Cc: mariof@cdc.it In <01bbb14a$6da8dce0$02ac2ac0@mario> "Mario Ferrari" wrote: > I've upgrade my old Cube to OPENSTEP 4.0 and Apple button in the > Preferences is vanished. I desperate need to see the Mac on network. > Any suggestions? AppleTalk support was only in from NeXT in 3.0. You need either to install IPT Partner (which is commercial, and almost certainly doesn't support 4.0 yet, although it may work), or to try one of the various NFS servers for your Apple network. -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Mark Kushigian <mkush@normac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mach64 video trouble Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 08:36:16 -0400 Organization: Normac, Inc. Message-ID: <325504C0.69C6@normac.com> References: <325043A1.2BBE@normac.com> <3251B2E6.2DEB@normac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Kushigian wrote: > > Mark Kushigian wrote: > > > > 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. > > My original post seems to have generated some interest, so here's > what I found: > > There's a copy of the 3.31 driver (I think) on the additional CD > that comes with OS 4.0. If you remove the 4.01 driver and install > this one, you can select the mode I describe above. HOWEVER, the > refresh rates leave something to be desired. My Win NT 4.0 installation > (on the same computer) lets me select 11XX x 8XX (forgot the exact > numbers), 16bpp, 80Hz refresh. With OS, I can't get anywhere near > that (66Hz is the best I can do). > > Well, that's it. Thanks for the responses and thanks especially > to Stefan Ried who sent me a copy of the (3.31) driver. > > If by chance someone out there has the 3.34 driver, I'd still be > interested in trying it to see if it does better on the refresh > rates. Well, the final resolution is this: Hans Rupert sent me a copy of the 3.34 driver, which still did not allow for 1152x896, 16bpp, 75Hz. Then I made the discovery that if you lie to the OS and tell it you have a 4MB board (I have only 2MB), you get to choose the above mode. To me, this makes no sense, as it doesn't take any more VRAM to run a board at a faster refresh, but what do I know? If anyone needs a copy of this driver, I've put it on our ftp site. The file is called ATIMach64DisplayDriver.config.compressed and you can get it by ftping to ftp://ftp.normac.com/pub/next. -- Mark Kushigian Normac, Inc. E-mail: mkush@normac.com Tel: +1.704.684.1002 x31
From: Mark Kushigian <mkush@normac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT faxing: how? Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 08:42:11 -0400 Organization: Normac, Inc. Message-ID: <32550623.4D22@normac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. Just installed a copy of OpenStep 4.0 for Mach (on Intel) and was curious what it takes to get faxing to work. There are only two types of faxmodem listed (HSD and something else), and I don't know which if either my USR Sportster 28.8 is. Is there a way to use the built-in software AND this modem? -- Mark Kushigian Normac, Inc. E-mail: mkush@normac.com Tel: +1.704.684.1002 x31
From: Tim Triemstra <Tim.T@asiatlanta.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OpenStep for NT problems Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 08:34:25 -0400 Organization: Alpha Star International Message-ID: <32550451.7749@asiatlanta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recently, my new rep at NeXT called up and wanted to sell me various upgrades to our existing NS 3.2/3.3 network. Although my life's work has become moving my company from NeXT onto a Windows-based network (although we will be as platform independant as possible) I was interested in the fact that he said that the Windows NT port of OpenStep would allow me to run my NS 3.3 Binary for Intel on Windows NT! If indeed that is true, then great! He also said it would run under NT4. I tried to install the CD labeled "OpenStep Enterprise Start Kit, Beta Release for Windows NT" - I don't want to get into Beta's since that would be unfair to NeXT. However, I get a problem that I see alot on Windows NT4 - no program groups created by the install program. This leaves me with a problem of how to get this thing working. There is the NeXT directory now aparently installed on my HD, although the install program ended abruptly when it was unable to create the program groups. I have no idea what .EXE with which parameters can be run to make things work - if any. Does anyone have install tips for OpenStep install on NT 4.0 (WS or Server)? -- Tim Triemstra ....... Tim.T@asiatlanta.com ........Alpha Star International..........
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ScanMaker.app and ScanMaker E6 Date: 4 Oct 1996 13:49:39 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5334lj$4ob@news.tamu.edu> We are looking into gettig a new color flatbed scanner to be used under Nextstep. The ScanMaker.app readme file says it should work any of the Scanmaker family. Has anybody tried this app with the ScanMaker E6? Any input about this combo would be greatly appreciated. Or if you know of any other good scanner/app combo let me know of that too. many thanks, HP -- Hanspeter Schaub Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant Aerospace Engineering Department Texas A&M University http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome) We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY! -Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network unreachable over ppp Date: 4 Oct 1996 13:05:58 GMT Organization: Kralizec Dialup Internet Sydney, http://www.zeta.org.au/ Message-ID: <53323m$9h8@phaedrus.kralizec.net.au> Keywords: unreachable ppp network Hi, I have just installed ppp-2.2-0.4.6 for a client but whenever I try to ping an a.b.c.d address I get network unreachable. ifconfig -a reports lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> inet a.b.c.d --> e.f.g.h netmask ffffff00 ppp1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> so the link is up. From their system I can ping the e.f.g.h address which would be reasonable as it is the domain server I believe. I cannot ping the a.b.c.d address though which is strange because that is the originating system. I have tried just this on my system and both addresses are pingable. I have installed ppp to the letter of the install instuctions ( thanks Stephen Perkins ) and still it doesn't work. These instructions make mention of netinfo sleeping. I had this problem once but it has now resolved itself. I have verified that the expected cause (IP address other than 127.0.0.1) was not the case. I have the correct resolv.conf file. The machine has at times been on an ethernet network. The driver for the card has been removed. The card is still physically in the machine even though it does not load. I mention this in case some configuration has not been reset when the machine was removed from the network. I have visually compared nidump listings for both my system and theirs and can find no meaningful netinfo differences. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I believe that the fault is somewhere in the NeXT configuration so have posted this here rather than in any of the ppp newsgroups.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: HELP! Black slab won't boot! Message-ID: <Dyqyz4.2Ex@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ukvzq2723qy.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:40:16 GMT In article <ukvzq2723qy.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu writes: > 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: ...munch... > 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...) > Attaching the mangled disk to a working system is best you can do! Two precautions should be met: 1. make sure the SCSI bus is properly configured (termination!) 2. be sure the SCSI ID of the mangeled drive is one (or more) higher than that of the boot drive (ID 2 should be ok for a standard internal drive only slab; internal boot device is shipped with ID set to 1). Then I recommend to 'fsck' the damaged filesystem first. And then take the usual steps depending on the result (i.e. formatting if severely damaged, repairing if only slightly garbeled). You can use BuildDisk.app to get the properly configured system to the second drive. This will not garble non-system filesystem trees, only that the customization of the OS might be lost. Consult the sysadmin manuals in /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf for advice on customization and attaching the newly configured system to a network etc. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: Installing OpenStep for NT problems Message-ID: <1996Oct4.173259.13701@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <32550451.7749@asiatlanta.com> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:32:59 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <32550451.7749@asiatlanta.com> Tim Triemstra <Tim.T@asiatlanta.com> writes: > Recently, my new rep at NeXT called up and wanted to sell me various > upgrades to our existing NS 3.2/3.3 network. Although my life's work > has become moving my company from NeXT onto a Windows-based network > (although we will be as platform independant as possible) I was > interested in the fact that he said that the Windows NT port of OpenStep > would allow me to run my NS 3.3 Binary for Intel on Windows NT! If > indeed that is true, then great! He also said it would run under NT4. I see you have found one of life's natural comedians :-). No, NeXTSTEP binaries will not, under any circumstance, run on NT. It would be possible for you to rewrite any cutom apps that you have developed, and then build them for OpenStep/NT. But there is a lot of work involved in that. > I tried to install the CD labeled "OpenStep Enterprise Start Kit, Beta > Release for Windows NT" - I don't want to get into Beta's since that > would be unfair to NeXT. However, I get a problem that I see alot on > Windows NT4 - no program groups created by the install program. This > leaves me with a problem of how to get this thing working. There is the > NeXT directory now aparently installed on my HD, although the install > program ended abruptly when it was unable to create the program groups. > I have no idea what .EXE with which parameters can be run to make things > work - if any. Does anyone have install tips for OpenStep install on NT > 4.0 (WS or Server)? Yes, that problem's documented in the release notes. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: NeXT faxing: how? Message-ID: <1996Oct4.173558.13778@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <32550623.4D22@normac.com> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:35:58 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <32550623.4D22@normac.com> you wrote: > Hi. Just installed a copy of OpenStep 4.0 for Mach (on Intel) and was > curious what it takes to get faxing to work. There are only two types > of faxmodem listed (HSD and something else), and I don't know which if > either my USR Sportster 28.8 is. Is there a way to use the built-in > software AND this modem? No. You can but NXFax, which still won't work with your modem (but will work with ZyXEL, Supra and various others). There is a free utility that supports faxing and should work with a Courier, but I have never tried it. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: procmail + Mail.app Date: 4 Oct 1996 20:01:40 GMT Organization: <<<>>> Distribution: world Message-ID: <533qf4$okb@news.zipnet.net> I just installed procmail and C. Edman's mail utilities. Could someone out there comment on the best way to make procmail and Mail.app play nice? Thanks, ASM -- Allan MacKinnon (C) 1996 mailto:allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA (617) 424-0615
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: procmail + Mail.app Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961004171024.9848C-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:30:25 -0400 References: <533qf4$okb@news.zipnet.net> To: Allan MacKinnon <allanmac@blueprint.com> In-Reply-To: <533qf4$okb@news.zipnet.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > I just installed procmail and C. Edman's mail utilities. You are already on the path to enlightenment. > Could someone out there comment on the best way to make > procmail and Mail.app play nice? Well, it's relatively simple, actually. I've got it running here, and it works wonderfully. I am on several listservs that I never even think about until I want to go look for something. I've even got the NeXT newsgroups digests emailed to me everyday thanks to 'digestif@antigone.com' (send email with the word "HELP" as subject for more info), and using procmail I split these digests up, meaning that I can read all the NeXT stuff offline (with the limitation that the digest comes but once a day, with the last 24hrs worth of posts, but it is a great resource). Basically procmail recipes are setup the same way they would be without the mailapp utilities, but with one small difference. For example, the following is a normal procmail recipe for filing messages from the procmail listserv into a folder named 'procmail :0 *^Resent-From: procmail-request@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE procmail to do the same with the mailapp utilities, just use this: :0 *^Resent-From: procmail-request@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE |appnmail procmail 'appnmail' is the program Carl wrote to "append mail" to a NeXT formatted mailbox. It takes care of updating the Table Of Contents file, which is very important. Note that while Mail.app refers to folders with .mbox extensions, 'appnmail' does not. For instance, in the example above 'procmail' would appear as 'procmail.mbox' in your list of Mailboxes. You can also use Mail.app3.3's capabilities for "nested" mailboxes. For example, I have a folder within ~/Mailboxes called "ComputerStuff" To sort messages from the procmail list server into a mailbox called 'procmail' within the ~/Mailboxes/ComputerStuff directory, I would just use: :0 *^Resent-From: procmail-request@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE |appnmail Computer/Stuff/procmail (NOTE: I am assuming that you have defined MAILDIR=$HOME/Mailboxes in .procmailrc) Soon grasshopper, you will be ready for things like this: :0 *^Subject: NeXT System Administration digest | formail -m 4 +1 -des appnmail Computer-Stuff/csn-sysadmin OH, BTW, here's a handy tip while you are setting up 'procmail' :0c |appnmail backups put that as the first recipe after all your definitions in .procmailrc, and you'll get a copy of each mail message put into a mailbox called 'backups'. Very handy for making sure you don't lose email during the debugging phase. One last thing: I invoke procmail in my .forward: "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/local/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 #luomat" that's all one long, unbroken line. It assumes that procmail is installed as /usr/local/bin/procmail You'll also want to use your login name, rather than mine ;-) If you have more questions, feel free to email me. procmail is just one more reason to love UNIX over anything else that might be on a computer acting as an OS. TjL
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TrackBall for NeXTStation Date: 3 Oct 1996 20:29:44 GMT Organization: Californi State University, Fresno Message-ID: <5317no$mct@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi Folks, Is it possible to use TrackBall on NeXTStation black hardware? The mice keeps dying in our NeXT lab. I am thinking to use TrackBall to replace mice. Do anyone know any vendor selling TrackBall for NeXT? BTW, can we use Mac mouse on NeXT black hardware? I know Mac mouse plug is different from NeXT mouse. Is there a adapter I can buy? T 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/ -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzJJkwEAAAEDAMHh5WMewwIXy3D7K46JeFkiFARiSpYu0osPy0gM7dkQqW28 ym7gMft0gAHC9fpvIQQ93BESamn6MuNt+f9yxhMSZX/UGX6LqG7jyEmTgWzyDLkw VxNkugSY/uDi7ZasOQAFEbQfS2luIEguIEF1IDxraW5hdUBjc3VmcmVzbm8uZWR1 Pg== =2ks8 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- ******************************************************************************
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netatalk Was:panics attempting AppleShare in NS 3.3 Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 04:00:18 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <3256238A.1043@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <v01540b01ae7a14fb68ea@[206.54.253.97]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone had Netatalk running on NS as an alternative to the unsupported AppleTalk features of yesteryear? I've heard Netatalk is better than CAP!? Thanx! -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ytalk:eadubie@138.87.201.11 PGP public key available. Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University "Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac." - Dr. Timothy Leary ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS 3.3 Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 04:04:12 -0500 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <32562473.486E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently installed the compiled Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS 3.3, and now it doesn't work. Does anyone else have experience with this upgrade? I beleive there's a lot more steps I need to do beyond clicking the Installer package... Thanx -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ytalk:eadubie@138.87.201.11 PGP public key available. Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University "Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac." - Dr. Timothy Leary ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca (Andrew MacRae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: procmail + Mail.app Date: 5 Oct 1996 09:44:38 GMT Organization: The University of Calgary Distribution: world Message-ID: <535am6$fb4@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> References: <533qf4$okb@news.zipnet.net> In article <533qf4$okb@news.zipnet.net> allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) writes: | | | I just installed procmail and C. Edman's mail utilities. | | Could someone out there comment on the best way to make | procmail and Mail.app play nice? Here is what I did for NextStep v.3.2. With procmail and Edman's "appnmail" installed in /usr/local/bin, here is part of my ~/.procmailrc file. If you do not know what that is, then read the documentation for procmail carefully before you try *any* of this. Note that the default delivery is back to the spool directory, so anything that I do not filter out and push into a separate mailbox will eventually end up in the default Mail.app "Active.mbox" mailbox (albeit via a circuitous route :-)). This probably is not the best way to do it, but seems to work fine, and avoids the problem that the Active.mbox file is locked when you have it open in Mail.app (so procmail would have to wait until you closed it before the mail could get delivered). I also put the procmail log file in the ~/Mailboxes directory, just to keep it out of the way. Mail.app does not seem to care. I created a separate Mail.app mailbox for each of the categories I wanted to deliver to. This .procmailrc is quite simple. It just handles some mailing lists (one example here) and filters out some e-mail spam using an (expensive!) full message search. Fancier recipes can do automated replies and many other things, just beware of mail loops if you try automatic replies. =======.procmailrc====cut here==== PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mailboxes # directory for mail DEFAULT=/usr/spool/mail/$LOGNAME # default delivery point -- back to spool LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/PROCMAIL_LOG # procmail log file LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail # default lock file # Note: "appnmail" is a from the "mailapp utilities" for appending # to NeXTmail style mailboxes. Procmail can not get name for # lockfile from a pipe, so it has to be specified for each mailbox :0:test.lock # for testing purposes * ^Subject.*TEST.* # put in test mailbox * ^FROM$LOGNAME # if from me and "TEST" |appnmail test :0:paleonet.lock # Anything from paleonet mailing list * ^TOpaleonet@.* |appnmail paleonet # this catches about 50% of the e-mail spam automatically and # shuffles it where I can look at it only if I want to be crabby :0 HDB:spam.lock # DIE SPAM!!! * ^.*(BIG MONEY|FREE!|MAKE MONEY|ONLY \$|ADVERT).* |appnmail spam # Anything that has not been delivered by now will go to $DEFAULT # using LOCKFILE=$DEFAULT$LOCKEXT # Because DEFAULT is back to /usr/spool/mail, theoretically it should # go back there, and then into the "Active.mbox" mailbox ======end=====cut here======== I'm interested in comments and criticisms. It seems to be working. It has not trashed my mailfiles yet after a couple of weeks of use, but I make no promises about functionality. -- -Andrew macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca home page: http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: procmail + Mail.app Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961005113950.4260A-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 11:59:16 -0400 References: <533qf4$okb@news.zipnet.net> <535am6$fb4@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> To: Andrew MacRae <macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca> In-Reply-To: <535am6$fb4@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > This .procmailrc is quite simple. It just handles some mailing > lists (one example here) and filters out some e-mail spam using an > (expensive!) full message search. Fancier recipes can do automated > replies and many other things, just beware of mail loops if you try > automatic replies. FYI -- 'procmail' is the engine behind my automated email responder which emails files back to people based on the SUBJECT of their email message. Send me a blank email with the SUBJECT send-ascii info for more information about that service. > # Note: "appnmail" is a from the "mailapp utilities" for appending > # to NeXTmail style mailboxes. Procmail can not get name for > # lockfile from a pipe, so it has to be specified for each mailbox This is true, in general, but it is _not_ true for the mailapp utilities. Carl built locking mechanisms right into those programs, so you do _not_ need to specify locking or a lockfile when using them. For any other piped recipe, however, they are a good idea. > :0:test.lock # for testing purposes > * ^Subject.*TEST.* # put in test mailbox > * ^FROM$LOGNAME # if from me and "TEST" > |appnmail test I don't think you need the trailing "*" because you are dealing with regexp and not shell variables. > # Anything that has not been delivered by now will go to $DEFAULT > # using LOCKFILE=$DEFAULT$LOCKEXT > # Because DEFAULT is back to /usr/spool/mail, theoretically it should > # go back there, and then into the "Active.mbox" mailbox I'm not sure that you need to specify a lockfile when dealing with your default mail spool file. Note also (to those who might not have understood) that it goes to /usr/spool/mail/$USER and then Mail.app will autoretrieve it at the timed interval you have set, or you can retrieve it manually. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: procmail + Mail.app Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961005120027.4260B-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 12:05:33 -0400 References: <533qf4$okb@news.zipnet.net> <535am6$fb4@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> To: Andrew MacRae <macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca> In-Reply-To: <535am6$fb4@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII a few short notes.... > Note that the default delivery is back to the spool directory, so > anything that I do not filter out and push into a separate mailbox > will eventually end up in the default Mail.app "Active.mbox" mailbox > (albeit via a circuitous route :-)). This probably is not the best > way to do it, but seems to work fine, and avoids the problem that > the Active.mbox file is locked when you have it open in Mail.app (so > procmail would have to wait until you closed it before the mail > could get delivered). Actually, _not_ delivering to Active.mbox is the best thing to do, as I think Carl mentioned somewhere in the docs, for the specific reason that Active.mbox will be locked whenever open, which is most of the time, for those of us who keep Active.mbox open when Mail.app is running > I also put the procmail log file in the ~/Mailboxes directory, just > to keep it out of the way. Mail.app does not seem to care. I made a folder ~/.procmail and put the log and any lockfiles in there too, just to get it out of the way. I like to keep things in a central location (ie just Mailboxes in ~/Mailboxes, just procmail stuff in ~/.procmail > I created a separate Mail.app mailbox for each of the categories I > wanted to deliver to. Not a bad idea, but 'appnmail' will create a mailbox if it needs to. TjL
From: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca (Michael Friendly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netware client for Novell 4.1? Date: 4 Oct 1996 18:06:07 GMT Organization: York University, Ontario, Canada Message-ID: <533jmf$cpd@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> Our computer lab has recently been switched from Novell 3.xx to 4.1. I had an auto-nsfmount of a lab directory to my NS 3.0 system, which I'm told won;t work with the Netware 3.11 client: > The netware 4.1 servers have an account database called NDS (Network >Directory Services) and 3.X servers have an account database called a >bindary. The NeXT Netware client only supports bindary connections. The >4.1 servers allow you to set a maximum of 16 bindary contexts. This >means that we could allow bindry-stlye logins from >.faculty.dept.arts.yorku and only 15 other contexts. Is there a Netware client for 4.1 which will run on NS 3.0 /m68k? -- Michael Friendly Internet: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca (NeXTmail OK) Psychology Department York University Voice: 416 736-5118 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA
From: steveg219@aol.com (SteveG219) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetWare 4.1 & nuc.nlm Problems (FS) Date: 6 Oct 1996 03:14:55 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <537m9f$p15@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <R.09960821175152.OUI93.TS-Automation@datacomm.ch> This is a bit of a tricky area, I have it working well under Novell 3.12 A few quick points that may help: 1) You must load NFS namespace using NFS.NAM or the equivalent for Netware 4.x 2) The NUC support is not up to the latest versions that UNIXWARE uses! I think the NUC.NLM we run is technically a beta version, it is the one the NeXT supplied on the 3.3 CD. Note they forgot to include the relevant documentation for the Netware server installation of the necessary files on the 3.3 CD!! Check out the 3.2 CD for instruction and/or call NeXT. 3) This is form memory, so I may be wrong, but I recall that 802.3 was the way to go with frames I hope this helps you, if you have questions email me at work at sgg@sunsource.com Stephen Greenberg
From: steveg219@aol.com (SteveG219) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting SBAWE32 PnP to work Date: 6 Oct 1996 03:17:49 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <537met$p1q@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <52kp28$bb5@lace.colorado.edu> Although NeXT drivers claim to support SB PNP, at least the value addition, apparently these driver are not yet functional. I called NeXT support and was told they are working on it. There is a 4.0 PNP driver, but as far as my experience goes it does not actually work. Note also- get the newest EISA bus driver, it is actually the EISA/ISA driver and has a plug and play option. Stephen Greenberg
From: jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Accessing NT partition from OpenStep Date: 6 Oct 1996 19:11:35 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Message-ID: <539097$7ku@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: jabi URL: http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/~wjabi/ Hi: My computer (Optimal Workstation Pentium Pro 200MHz) arrived partitioned with OpenStep 4.0 and Windows NT 3.51. Is there a way I can access/mount one partition while booted from the other? I need to create TIFF files in PhotoShop and re-access them using WetPaint. I have a SCSI Internal disk. It is loaded as /dev/rsd0a. Please e-mail me at: wjabi@arch.buffalo.edu. Thanks. -- Wassim M. Jabi, Assistant Professor Department of Architecture - 312B Hayes Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14214-3087 Tel: +1 716.829.3485 Ext. 323 Fax: +1 716.829.3256 wjabi@arch.buffalo.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail)
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost sound after Restore Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 21:24:53 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0610962124540001@slip-86-5.ots.utexas.edu> References: <3253013B.4E3A@proserv.wustl.edu> The hard disk on my HP Gecko, running NS3.3, recently died. After replacing the HD and restoring from backups, I find that the machine is now mute. There are two clues: 1) In /usr/adm/messages, there are errors of the form Oct 6 20:45:18 golem loginwindow[393]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 which I have never seen before. 2) Opening up, say, the sound module in Preferences.app, one finds that none of the controls work (the list of system sounds, for instance, is grayed-out) , and the following errors are generated in /usr/adm/messages Oct 6 17:04:33 golem Preferences[203]: Cannot get sound input device Oct 6 17:04:33 golem Preferences[203]: cannot get sound device Anyone have any ideas about what is corrupted, and how I might get the sound back? Thanks, Jacques Distler Anyone have any ideas
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: sendmail 8.8 Date: 7 Oct 1996 02:23:31 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <539pj3$nlo@news.cais.com> I am currently preparing a sendmail 8.8 distribution for NEXTSTEP. I would like to include mail.local as part of this distribution. If anyone has PORTED this to NEXTSTEP, please e-mail me and I will include it (and credit you...) Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant -- Robert La Ferla Registered NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant HTI Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: tlegvold@jagor.srce.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change bootblock? Date: 6 Oct 1996 20:04:36 GMT Organization: Public host at University Computing Centre, Zagreb, CROATIA Distribution: world Message-ID: <5393ck$5qg@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, I know it's in the on-line docs, but as far as it appears to me this applies to partitioned disks (i.e. NS + dos or whatever) that already have boot0 written on disk. And, it mentiones little about booting from alternate hard disk. I need to know how to (if possible) change bootsector on EIDE primary (NS only) disk to boot either NS, or Linux or WinNT (on SCSI disk on SCSI controller _not_ recognized by BIOS - DPT2144W, Barracuda Wide 2GB) Please email replies. Regards, Thor Legvold presently in exile in Croatia
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: Lost sound after Restore Message-ID: <1996Oct7.074400.21912@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <distler-0610962124540001@slip-86-5.ots.utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:44:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <distler-0610962124540001@slip-86-5.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: > After replacing the HD and restoring from backups, I find that the machine > is now mute. > > There are two clues: > > 1) In /usr/adm/messages, there are errors of the form > > Oct 6 20:45:18 golem loginwindow[393]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 This is a standard message that you get when the machine doesn't have a sound driver installed. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pentium Pro / OpenStep panics (perhaps PPP related) Date: 7 Oct 1996 09:33:25 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <53aip5$nnl@nntp1.best.com> Does this problem sound familiar to anyone? I just upgraded my system to a Tyan S1668 Dual Pentium Pro ATX motherboard with a single Pentium Pro 200 MHZ Processor. I am running OpenStep 4.x for Mach. I am experiencing frequent kernel panics (Illegal instruction exception I believe is the exact message). I suspect the problem is related to the PPP 2.2 package because the panics only happen while PPP is running and seem to be triggered by moderate to heavy PPP traffic (for instance bringing up any graphics intensive page via OmniWeb is almost guaranteed to panic the system.) The exact same PPP configuration was working fine while I was running on a P100. I have tried upgrading from the version of PPP that NeXT ships with 4.x to the latest available from the thoughtport ftp site and it does not seem to make any difference. The other hardware on my system includes #9 GXE 64 4MB PCI video card, NCR (Symbios) 825 wide SCSI card, 64 MB RAM, PS/2 mouse. If anyone has any suggestions as to what else might be causing this problem or can confirm that this is indeed a problem with PPP (or even better yet has a SOLUTION) please mail me and I will be eternally grateful. Thanks, Chris --
From: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (wilfrid Gaboriaud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: allow or deny SU to network users Date: 7 Oct 1996 12:00:23 GMT Organization: Universite de La Rochelle Message-ID: <53arcn$q9t@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr> Hello, How can i allow or deny a "local root" (the root defined on local netinfo) to "su" to a "network user" (a user define on netinfo / ) ? Many thanks for your reply. Wilfrid. --- /*************************************** * Wilfrid Gaboriaud * Service Informatique * Institut Universitaire de Technologie * La Rochelle * 15 rue de Vaux de Foletier * 17026 La Rochelle cedex * France * Phone. (33) 46 51 39 24 * Fax. (33) 46 51 39 39 * e-mail: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr * NeXTStep and Mime Mail are Welcome ***************************************/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: TrackBall for NeXTStation Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dyv6BE.897@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 17:09:14 GMT References: <5317no$mct@zimmer.csufresno.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5317no$mct@zimmer.csufresno.edu>, Kin Hung Au <kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu> wrote: >Hi Folks, > >Is it possible to use TrackBall on NeXTStation black hardware? The mice >keeps dying in our NeXT lab. I am thinking to use TrackBall to replace >mice. > >Do anyone know any vendor selling TrackBall for NeXT? > If you get a PC *BUS* mouse (not PS/2, not serial) you can buy an adapter from computerActive (URL available on Stepwise) for about $8 that will let you plug it in. Works well. >BTW, can we use Mac mouse on NeXT black hardware? I know Mac mouse plug >is different from NeXT mouse. Is there a adapter I can buy? Mac ADB mice can be used on NeXT ADB systems, but otherwise, no. You might be able to use pre-ADB mice on non-ADB NeXTs but it would take cable hacking. -- 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: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS Mount on NT an exported directory from a NEXT machine Date: 7 Oct 1996 11:21:41 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <53ap45$3kv@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <1996Oct3.190831.10547@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> writes: > Samba is a NetBEUI emulation. NetBEUI is not a routable protocol, so it > will not work across routers. Unless, that is, you have a router that > spoofs NetBEUI. ??? I'm a bit puzzled about this - I thought Samba ran SMB on top of IP and didn't use NetBEUI. In fact the only way I got most of our PC's to talk to the NeXT was to get rid of NetBEUI on them and install TCP/IP instead. I can certainly see my samba server from a UNIX machine the far side of a router ! -bat.
From: Ludger Solbach <solbach@tu-harburg.d400.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: disk problem Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 12:49:31 +0100 Organization: TU Hamburg-Harburg Message-ID: <3258EE4B.6366D2A4@tu-harburg.d400.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: ti6ls symptom: ------- For the system and "df" the harddisk looks like providing only 1020 M of disk- space, while fdisk recognizes that the disk actuall got 2064 M. The partition table displayed by fdisk contains zeros only. configuration: ------------- system: NeXT Step 3.3 adaptor and driver: Adaptec 2940 with driver version 3.7 disk: IBM DORS 32160 WA0A5U2F Any help is appreciated. Best wishes, Ludger. -- ------------ Ludger Solbach, AB Technische Informatik VI ------------- | Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany | | e-mail: Solbach@TU-Harburg.d400.De, Tel.: +49-40-7718-3357 | ---------------- http://www.ti6.tu-harburg.de/~ti6ls -----------------
From: arunc@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (Arun Chandra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compiling tcl/tk for NS3.1 and NS3.2 Date: 7 Oct 1996 15:11:40 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <53b6jc$gmm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> We're trying to compile Tcl7.5 and Tk4.1 for black NeXTs running NS3.1 and NS3.2. Both libraries (libtk4.1.a and libtcl7.5.a) compile correctly, as does the "tclsh" program. We cannot get the "wish" program to complete its compile. It breaks down during the linking stage, complaining of an undefined symbol "panic". This symbol IS defined and is present in the library libtcl7.5.a, which is listed in the linking process. Why can't the linker find this symbol? (We're using gcc 2.7.0, (on NS3.1) and gcc 2.7.2 (on NS3.2) as the compiler, and gnu make 3.75 on both systems.) gcc tkAppInit.o -L/disk2/XApps/tkl/tk4.1/unix -ltk4.1 \ -L/disk2/XApps/tkl/tcl7.5/unix -ltcl7.5 -L/usr/lib -lX11 -o wish ld: Undefined symbols: _panic make: *** [wish] Error 1 Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Arun Chandra cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu
From: Don Turrentine <dturren@hsf.uab.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail problem Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 11:40:45 -0500 Organization: University of Alabama Health Services Foundation Message-ID: <3259328D.20C3@hsf.uab.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am having a problem with users being able to retrieve mail using the Next mail client. Everything was working fine (always the case!) before we had router problems on Friday (OSPF). Any how the router is supposedly backup fine. All indications are that it is. I cam NFS mount the spool directory just fine. People are recieving mail on the spool directory, however they cannot retrieve using the Next mail client. An associated problem (probably) is that my Sun clients cannot get their mail either, can NFS mount but even when using the command line mail it tells the users no mail when there is mail there. Any suggestions, OS is mix of 2.x and 3.0. Don -- Don Turrentine, Network Specialist University of Alabama Health Services Foundation 301 South 20th Street LNB 201 Birmingham, AL 35233 (205) 731-9666 Direct (205) 731-9856 Fax dturren@hsf.uab.edu
Message-ID: <32592ED6.7CD6@dsm.fordham.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 12:24:54 -0400 From: Ellen <hliu@dsm.fordham.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Compile problems under 3.3 References: <52vetp$g4n@jolt.pagesat.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul R. Wellin wrote: > > I am having some troubles compiling certain apps and the problems seem to > point to the same source. On my black turbo with 3.3, during a compile > (of both Gatekeeper and samba) I get the following error: > > django:6# make > Using CFLAGS = -O -DSMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/samba/var/log.smb" > ... stuff... > Compiling server.c > /NextDeveloper/Headers/netdb.h:66: header file 'sys/bitypes.h' not found > includes.h:591: warning: could not use precompiled header > '/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/libc.p', because: > includes.h:591: warning: header 'arpa/inet.h' overridden, > includes.h:591: warning: /NextDeveloper/Headers/arpa/inet.h vs. > /NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/arpa/inet.h (within the precomp) > /NextDeveloper/Headers/arpa/inet.h:68: header file 'sys/bitypes.h' not found > *** Exit 1 > Stop. > > I can find the file bitypes.h nowhere on my system and during each of > my two recent compiles, this is where the Exit occurs. > > Am I doing something rather unintelligent here? Has anyone seen this > before or have a clue what I can do to prevent this? > > Thanks, > > Paul Wellin I am looking to compile gcc for my next step 3.3 computer. Unfortionately this requires either a compiler on my next step, which I don't have, or libgcc.a + the include files from a next step computer, which again I don't have. If you could post either of these items I would be very greatfull. Thank You.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Compiling tcl/tk for NS3.1 and NS3.2 Date: 7 Oct 1996 18:58:36 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <53bjss$7s3@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <53b6jc$gmm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <53b6jc$gmm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> arunc@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (Arun Chandra) writes: > Why can't the linker find this symbol? > gcc tkAppInit.o -L/disk2/XApps/tkl/tk4.1/unix -ltk4.1 \ > -L/disk2/XApps/tkl/tcl7.5/unix -ltcl7.5 -L/usr/lib -lX11 -o wish > ld: Undefined symbols: > _panic Perhaps this is the an orderring problem. Try putting the the -ltcl7.5 at the VERY END of the link line (instead of the middle). -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: james@coquitlam.instep.bc.ca (James Ford) Subject: SCSI bus errors Message-ID: <1996Oct7.202512.23858@instep.bc.ca> Sender: usenet@instep.bc.ca Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 20:25:12 GMT Has anyone seen these problems before. (/usr/adm/messages) Oct 4 09:49:56 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = 2H Oct 4 09:49:56 vancouver mach: Sense key = 0x6 Sense Code = 0x0 Oct 4 09:50:24 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = 2H Oct 4 09:50:24 vancouver mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x0 Oct 4 09:50:37 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x8 sr_io_status = dH Oct 4 09:50:37 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = dH Oct 4 09:51:27 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = 2H Oct 4 09:51:27 vancouver mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x0 Oct 4 11:44:31 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x8 sr_io_status = 2H Oct 4 11:44:31 vancouver mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x0 Oct 4 11:45:34 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x8 sr_io_status = 2H Oct 4 11:45:34 vancouver mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x0 Oct 4 11:53:19 vancouver mach: st: cmd = 0x8 sr_io_status = 2H Oct 4 11:53:19 vancouver mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x0 There seems to a problem with our Archive Python SCSI DAT drive. The strange thing is mt can read the drive no problem but gnutar produces the following: gnutar: read error on /dev/rst0 : I/O error It seems as though sometimes if you catch the drive and tape in the correct state that you can get a clean read, but does not happen very often. Help would be appreciated. Thank you -- James Ford <james@instep.bc.ca> <604-872-7116> System Support, InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo woes--help please--more info Date: 7 Oct 1996 22:09:57 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <53bv3l$287@news.tamu.edu> References: <52fnjm$mt5@news.tamu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960927144812.2305F-100000@charisma> <YmHJyzu00Uh741eL4F@andrew.cmu.edu> <FUKASE.96Oct3230718@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> FUKASE Mikio <fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> wrote: >I think that your host's official name must be use a FQDN >style and add short name as alias. Others suggested the same, and it works for me. >It is set with /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app. But note that you can only do that once. SNS will usually crash if you try to run it on a previously configured system. -- Colin Allen colin.allen@tamu.edu -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: american@mail.tds.net (Charles C. Hocker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS, Windoze NT, Samba, and Networking Date: 7 Oct 1996 17:49:06 GMT Organization: TDS Telecom - Madison, WI Message-ID: <53bfqi$lem@news2.tds.net> Hello, I just installed a simple two computer network at my house and I have a couple of question regarding how to set it up properly to use Samba to access an Windoze NT machine. First -- I have one machine with NS/Intel 3.3 and Windoze NT 3.51 installed in a dual-boot configuration. One the second machine I can only install Windoze 3.51 on it due to hardware constraints. Second -- I tested the ethernet cards and they are communicating with each other. Also both machines will recognize each other when I boot into Windoze NT and I can share files, etc. I am running TCP/IP and NetBEUI on the NT machine. Third -- Under NS, I went into HostManager.app and established a host to the new machine and entered a Hostname, an Internet Address, and an Ethernet Address for the new machine. Question -- So I guess my question is--should I be able to ping from one machine to the other using TCP/IP? When I do ping, nothing happens. I tried to ping using both the IP address and the host name. Did I miss a step somewhere? I figured that I would insure that TCP/IP was up and working before I tried to get Samba working. Thanks Charles
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk on OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 7 Oct 1996 23:41:54 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <53c4g2$2eu@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <01bbb14a$6da8dce0$02ac2ac0@mario> <532pi4$j36@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Cc: paul@plsys.co.uk In <532pi4$j36@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Paul Lynch wrote: > In <01bbb14a$6da8dce0$02ac2ac0@mario> "Mario Ferrari" wrote: > > I've upgrade my old Cube to OPENSTEP 4.0 and Apple button in the > > Preferences is vanished. I desperate need to see the Mac on network. > > Any suggestions? > > AppleTalk support was only in from NeXT in 3.0. > > You need either to install IPT Partner (which is commercial, and almost > certainly doesn't support 4.0 yet, although it may work), or to try one of > the various NFS servers for your Apple network. > > You can try CAP60 (see my web page for a link to the Bekeley Packet Filter for NS... I do not know if it works with OS4.x but it does for 3.3. It does a nice job for tcpdump too). -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS Mount on NT an exported directory from a NEXT machine Date: 7 Oct 1996 23:50:10 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <53c4vi$2eu@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <530bvd$l12@ultron.rnb.com> Cc: andy@socrates.rnb.com In <530bvd$l12@ultron.rnb.com> Andreas Kapatsoulias wrote: > Also questions about samba. We have samba somewhat working but > only NT4.0 PCs on the same network as the samba server can see the > services. It looks like it does not work across routers. Any hints? You have to provide the name and the IP of the server in the file lmhosts on each client... see the Samba page at http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/ for more information. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: IMAP on NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961007202952.5106A-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 20:31:31 -0400 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Has anyone setup their NeXT (m68k preferably) as a IMAP server? If so, please drop me a line TjL
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost sound after Restore Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 20:27:48 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0710962027480001@slip-59-13.ots.utexas.edu> References: <distler-0610962124540001@slip-86-5.ots.utexas.edu> <1996Oct7.074400.21912@seer.demon.co.uk> In article <1996Oct7.074400.21912@seer.demon.co.uk>, Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk wrote: >> 1) In /usr/adm/messages, there are errors of the form >> >> Oct 6 20:45:18 golem loginwindow[393]: bootstrap_register failed - >-102 > >This is a standard message that you get when the machine doesn't have a >sound driver installed. Well, the problem turned out to be the absence of an InstanceN.table file in the driver directory. To fix it, I > cd /private/Drivers/hppa/HPAdvancedAudio.config/ > ln -s Default.table Instance0.table and restarted. This, FINALLY, got the sound driver to load. Jacques
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ftpd logging Date: 8 Oct 1996 08:15:59 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <53dglv$i6i@papoose.quick.com> References: <52nq6g$7a6@plains.nodak.edu> In article <52nq6g$7a6@plains.nodak.edu>, Andy Wang <awang@plains.nodak.edu> wrote: (munch) >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. on my NS 3.3 system. >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 It appears that the lone 'daemon' facility keyword is not implemented correctly. Either change this to daemon.info or (if you want to keep a separate log file for this information) add a line like: daemon.info /usr/adm/daemon.log The lone use of a facility is documented to work, but for some reason is not working. Go figure. -- ___ ___ | 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: kwiesel@pollux (Konstantin Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mach64 video trouble Date: 8 Oct 1996 07:18:06 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <53cv7e$1084@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <325043A1.2BBE@normac.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.961008085456.808B-100000@pollux> Konstantin Wiesel (kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de) wrote: : On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Mark Kushigian wrote: : Sorry to disappoint you but the older drivers also dont offer the : mentioned resolution, the closest is 1152x832 and if i remember right this : was also the original Next resolution. Forget this message, i rechecked 3.34 and it supports the mentioned resolution but also only up to 75Hz. -- Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: NS, Windoze NT, Samba, and Networking Message-ID: <1996Oct8.072026.25522@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <53bfqi$lem@news2.tds.net> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:20:26 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <53bfqi$lem@news2.tds.net> you wrote: > First -- I have one machine with NS/Intel 3.3 and Windoze NT > 3.51 installed in a dual-boot configuration. One the second machine I > can only install Windoze 3.51 on it due to hardware constraints. W 3.11, or NT 3.51? > Second -- I tested the ethernet cards and they are > communicating with each other. Also both machines will recognize each > other when I boot into Windoze NT and I can share files, etc. I am > running TCP/IP and NetBEUI on the NT machine. Could be working under NetBEUI, but TCP/IP is misconfigured? > Third -- Under NS, I went into HostManager.app and > established a host to the new machine and entered a Hostname, an > Internet Address, and an Ethernet Address for the new machine. Did you allocate hostname and IP address to the local system in HostManager? You need to use the Local panel, which updates /etc/hostconfig, for this. Your symptoms are consistent with this not having been done. > Question -- So I guess my question is--should I be able to > ping from one machine to the other using TCP/IP? When I do ping, > nothing happens. I tried to ping using both the IP address and the > host name. Did I miss a step somewhere? I figured that I would > insure that TCP/IP was up and working before I tried to get Samba > working. Yes, ping should work. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: system fault tolerance / sendmail Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:41:25 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961008083118.808A-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, i have had a problem and maybe anybody can help me here. I discovered that sendmail was unable to deliver our mail correctly, the mail was stuck in /usr/spool/mqueue. This directory contained a few hundred dcXXXXX files. When i mailed to myself the mail became a new file in this directory. "Mail -v kwiesel" showed "error setgroups". After restarting the system everything was fine again. What could have caused this misbehaviour? I also would like to know if Nextstep/Intel does support memory protection. I read somewhere that user tasks cant cause a system panic, can i therefore conclude that for instance OmniWeb or parts of it or any other software that causes system panics is not running in user mode? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network installation Message-ID: <1996Oct8.104920.46974@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 8 Oct 96 10:49:19 MET Hmm, no responses from the last cry for help. Looks like no one out there has a bunch of sparcstation 5's wanting to run OPENSTEP4.0 on them. I'm trying to get the stations to install from an installation server but can't even get the things to start booting! My local vendor is just as clueless as I am and the FAQs don't reveal any more than I already know. I have set up a SUN sparc 5 as installation server according to the instructions in the accompanying booklets. I have ensured that all entries in NetInfo are accordingly (ethernet entries don't have leading zeros). Furthermore, the appropriate ethernet to IP address maps are installed on the server and show when checking with 'arp -a'. All necessary daemons are running (bootpd, bootparamd). So everything seems fine on the server side. The clients are supposed to boot with the command 'boot net'. But all I get is a time out message (regarding ARP/RARP!) indicating that the client cannot receive the proper IP address. Now, NeXT did not implement the RARP but uses the newer bootp instead. This kind of installation works perfectly for the NeXT and Intel computers, but I haven't been able to get the SUNs to boot. Even if I install the in.rarpd on a Solaris server, the SS5s won't boot but keep giving the same message. The Solaris server will show that it received the request but will tell me that it could not resolve the mapping even though the ethernet-ip address is in the in-memory map! Anybody have any clue as to what is going on? Any really good sniffer software or something alike I could run (on the Solaris machine) to investigate the situation? Thanks very much 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 -- 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: tlm@ameslab.gov (Thomas L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bouncing mail to unaliased host over PPP connection Date: 8 Oct 1996 16:33:50 GMT Organization: Ames Laboratory Message-ID: <53dvpe$5p2@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Hi: I've recently changed jobs, taking a visiting position at the University of Washington, which means I've also changed my PPP provider. Now I go in through a university pool that assigns me a dynamic IP# and machine name (PPP is SOOOO wonderful, the admin gave me 3 pieces of information, I changed about 5 lines in my up script, and it worked the first time!). Here's the problem: normally I just read my mail using PINE or ELM on a machine on the network. Occasionally, however, I want to "bounce" some mail home, particularly if it is NeXTmail. Back when I had a static IP I could just use the "bounce" mechanism in elm to send the mail to my home machine, on which I had aliased the hostname to be that for the static IP#. Now I come in and each time I come up as a different machine (albeit one with an IP# in a given range and whose hostname is of the form pacts##.washington.edu, where ## is the PPP port I get) and when I try to bounce mail home it fails because the mail is sent to me at a machine which the home one is not aliased to. Question: Is there a good way around this? Can I alias my machine to a "range" of names? i.e., can I put a "wildcard" into a host alias? Are there security holes with such a move? I could run a popmail server I guess, but I only want to bounce SOME of the mail home, not all of it. I could also just alias my machine each time it came up (I do that by hand sometimes now). Is there a way to automate this? Perhaps by running a script from the ip-up program? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Tom -- Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779 Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home) Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov Project Coordinator: Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences http://uces.ameslab.gov/
From: dale@storm.frontrange.ab.ca (Dale A. Schack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: Ethernet connection Date: 8 Oct 1996 15:51:22 GMT Organization: NAVOCEANO Message-ID: <53dt9q$e7d@tomcat.msrcnavo.navy.mil> Hello, I have a simple question. I have 10BaseT (twisted pair) coming into my NeXT slab from a Cisco router. I would like to then connect additional machines via a 10Base2 (thin wire coax) network. Can I use both of the Ethernet connections at the back of the slab for this purpose? Or do I give up on the 10Base2 network, and instead buy a 10BaseT hub? Thanks in advance for the info. --- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Bouncing mail to unaliased host over PPP connection In-Reply-To: tlm@ameslab.gov's message of 8 Oct 1996 16:33:50 GMT Message-ID: <ukvu3s5s4b4.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <53dvpe$5p2@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:23:43 GMT You could do what I do with several of my home machines. I have a script that automatically checks every minute whether or not the modem has Carrier Detect. If it doesn't, it stops and restarts my TCP stack, dialing back into my dynamic PPP connection. Upon connection, I have the machine copy the environment variable containing my current domainized machine name (assigned from the dynamic PPP connection) into a file, then use ncftp to automatically send it to one of my shell accounts that I typically use for e-mail. This could be modified so that it simply attaches your username for the dialed-in machine and "@" to the beginning of the domainized, dynamic machine name, and ncftp it to your remote account as a .forward file, and just have an SMTPd running on the dialed-in machine. Of course, there will be a minute or two every time your connection dies that the .forward file on the remote machine will be invalid, or pointing to another machine that dialed in after you disconnected and got the same name assigned. You could always time your connections and have it remove the .forward just before your time expires, but there's still the problem of losing your connection unexpectedly. *shrug* It's extremely kludgish, but it *does* work. --Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@internet1.net> Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: GCC on a NeXT Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 11:46:30 -0700 Organization: internet1 Message-ID: <32595006.6EBA@internet1.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, I am trying to compile gcc 2.7.2 on a NeXTstationTC (pizza box 68040) running NeXTStep 3.2 and was wondering what I should use for the machine type? Reading the docs indicate that NeXT, m68K, and Mach are all supported, but this is what I get when I try to run configure: eer-next1:# cd /usr/local/gcc-2.7.2.1 eer-next1:# ./configure Config.guess failed to determine the host type. You need to specify one. Usage: configure [--host=HOST] [--build=BUILD] [--prefix=DIR] [--gxx-include-dir=DIR] [--local-pref=DIR] [--exec-pref=DIR] [--with-gnu-as] [--with-gnu-ld] [--with-stabs] [--with-elf] [--nfp] TARGET Where HOST, TARGET and BUILD are three-part configuration names eer-next1:# hostinfo Mach kernel version: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K Kernel configured for a single processor only. 1 processor is physically available. Processor type: MC680x0 (68040) Processor speed: 33 MHz Processor active: 0 System type: 5 Board revision: 0xf Primary memory available: 24.00 megabytes. Default processor set: 51 tasks, 80 threads, 1 processors Load average: 0.00, Mach factor: 0.99 eer-next1:# ./configure --build=m68k-next-mach3.2 Configuration m68k-next-mach3.2 not supported eer-next1:# ./configure --build=m68k-next-mach Configuration m68k-next-mach not supported Any suggestions, ideas, or input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Matthew Hagerty
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bouncing mail to unaliased host over PPP connection Date: 8 Oct 1996 22:33:17 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <53ekrd$c2k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <53dvpe$5p2@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Cc: tlm@ameslab.gov > Question: Is there a good way around this? Can I alias my machine to a > "range" of names? i.e., can I put a "wildcard" into a host alias? Are > there security holes with such a move? > > I could run a popmail server I guess, but I only want to bounce SOME of > the mail home, not all of it. I could also just alias my machine each > time it came up (I do that by hand sometimes now). Is there a way to > automate this? Perhaps by running a script from the ip-up program? > The easiest thing might be to ask the sysadmins for a second account. This would be your NeXTMail account. You set your NeXT POP client up to only read from the NeXT mailbox. Then, all your normal mail stays at the server. To bounce mail, you simply forward it to the new account name. Just a thought. - Steve -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mach64 video trouble Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:57:13 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961008085456.808B-100000@pollux> References: <325043A1.2BBE@normac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <325043A1.2BBE@normac.com> On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Mark Kushigian wrote: > 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)? > Sorry to disappoint you but the older drivers also dont offer the mentioned resolution, the closest is 1152x832 and if i remember right this was also the original Next resolution. Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: tlm@u.washington.edu (Thomas L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bouncing mail to unaliased host over PPP connection Date: 9 Oct 1996 04:32:17 GMT Organization: Depts. of Physics and Chemistry, Univ. of Washington Message-ID: <53f9sh$lnj@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <53dvpe$5p2@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <ukvu3s5s4b4.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Cc: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu wrote: > > Upon connection, I have the machine copy the environment variable containing > my current domainized machine name (assigned from the dynamic PPP connection) > into a file, Yo! This sounds like a likely candidate...... but how do you do this? I do a printenv on the local machine and there is no mention of the dynamically assigned hostname. If I had that, then all I would need to do is make a file like IP# of local name_of_local dynamic_name and then niload hosts / < file_with_info in the ip-up file So how do you extract this environmental variable? Thanks for the info, this sounds promising. Tom -- Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779 Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home) Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov Project Coordinator: Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences http://uces.ameslab.gov/
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: delayed 2 hours Date: 8 Oct 1996 08:49:23 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <53d4ij$8n@unity.westfalen.de> Hi Friends, has ever somebody seen this message "delayed 2 hours" in connection with the modem and solve it cause the modem don't connect without power off and on. thank you very much for your help Peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail and MIME welcome Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: Q: Ethernet connection Message-ID: <1996Oct8.215452.28375@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <53dt9q$e7d@tomcat.msrcnavo.navy.mil> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:54:52 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <53dt9q$e7d@tomcat.msrcnavo.navy.mil> dale@storm.frontrange.ab.ca (Dale A. Schack) writes: > I have a simple question. I have 10BaseT (twisted pair) coming into my > NeXT slab from a Cisco router. I would like to then connect additional > machines via a 10Base2 (thin wire coax) network. Can I use both of the > Ethernet connections at the back of the slab for this purpose? Or do I > give up on the 10Base2 network, and instead buy a 10BaseT hub? Only one can be active at a time, so you will need a small hub. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sound blaster question? Date: 8 Oct 1996 20:09:31 GMT Organization: "CARDEROCKDIV CDNSWC" Message-ID: <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Hello I'm a first timer with a Nextstep on Intel question = We have a Pentium 166 PCI system and the vendor supplied us with a Sound Blaster 16 - I've checked the configure.app and it indicates that Sound Blaster lives at / or whatever at DMA channel 1 5 / port address 0x220 / IRQ level 5 - however the system doesn't seem to be able to find it - any and all help on this would be much appreciated - thanks - the following is from the start-up log - Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: PCI bus support enabled Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: PCI0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: EISA0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: event0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: kmDevice0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: rootdev 600, howto 0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: SerialMouse: type V at SCC 0 port 0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: SerialMouse Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: pp0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Number9Motion771: Detected Number9 Motion 771 (PCI)(4MB) Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Display: Mode selected: 1152 x 864 @ 60 Hz (RGB:888/32) Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Display0: BIOS claims mode 127 is not supported - trying anyway Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: Display0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Registering: en0 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: Cogent eMASTER+ EM960 PCI at port 0x7880 irq 9 Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: SoundBlaster16: SoundBlaster not detected at address 0x220. Oct 7 02:06:59 vermeer mach: SoundBlaster16: None or unsupported card. Bob Kurhajetz
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,gnu.gcc.help Subject: Re: GCC on a NeXT Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:06:00 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8mKh18O00Uzx02mnoR@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <32595006.6EBA@internet1.net> In-Reply-To: <32595006.6EBA@internet1.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.programmer: 7-Oct-96 GCC on a NeXT by Matthew Hagerty@internet > I am trying to compile gcc 2.7.2 on a NeXTstationTC (pizza box 68040) > running NeXTStep 3.2 and was wondering what I should use for the machine > type? Reading the docs indicate that NeXT, m68K, and Mach are all > supported, but this is what I get when I try to run configure: > > eer-next1:# cd /usr/local/gcc-2.7.2.1 > eer-next1:# ./configure > Config.guess failed to determine the host type. You need to specify > one. That's surprising-- configure has always managed to ID a NEXTSTEP system as far as I can remember. Anyway, the complete target name that you are looking for is 'm68k-next-nextstep3', although just 'next' should work too. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Subject: Re: sound blaster question? Message-ID: <1996Oct9.065424.29877@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 06:54:24 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin In article <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz) writes: > I'm a first timer with a Nextstep on Intel question = We have a Pentium 166 PCI system and the > vendor supplied us with a Sound Blaster 16 - I've checked the configure.app and it indicates > that Sound Blaster lives at / or whatever at DMA channel 1 5 / port address 0x220 / IRQ level 5 > - however the system doesn't seem to be able to find it For whatever reason, the latest versions of the SB16 don't work with NeXTSTEP. If you have a jumper to disable PnP, then it should work. There is a new EISA/ISA bus driver (which includes the PnP support) which may help. We can't get current, commonly available sound cards that work with NeXTSTEP. The UK Ensoniq distributor clearly doesn't want to sell them; PAS, MS sound system, etc and the functioning SoundBlasters are all discontinued. The Soundblaster problem has been known about for at least a couple of months, and I would have thought it was important for NeXT to fix their drivers. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Network installation Message-ID: <1996Oct9.113518.46976@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 9 Oct 96 11:35:18 MET References: <1996Oct8.104920.46974@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> frank@ifi.unibas.ch wrote: > Hmm, no responses from the last cry for help. > > Looks like no one out there has a bunch of sparcstation 5's wanting to > run OPENSTEP4.0 on them. > > I'm trying to get the stations to install from an installation server but > can't even get the things to start booting! My local vendor is just as > clueless as I am and the FAQs don't reveal any more than I already know. > > I have set up a SUN sparc 5 as installation server according to the > instructions in the accompanying booklets. I have ensured that all > entries in NetInfo are accordingly (ethernet entries don't have leading > zeros). Furthermore, the appropriate ethernet to IP address maps are > installed on the server and show when checking with 'arp -a'. All > necessary daemons are running (bootpd, bootparamd). So everything seems > fine on the server side. > > The clients are supposed to boot with the command 'boot net'. But all I > get is a time out message (regarding ARP/RARP!) indicating that the > client cannot receive the proper IP address. > > Now, NeXT did not implement the RARP but uses the newer bootp instead. > This kind of installation works perfectly for the NeXT and Intel > computers, but I haven't been able to get the SUNs to boot. > > Even if I install the in.rarpd on a Solaris server, the SS5s won't boot > but keep giving the same message. The Solaris server will show that it > received the request but will tell me that it could not resolve the > mapping even though the ethernet-ip address is in the in-memory map! > > Anybody have any clue as to what is going on? Any really good sniffer > software or something alike I could run (on the Solaris machine) to > investigate the situation? > Okay, so it's a followup on myself. I now know that the machines I have here DO use RARP to resolve the ethernet to ip mapping on boot. Is this normal? Doesn't SUN use the bootp? (I'll ask the SUN guys over here for that one). The program I used to find this out is snoop (comes with Solaris). I still need help with the network install, though. According to NeXT's installation manuals this should be possible ... -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: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [HELP] Add memory (intel) and screen goes black?! Date: 9 Oct 1996 12:21:23 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: inet Message-ID: <jray-0910960824290001@hh264b.ag.ohio-state.edu> Hello, We just went from 32MB to 80MB RAM on our Intel server machine. Rebooting OS 4.0 worked fine - it recognized the memory, and all appeared well. Except it never brought up the login screen. Everything appeared to be working (remotely) - but when I tried (blindly) to login at the console, the machine froze, and a pixel high line of garbage graphics appeared. Any thoughts? Thanks, John
From: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sound blaster question? Date: 9 Oct 1996 14:13:06 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <53gbti$7r2@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1996Oct9.065424.29877@seer.demon.co.uk> Get the latest version of EISABus.pkg for your NS/OS version, the one for NS (3.3) is version 3.35 (quite new!!!) and your PnP trouble will be over (as far as I can tell) for not too complicated PnP-cards. Get the latest SoundBlaster16 package from NeXTanswers to get rid of SB16-problems (version 3.34). Runs at least for SB16PnP and AWE32PnP, does support 16bit DMA for these, too, and didn't give me any trouble. Cheers to the person at NeXT who finally had mercy with us. I had no more sound-starting problems after installing those drivers. And I managed to drive my AWE32PnP beforehand with 16bit DMA, too but it sometimes/often wouldn't start the first time I called an app. The previous version of the SB16-driver wasn't all too clever, the person doing it seemed to lack some insights, and the old EISA package obviously was poor in handling PnP, but the new combination runs like a charm and, I'm sure, solves most problems. 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: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,gnu.gcc.help Subject: Failed build for gcc 2.7.2.1 on NeXT Date: 9 Oct 1996 14:08:29 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <53gbkt$5t8@lynx.unm.edu> I'm working on building gcc 2.7.2.1 on a NeXT running OpenStep (NS4.0). The first part of the build seems to be working fine (make LANGUAGES=c). The make stage1 portion works as well, or appears to. When I start the next part of the build: make CC="stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/" CFLAGS="-g -O2" the process stops with an sh bus error, has anyone seen this behavior? I had a copy of gcc 2.7.2 on this system that was not working (add gotten munged after a disk crash and two OS upgrades). Any insight would be appreciated. Below is the point in the build where things stop: stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -o genattr genattr.o rtl.o ` case "obstack.o" in ?*) echo obstack.o ;; esac ` ` case "stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/"@"" in "CC -traditional-cpp"@?*) echo ;; esac ` ` case "" in ?*) echo ;; esac ` ld: warning archive library: stage1/libgcc.a appears after reference to dynamic shared library and will be searched as a dynamic shared library ./genattr config/m68k/m68k.md > tmp-attr.h sh: 9320 Bus error *** Exit 138 Stop. -- "Now my life is better than an ABBA song" - Muriel, "Muriel's Wedding" Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, Textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: harrap@rockcube.geol.queensu.ca (Rob Harrap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Print to NS from Win95 Date: 9 Oct 1996 14:14:41 GMT Organization: Queen's University, Kingston Message-ID: <53gc0h$ii3@knot.queensu.ca> Keywords: Win95 NeXTstep printers Hi! I'd like to be able to print to my old black NeXT printer from a Win95 machine on the network. How do I go about doing this? We use Samba for something similar elsewhere, but I was hoping that there was a simpler solution? Thanks for any advice, Rob Harrap harrap@geol.queensu.ca Queen's Geological Sciences
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [HELP] Add memory (intel) and screen goes black?! Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:20:36 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: inet Message-ID: <smKw=4200UhBE1ip0a@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <jray-0910960824290001@hh264b.ag.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <jray-0910960824290001@hh264b.ag.ohio-state.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 9-Oct-96 [HELP] Add memory (intel) a.. by John Ray@bigmac.ag.ohio- > We just went from 32MB to 80MB RAM on our Intel server machine. Rebooting > OS 4.0 worked fine - it recognized the memory, and all appeared well. Except > it never brought up the login screen. Everything appeared to be working > (remotely) - but when I tried (blindly) to login at the console, the machine > froze, and a pixel high line of garbage graphics appeared. Your video card almost certainly has a framebuffer mapped into the system's memory space-- either at 32MB or 64MB. When you added memory, it occupied the same space that the video card's framebuffer does, causing a conflict. You should be able to use Configure.app to remap where the framebuffer is located (although you may have to take out the additional RAM temporarily). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: diederic.vlamings@inter.nl.net (NextOneWorld) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT laserprinter suddenly not configurable with NS 3.3 Cube? Date: 9 Oct 1996 17:06:40 GMT Organization: NLnet Message-ID: <53gm30$i0f@news.utrecht.NL.net> Org: NextOneWorld Hello, the reliability of NEXTSTEP is lost... is it? My NeXT 400 dpi LaserPrinter in not configurable anymore. Why?! This supposed to be the only hardware that is NOT plug-and-pray... SITUATION: I work with a local NeXT cube 030 system. I just added another user to my system with the UserManager.app and tried to print a document. My printer did not show up in the printer panel so I tried to create a new NeXT 400 dpi with the PrinterManager.app. The cursor kept spinning so I did a reboot. OH NO: The NeXT 400 dpi printer is now GREY in the list and when I try to create another type it comes up with the following alert panel: "NetInfo problem writing 'New_Printer' on local host. The NetInfoManager.app shows Printer is on port 515 and ID is 125. I copied the folder /usr/lib/NextPrinter from my 3.3 CD-ROM over the excisting version. No results. I've re-installed all the PPD files and tried everything logged in as ROOT. No results. I'm really disappointed. Can you tell me what (files) could be corrupted? Should I re-install NS 3.3 or can I copy some folder or file from the 3.3 CD to fix this problem? Please help me out here, I've payed -- ahum -- $3600 for this printer in 1992! -- Personal regards, (D) --- NextOneWorld ..EMAIL.. diederic.vlamings@inter.nl.net (NeXTmime) Diederic Vlamings : VOICE : 31(0)20-6869502 FAXOPHONE 31(0)20-6869502 ...................: SNAIL : P.O.Box 934, 1000AX Amsterdam Netherlands g u i d e & s i g n \!/.........................................
From: wimg@azuur.tn.tudelft.nl (Wim van Geloven) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sound blaster question? RESOLVED! Date: 9 Oct 1996 18:11:38 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics Message-ID: <53gpsq$rb3@cyber.tn.tudelft.nl> References: <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1996Oct9.065424.29877@seer.demon.co.uk> NextAnswers has released new versions of their EISAdriver and Soundblaster driver (see respectively NA2061 and NA2142). These resolve all previous problems with PNP cards. Wim van Geloven Delft University of Technology
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: sound blaster question? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961009131526.1202AAFcI.magnus@darwin> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1996Oct9.065424.29877@seer.demon.co.uk> <53gbti$7r2@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:15:26 GMT >From: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)>Subject: Re: sound blaster question? >Date: 9 Oct 1996 14:13:06 GMT >Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > >Get the latest version of EISABus.pkg for your NS/OS version, the one >for NS (3.3) is version 3.35 (quite new!!!) and your PnP trouble will >be over (as far as I can tell) for not too complicated PnP-cards. > >Get the latest SoundBlaster16 package from NeXTanswers to get rid >of SB16-problems (version 3.34). Runs at least for SB16PnP and AWE32PnP, >does support 16bit DMA for these, too, and didn't give me any trouble. >Cheers to the person at NeXT who finally had mercy with us. Does anyone know if these are newer than the drivers that come with 4.0? That SoundBlaster16 driver certainly leaves a lot to be desired. -Magnus --- Magnus Nordborg Department of Ecology & Evolution The University of Chicago 1101 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637-1573 USA magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME) +1.312.702-1093 phone (lab) +1.312.667-5331 phone (home) +1.312.702-9740 fax
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pentium Pro / OpenStep panics (perhaps PPP related) Date: 9 Oct 1996 17:54:08 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <53gos0$lk5@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <53aip5$nnl@nntp1.best.com> cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) writes: There are problems with PPP 2.2 which will cause kernel panics under certain circumstances... but these are all rel;ated to UDP traffic as far as I recall. TCP should work fine. > moderate to heavy PPP traffic (for instance bringing up any graphics intensive > page via OmniWeb is almost guaranteed to panic the system.) The exact same PPP Hmm... now that is more like it... the new OmniWeb (i.e 2.0) crashes a lot when it uses threads to run lots of things in parallel. As it tries to download several ikmages in parallel then this may well be your problem. -bat.
From: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch (Philip Moetteli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: 3COM and Mach64 Problems!!! Date: 9 Oct 1996 08:57:25 GMT Organization: ICU - Informatik Club der Uni Zuerich Message-ID: <53fpdl$2fb@news.eunet.ch> Hi I need help: I have an AST Bravo MS P/100 here and I want to install OpenStep on it. I have 2 Problems: 1. The problem is, that the video adapter (ATI Mach64 on Board) has only 1MB RAM. And there are only drivers for 2 and 4 MBs. 2. There is a 3COM EtherLink III adapter. But it's on the PCI bus. And for this, there is again no driver. Are there any workarounds for this problem or is there a driver I don't know of? Does anybody know, if there will be a driver for the EtherLink on PCI? When? Please help. Thanks Phil
From: Masaharu Fukuyama <masa@alcatraz.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Go into ROM Monitor Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 12:54:06 -0700 Organization: VE Information Systems, Inc. (ALCATRAZ Network) Message-ID: <325C02DC.3DF7@alcatraz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: comp.sys.next.hardware I've just got 5 NeXTstation TurboColor(ADB) and a Cube040/25(Non-ADB). I can go to ROM Monitor with Command+~ on Cube, but Not on any of TurboColor. Is there anyway I can go into ROM Monitor on TurboColor? -- Masaharu Fukuyama VE Information Systems, Inc. 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 160 Los Angeles, CA 90025 310/446-2021 310/446-1921 (Facsimile) masa@alcatraz.net http://www.alcatraz.net
From: labuser@csus.edu (Lab Station) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INTERNET SURVEY-THESIS PROJECT Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 21:08:10 -0800 Organization: CSU, Sacramento Message-ID: <labuser-0810962108110001@mac-05.skylab.csus.edu> Internet Questionnaire What if a hacker altered your credit reports making it impossible to get a loan? What if a hacker changed your driving records? Altering a persons file will cause an ordeal that no one wants to go through. Plus, it can take several years to restore one's good name once a file has been changed, maliciously. In this day of computerization, data security is more important than ever to prevent events like this from happening. For ethical and economical reasons, this question is of vital importance for everyone. For my master's thesis on information security on the Internet, I am seeking opinions from information systems professionals. So the study will be complete and authoritative, please take five minutes to complete this questionnaire and return it via e-mail. Indicate your responses by placing check marks above the underscores. All responses will remain confidential and reported in summary format. I will not sell, trade, or lend the list of respondents to any other organization. To receive a summary of my findings, please return your survey to me by November 8th. I appreciate your help and am eager to share with you my findings of security on the Web. Suggestions: E-mail: Select All the contents of this survey, then Paste into e-mail editor, select appropriate answers, then send to ekouri@csus.edu Fax: (916) 657-6757 Attn: Dr. Russell Ching Mail: Dr. Russell Ching School of Business Administration California State University of Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, Ca 95819-6088 Organization type? ___Education ___Government ___Commercial ___Military Your working title: Electronic mail address (optional): Your education level? ___A.A. ___B.S. ___M.S. ___Ph.D. Are you concerned about the security of your computer systems and networks? not concerned ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very concerned To your knowledge, have your computer systems or networks ever been compromised by an intruder? ___Yes ___No ___No comment ___I don't know If intruders did break in, would you admit it? ___Yes ___No ___I wouldn't know Which security offenders are you most afraid of? ___Hackers___Industrial Espionage___Disgruntled Employees___I Don't know In general terms, describe the security precautions your organization has taken (check all that apply) ___Few or none ___Lecture users about passwords ___Installed security-related OS patches ___Used SATAN or COPS ___Use a Firewall ___Encryption ___Smart Cards ___Monitoring and Logging ___Not connected to the Internet ___Other: Describe your organization's baseline data security paranoia level: not concerned ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very concerned Do you feel setting up a taskforce to actively pursuit hackers is a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Is a national CIO in charge of administrating the Internet a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Is a governmental agency issuing guidelines and standards of how to ensure secure transactions over the Internet a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel that a centralized agency can effectively manage the Internet's growth and security? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel publicity overrates security issues regarding the Internet? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Are government workshops regarding network and information security offered to businesses at low costs a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Are governmental ratings of a companies' Internet security presented to the general public a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel tax write-offs or tax breaks for the purchase of data security equipment or software would help improve security? no effect ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much To what degree do you feel a lack of standards such as Encryption, Protocols, Firewalls, and Digital Signatures hurts commerce on the Internet? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much If there was a governing body overseeing these functions as stated in the previous question and standardizing them, do you think commerce would increase? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel government regulation of the Internet will help commerce? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Would you be more confident in the Internet if the government was accountable for data security? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Will government regulation increase information security? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much If so, how much power should the government have to enforce its policies? none ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much If government does increase security and commerce are you willing to have your operations regulated in order to do business? ___Yes ___No ___I don't know Do you feel government administration of the Internet would cost the government too much money? Yes ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ No In your opinion: What would be the best way to increase information security over the Internet?
From: Masaharu Fukuyama <masa@alcatraz.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Seagate ST410800N 9GB Drive in Cube Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 12:58:48 -0700 Organization: VE Information Systems, Inc. (ALCATRAZ Network) Message-ID: <325C03F5.4556@alcatraz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: comp.sys.next.hardware Is there anyway to make Seagate ST410800N 9GB drive as bootdisk? I could make new disktab entry and initialize with 5 partitions, but when I try to install OS on that, this drive is alway recognize as 460MB drive. If it can't be, what the max drive size to be a installer recognizable bootdisk? -- Masaharu Fukuyama VE Information Systems, Inc. 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 160 Los Angeles, CA 90025 310/446-2021 310/446-1921 (Facsimile) masa@alcatraz.net http://www.alcatraz.net
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [HELP] Add memory (intel) and screen goes black?! Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 22:06:00 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <53h7sm$cvj@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <jray-0910960824290001@hh264b.ag.ohio-state.edu> jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) wrote: > We just went from 32MB to 80MB RAM on our Intel server machine. Rebooting >OS 4.0 worked fine - it recognized the memory, and all appeared well. Except >it never brought up the login screen. Everything appeared to be working >(remotely) - but when I tried (blindly) to login at the console, the machine >froze, and a pixel high line of garbage graphics appeared. The odds are that your video card's memory aperature (the address range in which the framebuffer memory appears) is located in a range that overlaps with your machine's new memory. (Most machines shipped before early 1995 can't recognize memory addresses past 64 Mb, so video cards which support memory mapping video memory often default to placing that memory below 64 Mb) You can fix this by changing the location of the memory aperature to an address past 80 Mb (preferably WELL past...). The easiest way to do this is to reboot the machine, and at the text boot prompt, type in the option 'config=Default'. boot: config=Default This should boot your machine with the VGA video driver, which won't use the video memory aperature. With a bit of luck, the machine will come up with the normal 2 bit gray 640x480 video display. You can then log in as root, launch /NextAdmin/Configure.app, select Display, and change the memory aperature address using the Memory Address field. Note that if you can't boot your machine using 'config=Default', then the video hardware may have the memory aperature always enabled. In this case, you'll have to pull out the extra memory and reboot. Change the memeory aperature address, reboot to make sure everything still works, then shut down the machine and re-install the memory. Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: kinau@shadow.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't compile TCP wrapper Date: 7 Oct 1996 22:32:40 GMT Organization: California State University, Fresno Message-ID: <53c0e8$4ui@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi Folks, I can't compile TCP wrapper for NeXT black hardware. I get following message: make[1]: Entering directory `/private/Net/math/Users/kinau/tcp_wrappers_7.4' cc -O -DFACILITY=LOG_MAIL -DHOSTS_ACCESS -DPARANOID -DNETGROUP -DGETPEERN AME_BUG -DBROKEN_FGETS -DLIBC_CALLS_STRTOK -DDAEMON_UMASK=022 -DREAL_DAEMON_DI R=\"/usr/local/adm\" -DSEVERITY=LOG_INFO -DRFC931_TIMEOUT=10 -DHOSTS_DE NY=\"/etc/hosts.deny\" -DHOSTS_ALLOW=\"/etc/hosts.allow\" -Dvsyslog=myvsyslog -DALWAYS_HOSTNAME -o tcpdmatch tcpdmatch.o fakelog.o inetcf.o scaffold.o libwrap.a -m68040 ld: multiple definitions of symbol _closelog fakelog.o definition of _closelog in section (__TEXT,__text) /lib/libsys_s.a(syslog.o) definition of absolute _closelog (value 0x50022a6) ld: multiple definitions of symbol _openlog fakelog.o definition of _openlog in section (__TEXT,__text) /lib/libsys_s.a(syslog.o) definition of absolute _openlog (value 0x5002bd0) ld: multiple definitions of symbol _syslog fakelog.o definition of _syslog in section (__TEXT,__text) /lib/libsys_s.a(syslog.o) definition of absolute _syslog (value 0x5003122) ld: multiple definitions of symbol _getenv libwrap.a(environ.o) definition of _getenv in section (__TEXT,__text) /lib/libsys_s.a(getenv.o) definition of absolute _getenv (value 0x50025d0) make[1]: *** [tcpdmatch] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/private/Net/math/Users/kinau/tcp_wrappers_7.4' make: *** [next] Error 2 Could anyone give some tips? Or, is there any ftp site I can download binary version TCP wrapper for NeXT? 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/ -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzJJkwEAAAEDAMHh5WMewwIXy3D7K46JeFkiFARiSpYu0osPy0gM7dkQqW28 ym7gMft0gAHC9fpvIQQ93BESamn6MuNt+f9yxhMSZX/UGX6LqG7jyEmTgWzyDLkw VxNkugSY/uDi7ZasOQAFEbQfS2luIEguIEF1IDxraW5hdUBjc3VmcmVzbm8uZWR1 Pg== =2ks8 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- ******************************************************************************
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: procmail 3.10 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:23:12 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010102123.5570A-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Has anybody successfully compiled procmail 3.10 with posix flag turned on? If i do so, the machine will hang at the locking file test 7. Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: kline@news.CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IDE sector damaged, how to recover? Date: 9 Oct 1996 16:00:41 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ Message-ID: <53haqp$3ot@cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU> I have an ide hard drive with ns 3.3 on it. It says there are 4 sectors unreadable in fsck. I didn't let fsck update the disk. It reported the same four sectors twice, when I ran it later. One of the sectors is probably the directory node of an important directory that when I try to look at I get "io errors" messages, and I can hear the drive seeking, and I can see the error messages in /usr/adm/messages. So what can I do to try to recover this sector? If I let fsck run, will it move the files in this directory to lost+found? I see that there are a few other files that can't be read on the disk, probably that's the other sectors. I tried looking at the sector every two minutes for a few hours, but that didn't work. thanks, nick
From: siren@pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reducing default 5 minute fax send retry time Date: 9 Oct 1996 18:05:39 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <53hb43$chg@surf.pangea.ca> When trying to send a fax to a busy phone line, the NeXT waits 5 minutes before trying again. This means the fax has almost no chance of getting through before the deadline (imposed by a monopoly org.) has passed and the fax gets thrown in the trash. I want to reduce this 5 minute interval to compete a bit more aggressively with other people trying to get thru. I looked for it in "dread" and "nidump" and elsewhere. No luck. Does anyone know how to change this value? If I send the faxes serveral times, then each instance is tried every five minutes, but there are several faxes, and it becomes difficult to tell which one(s) got thru. I am using NXFax1.04, Cube040, NS3.3, Zyxel6.01. Many thanks ... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
From: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange console message Date: 10 Oct 1996 01:43:56 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <53hkcs$mn2@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Got the following strange console message during a net connection (dialup over a 28.8 modem) on a TurboColorSlab running 3.2: mach: zs1: recv uart overrun What does this mean, any action needed to fix it? Thanks, JP -- Please respond as needed to: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com NeXTMail/MIME welcome
From: root@simtec.imr.mb.uni-siegen.de (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: disk problem Date: 10 Oct 1996 12:55:50 GMT Organization: Computer Center, University of Siegen, Germany Message-ID: <53irom$rhm@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> References: <3258EE4B.6366D2A4@tu-harburg.d400.de> Ludger Solbach <solbach@tu-harburg.d400.de> wrote: >symptom: >------- >For the system and "df" the harddisk looks like providing only 1020 M of disk- >space, while fdisk recognizes that the disk actuall got 2064 M. The partition >table displayed by fdisk contains zeros only. > >configuration: >------------- >system: NeXT Step 3.3 >adaptor and driver: Adaptec 2940 with driver version 3.7 >disk: IBM DORS 32160 WA0A5U2F > >Any help is appreciated. If I remeber right, this also happened to me when adding a DORS 31260W to my OS 4.0/mach system. I typed disk -i /dev/rsd1a ..... ??? I thnik it reported something around 1000 MByte then i fdisk'ed it. then: disk -i /dev/rsd1h (yes 'h') and it seems to work.. just don't ask? bye Michael
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [HELP] Add memory (intel) and screen goes black?! Date: 10 Oct 1996 07:34:29 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Distribution: inet Message-ID: <vee3ezn9hoa.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <jray-0910960824290001@hh264b.ag.ohio-state.edu> <53h7sm$cvj@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-reply-to: mpaque@next.com's message of Wed, 09 Oct 1996 22:06:00 GMT In article <53h7sm$cvj@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>, mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) writes: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) wrote: > We just went from 32MB to 80MB RAM on our Intel server machine. >Rebooting OS 4.0 worked fine - it recognized the memory, and all >appeared well. Except it never brought up the login screen. >Everything appeared to be working (remotely) - but when I tried >(blindly) to login at the console, the machine froze, and a pixel >high line of garbage graphics appeared. The odds are that your video card's memory aperature (the address range in which the framebuffer memory appears) is located in a range that overlaps with your machine's new memory. ... Note that if you can't boot your machine using 'config=Default', then the video hardware may have the memory aperature always enabled. In this case, you'll have to pull out the extra memory and reboot. Change the memeory aperature address, reboot to make sure everything still works, then shut down the machine and re-install the memory. Since I'm hoping to have this problem Real Soon Now, does it work if you boot with something like "sd()mach_kernel maxmem=32768"? Or does the RAM override the video when the driver goes to access things? 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: jobs@globalobjects.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: US - GA - OO developers needed: WebObjects, NextStep, Objective-C, EOF, Java, Web, Smalltalk, C++ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:44:07 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <325cef3c.1553554@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Global Objects is a professional software service company that focuses in providing quality solutions through object technology. We specialize in object modelling, Web, Java, NextStep, Smalltalk, and C++ projects in various domains including telecommunications, petroleum, transportation and environmental services. We also provide quality courses on object technology including Java, design patterns, frameworks, object oriented analysis and design, and software development methodologies. We are experiencing rapid growth and are looking for highly candidates, senior and junior ones. Work with a team of work with a team of world-class object developers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions on the Web. Get hands-on-training on exciting new technologies such as WebObjects, Java and electronic commerce. Requirements are as follows: Experience in at least one of the following area (prefer industry experience but will consider strong academic experience): * NextStep / WebObjects / EOF / Objective-C * Java * Any other Web development environment (Cold Fusion, Sapphire, etc.) * Smalltalk * C++ or any other OO language Unix experience helpful. For immediate consideration, please e-mail your resume (preferrably in Word format or in ASCII) to jobs@globalobjects.com or fax it to 770.457.7333. Please include the following information: * availability * for full-time employment, pls specify salary history * for contract employment, pls specify rate
From: dwy@visi.com (David Young) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: GCC on a NeXT Followup-To: gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Date: 10 Oct 1996 14:28:15 GMT Organization: Intellitech Corporation Message-ID: <53j15v$eke@alice.walrus.com> References: <32595006.6EBA@internet1.net> Matthew Hagerty (matthew@internet1.net) wrote: : eer-next1:# ./configure --build=m68k-next-mach3.2 : Configuration m68k-next-mach3.2 not supported : : eer-next1:# ./configure --build=m68k-next-mach : Configuration m68k-next-mach not supported You can probably compile uname from the GNU (bin?)utils. Don't know if this will make gcc get the hosttype. I vaguely remember something like m68k-next-nextstep.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bouncing mail to unaliased host over PPP connection Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:20:15 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961009221651.20192B-100000@kira> References: <53dvpe$5p2@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <ukvu3s5s4b4.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu In-Reply-To: <ukvu3s5s4b4.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> If the problem you are having is NeXTMail, you can check the headers for the presence of the a NeXTMail header and send it to a special mailbox or do some other special thing with it, using the mail sorting program 'procmail' :0 *^Next-Attachment: nextmail That recipe will match any NeXTMail message and file it in the folder 'nextmail' TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange console message Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:33:23 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961009223142.20192E-100000@kira> References: <53hkcs$mn2@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com In-Reply-To: <53hkcs$mn2@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Strange console message > > Got the following strange console message during a net connection (dialup > over a 28.8 modem) on a TurboColorSlab running 3.2: > > mach: zs1: recv uart overrun > > What does this mean, any action needed to fix it? Are you trying to run the serial port at 57600? 38400 is really the top speed. The overruns can panic your system, or at least they seem to have done that to mine TjL
From: mrothste@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Mont Egan Rothstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [HELP] Add memory (intel) and screen goes black?! Date: 10 Oct 1996 08:59:27 -0700 Organization: California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo Distribution: inet Message-ID: <53j6gv$r8m@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> References: <jray-0910960824290001@hh264b.ag.ohio-state.edu> <smKw=4200UhBE1ip0a@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <smKw=4200UhBE1ip0a@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 9-Oct-96 [HELP] Add memory >(intel) a.. by John Ray@bigmac.ag.ohio- >> We just went from 32MB to 80MB RAM on our Intel server machine. Rebooting >> OS 4.0 worked fine - it recognized the memory, and all appeared well. Except >> it never brought up the login screen. Everything appeared to be working >> (remotely) - but when I tried (blindly) to login at the console, the machine >> froze, and a pixel high line of garbage graphics appeared. > >Your video card almost certainly has a framebuffer mapped into the >system's memory space-- either at 32MB or 64MB. When you added memory, >it occupied the same space that the video card's framebuffer does, >causing a conflict. > >You should be able to use Configure.app to remap where the framebuffer >is located (although you may have to take out the additional RAM >temporarily). > >-Chuck Let me guess, you have a diamond stealth PCI video card? The exact problem is that the driver for this card by default maps the VRAM to start at 60MB. Start your machine with config=Default as the boot paramater. This will bring you up in 640x480 mode. Then in Configure.app on the Display Devices page change the Mapped Memory to 0x7C000000, this will put your VRAM at the outter limits of your addressable memory space where it should be. I hope you didn't go through as much pain with this as I did. -Mont
From: kruger@cptca.neep.wisc.edu (Scott Kruger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TrackBall for NeXTStation Date: 10 Oct 1996 15:55:37 GMT Organization: The unconfigured xvnews people Message-ID: <53j69p$1vg4@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <Dyv6BE.897@novice.uwaterloo.ca> > > If you get a PC *BUS* mouse (not PS/2, not serial) you can buy an adapter >from computerActive (URL available on Stepwise) for about $8 that will let you >plug it in. Works well. > Couldn't find the link to computerActive. Anyone know where it is? Scott -- ******************************************************************** * Scott Kruger Engineering Research Bldg * * Center for Plasma 1500 Engineering Drive * * Theory and Computation Madison, WI 53706 * * http:/www.cptc.wisc.edu/~kruger/ Phone: (608) 263-0812 * * kruger@cptc.wisc.edu Fax: (608) 262-6707 * ********************************************************************
From: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom Hageman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GCC on a NeXT Message-ID: <9610091959.AA02124@basil.icce.rug.nl> Date: 9 Oct 96 19:59:02 GMT Sender: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Warty Wolfs In article <8mKh18O00Uzx02mnoR@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.programmer: 7-Oct-96 GCC on a NeXT > by Matthew Hagerty@internet > > I am trying to compile gcc 2.7.2 on a NeXTstationTC (pizza box 68040) > > running NeXTStep 3.2 and was wondering what I should use for the machine > > type? Reading the docs indicate that NeXT, m68K, and Mach are all > > supported, but this is what I get when I try to run configure: > > > > eer-next1:# cd /usr/local/gcc-2.7.2.1 > > eer-next1:# ./configure > > Config.guess failed to determine the host type. You need to specify > > one. > > That's surprising-- configure has always managed to ID a NEXTSTEP system > as far as I can remember. In the absence of an `uname' command on NEXTSTEP, config.guess resorts to compiling a test program in order to determine the host type. So I imagine it _does_ fail on a non-developer system. However, since Matthew tries to compile gcc, I tentatively assume he does indeed have the original NeXT (version of GNU) cc present on his system, or else his efforts are in vain anyway. If Matthew wishes to investigate further, he can try to run sh -x config.guess in order to see what's going on. > Anyway, the complete target name that you are looking for is > 'm68k-next-nextstep3', although just 'next' should work too. -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ftpd logging Date: 09 Oct 1996 20:24:25 +0200 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT Message-ID: <x7k9t0ngh2.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> References: <52nq6g$7a6@plains.nodak.edu> <53dglv$i6i@papoose.quick.com> In-reply-to: jq@papoose.quick.com's message of 8 Oct 1996 08:15:59 -0400 To: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Originator: uucp@nice.ethz.ch In article <53dglv$i6i@papoose.quick.com> jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) writes: > >kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages > It appears that the lone 'daemon' facility keyword is not implemented > correctly. Either change this to daemon.info or (if you want to keep > a separate log file for this information) add a line like: > > daemon.info /usr/adm/daemon.log > > The lone use of a facility is documented to work, but for some reason > is not working. where is this documented? It is not in syslogd(8). With the line from the original syslog.conf, messages with daemon facility and severity notice or greater are logged to /usr/adm/messages. You can seperate facilities by commas to select more than one facility, the final severity level will apply to all facilities enumerated. This feature is used in this line. Since ftpd seems to log at info level, you don't get any logging in the messages file with the default syslog.conf. 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: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sound blaster question? Date: 10 Oct 1996 08:39:37 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <53ico9$9ok@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1996Oct9.065424.29877@seer.demon.co.uk> <53gbti$7r2@sun3.uni-essen.de> <961009131526.1202AAFcI.magnus@darwin> magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu wrote: : Does anyone know if these are newer than the drivers that come with 4.0? : That SoundBlaster16 driver certainly leaves a lot to be desired. EISA package certainly as there are different packages for NS 3.3 and OS 4.x (let's assume 4.0 only!). The SB16 package is offically for NS 3.3 (according to package info), but is certainly newer than the OS 4.0 distribution (end of september or the like). 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: Sridhara Dasu <dasu@lavender.physics.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS problems Date: 10 Oct 1996 14:05:36 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <u5ybhe63nj.fsf@lavender.physics.wisc.edu> I just setup a NetINFO domain with two machines phys-next1 (server) and phys-next4 (client). It seems to work fine. I then exported disks from to phys-next1 to phys-next4 using NFS manager. dasu@phys-next1% nidump hosts / 128.104.235.51 phys-next1 mailhost 128.104.235.54 phys-next4 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost dasu@phys-next1% nidump exports . /499 -access=phys-next4,root=phys-next4,anon=-1 /lab -access=phys-next4,root=phys-next4,anon=-1 /vol1 -access=phys-next4,root=phys-next4,anon=-1 dasu@phys-next1% nidump fstab / phys-next1:/499 /Net nfs bg,intr,net 0 0 phys-next1:/lab /Net nfs bg,intr,net 0 0 phys-next1:/vol1 /Net nfs bg,intr,net 0 0 The export seems to work fine at boot time. I can use it for a few minutes on phys-next4 and then the server hangs. The user home directories are on /499, therefore, I need to get this to work. What is worse is that I cannot shut down phys-next1 cleanly anymore. I have to go to NMI and then to boot monitor to shutdown and restart phys-next1. Reboot then does fsck. This is a slow process to debug! I made sure that the time server is running on phys-next1 and that phys-next4 is using network time. "date" seems to indicate that the times are set correctly. What are the other things I need to check? What are the tools available to do this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sridhara Rao Dasu 1150 University Avenue Assistant Scientist Madison, WI 53706 ZEUS and CMS Groups Department of Physics 608-265-3043 (Phone) University of Wisconsin 608-263-0800 ( Fax )
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange console message Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:06:10 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8mLHgG_00Uzx026Mdp@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <53hkcs$mn2@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <53hkcs$mn2@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Oct-96 Strange console message by jpmeia@ix.netcom.com > Got the following strange console message during a net connection (dialup > over a 28.8 modem) on a TurboColorSlab running 3.2: > > mach: zs1: recv uart overrun > > What does this mean, any action needed to fix it? From 'man zs': The 8530 receiver silo overflowed before it could be serviced. It means that the Zilog 8530 SCC that is the UART chip in NeXT's hardware recieved data too rapidly for the computer to deal with it. You should be using a cable with hardware flow control, and you should consider connecting via the serial port at a lower speed (try 38400 or 19200). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: napplega@freenet.vcu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: 10 Oct 1996 21:03:49 -0400 Organization: Central Virginia's Free-Net Distribution: world Message-ID: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> Hello! I'm a NeXT "newbie" so go easy on me...! Q: I seem to have installed NS3.3 Intel correctly on a Dell Pentium box but two things are wrong: 1. It never askes me for a login prompt so that I may have Root access to use the configure.app 2. When i try to logout as "me" I still can't get some kind of login prompt; it goes right back to the GUI environment. Any help is MUCH appreciated! Thanks! Nick A. -- Nicholas C. Applegate - Network Administrator/General PC Flunky Virginia Department of Health (My opinions only, Not VDH. Otay? Otay!) "What? ANOTHER computer??" - my loving wife "Daddy, I tant to check my knee-mail." - my 2 1/2 year old son
From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TrackBall for NeXTStation Date: 11 Oct 1996 02:20:59 GMT Organization: CADVision Development Corp. Message-ID: <53kaub$2k24@elmo.cadvision.com> On 10/10/96, Scott Kruger composed a News article about Re: TrackBall for NeXTStation: ~> ~> If you get a PC *BUS* mouse (not PS/2, not serial) you can buy an adapter ~>from computerActive (URL available on Stepwise) for about $8 that will let you ~>plug it in. Works well. ~> ~ ~Couldn't find the link to computerActive. Anyone know where it is? ~ ~Scott would you believe.... http://www.computeractive.com/ -- Bill Scollard - Scollard Holdings Ltd. Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave Calgary, Alberta, Canada
From: darla@vtex.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT TeX and amstex. Date: 11 Oct 1996 02:48:12 GMT Organization: exodus communications, inc. Message-ID: <53kchc$6jd@ultra.exodus.net> Hi all, I am using NeXTTeX with latex2e installed. I use the amstex package. The funny thing is when I am typing the \hbar symbol, the dvi viewer in NeXTTeX does not display this character. It just has a block in its place. However I do get the symbol correctly in the postscript file. My question is, how do I get it to show in the DVI file as well. Also, the fonts that appear in NeXTTeX dvi display is too jagged. Any ways to get it looking better? Thanks very much. Sean. NeXTMail welcome.
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: problem with harddisk not mounting Date: 10 Oct 1996 17:01:11 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <53ja4n$t08@news.tamu.edu> I have a NEXTSTEP harddisk that will not mount. It doesn't even give any message. When I do a fsck it gives an error that blocks 120, 121, 122 cannot be read and quits. Is there anyway to get it to just loose that data and mount it with the rest of the harddrive? Stpehen Johnson
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: #9 Imagine 128 Series II Date: 11 Oct 1996 02:46:34 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <53kcea$qo0@news.cais.com> Any word on NS driver availability for the new #9 Imagine 128 Series 2 graphics card? Does the current #9 Imagine 128 Series 1 driver work with that card? Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant -- Robert La Ferla Registered NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant HTI Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GCC on a NeXT Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 00:13:22 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <omLQZWO00UhW437NtS@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <9610091959.AA02124@basil.icce.rug.nl> In-Reply-To: <9610091959.AA02124@basil.icce.rug.nl> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Oct-96 Re: GCC on a NeXT by Tom Hageman@basil.icce.r >>> Config.guess failed to determine the host type. You need to specify >>> one. >> >> That's surprising-- configure has always managed to ID a NEXTSTEP system >> as far as I can remember. > > In the absence of an `uname' command on NEXTSTEP, config.guess resorts to > compiling a test program in order to determine the host type. The last time I checked, configure looked for /NextApps, and then used the output of 'hostinfo' as grep fodder. > So I imagine it _does_ fail on a non-developer system. It's a moot point: you cannot compile anything on a non-developer system, because non-developer systems lack any header files or system libraries. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 00:17:48 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4mLQdgG00UhW837Qpd@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> In-Reply-To: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Oct-96 How to get ROOT acess to us.. by napplega@freenet.vcu.edu > I'm a NeXT "newbie" so go easy on me...! > Q: I seem to have installed NS3.3 Intel correctly on a Dell > Pentium box but two things are wrong: > 1. It never askes me for a login prompt so that I may > have Root access to use the configure.app > 2. When i try to logout as "me" I still can't get some > kind of login prompt; it goes right back to the GUI environment. The easiest way of solving this is to give a password to the 'me' account via Preferences.app or executing 'passwd' from a Terminal window. Alternatively, if you hold down both mouse buttons (actually, I believe you only need to hold down the left mouse button, but holding down both works :-) when logging out, the system will present you with a LoginWindow that you can log in as root. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 00:16:15 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Distribution: world Message-ID: <distler-1110960016160001@slip-97-16.ots.utexas.edu> References: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> In article <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu>, napplega@freenet.vcu.edu wrote: >Hello! > >I'm a NeXT "newbie" so go easy on me...! >Q: I seem to have installed NS3.3 Intel correctly on a Dell >Pentium box but two things are wrong: > 1. It never askes me for a login prompt so that I may >have Root access to use the configure.app > 2. When i try to logout as "me" I still can't get some >kind of login prompt; it goes right back to the GUI environment. > >Any help is MUCH appreciated! Thanks! > Put simply, a newly-installed NS system has NO password either on the "me" or on the "root" account. This is bad. Go to the Preferences.app, choose the key thingamajig and assign "me" a password. Log out. Now you'll get a Login Window. Log in as "root" (no password required). Repeat the process, giving "root" a password. Now fire up Configure.app and do whatever it was you wanted to do. Jacques Distler
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT laserprinter suddenly not configurable with NS 3.3 Cube? Date: 10 Oct 1996 14:07:19 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <vee919e3d7s.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <53gm30$i0f@news.utrecht.NL.net> In-reply-to: diederic.vlamings@inter.nl.net's message of 9 Oct 1996 17:06:40 GMT In article <53gm30$i0f@news.utrecht.NL.net>, diederic.vlamings@inter.nl.net (NextOneWorld) writes: Please help me out here, I've payed -- ahum -- $3600 for this printer in 1992! Wow! I paid like $600 for mine two or three years ago :-). In any case, you almost certainly have some sort of NetInfo corruption. What action to take depends on whether you care about what's already there (in NetInfo) or not. If you want to salvage things, you could open /NextAdmin/NetInfoManager.app, and remove /printers/Local_Printer in the local NetInfo domain. Then you could reboot and try to use PrintManager again, and see if anything happens. More elaborate would be to boot single user and make some changes. At the very first "testing" screen when you turn the machine on (or reboot it), press Command-~, where ~ is the key in the upper left corner of the keypad. Then type "bsd -s" to boot single user. This boots you up as root, so beware! Once there, go to /etc and do something like "mv netinfo netinfo.bak". Then "cp -Rp /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo netinfo". This should give you a clean version of netinfo, with no users or anything in it. Then halt the system (run "halt"), and do "bsd" to reboot as normal. It should log in the "me" user automatically, just as if it was a fresh install. If you want to try to only affect the local or network database, you could go inside the /etc/netinfo directory and only nuke specific subdirectories. If you want to keep around all of your user info, you could use nidump to dump out fstab, hosts, passwd, etc, store the info in files somewhere safe, and then use niload to load them into the new netinfo database. Lastly, if none of this works ... well, back things up and reinstall NeXTSTEP, I guess. Better yet, buy a new hard drive in an external enclosure (they're pretty cheap these days), install NeXTSTEP on it, and only then copy files from the old drive to the new install. Then again, I'm _very_ paranoid (I backup to DAT, to another hard drive, and disconnect extra hard drives before doing an install JUST IN CASE). Good luck, -- 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: gj@rulgm4.LeidenUniv.nl (Geert Jan van Oldenborgh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BuildDisk on EZ135 problem Date: 11 Oct 1996 06:46:20 GMT Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands Message-ID: <53kqfs$22c@highway.leidenuniv.nl> I was impressed: my 3.2 system immediately recognized the EZ135, everything went fine until I tried to build a backup boot disk with BuildDisk. About halfway through copying the files it screams 'Build FAILED' and quits. The only clue I found in the console is Oct 11 07:32:31 ganesha mach: /private/tmp/BD099319: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME Oct 11 07:41:56 ganesha BuildDisk[210]: Attempt to remove unrecognized exception handler. It fails just after writing odmach & sdmach, at 46%, on both disks I tried it with. Of course my system is not plain vanilla 3.2 - I have an external disk, so a modified fstab & swaptab, among others. Any clues to the clueless? Is there any other way to make an emergency boot disk? (My internal 400M is shifting pitch in disquieting ways) Thanks in advance, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh -- G.J. van Oldenborgh Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University email: gj@lorentz.LeidenUniv.nl web: http://www-lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/gj/gj.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Frequent panics, please help Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010143942.779B-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:42:20 -0400 To: PPP for NS Mailing List <nextppp@chinx1.thoughtport.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've gotten several panics over the past few days, weeks, etc Many of them list this same error: "MMU invalid during table walk" Then there is a message about Mail.app catching signal #15 This _seems_ to be related to (ie happens the same time as) when my PPP link is being negotiated, although it is not every time I try to bring up PPP. I don't remember it happening at a time when PPP was not running or starting. TjL running NS 3.2(m68k)
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pentium Pro / OpenStep panics (perhaps PPP related) - solution! Date: 11 Oct 1996 09:06:19 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <53l2mb$8h3@nntp1.best.com> References: <53aip5$nnl@nntp1.best.com> <53gos0$lk5@netty.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <53gos0$lk5@netty.york.ac.uk> On 10/09/96, -bat. wrote: >cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) writes: > >There are problems with PPP 2.2 which will cause kernel panics under >certain circumstances... but these are all rel;ated to UDP traffic as >far as I recall. TCP should work fine. It turned out not to be a PPP problem after all... I replaced the Tyan Titan Pro Dual ATX motherboard with an Intel Venus ATX PPro motherboard and all the problems magically went away. See my post entitled "A Tale of Two Motherboards..." in comp.sys.next.hardware for full details and some interesting benchmarks. >> moderate to heavy PPP traffic (for instance bringing up any graphics intensive >> page via OmniWeb is almost guaranteed to panic the system.) The exact same >> PPP > >Hmm... now that is more like it... the new OmniWeb (i.e 2.0) crashes a lot >when it uses threads to run lots of things in parallel. As it tries >to download several ikmages in parallel then this may well be your >problem. OmniWeb 2.x may crash under certain circumstances (although the latest versions seem better than the initial 2.x release) but I've NEVER had it panic the system. >-bat. --
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ifconfig and routing Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:39:49 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <325E15E5.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a problem with setting up a notebook PC to work in two environments. The problem I have is that when I set the ifconfig to have an IP number then a default route is written. This route can not from my experience be removed. For example the route from netstat would be 192.54.41 192.54.41.132 U 39 321940 en0 No matter what I try I cannot remove this route. If anyone knows a command to remove this then please let me know. The problem is that I want depending on the results of some tests on the local network change the IP number with ifconfig and do not want this route to be present. How do other people setup notebooks to work at home and at work in two different IP ranges and still connect between the two with ppp? Thanks Dave -- --------------------------------------------------------------- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin From: erabe@fmgate1.kelly.af.mil (E.F. "Animal" Rabe) Subject: Re: problem with harddisk not mounting Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Dz2u60.HKA@sadis01.kelly.af.mil> Sender: news@sadis01.kelly.af.mil (0000-news(0000);;o) Organization: San Antonio Air Logistics Center/FMPS References: <53ja4n$t08@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 20:27:36 GMT In article <53ja4n$t08@news.tamu.edu>, stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu encountered the following... > >I have a NEXTSTEP harddisk that will not mount. It doesn't even give any >message. >When I do a fsck it gives an error that blocks 120, 121, 122 cannot be >read and quits. Is there anyway to get it to just loose that data and >mount it with the rest of the harddrive? > >Stpehen Johnson have you fsck'ed the raw device? I had some problems with a particular filesystem earlier this month, and fsck'ed /dev/rdsk/... gig 'em animal
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo problem Date: 10 Oct 1996 21:20:04 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Message-ID: <53jpa4$fl2@majipoor.cygnus.com> I keep getting the following message on my console monitor (NS FIP 3.3): Oct 10 14:08:46 arcadia syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Some how when I was installing the system (a Sparc 4) it created a domain with the same name as my hostname (arcadia), even though I didn't tell it to (or at least, I don't remember telling it to, and it hasn't happened with any other system I've installed NS on). Recently, when I was changing my IP addr, I told it to only use the local domain.. and ever since it's been giving me that message every 20 or 30 seconds. There is a /etc/netinfo/network.nidb directory, should I just remove that, or what? -- John "kzin" Rudd kzin@email.sjsu.edu http://icb.sjsu.edu/~kzin =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ "And, ironically, that's how the founding fathers expected it to work: either the government stays clean, or the people shoot them." -- ttk
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TrackBall for NeXTStation Date: 10 Oct 1996 21:04:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <53jod2$g9f@news.digifix.com> References: <Dyv6BE.897@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <53j69p$1vg4@news.doit.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <53j69p$1vg4@news.doit.wisc.edu> On 10/10/96, Scott Kruger wrote: >> >> If you get a PC *BUS* mouse (not PS/2, not serial) you can buy an adapter >>from computerActive (URL available on Stepwise) for about $8 that will let you >>plug it in. Works well. >> > >Couldn't find the link to computerActive. Anyone know where it is? > Their web is at www.computeractive.ca as I recall. It looks like their entry on the WebObjects version of the Stepwise database is missing though. Alot of company information was out of date on the old Stepwise, so when I converted to WebObjects I started from scratch. Everyone was asked to resubmit current information. If you haven't, you still can BTW.. There are only forms for doing that at http://www2.stepwise.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CompanyInfo -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: arunc@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (Arun Chandra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Compiling tcl/tk for NS3.1 and NS3.2 Date: 10 Oct 1996 21:30:59 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <53jpuj$nnf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <53b6jc$gmm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <53bjss$7s3@crcnis3.unl.edu> we figured out the problem. it was a subtle installation bug. the tcl library Makefile redefines the name of the "panic" function to "tcl_panic". this same redefinition is missing from the Makefile for tk, so, naturally, tk calls for "panic" and it's not found. it was solved by adding the proper redefinitions to the tk Makefile. thanks anyway, arun Rex Dieter (rdieter@math.unl.edu) wrote: : In article <53b6jc$gmm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> arunc@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (Arun : Chandra) writes: : > Why can't the linker find this symbol? : > gcc tkAppInit.o -L/disk2/XApps/tkl/tk4.1/unix -ltk4.1 \ : > -L/disk2/XApps/tkl/tcl7.5/unix -ltcl7.5 -L/usr/lib -lX11 -o wish : > ld: Undefined symbols: : > _panic : Perhaps this is the an orderring problem. Try putting the the -ltcl7.5 at : the VERY END of the link line (instead of the middle). : -- : Rex Dieter : Computer System Manager : Department of Mathematics and Statistics : University of Nebraska Lincoln -- Arun Chandra cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu
From: Dean_Reece@NeXT.com (Dean Reece) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sound blaster question? Date: 10 Oct 1996 19:54:00 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <53jk8o$cn4@news.next.com> References: <961009131526.1202AAFcI.magnus@darwin> > Does anyone know if these are newer than the drivers that come with 4.0? > That SoundBlaster16 driver certainly leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, these drivers are newer than the ones that shipped with 4.0, and are even newer than the ones that will ship with 4.1. With 4.x, use the beta EISA Bus driver #2269. An updated SB16 driver for 4.x will be released soon (its in QA now). A word of warning: NEVER install a 3.3 bus driver on 4.x or vise-versa. You may well make your machine unbootable. This is true to some extent for all NS drivers, but is particularly true of bus drivers. Cheers, - Dean magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu writes | >From: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) | >Subject: Re: sound blaster question? | >Date: 9 Oct 1996 14:13:06 GMT | >Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin | > | >Get the latest version of EISABus.pkg for your NS/OS version, the one | >for NS (3.3) is version 3.35 (quite new!!!) and your PnP trouble will | >be over (as far as I can tell) for not too complicated PnP-cards. | > | >Get the latest SoundBlaster16 package from NeXTanswers to get rid | >of SB16-problems (version 3.34). Runs at least for SB16PnP and AWE32PnP, | >does support 16bit DMA for these, too, and didn't give me any trouble. | >Cheers to the person at NeXT who finally had mercy with us. | | Does anyone know if these are newer than the drivers that come with 4.0? | That SoundBlaster16 driver certainly leaves a lot to be desired. | | -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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT TeX and amstex. Date: 11 Oct 1996 14:48:34 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <53lmo2$fbd@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <53kchc$6jd@ultra.exodus.net> In article <53kchc$6jd@ultra.exodus.net> darla@vtex.net writes: > Hi all, > > I am using NeXTTeX with latex2e installed. I use the amstex package. The > funny thing is when I am typing the \hbar symbol, the dvi viewer in NeXTTeX > does not display this character. It just has a block in its place. However > I do get the symbol correctly in the postscript file. My question is, how > do I get it to show in the DVI file as well. Also, the fonts that appear in > NeXTTeX dvi display is too jagged. Any ways to get it looking better? Looks like you need to fiddle with preferences and font generation. You probably have something like (checked) make scripts to generate fonts (not-checked) Generate fonts immediately psst... You want the second item checked...OR... Execute /LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts/pk/NeededFonts -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Go into ROM Monitor Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:59:05 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <53lnki$grd@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <325C02DC.3DF7@alcatraz.net> Masaharu Fukuyama <masa@alcatraz.net> wrote: >I've just got 5 NeXTstation TurboColor(ADB) and a Cube040/25(Non-ADB). >I can go to ROM Monitor with Command+~ on Cube, but Not on any of >TurboColor. Is there anyway I can go into ROM Monitor on TurboColor? Try holding down the Command bar, left ALT, and then pressing the tilde (~) key. If you are trying to hit this during boot, it's hard, and may take a few tries. Sometimes with the ADB keyboards it's easier to let the machine boot, and then halt it to get to the ROM monitor. Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sound blaster question? Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:13:16 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961011171125.8499A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <961009131526.1202AAFcI.magnus@darwin> <53jk8o$cn4@news.next.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <53jk8o$cn4@news.next.com> > > A word of warning: NEVER install a 3.3 bus driver on 4.x or vise-versa. > You may well make your machine unbootable. This is true to some extent for > all NS drivers, but is particularly true of bus drivers. > Ups! And how can anyone use 3.3 Developer to write drivers if they won't won't work under 4.x in certain circumstances? Which drivers can easily be developed under 3.3 and ported to 4.x then? Greetings, Bernhard.
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [HELP] Add memory (intel) and screen goes black?! Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:27:48 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <53lpad$grd@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <jray-0910960824290001@hh264b.ag.ohio-state.edu> <53h7sm$cvj@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> <vee3ezn9hoa.fsf@shell.one.net> shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) wrote: >Since I'm hoping to have this problem Real Soon Now, does it work if >you boot with something like "sd()mach_kernel maxmem=32768"? Or does >the RAM override the video when the driver goes to access things? No, you'll still have two pieces of hardware (the DRAM and VRAM) sharing the same physical address. This is usually less than reliable... Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961011121708.1962D-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:22:08 -0400 References: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> <4mLQdgG00UhW837Qpd@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4mLQdgG00UhW837Qpd@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Oct-96 How to get ROOT > acess to us.. by napplega@freenet.vcu.edu > > I'm a NeXT "newbie" so go easy on me...! > > Q: I seem to have installed NS3.3 Intel correctly on a Dell > > Pentium box but two things are wrong: > > 1. It never askes me for a login prompt so that I may > > have Root access to use the configure.app > > 2. When i try to logout as "me" I still can't get some > > kind of login prompt; it goes right back to the GUI environment. > > The easiest way of solving this is to give a password to the 'me' > account via Preferences.app or executing 'passwd' from a Terminal window. Well, I think the "easiest" way is to use /NextDeveloper/Demos/OpenSesame.app to open the Configure.app, because it saves you from having to add a password to the 'me' account if you want to use that, but in any case it allows you to access the app without having to login as root, you can just open the app you want. Of course, you could achieve the same thing in a Terminal window by su -c 'open /path/to/the/Configure.app' but who out there (besides me?) would choose a commandline way over a GUI way? > Alternatively, if you hold down both mouse buttons (actually, I believe > you only need to hold down the left mouse button, but holding down both > works :-) when logging out, the system will present you with a > LoginWindow that you can log in as root. On my 3.2m68k, even holding down just the right button will do it.... Options, options, options TjL, not really contributing anything much worthwhile...
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: 11 Oct 1996 16:55:53 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Distribution: world Message-ID: <53lu6p$760@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> Cc: napplega@freenet.vcu.edu In <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> napplega@freenet.vcu.edu wrote: > Hello! > > I'm a NeXT "newbie" so go easy on me...! > Q: I seem to have installed NS3.3 Intel correctly on a Dell > Pentium box but two things are wrong: > 1. It never askes me for a login prompt so that I may > have Root access to use the configure.app > 2. When i try to logout as "me" I still can't get some > kind of login prompt; it goes right back to the GUI environment. > > Any help is MUCH appreciated! Thanks! > > Nick A. > You need to set your password for the "me" account. You do this by double-clicking on the clock/calendar icon (Preferences.app) under the Next-Logo (upper right hand part of the screen). In there is an icon which looks like a pad-lock. Click on that, and it will have a dialog box for creating your password. Once "me" has a password, and you log out, it will always ask for login information. Important!!!!!!!! Do _NOT_ delete the "me" account. -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com ex-kzin@email.sjsu.edu =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ "And, ironically, that's how the founding fathers expected it to work: either the government stays clean, or the people shoot them." -- ttk
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: 11 Oct 1996 17:32:28 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <53m0bc$fnd@nntp1.best.com> References: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> <53lu6p$760@majipoor.cygnus.com> In-Reply-To: <53lu6p$760@majipoor.cygnus.com> On 10/11/96, John Rudd wrote: >You need to set your password for the "me" account. You do this by >double-clicking on the clock/calendar icon (Preferences.app) under the >Next-Logo (upper right hand part of the screen). In there is an icon which >looks like a pad-lock. Click on that, and it will have a dialog box for >creating your password. Once "me" has a password, and you log out, it will >always ask for login information. > >Important!!!!!!!! Do _NOT_ delete the "me" account. Uh why not? After I get my regular user and root accounts set up I always remove the "me" account.... (using UserManager.app of course). >-- >John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com ex-kzin@email.sjsu.edu >=========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ > "And, ironically, that's how the founding fathers expected it to work: > either the government stays clean, or the people shoot them." -- ttk --
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't compile TCP wrapper Date: 11 Oct 1996 12:08:32 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <53ldc0$h07@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <53c0e8$4ui@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Cc: kinau@shadow.csufresno.edu In <53c0e8$4ui@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Kin Hung Au wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I can't compile TCP wrapper for NeXT black hardware. I get following message: > > ld: multiple definitions of symbol _closelog > ... Add -m to the link options in the Makefile: -m Don't treat multiply defined symbols as a hard error; instead, simply print a warning. The first such symbol is used for linking; its value is used for the symbol in the symbol table. The other symbols by the same name may be used in the resulting output file through local references. This can still produce a resulting output file that is in error. This flag's use is strongly discouraged! . and do not mind the last sentence from the man page, sometimes you need a hammer to get the thing going... Version 7.4 of the TCP wrappers has a special 'NeXTish' section in the Makefile where you should uncomment a few options when compiling on NeXTSTEP. If you are in the process of hardening your system be sure to replace the old portmapper by a wrapped version, the one from ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/index.html (look for portmap.tar.gz) works fine (at least for me) and will make rpc attacks much harder if configured correctly. It needs the TCPWrapper 7.4 library to compile which is also available from above site. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: BuildDisk on EZ135 problem Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961011122302.1962E-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:33:14 -0400 References: <53kqfs$22c@highway.leidenuniv.nl> To: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh <gj@rulgm4.LeidenUniv.nl> In-Reply-To: <53kqfs$22c@highway.leidenuniv.nl> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > I was impressed: my 3.2 system immediately recognized the EZ135, Gotta love SCSI. > everything went fine until I tried to build a backup boot disk with > BuildDisk. About halfway through copying the files it screams > 'Build FAILED' and quits. The only clue I found in the console is Not that it helps, but I have run this on my EZ135 without any problem whatsoever. > Oct 11 07:32:31 ganesha mach: /private/tmp/BD099319: optimization changed from > SPACE to TIME This happened to me also, non fatal in my case... > Oct 11 07:41:56 ganesha BuildDisk[210]: Attempt to remove > unrecognized exception handler. Hmm.. This is the part that looks like it is trouble. > It fails just after writing odmach & sdmach, at 46%, on both disks I tried it > with. Of course my system is not plain vanilla 3.2 - I have an external disk, > so a modified fstab & swaptab, among others. I've got an external disk, a swapdisk, external CD-ROM.... I don't _think_ they are interfering... > Any clues to the clueless? Is there any other way to make an emergency boot > disk? (My internal 400M is shifting pitch in disquieting ways) Try reformatting the disk, see if that helps. You can make a very small (5 meg) bootable (single user mode) disk using the mkmagic script from NeXT. You can find this script at: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver/mkmagic.sh or send me a BLANK EMAIL (no body) with the SUBJECT send-ascii mkmagic.sh or send-mime mkmagic.sh NOTE: You must edit this script to point to the correct device for your EZ135 (it is set to use /dev/sd2a because that it was I use). That will at least provide you with something until you can get a real disk ready. TjL
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem with harddisk not mounting Date: 11 Oct 1996 19:12:52 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <53m67k$pds@news.tamu.edu> References: <Dz2u60.HKA@sadis01.kelly.af.mil> fsck'ing the raw device doesn't work either... ~:( and actually those number are for sectors not blocks. Stephen In article <Dz2u60.HKA@sadis01.kelly.af.mil> erabe@fmgate1.kelly.af.mil (E.F. "Animal" Rabe) writes: > In article <53ja4n$t08@news.tamu.edu>, stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu encountered the > following... > > > >I have a NEXTSTEP harddisk that will not mount. It doesn't even give any > >message. > >When I do a fsck it gives an error that blocks 120, 121, 122 cannot be > >read and quits. Is there anyway to get it to just loose that data and > >mount it with the rest of the harddrive? > > > >Stpehen Johnson > > have you fsck'ed the raw device? I had some problems with a particular > filesystem earlier this month, and fsck'ed /dev/rdsk/... > > gig 'em > > > animal
From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: 12 Oct 1996 03:59:59 GMT Organization: CADVision Development Corp. Message-ID: <53n53v$1k5s@elmo.cadvision.com> On 10/10/96, Jacques Distler composed a News article about Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app: ~In article <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu>, napplega@freenet.vcu.edu wrote: ~ ~Now fire up Configure.app and do whatever it was you wanted to do. ~ ~Jacques Distler ~ configure.app? what does that do...? When I went looking for it and double clicked on the directory entry only a screen shot with a big green question-mark showed up with a panel saying I could not execute the selected application bacause it was "damaged" (probably in one of my many system panics (note to Tjl...I use PPP too.)) Can anyone tell me : What is configure.app supposed to accomplish? (I thought I was pretty well configured already!) Can someone Next-mail me a copy (or is that not kosher?!?!) Thanks-even-if-no-relplies : its just great to be "here". -- Bill Scollard - Scollard Holdings Ltd. Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave Calgary, Alberta, Canada
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: 12 Oct 1996 04:46:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <53n7qn$q29@news.digifix.com> References: <53n53v$1k5s@elmo.cadvision.com> In-Reply-To: <53n53v$1k5s@elmo.cadvision.com> On 10/11/96, guzzibill wrote: >On 10/10/96, Jacques Distler composed a News article about Re: How to >get ROOT acess to use configure.app: >~In article <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu>, napplega@freenet.vcu.edu >wrote: >~ >~Now fire up Configure.app and do whatever it was you wanted to do. >~ >~Jacques Distler >~ >configure.app? what does that do...? When I went looking for it and >double clicked on the directory entry only a screen shot with a big >green question-mark showed up with a panel saying I could not execute >the selected application bacause it was "damaged" (probably in one of >my many system panics (note to Tjl...I use PPP too.)) > >Can anyone tell me : What is configure.app supposed to accomplish? (I >thought I was pretty well configured already!) >Can someone Next-mail me a copy (or is that not kosher?!?!) > Its an NEXTSTEP/Intel application (maybe Sun and HP too) Sounds like you are running black hardware, and maybe even an other 3.1. It would only be taking up space. > -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ROM: boot extended diagnostics Date: 10 Oct 1996 19:29:24 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <53jiqk$cj8@news.next.com> References: <199609260530.BAA05806@nerc3.nerc.com> 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? Old feature. The extended diagnostics were one of those things that never left the hardware lab. Using them and interpreting the results required studly hardware hacker skills beyond the ken of mortal man. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961012102518.2289F-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 10:27:39 -0400 References: <53n53v$1k5s@elmo.cadvision.com> To: guzzibill <scollarw@cadvision.com> In-Reply-To: <53n53v$1k5s@elmo.cadvision.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I believe it is something you would only use with non-NeXT hardware. Since you don't know what it is, I assume you have a NeXT machine, and therefore don't know and don't need the app. NeXT machines were only designed with a few options, so they were automatically "configured". Others, especially Intel machines, can be 10^5000 * 10^10000 different configurations, so you need an app to set things up properly. TjL
From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WWW Survey for all. Date: 12 Oct 1996 16:50:30 GMT Organization: CADVision Development Corp. Message-ID: <53oi8m$63g0@elmo.cadvision.com> I "lurk" this group regularly. Here's something applicable to all "Netizens". Check out the URL below with your favourite Web Browser. This year it is Java-enhanced, but for those like me "without" that capability, there are "regular" pages as well. www-survey.cc.gatech.edu results freely available to all. -- Bill Scollard - Scollard Holdings Ltd. Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave Calgary, Alberta, Canada
From: kline@news.CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Keymap wanted for ms keyboard Date: 12 Oct 1996 18:50:12 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ Message-ID: <53phsk$p9h@cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU> I'd like to have a keymap file for my MS natural keyboard. I can't really construct a good one with my 3.3 keyboard.app. At the bottom row of the keyboard, the keys are: Ctrl MSSymbol Alt [space] Alt MSSymbol MenuSymbol Ctrl So I'd like to make the ctrls be the ctrls, the MSSymbols be the command keys, and the alt be the alt. I can't seem to figure out what keys the MSSybmol keys and MenuSymbol keys are. It would be cool if you could remap the home, end, pageup, pagedown keys to work in both a terminal window, as well as on any scrolling window. thanks, nick
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem with harddisk not mounting Date: 13 Oct 1996 07:18:19 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <53q53r$id8@kanga.accessone.com> References: <Dz2u60.HKA@sadis01.kelly.af.mil> <53m67k$pds@news.tamu.edu> Cc: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu In <53m67k$pds@news.tamu.edu> Stephen Johnson wrote: > fsck'ing the raw device doesn't work either... > > >When I do a fsck it gives an error that blocks 120, 121, 122 cannot be > > >read and quits. Is there anyway to get it to just loose that data and > > >mount it with the rest of the harddrive? > > > > > >Stpehen Johnson Trying using reasb to reassign the bad blocks to your alternate blocks. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ftpd logging Date: 13 Oct 1996 07:10:50 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <53qinq$al0@papoose.quick.com> References: <52nq6g$7a6@plains.nodak.edu> <53dglv$i6i@papoose.quick.com> <x7k9t0ngh2.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch> In article <x7k9t0ngh2.fsf@chris-home.nice.ch>, Christian Limpach <chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> wrote: >In article <53dglv$i6i@papoose.quick.com> jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) writes: >> The lone use of a facility is documented to work, but for some reason >> is not working. > >where is this documented? It is not in syslogd(8). Well, don't I feel special! Apparently the syslogd man page documented it only for my brain - and only on the morning I made that post. . . Sorry, I misread the docs. The lone facility just logs at the crit severity level. Thanks for the correction, Christian. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get ROOT acess to use configure.app Date: 13 Oct 1996 07:24:25 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <53qjh9$an6@papoose.quick.com> References: <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu> In article <53k6dl$rrq@freenet.vcu.edu>, <napplega@freenet.vcu.edu> wrote: >Hello! > >I'm a NeXT "newbie" so go easy on me...! >Q: I seem to have installed NS3.3 Intel correctly on a Dell >Pentium box but two things are wrong: > 1. It never askes me for a login prompt so that I may >have Root access to use the configure.app > 2. When i try to logout as "me" I still can't get some >kind of login prompt; it goes right back to the GUI environment. > >Any help is MUCH appreciated! Thanks! 1. Double click on the clock which is on your dock. (This is Preferences.app). 2. From there, click on the Lock and Key icon (Security). Enter a password for the me account using this panel. 3. Log out. 4. You should now get a login prompt. Log in as root. Now set a password for the root account. From now on the system will behave as a multi-user system and you will be asked to log in. You will now be able to run Configure.app. At this time you should also create an account for yourself so you can stop using the me account. -- ___ ___ | 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: Scott Francis <franc027@gold.tc.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS with LILO and 3 SCSI drives Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:12:40 -0500 Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <32618578.6AED@gold.tc.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, Recently, I have been tearing my hair out trying to get LILO (Linux Loader) to boot 3 OS's on 3 scsi drives; my 3rd drive sdc contains NeXTSEP. I appear to have most of that working except for one little point and I can't determine if it is a LILO problem or a NeXTSTEP problem. The LILO prompt comes up - not relevant other than LILO appears to be doing what it is supposed to - and I type my label for NS. LILO says, "Loading NS" (A LILO message). I then get NeXTSTEP boot1 3.3.3.8 ( a message from NS), but it goes no futher. Boot2 never seems to get loaded. I suspect there is a problem reading the partition table, but I can't solve this. I can boot from the third drive fine when I disable the other two and reset fstab back to its original configuration. I re-installed boot0 with the disk command: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a just to make sure boot0 had not been corrupted. From what I can tell, my SCSI card, an Ultrastor 34F, is fully aware of sdc's presence I am befuddled. Any help would be wildly appreciated. -Scott p.s., LILO boots Win95 :| and Linux just fine on sda and sdb
From: trail@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Trestrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS with LILO and 3 SCSI drives Date: Sun, 13 Oct 96 14:25:37 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <53qtso$8qp@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <32618578.6AED@gold.tc.umn.edu> In article <32618578.6AED@gold.tc.umn.edu>, franc927@gold.tc.umn.edu wrote: >Hi All, > > Recently, I have been tearing my hair out trying to get LILO (Linux > Loader) to boot 3 OS's on 3 scsi drives; my 3rd drive sdc contains > NeXTSEP. I appear to have most of that working except for one little > point and I can't determine if it is a LILO problem or a NeXTSTEP > problem. > > The LILO prompt comes up - not relevant other than LILO appears to be > doing what it is supposed to - and I type my label for NS. LILO says, > "Loading NS" (A LILO message). I then get NeXTSTEP boot1 3.3.3.8 ( a > message from NS), but it goes no futher. Boot2 never seems to get > loaded. I suspect there is a problem reading the partition table, but >I can't solve this. I can boot from the third drive fine when I >disable the other two and reset fstab back to its original >configuration. > >I re-installed boot0 with the disk command: >disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a >just to make sure boot0 had not been corrupted. > >From what I can tell, my SCSI card, an Ultrastor 34F, is fully aware of >sdc's presence > > I am befuddled. Any help would be wildly appreciated. > Check the manual for your SCSI controller to see if it allows more than two disks to be bootable. My Adaptec 1542CF had a setting in the card's bios that had to be enabled to allow for more than two bootable disks. I think it involves backward compatibility with DOS. Regards, Jeff Trestrail trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: GCC on a NeXT Message-ID: <1996Oct12.172033.521@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Organization: Disorganization References: <53j15v$eke@alice.walrus.com> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 17:20:33 GMT In article <53j15v$eke@alice.walrus.com> dwy@visi.com (David Young) writes: > Matthew Hagerty (matthew@internet1.net) wrote: > : eer-next1:# ./configure --build=m68k-next-mach3.2 > : Configuration m68k-next-mach3.2 not supported > : > : eer-next1:# ./configure --build=m68k-next-mach > : Configuration m68k-next-mach not supported > > You can probably compile uname from the GNU (bin?)utils. > Don't know if this will make gcc get the hosttype. I vaguely remember > something like m68k-next-nextstep. > No need to compile. -------------------------- cut here ------------------------- #!/bin/sh # # uname # # Author: Jim Vlcek, ByteWare Consulting (uunet!molly!vlcek) 3 Dec 1993 # Tweaked-By: Larry Blische (lkba!lkb@uunet.uu.net) # # An attempt to implement a SysV-ish "uname" under NeXTStep 3.0 # # Options # # -s Print the operating system name # -n Print the node name (essentially, the hostname) # -v Print the operating system version # -r Print the operating system release # -p Print the host machine's processor type # -m Print the machine hardware name # -a Print all the above information # # Non-SysV options # # -i Print the host identification number (hostid) # if [ $# = 0 ] then system="NEXTSTEP " fi for arg do case $arg in -s) system="NEXTSTEP " ;; -n) node="`uuname -l` " ;; -r) release="`hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*NeXT Mach \([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p'` " ;; -m) mach="`hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*Processor type: \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'` " ;; -p) processor="`hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*Processor type: [^ ]* (\([^)]*\).*/\1/p'` " ;; -v) version="`tail -1 /usr/lib/NextStep/software_version` " ;; -i) hostid="`hostid` " ;; -a) exec $0 -s -n -v -r -p -m ;; *) echo $0: Usage: $0 [-asnvrpm] >&2 ; exit 1 ;; esac done echo $system$node$version$release$processor$mach$hostid | sed 's/ $//' -- ----- Thomas Funke ----------------------- thomas@gamelan.shnet.org ----- C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung
From: cracraft@ix.netcom.com (Stuart Cracraft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Perl/Expect system monitoring via beeper: http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 17:27:39 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <53r8lq$emh@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>
From: charlesa@netventures.co.uk (Charles Ashley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: virtual ip? Date: 13 Oct 1996 21:43:53 GMT Organization: MatriX Publishing Network Message-ID: <53rnqp$45a@nebula.mpn.com> Hi - If memory serves me correctly, someone posted a guide to Virtual IP (or multi-homed hosting) on NS 3.x Could someone please point me in the correct direction?? Thx, C. -- ========================================================================= Charles Ashley charlesa@netventures.co.uk tel.+44.171.603.1267 =========================================================================
From: root@despina.burgond.remcomp.com (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DNS nslookup vs. gethostbyname Date: 14 Oct 1996 02:47:41 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <53s9kd$mit@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Hello, I have this problem: I configured a DNS on my host. When I use nslookup to resolve a partial domain name, it works ok. When I use gethostbyname (via ping for example), it cannot resolve such partial domain name (but it can if I use full domain name). Looking at the traces from named, we can see that gethostbyname does not append the domain name to the host name it searches, and neither apply the algorithm described in man 7 hostname. Is there a problem with gethostbyname on NEXTSTEP 3.3, or with my configuration? __Pascal Bourguignon__ Example: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /hostent rogix.saubot.burgond gethostbyname error for host: rogix.saubot.burgond (Authoritative Answer Host not found) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WITH THE FOLLOWING TRACE FROM named: datagram from 204.247.223.129 port 3216, fd 5, len 38 req: nlookup(rogix.saubot.burgond) id 327 type=1 req: missed 'rogix.saubot.burgond' as '' (cname=0) forw: forw -> 192.112.36.4 5 (53) nsid=82 id=327 0ms retry 4 sec prime_cache: priming = 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # nslookup rogix.saubot.burgond Server: despina.burgond.remcomp.com Address: 204.247.223.129 res_mkquery(0, rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com, 1, 1) ------------ Got answer: HEADER: opcode = QUERY, id = 2, rcode = NOERROR header flags: response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion avail. questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, additional = 0 QUESTIONS: rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com, type = A, class = IN ------------ res_mkquery(0, rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com, 1, 1) ------------ Got answer: HEADER: opcode = QUERY, id = 3, rcode = NOERROR header flags: response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion avail. questions = 1, answers = 1, authority records = 0, additional = 0 QUESTIONS: rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com, type = A, class = IN ANSWERS: -> rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com internet address = 204.247.223.141 ttl = 86400 (1 day) ------------ Name: rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com Address: 204.247.223.141 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WITH THE FOLLOWING TRACE FROM named: datagram from 204.247.223.129 port 3214, fd 5, len 58 req: nlookup(rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com) id 2 type=1 req: found 'rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com' as 'rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com' (cname=0) req: answer -> 204.247.223.129 7 (3214) id=2 Local datagram from 204.247.223.129 port 3215, fd 5, len 50 req: nlookup(rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com) id 3 type=1 req: found 'rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com' as 'rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com' (cname=0) req: answer -> 204.247.223.129 7 (3215) id=3 Local ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 14 Oct 1996 03:08:35 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> Finally, a decent up-to-date sendmail for NEXTSTEP! This latest version is compiled for multiple architectures (NeXT m68k, Intel x86, HP PA-RISC, Sun SPARC), supports NetInfo, NIS, smrsh (sendmail restricted shell), mail.local and outgoing aliases (YourName@host.com) with the user database. CERT recommends that you obtain a newer version of sendmail than 8.7.5. To obtain a copy of my distribution: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/submissions/sendmail-8.8.0.NIHS.bd.t ar.gz To verify that you have a good copy of my distribution, execute the following command. Note that the first number is the 16-bit checksum which must match exactly and that the second number is the number of blocks and can vary. % sum sendmail-8.8.0.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 32462 1504 To unpack the distribution: % gunzip sendmail-8.8.0.NIHS.bd.tar.gz % gnutar xvpf sendmail-8.8.0.NIHS.bd.tar This will create a .pkg file. You need to be logged in as "root" to install the package. Documentation for sendmail 8.8 is in /etc/sendmail/doc. Configuration files are in /etc/sendmail/cf. You will need the GNU m4 compiler to create a .cf configuration file for use with this version of sendmail. It is available in the proglang subdirectory on next-ftp.peak.org's NeXT FTP archive. I recommend that you pick up a copy of the O'Reilly and Associates book on sendmail before using this version of sendmail. Furthermore, the installation and use of this software is entirely at your own risk. Read the README notice for more details. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com -- Robert La Ferla Registered NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant HTI Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <53r8lq$emh@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> Date: 14 Oct 1996 07:16:36 GMT Control: cancel <53r8lq$emh@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: <cancel.53r8lq$emh@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> Sender: cracraft@ix.netcom.com (Stuart Cracraft) Spam cancelled. Notice ID: 19961014.22. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce or http://spam.ohww.norman.ok.us/spam_notices/19961014.22.html for complete report. Original Subject: Perl/Expect system monitoring via beeper: http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Subject: Can you help me to network a Cube and a PC Message-ID: <1996Oct14.105903.19442@investor.pgh.pa.us> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 10:59:03 GMT Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA I know I should RTFM, but there is too much there in too many different places. I am not a network expert, so I know I will screw something up, and I am hoping somebody out there can give me a cook-book recipe. In the process, maybe I can learn something about networking. Here is the situation: I want to network a PC, running Windows NT or 95 (Boo! Hiss!), to my NeXT Cube. As I understand it, the Cube (NS3.3) has all the hardware and software I need already. What hardware and software will I need for the PC? What is the preferred cabling approach -- coax or telco? What about cable terminators? My Cube is set up as a one machine network in order to run ElectroWorX character recognition software. It has a terminator plugged into the coax jack. This was set up several years ago with the help of the company. I no longer have any idea of what I did, but it works and I am afraid to screw it up. As I understand it, once I connect the PC to the Cube, ALL I need to do is change some system parameters to recognize the PC so I can access files on both systems and the PC can send stuff to the NeXT printer. Unfortunately, I don't even know where to begin on this, let alone know all the things that need to be changed. When it comes to the PC I am even more in the dark. I have always used Unix and know nothing about DOS or Windows. I have heard Windows 95 is very easy to set up on a network, but again, I don't really know all the things I have to do. Any help at all will be greatly appreciated. Even pointers to the relevant docs (and PC newsgroups, if that is necessary) would be helpful, but a recipe would be best. Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give. Bob -- Bob Peirce Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS nslookup vs. gethostbyname Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:08:26 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cmMZRee00Uzx41pwcg@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <53s9kd$mit@belzebul.imaginet.fr> In-Reply-To: <53s9kd$mit@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 14-Oct-96 DNS nslookup vs. gethostbyname by Operator@despina.burgond > I have this problem: > > I configured a DNS on my host. When I use nslookup to resolve a partial > domain name, it works ok. When I use gethostbyname (via ping for example), > it cannot resolve such partial domain name (but it can if I use full > domain name). > Looking at the traces from named, we can see that gethostbyname does not > append the domain name to the host name it searches, and neither apply the > algorithm described in man 7 hostname. Please hit return around column 78. Nslookup is much more determined about trying to find DNS information that gethostbyname(), because it is smarter about dealing with partially-qualified domain names. You may have specified a domain directive for 'burgond.remcomp.com' in /etc/resolv.conf, in which case it is the only domain that will be appended in an attempt to resolve a partially-qualified name. Reread 'man 7 hostname'-- the only item on the search list will be 'burgond.remcomp.com', and appending that to 'rogix.saubot.burgond' gives 'rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com', which is not valid: > # nslookup rogix.saubot.burgond > Server: despina.burgond.remcomp.com > Address: 204.247.223.129 > > res_mkquery(0, rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com, 1, 1) > header flags: response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion > avail. > questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, additional = 0 ...as you can see. This was why gethostbyname() wouldn't find anything. Specify the appropriate domain and search lists in /etc/resolv.conf with the 'domain' and 'search' directives, or try looking up 'rogix.saubot'. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS with LILO and 3 SCSI drives Date: 14 Oct 1996 11:47:15 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <veeg23hzgxo.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <32618578.6AED@gold.tc.umn.edu> In-reply-to: Scott Francis's message of Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:12:40 -0500 In article <32618578.6AED@gold.tc.umn.edu>, Scott Francis <franc027@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes: Recently, I have been tearing my hair out trying to get LILO (Linux Loader) to boot 3 OS's on 3 scsi drives; my 3rd drive sdc contains NeXTSEP. I appear to have most of that working except for one little point and I can't determine if it is a LILO problem or a NeXTSTEP problem. I have _no_ idea if this is your exact problem, since I've never used LILO, but I can describe how to get NS booting off a second drive (my system has NS3.3 on main drive, OS4.0 on second drive). First, you'll probably want to install NextStep with the drive in question as the only one in the system. Otherwise you're very likely to screw up the "automagic rebooting to the next phase" stuff. Then, you need to change /etc/fstab from something like: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 to /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 This tells the system on this disk where it's root is, for the "faking root mount entries" portion of the boot. Of course, you need to change "sd1a" to the appropriate device. I've used sd1a and sd0b here (sd0b for when I had one disk with different operating systems on each NeXT partition). Lastly, with the other disks in place, you need to boot NeXTSTEP using a boot command like "bsd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a". Again, replace sd1a with the appropriate device. 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: ramdrive@ee.snu.ac.kr (Seongbae Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 14 Oct 1996 16:03:27 GMT Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Message-ID: <53to8f$oij@usenet> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> Robert La Ferla (Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com) wrote: > with the user database. CERT recommends that you obtain a newer > version of sendmail than 8.7.5. What version of the CERT sendmail does your sendmail correspond to ? As far as I know, there's only 8.7.6 version of the CERT sendmail. If you're version is only a NeXTSTEP porting of CERT 8.7.6, then why 8.8.0 ? -- 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: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (wilfrid Gaboriaud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: multiple network cards Date: 14 Oct 1996 18:00:56 GMT Organization: Universite de La Rochelle Message-ID: <53tv4o$hfj@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr> Hello, I Have a PC with NeXT 3.3 and Win95. with 2 network cards : EtherExpres PRO 100 PCI on 2 different phisical network. My client get his IP address on network (-AUTOMATIC- in the hostconfig file) My problem is that NeXTStep want to access to the network through the bad card one times out of four. How can I boot with only the good card under NeXTStep ? (I can't unset the plug and play in the bios setup because my cards are PCI cards) Many thanks for your help. Wilfrid --- /*************************************** * Wilfrid Gaboriaud * Service Informatique * Institut Universitaire de Technologie * La Rochelle * 15 rue de Vaux de Foletier * 17026 La Rochelle cedex * France * Phone. (33) 46 51 39 24 * Fax. (33) 46 51 39 39 * e-mail: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr * NeXTStep and Mime Mail are Welcome ***************************************/
From: root@despina.burgond.remcomp.com (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS nslookup vs. gethostbyname Date: 14 Oct 1996 17:49:46 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <53tufq$t77@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <cmMZRee00Uzx41pwcg@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <cmMZRee00Uzx41pwcg@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 14-Oct-96 DNS > nslookup vs. gethostbyname by Operator@despina.burgond > > I have this problem: > > > > I configured a DNS on my host. When I use nslookup to resolve a > > partial domain name, it works ok. When I use gethostbyname (via > > ping for example), it cannot resolve such partial domain name > > (but it can if I usefull domain name). > > Looking at the traces from named, we can see that gethostbyname > > does not append the domain name to the host name it searches, and > > neither apply the algorithm described in man 7 hostname. > > Please hit return around column 78. Ok. I had 79. > Nslookup is much more determined about trying to find DNS > information that gethostbyname(), because it is smarter about > dealing with partially-qualified domain names. > > You may have specified a domain directive for 'burgond.remcomp.com' > in /etc/resolv.conf, in which case it is the only domain that will > be appended in an attempt to resolve a partially-qualified name. > Reread'man 7 hostname'-- the only item on the search list will be Exactly. And I even added a search option that is never used by gethostbyname: domain burgond.remcomp.com nameserver 204.247.223.129 search burgond.remcomp.com saubot.burgond.remcomp.com lepiote.burgond.remcomp.com Here is an excerpt from hostname(7): : If the input name does not end with a trailing dot, it is : looked up in the local domain and its parent domains until : either a match is found or fewer than 2 components of the : local domain remain. For example, in the domain : CS.Berkeley.EDU, the name lithium.CChem will be checked : first as lithium.CChem.CS.Berkeley.EDU and then as : lithium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU. Lithium.CChem.EDU will not be : tried, as the there is only one component remaining from the : local domain. So, in my case, gethostbyname should look up the following names for 'rogix.saubot': rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com and rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com It never tries the second one. If it used the search option, it would look up these names for 'rogix': rogix.burgond.remcomp.com then rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com It does not. > 'burgond.remcomp.com', and appending that to 'rogix.saubot.burgond' > gives 'rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com', which is not > valid: > > # nslookup rogix.saubot.burgond > > Server: despina.burgond.remcomp.com > > Address: 204.247.223.129 > > > > res_mkquery(0, rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com, 1, 1) > > header flags: response, auth. answer, want recursion, > > recursion avail. > > questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, > > additional = 0 > ...as you can see. This was why gethostbyname() wouldn't find > anything. You looked at the trace for nslookup. Here is the trace for gethostbyname: > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > /hostent rogix.saubot.burgond > gethostbyname error for host: rogix.saubot.burgond (Authoritative > Answer Host not found) > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > WITH THE FOLLOWING TRACE FROM named: > > datagram from 204.247.223.129 port 3216, fd 5, len 38 > req: nlookup(rogix.saubot.burgond) id 327 type=1 > req: missed 'rogix.saubot.burgond' as '' (cname=0) > forw: forw -> 192.112.36.4 5 (53) nsid=82 id=327 0ms retry 4 sec > prime_cache: priming = 1 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gethostbyname uses only the name as given without adding any domainname. __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS nslookup vs. gethostbyname Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:22:07 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YmMevz200UzxA2NJBq@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <cmMZRee00Uzx41pwcg@andrew.cmu.edu> <53tufq$t77@belzebul.imaginet.fr> In-Reply-To: <53tufq$t77@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 14-Oct-96 Re: DNS nslookup vs. gethos.. by Operator@despina.burgond >> You may have specified a domain directive for 'burgond.remcomp.com' >> in /etc/resolv.conf, in which case it is the only domain that will >> be appended in an attempt to resolve a partially-qualified name. >> Reread'man 7 hostname'-- the only item on the search list will be > > Exactly. And I even added a search option that is never used by > gethostbyname: > > domain burgond.remcomp.com > nameserver 204.247.223.129 > search burgond.remcomp.com saubot.burgond.remcomp.com > lepiote.burgond.remcomp.com [ ... ] > So, in my case, gethostbyname should look up the following names for > 'rogix.saubot': > rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com > and rogix.saubot.burgond.remcomp.com > It never tries the second one. That does seem to be a problem, agreed. Perhaps you should file a bug report with NeXT and/or contact NeXT's technical support. [ ... ] >>> # nslookup rogix.saubot.burgond >>> Server: despina.burgond.remcomp.com >>> Address: 204.247.223.129 >>> >>> res_mkquery(0, rogix.saubot.burgond.burgond.remcomp.com, 1, 1) >>> header flags: response, auth. answer, want recursion, >>> recursion avail. >>> questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, >>> additional = 0 >> ...as you can see. This was why gethostbyname() wouldn't find >> anything. > > You looked at the trace for nslookup. Of course I did, since you didn't show us what was in /etc/resolv.conf. The way that a partially-qualified name had the suffix appended correctly told me what was your 'domain' directive, did it not? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.databases.sybase Subject: Re: problem with harddisk not mounting Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:03:49 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <53udc5$rk6@news.tamu.edu> References: <53q53r$id8@kanga.accessone.com> In article <53q53r$id8@kanga.accessone.com> Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) writes: > In <53m67k$pds@news.tamu.edu> Stephen Johnson wrote: > > fsck'ing the raw device doesn't work either... > > > >When I do a fsck it gives an error that sectors 120, 121, 122 cannot be > > > >read and quits. Is there anyway to get it to just loose that data and > > > >mount it with the rest of the harddrive? > > > > > > > >Stpehen Johnson > > Trying using reasb to reassign the bad blocks to your alternate blocks. > -- Talked to a NEXT Software tech on Friday and he told me to do this and it worked! Thankfully. He thought it was an outside chance since fsck wouldn't fix it but at least he did mention it. Chaulk up another one to those outstanding NEXT techs!! Stephen Johnson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gowda@netcom.com (Sudhir Gowda) Subject: Help: wanted to get into the system.. Message-ID: <gowdaDzACLy.Jsy@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:49:10 GMT Sender: gowda@netcom16.netcom.com Hi, I just got a Next box color from my friend. I don't know the root passwd. Is there any way I can use this machine. or How do I get into the machine. Any help is appericated. Greetings Sudhir gowda@netcom.com -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sudhir Gowda (408)736-7552(Res)*** (510)279-6532(off)*** gowda@netcom.com *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** To observe and explain, but not interfere. *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Fame@success.net (Walter Brooke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Make Money Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 03:24:24 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <3262f304.23629874@nntp.ix.netcom.com> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I used to think this was a huge joke until I tried it - the "turn $5 >> into $50,000" idea. But after awhile I started to realize "This >> either works or it's a complete scam - but I intend to find out." >> >> Guess what? It works! In only three weeks, I've received $1827!! I >> don't know anyone who couldn't use a extra $1800 do you? And there is >> certainly lots more to come for me - up to $55,000!!! >> >> What about you? You can do it with only $5 and 5 postage stamps >> (that's only $6.60 in the USA - hardly what I call a risky investment >> when you consider the rewards). Everyone who tries this will make >> much, much more than that, so what have you got to loose? $5.00 plus >> postage? Big Deal! >> >> Hopefully you can see that this really does work and you'll read on. >> >> Follow this simple, perfectly legal 3 step procedure and you can't go >> wrong; >> >> ===================================================== >> First Step - Type or write your name and address on 5 separate pieces >> of paper with the words "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST". Fold a >> $1 bill or money order in each of the pieces of paper, place them in 5 >> envelopes and mail one to each of the following five addresses: >> >> 1- Robert Knowlton >> PO Box 924 >> Concord, NH 03302-0924 >> >> 2- JCL >> 1313 Wake Forest Dr. #125 >> Davis, CA 95616 >> >> 3- RFP >> 9594 1st Ave, NE, #423 >> Seattle, WA 98115 >> >> 4- Bruce Fuller >> 293 Chestnut ST. >> Chillicothe, OH 45601 >> >> 5- Walter Brooke >> 932 Lake Nora South Dr. Apt.C >> Indianapolis, IN 46240 >> USA >> >> Second Step - 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 it in a word processor. >> >> Third Step - Now Post your adjusted article to at least 200 Usenet >> news groups (there are over 20,000 of them). >> >> That's it! 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. You may even >> want to rent a P O Box to handle the volume of mail you're likely to >> receive. >> >> If you wish to remain anonymous, you can use a pseudonym such as "The >> Manager" or "The Investor", but make sure your snail mail address is >> correct! >> >> How does this work? >> >> Of every 200 postings I made, I received an average of 5 replies for >> $5. Ok that may not seem like much but read on.... >> >> Each person who sent you $1 also makes - let's say, only 200 >> additional postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 4, i.e. 1000 postings. >> >> On average therefore, 50 people will send you $1 with your name at >> number 4. You make $50. >> >> Your 50 new agents make 200 posting each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 3 or >> 10,000 postings - average return 500 at $1 each is $500. They make 200 >> postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 2 = 100 000 postings = 5 000 >> returns at $1 each = $5 000. >> >> Finally, 5,000 people make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER >> 1 and you get a return of $50,000 before you name drops off the list. >> AND THAT'S IF EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE ONLY MAKES 200 POSTINGS! Total >> income in one cycle = $55,500. >> >> And when you drop off the list - simply start over! >> >> Remember, this only costs Five dollars, 5 postage stamps and some >> online time. So what are you waiting for? >> >> You may be thinking "This has been around a while - What happens if >> the scheme is 'played out" and no one sends me any money"? >> >> Big deal! So you lose $5 - but with hundreds of thousands of new >> people joining the internet every day thats hardly likely to happen. >> >> Remember, follow the instructions and play fair - send those 5 >> one-dollar bills (this process is based on honesty not on cheating on >> the initial investment). Perhaps we'll meet on the beach in Hawaii. >> That is what my $1827 is going towards (I'll have to think about what >> to do with the rest of the $$$$ that is coming my way!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Control: cancel <3262f304.23629874@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <3262f304.23629874@nntp.ix.netcom.com> From: snowhare@xmission.com Sender: Fame@success.net (Walter Brooke) Date: 15 Oct 96 03:58:59 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.3262f304.23629874@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Organization: Devilbunnies Spam Cancelling Division Spam Cancellation. Original Subject: Make Money A copy of the original message can be found at <URL:http://www.xmission.com/~snowhare/spam/udp/mmf-action3/845351939.35>
From: tlm@u.washington.edu (Thomas L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help Configuring GateKeeper on Black Hardware Date: 15 Oct 1996 06:36:50 GMT Organization: Depts. of Physics and Chemistry, Univ. of Washington Message-ID: <53vbe2$p2k@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Greetings. I've successfully used Steve Perkin's PPP package for some time now, logging in to various sites from the command line via chat scripts. Wanted to add GateKeeper to my list of tools, both because of the really cool animations and user interface it offers, and to make connecting to the internet easier for my Mac accustomed girlfriend. Unfortunately, despite what I thought was a certain uh..... "sophistication" with NeXTstep, Unix, etc. I cannot seem to get GateKeeper configured properly. Using "Link" it will not even dial the modem, and using "Dial" it gets through, but then does not establish a proper PPP connection. I already have ppp 2.2 installed, and have to admit that I find the directions for installation somewhat confusing. Could someone who has gotten GateKeeper running under these circumstances (ppp 2.2 already installed, black hardware --- my TurboColor! --- NeXTstep 3.2) give me a hand? I can still PPP in by hand quite nicely, and I can send copies of my options and chat scripts. Thanks in advance. Tom -- Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779 Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home) Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov Project Coordinator: Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences http://uces.ameslab.gov/
From: Mark Sitkowski <marks@iaccess.COM.AU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: problem with harddisk not mounting Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:56:48 +1000 Organization: D.S.S Message-ID: <32636DF0.167EB0E7@iaccess.COM.AU> References: <53ja4n$t08@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Stephen Johnson wrote: > > I have a NEXTSTEP harddisk that will not mount. It doesn't even give any > message. > When I do a fsck it gives an error that blocks 120, 121, 122 cannot be > read and quits. Is there anyway to get it to just loose that data and > mount it with the rest of the harddrive? > > Stpehen Johnson Is it formatted? Is the defect list up to date? Does it actually have Unix filesystems on it? -- Best regards, Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Sitkowski Ц±È¿ÞºÃ! "In God we trust. All others pay cash..." 5 Bronaldi Street Heathmont Victoria 3135 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home phone: (613-9) 729-0731 ¸øÎÒ´òµç»°! Home fax: (613-9) 720-1487 E-mail: marks@iaccess.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: brian@tcpip.geek.net (Brian Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 14 Oct 1996 23:28:03 GMT Organization: Saturn Internet - ISP Message-ID: <53uia3$m9f@titan.saturn.net> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> On 14 Oct 1996 16:03:27 GMT, Seongbae Park <ramdrive@ee.snu.ac.kr> wrote: >Robert La Ferla (Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com) wrote: >> with the user database. CERT recommends that you obtain a newer >> version of sendmail than 8.7.5. > >What version of the CERT sendmail does your sendmail correspond to ? >As far as I know, there's only 8.7.6 version of the CERT sendmail. >If you're version is only a NeXTSTEP porting of CERT 8.7.6, then >why 8.8.0 ? 8.8 is in beta's and is available -- Brian Mitchell brian@saturn.net "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell" - H. Truman
From: myers@feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Eric Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 15 Oct 1996 14:00:40 GMT Organization: Department of Physics, University of Michigan Message-ID: <5405e8$r0f@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> <53uia3$m9f@titan.saturn.net> In article <53uia3$m9f@titan.saturn.net>, > >8.8 is in beta's and is available Indeed it is. I just got the sources from wuarchive and compiled it as it's configured, which is supposed to include support for NetInfo for the aliases database. But it doesn't work. It will see an alias in /etc/sendmail/aliases (after I say `newaliases`, of course), but not an aliase in the local or network netinfo map for aliases. This was also a problem in 8.7.5 and 8.7.6. Any ideas what's wrong? (I'm on a NeXTStation running NS 3.0.) -- Eric Myers <myers@umich.edu> High Energy Theoretical Physics http://feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~myers Department of Physics Tel: 313-763-4325 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fax: 313-763-2213
From: american@mail.tds.net (Charles C. Hocker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: subnet netmask problem Date: 15 Oct 1996 16:43:52 GMT Organization: TDS Telecom - Madison, WI Message-ID: <540f08$ddp@news2.tds.net> Hello Everyone, I experiencing some problems right now trying to configure a subnet netmask. I was given the following block of eight (8) IP addresses for my subnet: 207.136.219.88 - to - 207.136.219.95 After experiencing countless lockup's during the boot up process, I disconnected my machine from the network (I removed it physically) and replaced the file hostconfig and the directory netinfo with clean copies from the distribution CD. I then went in and made modifications to hostconfig via HostManager.app --> Local... HOSTNAME=matthew INETADDR=207.136.219.88 ROUTER=-NO- IPNETMASK=255.255.255.224 IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC- NETMASTER=-NO- YPDOMAIN=-NO- TIME=-NO- The problem that I am facing is that according to my calculations, the netmask should be set to 255.255.255.248 (248 = 256 - 8) or 0xff.ff.ff.f8 (decimal points added for ease of reading) not 255.255.255.224. But, this (224) is the largest subnet netmask that I can set on my machine without it locking up. I came about this number (224) by successfully incrementing the last octant from 128 (0x80) to 192 (0xc0) to 224 (0xe0). If I try 240 (0xf0) or 248 (0xf8) the machine locks up during the bootup phase at the point where it displays the message "Mounting remote filesystems." Since this is the only NeXTSTEP machine on the network at this time, the above information is in hostconfig should be valid. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem would be appreciated. Thanks, Charles -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Charles C. Hocker american@Mail.TDS.Net ASCII, MIME & NeXTmail (preferred) american@aztec.asu.edu "Food is Power. We use it to change behavior. Some May Call that Bribery. We Do Not Apologize." Catherine Bertini, executive director, UN World Food Program, Beijing, China, UN 4th World Conference on Women, Sept. 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------
From: steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (Steven Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Frequent panics, please help Date: 15 Oct 1996 17:34:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Message-ID: <540hvc$al1@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010143942.779B-100000@charisma> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010143942.779B-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > I've gotten several panics over the past few days, weeks, etc > > Many of them list this same error: > > "MMU invalid during table walk" > > Then there is a message about Mail.app catching signal #15 > > This _seems_ to be related to (ie happens the same time as) when my > PPP link is being negotiated, although it is not every time I try to > bring up PPP. I don't remember it happening at a time when PPP was > not running or starting. > I have been experiencing exactly the same problem. I am running PPP2.4.6 on NS 3.3 on a Dimension cube. It occurs at least once a week. Sometimes it happens every day. It ONLY occurs when PPP is running. The kernel traceback indicates that the panic originated from ppp_reloc. I would be very grateful if anyone has any information on how to solve this. -- ...STeve ------------------------------------ Insert pithy maxim here... steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (NeXT mail, MIME mail welcome)
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Frequent panics, please help Date: 15 Oct 1996 21:24:06 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <540vdm$1knb@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010143942.779B-100000@charisma> <540hvc$al1@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> Cc: steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu In <540hvc$al1@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> Steven Trainoff wrote: > In <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010143942.779B-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" > wrote: > > > > I've gotten several panics over the past few days, weeks, etc > > > > Many of them list this same error: > > > > "MMU invalid during table walk" > > > > Then there is a message about Mail.app catching signal #15 > > > > This _seems_ to be related to (ie happens the same time as) when my > > PPP link is being negotiated, although it is not every time I try to > > bring up PPP. I don't remember it happening at a time when PPP was > > not running or starting. > > > > I have been experiencing exactly the same problem. I am running PPP2.4.6 on > NS 3.3 on a Dimension cube. It occurs at least once a week. Sometimes it > happens every day. It ONLY occurs when PPP is running. The kernel traceback > indicates that the panic originated from ppp_reloc. I would be very grateful > if anyone has any information on how to solve this. > There are two things that I can suggest that may (or may not) help. On a NeXT machine, you have the option of configuring network kernel memory during boot. At the boot prompt, (CMD-CMD-~ at the beginning of a boot) you can type in: sd- nbu=256 I actually make this the default boot string (using the 'p' command at the boot prompt). Also, I have attached a response regarding swap file sizes: <rvose@ix.netcom.com>: ---------------------------------------------------- Last week I had submitted report indicating that my NeXTstation Color Turbo machine ran out of network buffers and thrashed to the point of crashing. The tracking ID assigned was 16. I believe that this problem may have been due to my swapfile size growing beyond the high-water mark. My machine crashed several times this evening (thrashing) while connected and I happened to notice that the swapfile size was pushing the hiwat limit. I increased the hiwat limit on the file from 40 MB (which is the NeXT default) to 105 MB (the partition size where the file residess - it's on its own drive) and voila! No more thrashing. I've been connected over PPP and hitting the system hard with network transactions with ZERO difficulties. Just wanted to pass that info along. I'm not sure if the combination of the system hitting the hiwat mark on the swapfile + PPP needing more resources caused the thrashing problem, but it seems reasobable. ------------------------------------------------------------ I don't know if these will help, but you might give them a shot. Regards, 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: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Crash detection?! Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:43:29 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961015173517.708A-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, our NextStep system crashes very often in the recent time, about once a day. I think this is not acceptable and so i would like to know if it is possible to indentify the process which caused the system panics. If i get to work, all i can see is the small Monitor window and the rest of a long list of text which i can not scroll back. Does the system log any such information anywhere or is there an other way of identifying the faulty programm. Also i would like to know if even the simple existence of faulty apps in the LocalApps or other searchpath directorys can make the system unstable. Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: ryan@apollo.ehs.ocps.k12.fl.us (Ryan Zenker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Gateway routing through ppp -- help! Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:24:29 -0400 Organization: EHS Message-ID: <ryan-1510961824290001@ppp173.gslink.net> I need help on routing internet through a ppp connection to ethernet. My problem is that I can't use both interfaces, ppp0 and en0, at the same time. I was able to acomplish this with linux, but the route command was more advanced. I am running NextStep 3.2 on a NextStation m68040. Any comments or health welcome. Thanks, Ryan Zenker
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 16 Oct 1996 02:16:17 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <541ghh$c7s@news.cais.com> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> <53uia3$m9f@titan.saturn.net> <5405e8$r0f@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <5405e8$r0f@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> No, 8.8.0 is not beta. It is an official release from Berkeley. You need to set up your /etc/service.switch file as follows to have it look in NetInfo. You can also use NIS if you specify it. hosts netinfo files aliases netinfo files BTW - My MAB distribution contains smrsh, mail.local, and the user database. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant On 10/15/96, Eric Myers wrote: >In article <53uia3$m9f@titan.saturn.net>, >> >>8.8 is in beta's and is available > >Indeed it is. I just got the sources from wuarchive and compiled it as >it's configured, which is supposed to include support for NetInfo for >the aliases database. But it doesn't work. It will see an alias in >/etc/sendmail/aliases (after I say `newaliases`, of course), but not an >aliase in the local or network netinfo map for aliases. This was also a >problem in 8.7.5 and 8.7.6. Any ideas what's wrong? (I'm on a >NeXTStation running NS 3.0.) > >-- >Eric Myers <myers@umich.edu> >High Energy Theoretical Physics http://feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~myers >Department of Physics Tel: 313-763-4325 >University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fax: 313-763-2213 > -- Robert La Ferla Registered NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant HTI Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS 3.3 Date: 15 Oct 1996 08:45:38 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <53vivi$71e@marsu.navigator.de> References: <32562473.486E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu In <32562473.486E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > I recently installed the compiled Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS 3.3, and now it > doesn't work. Does anyone else have experience with this upgrade? I > beleive there's a lot more steps I need to do beyond clicking the > Installer package... sendmail was never meant to install by double-clicking :-) /etc/sendmail/cf/README might be a starting point... -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: subnet netmask problem Date: 16 Oct 1996 13:56:11 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <542phr$c4t@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <540f08$ddp@news2.tds.net> Cc: american@mail.tds.net Charles C. Hocker wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin: > > Hello Everyone, > I experiencing some problems right now trying to configure > a subnet netmask. I was given the following block of eight (8) > IP addresses for my subnet: > > 207.136.219.88 > - to - > 207.136.219.95 > > After experiencing countless lockup's during the boot up process, I > disconnected my machine from the network (I removed it physically) > and replaced the file hostconfig and the directory netinfo with clean > copies from the distribution CD. > > I then went in and made modifications to hostconfig via > > HostManager.app --> Local... > > HOSTNAME=matthew > INETADDR=207.136.219.88 > ROUTER=-NO- > IPNETMASK=255.255.255.224 > IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC- > NETMASTER=-NO- > YPDOMAIN=-NO- > TIME=-NO- > Don't set your hosts IP-address to the net-address of your subnet. Set it to 207.136.219.89 f.e., then you can set the correct subnet-mask too. (This is also the eplanation, why the subnet-mask works only, if you take one, that doesn't see 207.136.219.88 as a net-address) CIAO Volker -- Volker Safran, Berlin, Germany ___________________________________ --- / Phone: +49 30 45482196 (private) volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de / +49 30 45058062 (at work) vsafran@ukrv.de (at work) / FAX : +49 30 45482198 (private) ______________________________/ +49 30 45058904 (at work)
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: subnet netmask problem Date: 16 Oct 1996 15:12:06 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <542u06$cei@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> References: <540f08$ddp@news2.tds.net> <542phr$c4t@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran) wrote: > Charles C. Hocker wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin: > > I experiencing some problems right now trying to configure > > a subnet netmask. I was given the following block of eight (8) > > IP addresses for my subnet: > > 207.136.219.88 > > - to - > > 207.136.219.95 > > After experiencing countless lockup's during the boot up process, I > > disconnected my machine from the network (I removed it physically) > > and replaced the file hostconfig and the directory netinfo with clean > > copies from the distribution CD. > > I then went in and made modifications to hostconfig via > > HostManager.app --> Local... > > HOSTNAME=matthew > > INETADDR=207.136.219.88 > > ROUTER=-NO- > > IPNETMASK=255.255.255.224 > > IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC- > > NETMASTER=-NO- > > YPDOMAIN=-NO- > > TIME=-NO- > Don't set your hosts IP-address to the net-address of your subnet. > Set it to 207.136.219.89 f.e., then you can set the correct > subnet-mask too. (This is also the eplanation, why the subnet-mask > works only, if you take one, that doesn't see 207.136.219.88 as > a net-address) What would the broadcast address be for this subnet? Does 255.255.255.255 still apply, or is something like 255.255.255.95 or 207.136.219.95 correct? -- 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: wrb@biostr.washington.edu (William Barker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Any other HP DAT autoloader users out there? Date: 16 Oct 1996 16:07:05 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <543179$5bn@nntp1.u.washington.edu> I'd like to talk with other HP DAT autoloader (1553a) users about their successes and failures using the device with black hardware. Please email if you're interested. Thanks, bb -- Bill Barker Computer Systems and Networks Administrator Biological Structure, Box 357420 University of Washington Seattle WA 98195-7420 (206) 543-7315 wrb@u.washington.edu "In Wine there is Wisdom, In Beer there is Strength; In Water is Bacteria." --Old German Saying.
From: jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: sendmail Date: 16 Oct 1996 16:01:55 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Message-ID: <5430tj$ftm@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: jabi URL: http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/~wjabi/ I shot myself in the foot pretending I can install and configure the new sendmail. It tells me I need a newer version of m4 (eventhough I downloaded the gnu m4) and e-mailing out now does not work. Any help either: putting things back or configuring and compiling the new files for the new sendmail will be GREATLY appreciated. Live and learn :-( I can still receive e-mail, so please e-mail me. Thanks. -- Wassim M. Jabi, Assistant Professor Department of Architecture - 312B Hayes Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14214-3087 Tel: +1 716.829.3485 Ext. 323 Fax: +1 716.829.3256 wjabi@arch.buffalo.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail)
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Changeing the Partition on an Active Boot Drive? Date: 16 Oct 1996 17:09:00 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5434rc$p2g@stratus.skypoint.net> Has anyone ever changed the partitioning on an active boot Drive? Right now I have the following partitioning: /dev/sd0a / 500Meg /dev/sd0b /usr/store 500Meg /dev/sd1a /Users 300Meg /dev/sd1b /usr/local 300Meg The sd0 drive is external and 1 Gig, the sd1 drive is internal and 600 Meg. The SCSI address of the external is 0. Now I want to change the partitioning on the sd0 drive to give the root partition (/dev/sd0b) about 150-200 extra Meg removed from the /usr/store partition (/dev/sd0b). Is this possible without runing BuildDisk? Thank you -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS 3.3 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:04:24 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961016100227.20899B-100000@kira> References: <32562473.486E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <53vivi$71e@marsu.navigator.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu In-Reply-To: <53vivi$71e@marsu.navigator.de> Another good place to look would be: http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/ he's written a great explanation of how to configure sendmail for PPP usage... however, did you see there is now 8.8.0 out? Before you go through the trouble, you might want to get the newest one. It is in our 'submissions folder, which is the URL below... Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator PEAK FTP Site General FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Submissions: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions On 15 Oct 1996, Markus Wenzel wrote: > Date: 15 Oct 1996 08:45:38 GMT > From: Markus Wenzel <mow@navigator.de> > Cc: eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS 3.3 > > In <32562473.486E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > > I recently installed the compiled Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS 3.3, and now it > > doesn't work. Does anyone else have experience with this upgrade? I > > beleive there's a lot more steps I need to do beyond clicking the > > Installer package... > > sendmail was never meant to install by double-clicking :-) > /etc/sendmail/cf/README might be a starting point... > > -- > Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de > IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/ > > > >
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Crash detection?! Date: 16 Oct 1996 15:30:39 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <542v2v$mne@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961015173517.708A-100000@pollux> Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > >Hi, our NextStep system crashes very often in the recent time, about once >a day. I think this is not acceptable and so i would like to know if it is >possible to indentify the process which caused the system panics. If i get >to work, all i can see is the small Monitor window and the rest of a long >list of text which i can not scroll back. Does the system log any such >information anywhere or is there an other way of identifying the faulty >programm. Also i would like to know if even the simple existence of faulty >apps in the LocalApps or other searchpath directorys can make the system >unstable. You can look in /usr/adm/ for log files. Especially, look at the "messages" file for info. Also, look at the file /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog for items pertaining to sendmail. Let us know what you find. --Ryan
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changeing the Partition on an Active Boot Drive? Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:03:54 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4mNH6OK00UhWQ2BQhr@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5434rc$p2g@stratus.skypoint.net> In-Reply-To: <5434rc$p2g@stratus.skypoint.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 16-Oct-96 Changeing the Partition on .. by jalegre@andante-systems. > Has anyone ever changed the partitioning on an active boot Drive? Certainly, but you'll have to back up and restore all of the filesystems on the drive. If you meant to ask, "Can you change the partitioning without losing all of the data on the device?", the answer is "no". [ ... ] > Is this possible without runing BuildDisk? You can set up a disktab and use /usr/etc/disk. In fact, I think you'd have to since BuildDisk.app won't create more than 2 partitions the last time I checked.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: dknox@uga.cc.uga.edu (David K. Knox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I set up to use DNS? Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:24:53 -0500 Organization: Disability Services, University of Georgia Message-ID: <dknox-1610961524530001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> Greetings NeXT enthusiasts! I recently connected my 030 Cube running NS 3.2 to our network. Everything seems great: ftp etc works when IP# are put in, NetWare sees the servers. However, I cannot figure out how to get the machine to use the Domain Name Server. I followed the procedure I used on Silicon Graphics, created /usr/etc/resolv.conf but it seems to be ineffective. I have searched NeXTAnswers and the documentation but to no avail. Iwould greatly appreciate any advice you can give me. Thanks for your help.
From: jsmorrison@tasc.com (Jeff S. Morrison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: 16 Oct 1996 20:41:04 GMT Organization: TASC Message-ID: <543h90$hge@lois.Read.TASC.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In OSF there exists a logical volume manager LVM that can be configured to make a series of physical devices, such as hard drives, appear as one big device. Is NeXT/Mach capable of this? Do tools/programs/source exist to do this? Thanks, Jeff
From: american@mail.tds.net (Charles C. Hocker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: subnet netmask problem Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:41 GMT Organization: TDS Telecom - Madison, WI Message-ID: <543jbp$68r@news2.tds.net> References: <540f08$ddp@news2.tds.net> <542phr$c4t@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> On 10/16/96, Volker Safran wrote: >Charles C. Hocker wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin: >> >> Hello Everyone, >> I experiencing some problems right now trying to configure >> a subnet netmask. I was given the following block of eight (8) >> IP addresses for my subnet: >> >> 207.136.219.88 >> - to - >> 207.136.219.95 >> >> After experiencing countless lockup's during the boot up process, I >> disconnected my machine from the network (I removed it physically) >> and replaced the file hostconfig and the directory netinfo with clean >> copies from the distribution CD. >> >> I then went in and made modifications to hostconfig via >> >> HostManager.app --> Local... >> >> HOSTNAME=matthew >> INETADDR=207.136.219.88 >> ROUTER=-NO- >> IPNETMASK=255.255.255.224 >> IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC- >> NETMASTER=-NO- >> YPDOMAIN=-NO- >> TIME=-NO- >> Hello Everyone, I solved the subnet netmask problem that I was having -- here is a summary of the results: 1) In the above example, IP number 207.136.219.88 and .95 are unusable. a) The .88 IP is not usable because it does not specify a unique host ie, 0 is an unacceptable host number (the last three binary digits that specify the host are all zero). b) The .95 IP is not usable because it is equivalent to the broadcast address 207.136.219.95 generated by the subnet netmask (the last three binary digits that specify the host are all one's). 2) Of the allocated 8 IP address, only .89 to .94 (for a total of 6 IP's) are usable. When ever you subnet, you *will* lose some of your available IP's due the the problems listed above. The amount of IP's lost is determined by the subnet mask. The following table is from: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/3.html Host/Subnet Quantities Table Class C Effective Effective # bits Mask Subnets Hosts ------- --------------- --------- --------- 2 255.255.255.192 2 62 3 255.255.255.224 6 30 4 255.255.255.240 14 14 5 255.255.255.248 30 6 6 255.255.255.252 62 2 *Subnet all zeroes and all ones excluded. *Host all zeroes and all ones excluded. Also many thanks to Alvin Austin for neat IP table he generated showing me the valid subnet netmasks! Charles -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Charles C. Hocker american@Mail.TDS.Net ASCII, MIME & NeXTmail (preferred) american@aztec.asu.edu "Food is Power. We use it to change behavior. Some May Call that Bribery. We Do Not Apologize." Catherine Bertini, executive director, UN World Food Program, Beijing, China, UN 4th World Conference on Women, Sept. 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------
From: Dean_Reece@NeXT.com (Dean Reece) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: 17 Oct 1996 00:56:47 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <54408f$omf@news.next.com> References: <543h90$hge@lois.Read.TASC.COM> NeXT does not offer any way to accomplish this in software. The only hardware option I am aware of is to use a DPT SCSI controller in one of the many RAID configurations they support. DPT and NeXT have a longstanding development and support relationship, so that solution is mature and reliable. The only caveat is that the DPT RAID Configuration Manager does not run under NEXTSTEP. You will have to keep a DOS partition around for that software, and reboot in DOS to do any volume management. Cheers, - Dean Jeff S. Morrison writes | In OSF there exists a logical volume manager LVM that can be configured to | make a series of physical devices, such as hard drives, appear as one big | device. Is NeXT/Mach capable of this? Do tools/programs/source exist to | do this? | | Thanks, Jeff
From: me@polar.xyp.rpi.edu (My Account) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MouseX on NeXTStation 040 ? Date: 16 Oct 1996 19:14:49 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <543c79$p3n@usenet.rpi.edu> I am trying to run MouseX on my Next (040) and am unable to get it to work properly. It will put up an X screen, run my .xinitrc and twm, but nothing I type shows up anywhere. The cursor is highlighted in which ever window the mouse is in, but not text. I have to halt the machine and reboot to exit. I got the latest version of the Xnext server from: foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu, which claims to work with all NeXT keyboards. Does anyone have ideas on what's wrong? Email if possible, please. Thanks in advance. Doug Caldwell caldwell@charon.phys.rpi.edu
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:00:51 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gmNMJ3a00UhWI2ZoEn@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <543h90$hge@lois.Read.TASC.COM> In-Reply-To: <543h90$hge@lois.Read.TASC.COM> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 16-Oct-96 Does a Logical Volume Manag.. by Jeff S. Morrison@tasc.co > In OSF there exists a logical volume manager LVM that can be configured to > make a series of physical devices, such as hard drives, appear as one big > device. Is NeXT/Mach capable of this? Do tools/programs/source exist to do > this? I very much wish such tools did exist for {NEXTSTEP,OPENSTEP}/Mach-- unfortuantely, NeXT has never taken much advantage of the terrific operating system that Avie provided them. CMU and other organizations have done much more to provide a stable, well-supported, user-configurable version of Mach than NeXT has. Right now, I expect that the GNUstep project will provide more operating-system level support for Mach than NeXT will. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: frontier@fii.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2Mx32 60ns $34.00 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:08:58 Organization: Delta Internet Services, Anaheim, CA Message-ID: <543pin$cok@news05.deltanet.com> Hi there, I am the Marketing Manager of Frontier Industrial, I would like to let you know of special that we have on 8 MB SIMMS. I can offer you 2MX32 60ns modules @ $34.00 per piece. VARS, DEALERS, DISTRIBUTORS, & SYSTEM INTEGRATORS ONLY PLEASE Frontier Industrial http://www.fii.com
From: shane@quad-ckrl212.colorado.edu (Shane Clements) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I set up to use DNS? Date: 17 Oct 1996 08:04:21 GMT Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Message-ID: <544pa5$a17@lace.colorado.edu> References: <dknox-1610961524530001@plato.dissvcs.uga.edu> dknox@uga.cc.uga.edu (David K. Knox) wrote: >Greetings NeXT enthusiasts! I recently connected my 030 Cube running NS >3.2 to our network. Everything seems great: ftp etc works when IP# are put >in, NetWare sees the servers. However, I cannot figure out how to get the >machine to use the Domain Name Server. I followed the procedure I used on >Silicon Graphics, created /usr/etc/resolv.conf but it seems to be >ineffective. I have searched NeXTAnswers and the documentation but to no >avail. Iwould greatly appreciate any advice you can give me. Thanks for >your help. put it in /etc/resolv.conf, it should solve the problem. -Shane Clements shane@quad-ckrl212.colorado.edu
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:56:27 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961017115415.20401A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <543h90$hge@lois.Read.TASC.COM> <gmNMJ3a00UhWI2ZoEn@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <gmNMJ3a00UhWI2ZoEn@andrew.cmu.edu> On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Charles William Swiger wrote: > CMU and other organizations have done much more to provide a stable, > well-supported, user-configurable version of Mach than NeXT has. Right > now, I expect that the GNUstep project will provide more > operating-system level support for Mach than NeXT will. You'll get disappointed, but GnuStep has nothing to do with the OS level. It builds on top of it. So the mentioned LVM hast to be implemented in the OS, GnuStep will not do it. As far as I know, only DEC VMS, DEC UNIX and Windows NT support the mentioned LVM strategy. Greetings, Bernhard.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: frontier@fii.com Date: 17 Oct 1996 10:02:17 EDT Control: cancel <543pin$cok@news05.deltanet.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <543pin$cok@news05.deltanet.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.543pin$cok@news05.deltanet.com> Spam/MMF cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was 2Mx32 60ns $34.00
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: sendmail Date: 17 Oct 1996 16:17:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <545m70$8j7@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5430tj$ftm@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote: >I shot myself in the foot pretending I can install and configure the >new sendmail. It tells me I need a newer version of m4 (eventhough I >downloaded the gnu m4) and e-mailing out now does not work. > >Any help either: putting things back or configuring and compiling >the new files for the new sendmail will be GREATLY appreciated. > >Live and learn :-( > >I can still receive e-mail, so please e-mail me. Thanks. > Use the full path to the new m4 or make sure your path variable has the path for the new version first. The older version is what came with the OS. Beware though, you may still face many challenges if you have not read the O'Reilly Sendmail book or are following explicit directions for a standalone machine. --Ryan Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yoonj@il.us.swissbank.com (Joseph Yoon) Subject: NS 3.3 on UltraSparc with 1GB RAM Message-ID: <1996Oct17.162800.17903@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:28:00 GMT Has anyone run NEXTSTEP 3.3 on Sparc or UltraSparc hardware with 1GB RAM?
From: Laurent.Champciaux@emn.fr Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syslog problem Date: 17 Oct 1996 17:35:13 GMT Organization: Ecole des Mines de Nantes Message-ID: <545qoi$fud@wfn.emn.fr> Hi, Since I have had problems with the 3D kit (crashes with message:exiting due to excessive DPS errors), I have the the following message at the console every time I log in : Oct 17 17:46:35 buzz syslog: Error raised in Listener run loop, continuing ... Any clue ? Laurent. NS3.3 sparc 5. -- ======================================================= Laurent Champciaux Departement Informatique - Ecole des Mines de Nantes 4, rue A.Kastler 44070 Nantes Cedex 03 Tel: (33)51 85 82 18 (B220) email: Laurent.Champciaux@emn.fr WWW: http://www.emn.fr/dept_info/perso/laurent/
From: "Joshua Kerr" <joshkerr@mail.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need help now!! Please!!! Date: 17 Oct 1996 19:20:51 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <01bba4cc$ed86d1e0$7efe5380@ginger> I made a modification to the hostmanager, and now I can't boot. It gets stuck in Automount. How do I get to a command prompt to restore the files I modified??? I can't seem to do anything!! Help me!! Josh -- ___________________________________________ Joshua Kerr joshkerr@mail.utexas.edu http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/joshkerr "Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while, I was the suspect." -Steven Wright
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Need help now!! Please!!! In-Reply-To: "Joshua Kerr"'s message of 17 Oct 1996 19:20:51 GMT Message-ID: <ukv7moppbi7.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <01bba4cc$ed86d1e0$7efe5380@ginger> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:43:44 GMT During the booting process, immediately after the "testing system" message disappears, hit the (oh, hell...this is from memory...check the manual) command and * key on the keypad at the same time to get a ROM monitor prompt, then use the command "bsd -s" to boot from the default boot SCSI device in single-user mode. From there, you should be able to fix what you broke. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...I remember keystrokes by feel, not by labels. :) --Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help .... Date: 17 Oct 1996 20:57:13 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5466j9$lnt@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> Hi Everyone, I had to read/write to the Parallel Port (LPT1) on my Intel 486 machine running NextStep 3.3. Could you please tell me how do I do it. Thank you very much ... Sanjeev Agarwal sanjeev@isc.umr.edu
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help now!! Please!!! Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:39:21 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961017143301.18203A-100000@kira> References: <01bba4cc$ed86d1e0$7efe5380@ginger> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Joshua Kerr <joshkerr@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bba4cc$ed86d1e0$7efe5380@ginger> > I made a modification to the hostmanager, and now I can't boot. It gets > stuck in Automount. How do I get to a command prompt to restore the > files I modified??? I can't seem to do anything!! Help me!! Sure, easy as pie. command-command-~ (over the 7 on the keypad) get you to the ROM monitor NeXT> prompt should appear, if you get an NMI prompt, do a 'halt' and that will drop you to the NeXT> prompt. bsd-s (will boot you into single user mode) mv /private/etc/hostconfig /private/etc/hostconfig.broken cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /private/etc/hostconfig or use a text editor like vi or pico to edit /etc/hostconfig I think that will do it. If not, let me know. TjL
From: jclemens@big.aa.net (Jonathan Clemens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Gateway routing through ppp -- help! Date: 17 Oct 1996 17:41:08 -0700 Organization: Alternate Access Inc. - Affordable, Reliable Internet Access Message-ID: <546jn4$mlh@big.aa.net> References: <ryan-1510961824290001@ppp173.gslink.net> In article <ryan-1510961824290001@ppp173.gslink.net>, Ryan Zenker <ryan@apollo.ehs.ocps.k12.fl.us> wrote: > >I need help on routing internet through a ppp connection to ethernet. My >problem is that I can't use both interfaces, ppp0 and en0, at the same >time. I was able to acomplish this with linux, but the route command was >more advanced. I am running NextStep 3.2 on a NextStation m68040. Hmm... I'm running 3.3 Developer for Intel, and it works dandy for me; routed just "did" its thing without my having to configure anything, once PPP 2.2.0 (I think?) was installed. My TAN is just my Pentium and Mac which are thinnetted together, both sharing the 33.6 modem I have for PPP. I installed PPP before the OS patch to 3.3, and it worked great both before and after the patch. Of course, my ISP had to give me two static IP addresses to get this to work right. Jonathan http://www.aa.net/~jclemens
From: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OpenStep 4 on a 200 Mhz intel with NT4 Date: 18 Oct 1996 02:25:25 GMT Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc. Message-ID: <546pql$1ic@chinx10.thoughtport.net> Has anybody installed OpenStep 4. on a 200mhz intel with NT4.0, via cd rom drive? From NextAnswers, it seems that it's easier in a pc with win95. If you have had success, please send me the step by step procedure. My machine can't read the cd disk. I'm one of those people who's used to black hardware just working. Thanks, Robert Wakeman rwakeman@thoughtport.com
From: peter@pisi.select-tech.si (Peter Levart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: SPARC4 & 5 with NS3.3 - freezing Date: 17 Oct 1996 21:16:50 GMT Organization: SELECT Technology Message-ID: <5467o2$h1p@ned.select-tech.si> Keywords: sparc, sparc4, sparc5, freezing Hello! Is there anyone who experienced the same problems? We are administering a site with approximately 40 SPARCstation 4s & 5s, running NEXTSTEP 3.3 with 3.3 Patch1 and 3.3 Patch1 Addendum installed (using ImprovedDNS). Machines are equipped with at least 32 Mb of RAM. They have at least 1Gb hard disks with plenty of swapspace. We are observing two problems: 1. A small number of hosts (as far as we have observed, only some SPARCstation 4 machines have this problem) experience unexpected automatic log-outs with a message in the console: Oct 6 20:45:18 zunanja7 loginwindow[393]: bootstrap_register failed -102 2. Virtually all hosts (SPARC 4s & 5s) freeze from time to time (1 or 2 every day). This usually happens during the night, when nobody is using the machines, or during the normal usage. No error messages get logged to /var/adm/messages or /tmp/console.log and it is impossible to reboot a machine after it freezes. The Stop-A combination doesn't work. The machine has to be switched off and on again. - Are the problems hardware or software related? - If they are software related, are there any patches or workarrounds? - If they are software related, can they be eliminated by upgrading to OPENSTEP 4.0? Thank you for your answers. With best regards, Peter Levart -- Peter Levart - SELECT Technology mailto:peter@select-tech.si http://www.select-tech.si phone: +386 61 1319244 fax: +386 61 1315047 Technology mailto:peter@select-tech.si http://www.select-tech.si phone: +386 61 1319244 fax: +386 61 1315047
From: peter@select-tech.si (Peter Levart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: 17 Oct 1996 21:30:49 GMT Organization: SELECT Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5468i9$h1t@ned.select-tech.si> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961017115415.20401A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.961017115415.20401A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen. de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > > As far as I know, only DEC VMS, DEC UNIX and Windows NT support the > mentioned LVM strategy. > SunSoft gives (with server licences of Solaris 2.5) a product called Solstice DiskSuite 4.0 that does all that and more (mirroring, raid 5, shared disksets). We are using it with great advantage. Peter. -- Peter Levart - SELECT Technology mailto:peter@select-tech.si http://www.select-tech.si phone: +386 61 1319244 fax: +386 61 1315047
From: kinau@zimmer.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TCP wrapper for NeXT 68k Date: 17 Oct 1996 03:56:01 GMT Organization: California State University, Fresno Message-ID: <544aoh$5df@shadow.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi, Is there a site I can download binary NeXT 68k version of TCP wrapper? I try to compile but I get error at the end. Please help... Thanks in advance. --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/ -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzJJkwEAAAEDAMHh5WMewwIXy3D7K46JeFkiFARiSpYu0osPy0gM7dkQqW28 ym7gMft0gAHC9fpvIQQ93BESamn6MuNt+f9yxhMSZX/UGX6LqG7jyEmTgWzyDLkw VxNkugSY/uDi7ZasOQAFEbQfS2luIEguIEF1IDxraW5hdUBjc3VmcmVzbm8uZWR1 Pg== =2ks8 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- ******************************************************************************
From: John Fry <fry@csli.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: newbie can't boot cube Date: 17 Oct 1996 22:06:20 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: fry@Prosit.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <fry.845614619@Prosit.Stanford.EDU> Hi, I recently acquired a NeXT cube but I can't boot it up. After the message 'system test passed', I try to boot from scsi disk with 'bsd' but it just responds with sc: Didn't complete over and over. No variation in the args to 'bsd' makes a difference. It never moves on to the 'loading from disk' stage. I have a feeling the OS has been completely erased from the disk. Does that sound like the right diagnosis? How should I proceed? Try to attach a cdrom drive and boot from that? Try to boot from ethernet from another NeXT? Thanks for your advice! -- John Fry <fry@csli.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: knspilka@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Keir Spilka) Subject: Booting up an 040 cube to a console or command line Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: <DzFK0t.DLq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 17:17:17 GMT Organization: University of Waterloo Hi, I have a little problem. I have changed my root shell to the tcshell, without adding the tcshell to /etc/hosts. SO whenever I try to log in (on the black box) I get: "This account does not have a user shell. /bin/tcsh will be executed and all output ignored. Do you still want to execute this command?" I can telnet to the machine but i can't login as root (that has been disabled for security reasons---silly me!) This is further complicated by the fact that none of my users are in the proper group to su to root. So I need to know if I can somehow skip the NeXTSTEP graphical interface when I boot up, and boot to a mach commandline prompt or something If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanx Nik -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keir Spilka knspilka@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca 2A CS/EEE Major http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~knspilka University of Waterloo
From: sk68@cornell.edu (Sung Ho Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newbie can't boot cube Date: 18 Oct 1996 08:45:39 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <sk68-0201040823350001@cu-dialup-0017.cit.cornell.edu> References: <fry.845614619@Prosit.Stanford.EDU> Hi, I don't know if this will help, but check to see if the SCSI disk is properly terminated. Sung Ho Kim sk68@cornell.edu In article <fry.845614619@Prosit.Stanford.EDU>, fry@csli.stanford.edu wrote: > Hi, > > I recently acquired a NeXT cube but I can't boot it up. > > After the message 'system test passed', I try to boot from scsi disk > with 'bsd' but it just responds with > > sc: Didn't complete > > over and over. No variation in the args to 'bsd' makes a difference. > It never moves on to the 'loading from disk' stage. > > I have a feeling the OS has been completely erased from the disk. > Does that sound like the right diagnosis? > > How should I proceed? Try to attach a cdrom drive and boot from that? > Try to boot from ethernet from another NeXT? > > Thanks for your advice! > -- > John Fry <fry@csli.stanford.edu>
From: sk68@cornell.edu (Sung Ho Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Booting up an 040 cube to a console or command line Date: 18 Oct 1996 08:48:05 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <sk68-0201040826010001@cu-dialup-0017.cit.cornell.edu> References: <DzFK0t.DLq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Hi, Restart the computer, and when it finishes "Testing system", press: Command ~ After that, you should be in the ROM monitor. Type: NeXT>bsd -s This should load you single user mode, skipping the netinfo script and also the graphical user interface. Sung Ho Kim sk68@cornell.edu Cornell University In article <DzFK0t.DLq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, knspilka@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Keir Spilka) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a little problem. I have changed my root shell to the > tcshell, without adding the tcshell to /etc/hosts. SO whenever I try to > log in (on the black box) I get: > > "This account does not have a user shell. /bin/tcsh will be executed and > all output ignored. Do you still want to execute this command?" > > > > I can telnet to the machine but i can't login as root (that has been > disabled for security reasons---silly me!) > This is further complicated by the fact that none of my users are in the > proper group to su to root. > > So I need to know if I can somehow skip the NeXTSTEP graphical interface > when I boot up, and boot to a mach commandline prompt or something > > > If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanx > > Nik > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keir Spilka knspilka@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca > 2A CS/EEE Major http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~knspilka > University of Waterloo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Booting up an 040 cube to a console or command line Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DzG2nC.1H5@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:59:36 GMT References: <DzFK0t.DLq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <DzFK0t.DLq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, Keir Spilka <knspilka@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >Hi, > > I have a little problem. I have changed my root shell to the >tcshell, without adding the tcshell to /etc/hosts. You mean /etc/shells, right? ;-) >So I need to know if I can somehow skip the NeXTSTEP graphical interface >when I boot up, and boot to a mach commandline prompt or something > You can boot single user by saying "bsd -s" at the ROM monitor prompt. To get to it hold down both command keys and the upper left key on the keypar just after the boot graphics say "Testing System" ("Loading from Disk" is next). -- 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: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:03:33 -0500 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <32678E35.14D3@pswtech.com> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Seongbae Park wrote: > What version of the CERT sendmail does your sendmail correspond to ? > As far as I know, there's only 8.7.6 version of the CERT sendmail. > If you're version is only a NeXTSTEP porting of CERT 8.7.6, then > why 8.8.0 ? Version 8.8.0 of sendmail was just released. It's released as source code, not binaries, so the most recent version number is the same across all systems. ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: american@mail.tds.net (Charles C. Hocker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help now!! Please!!! Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:37:11 GMT Organization: TDS Telecom - Madison, WI Message-ID: <5484mn$6ff@news2.tds.net> References: <01bba4cc$ed86d1e0$7efe5380@ginger> In-Reply-To: <01bba4cc$ed86d1e0$7efe5380@ginger> On 10/17/96, "Joshua Kerr" wrote: >I made a modification to the hostmanager, and now I can't boot. It gets >stuck in Automount. How do I get to a command prompt to restore the files >I modified??? I can't seem to do anything!! Help me!! Hello Josh, Do not panic! I have fought with the same problem over the last few days. Here is what you need to do for Intel Hardware: 1) When you turn on you machine and the NeXT preboot prompt appears (you know the one what times out in about 10 seconds) issue the command "-s" and hit return. This will boot the machine in single user mode. 2) Upon booting you will be presented with a "#" prompt. Issue the command "fsck -P" or just "fsck" and clean you filesystem first. You may have to do this several times. If the machine recommends rebooting (it will tell you) issue the command "reboot" and repeat steps 1 & 2. 3) The hostconfig file (I believe) is backup up as hostconfig~. If not you can do one of two things. a) There is a 'clean' copy of hostconfig under "cd /usr/template/client/etc" and then "cp hostconfig /etc/hostconfig". Then issue the command "reboot". b) Mount you distribution CD using the command "mount /dev/sd1a /CD". Then issue the commands "cd /CD/etc" and then "cp hostconfig /etc/hostconfig". This will copy the 'clean' hostconfig file to your machine. Then issue the command "reboot". 4) After this, you should boot normally. Charles -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Charles C. Hocker american@Mail.TDS.Net ASCII, MIME & NeXTmail (preferred) american@aztec.asu.edu "Food is Power. We use it to change behavior. Some May Call that Bribery. We Do Not Apologize." Catherine Bertini, executive director, UN World Food Program, Beijing, China, UN 4th World Conference on Women, Sept. 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------
From: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (wilfrid Gaboriaud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP DJ 1600CM Date: 18 Oct 1996 17:53:40 GMT Organization: Universite de La Rochelle Message-ID: <548g74$26g@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr> Hello, can somebody tell me where to find a driver for the HP DJ 1600CM printer ? Many thanks wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:52:21 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-68.usc.edu Message-ID: <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> <32678E35.14D3@pswtech.com> Cc: leonvs@pswtech.com In <32678E35.14D3@pswtech.com> Leon von Stauber wrote: > Seongbae Park wrote: > > What version of the CERT sendmail does your sendmail correspond to ? > > As far as I know, there's only 8.7.6 version of the CERT sendmail. > > If you're version is only a NeXTSTEP porting of CERT 8.7.6, then > > why 8.8.0 ? > > Version 8.8.0 of sendmail was just released. It's released as source > code, not binaries, so the most recent version number is the same > across all systems. Actually, 8.8.0 had a security problem. So the current version is 8.8.1 -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> 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: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: TCP wrapper for NeXT 68k Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961018173122.17263C-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:32:53 -0400 References: <544aoh$5df@shadow.CSUFresno.EDU> To: Kin Hung Au <kinau@zimmer.csufresno.edu> cc: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <544aoh$5df@shadow.CSUFresno.EDU> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Thanks to Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> they are available at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/tcp_wrappers-7.3.NIHS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/tcp_wrappers-7.3.README I downloaded them with his permission from his site: http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter Thanks Rex! TjL Timothy J. Luoma New Submissions Coordinator PEAK FTP Site General FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Submissions: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions On 17 Oct 1996, Kin Hung Au wrote: > Date: 17 Oct 1996 03:56:01 GMT > From: Kin Hung Au <kinau@zimmer.csufresno.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: TCP wrapper for NeXT 68k > > Hi, > > Is there a site I can download binary NeXT 68k version of TCP wrapper? > > I try to compile but I get error at the end. Please help... > > Thanks in advance. > > --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/ > > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > mQBtAzJJkwEAAAEDAMHh5WMewwIXy3D7K46JeFkiFARiSpYu0osPy0gM7dkQqW28 > ym7gMft0gAHC9fpvIQQ93BESamn6MuNt+f9yxhMSZX/UGX6LqG7jyEmTgWzyDLkw > VxNkugSY/uDi7ZasOQAFEbQfS2luIEguIEF1IDxraW5hdUBjc3VmcmVzbm8uZWR1 > Pg== > =2ks8 > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > ****************************************************************************** > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961018173335.17263D-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:34:34 -0400 References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> <32678E35.14D3@pswtech.com> To: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> In-Reply-To: <32678E35.14D3@pswtech.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII sendmail 8.8.1 is now available in our submissions folder (URL below) Thanks again to Robert La Ferla for his continued work on this package for NeXTStep. TjL Timothy J. Luoma New Submissions Coordinator PEAK FTP Site General FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Submissions: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Leon von Stauber wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:03:33 -0500 > From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 > > Seongbae Park wrote: > > What version of the CERT sendmail does your sendmail correspond to ? > > As far as I know, there's only 8.7.6 version of the CERT sendmail. > > If you're version is only a NeXTSTEP porting of CERT 8.7.6, then > > why 8.8.0 ? > > Version 8.8.0 of sendmail was just released. It's released as source > code, not binaries, so the most recent version number is the same > across all systems. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ > Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> > PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> > "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!" > > >
From: dale@storm.frontrange.ab.ca (Dale A. Schack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Virtual IP addresses + NetInfo/User Accounts Date: 15 Oct 1996 07:25:07 GMT Organization: NAVOCEANO Message-ID: <53ve8j$2hf@tomcat.msrcnavo.navy.mil> Hello, I have successfully added virtual IP addresses to my Next slab, and am able to use this in conjuction with Apache to serve WWW sites on virtual machines. However, I would like to be able to add user accounts to a virtual machine using NetInfo (or anything else). Is it possible to use virtual IP addresses as separate domains in NetInfo? Or is there a much easier way of producing several user accounts of the same name on one machine, differing only in there domain names. For example, I am able to host company www.abc.com and www.xyz.com on a single machine. I would like to add the ability to have the users info@abc.com and info@xyz.com also hosted on the same one machine. Can this been done via virtual IP, or do I need to do something else (ie sendmail?). Thanks in advance for the info. --- 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: joshkerr@cs.utexas.edu (Joshua Kerr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with mail pictures. Date: 18 Oct 1996 22:44:32 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <54918g$1c7@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> I am trying to get the tiffs that I put in my /locallibrary/images/people/ to show up in mail.app when I click on their respective message. I saved the tiff images as the email address of the people whose pictures they are. However, the pictures don't show up in mail.app. I am running NextStep 3.2 on black hardware. Thanks for your help. Josh -- _______________________________________ Joshua Kerr joshkerr@cs.utexas.edu http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/joshkerr/ "Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while, I was the suspect." --Steven Wright
From: Jeremy G Mereness <jeremym+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: print to NeXT from NT? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 21:12:42 -0400 Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0mO2g_200V410UZ680@andrew.cmu.edu> I've been trying to print to NeXT printers from my single NT box with no luck. I'm creating a printer in NT that uses an "LPR port" where you can fill in the name of a unix host and a print name. Then I put the name of the NT box's hostname in /etc/hosts.lpd, but it doesn't work. Do I have to do something to the netinfo database, or is it enough to alter the flat files on the print-host? I've gotten other unix hosts to print to NeXT printers, and I've gotten NT machines to print to Unix print queues. But I've never tried NT to NeXT. Am I missing something somewhere? |Jeremy Mereness |Facilities Technical Manager |Institute for Technology and Management, NYC |Graduate School of Industrial Administration |Carnegie Mellon University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- jeremym@andrew.cmu.edu http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/jeremym/home.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) Subject: Re: procmail 3.10 Message-ID: <DzHwwx.9GD@musical.uucp> Sender: news@musical.uucp References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010102123.5570A-100000@pollux> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:50:56 GMT Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> writes > > Has anybody successfully compiled procmail 3.10 with posix flag > turned on? If i do so, the machine will hang at the locking file > test 7. > Hi, I got the 3.11pre4 with a very nice configure system, I had just to type "make" and that's it, the configure script check your system and create a customized Makefile for you. Make an Archie search with procmail-3.11pre4 Sam -- Sam Przyswa System Operator Rock'n Jazz BBS Music & MIDI E-Mail: sam@musical.fdn.org <MIME & NeXTMail> Paris - France Musical Web - http://www.fdn.fr/~musical/ 33-1-4054-8604 French Data Network - http://www.fdn.fr/ 33-1-4754-9224
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) Subject: [Q] CNews/nntp problems with Windows News Apps Message-ID: <DzHxMy.9Ix@musical.uucp> Sender: news@musical.uucp Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:06:34 GMT I have installed CNews/nntp package, it work fine with NewsGrazer.app on remote NEXTSTEP machines, but when I connect on Windows network behind a NT server the news apps as MS Mail & News catch the newsgroups but no way to get the news subjects and read news as well. I plan to build an Intranet solution on NEXTSTEP for Windows network, the mail server, Web server, work fine except the news. Does anybody have already get and solve this problem ? Thanks in advance for your reply. Sam -- Sam Przyswa System Operator Rock'n Jazz BBS Music & MIDI E-Mail: sam@musical.fdn.org <MIME & NeXTMail> Paris - France Musical Web - http://www.fdn.fr/~musical/ 33-1-4054-8604 French Data Network - http://www.fdn.fr/ 33-1-4754-9224
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] nmserver and security Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:53:42 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1810962353420001@slip-52-6.ots.utexas.edu> References: <DzHxMy.9Ix@musical.uucp> In addition to whatever interprocess communication it expedites, the nmserver daemon which is started at bootup listens on a certain high-numbered port for TCP connections, presumably from other NeXT machines on your local network. Since I don't like running a network daemon whose function I don't understand, I'd like to know 1) What are the security implications of nmserver ? 2) If, say, I am running on a network with no other NeXT machines in proximity, there is no point to having nmserver listening for connections, nor attempting to make connections with other machines. Is there any way to get nmserver to NOT listen for connections (say, by monkeying around in /etc/rc.net) ? 3) Alternatively, is there a version of nmserver which implements logging and access control a la Wietse Venema's portmap or tcpwrappers? Jacques Distler
From: pmod@u1.abs.net (Peter M. O'Donnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: i need cc ! Date: 19 Oct 1996 06:58:19 GMT Organization: ABSnet Internet Services, Inc. - (410)-685-2000 - info@abs.net Message-ID: <549u6b$77u@news.abs.net> hiya. i just bought a used nextstation turbo. apparently there is no cc. this seems weird to me, but who knows. i really need one tho, so i can install some software (bash,GNU,etc). would someone mind either clueing me in as to where cc is if it is indeed there; or mailing me a cc built for a NeXTstation turbo 3.3. thanks. uuencode it if you can. thanks so much! peter
From: "Pohtk" <meichin@cyberway.com.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to setup a PPP connection or Network conection to Windows NT Date: 18 Oct 1996 16:22:57 GMT Organization: SCIP Message-ID: <01bbbd0e$9f911d60$2a3974cb@pohtk> Can anyone shown me where to get the information on how to setup a PPP connection or network connection for a NeXT PC to a Windows NT server (including software and hardware requirement). Thanks. TK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kjb@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Barth) Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Message-ID: <DzIqtt.97u@ccc.amdahl.com> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com (Usenet Administration) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA USA References: <5468i9$h1t@ned.select-tech.si> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 10:37:05 GMT In article <5468i9$h1t@ned.select-tech.si> peter@select-tech.si (Peter Levart) writes: > In article > <Pine.HPP.3.95.961017115415.20401A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen. > de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > > > > As far as I know, only DEC VMS, DEC UNIX and Windows NT support the > > mentioned LVM strategy. > > > > SunSoft gives (with server licences of Solaris 2.5) a product called > Solstice DiskSuite 4.0 that does all that and more (mirroring, raid 5, > shared disksets). We are using it with great advantage. > An overwhelmingly superior LVM product is the Veritas Volume Manager that ships with EVERY SUN SSA. In addition, the Veritas Volume Manager is available for a WIDE variety of OS's, and is in fact the basis for most companies OEM'd LVM products. Incidentally, some time next year (around the first quarter) EVERY Windows NT server will ship with the Veritas Volume Manager bundled in it. But heah, I thought we all agreed a VERY long time ago that NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP is a *client operating system*, not intended to be on a server the size that LVM would justify. I thought that the idea is to get your beefy server from your favorite supplier (I like the new SUN Ultra enterprise servers myself) and put OPENSTEP on the desktops. Well, that would be my plan anyway.... -- Regards, Kevin Barth (kjb@amdahl.com) phone: +44-1252-346307 Open Systems Staff Support fax: +44-1252-346400 Amdahl Corporation
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: i need cc ! Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:18:17 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmOD4t200UhWA1X_Eq@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <549u6b$77u@news.abs.net> In-Reply-To: <549u6b$77u@news.abs.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Oct-96 i need cc ! by Peter M. O'Donnell@u1.ab > hiya. i just bought a used nextstation turbo. apparently there is no cc. > this seems weird to me, but who knows. i really need one tho, so i can > install some software (bash,GNU,etc). would someone mind either clueing me > in as to where cc is if it is indeed there; or mailing me a cc built for a > NeXTstation turbo 3.3. thanks. uuencode it if you can. thanks so much! RTFAQ. You need to purchase NEXTSTEP/Developer if you wish to compile software under NEXTSTEP. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:20:44 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0mOD7Aa00UhW41X=IT@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5468i9$h1t@ned.select-tech.si> <DzIqtt.97u@ccc.amdahl.com> In-Reply-To: <DzIqtt.97u@ccc.amdahl.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Oct-96 Re: Does a Logical Volume M.. by Kevin Barth@uts.amdahl.c > But heah, I thought we all agreed a VERY long time ago that > NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP is a *client operating system*, not intended to be on a > server the size that LVM would justify. It's true that NEXTSTEP was designed towards being a client operating system. However, I can see the potential utility of being able to run a large server system which uses (P)DO and/or EOF, or even all of OPENSTEP. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: myers@feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Eric Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 19 Oct 1996 18:05:25 GMT Organization: Department of Physics, University of Michigan Message-ID: <54b595$80c@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> <32678E35.14D3@pswtech.com> <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> In article <548jl5$hur@usc.edu>, Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> wrote: > >Actually, 8.8.0 had a security problem. So the current >version is 8.8.1 Actually, it seems that 8.8.2 is current. According to the message I get at ftp.sendmail.org: This directory contains sendmail 8.x source distributions. The latest production version is in sendmail.${VER}.tar.{Z,gz,sig}... The status of various interesting ${VER}s is: 8.8.2 Fixes a serious security problem in 8.8.0. Due to a botch in the code, 8.8.1 does NOT fix the security hole. -- Eric Myers <myers@umich.edu> | High Energy Theoretical Physics | Department of Physics | "You are in a maze of twisted University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | little Home Pages, all alike."
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: procmail 3.10 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:46:10 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961019114436.5056B-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010102123.5570A-100000@pollux> <DzHwwx.9GD@musical.uucp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <DzHwwx.9GD@musical.uucp> procmail can be found at ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:51:04 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961019114954.5056D-100000@kira> References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> <32678E35.14D3@pswtech.com> <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> <54b595$80c@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Eric Myers <myers@feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <54b595$80c@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> Yes, sendmail 8.8.2 is the current version. It will be in the submissions folder at our site as soon as possible, thanks to the continued efforts of Robert La Ferla TjL Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator PEAK FTP Site General FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Submissions: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions On 19 Oct 1996, Eric Myers wrote: > Date: 19 Oct 1996 18:05:25 GMT > From: Eric Myers <myers@feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 > > In article <548jl5$hur@usc.edu>, Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> wrote: > > > >Actually, 8.8.0 had a security problem. So the current > >version is 8.8.1 > > Actually, it seems that 8.8.2 is current. According to the message > I get at ftp.sendmail.org: > > This directory contains sendmail 8.x source distributions. The latest > production version is in sendmail.${VER}.tar.{Z,gz,sig}... > > The status of various interesting ${VER}s is: > 8.8.2 Fixes a serious security problem in 8.8.0. Due to a botch in > the code, 8.8.1 does NOT fix the security hole. > > -- > Eric Myers <myers@umich.edu> | > High Energy Theoretical Physics | > Department of Physics | "You are in a maze of twisted > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | little Home Pages, all alike." > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: procmail is on peak (was Re: procmail 3.10) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 12:10:40 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961019115833.7616A-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010102123.5570A-100000@pollux> <DzHwwx.9GD@musical.uucp> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961019114436.5056B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961019114436.5056B-100000@kira> > procmail can be found at > > ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz while the above statement is true, it is USELESS for the person who wanted the latest procmail. Anyway, you can find the latest procmail source code as: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/procmail.3.11pre4.s.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/procmail.3.11pre4.README for those who don't know procmail, read the rest of this message. For those who don't care, feel free to move on... Feature summary for procmail: + It's less filling (i.e. small) + Very easy to install (rated PG6 :-) + Simple to maintain and configure because all you need is actually only ONE executable (procmail) and ONE configuration file (.procmailrc) + Is event driven (i.e. gets invoked automagically when mail arrives) + Does not use *any* temporary files + Uses standard egrep regular expressions + It poses a very low impact on your system's resources (it's 1.4 times faster than the average /bin/mail in user-cpu time) + Allows for very-easy-to-use yes-no decisions on where the mail should go (can take the size of the mail into consideration) + Also allows for neural-net-type weighted scoring of mails + Filters, delivers and forwards mail *reliably* + Provides a reliable hook (you might even say anchor :-) for any programs or shell scripts you may wish to start upon mail arrival + Performs heroically under even the worst conditions (file system full, out of swap space, process table full, file table full, missing support files, unavailable executables, denied permissions) and tries to deliver the mail somehow anyway + Absolutely undeliverable mail (after trying every trick in the book) will bounce back to the sender (or not, your choice) + Is one of the few mailers to perform reliable mailbox locking across NFS as well (DON'T use NFS mounted mailboxes WITHOUT installing procmail; you may lose valuable mail one day) + Supports four mailfolder standards: single file folders (standard and nonstandard VNIX format), directory folders that contain one file per message, or the similar MH directory folders (numbered files) + Variable assignment and substitution is an extremely complete subset of the standard /bin/sh syntax + Provides a mail log file, which logs all mail arrival, shows in summary whence it came, what it was about, where it went (what folder) and how long (in bytes) it was + Uses this log file to display a wide range of diagnostic and error messages (if something went wrong) + Does not impose *any* limits on line lengths, mail length (as long as memory permits), or the use of any character (any 8-bit character, including '\0' is allowed) in the mail + It has man pages (boy, does *it* have man pages) + Procmail can be used as a local delivery agent with comsat/biff support (*fully* downwards compatible with /bin/mail); in which case it can heal your system mailbox, if something messes up the permissions + Secure system mailbox handling (contrary to several well known /bin/mail implementations) + Provides for a controlled execution of programs and scripts from the aliases file (i.e. under defined user ids) + Allows you to painlessly shift the system mailboxes into the user's home directories + It runs on virtually all (old and future) operating systems which names start with a 'U' or end in an 'X' :-) (i.e. extremely portable code; POSIX, ANSI C and K&R conforming) + Is clock skew immune (e.g. in the case of NFS mounted mailboxes) + Can be used as a general mailfilter for whole groups of messages (e.g. when called from within sendmail.cf rules) + Works with (among others?) sendmail, ZMailer, smail, MMDF and mailsurr Feature summary for formail: + Can generate auto-reply headers + Can convert mail into standard mailbox format (so that you can process it with standard mail programs) + Can split up mailboxes into the individual messages + Can split up digests into the individual messages + Can split up saved articles into the individual articles + Can do simple header munging/extraction + Can extract messages from mailboxes + Can recognise duplicate messages Feature summary for lockfile: + Provides NFS-secure lockfiles to shell script programmers + Gives normal users the ability to lock their system mailbox, regardless of the permissions on the mail-spool directory
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syslog problem Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:57:50 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <54bbru$bed@kanga.accessone.com> References: <545qoi$fud@wfn.emn.fr> Cc: Laurent.Champciaux@emn.fr In <545qoi$fud@wfn.emn.fr> Laurent.Champciaux@emn.fr wrote: > Since I have had problems with the 3D kit (crashes with message:exiting > due to excessive DPS errors), I have the the following message at the > console every time I log in : Oct 17 17:46:35 buzz syslog: Error raised in > Listener run loop, continuing ... Just a guess. Did 3D make an entry in your /etc/rc.local file? -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: sound blaster question? Message-ID: <DzJA78.2tB@sounds.wa.com> Followup-To: SS_NSI@Sounds.wa.com Keywords: EnsoniqSoundscape Driver Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <53ecdrINNo2g@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1996Oct9.065424.29877@seer.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:35:31 GMT In article <1996Oct9.065424.29877@seer.demon.co.uk>, Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote: > >We can't get current, commonly available sound cards that work with >NeXTSTEP. The UK Ensoniq distributor clearly doesn't want to sell them; I am sorry to hear this. You might consider contacting ENSONIQ about the poor performance of their distributor. In fact, if you could reply privately to me with contact information for the UK distributor, I might want to see what their reluctance is based on. I cannot make any promises, though, and should point out that I cannot resell ENSONIQ hardware, especially not overseas. ENSONIQ is at www.ensoniq.com and 610/647-3930. You can also call Soundscape Direct at 800/553-5151 (they may not be able to sell overseas but should be very interested in your problems if you escalate the matter to management). The EnsoniqSoundscape Audio+MIDI Driver for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.0 is available internationally, please contact SS_NSI@Sounds.wa.com for ordering information or visit http://nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/ss_nsi.html for a product sheet. -- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA <http://nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/brianw.html>
From: rupert@blitzen.noir.net (Hans Rupert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with mail pictures. Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:20:15 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. The Wisconsin ISP 414-476-4266 http://www.inc.net Message-ID: <54bd5v$ih0@news.inc.net> References: <54918g$1c7@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Cc: joshkerr@cs.utexas.edu In <54918g$1c7@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Joshua Kerr wrote: I am trying to get the tiffs that I put in my /locallibrary/images/people/ to show up in mail.app when I click on their respective message. I saved the tiff images as the email address of the people whose pictures they are. However, the pictures don't show up in mail.app. I am running NextStep 3.2 on black hardware. Thanks for your help. Josh ____ Yup, sure thing. Not being a FQSA (fully qualified sys admin) myself, I simply consulted DigitalLibrarian/SysAdmin.bshlf. Query the word 'picture', and you'll get this as one of the finds, Chapter 06 '06_mail.rtfd': Updating Pictures and Aliases: The Addresses panel of the Mail application includes all the user accounts and aliases available for addressing a message. When new users or aliases are added, the aliases database must be updated. This is accomplished with the command /usr/bin/mailDBupdate. To make things even easier, you can modify a file so that the command runs automatically every day: 1.Log in as root on the mail server. 2.Open /etc/crontab.local and add a line like the following to the bottom of the file (if the file doesn't already exist, create it): 0 2 * * * root /usr/bin/mailDBupdate This entry updates aliases and pictures every day at 2:00 am. If you'd like to run the command more frequently, or at a different time, modify the entry appropriately. See the UNIX manual page for cron for details. 3.Save the file. The aliases database (and mail pictures) will now be updated daily. For more information about mail pictures, see ªAdding Pictures for Usersº later in this chapter. Note: If you set up the mail server with SimpleNetworkStarter, the cron scripts will automatically be modified to include this command. Guess what? I tried it, and it just works! Let me know if you have any troubles. Hope this helps. Bests, -- Hans Rupert <rupert@noir.net> / NeXTmail or MIME encouraged Direktor noir
From: mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: 19 Oct 1996 21:16:54 GMT Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Message-ID: <54bgg6$sts@alpha1.auspex.com> References: <DzIqtt.97u@ccc.amdahl.com> In article <DzIqtt.97u@ccc.amdahl.com> kjb@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Barth) writes: > An overwhelmingly superior LVM product is the Veritas Volume Manager > that ships with EVERY SUN SSA. In addition, the Veritas Volume Manager > is available for a WIDE variety of OS's, and is in fact the basis for > most companies OEM'd LVM products. > The problem, of course, is that you're then using a Sun SSA. <shudder>. If you really want a server with top-notch volume management, get an Auspex. Incredible reliability and performance are additional fun side-effects. ;) - Mark, who's been an Auspex customer twice, once at NeXT -- 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: newbie can't boot cube Message-ID: <DzJ2M9.176@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <fry.845614619@Prosit.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 14:51:45 GMT In article <fry.845614619@Prosit.Stanford.EDU> John Fry <fry@csli.stanford.edu> writes: > Hi, > > I recently acquired a NeXT cube but I can't boot it up. > > After the message 'system test passed', I try to boot from scsi disk > with 'bsd' but it just responds with > > sc: Didn't complete > > over and over. No variation in the args to 'bsd' makes a difference. > It never moves on to the 'loading from disk' stage. > > I have a feeling the OS has been completely erased from the disk. > Does that sound like the right diagnosis? > That's within the range of possibilities. You could also have a SCSI bus config problem. Make suer everything is ok about cabling and drive power (does the disk spin up?) Some older disk drives take more time to spin up than the boot monitor allows. A manual boot after some seconds should cure that, though. > How should I proceed? Try to attach a cdrom drive and boot from that? > Try to boot from ethernet from another NeXT? > Booting from CD will almost certainly require a floppy drive, too (most boot ROMs don't know to boot 2k sectored drives, therefore, you need to load a boot manager that can from floppy). If you could boot over the net that would be fastest. Then you could run SCSI bus diagnosis tools like SCSIinquirer.app or the like. -- 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: labuser@csus.edu (Lab Station) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INTERNET SURVEY-THESIS PROJECT Date: 19 Oct 1996 22:26:51 GMT Organization: CSU, Sacramento Message-ID: <labuser-1910961633370001@mac-04.skylab.csus.edu> Internet Questionnaire What if a hacker altered your credit reports making it impossible to get a loan? What if a hacker changed your driving records? Altering a persons file will cause an ordeal that no one wants to go through. Plus, it can take several years to restore one's good name once a file has been changed, maliciously. In this day of computerization, data security is more important than ever to prevent events like this from happening. For ethical and economical reasons, this question is of vital importance for everyone. For my master's thesis on information security on the Internet, I am seeking opinions from information systems professionals. So the study will be complete and authoritative, please take five minutes to complete this questionnaire and return it via e-mail. Indicate your responses by placing check marks above the underscores. All responses will remain confidential and reported in summary format. I will not sell, trade, or lend the list of respondents to any other organization. To receive a summary of my findings, please return your survey to me by November 8th. I appreciate your help and am eager to share with you my findings of security on the Web. Suggestions: E-mail: Select All the contents of this survey, then Paste into e-mail editor, select appropriate answers, then send to ekouri@csus.edu Fax: (916) 657-6757 Attn: Dr. Russell Ching Mail: Dr. Russell Ching School of Business Administration California State University of Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, Ca 95819-6088 Organization type? ___Education ___Government ___Commercial ___Military Your working title: Electronic mail address (optional): Your education level? ___A.A. ___B.S. ___M.S. ___Ph.D. Are you concerned about the security of your computer systems and networks? not concerned ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very concerned To your knowledge, have your computer systems or networks ever been compromised by an intruder? ___Yes ___No ___No comment ___I don't know If intruders did break in, would you admit it? ___Yes ___No ___I wouldn't know Which security offenders are you most afraid of? ___Hackers___Industrial Espionage___Disgruntled Employees___I Don't know In general terms, describe the security precautions your organization has taken (check all that apply) ___Few or none ___Lecture users about passwords ___Installed security-related OS patches ___Used SATAN or COPS ___Use a Firewall ___Encryption ___Smart Cards ___Monitoring and Logging ___Not connected to the Internet ___Other: Describe your organization's baseline data security paranoia level: not concerned ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very concerned Do you feel setting up a taskforce to actively pursuit hackers is a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Is a national CIO in charge of administrating the Internet a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Is a governmental agency issuing guidelines and standards of how to ensure secure transactions over the Internet a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel that a centralized agency can effectively manage the Internet's growth and security? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel publicity overrates security issues regarding the Internet? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Are government workshops regarding network and information security offered to businesses at low costs a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Are governmental ratings of a companies' Internet security presented to the general public a good idea? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel tax write-offs or tax breaks for the purchase of data security equipment or software would help improve security? no effect ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much To what degree do you feel a lack of standards such as Encryption, Protocols, Firewalls, and Digital Signatures hurts commerce on the Internet? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much If there was a governing body overseeing these functions as stated in the previous question and standardizing them, do you think commerce would increase? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Do you feel government regulation of the Internet will help commerce? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Would you be more confident in the Internet if the government was accountable for data security? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much Will government regulation increase information security? not at all ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much If so, how much power should the government have to enforce its policies? none ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ very much If government does increase security and commerce are you willing to have your operations regulated in order to do business? ___Yes ___No ___I don't know Do you feel government administration of the Internet would cost the government too much money? Yes ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ No In your opinion: What would be the best way to increase information security over the Internet?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "haystack" <martin@gbu.nsc.com> Subject: my front porch Message-ID: <01bbbd5c$20e155e0$2e8fbb8b@twister.nsc.com> Sender: news@nsc.nsc.com (netnews maintenance) Organization: the whole world over Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 01:23:54 GMT Hi all I would seem to have a similar problem to our colleague Bing Hu in that I am trying to drive back from the grave a NeXtStation Mono but in trying to init a new hard drive I am getting ' boot block extends beyond front porch ' when i try to intialize the disk. it doesn't seem like a fatal error until I try and install the install script tells me that I must shutdown the system system specifics NeXtStation mono, 20 MB RAM external SCSI CD-ROM (working fine as far as I can tell) internal drive - IBM DORS 32160 - 2.1 Gb (brand new) NextStep V3.2 User I guess the magic question is : Is the drive I am trying to install too big for this system ?, or is there some way for maing my front porch longer or making my boot block shorter ? Thanx Bob Martin
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Tcp setup problem Date: 20 Oct 1996 02:27:34 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-69.usc.edu Message-ID: <54c2mm$e9k@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu Tcp setup problem (newbie): I've triple checked what I did and can't figure out why I can't even get finger to log to syslog (or to anywhere). Here is where I am: ================ tcp files are at: /usr/etc/tcpd /usr/local/bin/tcpdchk /usr/local/bin/tcpdmatch ================ /etc/inetd.conf: finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/etc/tcpd fingerd ================ *But nothing gets written to /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog when I finger reichman@midnight. ================ Here's some information: ================ midnight/Users/reichman#: syslogd -d syslogd: bind: Address already in use logmsg: pri 53, flags 8, from midnight, msg syslogd: bind: Address already in use can't open /dev/klog (16) off & running.... init cfline(local2.debug /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug) ^Csyslogd: going down on signal 2 syslogd: going down on signal 2: Device busy logmsg: pri 53, flags 8, from midnight, msg syslogd: going down on signal 2: Device busy ================ Console: Oct 19 16:30:26 midnight syslogd: cannot create /dev/log: Permission denied Oct 19 16:30:40 midnight syslogd: bind: Address already in use Oct 19 16:30:49 midnight syslogd: going down on signal 2: Device busy ================ midnight/Users/reichman#: /usr/local/bin/tcpdchk warning: /: world writable warning: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 5: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 6: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 7: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 8: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 9: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 12: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 12: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 14: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 15: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 16: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 17: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 28: /usr/lib/NextStep/NSWSd: not found: No such file or directory warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 32: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 33: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 34: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 35: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 36: /: world writable warning: /private/etc/inetd.conf, line 37: /: world writable ================ As far as those "world writables" are concerned, I looked up the various lines and found them to all be -rwxr-xr-x, so that boggle me as well. Advice is sorely needed. TIA -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> 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: sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) Subject: Re: print to NeXT from NT? Message-ID: <DzJzoH.E90@musical.uucp> Sender: news@musical.uucp References: <0mO2g_200V410UZ680@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 02:45:53 GMT Jeremy G Mereness <jeremym+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes > > > I've been trying to print to NeXT printers from my single NT box with no > luck. I'm creating a printer in NT that uses an "LPR port" where you can > fill in the name of a unix host and a print name. Then I put the name of > the NT box's hostname in /etc/hosts.lpd, but it doesn't work. > Try to install "samba" (Linyx distrib) on NeXT and pickup the NeXT_Laser_Printer driver for Windows on Adobe WWW site. I use that to share directories and printers between NEXTSTEP and Windows-95, I think it must work with NT too. I hope this help. Sam Sam Przyswa System Operator Rock'n Jazz BBS Music & MIDI E-Mail: sam@musical.fdn.org <MIME & NeXTMail> Paris - France Musical Web - http://www.fdn.fr/~musical/ 33-1-4054-8604 French Data Network - http://www.fdn.fr/ 33-1-4754-9224
From: milicic@pharos.math.utah.edu (Dragan Milicic) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 20 Oct 1996 02:42:08 GMT Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Message-ID: <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> References: <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> In article <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: > Actually, 8.8.0 had a security problem. So the current > version is 8.8.1 > > -- > Be well, > Current version is 8.8.2. The problem was not fixed in 8.8.1. Dragan Milicic
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 20 Oct 1996 04:22:58 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-08.usc.edu Message-ID: <54c9f2$hg@usc.edu> References: <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> Cc: milicic@pharos.math.utah.edu In <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> Dragan Milicic wrote: > In article <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) > writes: > > Actually, 8.8.0 had a security problem. So the current > > version is 8.8.1 > > > > -- > > Be well, > > > > Current version is 8.8.2. The problem was not fixed in 8.8.1. And I'm still wondering why there doesn't seem to be an interest in qmail amongst NeXTSTEPers.... -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> 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: chris (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: news with personal inn ? Date: 19 Oct 1996 18:27:39 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <54b6ir$ciq@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> hi i have downloaded the personal inn 1.0 from the peanuts server has anybody some experience with this program and can give me some tips ? i want to install it on my local machine and want to download my subscribed news groups from my uni-server. than i want read the mails offline thanks and bye christian nextmail to: b0445889@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: my front porch Date: 20 Oct 1996 08:35:08 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <54co7s$ddq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <01bbbd5c$20e155e0$2e8fbb8b@twister.nsc.com> haystack <martin@gbu.nsc.com> wrote: : Hi all : I would seem to have a similar problem to our colleague Bing Hu : in that I am trying to drive back from the grave a NeXtStation Mono : but in trying to init a new hard drive I am getting : ' boot block extends beyond front porch ' when [...] Try the following disktab-entry (/etc/disktab). It wastes about 16 MB at the end of the drive (because the DORS is slightly larger than 2 Gig) IBM DORS-32160:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:ns#125:nt#5:nc#6703:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#300:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#196:\ :pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD: The remaining problem could be, that it will be hard to append this to /etc/disktab when you're booted from CD-ROM. It might be necessary to initialize the disk on a running NeXT system. If it still complains about 'bootblock extends beyond front porch', increase fp from 300 to something bigger. HTH -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: florinm@pathcom.com (Florin Mihaila) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXFax and USR Sportster 33.6 Date: 20 Oct 1996 04:42:41 GMT Organization: Pathway Communications Message-ID: <54cak1$h6r@news.pathcom.com> I just can't make these two work together on a NeXT Station Turbo. Is there a magic AuxATCommand to "dwrite" and solve the problem? The message I get in the log file is "not a fax", after a very brief talk between modems. Any help appreciated. Florin
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Tcp setup problem Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:46:56 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cmOWpE_00UhBQ1ZEUi@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <54c2mm$e9k@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <54c2mm$e9k@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 20-Oct-96 Tcp setup problem by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > I've triple checked what I did and can't figure out why I > can't even get finger to log to syslog (or to anywhere). You should check how your /etc/syslogd.conf file is set up, and verify whether and how the logging facility & priority used by tcpd is being handled. Try using the 'logger -p' command to test what happens. -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: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 20 Oct 1996 16:58:59 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <54dloj$i2j@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> References: <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> <54c9f2$hg@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > In <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> Dragan Milicic wrote: > > In article <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew > N. Reichman) > > writes: > > > Actually, 8.8.0 had a security problem. So the current > > > version is 8.8.1 > > > > > > -- > > > Be well, > > > > > > > Current version is 8.8.2. The problem was not fixed in > 8.8.1. > > And I'm still wondering why there doesn't seem to be an > interest in qmail amongst NeXTSTEPers.... And I'm still wondering why so many people seem to be spending so much effort to replace NS' old sendmail. It probably has security holes, but look at the sendmail 8.8.x fiasco. How long will it be before we see 8.8.3 that fixes security problems not addressed by 8.8.2? -- 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: NXFax and USR Sportster 33.6 Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961020132327.4430B-100000@charisma> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:26:52 -0400 References: <54cak1$h6r@news.pathcom.com> To: Florin Mihaila <florinm@pathcom.com> In-Reply-To: <54cak1$h6r@news.pathcom.com> 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 that NXFax works with USR Sportster On 20 Oct 1996, Florin Mihaila wrote: > Date: 20 Oct 1996 04:42:41 GMT > From: Florin Mihaila <florinm@pathcom.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: NXFax and USR Sportster 33.6 > > I just can't make these two work together on a NeXT Station > Turbo. Is there a magic AuxATCommand to "dwrite" and solve the > problem? The message I get in the log file is "not a fax", > after a very brief talk between modems. > > Any help appreciated. > > Florin > > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:51:35 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961020104635.12591C-100000@kira> References: <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> <54c9f2$hg@usc.edu> <54dloj$i2j@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <54dloj$i2j@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> > And I'm still wondering why so many people seem to be spending so much > effort to replace NS' old sendmail. It probably has security holes, but look > at the sendmail 8.8.x fiasco. How long will it be before we see 8.8.3 that > fixes security problems not addressed by 8.8.2? Well, upgrading the sendmail to 8.7.5 took about 10 minutes with the instructions from Francois Magnan's webpage (don't have the url handy, but it is linked to my webpage at http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next I waited to see what the general reaction was to 8.8.0 so I didn't do anything with it until I needed to. I only upgraded to 8.7.5 because 1) it was so easy 2) I wanted the new masqerade_as feature, which I didn't know how to do with the rulesets in the old sendmail.... but replacing sendmail just for the sake of replacing sendmail doesn't seem very fruitful, you're right TjL
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:42:54 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2010961442550001@slip-42-8.ots.utexas.edu> References: <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> <54c9f2$hg@usc.edu> <54dloj$i2j@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961020104635.12591C-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961020104635.12591C-100000@kira>, luomat@peak.org wrote: >I waited to see what the general reaction was to 8.8.0 so I didn't do >anything with it until I needed to. I only upgraded to 8.7.5 because > 1) it was so easy > 2) I wanted the new masqerade_as feature, which I didn't know how >to do with the rulesets in the old sendmail.... > >but replacing sendmail just for the sake of replacing sendmail doesn't >seem very fruitful, you're right 8.7.5 has a documented security hole. Upgrade to 8.7.6 ! I am sticking with 8.7.6 for a while, until the dust settles with version 8.8.x. I think this is a good policy, as every major revision of sendmail seems to introduce new security hole, which take a few version numbers to squash. There's no point, from where I sit, in being on the bleeding edge w.r.t. sendmail. Jacques Distler P.S. It is almost as easy to upgrade directly from the sendmail sources. The script that they provide to configure and compile the new sendmail is excellent. Takes maybe 15 minutes, tops.
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 Date: 21 Oct 1996 03:21:07 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <54eq73$98l@news.cais.com> References: <548jl5$hur@usc.edu> <54c3i0$c86@news.cc.utah.edu> <54c9f2$hg@usc.edu> <54dloj$i2j@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <54dloj$i2j@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Security will always be a problem in complex software like an internetwork mail router. Newer versions will introduce new bugs and close old ones. The problem with running an old version with old bugs is that they are very easily attacked. But security isn't the only reason to upgrade. Features, easier configuration, better scalability, support that you can't get from a company who is dropping their operating system, etc... I'm not sure why you need an explanation as to why someone would want to upgrade software so I'll just stop here. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant On 10/20/96, Art Isbell wrote: > And I'm still wondering why so many people seem to be spending so much >effort to replace NS' old sendmail. It probably has security holes, but look >at the sendmail 8.8.x fiasco. How long will it be before we see 8.8.3 that >fixes security problems not addressed by 8.8.2? >-- >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 > -- Robert La Ferla Registered NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant HTI Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mattj@invisix.com Subject: Uninstalling Packages Message-ID: <a147cc$171bc.3a4@news.goldengate.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 05:27:12 GMT Hey there, I am fairly new to NEXTSTEP as I recently got a turbo color station. I've been ftping software from all over the place and trying it out. Some of the programs come in the packages, those installing things that the system can install by itself. Cool, they work great, no problem there. What I want to do, now that my hard drive is nearing fullness is 1. Get another hard drive, and 2. Uninstall some of the programs/packages from my system (not in that order :) ...). I was messing around in the package installer program and couldn't really find a way to unintall a package. I assume you can. (I can do the equivilient on my SGI in Irix 5.3). Can anyone steer me in the right direction to get me some more free disk space?! Thanks alot. PS: sendmail is next! ;) -- MATT | mailto:mattj@invisix.com ** living a microsoft ** jurcich | http://www.invisix.com ** free lifestyle ** Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "bob martin" <martin@gbu.nsc.com> Subject: Re: my front porch Message-ID: <01bbbe42$15779ca0$2d8fbb8b@twister.nsc.com> Sender: news@nsc.nsc.com (netnews maintenance) Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara References: <01bbbd5c$20e155e0$2e8fbb8b@twister.nsc.com> <54co7s$ddq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:50:05 GMT Axel Thank you I came accross this solution in the NeXtAnswers section from www.next.com The one problem is that since all the file systems were mounted read only after booting off of the cd-rom it was impossible to mod the /etc/disktab. I ended up buying another hard drive (1.08 Gb) or so, and things worked fine. I would expect that NeXT has fixed this in version 4 since finding a scsi drive less than 2 Gb is getting harder every day. bob martin
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Small problem with WuFTP anonymous site (mine) -- Date: 21 Oct 1996 05:22:43 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-29.usc.edu Message-ID: <54f1b3$6m8@usc.edu> Small problem with WuFTP site (mine) -- I'm running: FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Wed Jan 31 23:28:07 CST 1996) Everything seems to be basically the way it should be. I can log in anonymously with 'ftp' and 'ls' to see file structure and navigate into the ~pub/incoming directory and 'put' or 'get' something from it. I can do the same with ncftp, except that 'ls' *doesn't show me anything at all*! AND performing a 'ls' inside ~pub/incoming with either ftp or ncftp reveals absolutely nothing, even after I've uploaded something. And I know there's stuff there. Both issues with 'ls' are confusing to say the least. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k :: NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS: NeXT <--> Linux Date: 21 Oct 1996 05:28:48 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <54f1mg$e2t@hermes.is.co.za> I am trying to setup a NFS server on Linux for our NeXT client machines. Everything works kind of ok, except that the NeXT client keeps on getting "NFS server not responding" or when you copy a large chunk of data you get the following message "Stale NFS filehandle" and then the connection drops. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: mrbill@texas.net (Bill Bradford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problem getting identd to work under 3.3 Date: 21 Oct 1996 05:55:56 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <54f39c$50g@news2.texas.net> I recently fired up my NeXT and connected it to my home network. Everything works fine, until I try to compile and setup pidentd (which I've done hundreds of times before on Sun and other sytems). Basically, it just doesent work. When I run in.identd directly: in.identd: getpeername(): Socket operation on non-socket (or along those lines) is what I get... this happens with both versions I compile and precompiled versions off of peanuts.leo.org. I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 on a NeXTstation mono with 8mb RAM (yes, I know I need more RAM....) Replies would be apprciated, as I cant do *anything* with this machine from home (in regards to getting into our internal network) without an identd daemon running. Thanks. Replies to the address below. BTW, anybody know where I can get a set of the rubber "feet" that raise up the keyboard to a slant? using ths keyboard lying flat is about to drive me nuts..... -- __________________________________________________________________ | bill bradford | system administrator, unix geek, and BOFH | | mrbill@texas.net | texas networking, inc. http://www.texas.net | | mrbill@mrbill.net | 210-272-8111 * 512-472-2532 | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | "I was known as the chief grave robber of my state." -Dan Qyayle | ------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Anyone have a current INN tree for NS 3.3? Date: 21 Oct 1996 07:12:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <54f7pl$atp@news.digifix.com> Does anyone have a current INN source tree that has been configured for running on NS? The config.data I have, but there are some stupid posix type flags that appear to be a problem. I'm currently running 1.4, and am looking for 1.4unoff4 or greater. Thanks Scott -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: florinm@pathcom.com (Florin Mihaila) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax and USR Sportster 33.6 Date: 20 Oct 1996 19:02:25 GMT Organization: Pathway Communications Message-ID: <54dt01$qhq@news.pathcom.com> Thanks for all your answers. The bottom line seems to be: they don't work together, period. Did anybody use sucessfully any other fax package with NeXT machines and non-Zyxel modems? There must be someone with NeXT and USR sending faxes out there...
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: procmail is on peak (was Re: procmail 3.10) Date: 21 Oct 1996 12:24:01 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <54fq11$qmb@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961010102123.5570A-100000@pollux> <DzHwwx.9GD@musical.uucp> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961019114436.5056B-100000@kira> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961019115833.7616A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : : > procmail can be found at : > : > ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz : while the above statement is true, it is USELESS for the person who wanted : the latest procmail. : : Anyway, you can find the latest procmail source code as: : : ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/procmail.3.11pre4.s.tar.gz Uhmm, why is it _useless_ ? The above URL is by definition the latest procmail (the above is procmail's primary site), while 3.11pre4 is currently the latest procmail ;-) 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: Ludger Solbach <solbach@tu-harburg.d400.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: local.nidb Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:37:33 +0100 Organization: TU Hamburg-Harburg Message-ID: <326B8AAD.34A7BC81@tu-harburg.d400.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When booting our new NeXT machine (3.3 on Intel) it always hangs with the message: netinfod [pid]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb Booting in single user mode and replacing /etc/netinfo/local.nidb by the template did not help. What can I do to make it boot again? Any help is appreciated! Ludger. -- ----------- Ludger Solbach, Distributed Systems Department ----------- | Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany | | e-mail: Solbach@TU-Harburg.d400.De, Tel.: +49-40-7718-3357 | --------------- http://www.ti6.tu-harburg.de/~ti6ls/ -----------------
From: robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help - an emergency issue with Mail.app under NS3.0 Date: 21 Oct 1996 15:21:09 GMT Organization: "CARDEROCKDIV CDNSWC" Message-ID: <54g4d5INNdf4@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Hello - We got a problem with Mail.app under NS3.0 - one of the users was running mail this morning; mail.app came up fine no problem - however while running mail a system problem came up and the system needed to be rebooted which she did - now when she tries to launch mail.app the spinning ball comes up for about 2 seconds then flips back over to the workspace and we get no info posted back to the console - any and help on this item very much appreciated - thanks very much Bob Kurhajetz USN NSWC CD Bethesda, MD 20084
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Uninstalling Packages Date: 21 Oct 1996 17:41:02 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <54gcje$llv@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <a147cc$171bc.3a4@news.goldengate.net> mattj@invisix.com wrote: > >Hey there, > >I am fairly new to NEXTSTEP as I recently got a turbo color station. I've >been ftping software from all over the place and trying it out. Some of >the programs come in the packages, those installing things that the system >can install by itself. Cool, they work great, no problem there. > >What I want to do, now that my hard drive is nearing fullness is 1. Get >another hard drive, and 2. Uninstall some of the programs/packages from my >system (not in that order :) ...). > >I was messing around in the package installer program and couldn't really >find a way to unintall a package. I assume you can. (I can do the >equivilient on my SGI in Irix 5.3). Can anyone steer me in the right >direction to get me some more free disk space?! > >Thanks alot. > >PS: sendmail is next! ;) Go to the /NextLibrary/Receipts directory. There you will find all of the packages which have been installed on you machine with the Installer.app. Double click one of the packages you wish to remove. This brings up the Installer.app. Push the delete button. If all of the original files are where the original package put them, then they will be deleted. If not, it will list the problem files. --Ryan Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lars@gsblas.uchicago.edu (Lars A. Stole) Subject: How do you change the default boot command on NS 3.3 Intel??? Message-ID: <Dzn3C3.K6t@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:57:39 GMT I have an Intel Pentium Pro machine running NS 3.3. Yesterday, I thought I'd try Openstep 4.0, hoping to install it on the second partition of my 4 gig. scsi harddrive. Unfortunately, I saw that this is more complicated than I had thought, so I chose the option to quit the installer BEFORE loading openstep 4.0 onto my drive. The problem is that now my machine automatically expects a boot disk in the floppy drive. I have to put in a nextstep diskette and then type sd()mach_kernel at the boot prompt to get the machine to look to my harddrive. After that, no problems. My question is simply is there a default bootcommand kept somewhere which tells the machine to look to the floppy drive for the mach kernel and how do I alter it? Thanks for any help.
From: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q} Mail problem - Name server mystery Date: 21 Oct 1996 19:25:55 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <54gio3$ld7@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: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP LJ5M Date: 21 Oct 1996 19:40:03 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <54gjij$7fv@news.tamu.edu> I am about to purchase a LaserJet 5M printer for a small Nextstep and NT LAN. NextAnswers states that NS can use any postscript printer connected to the serial port. Is it possible to use the 5M if it is hooked directly to the network?? How is this done? When I set up the printer driver, do I just select the HP LJ4 driver?? or is there another entry that someone has come up with on their own? Should I just install samba on one of the next machines and have it use the printer connected to the NT computer? Does anyone have any experience good or bad with the LJ5M?? Thanks, Jeromy --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bob martin <martin@gbu.nsc.com> Subject: knights that don't say "NI' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <326BDAD5.692@gbu.nsc.com> Sender: news@nsc.nsc.com (netnews maintenance) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: National Semiconductor Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:19:33 GMT Hi all After finally getting my NextStation Mono up and on line things are fine except for one thing regarding the kern_loader which I assume is the reason for my system going mute. Apart from the sound out test when booting no further sounds come out of my machine. For some reason the settings allowing the kern_loader to load the audio driver files has been corrupted. The console message is as follows 'kern_loader: server audio giving up waiting for executable /mach' /mach is actually a link to $BOOTFILE@ However the environemt variable BOOTFILE is not defined to anything. I assume that it should perhaps be assigned to '/sdmach' which is my present kernel but having more experience with Linux's LILO I don't know if its just that simple. The one thing that puzzles me is at what point does the $BOOTFILE variabl;e get set. There is no mention of it in the rc.* scripts. My best guess is that the EPROM boot command somehow sets it but my boot command is sd()sdmach which one would think take care of it. Thanks in advance bob m
From: cchris@chum.hooked.net (Chris Christensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP with panics Date: 22 Oct 1996 00:12:12 GMT Organization: Hooked Online Services Message-ID: <54h3gs$8bf@its.hooked.net> Greetings, After trying to repair a flaky OD and doing several dirty shutdowns I got the "panic>" prompt when trying to boot. (i'm not sure what it implies). I booted in the single user mode and ran fsck which corrected a few file problems. I ran fsck again and it reported a clean file system. I rebooted and the boot was successful. However, when powering off and then on again I would again get "panic>". Now when I try to run fsck it will not even complete phase 1 but goes immediatlely to "panic>". Any idea what is happening? I am a relatively new NeXT user. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank, Chris <cchris@hooked.net>
From: mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Socks-enabled utilities Date: 22 Oct 1996 01:09:35 GMT Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Message-ID: <54h6sf$acc@alpha1.auspex.com> Anyone know where I can get rtelnet/rftp for NS? Intel and Black would be great. Thanks. - 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help - an emergency issue with Mail.app under NS3.0 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:36:20 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961021182650.5135H-100000@kira> References: <54g4d5INNdf4@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Robert Kurhajetz <robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: <54g4d5INNdf4@oasys.dt.navy.mil> My guess is that something was corrupted in her Mail.app Active.mbox or her mailspool (probably /usr/spool/mail/$USER) Check for a "CopyOfMailSpool" or some such file in her Active.mbox folder. If they are not there, try removing the 'table_of_contents' file and re-start Mail.app ONE TIME when this happened to me I found that I just could not fetch my mail. I (perhaps unwisely) did a 'mv /usr/spool/mail/$USER ~/mailfile' THIS WAS DANGEROUS because had I been getting mail at that precise moment I could have lost it. Then I compacted my Active.mbox, quit Mail.app, removed the table_of_contents file, and did cat ~/mailfile >> ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox and then restarted Mail.app. This worked for me, use at your own risk yatta yatta doo.. I wouldn't like doing this often, but for a weird scenario in my life, it worked. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next On 21 Oct 1996, Robert Kurhajetz wrote: > Date: 21 Oct 1996 15:21:09 GMT > From: Robert Kurhajetz <robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: help - an emergency issue with Mail.app under NS3.0 > > Hello - > > We got a problem with Mail.app under NS3.0 - one of the users was running > mail this morning; mail.app came up fine no problem - however while running > mail a system problem came up and the system needed to be rebooted which she > did - now when she tries to launch mail.app the spinning ball comes up for > about 2 seconds then flips back over to the workspace and we get no info > posted back to the console - any and help on this item very much appreciated > - thanks very much > > > Bob Kurhajetz > USN NSWC CD > Bethesda, MD 20084 > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do you change the default boot command on NS 3.3 Intel??? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:33 -0700 Organization: The NeXT FTP site at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961021183906.5135I-100000@kira> References: <Dzn3C3.K6t@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Lars A. Stole" <lars@gsblas.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <Dzn3C3.K6t@midway.uchicago.edu> Well, I can tell you how this is on my NeXTstation. In the rom monitor (command-command-~) if I do "p" is gives me a chance to set the boot [p]arameters. You might try changiing that, if it is the same on Intel TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Lars A. Stole wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:57:39 GMT > From: "Lars A. Stole" <lars@gsblas.uchicago.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: How do you change the default boot command on NS 3.3 Intel??? > > I have an Intel Pentium Pro machine running NS 3.3. Yesterday, I > thought I'd try Openstep 4.0, hoping to install it on the second > partition of my 4 gig. scsi harddrive. Unfortunately, I saw that > this is more complicated than I had thought, so I chose the option to > quit the installer BEFORE loading openstep 4.0 onto my drive. The > problem is that now my machine automatically expects a boot disk in > the floppy drive. I have to put in a nextstep diskette and then type > sd()mach_kernel at the boot prompt to get the machine to look to my > harddrive. After that, no problems. > > My question is simply is there a default bootcommand kept somewhere > which tells the machine to look to the floppy drive for the mach > kernel and how do I alter it? > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Uninstalling Packages Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <DzMtnp.38q@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:28:36 GMT References: <a147cc$171bc.3a4@news.goldengate.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <a147cc$171bc.3a4@news.goldengate.net>, <mattj@invisix.com> wrote: > >I was messing around in the package installer program and couldn't really >find a way to unintall a package. I assume you can. (I can do the >equivilient on my SGI in Irix 5.3). Can anyone steer me in the right >direction to get me some more free disk space?! > As root, open the package receipt in /NextLibrary/Receipts, then click Delete. That's it! -- 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: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: 22 Oct 1996 03:51:36 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I'm running apache 1.1.1 on NeXTStep 3.3 on an Intel. My object is to have a virtual host register on a port other than port 80. There's a different webserver running on port 80, which for various reasons, I need to keep running. I've assigned a second i.p. address to the machine (using ps_load for the NeXT literate) and I have a domain name registered for the second address. Now the problem/question is that if I set up the httpd.conf to listen on port 8080 (for example), I seem to need to type http://www.name2.com:8080. However, I want to be able to just type http://www.name2.com and have it automatically connect to the Apache server on port 8080 instead of port 80 -- and then http://www.name1.com connecting to port 80 instead of port 8080. Anybody have an answer???? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Peace, Arpi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Arpad Geller (773) 395-8581 arpad@tezcat.com Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: NFS: NeXT <--> Linux Message-ID: <Dzn3B4.39q@flop.schwaben.de> Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: home References: <54f1mg$e2t@hermes.is.co.za> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:57:04 GMT gvandyk@icon.co.za wrote: > I am trying to setup a NFS server on Linux for our NeXT client > machines. Everything works kind of ok, except that the NeXT client > keeps on getting "NFS server not responding" or when you copy a large > chunk of data you get the following message "Stale NFS filehandle" and > then the connection drops. Set the rsize/wsize parameters on the NFS imports/exports; some (older?) Linux versions can't handle 8k sized NFS packets. If you have NS/x86 clients, the problem might also be the NS side. Holger
From: dchin@u.washington.edu (D. Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netbooting a NeXT (black) of a non NeXT Date: 22 Oct 1996 04:43:36 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Message-ID: <54hjdo$mre@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: dchin I've been trying to get a NeXT station to do a network boot off of a Solaris machine. At this time I have installed bootpd on the sun, and it looks like it is reading the hostname/ip infor correctly. However when it tries to tftp retrive the boot file it gives the following error msg ".unknown binary format" actually the displat looks like this: NeXT> ben boot en(0,0,0) Requesting BOOTP information. [OK] Booting //boot from .unknown binary format NeXT> I transfered the boot images /sdmach from the NeXT to the sun via binary ftp so I don't understand why I'm getting that error msg. I also have the following debuging output from bootpd (from homer.cc.utexas.edu): sydney.nwmicro.com# /usr/local/sbin/bootpd -d 10 bootpd: information(6): bootpd 2.2.C #2: Mon Oct 21 20:12:51 PDT 1996 dchin@sydney.nwmicro.com:/home/dchin/temp bootpd: information(6): reading "/etc/bootptab" bootpd: information(6): read 3 entries (1 hosts) from "/etc/bootptab" bootpd: information(6): request from Ethernet address 00000F008071 bootpd: information(6): found 204.122.24.56 denver.nwmicro.com bootpd: information(6): vendor magic field is 78.101.88.84 bootpd: information(6): sending reply (unknown options) bootpd: information(6): setarp 204.122.24.56 00000F008071 (l=6) and from snoop: sydney.nwmicro.com# snoop -d le0 denver Using device /dev/le (promiscuous mode) sydney.nwmicro.com -> denver.nwmicro.com UDP D=68 S=67 LEN=308 denver.nwmicro.com -> sydney.nwmicro.com TFTP Read "//boot" (octet) sydney.nwmicro.com -> denver.nwmicro.com TFTP Data block 1 (512 bytes) sydney.nwmicro.com -> denver.nwmicro.com TFTP Data block 1 (512 bytes) Thanks for any help or ideas. Davin
From: Anthony Cordeiro <ren@netscape.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:29:08 -0700 Organization: i.dont.speak.for.netscape.com Message-ID: <326C5BA4.71FB@netscape.com> References: <DzIqtt.97u@ccc.amdahl.com> <54bgg6$sts@alpha1.auspex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Dadgar wrote: > > In article <DzIqtt.97u@ccc.amdahl.com> kjb@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Barth) > writes: > > An overwhelmingly superior LVM product is the Veritas Volume Manager > > that ships with EVERY SUN SSA. In addition, the Veritas Volume Manager > > is available for a WIDE variety of OS's, and is in fact the basis for > > most companies OEM'd LVM products. > > > > The problem, of course, is that you're then using a Sun SSA. <shudder>. As someone that's used both Online Disk Suite (for some reason I find myself incapable of calling it Solstice, even though the name change was ages ago) and the Veritas software, I'd have to say that ODS wins it hands down. True, the learning curve is a little high as far as the metadb and whatnot, but I know a gaggle of battle-scarred vxva warriors who have had to run for tape backups after disks failed and the Veritas software failed them as well. Essentially, it gives you enough rope to hang yourself with. It lets you do anything you want to your disks, quite happily, including using a single disk on both mirrors of a mirrored volume, and a host of other fatal errors that beginning admins can make when building large raid filesystems. Also, it gives false reports under certain circumstances. (ie, if all plexes within a volume fail, it won't tell you the last one is invalid. It will happily continue trying to write to a bad disk). And with the SSA products having such a horrible performance record, the combination is deadly. Doing RAID in software sucks anyway. :) > If you really want a server with top-notch volume management, get an > Auspex. Incredible reliability and performance are additional fun > side-effects. ;) Auspexes are great machines, no doubt, and if something goes wrong, there's an Auspex person calling you within the hour, before you know what's happening half the time. My biggest gripe with them is that they're somewhat slow, and unbelievably pricey. Although their latest OS release is a bit questionable, I like the Network Appliance filers quite a bit. Easy to set up and maintain, fairly fault-tolerant, and their tech support team has been wonderful. And, of course, they look neat. I guess this last is my only material that's NeXT related, since you could buy a NetApp and NFS mount it from the NeXT, but I guess that's probably stretching. But then I imagine there are a lot of SysAdmins that read this group that aren't only NeXT admins, hm? --Ren
From: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS: NeXT <--> Linux Date: 22 Oct 1996 08:37:53 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <54i151$ehl@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <54f1mg$e2t@hermes.is.co.za> gvandyk@icon.co.za wrote: : I am trying to setup a NFS server on Linux for our NeXT client : machines. Everything works kind of ok, except that the NeXT client : keeps on getting "NFS server not responding" or when you copy a large : chunk of data you get the following message "Stale NFS filehandle" and : then the connection drops. : Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please tell us about the network-interface card you are using and the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP version. There are known problems in NFS traffic, as packages are typically 8K bytes or even larger and some cards, most notoriously the (old(er)) 3Com (3c503 e.g.), but also cards with WD-chip have trouble with these sizes. With TCP packets limited to typically around 1500 bytes (on ethernet), this is not the case! 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: Robert F Tobler <rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HP LJ5M Date: 22 Oct 1996 12:05:24 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <54ida4$o7r@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <54gjij$7fv@news.tamu.edu> Give the LaserJet 5M printer an IP address as described in the installation manual of the printer. Install a printer queue on your NeXT as dexribed in: /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/11_MixedNet.rtfd For NT computers, use a different protocol as described in the installation manual of the printer. I did the NextStep part of the installation 2 days ago, and it worked without any problems. At the same time a few people installed the printer for their NT Workstation and it worked as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
From: daleg@fred.net (Dale Ghent) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Followup-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Date: 22 Oct 1996 13:33:54 GMT Organization: The Secret Organization Message-ID: <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> Arpad Geller (arpad@tezcat.com) wrote: : Now the problem/question is that if I set up the httpd.conf : to listen on port 8080 (for example), I seem to need to : type http://www.name2.com:8080. However, I want to be able : to just type http://www.name2.com and have it automatically : connect to the Apache server on port 8080 instead of port : 80 -- and then http://www.name1.com connecting to port 80 : instead of port 8080. Anybody have an answer???? Any help : would be greatly appreciated. Browsers by default connect to port 80 when a port is not specified. Common sence would conclude that. Why dont you just configure your second doamin as a virtual host? Then you can do what you want. -Dale G.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matt Jurcich <mattj@invisix.com> Subject: Re: Uninstalling Packages-Thanks! Message-ID: <326CF251.1615@invisix.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:12:01 -0500 References: <a147cc$171bc.3a4@news.goldengate.net> Organization: Invisix MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey all who responded, Well, that was a very easy one, I see. Thanks alot for the responses, my drive is much neater now. Like I originally said, sendmail is next--I'll post a seperate msg for that, Thanks! mattj@invisix.com wrote: > > Hey there, > > I am fairly new to NEXTSTEP as I recently got a turbo color station. I've > been ftping software from all over the place and trying it out. Some of > the programs come in the packages, those installing things that the system > can install by itself. Cool, they work great, no problem there. > > What I want to do, now that my hard drive is nearing fullness is 1. Get > another hard drive, and 2. Uninstall some of the programs/packages from my > system (not in that order :) ...). > > I was messing around in the package installer program and couldn't really > find a way to unintall a package. I assume you can. (I can do the > equivilient on my SGI in Irix 5.3). Can anyone steer me in the right > direction to get me some more free disk space?! > > Thanks alot. > > PS: sendmail is next! ;) > -- > MATT | mailto:mattj@invisix.com ** living a microsoft ** > jurcich | http://www.invisix.com ** free lifestyle ** > Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 > NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2 -- matt | ... NeXT ... silicon graphics ... NEC ... jurcich| ... http://www.invisix.com ... -------' SGI Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NS 3.2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matt Jurcich <mattj@invisix.com> Subject: PopOver w/sendmail Message-ID: <326CF343.22D9@invisix.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:16:03 -0500 Organization: Invisix MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, Ok, so I installed PopOver, and it brings messages down from my pop3 server fine. The show up in my NeXTMail mailbox with Mail.app great. What doesn't work is sending messages out via sendmail/Mail.app. What should I look for to diagnose what is happening? Are there log files or something like that to look at? man sendmail doesn't tell me a whole lot about it. If someone can start to steer me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Later. -- matt | ... NeXT ... silicon graphics ... NEC ... jurcich| ... http://www.invisix.com ... -------' SGI Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NS 3.2
From: Carl Hoefer <hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prob. installing 3.3 for Intel with Adaptec 2940 scsi adapter Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:54:18 -0700 Organization: University of California, Riverside Message-ID: <326D0A4A.75FD@citrus.ucr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi out there, I'm installing 3.3 on my Dell Optiplex. I've successfully (I think) installed an Adaptec 2940Ultra scsi host adapter, and thought I was all ready to install NS. The install process goes fine thru the stage of picking the scsi adapter driver (the 3.32 version on my Device Drivers floppy) and hard disk controller (large IDE). Then when the white Mach screen comes up, the process halts saying "can't find scsi adapter or CD-ROM", and prompting me for a boot device. I am not sure what it is asking for, but I've given it all the following: hd0 (the IDE hard drive) sd7 (the adapter's scsi number) sd4 (the number of the NeXT CD ROM attached to the adapter) Invariably, the system panics as soon as I input these suggestions. One other potential clue: further up the white screen, there is a line that says Adaptec 2940: can't get confifgSpace; ABORTING (or something close to that). I don't know if that is significant. One idea I have had is that maybe the device driver is too old, causing it to not find the (brand new) adapter. I have downloaded the latest driver from NeXTAnswers, but damned if I know how to turn it from a package into a working driver on a floppy! I only have black slabs nearby to run Installer on, and the Installer (A) warns me only to install the pkg on Intel; and (B) only lets you install to the root directory. So I've been afraid to install the package. How can I get the latest driver in a usable form, to put on a floppy? Any help will be GREATLY appreciated, as always. Carl Hoefer Philosophy dept. UCRiverside hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Zip drive on NS3.3 Sparc? Date: 22 Oct 1996 18:25:18 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Message-ID: <54j3ie$lbg@majipoor.cygnus.com> The discussion of Zip drives on NS has come up before (I've even asked it before). I've become pretty acustom to using my Zip drive on my NS/Intel box.. but when I was leaving SJSU, I tried to use my Zip drive on the Sparc 20/50Mhz box I had there (With NS3.3), but it wouldn't boot with the Zip drive attached (the probe-scsi from the sparc monitor reported everything fine, but the system would hang shortly after it fsck'ed the 2 hard drives). I'm now using NS 3.3 on a Sparc4/110 at my new job, and would like to start transfering some data via my Zip drive (which is an external). Does anyone have any experience with Zip drives on NS3.3 Sparc? Are there any special hoops I have to jump through to make it work? Or do they just not work on a Sparc? John -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com (ex-kzin@email.sjsu.edu) =========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: m@ml.com (M Carling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 on UltraSparc with 1GB RAM Date: 22 Oct 1996 17:30:44 GMT Organization: Merrill Lynch Message-ID: <54j0c4$ad@news.ml.com> References: <1996Oct17.162800.17903@il.us.swissbank.com> yoonj@il.us.swissbank.com (Joseph Yoon) wrote: >Has anyone run NEXTSTEP 3.3 on Sparc or UltraSparc hardware with 1GB RAM? No one has run NEXTSTEP 3.3 on UltraSparc hardware because NEXTSTEP 3.3 doesn't support the U kernel. I haven't run NEXTSTEP 3.3 on Sparc hardware with more than 128MB ram. I know that 256MB is the upper limit on PA-RISC hardware with NEXTSTEP 3.3. M Carling
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 'ls' problem with newly created ftp site Date: 22 Oct 1996 20:32:45 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-04.usc.edu Message-ID: <54jb1d$dl@usc.edu> 'ls' problem with newly created ftp site: when I have logged into the anonymous site or even into a real account site and perform 'ls', I get a normal output to the screen, but when I peform 'ls' with any flag, I get the following type of response: ================================ ftp> ls -F ---> PORT 127,0,0,1,10,69 200 PORT command successful. ---> NLST -F 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 226 Transfer complete. ================================ Where did the output go? BTW, another anomoly is that I removed 'ls' from /Users/ftp/bin,so if I'm able to perform ls at all it seems it's coming from /usr/local/bin/ls, which seems completely inappropriate. No idead how come this is possible. Especially as other commands like 'rm' and 'touch' when performed, are correctly distinguished as being unknown commands and therefore not performable. Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> 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: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to prevent nibind's tries out of local domain Date: 22 Oct 1996 22:05:53 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <54jgg1$95v@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Hi, Someone I know played with SimpleNetworkStarter.app. This person has only a ppp connection to the net so that was a very bad idea. The problem is that when the ppp link on and you try to start an application that uses NetInfo (like NetInfoManager obiously) the local machines tries to access NetInfo on the remote ppp server (so it always takes a long time before you can open a folder etc...). We disconected the local machine from NetInfo network in HostManager (like it is suggested in ppp installation instructions). Still the machine always send some packets to the ppp server each time a NetInfo lookup is needed. How can we prevent this??? Thank you, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: File Servers (was Re: Does a Logical Volume Manager exist?) Date: 23 Oct 1996 00:14:02 GMT Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Message-ID: <54jo0a$jh9@alpha1.auspex.com> References: <326C5BA4.71FB@netscape.com> In article <326C5BA4.71FB@netscape.com> Anthony Cordeiro <ren@netscape.com> writes: > > If you really want a server with top-notch volume management, get an > > Auspex. Incredible reliability and performance are additional fun > > side-effects. ;) > > Auspexes are great machines, no doubt, and if something goes > wrong, there's an Auspex person calling you within the hour, before > you know what's happening half the time. My biggest gripe with them > is that they're somewhat slow, and unbelievably pricey. > Errr ... they're not what I'd call slow. >10,000 NFSops/sec. Slightly less than 5x the performance of the fastest Network Appliance machine. http://www.specbench.org/osg/sfs/ And they're not nearly as pricey as they used to be. Having been a customer twice, I can attest to that. > Although their latest OS release is a bit questionable, > I like the Network Appliance filers quite a bit. Easy to set up > and maintain, fairly fault-tolerant, and their tech support team > has been wonderful. And, of course, they look neat. > The NetApp is a decent workgroup server, but they don't scale at all. Auspexen scale nicely from ~20Gig up to 900. The performance scalability is almost perfectly linear, too. > I guess this last is my only material that's NeXT related, > since you could buy a NetApp and NFS mount it from the NeXT, but > I guess that's probably stretching. But then I imagine there are > a lot of SysAdmins that read this group that aren't only NeXT > admins, hm? > Interestingly, there's a *huge* correlation between NeXT customers and Auspex customers. That MCCA thing encourages the use of *very* reliable systems. - 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: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: 3.2 -> 3.3 upgrade worth it? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961022224931.1917A-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:48:52 -0400 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greets all I've got a generous offer to get 3.3 User/Dev at a good price. However, as a student any money is tight money. I'm wondering if people who had experience with a non-turbo, mono slab running 3.2 and 3.3 would tell me what they think about upgrading. Is it worth it? (besides than the Mail.app) Differences in speed? (32 ram is my max, which I'm at already) Differences in ability to compile? How easy is it for a novice to compile most apps 4 fat? Any other reasons for/against upgrading? TjL
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: 23 Oct 1996 04:27:54 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net>, daleg@fred.net says... > >Arpad Geller (arpad@tezcat.com) wrote: > >: Now the problem/question is that if I set up the httpd.conf >: to listen on port 8080 (for example), I seem to need to >: type http://www.name2.com:8080. However, I want to be able >: to just type http://www.name2.com and have it automatically >: connect to the Apache server on port 8080 instead of port >: 80 -- and then http://www.name1.com connecting to port 80 >: instead of port 8080. Anybody have an answer???? Any help >: would be greatly appreciated. > >Browsers by default connect to port 80 when a port is not specified. Common >sence would conclude that. Why dont you just configure your second doamin as a >virtual host? Then you can do what you want. > > -Dale G. No, thanks but I might not have made myself clear enough. I need to run two distinct web servers, Apache and a proprietary, custom, NeXTStep server. I need the Apache to handle www.name1.com and the other to handle www.name2.com without the client having to append the port to the URL. And both of these need to run on the same machine assigned two ip addresses.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PopOver w/sendmail Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:56:20 -0700 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961022214931.17700B-100000@kira> References: <326CF343.22D9@invisix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Jurcich <mattj@invisix.com> In-Reply-To: <326CF343.22D9@invisix.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > Ok, so I installed PopOver, and it brings messages down from my pop3 > server fine. The show up in my NeXTMail mailbox with Mail.app great. cool, just as it should be. > What doesn't work is sending messages out via sendmail/Mail.app. What > should I look for to diagnose what is happening? Are there log files > or something like that to look at? man sendmail doesn't tell me > a whole lot about it. IMO man pages are good references for people who already know what they are doing and need a reminder 1) popOver doesn't have anything to do with your outgoing mail, just want to make sure you know that. 2) your Mail.app's Mailer preference controls what program sends your mail. It should usually point to /usr/lib/sendmail. Does it? Any chance it got corrupted? try this test echo "please email me if you received this" |Mail -s "test" someone@somwhere.com (that should all be one long line after the "echo") If someone@somewhere.com responds, you know your mail is going out (feel free to try this using 'luomat@peak.org', or even better, try this: echo "" | Mail -s "send-ascii info" luomat@peak.org that should hit my autoresponder and send you a message back almost immediately you can check the syslog for any information about your outgoing mail. let me know if I can be of any help. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
From: "Neil Mansilla" <neil@aol2.com> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: 23 Oct 1996 07:07:10 GMT Organization: Almighty Online, Inc. Message-ID: <01bbc0b0$86689ac0$6c74adce@gatemo.ix.netcom.com> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> > No, thanks but I might not have made myself clear enough. I need to run two > distinct web servers, Apache and a proprietary, custom, NeXTStep server. I > need the Apache to handle www.name1.com and the other to handle www.name2.com > without the client having to append the port to the URL. And both of these > need to run on the same machine assigned two ip addresses. Well, it is known that you can only bind one of the two pieces of server software to port 80. If you're running another webserver on port 8080, then I can only see ONE *POSSIBLE* (but most probably NOT) solution: 1) Apache on port 80 (www.name1.com, virtual host www.name2.com) 2) Prop on port 8080 (www.name2.com) 3) Redirect www.name2.com:80/index.cgi (Location: http://www.name2.com:8080) (or a direct, redirect) Now that sounds like oodles of crap... and it MAY work (given that the software accepts it) UNLESS you reference www.name2.com:80 OUTSIDE of its root (i.e. www.name2.com/index.htm) Well, YOU ASKED! (smile) Sincerely, Neil Mansilla Almighty Online, Inc http://www.whatuseek.com We're not holy-rollers. But we do pump out God Like search results.
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prob. installing 3.3 for Intel with Adaptec 2940 scsi adapter Date: 23 Oct 1996 05:25:46 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <54ka8q$gnm@hermes.is.co.za> References: <326D0A4A.75FD@citrus.ucr.edu> In-Reply-To: <326D0A4A.75FD@citrus.ucr.edu> On 10/22/96, Carl Hoefer wrote: >Hi out there, > > I'm installing 3.3 on my Dell Optiplex. I've successfully >(I think) installed an Adaptec 2940Ultra scsi host adapter, and thought >I was all ready to install NS. The install process goes fine thru the >stage of picking the scsi adapter driver (the 3.32 version on my Device >Drivers floppy) and hard disk controller (large IDE). Then when the >white Mach screen comes up, the process halts saying "can't find scsi >adapter or CD-ROM", and prompting me for a boot device. I am not sure >what it is asking for, but I've given it all the following: >hd0 (the IDE hard drive) >sd7 (the adapter's scsi number) >sd4 (the number of the NeXT CD ROM attached to the adapter) > >Invariably, the system panics as soon as I input these suggestions. > >One other potential clue: further up the white screen, there is a line >that says > >Adaptec 2940: can't get confifgSpace; ABORTING > >(or something close to that). I don't know if that is significant. > > > One idea I have had is that maybe the device driver is too old, >causing it to not find the (brand new) adapter. I have downloaded the >latest driver from NeXTAnswers, but damned if I know how to turn it from >a package into a working driver on a floppy! I only have black slabs >nearby to run Installer on, and the Installer (A) warns me only to >install the pkg on Intel; and (B) only lets you install to the root >directory. So I've been afraid to install the package. How can I get >the latest driver in a usable form, to put on a floppy? > > >Any help will be GREATLY appreciated, as always. > >Carl Hoefer >Philosophy dept. >UCRiverside >hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu > Interesting, Just Yesterday I had the same problem. The 3.32 Drivers is outdated and you should get the new Driver. You should create an Additional Drivers floppy, which can be found at NeXT's ftp site in NeXTanswers. (/pub/NeXTanswers/Files/NEXTSTEP/Floppy_Images) The Information on creating this Floppy is also in the same directory on their site. When you have created the Floppy, you start the installation process as normal, when you are asked for the NeXTStep drivers floppy, insert the original Floppy. Don't select the adaptec driver from this floppy, rather insert the newly created floppy in the drive and press 8, enter. This will produce a new list of drivers. The new adaptec driver that you should choose will show up as version 3.37. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: 23 Oct 1996 08:14:36 GMT Organization: a2i network Message-ID: <54kk5c$snf@samba.rahul.net> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi In <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) writes: >>: I want to be able >>: to just type http://www.name2.com and have it automatically >>: connect to the Apache server on port 8080 instead of port >>: 80 -- and then http://www.name1.com connecting to port 80 >>: instead of port 8080. Anybody have an answer???? ... >No, thanks but I might not have made myself clear enough. I need to run two >distinct web servers, Apache and a proprietary, custom, NeXTStep server. I >need the Apache to handle www.name1.com and the other to handle www.name2.com >without the client having to append the port to the URL. And both of these >need to run on the same machine assigned two ip addresses. The question you are asking is like saying "I want to add two and two and make it 5. Anybody have an answer???" We have answers! First, perhaps you can sidestep the question by running both servers on port 80, just at different IP addresses. But if you cannot, you can do the following. Let the Apache server listen on port 80 at each of the two IP addresses. On one of the IP addresses you have the web service you want. On the other, set up a redirection, so the web server immediately sends back something like: Location: http://www.name2.com:8080/ Now all web browsers will connect to port 80 as usual, but the one connecting to www.name2.com will immediately reconnect (usually faster than the eye can see...) to port 8080. How to arrange to send back the Location: response is left as an exercise for the reader. -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> "please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk on EZ135 problem Date: Wed, 23 Oct 96 13:59:57 Organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Manassas, VA, USA Message-ID: <54l11q$m1g@news.manassas.ibm.com> References: <53kqfs$22c@highway.leidenuniv.nl> Hi! Normaly it should work. I have an emergency disk (EZ135) with approx. 25 MBytes free. I have a whole graphic system running and I am able, as I found out the hard way, that my emergency disk works very well. Well I am running NS3.3 but this can't be the problem. I used Builddisk to do the job. Henry
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Small problem with WuFTP anonymous site (mine) -- Date: 23 Oct 1996 08:57:07 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <54l4n3$l6a@papoose.quick.com> References: <54f1b3$6m8@usc.edu> In article <54f1b3$6m8@usc.edu>, Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> wrote: >Small problem with WuFTP site (mine) -- > >I'm running: FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Wed Jan 31 >23:28:07 CST 1996) > >Everything seems to be basically the way it should be. I can >log in anonymously with 'ftp' and 'ls' to see file structure >and navigate into the ~pub/incoming directory and 'put' or >'get' something from it. > >I can do the same with ncftp, except that 'ls' *doesn't show >me anything at all*! > >AND performing a 'ls' inside ~pub/incoming with either ftp >or ncftp reveals absolutely nothing, even after I've uploaded >something. And I know there's stuff there. > >Both issues with 'ls' are confusing to say the least. > >Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And since anonymous ftp runs a process which has been chroot'ed to the ftp home directory, /bin/ls must be provided. do the following as root: cd to ~ftp mkdir bin cp -p /bin/ls bin chmod 700 bin chmod 555 bin/ls chown -R root.wheel bin You will also need to add a subset of passwd and group for user and group field on long listings to be text rather than numeric. mkdir etc chmod 700 etc cat > ~ftp/etc/group << HEREDOC wheel:*:0: nogroup:*:-2: HEREDOC cat > ~ftp/etc/passwd << HEREDOC ftp::105:-2:FTP Account:/usr/users/ftp:/bin/false root:*:0:0:Operator:/:/bin/csh HEREDOC And in case you have not done so already: chmod 555 ~ftp (to prevent someone from using put to upload a .rhosts file and break in via rlogin to the ftp user account. Note that the passwd and group information will probably need to be different on your host, but these are provided as examples for explainatory purposes. Any account or group that will own files under the public ftp tree should probably exist in this subset of the passwd and group files. Since these files are publicly readable you should make sure that no encrypted password field is present (replace with *). As an added precaution you should ensure that any account listed here (above root and ftp - which everyone knows are present) are not valid login accounts on the host. (for the paranoid or anal compulsive) What I would suggest if you want one or more administrative users for files under this tree, is that you create account(s) along the following lines: 1. It should have /bin/false as the login shell. 2. It should not have a valid home directory path. 3. It should have an alias entry to redirect mail to the real administrators account. To do maintenance, the administrator can login to a normal account then su to the admin account. This will enable ftp users to send email to the owner of a particular file or directory if they have questions or comments, without publishing to the world a valid login account name. -- ___ ___ | 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.sysadmin From: jwore@midway.uchicago.edu (John-paul W C Ore) Subject: NeXT as PrintSpooler? Message-ID: <DzqID9.y8@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:15:09 GMT I would like to set up a NeXT pizza box (black) as a print spooler for lab of Macintosh and MicroSoft machines. The NeXT is currently running NeXTStep 3.2. Advice? CAP? Appletalk for NeXTs? Thanks in advance and feel free to respond to jwore@midway.uchicago.edu
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: App not recognized by window manager Date: 23 Oct 1996 14:55:37 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <54lbl9$i3t@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I have recently purchased and installed Create on my P90 running NS 3.3. It works great, but I the only way that I can open a file that I have saved is to open Create first and the open the respective files. For some reason the file is not recognized as a Create file (I cannot simply double click on the file and have it open). Does anyone know how I can fix this problem. I have reinstalled the app two times and it still behaves like this. Thanks for any help. -- Darryl _________________________________________________________________ Darryl L. James | darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail Texas Tech University | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/ME_Dept/ _________________________________________________________________
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.2 -> 3.3 upgrade worth it? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:30:01 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmPZMNu00UhB01gvw0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961022224931.1917A-100000@charisma> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961022224931.1917A-100000@charisma> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 22-Oct-96 3.2 -> 3.3 upgrade worth it? by "Timothy J. Luoma"@nerc. > I've got a generous offer to get 3.3 User/Dev at a good price. > However, as a student any money is tight money. I'm wondering if > people who had experience with a non-turbo, mono slab running 3.2 and > 3.3 would tell me what they think about upgrading. > > Is it worth it? (besides than the Mail.app) 3.3 is an improvement in a bunch of minor areas; the new Mail.app and Terminal.app are pretty cool. Make sure you get and install the 3.3 patches, or else you'll toast your NetInfo database. > Differences in speed? (32 ram is my max, which I'm at already) I didn't notice any. > Differences in ability to compile? The 3.3 compiler does much better at C++ stuff, but other than that the differences aren't extreme. > How easy is it for a novice to compile most apps 4 fat? For NEXTSTEP-specific software, it's trivial. For most non-NEXTSTEP-specific stuff, you'll have to adjust makefiles. Complex things like emacs and perl pretty much have to compiled under the architecture they are to run under. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Steve Koppelman <skoppel@dorsai.org> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:46:55 -0400 Organization: Viva Zapata! Message-ID: <326D169F.5837@dorsai.org> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arpad Geller <arpad@tezcat.com> Under most flavors of Unix--and under NT--you *can* configure the kernel to act as multiple IP addrersses on the same interface.. So that you *can* run separate webservers bound to www.foo.com:80 and www.bar.com:80, etc. for real and not via a "virtual host" scheme. The method for doing this is OS-specific. For example, on Linux, it generally requires a kernel patch. For Solaris, it can be done on the fly with the ifconfig command. I suggest you take this to the Mach or NextStep newsgroups (or FAQs), and ask how you can bind the system to multiple IPs on a single interface. Once you've done so, Apache or Netscape servers will easily work with it.. I can't speak for the other HTTPD you have. FYI, we are currently serving from 9 different IP addresses--all on their own port 80--from one Solaris machine, and in theory we can handle 256 addresses per ethernet card. -- Steve Koppelman Personal mail: mailto:skoppel@dorsai.org Arpad Geller wrote: > In article <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net>, daleg@fred.net says... > >Arpad Geller (arpad@tezcat.com) wrote: > >: Now the problem/question is that if I set up the httpd.conf > >: to listen on port 8080 (for example), I seem to need to > >: type http://www.name2.com:8080. However, I want to be able > >: to just type http://www.name2.com and have it automatically > >: connect to the Apache server on port 8080 instead of port > >: 80 -- and then http://www.name1.com connecting to port 80 > >: instead of port 8080. Anybody have an answer???? Any help > >: would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Browsers by default connect to port 80 when a port is not specified. Common > >sence would conclude that. Why dont you just configure your second doamin as > a > >virtual host? Then you can do what you want. > > No, thanks but I might not have made myself clear enough. I need to run two > distinct web servers, Apache and a proprietary, custom, NeXTStep server. I > need the Apache to handle www.name1.com and the other to handle www.name2.com .....
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with Mail.app header preferences Date: 23 Oct 1996 19:49:04 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <54lsrg$rk2@news.tamu.edu> I believe I have messed up one of my mail configuration files. I remember changing some of the header values last week in the Mail.App preferences. I didn't notice then, but noone outside my local domain has been able to recieve my mail. It doesn't even bounce back. I tried to trace it by using the command line mail send command. It seems sendmail is working, but the machine that the mail is forwarded to needs the domain in MY address to send the mail on. It doesn't find this and quits. It tries to send me the bounce message, but once again the domain isn't in the Mailer-Agent name and it quits. Thus I don't even know the message wasn't sent. I remember now messing with the headers. Can anyone help me to replace this lost header or return things to the way they were. Here is the output Thanks, Jeromy I can recieve mail, so feel free to send it. Thanks ... Connecting to claim.tamu.edu (etherl)... 220 pmail.tamu.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) ESMTP server ready >>> HELO chenext8.tamu.edu 250 pmail.tamu.edu says hello to chenext8.tamu.edu >>> MAIL From:<jth9904> 501 Missing domain in address >>> QUIT 221 pmail.tamu.edu says goodbye ... 554 Remote protocol error jth9904... Connecting to claim.tamu.edu (etherl)... 220 pmail.tamu.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) ESMTP server ready >>> HELO chenext8.tamu.edu 250 pmail.tamu.edu says hello to chenext8.tamu.edu >>> MAIL From:<Mailer-Agent> 501 Missing domain in address >>> QUIT 221 pmail.tamu.edu says goodbye jth9904... 554 Remote protocol error --
From: bobs@phys.washington.edu (Robert Singleton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: ppp Date: 23 Oct 1996 20:37:34 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <54lvme$c86@nntp1.u.washington.edu> I'm running NS3.2 on black hardware, and I'm trying to get ppp up and running (I want to communicate via the phone lines with a modem pool that is also running ppp). I have ppp installed and loaded into the kernel, but I am unable to start the communications process. I want to first start ppp manually, and I'll worry about chat scripts later. The README file states that I should ... use a communications package (tip or kermit are good choices) to manually dial the modem and log into the remote server. There, manually start up the pppd process. Once this is done, you can exit the communications process (to free up the device it is using). Then, start your local pppd on the same device. The pppd processes will then start communicating. The premise is that you manually perform the operations that you would like your dial script to perform. Once you _know_ ppp works, you can spend time on the dial scripts. Please note, you _must_ exit from your communications program before you start your local pppd. For example if you are in kermit and you start the peer pppd, you must completely exit kermit before you start pppd. If you don't, the connection will not form. Using kermit, I dial up the modem pool (on device /dev/cufa), start pppd, and then ^]c back to the local kermit session. At this point, I'm unable to start the local pppd program without severing the connection. What should I do here? Also, can someone send their chat script as a sample? This might be useful in the future. Thanks very much for any assistance, and if you could, please send replies via email. -- Robert Singleton work: (206) 543-9640 Department of Physics fax : (206) 685-0635 University of Washington Box 351560 bobs@terrapin.phys.washington.edu Seattle, WA 98195 http://terrapin.phys.washington.edu/~bobs
From: lacourse@midusa.net (Dan LaCourse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ppp Date: 23 Oct 1996 23:01:37 GMT Organization: Netspace Internet Services Message-ID: <54m84h$b6e1@news.midusa.net> References: <54lvme$c86@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Cc: bobs@phys.washington.edu In <54lvme$c86@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Robert Singleton wrote: > I'm running NS3.2 on black hardware, and I'm trying to get ppp > up and running (I want to communicate via the phone lines with > a modem pool that is also running ppp). I have ppp installed and > loaded into the kernel, but I am unable to start the communications > process. > > Using kermit, I dial up the modem pool (on device /dev/cufa), > start pppd, and then ^]c back to the local kermit session. At > this point, I'm unable to start the local pppd program without > severing the connection. What should I do here? > Hi Robert, I believe the problem you are describing is that when you exit kermit it automatically hangs up the phone. The way to get around that is to issue a command to the shell from within kermit, which is done by preceding your command (at the kermit prompt) with "!". So, you're doing everything right. You just need to type !pppd cufa defaultroute -detach at the kermit prompt. Hope this helps. -- Best wishes, Dan LaCourse
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com () Subject: Re: Any other HP DAT autoloader users out there? Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <Dzqpvs.EMF@bri.hp.com> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:57:28 GMT References: <543179$5bn@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware William Barker (wrb@biostr.washington.edu) wrote: : I'd like to talk with other HP DAT autoloader (1553a) users about their : successes and failures using the device with black hardware. Please email : if you're interested. I'm interested :-) Officially, if you ask then you'll get the answer 'unsupported'. It should go okay but leave you somewhat sparsely supported for robotics ... there's a utility called mtx on the other platforms that lets you swap tapes from the command line. There's not a NeXT port of this at the moment, nor is there likely to be (my old 68k box at home doesn't play nice enough to hack on -- somewhat dead) ... but there's no reason _technically_ why it couldn't be done (the driver has got a scsi pass through). The only other thing that springs to mind is that the driver itself is wildly unconfigurable. You get an additional set of device files for Exabyte drives, but other than that, you're stuck with what you get, no obvious driver tweakable files or static items in st that could adb to change the behaviour. ([1]) oh well... let me know if it's really causing you grief and I'll be happy to help out if at all possible... regards, al (not speaking for HP..) [1] -- okay. I've only got 3.0 and only ever seen 3.0. It might be a better state of affairs as of 4.x or the intel flavour.
From: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca (Michael Friendly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: How to debug a script run by cron? Date: 23 Oct 1996 13:14:16 GMT Organization: York University, Ontario, Canada Message-ID: <54l5n8$cc6@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> I have a script I use to update various web files on my local machine and copy them to a server. It works fine when I run it, but fails when run by cron (from crontab.local), with the line: 05 6 * * * friendly /bin/csh -x /Users/friendly/Unix/bin/webupdate #!/bin/csh -x # make sure we're running with the right path source $HOME/.cshrc setenv # update the whatsnew files set whatsnew="~friendly/Unix/bin/whatsnew" $whatsnew -d 14 -f whatsnew.htm psy3030 $whatsnew -d 14 -f whatsnew.htm psy6140 $whatsnew -d 14 -f whatsnew.html SCS # update files on webpost ~friendly/Unix/bin/cpdir -q -l The whatsnew script runs fine. The last step runs a perl script (cpdir) to find 'new' files which need to be copied to the server. This fails -- perhaps I should add that the '-l' option is logging me into the server under a NetWare NFS mount. I tried redirecting the stdout of cpdir to a log file, but it comes out as a 0-length file. I'm using the csh -x switch for debugging output, which appears when I run this manually, but where does it go when run by cron? So, how can I simulate running the script by cron to see why it's not working, or otherwise debug it??? -- Michael Friendly Internet: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca (NeXTmail OK) Psychology Dept York University Voice: 416 736-5118 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA
From: terry jones <terry@teclata.es> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: 24 Oct 1996 01:09:25 +0100 Organization: Teclata Message-ID: <sczq1di5oq.fsf@teclata.es> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) writes: > > My object is to have a virtual host register on a port > other than port 80. > > Now the problem/question is that if I set up the httpd.conf > to listen on port 8080 (for example), I seem to need to > type http://www.name2.com:8080. I've assigned a second i.p. > address to the machine (using ps_load for the NeXT literate) Yeah. You need to have a single server (binding to port 80, as usual) responding to requests for both domains. Forget about port 8080. I'm not sure what ps_load does, but you need to make your ethernet interface watch for packets for both IP addresses. To do this, you generally use an alias option to ifconfig (or patch your kernel and your ifconfig if your OS doesn't support the aliasing already). If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go to <URL:http://www.thesphere.com/~dlp/TwoServers> > However, I want to be able to just type http://www.name2.com and > have it automatically connect to the Apache server on port 8080 > instead of port 80 -- and then http://www.name1.com connecting to > port 80 instead of port 8080. Anybody have an answer???? Anyone who types http://www.name2.com is going to port 80 on www.name2.com (unless they've done something bizarre to /etc/services). Forget about port 8080 (again). Read that page! Then read this one <URL:http://www.apache.org/docs/virtual-host.html>. Hope this helps, Terry Jones (terry@teclata.es).
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: ppp Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:13:26 -0700 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961023180505.1382H-100000@kira> References: <54lvme$c86@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Robert Singleton <bobs@phys.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <54lvme$c86@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com [ followups to comp.sys.next.misc ] - please pick a newsgroup, don't post to all of them. - Even better, send this to the PPP listserv, which deals with this stuff all of the time, send a message to listproc@chinx1.ThoughtPort.COM with the SUBJECT SUBSCRIBE NEXTPPP Robert Singleton The answer is to set this in your .kermrc file: define ppp - !pppd < \v(line) > \v(line) defaultroute when you start the connect at the other end, go contol-] and then 'c' and then type do ppp at the kermit prompt. That will start the PPP process. There should have been example chat scripts with the package. I have a file called 'chat2isp' with these contents ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATQ0H0 OK AT&D2 OK ATW1 OK ATM0 OK ATDTW5551212 "CONNECT" "" TIMEOUT 25 ogin:-\r-ogin:- myuser "ord: " mypassword I start PPP via: /usr/local/bin/pppd connect \ '/usr/local/bin/chat -v -f /usr/local/bin/chat2isp' good luck TjL
From: cybermo@netins.net (BRIAN MORRISON) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GateKeeper PPP help needed Date: 24 Oct 1996 02:01:26 GMT Organization: netINS, Des Moines, IA, USA Message-ID: <slrn456tjfl.mf5.cybermo@worf.netins.net> I'm having problems with the IPCP negotiations, Here's what I get: Oct 23 18:12:30 helser18 pppd[203]: Connected... Oct 23 18:12:31 helser18 pppd[203]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 23 18:12:31 helser18 pppd[203]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua Oct 23 18:12:31 helser18 pppd[203]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x318421c6> <pcomp> <accomp>] Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x318421c6> <pcomp> <accomp>] Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: (1500) Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: (ACK) Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: (318421c6) Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: (NAK) Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: (ACK) Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: (ACK) Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFNAK. Oct 23 18:12:32 helser18 pppd[203]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x534ddfaa>] Oct 23 18:12:33 helser18 pppd[203]: rcvd [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0x534ddfaa>] Oct 23 18:12:33 helser18 pppd[203]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1500> <magic 0x7654de33> <pcomp> <accomp>] Oct 23 18:13:01 helser18 last message repeated 9 times Oct 23 18:13:04 helser18 pppd[203]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Oct 23 18:13:04 helser18 pppd[203]: Connection terminated. Can someone help? Brian Morrison cybermo@netins.net (previously sela@iastate.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mattj@invisix.com Subject: sendmail 8.7.5 Message-ID: <a177cc$162b37.66@news.goldengate.net> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 04:43:55 GMT Hey there, I installed sendmail 8.7.5 on my machine and am having a problem with it. I never got the previous version working (whatever comes with NS 3.2). When I do a mail <e-mail address> , fill in what it asks (sending a message, of course), ending with a CTRL-D I get... No local mailer defined: No such file or directory cannot chdir((null pointer)): Bad address Any thoughts? -- MATT | mailto:mattj@invisix.com ** living a microsoft ** jurcich | http://www.invisix.com ** free lifestyle ** Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2
From: ggraham@micrord.com (George Graham) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 02:05:43 GMT Organization: Micro R.&D., Inc. Message-ID: <54mj34$f7t@news.netusa.net> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> In article <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net>, arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) wrote: >No, thanks but I might not have made myself clear enough. I need to run two >distinct web servers, Apache and a proprietary, custom, NeXTStep server. I >need the Apache to handle www.name1.com and the other to handle www.name2.com >without the client having to append the port to the URL. And both of these >need to run on the same machine assigned two ip addresses. I used to run several web servers with each one listening to port 80. I used the bindaddress directive to have each one listen to the IP address it was serving. If I understand your problem, it should work, as long as you have aliased the extra IP address to your network interface card. George Graham
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Another problem with FTP Date: 24 Oct 1996 04:31:13 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-63.usc.edu Message-ID: <54mreh$hah@usc.edu> Upon ftp'ng to my own local ftp site and entering my login name and hitting enter, I get the following messages in my console: Oct 23 19:44:52 midnight ftpd[305]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory Oct 23 19:44:53 midnight ftpd[305]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory What is going on? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> 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: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GateKeeper has become immortal.... Date: 24 Oct 1996 05:43:35 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <54mvm7$3lj@nntp1.best.com> I'm running OpenStep for Intel and have GateKeeper.app (2.0 beta 5) configured to manage my ppp link. GateKeeper is in the dock and starts automatically when I log in, bringing up the PPP link and starting PopOver just fine. If I quit the GateKeeper application manually the link goes away and pppd and PopOver processes are killed. I used to be able to logout, GateKeeper.app would quit, the link would go down and everything was just fine.... now when I log out the link stays up and the pppd process hangs around. I can't figure out why everything works if I quit GateKeeper manually but why it doesn't work if I just logout. (My problems started after an OS re-install but I can't figure out what changed!) Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, Chris --
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax and USR Sportster 33.6 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 08:29:37 Organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Manassas, VA, USA Message-ID: <54n221$jn4@news.manassas.ibm.com> References: <54dt01$qhq@news.pathcom.com> In Germany is guy working on this. I wait too. I have an USR and everthing OK but faxing. Henry
From: john@wpa.com (John Bartley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3 systems hangs up sending MIME via uucp Date: 24 Oct 1996 06:37:58 GMT Organization: -=MO.NET=- MVP-Net, Inc's Missouri Operations Message-ID: <54n2s6$9bt@twain.mo.net> I've just finished rebooting again for the umpteenth time after once again getting bitten by this MIME-related problem. I have no problems _receiving_ MIME messages, but if I reply to certain MIME messages, my system completely locks up during uucp transmission. I haven't been able to isolate exactly what aspect of the message causes the problem, but I have verified that this is the problem. Can anyone shed light on what is going on? Is Taylor the problem, or MIME? - NS 3.3 - Intel Pentium Pro system - Taylor uucp Thanks for your help.
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk on EZ135 problem Date: 24 Oct 1996 03:22:12 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <veehgnk3jyz.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <53kqfs$22c@highway.leidenuniv.nl> <54l11q$m1g@news.manassas.ibm.com> In-reply-to: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com's message of Wed, 23 Oct 96 13:59:57 In article <54l11q$m1g@news.manassas.ibm.com> Koplien@vnet.IBM.com writes: Normaly it should work. I have an emergency disk (EZ135) with approx. 25 MBytes free. I have a whole graphic system running and I am able, as I found out the hard way, that my emergency disk works very well. Well I am running NS3.3 but this can't be the problem. I used Builddisk to do the job. Hmm, I would like to help - but in the above you reference a problem, but never describe what the problem is! What _does_ happen? Does the computer identify the drive and disks at boot time? Does the SCSI ID the SCSI card reports match expectations? All your SCSI IDs are different from each other? Does it get to the NeXT boot prompt at all? Can you boot using the floppy and say "sd(0)mach_kernel" to boot it? I got an EZFlyer a couple days ago, and the first thing I did was BuildDisk onto it, power down, set the SCSI ID to 0, and boot off of it. It worked fine - though this _is_ on a NeXTstation, not an Intel box. I suppose I should try it on the Intel box ... I would do it right now, but unfortunately I'd have to rearrange SCSI IDs on the internal drives to do it, not going to happen at this time. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: unter@mecati.mecasoft.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Subject: HELP!!! How to format a new internal HD? Message-ID: <Dzru1o.3Mz@mecati.mecasoft.ch> Sender: Stefano Unternaehrer Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:04:38 GMT Newsreader: (motif-based News Reader & Mailer) gazette (Version 2.1C) by BlackSheep Organization: Mecasoft s.a. Muralto, Switzerland Keywords: harddisk Hello NeXTSteppers! I have at home a NeXTStation (NS 3.2): I've changed the internal original hd (was broken, SCSI error) with a new one, a Seagate ST32151N having 2 GB. My problem is that I cannot find the way to format it. It is defined as SCSI 1. Jumpers are setted in this ways: J6: 1- 2 SCSI-ID bit 0 (i.e. SCSI 1) J2: 3- 4 Terminator power from drive 15-16 Enable Terminators Using the ROM Monitor I've setted to boot from floppy disk. I have a bootable floppy and all starts ok. Calling "/usr/etc/disk /dev/rsd0a" I see the new hd, and ">disk label" is ok, but if I try "disk> init" I receive the message: The device is mounted as a filesystem and can't be initialized. This is the complete output: disk> label label information: print, write? p current label information on disk: disk label version #3 disk label: Galileo1 disk name: SEAGATE ST32151N-512 disk type: fixed-rw-scsi ncyls 4177 ntrack 8 nsect 63 rpm 300 sector_size 1024 front_porch 96 back_porch 0 ngroups 0 ag_size 0 ag_alts 0 ag_off 0 bootfile: sdmach host name: galileo root partition: a read/write partition: b part base size bsize fsize cpg density minfree newfs optim automount type a 0 2098606 8192 1024 16 2048 0% yes space yes 4.3BSD Is this correct to be all in partition a? What about read/write partition? Asking /etc/mount for a list of mounted devices, I see /dev/rsd0a mounted on /private/tmp/hd, but this is false (i.e.: the /private/tmp/ directory is void). Calling "/etc/umount /private/tmp/hd" fails, and also "/etc/umount -a" doesn't change anything. Also note the the /etc/fstab file contains only one line: /dev/fd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 so the /dev/rsd0a should not be mounted. Nevertheless, it is reconized during the boot process, don't know why. Also starting in single-user mode with "NeXT> bfd -s" doesn't change anything. Someone told me the only way is to take the hd in an external box and visit somebody with a NeXT and format it externally, then reinstall internal. It's hard for me to believe it. What do you thing about?? Any suggestions?? Thank you Stefano -- ____________________________ ______________________| Stefano Unternaehrer |__________________________ \ Mecasoft SA | Oracle DBA | fax: +41 91 743 5507 / \ 6600 Muralto | and PL/SQL, Pro*C | voice: +41 91 743 7444 / \ | C, XWindow & Motif | / / | Software Developer | email: \ / Switzerland Europe |____________________________| dba,unter@mecasoft.ch \ /________________________) (____________________________\
From: Tammy McKean <invent@cow.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT Connection Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:24:00 -0700 Organization: cow. Message-ID: <32705D00.2200@cow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Can anyone give me some tips on how to get NeXTSTEP 3.3 or 4.0 to talk to a Win NT network? thanks, -tm -- Tammy McKean invent@cow.com cow. 1522 cloverfield blvd (suite-e) santa monica california 90404 voice 310 264 2424 fax 310 264 2430
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: How to debug a script run by cron? Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:09:32 -0700 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961024170210.29283C-100000@kira> References: <54l5n8$cc6@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Friendly <friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca> In-Reply-To: <54l5n8$cc6@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com egads, a csh script.... > I have a script I use to update various web files on my local machine > and copy them to a server. It works fine when I run it, but fails > when run by cron (from crontab.local), with the line: > > 05 6 * * * friendly /bin/csh -x /Users/friendly/Unix/bin/webupdate Ok, first of all, remove the -x from crontab.local, you have it within the script anyway. secondly, try adding lines such as echo "stage 1" > ~friendly.out echo "stage 2" >> ~friendly.out at various points across the script. the output is probably being lost because it doesn't have a tty when in cron you can also try this: #!/bin/sh csh -x /Users/friendly/Unix/bin/webupdate 2>&1 /dev/console exit 0 save that as 'callweb.sh' and put 'callweb.sh' as the cron entry running as 'sh' and see if that helps. TjL, recovering csh scripter (I really do think /bin/sh is cleaner for programming scripts)
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: 25 Oct 1996 01:27:00 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <54p514$fbi@chinx10.thoughtport.net> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII >>: Now the problem/question is that if I set up the httpd.conf >>: to listen on port 8080 (for example), I seem to need to >>: type http://www.name2.com:8080. However, I want to be able >>: to just type http://www.name2.com and have it automatically >>: connect to the Apache server on port 8080 instead of port >>: 80 -- and then http://www.name1.com connecting to port 80 >>: instead of port 8080. Anybody have an answer???? Any help >>: would be greatly appreciated. >> >>Browsers by default connect to port 80 when a port is not specified. Common >>sence would conclude that. Why dont you just configure your second doamin as >a >>virtual host? Then you can do what you want. >> >> -Dale G. > >No, thanks but I might not have made myself clear enough. I need to run two >distinct web servers, Apache and a proprietary, custom, NeXTStep server. I >need the Apache to handle www.name1.com and the other to handle www.name2.com >without the client having to append the port to the URL. And both of these >need to run on the same machine assigned two ip addresses. > I appreciate all of the help and I've gotten pretty far along in solving my problem. Unfortunately, the custom server running on port 80 won't bind to ip addresses and I can't get the Apache server to bind to anything other than *. This must be a flaw in the ps_if package I'm using to tie the second ip to the ethernet port. (This is a NeXT utility because NeXT doesn't do ifconfig) So, my hypothetical solution was to have a cgi script waiting at www.name1.com/index.cgi to redirect requests to either www.name1.com:80/start.html or www.name2.com:8080/index.html depending on the request. I thought that there might be some convenient environment variable to check for the requested url, which it turns out, there isn't. The solution may lie in some kind of Tcl/Tmn script to run a simple http web server for redirection although I'm very unclear on this. But, I'm going to keep trying although time is no longer a factor -- someone else gets to host that particular client. c'est la vie. -- Peace, Arpi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Arpad Geller (312) 862-2941 arpad@tezcat.com Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu
From: pjb@imaginet.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PopOver w/sendmail Date: 25 Oct 1996 00:32:22 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <54p1qm$h1b@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961022214931.17700B-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961022214931.17700B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > > Ok, so I installed PopOver, and it brings messages down from my pop3 > > server fine. The show up in my NeXTMail mailbox with Mail.app great. .. > you can check the syslog for any information about your outgoing mail. /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog. Actually, the path is given in /etc/syslog.conf on the mail.info line. Check /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf too. __Pascal Bourugignon__
From: cchris@chum.hooked.net (Chris Christensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! delay during boot and power off Date: 25 Oct 1996 04:09:10 GMT Organization: Hooked Online Services Message-ID: <54peh6$dfp@its.hooked.net> Greetings, Whenever I turn on my NeXT color turbostation it insists on checking all the files on the disks (both the boot disk and a second LocalDisk) I rebooted in single user mode >bsd -s and ran fsck. It reported no problems and marked the file system as clean. However, whenever I turn the computer on it still insists on checking all the files. When I power off it takes about 15 minutes before it shuts off. (It doesn't seem to be doing anything during those 15 minutes). Any idea what might be cuasing this? Thanks for any help. Chris <cchris@hooked.net>
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Next as Gateway Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:46:28 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961025104120.6811A-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does somebody successfuly use an x86 based Next as gateway? I am considering to equip our Next with a second ethernet board to connect two networks. Would it be sufficient for this purpose to turn on ip forwarding in the kernel and to adjust the routing tables? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: HELP! delay during boot and power off Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961025105633.20951A-100000@charisma> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:57:28 -0400 References: <54peh6$dfp@its.hooked.net> To: Chris Christensen <cchris@chum.hooked.net> In-Reply-To: <54peh6$dfp@its.hooked.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is usually caused by a daemon or process which refuses to die. Try logging out and instead of powering down, login as 'console' and see what processes are still running as your username TjL
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: low level hd format software? Date: 25 Oct 1996 15:57:22 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> Hi all, Is there some hdform software for NS? If not, does anyone know of any dos software that will do a low level hd format? I cannot seem to get rid of one of next's boot* programs no matter what I do... fdisk /mbr doesn't do it... Any pointers will be appreciated. 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
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Experiences with TwinHead or other portables for NS? Date: 25 Oct 1996 16:26:29 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <54qpnl$1ol0@news.doit.wisc.edu> Keywords: portable openstep computer I am looking to upgrade from my Thinkpad to a portable with a larger screen and pentium for running OpenStep. I am getting a price quote from OptimalObject on a Twinhead. Has anyone had experience with those? How do they work? A feature missing on my thinkpad under OS that I would like to have working is Suspend/Resume (i.e. where everything but power to the memory is suspended). Does that work? What about other portables? My minimum criteria are: - 800x600 color screen with available NS driver - Pentium - Functioning suspend/resume (and hibernate - does that ever work in NS/OS?) and other Power Management features - Good service & support Any information would be appreciated. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experiences with TwinHead or other portables for NS? Date: 25 Oct 1996 18:15:42 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <54r04f$26j@news4.digex.net> References: <54qpnl$1ol0@news.doit.wisc.edu> giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) wrote: > What about other portables? My minimum criteria are: > - 800x600 color screen with available NS driver > - Pentium > - Functioning suspend/resume (and hibernate - does that ever work in NS/OS?) and other Power Management features > - Good service & support Well, it depends on how much money you want to spend. But the new Toshiba 730 has a nice large 12.1" screen It does 1024X768. I'm not sure if it does it in 16bit color or 8 bit though... It's a pretty fast pentium. I don't know about the suspend/resume feature, but I've gotten the impression that the toshiba, for no know reason to bme, seems to be one of the better NS supported laptops. What I'd like to know is...are there any pc laptops out yet that do 1280X1024 pixels at 16bit color or more? I need that size... The closest thing now is the toshiba, which supports 1280X1024 externally and in a harware pan/zoom mode (though I think the pan/zoom will likely be UNsupported under NS, but I'd love to hear other wise). Still, having the actual 1280X1024 would really help my project... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FTP problem with ls -l (and all other flags) Date: 25 Oct 1996 22:57:52 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-08.usc.edu Message-ID: <54rglg$ifp@usc.edu> I had previously set up an anon site using wu-ftp and had problem that connecting with ftp 'ls' worked, but 'ls' + any flags didn't. And when I logged in with ncftp even plain 'ls' didn't work. Here's all that was logged during a ftp -d localhost session (which is the same with non-wu ftpd): ftp> ls ---> PORT 127,0,0,1,10,170 200 PORT command successful. ---> NLST 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. pub .rhosts .forward etc bin 226 Transfer complete. 29 bytes received in 0.13 seconds (0.21 Kbytes/s) ftp> ls -l ---> PORT 127,0,0,1,10,171 200 PORT command successful. ---> NLST -l 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 226 Transfer complete. So now I've gone back to original NeXT mach supplied ftpd. I even got rid of my anon user and home directory. And I still have the same problem and I have no idea where I should be looking! One important point = that when I had an anon site setup I was able to remove the 'ls' binary from the anon's bin directory and still be able with ftp to perform a 'ls' and even ncftp didn't remark that there was no binary, just that it coughed up no information. This leads me to believe that for some reason ftpd is accessing the wrong 'ls' or something. I really don't know. Any ideas whatsoever greatly appreciated! -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> 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: Thomas Tesch <tesch@darmstadt.gmd.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SCSI devices damaging filesystems?? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:40:25 +0200 Organization: GMD-IPSI Message-ID: <326E1239.6245@darmstadt.gmd.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since I disconnected my HP Scanner from my 040 NextCube the system does not boot anymore!! Following messages are thrown: boot command: sd boot sd(0,0,0) booting scsi target 1, lun 0 blk0 boot: sd()sdmach Booting from scsi target 1 lun 0 unknown binary format load failed blk0 boot: Have anybody ever had a damaged file system because of removing SCSI devices, esp. this strange HP scanner with it even more strange ScanTastic software?? The SCSI controller had always problems connecting the scanner device but it worked (several messages at boot time). I guess the scanner locks the SCSI bus hard. The bus was terminated and everything was taken care of when it was removed. The mysterious thing is that is happened now the 2nd time. I guess there is no way to fix or rescue anything. Trying to mount the disk from a working system is the last change. Please let me now whether you have similar experiences and how you resolved the problem? Thanks, Thomas Tesch
From: cybermo@netins.net (BRIAN MORRISON) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help, poached cufa Date: 25 Oct 1996 23:32:33 GMT Organization: netINS, Inc. Message-ID: <slrn4572jgh.fng.cybermo@worf.netins.net> I think somehow my cufa, cufb, cudfa, and cudfb device drivers are hosed. My cua and cub along with the other tty works. Is there an ftp where I can get these? I would just reinstall it from my CD, but I have no CD-ROM. Help. Brian
From: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: 26 Oct 1996 01:12:23 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <54rohn$tp@news.next.com> References: <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes > Let me just clarify. I do know that sdformat and others will let me > do a low level format on SCSI drives. I need a program that will > allow me to do low level formats on (E)IDE drives... > There is no general-purpose solution for low-level formatting an IDE drive. Most IDE drives just ignore the low-level format command. If you just want to get rid of the NeXT booter, "fdisk /mbr" from DOS should do it. I don't know why that wouldn't work for you. As a last resort, you could use a disk editor to copy the boot block from another disk onto that one. -- Mark Bessey NeXT Software, Inc Software Quality Assurance -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: 25 Oct 1996 23:59:57 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <54rk9t$2cc@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >> Is there some hdform software for NS? If not, does anyone know of any >dos software that will do a low level hd format? I cannot seem to get rid >of one of next's boot* programs no matter what I do... fdisk /mbr doesn't >do it... > >Let me just clarify. I do know that sdformat and others will let me do a >low level format on SCSI drives. I need a program that will allow me to do >low level formats on (E)IDE drives... > >Anyone know of any such things? Any pointers would be really appreciated. >Thanks :) Believe me, you don't want to do that. Real low-leveling of an (E)IDE drive will result in the drive becoming unusable. I've never had problems with getting rid of boot sectors via fdisk /mbr. Regards, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>, office: ckuhtz@paranet.com Network/UNIX Specialist for Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ Supercomputing Junkie, et al MIME/NeXTmail accepted
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SCSI devices damaging filesystems?? Date: 26 Oct 1996 06:38:18 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <54sbkq$2cc@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> References: <326E1239.6245@darmstadt.gmd.de> Thomas Tesch <tesch@darmstadt.gmd.de> wrote: >Since I disconnected my HP Scanner from my 040 NextCube the system >does not boot anymore!! Following messages are thrown: > >boot command: sd >boot sd(0,0,0) >booting scsi target 1, lun 0 >blk0 boot: sd()sdmach >Booting from scsi target 1 lun 0 >unknown binary format >load failed > >blk0 boot: Some of the HP scanners have internal termination. Did you put an external terminator on the bus to replace the lack of termination? Do you have other external SCSI devices hanging off of the NeXTcube CPU board? The above error message looks to me like a SCSI bus mess due to lack of termination. Regards, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>, office: ckuhtz@paranet.com Network/UNIX Specialist for Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ Supercomputing Junkie, et al MIME/NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: HELP! delay during boot and power off Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Dzuotr.G4v@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:25:03 GMT References: <54peh6$dfp@its.hooked.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <54peh6$dfp@its.hooked.net>, Chris Christensen <cchris@chum.hooked.net> wrote: >Greetings, > > Whenever I turn on my NeXT color turbostation it insists on >checking all the files on the disks (both the boot disk and a second >LocalDisk) I rebooted in single user mode >bsd -s and ran fsck. It >reported no problems and marked the file system as clean. However, whenever >I turn the computer on it still insists on checking all the files. > > When I power off it takes about 15 minutes before it shuts off. >(It doesn't seem to be doing anything during those 15 minutes). Any idea >what might be cuasing this? > Are you running any POSIX daemons at shutdown time, like samba? The POSIX stuff has some pretty major bugs, and this is one of them. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: dan@tome.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Johnston,S740A,7985984,7217266) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experiences with TwinHead or other portables for NS? Date: 26 Oct 1996 12:06:47 GMT Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx Distribution: world Message-ID: <54susn$roq@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> References: <54qpnl$1ol0@news.doit.wisc.edu> Cc: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu In <54qpnl$1ol0@news.doit.wisc.edu> Michael Giddings wrote: --> I am looking to upgrade from my Thinkpad to a portable with a larger screen --> and pentium for running OpenStep. --> --> I am getting a price quote from OptimalObject on a Twinhead. Has anyone had --> experience with those? How do they work? A feature missing on my thinkpad --> under OS that I would like to have working is Suspend/Resume (i.e. where --> everything but power to the memory is suspended). Does that work? --> --> What about other portables? My minimum criteria are: --> - 800x600 color screen with available NS driver --> - Pentium --> - Functioning suspend/resume (and hibernate - does that ever work in NS/OS?) --> and other Power Management features --> - Good service & support --> I have a tecra 720 and have been VERY happy with it. I have also used the twinhead. It has a nice feel to it, but it's battery life is very short compared to the tecra. There is no suspend mode in Nextstep but there is under windows95. dan -- Dan Johnston Division of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine 1 Baylor Plaza Houston, TX 77030 Internet: dan@mossy.bcm.tmc.edu (NeXTmail ok) Voice Phone: (713) 798-5984 FAX: (713)799-8544 or 798-3946
From: ian@milan.demon.co.uk (Ian Tait) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:04:09 GMT Message-ID: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> How do you get workspace manager to recognise .gz files in the same manner as .tar or .pkg files ? Thanks, Ian -- Ian Tait , http://www.milan.demon.co.uk/ (NeXTmail)
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:42:54 -0700 Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961026093756.23544A-100000@kira> References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Ian Tait <ian@milan.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com The app you are looking for is Opener.app ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/archiveutil/Opener.3.3.NISH.b.tar.gz Peanuts: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Tools/archiver/Opener.3.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz you can find single archs at ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/utils/Opener_f/ Unpack Opener.app, stick it on your dock or in ~/Apps or /LocalApps and do an 'Update Viewers' (if it still doesn't recognize it, logout and back in) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Ian Tait wrote: > Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:04:09 GMT > From: Ian Tait <ian@milan.demon.co.uk> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Workspace manager & .gz files > > How do you get workspace manager to recognise .gz files in the same > manner as .tar or .pkg files ? > > Thanks, > > Ian > -- > Ian Tait , http://www.milan.demon.co.uk/ > (NeXTmail) > > >
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent nibind's tries out of local domain Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:11:09 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <326D629D.15FB@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <54jgg1$95v@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Francois Magnan wrote: > > Hi, > > Someone I know played with SimpleNetworkStarter.app. This person has > only a ppp connection to the net so that was a very bad idea. The > problem is that when the ppp link on and you try to start an > application that uses NetInfo (like NetInfoManager obiously) the local > machines tries to access NetInfo on the remote ppp server (so it > always takes a long time before you can open a folder etc...). > > We disconected the local machine from NetInfo network in HostManager > (like it is suggested in ppp installation instructions). Still the > machine always send some packets to the ppp server each time a NetInfo > lookup is needed. > > How can we prevent this??? Well the hard way to prevent Netinfo lookups is to leave out netinfo in the configuration of the new lookupd (OS4.x). Do a "nidump locations ." to see the present configuration. Leaving out "NIAgent" should do exactly what you want. I don't know how to do this with NS3.3. name = locations; CHILDREN = ({ name = renderers; CHILDREN = { name = localhost; _writers = "*"; note = "Local Renderer"; }; }, { name = lookupd; LogFile = /usr/adm/lookupd.log; MaxThreads = 12; CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = users; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }, { name = groups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }, { name = netgroups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }); }); -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: print to NeXT from NT? Date: 25 Oct 1996 16:36:52 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <54qqb4$67m@BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <0mO2g_200V410UZ680@andrew.cmu.edu> Jeremy G Mereness <jeremym+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes > > > I've been trying to print to NeXT printers from my single NT box with no > luck. I'm creating a printer in NT that uses an "LPR port" where you can > fill in the name of a unix host and a print name. Then I put the name of > the NT box's hostname in /etc/hosts.lpd, but it doesn't work. > > Do I have to do something to the netinfo database, or is it enough to > alter the flat files on the print-host? I've gotten other unix hosts to > print to NeXT printers, and I've gotten NT machines to print to Unix > print queues. But I've never tried NT to NeXT. > > Am I missing something somewhere? Check out the Adobe NeXT Printer Driver for NT. Haven't tried getting it to work (just got it myself yesterday) but I bet that'll point you in the right direction... leo. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXTmail OK) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+
From: Jeff_Sickel@BLaCKSMITH.com (Jeff Sickel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep/Solaris & WebObjects... Date: 26 Oct 1996 16:20:43 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <54tdor$hpp@BLaCKSMITH.com> Does anyone know how to get OpenStep/Solaris and WebObjects Pro/Enterprize to coexist on one machine? There seems to be some UDP/TCP port conflicts between the machd of PDO and the ospd of OpenStep/Solaris. jas
From: hal@sims.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: backup scripts for JAZ Date: 26 Oct 1996 22:51:47 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <54u4m3$6vp@agate.berkeley.edu> Hi. I've got a JAZ drive on my Intel box and am looking for some ready-to-run backup scripts. I have a few tape-based scripts that I can modify, but why reinvent the wheel? -- Hal Varian, Dean voice: 510-642-9980 SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814 University of California hal@sims.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: sendmail 8.8.0 In-Reply-To: myers@feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu's message of 15 Oct 1996 23:00:40 JST Message-ID: <FUKASE.96Oct24112724@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> Sender: news@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp Organization: College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Japan References: <53sark$pbf@news.cais.com> <53to8f$oij@usenet> <53uia3$m9f@titan.saturn.net> <5405e8$r0f@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 02:27:24 GMT In article <5405e8$r0f@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> myers@feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Eric Myers) writes: ... > >8.8 is in beta's and is available > > Indeed it is. I just got the sources from wuarchive and compiled it as > it's configured, which is supposed to include support for NetInfo for > the aliases database. But it doesn't work. It will see an alias in > /etc/sendmail/aliases (after I say `newaliases`, of course), but not an > aliase in the local or network netinfo map for aliases. This was also a > problem in 8.7.5 and 8.7.6. Any ideas what's wrong? (I'm on a > NeXTStation running NS 3.0.) If you can use it, a sendmail configuration file which your host's sendmail use must contains its information as follows: -- 8< -- 8< -- 8< -- # location of alias file O AliasFile=/etc/sendmail/aliases,netinfo:/aliases -- 8< -- 8< -- 8< -- Ref. o `sendmail-8.8.2/doc/op/op.ps' or `op.me' Eric Allman, "SENDMAIL INSTALLATION AND OPERATION GUIDE Version 8.97 (For Sendmail Version 8.8)" 2.6. The Alias Database 5.6. O -- Set Option --> `AliasFile=' o sendmail(8)<--for For Sendmail Version 8.8 --- FUKASE, Mikio
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PopOver w/sendmail Date: 26 Oct 1996 23:53:44 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <54u8a8$2cc@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> References: <326CF343.22D9@invisix.com> Matt Jurcich <mattj@invisix.com> wrote: >Hey, > >Ok, so I installed PopOver, and it brings messages down from my pop3 >server fine. The show up in my NeXTMail mailbox with Mail.app great. > >What doesn't work is sending messages out via sendmail/Mail.app. What >should I look for to diagnose what is happening? Are there log files >or something like that to look at? man sendmail doesn't tell me >a whole lot about it. That's an easy one ;-). Get the lastest greatest Sendmail from ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sendmail and build it. Install it. Go to the cf/cf directory. Grab the tcpproto.mc and copy it to machinename.mc. Modify it so it looks somewhat like this, and name it yourboxname.mc divert(0)dnl VERSIONID(`@(#)yourboxname.mc 1.0 (Bozo) 10/26/96') OSTYPE(nextstep) DOMAIN(generic) FEATURE(nouucp) MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) Now edit the Makefile.dist and add the yourboxname.mc to the list of .mc files and run make -f Makefile.dist. Or, run m4 yourboxname.mc > yourboxname.cf ;-) Copy the yourboxname.cf to /etc/sendmail.cf. Done. Make sure you have an /etc/resolv.conf that points to a usable nameserver. You may have to restart lookupd (or reboot if you don't know how) and everything should be working just fine. Regards, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>, office: ckuhtz@paranet.com Network/UNIX Specialist for Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ Supercomputing Junkie, et al MIME/NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@crt.com> From: Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> Message-ID: <9610270018.AA09045@nx_chi> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 96 19:18:03 -0500 Subject: Using 2 EIDE drives and EIDE CDRom I have been trying to set up my system to use 2 EIDE hard drives, but have been totally unsuccessful. When booting, it finds the second hard drive and prints out its disk info. (the disk is still not labled) If I boot with -s, and try fdisk /dev/rhd1h, it doesn't find the second hard drive. And if I don't boot with -s, the machine hangs when I log in. I have tried using both the 3.35 Primary/Secondary Dual EIDE and ATAPI Device Contoller, and also using two 3.35 EIDE and ATAPI Device Contoller (set to the addresses and IRQs specified in documentation). I have also used the 3.32 version of the EIDE and ATAPI Device Controller. I have tried putting the second hard drive on the primary controller as a slave -- no luck. I have put it on the secondary controller as a single drive, and then as a master with the CDROM as slave. Still, no luck. (As an aside, I have also tried putting the CDROM on the secondary controller by itself with the main drive on the primary by itself. This failed as well.) I have a gateway P100, with EIDE controller. I am totally out of ideas as to what to try next. Any help would be appreciated. Please email me with solutions since I don't get to read the list very often. Thanks, Randy Nelson __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT (312) 234-3032 Fax: (312) 234-2186 randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software, From: knspilka@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Keir Spilka) Subject: saving postscript from a windows 95 bvox to print on a next laser Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: <DzwnpI.I9E@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:56:06 GMT Organization: University of Waterloo Has anyone had any luck printing to a file under Windows 95 and printing to a next laser printer on a black box running NS3.0? I've been trying to use the Apple Laserwriter driver under Win 95, and then ftp the file over for printing. But whenever I do that, and the file is longer than 1 page, I get postscript parsing errors. SO my question is: What printer drivers are people using to save files under Win 95 for printing to a Next Laser printer. Thanx in advance for any help. Keir -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keir Spilka knspilka@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca 2A CS/EEE Major http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~knspilka University of Waterloo
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need ld / ld++ library files (Linker) Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:58:57 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Message-ID: <32736AA1.7F12@harmonic.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have the "black" m68k NeXT Station running NS3.3 . I also have the cc compiler. I want to compile gcc/gcc++ but I am missing the machine linker library file (the .o file). Do you have it, or do you know where I can get them. (I don't have the developer CD.) Uri uri@harmonic.co.il
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: terry@modesty.com Subject: UU(v/d!p#PzMsEHOT TECHNOLOGIES AND FREE STUFF+0|d5f+c`= Message-ID: <a1b7cc$df24.d8@nntphost.bbsi.net> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:15:36 GMT The Men's Club - http://www.mens-club.com/ - Hot Technologies - FREE Stuff - Exclusive Products - Health Resources - Image and Graphics Libraries Men and Women 18+ Are Welcome!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: terry@modesty.com Subject: cancel: UU(v/d!p#PzMsEHOT TECHNOLOGIES AND FREE STUFF+0|d5f+c`= Message-ID: <cancel.a1b7cc$df24.d8@nntphost.bbsi.net> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:15:36 GMT Control: cancel <a1b7cc$df24.d8@nntphost.bbsi.net> Spam killing
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TCPD control access - question about the finer points Date: 28 Oct 1996 02:49:35 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-71.usc.edu Message-ID: <5516vv$fj0@usc.edu> TCPD control access - question about the finer points I'm still rereading and rereading the man pages, but for the moment, would someone tell me how I might allow access (telnet, rlogin,ftp, finger) on a per user basis, i.e. ideally by their email address? I understand how to do it by host, but not by invidual users. An example would be helpful. I'm thinking that the spawn thing would be where a solution might be but I don't really know what I'm talking about. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k :: NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to create a custom bootable configuration under Intel Date: 26 Oct 1996 13:15:24 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <54t2tc$f85@news2.cais.com> I'm having trouble creating my own custom bootable configuration, i.e., config=XXX at boot time under Intel. I created my own XXX.table in System.config and that seems to be working fine. The problem I'm having is how to configure one of the devices. I created a XXX.table in one of the device directories but it's being ignored, the Instance*.table are being used instead. I read the documentation in 09_StartShut.rtfd but that didn't help. Thanks in advance. Eric Marshall EMI Software Engineering
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Secure telnet/rlogin/ssh Date: 28 Oct 1996 02:50:51 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-71.usc.edu Message-ID: <55172b$fj0@usc.edu> How might I limit specific directory(ies) for telnet/rlogin/ssh processes? Similarly to the enforceable limitations on ftp connections. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k :: NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: milicic@pharos.math.utah.edu (Dragan Milicic) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: scsi errors Date: 28 Oct 1996 02:41:48 GMT Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Message-ID: <5516hc$qav@news.cc.utah.edu> I am running a NeXTstation mono with NeXTstep 3.3. My system is on an external Andataco drive (CONNER CFP4207S 4.28GB Rev as sd0). Recently, I started getting message like Oct 27 02:45:23 cartan mach: sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0Oct 27 02:45:23 cartan mach: sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 Oct 27 02:45:23 cartan mach: SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) Oct 27 02:54:15 cartan mach: sd0: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1fff, resid = 0x1, retry 1 Oct 27 04:15:16 cartan mach: sd0: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1fff, resid = 0x1, retry 1 in my console window (and in /usr/adm/messages). I would appreciate any information about the meaning of these messages and possible causes (I already tried to replace the cable). Dragan Milicic
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 08:06:05 Organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Manassas, VA, USA Message-ID: <551m1i$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> OK, write me a mail if You have success! I asked this in detail some month ago without any helpfull answer. I see that there are problems to handle EIDE drives with their faking head/sektors etc. Nevertheless if a chance would exists to format a drive it should be possible, but it is not. I looked for a procedure too. So, good luck! Henry
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Was Typing Czar ever completed? Date: 27 Oct 1996 21:42:53 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <550l0t$2fm@unity.westfalen.de> Hi Friends, Did somebody know wether a Typing-Training software named "Typing Czar" was ever completed and where to get the licenced software? It was made by Dialogue & Talus Corp. 1992/93 thank you very much for your help Peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail and MIME welcome Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk on EZ135 problem Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 08:26:32 Organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Manassas, VA, USA Message-ID: <551n7t$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> References: <53kqfs$22c@highway.leidenuniv.nl> <veehgnk3jyz.fsf@shell.one.net> I am not the guy having problems. For me it was just Plug 'n Play on Intel too. No problems. The only thing to avoid SCSI overflows or other nasty things was to build a tailor made SCSI cable. (I run the EZ135S as an internal one, very neat because it has the dimensions of 3.5" floppy drive and I have a lot of SCSI units running in a mini tower) Henry
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:50:19 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961028124535.17411A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> <551m1i$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <551m1i$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: > OK, write me a mail if You have success! I asked this in detail some month ago without > any helpfull answer. I see that there are problems to handle EIDE drives with their > faking head/sektors etc. Nevertheless if a chance would exists to format a drive it > should be possible, but it is not. I looked for a procedure too. So, good luck! > I think the answer was given, too: What would you expect a low level of an EIDE drive would do??? A low level format of an SCSI devices can do several things: - map out bad sectors - change physical sector sizes (some drives) (E)IDE drives can't do that! So there is no low level format for (E)IDE drives. Tell me: WHAT SHOULD A LOW LEVEL FORMAT FOR (E)IDE DRIVES DO???? Greetings, Bernhard. P.S.: Personally I believe these questions arise due to the lack of DOS' 'format' command to remove the boot block. To do this try 'fdisk /mbr'. (One of those undocuemented M$ features, which everybody knows and has to use).
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Secure telnet/rlogin/ssh Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 06:39:24 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmR9hgq00UzxI1Iykj@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <55172b$fj0@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <55172b$fj0@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 28-Oct-96 Secure telnet/rlogin/ssh by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > How might I limit specific directory(ies) for > telnet/rlogin/ssh processes? Similarly to the enforceable > limitations on ftp connections. You use the chroot() system call, which must be done as superuser. I just wrote a simple example of how to do so, called chroot.c. Depending on what your purposes are, one might wish to close any open file descriptors, resign associations with the process and terminal groups, change to another user, and so forth. Such changes are left as an exercise to the reader. :-) --------------- /* * Copyright (C) 1996 Charles Swiger. * * This program is used to provide a restricted filesystem context * for security purposes. It requires at least two arguments; * the directory to be chroot()ed into, and the pathname (relative to * where you are chroot()ing to!) of the program to be run. * * Any additional arguments will be passed unchanged to the program. */ #include <sys/errno.h> extern int errno; int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc <= 2) { errno = EINVAL; perror("\nYou must supply at least two arguments"); exit(-1); } chroot(argv[1]); execv(argv[2], argv + 1); /* Execv will not return unless an error occured. */ perror("\nAn error occurred"); } --------------- -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,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 07:02:53 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MmR_3hO00Uzx01IkFU@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 25-Oct-96 low level hd format software? by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > Is there some hdform software for NS? If not, does anyone know of any dos > software that will do a low level hd format? I cannot seem to get rid of > one of next's boot* programs no matter what I do... fdisk /mbr doesn't do > it... In general, you cannot reliably low-level format (E)IDE drives. Some drives ignore the low-level format command, some drives low-level format correctly, and other drives become unusable (!) after being low-level formatted. I own a Western Digital Caviar 21000 which I successfully low-level formatted using OnTrack's Disk Manager ("dm") software. The drive developed a few bad sectors early on in the disk which were screwing up the system software, and I decided that if the format didn't work I was going to return the drive under warranty anyway, so why not try? In any event, the format worked and I haven't seen any problems since. Of course, I do have a tape backup device on the machine and adequate backups, which is of great reassurance. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCPD control access - question about the finer points Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 06:48:26 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8mR9q__00UzxQ1IzFx@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5516vv$fj0@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <5516vv$fj0@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 28-Oct-96 TCPD control access - quest.. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > I'm still rereading and rereading the man pages, but for the > moment, would someone tell me how I might allow access > (telnet, rlogin,ftp, finger) on a per user basis, i.e. > ideally by their email address? For most intents and purposes, trying to restrict access to a specific user @ machine combination offers no more security than simply restricting access to that machine. If you trust the remote machine and it is running an ident daemon (see RFCs 931 and 1413), look at 'man 5 hosts_access' for examples. But read the caveats: "One should not get carried away with user-name lookups, though. + The client username information cannot be trusted when it is needed most, i.e. when the client system has been compromised. In general, ALL and (UN)KNOWN are the only user name patterns that make sense. + Username lookups are possible only with TCP-based ser- vices, and only when the client host runs a suitable daemon; in all other cases the result is "unknown". + A well-known UNIX kernel bug may cause loss of service when username lookups are blocked by a firewall. The wrapper README document describes a procedure to find out if your kernel has this bug. + Username lookups may cause noticeable delays for non- UNIX users. The default timeout for username lookups is 10 seconds: too short to cope with slow networks, but long enough to irritate PC users." -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,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:42:34 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <QmR=V_u00UzxQ1IxlP@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> <551m1i$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961028124535.17411A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961028124535.17411A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 28-Oct-96 Re: low level hd format sof.. by Bernhard Scholz@informat > What would you expect a low level of an EIDE drive would do??? > > A low level format of an SCSI devices can do several things: > - map out bad sectors > - change physical sector sizes (some drives) > > (E)IDE drives can't do that! So there is no low level format for (E)IDE > drives. Reality check: you can low-level format some (E)IDE drives sucessfully. As I've discovered from personal experience, doing so did cause the drive to map out the bad sectors that had appeared. It also allows one to adjust the sector interleave and skew times, which might even be useful for optimizing performance. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: 28 Oct 1996 05:23:01 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <551fvl$c19@hermes.is.co.za> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> On 10/25/96, John Kheit wrote: >Hi all, > >Is there some hdform software for NS? If not, does anyone know of any dos >software that will do a low level hd format? I cannot seem to get rid of >one of next's boot* programs no matter what I do... fdisk /mbr doesn't do >it... > >Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks :) Are you sure you are using fdisk under DOS? The NeXT/Unix version of fdisk can't do this. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need ld / ld++ library files (Linker) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 06:53:33 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <smR9ux_00UzxE1IzlP@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <32736AA1.7F12@harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <32736AA1.7F12@harmonic.co.il> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Oct-96 Need ld / ld++ library file.. by Uri Shkolnik@harmonic.co > I want to compile gcc/gcc++ but I am missing the machine linker library > file (the .o file). You do not need such a thing to compile gcc. You might need such a thing to build GNU ld, but I am almost certain that you'll have to use NeXT's linker if you actually want to do anything meaningful. (NeXT's linker works fine with gcc....) > I have the "black" m68k NeXT Station running NS3.3 . > I also have the cc compiler. [ ... ] > Do you have it, or do you know where I can get them. > (I don't have the developer CD.) These two statements represent a contradiction: If you paid for NEXTSTEP/Developer, then you should have the Developer CD. If you didn't pay for NEXTSTEP/Developer, why do you have NeXT's compiler? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: JAZ? Date: 28 Oct 1996 13:48:53 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin Distribution: world Message-ID: <552dk5$19o@svc.slc.uen.org> References: <1.5.4.32.19960918143452.00693a8c@istsan.interbusiness.it> <52d12v$ba5@listserv.rice.edu> In <52d12v$ba5@listserv.rice.edu> Hubert Daugherty wrote: > In <1.5.4.32.19960918143452.00693a8c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Zanitti Leo > I couldn't figure out how to reprogram a DOS jaz disk to NeXTstep format, but > I did > discover I could reformat a MAC disk with no problems at all. So, if you > still have your > receipt, exchange the DOS jaz disk for a MAC jaz disk and your problem will > be solved. Or as it suggests in nextanswers, simply use "sdform" to do a low-level re-format of the PC JAZ disk and then it works fine for NextStep or OpenStep (I've used it with both). -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 Date: 28 Oct 1996 11:53:00 -0500 Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Message-ID: <552odc$si@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu> After years of reliable service, I am retiring my Telebit T2500 and replacing it with the super duper Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2. Could you please advise me what settings I should use (dip switch and otherwise) and what file do I need to modify in the /etc directory. I expect to sue the modem for both dial up and PPP connections (but I never will call from the CUBE only into it). Actually, the PPP part will be not directly into the CUBE but via a TribeLink2 box BUT the dial in will be via the serial connector. I will VERY much appreciate your advice. Please respond by e-mail. Thanks. Best regards...Paul P.S. Right now even with an internet link (telnet), "stty speed" yields "9600" and not much more what I would expect (our Sun says "38400" with the same telnet connection). Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-5310 (Office/Answering Device) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: rupert@blitzen.noir.net (Hans Rupert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hello, NetInfo? Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:11:16 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. The Wisconsin ISP 414-476-4266 http://www.inc.net Message-ID: <5530gk$30e@news.inc.net> Cc: ask_next@next.com, rupert@noir.net Dear NetInfo Meisters - "Hellooooo, NetInfo? - I can't find you..." Although certainly not intimidated by NetInfo, I do have a healthy respect for it. So, before I go futzing with it beyond what I know, does anyone have any ideas as to what may be giving me the following problems? Intro: New Mono Station not recognized by network. Background: - Intel only NetInfo network running successfully for 18mos. - Master NetInfo server is a P90/32, running 3.3 patched. - Client machines are all Intel boxes running the same. - Network is Ethernet-RJ45 running through a hub. - Network is routed through a Cisco, but *not* running route daemon. Problem: - Purchased new Mono Station to act as print server & extra client station - Mono Station is 32/400, running 3.3 patched. - 'en0' tests fine on boot, link light acheived on hub. - Station is not recognized by network configuration server (Ctr-c to continue) Attempted Fixes (all failed, seperately upon attempting to reboot the new client): - Copied 'hostconfig' & '/netinfo' from templates to /etc - Ran Hostmanager to configure host manually. - Edited 'hostconfig' by hand. - Started 'ifconfig' by hand, and added route. - Ping net fine - router, server, other hosts. OK, the Ether works. - Upon suggestion, ran SimpleNetworkStarter. - Only two optins available: a] use net/don't share admin data b] provide *master* services - No longer hangs on boot, but now is serving itself only, in either case - Added 'host' to NetInfo server with correct values for 'name', 'IP' & 'serves' - Restarted NetInfo - Rebooted NetInfo server I'm stumped. I have added new Intel clients in the past with no hitches. I am asked if I want to add the host to the network, I am sked for a host name, and finally for a Network password. Bingo - it has always worked. I have to admit that I am rather impressed by everything about this Moto hardware except this one, niggling, little "ghost in the machine". If any of you kind folks have any suggestions, please do let me know... Thank you, Hans Rupert <rupert@noir.net> / NeXTmail or MIME encouraged Direktor noir
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk on EZ135 problem Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:16:58 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121556.15195B-100000@kira> References: <53kqfs$22c@highway.leidenuniv.nl> <veehgnk3jyz.fsf@shell.one.net> <551n7t$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com In-Reply-To: <551n7t$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I'm not on an Intel, but shouldn't any SCSI cable work? (obviously with the right connectors, SCSI[1-3].) I'm confused as to why you had to make your own... TjL On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 08:26:32 > From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: BuildDisk on EZ135 problem > > I am not the guy having problems. For me it was just Plug 'n Play on Intel too. No problems. > The only thing to avoid SCSI overflows or other nasty things was to build a tailor made SCSI > cable. (I run the EZ135S as an internal one, very neat because it has the dimensions of 3.5" > floppy drive and I have a lot of SCSI units running in a mini tower) > > Henry > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:22:40 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> References: <552odc$si@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <552odc$si@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com warning: a useless post follows.... On 28 Oct 1996, Paul Nevai wrote: > After years of reliable service, I am retiring my Telebit T2500 and > replacing it with the super duper Courier Everything on a Black CUBE > with NS 3.2. I expect to sue the modem for both dial up and PPP connection ^^^ Geez, you get years of good service from one and immediately file a lawsuit against its replacement.... Only in the USA, land of the free, home of the frivolous litigation ;-) In an attempt to make this at least somewhat useful as a bandwidth user, I'll say this "You might want to get a NXFax-compatible modem, it's a nice product". TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What is Gated? (Was: Routing deamon Gated on NeXTSTEP 3.3) Date: 28 Oct 1996 22:57:37 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-48.usc.edu Message-ID: <553dp1$pa@usc.edu> Cc: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch In <1996Oct28.204848.47041@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch wrote: > Hello, > > has anybody successfully compiled and installed gated > (gated-R3_6Alpha_2) on NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Motorola) ? What is Gated? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Routing deamon Gated on NeXTSTEP 3.3 Message-ID: <1996Oct28.204848.47041@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 28 Oct 96 20:48:48 MET Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland Hello, has anybody successfully compiled and installed gated (gated-R3_6Alpha_2) on NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Motorola) ? I'll appreciate any hints, pointers ... Thank you, Markus Wildi
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is Gated? (Was: Routing deamon Gated on NeXTSTEP 3.3) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:07:46 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4mRLI2200UhW42a4tE@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <553dp1$pa@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <553dp1$pa@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 28-Oct-96 What is Gated? (Was: Routin.. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > What is Gated? From http://www.merit.edu/~gated/doc/main.html: What is GateD? GateD is a modular software program consisting of core services, a routing database, and protocol modules supporting multiple routing protocols (RIP versions 1 and 2, DCN HELLO, OSPF version 2, EGP version 2 and BGP version 2 through 4.) GateD was first used to interconnect the NSFNET and the emerging regional networks, and to implement filtered routing based on policy. GateD allows the network administrator to control import and export of routing information by individual protocol, by source and destination autonomous system, source and destination interface, previous hop router, and specific destination address. The network administrator can specify a preference level for each combination of routing information being imported by using a flexible masking capability. Once the preference levels are assigned, GateD makes a decision on which route to use independent of the protocols involved. GateD is designed to handle dynamic routing with a routing database built from information exchanged by routing protocols. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: teTeX web site for Nextstep? Date: 28 Oct 1996 22:28:06 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <553c1m$lm5@news.tamu.edu> I thought I was once a web site which had a teTeX version for Nextstep available on it as an installer package. I believe the same was something like teTeXstep or something like it and the site was located in Germany. Anybody know the url for this web site? I accidentally wiped out my urls a week ago and can't find it anymore. thanks, HP -- Hanspeter Schaub Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant Aerospace Engineering Department Texas A&M University http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome) We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY! -Jonathon Livingston Seagull
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca (David Downie) Subject: Strange Error Message-ID: <Dzzurx.5Bv@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:21:33 GMT When I log into my account, I get a system beep and Console shows the following error: Oct 27 18:57:00 Workspace: Cannot exec /User/dcdownie/Teaching/A670/Exams/mt_96.tex which is an old file that was deleted. Is there any way to stop this error from occuring? TIA -- ====================================================================== David Downie Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance Assistant Professor University of Waterloo dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca 519-888-4567 ext. 5703 http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~dcdownie/new_home2.html.htmld/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange Error Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:53:37 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961029085140.14836C-100000@kira> References: <Dzzurx.5Bv@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: David Downie <dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <Dzzurx.5Bv@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com This sounds like some program is trying to access it when you login. In terminal.app, try this line: dread -l | grep "mt_96.tex" See if that reveals a dwrite setting. My guess is that it will. If I'm wrong, let me know and I'll supply other guesses for free also ;-) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, David Downie wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:21:33 GMT > From: David Downie <dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Strange Error > > When I log into my account, I get a system beep and Console shows the > following error: > > Oct 27 18:57:00 Workspace: Cannot exec > /User/dcdownie/Teaching/A670/Exams/mt_96.tex > > which is an old file that was deleted. Is there any way to stop this > error from occuring? > > TIA > -- > ====================================================================== > David Downie Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance > Assistant Professor University of Waterloo > dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca 519-888-4567 ext. 5703 > http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~dcdownie/new_home2.html.htmld/ > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Message-ID: <1996Oct29.100019.25530@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 29 Oct 96 10:00:18 MST References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> Distribution: world Cc: ian@milan.demon.co.uk In <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> Ian Tait wrote: > How do you get workspace manager to recognise .gz files in the same > manner as .tar or .pkg files ? > > Thanks, > > Ian > Get Opener.app 3.3. It is a great app that open all kind of things for you... A temp.ps.tar.gz automatically gets gunziped, untar'ed, and send to preview.app -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Routing deamon Gated on NeXTSTEP 3.3 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:59:40 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961029085815.14836D-100000@kira> References: <1996Oct28.204848.47041@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch In-Reply-To: <1996Oct28.204848.47041@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com This may be an older version but it is compiled for m68k: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/tools/gated.2.0.1.14.tar.gz The listed author is nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi) you might try contacting him also. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next On 28 Oct 1996 wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch wrote: > Date: 28 Oct 96 20:48:48 MET > From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Routing deamon Gated on NeXTSTEP 3.3 > > Hello, > > has anybody successfully compiled and installed > gated (gated-R3_6Alpha_2) on NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Motorola) ? > > I'll appreciate any hints, pointers ... > > > Thank you, Markus Wildi > >
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: 29 Oct 1996 18:25:19 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Distribution: world Message-ID: <555i6f$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> <1996Oct29.100019.25530@roper.uwyo.edu> Cc: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu In <1996Oct29.100019.25530@roper.uwyo.edu> norbert pirzkal wrote: > In <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> Ian Tait wrote: > > How do you get workspace manager to recognise .gz files in the same > > manner as .tar or .pkg files ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ian > > > > Get Opener.app 3.3. It is a great app that open all kind of things for > you... A temp.ps.tar.gz automatically gets gunziped, untar'ed, and send to > preview.app > > Well, first, there is a file in ~/.NeXT which contains the workspace manager extension <-> application mappings. The file is ~/.NeXT/suffixes3_1.(arch).wmd (on my sparc box, this is suffixes3_1.sparc.wmd). The format appears to be: extension = (application, icon-name) I don't know if there is a way to add icon names. "generic icon" seems to be related to the application. But here are a few examples: c = (/NextApps/Edit.app/Edit, cfile); Z = (/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/compression.bundle/compression, compressedZ); pkg = (/NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer, InstallerFile); jpg = (/LocalApps/OmniImage.app/OmniImage, genericImage); I didn't really like Opener.app when it first came out.. It had some bugs, and the default mapping file made assumptions I didn't like (like that I wanted a .ps.tar.gz file to get gunzipped, guntared, and sent to previewer all in one step.. and I think it removed the tar file along the way.. where I would actually prefer to only have one step done at a time, so that I can decide on non-default behaviors at my whim.. and I typically do NOT want the tar file deleted). If I knew how to add new icons to those in this suffixes file, I'd much rather use that than Opener.app (the bugs were partially related to the opener mappings, which sometimes didn't work right.. I can't tell you how many times I lost HUGE downloads because Opener was stupid) John -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com (ex- kzin@email.sjsu.edu) =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Spammers: I charge you for my time, disk, and bandwidth if you post off- topic advertisement messages in the groups I read. $500/post/group.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Routing deamon Gated on NeXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 29 Oct 1996 14:35:27 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5554nf$b6k@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <1996Oct28.204848.47041@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> In article <1996Oct28.204848.47041@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch writes: > Hello, > > has anybody successfully compiled and installed > gated (gated-R3_6Alpha_2) on NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Motorola) ? I've succesfully built gated-R3_5Alpha11. I'll work on both R3_6Alpha2 and R3_5Beta3 ports. I'll post if I'm successful to c.s.n.announce. -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: autonfsmount(8)/automount(8) -- how compatable with other automounders? Date: 29 Oct 1996 18:05:04 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Message-ID: <555h0g$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> Is Nextstep 3.3's "autonfsmount" automounter compatable with BSD 4.4's amd? or is it totally alien? (what about Openstep 4.0 for Mach's automounter?) -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com (ex- kzin@email.sjsu.edu) =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Spammers: I charge you for my time, disk, and bandwidth if you post off- topic advertisement messages in the groups I read. $500/post/group.
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: 30 Oct 1996 15:54:53 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <557tod$q98@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> <1996Oct29.100019.25530@roper.uwyo.edu> <555i6f$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> <555vef$83u@nntp1.best.com> In-Reply-To: <555vef$83u@nntp1.best.com> Denise Howard said: >Opener has changed a great deal since it "first came out" >In fact with Opener 3.3, I've had zero bug reports... And not nearly as many kudos as you deserve, I'll bet. Let me take this chance to say thanks for Opener.app. I've used it for years, and consider it one of the classic NeXTSTEP .apps. I always get a kick when a new NeXT user (I use NeXTs in a graduate lab) asks me how to open some compressed file that he/she's just snarfed in from an ftp or Web site. "Do you have a copy of PKUNZIP on the NeXTs?" they ask. I show them that just double-clicking the file makes Opener do all the work like magic, and they *always* say: "Wow! That's so easy!" -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I need a commandline script to chown according to parameters Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 06:42:27 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961030063001.21237F-100000@kira> References: <556v63$eqk@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <556v63$eqk@usc.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > > Would someone suggest a script with which I could, for > example, > > chown as 100.wheel all apps and files in a particular > directory that are owned by 106.wheel? somebody, somebody has to you see.... lemme get this straight, you have 106.wheel and want 100.wheel, right? as root, enter this line: (assuming you are in the directory in which you want to begin that search) find . -user 106 -group wheel -print -exec chown 100.wheel {} \; You can remove the "-print" if you want, but I always like to see what it is doing (note: with the NeXT-supplied 'find' you can use numberical UID for -user EXCEPT for 0 which is root. Feel free to consider that a bug. GNU's find can use UID 0) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: teTeX web site for Nextstep? Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:23:52 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961030181921.17136B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <553c1m$lm5@news.tamu.edu> <557mip$9p7@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <557mip$9p7@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> > Hanspeter Schaub (schaub@tamu.edu) wrote: > : I thought I was once a web site which had a teTeX version for Nextstep > : available on it as an installer package. I believe the same was something > : like teTeXstep or something like it and the site was located in Germany. > : Anybody know the url for this web site? I accidentally wiped out my urls a Besides the custom apps, teTeX is standardized for Unix system and can be found on any TeX site. However for those of you who are familiar to the Peanuts CD ROM, you'll be lucky to notice that the new set includes teTeX. Also teTeX will show up at Peanuts just 1 minute after this writing :) Gregor: I included teTeX in our Peanuts archive, because of so much questions and the lack of information to original TeX sites. Should we set up a mirror to your site? Greetings, Bernhard.
From: rr34938@pinus.cc.etf.hr (Robert Radovic) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: EARN $50.000 LEGITIMATELY IN 6 WEEKS Date: 30 Oct 1996 17:38:03 GMT Organization: CARNet, CROATIA Distribution: world Message-ID: <5583pr$qn6@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PRINT THIS OUT AND SAVE THIS POSTING ON YOUR COMPUTER, READ IT OVER A COUPLE OF TIMES, INVEST, AND WATCH THE MAIL BOX FOR THE MONEY! $5, plus the costs of 5 envelopes, 5 peices of paper, 5 stamps and a couple of hours on a computer and get $50,000 or more back in about six weeks!!!!!!! Invest in this TOTALY LEGITIMATE oppurtunity, Remember that this is legal, so you should report the profit of your investment on your taxes. Hello, I saw this news group posting and decided to invest $5 into it and see what I get in return. Hey, what's $5 ? Keep my address and keep in touch on the amount of money you get. In the posting I saw the person had done this before and made $47,326 in six weeks with his $5 and the cost of the stamps to mail the $5 to the five people on the list. This was his second round. If you do more than the 200 listings you will make more money. In this day what does $5 get you, and with all the people on the internet you are going to get you $5 back in days. Make $50,000 with a small amount of effort and a small cost of only $5 and a few hours of computer work (after you have saved this article on your computer, you can use it to compose your own article, if you want; just make the neccesary changes, like changing the names below; it should save you a couple of hours of computer work). This is a chance for the average person to get ahead in life so please send out $5 and put a little effort into your postings, and then watch the money roll in. This investment will cost you only $5, five stamps, envelopes, paper and a little computer work. If YOU and EVERY OTHER INVESTOR is HONEST and follows through with the plan, you will make $50,000 in about six weeks. Each investor will also make $50,000 in six weeks. THIS IS A LEGITIMATE INVESTMENT OPORTUNITY !!!!!!! When the money comes in, make a list of your investors, and you just started your own ORDER SERVICE COMPANY (don't worry, you don't have to do anything special, just read this article to the end, and you will get all the information you need). Since you are starting a company that provides a service, you make the money LEGITIMATELY (that's the whole idea about this company business). The service you provide is the "list of investors" that you have compiled. You invest $5, and you receive a return on your investment. So does the next investor. NOT ILLEGAL, NOT A CHAIN LETTER - PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE. There are other plans like this out there that ask you to send out $10 to five pepole, thats a fifty dollar investment and its hard to give $50 out when you are struggeling to pay the bills already. But with this plan you only invest about $5 and others only invest about $5. Hey what's $5 now-a-days? You could probably find that in the cracks of your couch. If you are not interested, than don't participate, but please print this article and pass it on to someone who may be interested, so they can take advantage. THIS IS WHAT YOU DO: The procedure is simple: 1) Write your name and address and an e-mail address, on 5 sheets of paper. Below that, write the words: "Please add me to your list". Then fold a $1 in each piece of paper (make sure the money is inside the paper, so that it can't be easily stolen, send no coins) and send them to the following five addresses: 1. Allen Malkowitch 23 Baker Street #712 Denver CO 80203 USA 2. Wilma Vogel Broettenstr. 19/25 9020 Klagenfurt AUSTRIA 3. Lenny LaForget 364 Delisla Chicoutimi G76 3B4 CANADA 4. Goran Stojsic Ljubljanska Avenija 2 236/B 10000 Zagreb CROATIA 5. Robert Radovic Ljubljanska Avenija 2 224A/A 10000 Zagreb CROATIA 2) Now remove the top name from the list, and move the other four names up. In other words, #5 should become #4, and so on. Put your name as the fifth one on the list. Any simple text editor will do. 3) Post the article to at least 200 newsgroups. There are 17,000 of them these days, so it shouldn't be hard to find many. Spend some time on your investment and post to as many newsgroups as you can, and the bigger the newsgroup is, the more people are to see your message and the more money you make. So post to as many as you can. You are now in an ORDER SERVICES BUSINESS, and should start seeing returns within a week or two. Of course, the more newsgroups you post to, the greater your return is. If you wish to remain anonymous, you may use a psuedonym, call yourself, "The Manager", of "The Boss", whatever, but make sure your address is correct. HERE IS HOW THE SYSTEM MAKES MONEY: -Of every 200 posts I made, I received 5 responses. Yes, only five. You make $5 for every 200 posts with your name at #5. -Each person who sent you $1 now also makes 200 additional postings with your name at #4. i.e. 1000 postings. On average therefore, 50 people will send you $1 with your name at #4. You make $50. -Your 50 new agents make 200 postings each with your name at #3 or 10,000 postings. Average return= $500. They make 200 postings each with your name at #2= 100,000 postings= 5,000 returns at $1 each= $5,000. -Finally, 5,000 people make 200 postings each with your name at #1 and you get a return of $50,000 before your name drops off the list. AND THAT'S IF EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE MAKES "ONLY" 200 POSTINGS! From time to time, when you see your name no longer on the list, you can take the latest posting that appears in the newsgroups, and send out another $5, and put your name at #5, and start posting again. Remember, 200 postings in only a guideline. The more you post, the greater the return. Let's review why you should do this. THE ONLY COST IS $5. Anyone can afford $5 for such an effortless investment with such SPECTACULAR RETURNS! You may ask, "what happens if the scheme is played out and no one sends me money?" Big deal, you lose $5. But what are the chances of that happening? We are talking about the Internet here. There are millions of Internet users, and thousands more joining everyday! YOU CAN'T LOSE!!! There are too many people out there to not miss this message, and there will be thousands new tomorrow. Remember, read the instructions CARFULLY, and PLAY FAIRLY. That's the only way this will work. Get a printout so you can refer to this article easily. REMEMBER-HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO CHEAT THIS IDEA TO MAKE MONEY!! BESIDES, NOT PLAYING THE GAME FAIRLY IS ILLEGAL. SO LET'S BE REASONABLE AND PLAY FAIRLY, SO WE CAN ALL ENJOY THE INTERNET GOLD MINE. GOOD LUCK!!!! :)
From: overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (David Overeem) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: NeXT Network + Microsoft Network Date: 30 Oct 1996 18:05:02 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5585ce$rep@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Hey, I have a next machine and an intel dos machine. I have been trying for some time to get ethernet to work between win95 and next os. Does anyone know of a client/protocol that I could use to get the two to talk to each other on a peer-peer network? Any help would be appreciated. Dave
Sender: rr34938@pinus.cc.etf.hr (Robert Radovic) From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Subject: cmsg cancel <5583pr$qn6@bagan.srce.hr> no reply ignore Control: cancel <5583pr$qn6@bagan.srce.hr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <cancel.5583pr$qn6@bagan.srce.hr> Organization: Semi-Automatic Chain Letter Remover Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:13:07 GMT ignore Make Money Fast post canceled by news@news.msfc.nasa.gov. Make Money Fast has been posted thousands of times, enough to qualify as cancel-on-sight spam. The chain letter scheme it describes is illegal in many countries. For example, see: http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
From: "Rob Blessin" <rob@optimal-object.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IBM 760CD Driver Does Not Work Date: 30 Oct 1996 17:04:56 GMT Organization: Optimal Object, Inc. Message-ID: <01bbc6c0$679a3340$376df326@void.object-tech.com> References: <5559sa$8c5@pravda.aa.msen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Tim Jeltma; You might try Shannon Edwards at Deep Space Technologies, 301-663-3033 http://www.deepspacetech.com/ . He works with a developer Bobby that writes drivers for active Matrix Displays for $300. They have Drivers for Compaq, Toshiba Tecras and Twin Heads! -- Rob Blessin National Sales Account Manager Optimal Object , Inc. 4685 Peoria St., Suite 221 Denver, CO 80239 PH# 800-452-7608 PH# 303-799-6223 FAX 303-799-1435 Email: rob@optimal-object.com http://www.optimal-object.com/ FEIN 84-128-1797 tim@vcl.com wrote in article <5559sa$8c5@pravda.aa.msen.com>... > This is a distress call. Any help that you can give would be greatly > appreciated. > > Earlier this year I wanted to buy a laptop that would be capable of running > NEXTSTEP, Win/95 and Win/NT. > > IBM is of course well known for producing outstanding machines. At the > beginning of this year they came out with the 760 series. As soon as I heard > the word from NeXT that they were indeed going to write a driver for this > machine I placed an order. Four months later I received my machine with > Win/95 preloaded on it. > > I subsequently purchased an additional 1 Gig hard drive upon which I would > load NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OpenStep 4.0. > > I successfully loaded NEXTSTEP with all of the latest drivers obtained from > NeXTanswers with alarming ease. > > Now for the bad news. The system hangs after the boot is complete - right > when it tries to load the 760 video display driver. I tried everything and > then some. The machine works fine in VGA mode with NS loaded but, I do not! > > I then decided to give someone else a try. I sent my laptop to a certified > NEXTSTEP hardware vendor to load NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OpenStep 4.0 and properly > configure the 760 video driver. > > After 2+ weeks of effort they are giving up. I will say that they were > extremely helpful and put a lot of time into this project without charging me > any money. > > I now have $7,300.00 into a laptop that NeXT supposedly supports and I cannot > get NS to run on it. (In case you're wondering we did try to load OS 4.0. > It doesn't work either) > > IBM won't touch it because the machine works fine with Win/95. I can't > return it to the place I bought it (CDW Inc) because I have had it for more > than a month. > > If anyone has any information that might help I would be very grateful. > > > -- > > ____________________ > Tim Jeltema > Valley City Linen Corp. > 10 Diamond Ave. S.E. > Grand Rapids, MI 49506 > > Phone: 616 459-6922 > E-Mail: tim@vcl.com > [NeXT Mail Accepted] > >
From: JanUlrich.Hasecke@Leverkusen.Netsurf.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing with QMS 860 via TCP/IP Date: 30 Oct 1996 07:59:22 GMT Organization: PIRONET GmbH Distribution: default Message-ID: <5571sq$f25@sail.leverkusen.netsurf.de> Summary: How can I print with a QMS Printer Keywords: Printing, tcp/ip, ftp lpr Hello, we are using a QMS 860 Print System. It is connected with our NEXTstations via TCP/IP. I can login on the QMS and so on, so I think, the connection is o.k. We installed the Printer with the PrintManager, but it does not work. We have heard, that the QMS does not support the lpr command, but works with ftp. And yes, with ftp it is possible to print. Can anybody help me, to make this Printer work with the NEXT-Printmenu? Is there a skript, which automatically sends printjobs to the Printer with ftp? I know about the programm QMSPrint.app. But I hope for a cheaper solution. Thank You very much for any help.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby) Subject: Re: Prob. installing 3.3 for Intel with Adaptec 2940 scsi adapter Message-ID: <1996Oct29.204512.17857@rdbois.uucp> Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby) Organization: S.RUBY References: <326D0A4A.75FD@citrus.ucr.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:45:12 GMT In article <326D0A4A.75FD@citrus.ucr.edu> Carl Hoefer <hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu> writes: > Hi out there, > > I'm installing 3.3 on my Dell Optiplex. I've successfully > (I think) installed an Adaptec 2940Ultra scsi host adapter, and thought > I was all ready to install NS. The install process goes fine thru the > stage of picking the scsi adapter driver (the 3.32 version on my Device > Drivers floppy) and hard disk controller (large IDE). Then when the > white Mach screen comes up, the process halts saying "can't find scsi > adapter or CD-ROM", and prompting me for a boot device. I am not sure > what it is asking for, but I've given it all the following: > hd0 (the IDE hard drive) > sd7 (the adapter's scsi number) > sd4 (the number of the NeXT CD ROM attached to the adapter) > > Invariably, the system panics as soon as I input these suggestions. > > One other potential clue: further up the white screen, there is a line > that says > > Adaptec 2940: can't get confifgSpace; ABORTING > > (or something close to that). I don't know if that is significant. > > > One idea I have had is that maybe the device driver is too old, > causing it to not find the (brand new) adapter. I have downloaded the > latest driver from NeXTAnswers, but damned if I know how to turn it from > a package into a working driver on a floppy! I only have black slabs > nearby to run Installer on, and the Installer (A) warns me only to > install the pkg on Intel; and (B) only lets you install to the root > directory. So I've been afraid to install the package. How can I get > the latest driver in a usable form, to put on a floppy? > > > Any help will be GREATLY appreciated, as always. > > Carl Hoefer > Philosophy dept. > UCRiverside > hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu I have had a similar problem on a PC booting from an IDE HD, but also having an adaptec 2940 SCSI board. The problem was that bothe the IDE HD controler and the 2940 SCSI board had an onboard BIOS. The solution was to disable the 2940 BIOS and now it works fine. This is done by pressing Ctrl + A at boot time when the corresponding message is displayed. This brings you into the 2940 setup utility and one of the menu allows to disable the BIOS. This BIOS is used only to allows to boot from the SCSI board. It is not used for anything else. I hope this helps. Serge
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.