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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing with QMS 860 via TCP/IP Date: 30 Oct 1996 19:38:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: default Message-ID: <558as2$kj1@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5571sq$f25@sail.leverkusen.netsurf.de> In article <5571sq$f25@sail.leverkusen.netsurf.de> JanUlrich.Hasecke@Leverkusen.Netsurf.de writes: 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. TCPIP printer support under NS3.3 and presumably 4.x may not work if the printer's TCP port is not 9100 (as for HP JetDirect). This number may be hard coded. My JetDirectDriver.* available from the standard archives can use other ports. Other manufacturers may use some arbitrary port number for TCPIP printing. One way to find out is to scan the printer for TCP ports that is listening, using such programs as "strobe". With strobe, I found that a Kodak 8650 PS dye sub printer with Ethernet has an undocument TCP port at 2000. This port seems to work fine with NS and the JetDirectDriver software. Izumi
From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Subject: Just try this, it will work Newsgroups: comp.dcom.net-analysis,comp.dcom.net-management,comp.os.netware.connectivity,comp.os.netware.misc,comp.os.netware.security,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.networks.noctools.bugs,comp.networks.noctools.d,comp.sys.northstar Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:44:01 GMT Message-ID: <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. The Internet has grown tremendously. It doubles in size every 4 months. think about it. You see those 'Make.Money.Fast' posts more and more. That's ... because it WORKS ! So I thought, all those new users might make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides, whats $5.00, I spend more than that in the morning on my way to work on coffee and cigs for the day. So I sent in my money and posted. Everyone was calling it a scam, but there are SO many new users from AOL, Netcom, etc. they will join in and make it work for you. Well, two weeks later, I began recieving bucks in the mail! I couldn't believe it! Not just a little, I mean big bucks! At first only a few hundred dollars, then a week later, a couple of thousand, then BOOM. By the end of the fourth week, I had recieved nearly $47,000.00. It came from all over the world. And every bit of it perfectly legal and on the up and up. I've been able to pay off all my bills and still had enough left over for a nice vacation for me and my family. Not only does it work for me, it works for other folks as well. Markus Valppu says he made $57,883 in four weeks. Dave Manning claims he made $53,664 in the same amount of time. Dan Shepstone says it was only $17,000 for him. Do I know these folks? No, but when I read how they say they did it, it made sense to me. Enough sense that I'm taking a similar chance with $5 of my own bucks. Not a big chance, I admit--but one with incredible potential, because $5 is all anyone ever invests in this system. Period. That's all Markus, Dave, or Dan invested, yet their $5 netted them tens of thousands of dollars each, in a safe, legal, completely legitimate way. Here's how it works in 3 easy steps: STEP 1. Invest your $5 by writing your name and address on five seperate pieces of paper along with the words: "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST." (In this way, you're not just sending a dollar to someone; you're paying for a legitimate service.) Fold a $1 bill, money order, or bank note inside each paper, and mail them by standard U. S. Mail to the following five addresses: 1- Fern Suarez Mallorca 112 Hato Rey, P.R., USA, 00917 2- Philippe 2104 De Mexico Chomedey, Laval Quebec, Canada H7M 3C6 3- Natalie Jansen Lancveldlaan 18 5671 CN Nuenen Holland 4- Chad Collier 2785 Cold Springs Rd. #49 Placerville, CA 95667 5- Steve Boltinghouse 1009 Bird St. Hannibal, MO 63401 STEP 2. Now remove the top name from the list, and move the other names up.This way, #5 becomes #4 and so on. Put your name in as the fifth one on the list. STEP 3. Post the article to at least 250 newsgroups. There are at least 19000 newsgroups at any given moment in time. Try posting to as many newsgroups as you can. Remember the more groups you post to, the more people will see your article and send you cash! STEP 4. You are now in business for yourself, and should start seeing returns within 7 to 14 days! Remember, the Internet is new and huge. There is no way you can lose. Now here is how and why this system works: Out of every block of 250 posts I made, I got back 5 responses. Yes, thats right,only 5. You make $5.00 in cash, not checks or money orders, but real cash with your name at #5. Each additional person who sent you $1.00 now also makes 250 additional postings with your name at #4, 1000 postings. On average then, 50 people will send you $1.00 with your name at #4,....$50.00 in your pocket! Now these 50 new people will make 250 postings each with your name at #3 or 10,000 postings. Average return, 500 people= $500. They make 250 postings each with your name at #2= 100,000 postings=5000 returns at $1.00 each=$5,000.00 in cash! Finally, 5,000 people make 250 postings each with your name at #1 and you get a return of $60,000 before your name drops off the list.And that's only if everyone down the line makes only 250 postings each! Your total income for this one cycle is $55,000. From time to time when you see your name is no longer on the list, you take the latest posting you can find and start all over again. The end result depends on you. You must follow through and repost this article everywhere you can think of. The more postings you make, the more cash ends up in your mailbox. It's too easy and too cheap to pass up!!! So thats it. Pretty simple sounding stuff, huh? But believe me, it works. There are millions of people surfing the net every day, all day, all over the world. And 100,000 new people get on the net every day. You know that, you've seen the stories in the paper. So, my friend, read and follow the simple instructions and play fair. Thats the key, and thats all there is to it. Print this out right now so you can refer back to this article easily. Try to keep an eye on all the postings you made to make sure everyone is playing fairly. You know where your name should be. If you're really not sure or still think this can't be for real, then don't do it. But please print this article and pass it along to someone you know who really needs the bucks, and see what happens. REMEMBER....HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.YOU DON'T NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE THE BUCKS! GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND PLEASE PLAY FAIR AND YOU WILL WIN AND MAKE SOME REAL INSTANT FREE CASH! *** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the bucks to the people already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this and only got about $150 (and that's after two months). Then he sent the 5 bills, people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10,000! TRY IT AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY!!! :o) !!!!!!!!!!
From: Chris Morrow <morrowc@mrj.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NT Connection Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:11:47 -0500 Organization: Personal Internet Connectivity...and I HATE Bill Gates! Message-ID: <3276D583.1616@mrj.com> References: <32705D00.2200@cow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tammy McKean wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone give me some tips on how to get NeXTSTEP 3.3 or 4.0 to talk > to a Win NT network? Try obtaining SAMBA from your local linux/shareware unix site and compiling it...then share to your hearts content from the next... There is a set of alls (smbmount smbumount) for mounting wfw/winnt shares available along with the samba release... Or... Get Hummingbird NFS/32 for your NT machines and share via NFS (though this is MUCH more difficult to get working IMHO). -Chris
From: Chris Morrow <morrowc@mrj.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: How to debug a script run by cron? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:02:03 -0500 Organization: Personal Internet Connectivity...and I HATE Bill Gates! Message-ID: <3276D33B.1190@mrj.com> References: <54l5n8$cc6@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Friendly wrote: > > 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 > First: Can I suggest you re-write this in /bin/sh ?? It allows stdout/stderr redirection and is much more portable than csh which does have the most annoying way of changing among OS's...or in PERL? A very nice almost completely portable scripting language... Either would help you to track down the problems you are having a little bit more easily... this could be re-written pretty easily...in perl, then the cpdir could be added as part ofthe script, or as a require/use statment at the top of the script... (here come the flames...oops.) (sh has some logging you can turn on and so does perl...I think that in perl it;s a -p ? you might try turning on the logging in your cpdir script and redirecting both stderr and stdout to a log file somewhere.) -Chris
From: jjs@Freeside.toyota.com (Joseph Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: running two webservers on different ports?? Date: 30 Oct 1996 04:59:29 GMT Organization: TRW Information Systems & Services Message-ID: <556nbh$5ol@mailsrv1.is.trw.com> References: <54hgc8$9hf@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <54iig2$cth@news.fred.net> <54k6sa$dv3@chinx10.thoughtport.net> <326D169F.5837@dorsai.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: skoppel@dorsai.org [Posted and mailed] In article <326D169F.5837@dorsai.org>, Steve Koppelman <skoppel@dorsai.org> writes: > 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. That is simply not true - In Linux, virtual interfaces are activated using almost exactly the same semantics as Solaris - from my rc.local: # configure virtual interfaces if [ $VIF = "yes" ]; then modprobe ip_alias echo "setting virtual IP addresses..." NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BROADCAST=107.215.226.255 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 107.215.226.2 netmask $NETMASK broadcast $BROADCAST up /sbin/route add -host 107.215.226.2 eth0:1 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:2 107.215.226.4 netmask $NETMASK broadcast $BROADCAST up /sbin/route add -host 107.215.226.4 eth0:2 fi A kernel patch was neccesary with the old 1.2 kernels, but virtual interfaces are a standard Linux feature which I have been using since 1.3.something. (currently running 2.0.23) -- joseph.sloan@trw.com Opinions expressed are not neccesarily those of TRW
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT Network + Microsoft Network Date: 31 Oct 1996 02:39:56 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5593hs$p3c@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> References: <5585ce$rep@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (David Overeem) wrote: >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? How about TCP/IP? ;-) You need help understanding how it works? "TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig Hunt, O'Reilly & Assoc. Cheers, 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 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzJ1JCkAAAEEALzCoYhlxTLI4DID5KpQINF8KM4PUnrZxoL2aRRFAQNX9v9c 8uBySUqVDxfyylB6M/ptUezWIs6DLjz6b8jr8MX40vQf2jU2db6oMDh2axOeXlg2 KCSHryZ9kthnnXOVt0kHLN9XjM9DvwKU28RzvT7umEVmbHFyp64kVG961wkZAAUR tCVDaHJpc3RpYW4gS3VodHogPGt1aHR6QGl4Lm5ldGNvbS5jb20+iQCVAwUQMnUk Ka4kVG961wkZAQFztgP+IgHBCz/d1Sc10Qg0Wmu4KnhNb4E4KsPh96V/olwbQS+e frdWMxSHzX8hGD1p/KbuwlNRrDktmZgVc+n89FGEeGcq3z9WK3o22JsyjJTlzobY qJIZ5bdOx4dOimQ83ha9zjF+bRnw92t1jC/GJ+LRyOEVMzD5TtL7AMdODO8fNC8= =sRe0 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
From: tim@vcl.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IBM 760CD Driver Does Not Work Date: 29 Oct 1996 16:03:22 GMT Organization: Valley City Linen Corp Message-ID: <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 $7,300.00 into a laptop that NeXT supposedly supports and I cannot get NS to run on it. (In case you're wondering we did try to load OS 4.0. It doesn't work either) IBM won't touch it because the machine works fine with Win/95. I can't return it to the place I bought it (CDW Inc) because I have had it for more than a month. If anyone has any information that might help I would be very grateful. -- ____________________ Tim Jeltema Valley City Linen Corp. 10 Diamond Ave. S.E. Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Phone: 616 459-6922 E-Mail: tim@vcl.com [NeXT Mail Accepted]
From: robin@pswtech.com (Robin Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent nibind's tries out of local domain Date: 30 Oct 1996 23:59:50 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <558q5m$qf7@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <54jgg1$95v@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> <326D629D.15FB@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> wrote: } 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. If anyone comes up with a way to do this under 3.3, I'd like to hear about it. I've setup several PPP systems and _ALL_ of them have refused to work without accessing netinfo over the ppp0 line. This is _really_ annoying (esp. when you are in the process of a large file transfer and you need to work on something else that requires a passwd file lookup (like file permissions!)... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: lenlutz@dca.net (lenlutz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: 31 Oct 1996 02:09:34 GMT Organization: Your Organization Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com>, noemail@aol.com says... > > >Due to personal financial hardships I find myself >in the unenviable position of trying to get back a >fraction of what I paid for this program. > >My retailer refuses returns on 'opened' software, >even if I haven't installed the package. Microsoft >couldn't care less about my situation, and >numerous pleas for an exception to their return >policy have fallen on deaf ears. > >Believe it or not, I need this money more than any >program, and I thought someone could at least >benefit from this awkward situation. > >To clarify, this is a store-bought full retail package >which contains 2 cd's (unopened), a license agreement >and manual, and includes the full versions of WORD and >EXCEL (versions 7.0) POWERPOINT, SCHEDULE, >ACCESS and BOOKSHELF. This is a stand alone >product and not an upgrade (you don't need older >versions to run it). > >It was my intention to put these programs on a shelf >somewhere until I needed them, but I do not have >that luxury. My resources are extremely limited and >I am at the point where this is the only responsible >thing to do. I'm just hoping there is someone out there >who can use these programs. > >Please contact me if you or someone you know >might be interested. I do not have my own email >address yet, however you can write to me at: > >M. Blank >Box 54 >Toronto, Ontario >M5A 1N1 > >Thank you and God Bless. > DUDE....... you done posted this in the WRONG group
From: joshkerr@cs.utexas.edu (Joshua Kerr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep upgrade question. Date: 31 Oct 1996 01:06:58 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <558u3i$f7h@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> I walk into my university's book store and they have this copy of Openstep 4.0 on the shelves. I can't resist, so I splurge the 300$ and take it home to my very happy NextStation Color Turbo. My NextStation Color Turbo, "Carla," has been running NextStep 3.2 for some time now, and everything seems to work okay. The only major modifications I made occured when I setup PPP. I want to upgrade the 3.2 to 4.0 without destroying my PPP settings. Has anyone done this yet? If so, what is the best route to go? Can I just do an automatic upgrade? My Nextstation wants to remain happy, and I surely don't want to upset her. We thank you in advance, Josh, and my NextStation "Carla." --- ______________________________________________ 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 -- ______________________________________________ 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: talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.democrats.d,alt.current-events.usa,talk.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.activism Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to create a custom bootable configuration under Intel Date: 30 Oct 1996 23:33:52 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <558ol0$voc@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <54t2tc$f85@news2.cais.com> emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) wrote: > 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. A fundamental problem (I think) is that the instances within the (.config) files are representative of the entire ".config" file. That is, if there is an Instance0.table and an Instance1.table -- both will be used. Perhaps a workaround (I have _NOT_ tried this) would be to copy the ".config" trees for the devices you want to configure differently, and change the name... So if in the standard config, you would have them set to the normal name. In the "config=XXX" config, you would make a copy to "DeviceXXX.config", and then modify the instances in that tree... It might work -- then again, it might trash the system... --- robin -- Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.net-analysis,comp.dcom.net-management,comp.os.netware.connectivity,comp.os.netware.misc,comp.os.netware.security,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.networks.noctools.bugs,comp.networks.noctools.d,comp.sys.northstar From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Subject: cmsg cancel <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Control: cancel <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Message-ID: <cancel.32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Followup-to: junk References: <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:44:01 GMT Spam-cancel: "Just try this, it will work"
From: bmw@visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT Network + Microsoft Network Date: 30 Oct 1996 20:02:27 -0500 Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Message-ID: <558tr3$rk5@ampere.visgen.com> References: <5585ce$rep@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In article <5585ce$rep@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, David Overeem <overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >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? First off, make sure you are using the MS TCP/IP protocol stack in Win95; remove both the NetPTUI and IPX/SPX protocols. Then, go get Samba: http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/samba.html Compile, config, enjoy! (BTW: OPeNSTEP 4.x comes with Samba preinstalled.) -bmw -- "No thanks, I'm just lurking..." Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com
From: j.p.a.baalman@student.utwente.nl (Phi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:14:49 GMT Organization: University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Distribution: inet Message-ID: <55a1b0$s4l@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> lenlutz@dca.net (lenlutz) wrote: >In article <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com>, noemail@aol.com >says... >> >> >>Due to personal financial hardships I find myself >>in the unenviable position of trying to get back a >>fraction of what I paid for this program. >> >>My retailer refuses returns on 'opened' software, >>even if I haven't installed the package. Microsoft >>couldn't care less about my situation, and >>numerous pleas for an exception to their return >>policy have fallen on deaf ears. >> >>Believe it or not, I need this money more than any >>program, and I thought someone could at least >>benefit from this awkward situation. >> >>To clarify, this is a store-bought full retail package >>which contains 2 cd's (unopened), a license agreement >>and manual, and includes the full versions of WORD and >>EXCEL (versions 7.0) POWERPOINT, SCHEDULE, >>ACCESS and BOOKSHELF. This is a stand alone >>product and not an upgrade (you don't need older >>versions to run it). >> >>It was my intention to put these programs on a shelf >>somewhere until I needed them, but I do not have >>that luxury. My resources are extremely limited and >>I am at the point where this is the only responsible >>thing to do. I'm just hoping there is someone out there >>who can use these programs. >> >>Please contact me if you or someone you know >>might be interested. I do not have my own email >>address yet, however you can write to me at: >> >>M. Blank >>Box 54 >>Toronto, Ontario >>M5A 1N1 >> >>Thank you and God Bless. >> >DUDE....... you done posted this in the WRONG group If you need money, sell your PC and buy an MSX. PHIlippus
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: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:14:11 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> 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> <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> On 29 Oct 1996, H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > It is painful to loose a disk just because a sector/track is > bad - even more so it it's not in a critical zone (mbr, partition > sector or the like) but within plain data. You would only loose > a little bit of disk-capacity. This is something I also would > like to be able to achieve, but don't know how (to). > On the other hand, once a disk begins to develop (sector) defects, > the safest way is to replace it ((E)IDE or SCSI), I know. > An SCSI drive is possible to _map_ out bad sectors and replace them by good one. This is done completely transparent to the drive user (normally and OS driver). You won't loose any bit of disk capacity! As far as I know EIDE drives can't do this. Charles mentioned that he once had a drive which he was able to low level format. This is IMHO not in the specification of (E)IDE drives. BUT: There are EIDE drive producers, who just use their SCSI drives and attach an EIDE controller, therefore this might work for _some_ drives. A second possibility would be that the drive just 'marks' bad sectors and refuses to use them, but can't remap them as SCSI drives do. There is an advantage of SCSI over EIDE which doesn't only affect on speed! Perhaps some more technical advised guy can enlighten us a little bit more, because I'm not too familiar with todays EIDE drives. Greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT Network + Microsoft Network Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:08:14 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Message-ID: <3278A4BE.6070@harmonic.co.il> References: <5585ce$rep@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <5593hs$p3c@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (David Overeem) wrote: > >Hey, I have a next machine and an intel dos machine. I have been trying > >for some time to get ethernet to work between win95 and next os. Does > >anyone know of a client/protocol that I could use to get the two to talk to > >each other on a peer-peer network? > > How about TCP/IP? ;-) > > You need help understanding how it works? "TCP/IP Network Administration" by > Craig Hunt, O'Reilly & Assoc. > > Cheers, > Chris > > -- > Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>, office: ckuhtz@paranet.com > Network/UNIX Specialist for Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ > Supercomputing Junkie, et al MIME/NeXTmail accepted > > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > > mQCNAzJ1JCkAAAEEALzCoYhlxTLI4DID5KpQINF8KM4PUnrZxoL2aRRFAQNX9v9c > 8uBySUqVDxfyylB6M/ptUezWIs6DLjz6b8jr8MX40vQf2jU2db6oMDh2axOeXlg2 > KCSHryZ9kthnnXOVt0kHLN9XjM9DvwKU28RzvT7umEVmbHFyp64kVG961wkZAAUR > tCVDaHJpc3RpYW4gS3VodHogPGt1aHR6QGl4Lm5ldGNvbS5jb20+iQCVAwUQMnUk > Ka4kVG961wkZAQFztgP+IgHBCz/d1Sc10Qg0Wmu4KnhNb4E4KsPh96V/olwbQS+e > frdWMxSHzX8hGD1p/KbuwlNRrDktmZgVc+n89FGEeGcq3z9WK3o22JsyjJTlzobY > qJIZ5bdOx4dOimQ83ha9zjF+bRnw92t1jC/GJ+LRyOEVMzD5TtL7AMdODO8fNC8= > =sRe0 > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----Samba. look at http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/samba.html
From: Charles Wiles <charles@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I need a commandline script to chown according to parameters Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:57:53 GMT Organization: Physics Teaching Course, Oxford Message-ID: <55a7oh$iei@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <556v63$eqk@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > 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? Do you mean you *only* want to chown 100.wheel if the owner of the file/directory is 106 AND its group is wheel?? (The following will leave alone things owned by 106 but which aren't in wheel group). /usr/bin/find pathname_to_directory_tree_you_want_to_change \( -user 106 -a -group wheel \) -exec /etc/chown 100.wheel {} \; If you just want to change all 106-owned files to 100-owned files it's: /usr/bin/find pathname_as_above -user 106 -exec /etc/chown 100.wheel {} \; charles ____________________________________________________________________________ Charles Wiles, Systems Manager (NeXT), Physics Practical Course Dept of Physics NAPL, University of Oxford, Keble Rd, OXFORD OX1 3RH, UK ____________________________________________________________________________
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to make OracleAdaptor work ? Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:49:20 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <55a78g$ot7@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> Dear EOF/Oracle admin experts, we can't get our EOF1.1 / Oracle stuff running. Who can help ? The EOF Adaptor is to run on a P100/NS 3.3, the Oracle 7.1 runs on a SunOS machine, has listeners for SQLnet v1 and v2 running. Yes, I read and obeyed all hints in NeXTanswer #1897. However, when I enter all needed info in the Oracle Login panel for a SQLnet V2 access, that is I leave the "Host machine" field empty as requested by NA #1897, it comes back with an error and positions the cursor in right that "Host machine" field. What might I do wrong ? Detlev -- Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Email:droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Johann Adalbert Stoeger) Subject: Re: IBM 760CD Driver Does Not Work Message-ID: <E04uqI.1pw@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5559sa$8c5@pravda.aa.msen.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:08:41 GMT In article <5559sa$8c5@pravda.aa.msen.com> tim@vcl.com writes: > 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. .. > > I now have $7,300.00 into a laptop that NeXT supposedly supports and I cannot > get NS to run on it. (In case you're wondering we did try to load OS 4.0. > It doesn't work either) > > IBM won't touch it because the machine works fine with Win/95. I can't > return it to the place I bought it (CDW Inc) because I have had it for more > than a month. > > If anyone has any information that might help I would be very grateful. Have you looked at NA? As far as I remember There are problems bith different BIOS versions! ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:05:10 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961030170309.27275F-100000@kira> References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> <1996Oct29.100019.25530@roper.uwyo.edu> <555i6f$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> <555vef$83u@nntp1.best.com> <557tod$q98@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <557tod$q98@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > Denise Howard said: > > >Opener has changed a great deal since it "first came out" > >In fact with Opener 3.3, I've had zero bug reports... > > And not nearly as many kudos as you deserve, I'll bet. Let me take > this chance to say thanks for Opener.app. I've used it for years, and > consider it one of the classic NeXTSTEP .apps. > > I always get a kick when a new NeXT user (I use NeXTs in a graduate > lab) asks me how to open some compressed file that he/she's just > snarfed in from an ftp or Web site. "Do you have a copy of PKUNZIP on > the NeXTs?" they ask. I show them that just double-clicking the file > makes Opener do all the work like magic, and they *always* say: > > "Wow! That's so easy!" > Ditto. I've had tons of people say "You can deal with Mac/Dos compression? Really? How?" I show them and I can see the envy... Opener.app is definitely one of the "gotta-have" apps, I recommend it highly and use it daily. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby) Subject: Re: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 Message-ID: <1996Oct30.200731.19406@rdbois.uucp> Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby) Organization: S.RUBY References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:07:31 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > In an attempt to make this at least somewhat useful as a bandwidth user, > I'll say this "You might want to get a NXFax-compatible modem, it's a nice > product". Which modems are NXFax compatible ?
From: joshkerr@cs.utexas.edu (Joshua Kerr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Openstep upgrade question. Date: 31 Oct 1996 17:36:15 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <55ao2f$nhi@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <558u3i$f7h@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <558u3i$f7h@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> The upgrade worked! Thanks for all your help. The only annoying thing is that GateKeeper doesn't want to work. But at least I didn't loose my sendmail, or ppp settings. Josh On 10/30/96, Joshua Kerr wrote: :I walk into my university's book store and they have this copy of :Openstep 4.0 on the shelves. I can't resist, so I splurge the 300$ :and take it home to my very happy NextStation Color Turbo. My :NextStation Color Turbo, "Carla," has been running NextStep 3.2 for :some time now, and everything seems to work okay. The only major :modifications I made occured when I setup PPP. I want to upgrade the :3.2 to 4.0 without destroying my PPP settings. Has anyone done this :yet? If so, what is the best route to go? Can I just do an automatic :upgrade? My Nextstation wants to remain happy, and I surely don't :want to upset her. : :We thank you in advance, : :Josh, and my NextStation "Carla." :--- :______________________________________________ :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 :-- :______________________________________________ :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 : -- ______________________________________________ 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: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adobe Type 1 fonts for NeXT. Date: 31 Oct 1996 11:04:00 -0500 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <55ailg$e0s@Vir.com> Hello all, I was considering getting some more fonts for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep from Adobe. Can I use these fonts on NeXTSTEP? Are there any problems in getting them to work? Thank you, stef
From: jstella@okeefe.com (Seraphim J. Stella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experiences with TwinHead or other portables for NS? Date: 31 Oct 1996 18:18:17 GMT Organization: digitalNation Message-ID: <55aqh9$5rs@news2.dn.net> References: <54qpnl$1ol0@news.doit.wisc.edu> giddings@menominee.chem.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 > >Any information would be appreciated. I have a twinhead 120MHz P5 machine with 800x600 display, 48MB RAM, 1.3GB disk and CD-ROM. I like the machine quite a lot, and the suspend seems to work OK under OS4.1. Definately get a secondary battery if you plan to use it while not on AC since the basic Li battery lasts only about 25-30 min! Hope this helps Josh
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:28:39 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961031102803.26073C-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> <1996Oct30.200731.19406@rdbois.uucp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: serge_ruby <sr@rdbois.fdn.org> In-Reply-To: <1996Oct30.200731.19406@rdbois.uucp> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com all ZyXel modems and most if not all SupraFaxModems. Contact sales@bandw.com for more TjL On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, serge_ruby wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:07:31 GMT > From: serge_ruby <sr@rdbois.fdn.org> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Re: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 > > In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma > <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > > > 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". > > Which modems are NXFax compatible ? > >
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need help with fstab Date: 31 Oct 1996 10:39:57 -0600 Organization: TYBRIN Corporation Message-ID: <55akot$a4@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> I've got a removable hard disk that is occasionally inserted into a system here. I'd like the disk to be mounted via fstab so that ownerships remain intact. I have a set of scripts that will copy an appropriate /etc/fstab file into place for the cases when I boot with and without the removable disk. Some of the script is in /etc/rc. The problem is that /etc/rc.boot looks at fstab before /etc/rc gets a change to change out the fstab. Consequently, if will fail miserably when fstab reports a disk that is no longer in the system. So I'm going to try a different way. My question is this: if I copy an fstab that is minus the entry for the removable disk into /etc/fstab, then halt, will that removable disk get marked as a 'clean' filesystem? Also, if you have a neat idea or a way that you handle this, I'd be glad to hear about it. trey -- Trey McClendon TYBRIN Corporation trey@hsv.tybrin.com Huntsville, AL NeXT / MIME Mail Accepted Fax: 205-837-3472
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help with fstab Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:18:32 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <AmSDi8a00UhB82BopC@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <55akot$a4@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> In-Reply-To: <55akot$a4@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 31-Oct-96 Need help with fstab by Trey McClendon@hsv.tybri > Also, if you have a neat idea or a way that you handle this, I'd be glad > to hear about it. Perhaps you should not run the automount daemon, and manually mount the removable drive as root so that the permissions stay intact? For that matter, the system might even be smart enough that you can leave the automounter going. Simply issue a mount request as root, and then insert the removable disk when the system asks for it. Playing around with /etc/fstab strikes me as an unsafe idea.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: "Erik Walter" <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: MO for NextStation Message-ID: <AE9E6BE8-69303@156.27.60.108> Date: 31 Oct 96 14:44:50 -0800 nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.hardware, nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.misc, nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.sysadmin, nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.programmer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For many years I had a Next Cube which was adequate for my needs. I recently moved up to a newer machine and I am very happy. There is only one problem I have all these Optical disks for the Cube that I can't use. Since the drive is a NeXT interface I can't just move it over. Does anyone out there know if there is a MO drive made for SCSI that will work with Next Stations or OpenStep. Erik --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-00069190" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-00069190 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <SMALLER><X-FONTSIZE><PARAM>10</PARAM><FONTFAMILY><PARAM>New York</PARAM>For many years I had a Next Cube which was adequate for my needs. I recently moved up to a newer machine and I am very happy. There is only one problem I have all these Optical disks for the Cube that I can't use. Since the drive is a NeXT interface I can't just move it over. Does anyone out there know if there is a MO drive made for SCSI that will work with Next Stations or OpenStep. Erik</FONTFAMILY></X-FONTSIZE></SMALLER> --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-00069190-- --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F--
From: tlegvold@jagor.srce.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP problems Date: 1 Nov 1996 00:59:45 GMT Organization: Public host at University Computing Centre, Zagreb, CROATIA Distribution: world Message-ID: <55bi21$j4f@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PPP 2.2, NS 3.3, Intel (586). It works all the way until pppd should talk with the remote server and establish the link, add the route, etc. Then I get a timeout while pppd sends LDP messages and everything resets. This happened to me before, of course I didn't document it. Could someone give me a hint whee to start looking? Regards, -- Thor Legvold | Tlf: +47 90 05 58 68 Presently in exile in Croatia | PGP: finger tlegvold@public.srce.hr "Where I'm from is far less | WWW: http://www.geopages.com/Paris/1964/ relevant than where I've been." -me | NeXT/MIME mail accepted
From: mycroft@nntp.best.com (Alex Currier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: 1 Nov 1996 02:59:13 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <55bp21$7ca@nntp1.best.com> References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> Ian Tait (ian@milan.demon.co.uk) wrote: : How do you get workspace manager to recognise .gz files in the same : manner as .tar or .pkg files ? This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I've made a simple shell alias which takes care of .gz files, in fact it does a bit more than that. Assuming you keep a terminal window open all the time, you can make an alias in your .login file such as: alias unpack="cd ~/Incoming; rm *.README; gunzip *.gz" so that when you've downloaded an entire directory of files from someplace, you can just type < unpack > at a shell prompt, go away for a little while and then come back and they'll all be taken care of (if that's to your taste). A real script would be able to handle errors but you get the idea. -- alex currier | "I think people are happy using Windows, mycroft@best.com | and that's an extremely depressing thought." alex@organic.com | -- Steve Jobs, 1/96
From: mcneely@mcneely.physics.brandeis.edu (Matthew McNeely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail setup Date: 1 Nov 1996 00:09:28 GMT Organization: Brandeis University Message-ID: <55bf3o$7vl@lex.zippo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I am new to setting up next step software and am having a problem with getting mail to work right I have net step 3.0 installed on a intel machine and so far I have been unable to get mail to go anywhare or receive mail from anywhare and the books that I have are of little use all they tell me is about setting up a mailhost and sence this is the only next machine on out network that won't work. I am hoping that someone out there can tell me what I am doing wrong here sence I am totally frustrated with getting the mail running. Thanks in advance, Matt
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help with fstab Date: 1 Nov 1996 07:19:40 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <55c8ac$ld4@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <55akot$a4@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> <AmSDi8a00UhB82BopC@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 31-Oct-96 Need help with : fstab by Trey McClendon@hsv.tybri : > Also, if you have a neat idea or a way that you handle this, I'd be glad : > to hear about it. : Perhaps you should not run the automount daemon, and manually mount the : removable drive as root so that the permissions stay intact? Not such a good idea, because it prevents automatic mounting of cdroms and such. : For that matter, the system might even be smart enough that you can : leave the automounter going. Simply issue a mount request as root, and : then insert the removable disk when the system asks for it. This will always work pretty good. : Playing around with /etc/fstab strikes me as an unsafe idea.... Me too. Another suggestion: Just mount the drive by a command in /etc/rc.local If it is not there - you get an error message and lose nothing. If it is there , it simply gets mounted. -- 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: Pak K Yuen <pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:14:27 -0500 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961031161358.24011D-100000@atrium24> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> <55a1b0$s4l@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Phi <j.p.a.baalman@student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <55a1b0$s4l@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> What is a MSX ? Thanks, -Superpig __________________________________________________________ = Keep me on the Net = = http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~pkyuen/public_html/ = = hk1997yu@village.ios.com = = pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu = ----------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 96 01:25:49 -0500 Subject: partitioning a 1gig drive Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com When my NeXT panics, it takes about 10 minutes for 'fsck' to run on my 1gig drive. I am wondering if it would be faster if I partitioned it. Can anyone comment? Fast replies needed, 3.3 is in the mail, if I'm going to do this, it will be today (1 Nov 1996). Thanks! TjL
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I need a commandline script to chown according to parameters Date: 1 Nov 1996 07:33:45 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <55cqn9$b6h@papoose.quick.com> References: <556v63$eqk@usc.edu> In article <556v63$eqk@usc.edu>, Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> wrote: >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? You don't even need a script. Just do the following as root: cd The_Directory_You_Want find . -user 106 -group wheel -print | xargs chown 100.wheel The find command prints out all files and directories you want to change, and the xargs command builds and submits chown commands to do the job. -- ___ ___ | 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: Roy Keeley <rkeeley@dibbs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 08:50:06 -0600 Organization: Railway Express, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <327A0E1E.78AC@dibbs.net> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit lenlutz wrote: > > In article <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com>, noemail@aol.com > says... > > > > > >Due to personal financial hardships I find myself > >in the unenviable position of trying to get back a > >fraction of what I paid for this program. > > > >My retailer refuses returns on 'opened' software, > >even if I haven't installed the package. Microsoft > >couldn't care less about my situation, and > >numerous pleas for an exception to their return > >policy have fallen on deaf ears. > > > >Believe it or not, I need this money more than any > >program, and I thought someone could at least > >benefit from this awkward situation. > > > >To clarify, this is a store-bought full retail package > >which contains 2 cd's (unopened), a license agreement > >and manual, and includes the full versions of WORD and > >EXCEL (versions 7.0) POWERPOINT, SCHEDULE, > >ACCESS and BOOKSHELF. This is a stand alone > >product and not an upgrade (you don't need older > >versions to run it). > > > >It was my intention to put these programs on a shelf > >somewhere until I needed them, but I do not have > >that luxury. My resources are extremely limited and > >I am at the point where this is the only responsible > >thing to do. I'm just hoping there is someone out there > >who can use these programs. > > > >Please contact me if you or someone you know > >might be interested. I do not have my own email > >address yet, however you can write to me at: > > > >M. Blank > >Box 54 > >Toronto, Ontario > >M5A 1N1 > > > >Thank you and God Bless. > > > DUDE....... you done posted this in the WRONG group When you are mooching for money, the more groups the merrier. -- 73's Roy KC4IMC rkeeley@dibbs.net rkeeley@MAF.mobile.al.us kc4imc@maf.wa4wbi.ampr.org Snail Mail = 10675 Salt Aire Rd, E., Theodore, AL 36582, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matt Jurcich <mattj@invisix.com> Subject: Apache/ftp on NeXT Message-ID: <327A20AC.2F65@invisix.com> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 10:09:16 -0600 Organization: Invisix MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey there, I've a NeXT Turbo Color station, 24MB RAM, 250MB HD, 21" monitor, with NEXTSTEP 3.2 loaded (non-developer). I am running the Apache web server on it, version 1.1.0 (I believe). I also have a Compaq 486DX2-50 with 12MB RAM, Windoze 95, 17" monitor, 3Com ethernet network card. I also have a SGI Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB RAM, Irix 5.3, 1gb HD and 20" monitor (with integrated ethernet, of course!). Ok, so here's my problem. I can use Omniweb on the NeXT to browse to the Apache server and it works fine (browsing to itself). I can also use Netscape 2.02 on the SGI to Apache and that works fine. I cannot use Netscape 3.0 on the Compaq to Apache on the NeXT. I cannot ftp from the Compaq to NeXT. I cannot ftp from the SGI into the NeXT. I can ftp from the NeXT to the SGI. I can ftp from the Compaq to the SGI. I think my ftpd might not be running on the NeXT. I don't have a clue why I can't web from the Compaq to the NeXT... Any thoughts on my situation? Thanks. (if you need more info, just let me know)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Re: How to hook NeXTstation colour to win95 laptop via ethernet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: news@interactive.net (System Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E07LGs.EwL@interactive.net> References: <E07L4w.EFG@interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:41:16 GMT Well, I just read another message which instructed me to get Samba, which I have done. However, one thing concerns me: my office uses IPX/SPX, so I don't want to get rid of those protocols or mess up my configuration too much if I don't have to. Is there any way to have two configurations under Win95, one for home and my NextStation, and one for work and the corporate LAN? Thanks again, Matt Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> wrote: : I have an IBM ThinkPad 760ED with a 3com ethernet card, and I'd like to : use my NextStation as a file and print server. I've (unsuccesfully) tried : to configure the two machines to talk to each other, and I'm appealing to : the Net for help. : The 760ED is running Windows 95. : How do I configure the two machines to at least talk to each other? I : can't even get a ping through. Also, is there anything better than : Win/QVTNet for a lpr client? What would be ideal is being able to see my : Next Laser Printer directly as a Windows95 printer. : Thanks in a advance for any assistance. : Matt : -- : __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about : /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write : \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ : NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov ! -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 Date: 2 Nov 1996 00:44:35 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bbc857$5feb80c0$8785eea5@sroller> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> <1996Oct30.200731.19406@rdbois.uucp> I use a cheap 33.6 Cardinal external modem with NXFax on NeXT 3.3. This works since Cardinal uses the Rockwell chipset on their modem. Steve serge_ruby <sr@rdbois.fdn.org> wrote in article <1996Oct30.200731.19406@rdbois.uucp>... > In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma > <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > > > 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". > > Which modems are NXFax compatible ? >
From: rdubey@cisco.com (Rakesh Dubey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: 01 Nov 1996 11:58:08 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Sender: rdubey@Fountainhead.Cisco.com Message-ID: <wuenidsi3z.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> 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> <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-reply-to: Bernhard Scholz's message of Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:14:11 +0100 In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > On 29 Oct 1996, H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > > > It is painful to loose a disk just because a sector/track is > > bad - even more so it it's not in a critical zone (mbr, partition > > sector or the like) but within plain data. You would only loose > > a little bit of disk-capacity. This is something I also would > > like to be able to achieve, but don't know how (to). > > On the other hand, once a disk begins to develop (sector) defects, > > the safest way is to replace it ((E)IDE or SCSI), I know. > > > An SCSI drive is possible to _map_ out bad sectors and replace them by > good one. This is done completely transparent to the drive user (normally > and OS driver). You won't loose any bit of disk capacity! > As far as I know EIDE drives can't do this. > > Charles mentioned that he once had a drive which he was able to low level > format. This is IMHO not in the specification of (E)IDE drives. BUT: > There are EIDE drive producers, who just use their SCSI drives and attach > an EIDE controller, therefore this might work for _some_ drives. A second > possibility would be that the drive just 'marks' bad sectors and refuses > to use them, but can't remap them as SCSI drives do. > > There is an advantage of SCSI over EIDE which doesn't only affect on > speed! > > Perhaps some more technical advised guy can enlighten us a little bit > more, because I'm not too familiar with todays EIDE drives. > I don't know if I qualify as a technical advised guy but here goes.. It is a bad idea to low-level format IDE/EIDE hard disks. In the best case nothing will happen. However your driver may be rendered useless since some drives store bad sector information etc. SCSI has many advantages over IDE. Remember that 40-pin IDE cable doesn't even have a parity bit. IDE is cheap and reasonably fast and that is pretty much about it. These are the times you feel like quoting of Volker(?) V. about personal computers.. -Rakesh
From: michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (Michael Pieper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT Network + Microsoft Network Date: 1 Nov 1996 09:45:23 GMT Organization: I.N.-Regionaldomain oche.de, Aachen, Germany Message-ID: <55cgrj$mr5@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> References: <5585ce$rep@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (David Overeem) wrote: >Hey, I have a next machine and an intel dos machine. I have been trying >for some time to get ethernet to work between win95 and next os. Does >anyone know of a client/protocol that I could use to get the two to talk to >each other on a peer-peer network? What do you want them to talk about? TCP/IP is included both in NeXTstep and W95, and so you can use telnet, ftp, http... So you can log in to your NeXT from your W95, transfer files and even set up a Web server on one of your machines and use it from the other. If you want to share a printer, I don't know, if W95 includes a lpr client. If you want to share files and a printer it would be the easiest and cheapest way to get Samba for your NeXT (free on the net). Michael -- Michael Pieper, Bluecherplatz 14, D-52068 Aachen, Tel. : +49 - (0)241 - 902455 Fax: +49 - (0)241 - 902456 Mail : michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) PGP : Public Key on demand
From: "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: partitioning a 1gig drive Date: 2 Nov 1996 00:32:34 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> References: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> Here's fsck times on some of our NeXT systems: NeXT 3.2 Intel Pent 100, 32 RAM, SCSI with 2 - 1GB drives takes 10 minutes to fsck both drives NeXT 3.2 Intel 486 66, 32 RAM, SCSI with 500MB drive takes 4 minutes to fsck the drive If you create two partitions for NeXT, I would guess that you would still have the 10 minute wait. If you partion the other half to another file format (say FAT DOS), you should see a shorter fsck time on your NeXT partition. Steve Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> wrote in article <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com>... > > When my NeXT panics, it takes about 10 minutes for 'fsck' to run on > my 1gig drive. > > I am wondering if it would be faster if I partitioned it.
From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 Date: 2 Nov 1996 11:09:15 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development Message-ID: <55fa4r$6cc@alice.turbocat.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> <1996Oct30.200731.19406@rdbois.uucp> <01bbc857$5feb80c0$8785eea5@sroller> "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > I use a cheap 33.6 Cardinal external modem with NXFax on NeXT 3.3. > This works since Cardinal uses the Rockwell chipset on their modem. > > Steve I would not rely on rockwell and USR. Here is a quote of <m0vHFYV-000A7ZC@greenie.muc.de> from gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) ------------- Now this is easy: every batch of Rockwell modems has different flaws. The "end-manufacturer" can enable/disable certain options, modify the firmware, etc., so they all are "slightly different". But nevertheless they all suck. gert ------------- _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: akim@cogent.net (Andrew Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Monitor Question Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 07:54:17 -0700 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <akim-0211960754170001@mfs-annex1-p3.dsphere.net> Is there anybody know what is pin configuration of NeXT MegaPixel 21" Monitor? Can I use other monitor like Sun, SGI, or Sony or NEC ? Thanks.
From: jak@indy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ApplcationPaths Question Date: 2 Nov 1996 19:08:06 GMT Organization: IndyNet - Indys Internet Gateway (info@indy.net) Message-ID: <55g66m$92o@news.indy.net> Summary: Setting ApplcationPaths default for Workspace doesn't work. I wish to create a special purpose directory for some local NextStep applications. I find however, that there seems to be no way to add a directory to the paths searched by Workspace to find applications. The only reference I've found in the manual says to set the parameter "ApplicationPaths" in your defaults to be the desired path. This does not work. I've set it for Workspace and for GLOBAL, but there is no effect. I have logged out and back in, and tried the Update Viewers button. Still no effect. Has anyone succeeded in this? How does one create a LocalAdmin, or other spcial purpose Applications directory if not with ApplicationPaths? Thanks for any help! -John Kassebaum <jak@indy.net>
From: Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ROM monitor at power-up Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:37:52 -0800 Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960923234543.28392A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, This may or may not be an easy question: Upon power-up, my NeXT 030 cube automatically drops into the ROM monitor, instead of booting the OS from the scsi hard drive; so I have to manually type 'b sd' (boot scsi device). I vaguely remember some option you can set somewhere to disable this , does anyone know how else to do so? Thanks, Ryan
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Anyone running S-Key? Date: 3 Nov 1996 01:04:05 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-52.usc.edu Message-ID: <55gr25$qu1@usc.edu> Anyone running S-Key? I have the binaries (key, keyinit, keysh, suk), but nowhere in the manual do I see how to get the whole thing rolling. I also have done web searches to no avail. I used to be on the mailing-list, but they stopped sending me anything. (And my machine had ridded me of their very old messages, so I don't even have their list address anymore). -- 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: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anyone running S-Key? Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 22:48:20 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0211962248200001@slip-59-16.ots.utexas.edu> References: <55gr25$qu1@usc.edu> In article <55gr25$qu1@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: >Anyone running S-Key? > >I have the binaries (key, keyinit, keysh, suk), but nowhere >in the manual do I see how to get the whole thing rolling. 1) Compile and install (if you haven't already) the replacement for /bin/login. 2) Set up /etc/skey.access to determine under what circumstances regular Unix passwords will be allowed. A simple example is: permit port console permit hostname friendly.host.yourdomain permit user reichman hostname maybe.friendly.com permit port ttyb # local deny # anything else 3) run keyinit for each user to initialize the /etc/skey.keys database. This will take care of telnet. If you want to be able to su using s-key, 4) Compile and install keysu (is that what you called suk?). 5) If you want to similarly protect ftp access, you need an skey-ified ftpd. Jacques Distler
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Does 'keysh" preclude running zsh in a telnet session? Date: 3 Nov 1996 04:55:25 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-05.usc.edu Message-ID: <55h8jt$bf0@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu Does 'keysh" preclude running zsh in a telnet session? Or is it simply compiling login.c and that'll cover everything without toughing the shell? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does 'keysh" preclude running zsh in a telnet session? Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 23:59:17 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0211962359180001@slip-9-16.ots.utexas.edu> References: <55h8jt$bf0@usc.edu> In article <55h8jt$bf0@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: >Does 'keysh" preclude running zsh in a telnet session? > >Or is it simply compiling login.c and that'll cover >everything without toughing the shell? > Keysh is for those who, for some reason, can't or won't replace /bin/login. It is HIGHLY recommended to do the latter. Then you can completely forget about keysh. JD
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ApplcationPaths Question Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 04:18:51 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961103041518.20126C-100000@kira> References: <55g66m$92o@news.indy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: jak@indy.net In-Reply-To: <55g66m$92o@news.indy.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I have used the ApplicationsPath dwrite before, and it did work. However, I can't remember exactly how I set it. You might try it as a dwrite for WM (there's dwrites for Workspace and for WM, this might be a WM one...) I preferred to have /LocalApps/Admin than /LocalAdmin, but that's me... TjL On 2 Nov 1996 jak@indy.net wrote: > Date: 2 Nov 1996 19:08:06 GMT > From: jak@indy.net > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: ApplcationPaths Question > > > I wish to create a special purpose directory for some local > NextStep applications. I find however, that there seems to > be no way to add a directory to the paths searched by > Workspace to find applications. The only reference I've > found in the manual says to set the parameter "ApplicationPaths" > in your defaults to be the desired path. This does not work. > I've set it for Workspace and for GLOBAL, but there is no > effect. I have logged out and back in, and tried the Update > Viewers button. Still no effect. Has anyone succeeded in > this? How does one create a LocalAdmin, or other spcial purpose > Applications directory if not with ApplicationPaths? > > Thanks for any help! > > -John Kassebaum <jak@indy.net> > > >
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ApplcationPaths Question Date: 3 Nov 1996 07:38:30 -0600 Organization: TYBRIN Corporation Message-ID: <55i78m$8ud@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> References: <55g66m$92o@news.indy.net> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961103041518.20126C-100000@kira> Do a dwrite to set the path. In the following example, I have added the directory 'LocalDemos' to the path. In a shell type the command like this: (don't type the '\' symbol -- that is just a separator for this news poster since the line is too long) dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths ~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps:\ /NextDeveloper/Apps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos:/LocalDemos You can add as many as you want, I suppose. One I like is /users/bin that is a place where anyone can throw an executable for the whole office to have instant access to. Yea, /users is probably a bad place, but it works. trey Timothy Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : I have used the ApplicationsPath dwrite before, and it did work. However, : I can't remember exactly how I set it. : You might try it as a dwrite for WM (there's dwrites for Workspace and for : WM, this might be a WM one...) : I preferred to have /LocalApps/Admin than /LocalAdmin, but that's me... : TjL : On 2 Nov 1996 jak@indy.net wrote: : > Date: 2 Nov 1996 19:08:06 GMT : > From: jak@indy.net : > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin : > Subject: ApplcationPaths Question : > : > : > I wish to create a special purpose directory for some local : > NextStep applications. I find however, that there seems to : > be no way to add a directory to the paths searched by : > Workspace to find applications. The only reference I've : > found in the manual says to set the parameter "ApplicationPaths" : > in your defaults to be the desired path. This does not work. : > I've set it for Workspace and for GLOBAL, but there is no : > effect. I have logged out and back in, and tried the Update : > Viewers button. Still no effect. Has anyone succeeded in : > this? How does one create a LocalAdmin, or other spcial purpose : > Applications directory if not with ApplicationPaths? : > : > Thanks for any help! : > : > -John Kassebaum <jak@indy.net> : > : > : > -- Trey McClendon TYBRIN Corporation trey@hsv.tybrin.com Huntsville, AL NeXT / MIME Mail Accepted Fax: 205-837-3472
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help, Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: 3 Nov 1996 19:06:49 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <55iqg9$bvc@news.service.uci.edu> NS 3.3 Intel, NCR 810 SCSI, DiamondStealth64 S968 chipset. I used to have a PS-2 Mouse, everything works. Yesterday, I changed to a logitec busmouse, things start to go downhill. First, the system kept panicing. Then I rescue the system by booting into default vga, etc. Finally, the system can run, but it will not boot into anything more than VGA. By now I sort of figured out some patterns: 1. If I disable Memory Hole in the CMOS, system will go panic 2. If I enable Memory hole in the CMOS, system will boot with the right resolution(from the boot info or /usr/adm/messages but the screen becomes blank. 3. Sometime I get the message: Unable to allocate memory map: 00090000-000bfffff and the system boots into VGA Notice, I do boot with -v option and the auto-detect IC in the configure.app is set according to NextAnswers for the S968 card. I even tried a Matrox card with the appropriate driver, same problem. I am at a total loss, any help will be greatly appreciated. I think mostly likely, I messed up the CMOS setup. I now even get the same problems with a ps2 mouse. Thank you in advance. -- Feng Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3975 phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department) Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
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From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: autonfsmount(8)/automount(8) -- how compatable with other automounders? Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:37:13 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <32775A09.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <555h0g$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Rudd wrote: > > 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?) > the autonfsmount in NS3.3 is just the usual stuff and works fine with aix, dec-unix, sgi-irix and so on. In OS4.0/mach the autonfsmount is new. For example the old fashioned mount points including the prosess id are now replaced by the logical mount points: Example NS3.3: /private/tmp_mnt/auto18000145/ried OS4.0: /private/tmp_mnt/people/th05/ried We use it extensively with all kind of unix machines. In OS4.0 be aware of the buggy lookupd if you are automounting something that is exportet to a nis group. Stefan -- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: jeffh@dnai.com (Jeff Hoekman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: why does my hard disk keeps spinning endlessly Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 04:22:52 -0800 Organization: DNAI ( Direct Network Access ) Message-ID: <jeffh-0411960422520001@dynamic-213.dnai.com> From time to time my hard disk will start chugging away, and not stop. Does this mean it's doing some sort of internal check or maintenence, or is the operating system just confused? Usually when this happens, I must reboot for it to stop. Anyone? Thanks, Jeff P.S. Reply via email please.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199611040501.AAA02523@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 00:01:06 -0500 Subject: 3.3 install Questions: how to install patch, etc Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Well, I've got 3.3 installed. Q: If I want to compile 4fat apps, how do I do that (what do I have to install? What about EOF [what has to be installed there]? Q: I've got the 3.3 patches from NeXT -- what do I do with them? Anytime I start UserManager.app (as root!) I get this message: can't contact NetInfo server for local domain and it quits. I assume I've changed something, but I don't know what. Thanks TjL
From: Robert F Tobler <rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help with fstab Date: 4 Nov 1996 10:14:12 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <55kflk$7ht@news.tuwien.ac.at> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 31-Oct-96 Need help with fstab by Trey McClendon@hsv.tybri > Also, if you have a neat idea or a way that you handle this, I'd be glad > to hear about it. I have the following solution to the problem: Put the removeable disk in the drive (a jaz drive in my case), then, _as_ _root_, unount the drive and mount it again. After you do this the ownerships are intact. In order to simplify the procedure you can create a setuid-root script that does the unmounting and mounting if you just provide the diskname (the jazdrive is /dev/sd1a in my case): #!/bin/sh /etc/umount /dev/sd1a && /etc/mount /dev/sd1a $1 In my case the script is called jazremount and is invoked with the name of the disk as parameter. e.g. for a disk called 'jaznext': jazremount /jaznext The advantage of this procedure over issuing a mount command, is that the automounter has mounted the disk originally and can dismount it again using Cmd-E. If you issue a mount command from the commandline you cannot unmount it using Cmd-E, but you must use an unmount command and an eject command. In addition to that (at least with my jaz drive) just issuing the mount command and inserting the disk will always give an error and only a second mount command will really mount the disk. Of course this is a hack since we mount and unmount the disk without the automounter recognizing it. I always issue the command immediately after the disk has been mounted be the automounter, so the workspace never sees the wrong ownership information. I have not had any problem with this yet, but I have not played around with switching the status later, so I cannot guarantee that it will work all the time or that it might not give you more serious problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: sending mail out of LAN via temporary PPP connection Date: 4 Nov 1996 14:09:55 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <55ktfj$5hr@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Hello, This is probably a FAQ question to those sendmail/qmail guys, but I'm in deep trouble know. I recently switched my working place and connected my workstation to a completely closed LAN. Of course I'm able to send mail to the other LAN people, but I also want to send mail out to the rest of the world. For doing this I'm able to set up a ppp connection. (Which works fine). When the PPP connection is up, I can send mail, because now I can contact a known nameserver and not only our local nameserver. When the link is down outgoing mail would immediatly be returned, because the recipients machines are of course unknown to our local nameservers. Therefore I need some magic stuff which allows me to do the following (other solutions very welcome!): Post local mail of the form <recipient>@<recipients_machine>.my.local.network directly and enqueue all other mail. When the PPP link is up try to deliver the previously enqueued mail. I'm running sendmail 8.8.1 and OPENSTEP 4.0 Any help would be very much appreciated! Greetings, Bernhard.
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From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Installation Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 14:15:52 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <327DEC88.794B@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope someone can help me with problems I have been having installing NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP on a 166MHz Intel machine. The configuration is given below and I have tried installing both NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. I would really appreciate any help on fixing this machine as I feel a little guilty as the machine belongs to a friend who was a Mac person who I persuaded to buy a PC and install NeXTSTEP. I have never had so many problems getting a PC based Intel machine to work until now. I have installed NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP on a number of different machines. Configuration: Pentium-S CPU at 166MHz Award Modular BIOS v4.51pg Diamond Stealth PCI 64 VRAM Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra/Ultra Wide 1.23a Pioneer SCSI CD-ROM DR-U10X 2x1.6 JTS Palladium Model P1600-3AF OPENSTEP: I tried installing many different times with many different CD-ROM's and none managed to get through the installation. It would normally give "/private/etc/rc.cdrom 56 bus error" and crash. Normally it would find the disk and begin the the preparing of the disks. If I used a CD-ROM which I know installs okay, but it would get half way through the installation and then crash. I set up the disk on another machine which has similar equipment. On trying to boot the problem PC although it would often get most of the way through the boot (or even all the way through) it would hang or crash. I even used the cards from the setup machine and still it would not work. I am sure the CD-ROM is a problem but the same problems happens if I remove the SCSI card. NeXTSTEP: I setup another disk with NeXTSTEP and although this normally managed to boot to the end it would have problems loging in or starting apps then crash. When stopping the machine normally the screen goes blank and the machine hangs and does not stop correctly. Similarly booting is not possible with graphics. It just hangs on the start graphics screen. I feel sure the problem is either related to the BIOS/Motherboard. Has anyone had similar problems with such a machine and how did they solve the problems. Any suggestions would be helpful as I have tried everything I can think off. Windows seems to work okay but progams do die for no reason quite often. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help, Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 15:14:31 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <327DFA47.15FB@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <55iqg9$bvc@news.service.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Feng Liu <fliu@uci.edu> The most likely cause is IRQ conflicts with the Busmouse. I had similar problems when I installed my Logitech Serial Busmouse. It wants to use one of the lower IRQ 2,3,5 which are normally setup to be the serial ports and other similar things. I would remove your Busmouse card and it should go back to it's original state. Then sort out thr IRQ's on your system and then change them to make way for the mouse. If you have a Serial Bus mouse you can always use this in the normal serial port and then setup the serial port to be a serial mouse. Use the latest drivers for the serial mouse and also the port servers. Dave -- --------------------------------------------------------------- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfo blues Date: 4 Nov 1996 16:27:37 GMT Organization: "CARDEROCKDIV CDNSWC" Message-ID: <55l5hpINNca5@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Hello Have got a problem with a NetInfo environment that I've, for all intents and purposes, inherited - At this point we have a 1 NetInfo server and 8 client machines and 1 NetInfo Clone server. The situation is to say the least somewhat jumbled and I'm writing primarily to get some general advice about the best way to proceed - Our NetInfo server and Clone are both at NS3.0 we have 3 client machines at NS3.3 and 1 Intel Client running NS3.3, the rest at NS3.0. Over the period of time when we didn't have anyone mananging the system directly some of the client systems have gone thru some 'ad-hoc' NetInfo related admin changes - which I'm still trying to sort out. I've downloaded most of the NetInfo related material from NextAnswers but I didn't come across anything directly related to a problem like this - I'm not sure if it wouldn't be easier to take down the entire NI server and start from scratch, but not having done this before I thought it would be wiser to get add'l opinions - any and all advice / info / inspiration much appreciated. Because of some problems with our mail services at this time please e-mail me at bob@monet.dt.navy.mil Thanks Bob Kurhajetz
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help with fstab Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:55:41 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cmTW0BO00Uh7M1nkVq@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <55kflk$7ht@news.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <55kflk$7ht@news.tuwien.ac.at> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 4-Nov-96 Re: Need help with fstab by Robert F Tobler@cg.tuwie > In order to simplify the procedure you can create a setuid-root script that > does the unmounting and mounting if you just provide the diskname > (the jazdrive is /dev/sd1a in my case): > > #!/bin/sh > /etc/umount /dev/sd1a && /etc/mount /dev/sd1a $1 Be careful! Setuid-root shell scripts are very insecure-- a user who knows what they are doing can probably gain root access... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 'Reboot in DOS' doesn't work Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:31:00 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@apollo10.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961104092904.20401B-100000@apollo10.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII When I choose Restart from the Login window, I can choose to reboot in Dos or NeXT. However, both of them do the same thing. Is there something I can do to make the Reboot in DOS button actually do it? (I can always just wait and hit 'd' at the right time, but apparently there is another way). Robert
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trackball Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:23:07 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@apollo10.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961104091411.20401A-100000@apollo10.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to try out a trackball (I'm hoping it will be somewhat more ergonomic than my mouse--at least a change of pace for my wrist). I'm currently using the 'Serial Mouse', 'ISA/EISA Bus Support', and 'On-Board Serial Port' drivers that came on the NS 3.3 CD. I'm looking for advice on which trackball/'other pointing device' people have tried and liked. Also, what drivers do I need to add/change? The only device NeXT lists under the 'Serial Pointing Device' driver is the Logitech Trackman. Will most others also work? Thanks. Robert
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: File extensions Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 08:59:04 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@apollo10.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961104085536.20392A-100000@apollo10.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I downloaded Movie3.0 from the next site and tried it out. One type of "movie" that the app recognizes is .txt files (I have no idea why). Now, all my txt files are linked to the Movie app. How do I change them back so the icon and association are back to the way they should be? Thanks. Rob
From: Matt Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bad NIS information Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:34:01 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <327E3719.7967@delphi.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Help! I seriously (?) MUNGed (tm) (Munged Until No Good) my Turbo NeXT Station (ADB, 32MB ram, NS 3.0 [anyone want to donate 3.3 ;-)]) Last night they turned on the ethernet in my dorm. After plugging my slab into the wall I ran SimpleNetworkStarup.app and set my ip addr and gateway. After rebooting, the slab seemed to see the network, and it did launch a few daemons i hadn't seen before. I tried telnetting to a host here on campus by name (as opposed to numeric ip) and got a "host not found". Aha! i thought to myself, i forgot to fill in the nameserver. Like a moron (can you tell i'm new to network administration and NeXTs in general?), i set the NIS domain server field to our nameserver. Now when the slab boots, it hangs, looking for the NIS server. wow, sorry to be so long, i'm trying to be detailed. 1. i think if i use the rom monitor and reboot in single user mode i can change (erase) the buggy NIS information. what file does it reside in? 2. anybody have any other solutions? help? advice? i'm RTFM all day today, too. 3. Here's what it looks like during bootup: -ROM STUFF- [the date and time are displayed] Checking disks /dev/rd0a: file system clean, skipping check Faking root mount entries Configuring ethernet to 192.8.8.8 (<- this is bogus, but i have the correct one in there) Using default bradcast address Config name to localhost (<- again bogus, i set the hostname) /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys, editors /tmp /Net Starting early daemons: syslogd Setting NIS domainname to: 192.8.5.2 (<- this is the crappy information) Staring RPC and netwrok services: nmserver portmap addnet default: gateway 192.2.2.2 netinfo ypbind lookup_d network_init [date] localhost net msg server[58]: yp: server not responding for domain "192.8.8.8", still trying yp: server not responding for domain "192.8.8.8", still trying yp: server not responding for domain "192.8.8.8", still trying yp: server not responding for domain "192.8.8.8", still trying yp: server not responding for domain "192.8.8.8", still trying yp: server not responding for domain "192.8.8.8", still trying [you get the idea, very frustrating] thanks in advance. email or newspost ok. matt.
From: Dbustrin@sait386.morgan.com (Craig Bustrin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mixed Network Printing problem Date: 4 Nov 1996 19:42:04 GMT Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY Message-ID: <55lguc$39b@sanews1.morgan.com> Hi all - I am, as far as I can tell, the only Next box (Turbocolor, 3.3) on the Morgan Stanley network. Because it's an un-supported system, I'm learning lots of sysadmin. ;-) I've got a minor, but annoying, problem. I print over the net to an HP4Mx 600dpi PS printer. Everything works fine, except that when I try to print a document which has an unusual font (Sabon is my fave), the output from the printer defaults to Courier. However, if I save the document as "Postscript, Chosen Printer/Include Fonts," it will print just fine from the command line: lpr -Psap64 filename. Does anyone know how to get the HP printer to print correctly from the Print Panel? It would be a great help. (FYI, the Print Panel has the notation: "Printer description file not available." Is there a way to make it available? Is this even the problem?) Cheers, Craig+
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IP Filtering/Masquerading possible under NS 3.3? Date: 4 Nov 1996 12:55:11 -0600 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Message-ID: <55le6f$i6u@plains.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit is there anyway to do ip filtering, or ip masquerading or whatever under NEXTSTEP 3.3? My linux machine has ip masquerading, but i was hoping to be able to get nextstep to do something similar. or is there any kind of commercial package for providing a transparent firewall? i'd prefer something that's free, with available source. but if i absolutely have to, i just might buy something to allow this. thanks andy -- ------------------ Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT or MIME mail OK ------------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://space.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------ awang@plains.nodak.edu -------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Compiling Samba on NS3.3... getting link errors Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: news@interactive.net (System Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E0DA6D.rM@interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 22:23:01 GMT Has anyone succesfully built Samba on NextStep 3.3? I'm having problems due to link errors, and would appreciate some help. Email, please. Matt -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: Stephen Travis Pope <stp@create.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with NetInfo--some clients think they're stand-alone Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 14:29:36 -0800 Organization: CREATE: Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology, UCSB Message-ID: <327E6E50.34C5@create.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, We have 6 black machines here (a mix of cubes and slabs) and a couple of them recently started refusing to be polite NetInfo clients--they'll only boot as "stand-alone" machines. (The option for acting as a client is grey'ed out in the simple config application.) Is this a known problem for which a cure has been published? ...any reply appreciated... stp ___Stephen Travis Pope, Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology ___(CREATE), Dept. of Music, U. of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) ___Editor, Computer Music Journal (CMJ), MIT Press ___stp@create.ucsb.edu http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp/
From: Stephen Travis Pope <stp@create.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTs and YP Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 14:33:26 -0800 Organization: CREATE: Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology, UCSB Message-ID: <327E6F36.72FC@create.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, We have a mix of NeXT and Sun hardware here. Is there a well-known and simple way of making the NeXT machines be clients of Sun's yellow pages (like NetInfo)? ...any reply appreciated... stp ___Stephen Travis Pope, Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology ___(CREATE), Dept. of Music, U. of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) ___Editor, Computer Music Journal (CMJ), MIT Press ___stp@create.ucsb.edu http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp/
From: t.joerg@uni-bonn.de (Torsten Joerg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo-Problem (was: Re: 3.3 install Questions: how to install patch, etc) Date: 4 Nov 1996 21:16:14 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <55lmeu$b1h@gandalf.uni-bonn.de> References: <199611040501.AAA02523@nerc3.nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc3.nerc.com In <199611040501.AAA02523@nerc3.nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: [...] > > Anytime I start UserManager.app (as root!) I get this message: > > can't contact NetInfo server for local domain > > and it quits. I assume I've changed something, but I don't know what. > > Thanks > > TjL > Where do you get that error message?? We might have the same kind of problem: - UserManager.app quits directly after startup (no message-panel nor output on console) BTW: SNS does the same... - our tiny Netinfo-Network (2 OS4.0 Intel-machines) got corrupted today. It cannot find its Netinfo-Server any more.... Torsten Jörg
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:45:33 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961029183636.21528C-100000@kira> References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> <1996Oct29.100019.25530@roper.uwyo.edu> <555i6f$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Rudd <jrudd@cygnus.com> cc: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu In-Reply-To: <555i6f$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > 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: Do_not_edit that file > 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 You should get TickleServices, that has an unarchive feature that will do this for you. > I can't tell you how many times I lost HUGE downloads because Opener was > stupid) You should never have lost anything, it should have been in /tmp/OmniWeb (if you used OmniWeb -- otherwise I don't know why/how it would have been lost) 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: Randy Nelson <randyn@jorsm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Restoring boot prompt Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 23:06:57 +0000 Organization: Structured Network Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <327E7711.66D0@jorsm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What is the command to restore the boot prompt program? Once I installed 95 on my windows partition, it no longer prompted for which partition to boot to. -- Randy Nelson mailto:randyn@jorsm.com Senior Systems Engineer (NeXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com
From: mcneely@mcneely.physics.brandeis.edu (Matthew McNeely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail question Date: 4 Nov 1996 23:55:28 GMT Organization: Brandeis University Message-ID: <55lvpg$kgc@lex.zippo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I am trying to get the mail service up and running on an intel based machine I ahve installed Nextstep 3.0 on a pentium 133 that is connected to an eithernet connection that goes to a t1 line and have been trying to get the mail service up and running I can get mail to send without a problem but, when a mail message is set to the next it comes back saying that the serice is unavailable does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I am trying to set the nextstep machine up to do stand alone mail and not have to go through a pop server or anything like that is there anything special that I need to do? or am I missing something here? Thanks in advance, Matt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: The "root" of my problems... From: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) Message-ID: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> Date: 5 Nov 96 04:27:55 GMT One of the most frustrating things about working under NeXTSTEP (or any other UNIX platform, I assume) is the fact that if you really want to get anything done on the system, you need to be "root." To install software, you need to have root access. To move files around the file system, you need to have root access. I can do quite a bit of this using "su" from a Terminal window or using Open Sesame, but there are still quite a few times during the day when I have to get out of everything I'm doing, log out as myself, log back in as root, install/move/configure/etc to my hearts content, and then log back out as root, and log back in as myself. Perhaps I'm spoiled but that's just too darn annoying. So, what are my other options? Use the root account as my default account? Many would say that was dangerous (there's always the chance I'll do something stupid and do a lot of damage from my priveleged account) and I'd hate having my e-mail address be: root@whatever.com. Can I rename the root account or delete it and change my UID to 0? Can I just chown everything on the filesystem so that I own it? Or is that just asking for trouble? Any suggestions? How have you folks balanced your need to manage your NeXT box while being a mere mortal?
From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with NetInfo--some clients think they're stand-alone Date: 5 Nov 1996 12:12:49 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <55nb01$2be@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <327E6E50.34C5@create.ucsb.edu> Cc: stp@create.ucsb.edu Stephen Travis Pope wrote in comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin: > > > Hello, > > We have 6 black machines here (a mix of cubes and slabs) and a couple > of them recently started refusing to be polite NetInfo > clients--they'll only boot as "stand-alone" machines. (The option for > acting as a client is grey'ed out in the simple config application.) > Is this a known problem for which a cure has been published? > > ...any reply appreciated... > SNS ist a known problem ... Have you made any changes to the net (routers etc.), the NetInfo- Server or any of the clients? Ensure that there is the correct ethernet address set in the NetInfo configuration domain for each client. Each client must be in one (sub)net and all clients must have an broadcasthost-entry in their local domain with the property "serves" and the value "../network". CIAO Volker PS: After first use of SNS, please use only NetInfoManager.app for making any changes. -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: File extensions Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:49:08 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961105044623.7761D-100000@kira> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961104085536.20392A-100000@apollo10.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961104085536.20392A-100000@apollo10.Stanford.EDU> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com select a .txt file and do 'command key + 3 key' from the WM that should show you Edit.app as an alternative TjL On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 08:59:04 -0800 > From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: File extensions > > I downloaded Movie3.0 from the next site and tried it out. One type of > "movie" that the app recognizes is .txt files (I have no idea why). Now, > all my txt files are linked to the Movie app. How do I change them back > so the icon and association are back to the way they should be? > > Thanks. > > Rob > > > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: The "root" of my problems... Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:55:21 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961105045348.7761E-100000@kira> References: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Shawn Lynn <grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com don't chage your UID to 0 don't login as root try getting and installing: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/asroot.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/asroot.tar.gz which is easier than 'su' ing all the time. probably not all you wanted... it would be nice if you could start another WM session as root, but it doesn't work (I've tried it, don't suggest it ;-) TjL On 5 Nov 1996, Shawn Lynn wrote: > Date: 5 Nov 96 04:27:55 GMT > From: Shawn Lynn <grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: The "root" of my problems... > > One of the most frustrating things about working under NeXTSTEP (or any other UNIX > platform, I assume) is the fact that if you really want to get anything done on the system, > you need to be "root." To install software, you need to have root access. To move files > around the file system, you need to have root access. > > I can do quite a bit of this using "su" from a Terminal window or using Open Sesame, but > there are still quite a few times during the day when I have to get out of everything I'm > doing, log out as myself, log back in as root, install/move/configure/etc to my hearts > content, and then log back out as root, and log back in as myself. > > Perhaps I'm spoiled but that's just too darn annoying. So, what are my other options? > > Use the root account as my default account? Many would say that was dangerous (there's > always the chance I'll do something stupid and do a lot of damage from my priveleged > account) and I'd hate having my e-mail address be: root@whatever.com. > > Can I rename the root account or delete it and change my UID to 0? Can I just chown > everything on the filesystem so that I own it? Or is that just asking for trouble? > > Any suggestions? How have you folks balanced your need to manage your NeXT box while being > a mere mortal? > >
From: Robert F Tobler <rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: The "root" of my problems... Date: 5 Nov 1996 13:16:55 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <55neo7$dvl@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) wrote: > Any suggestions? How have you folks balanced your need to manage your NeXT > box while being a mere mortal? I do NOT login as root all the time. There are however a few things that make installing software more convenient: - mirror the structure of /NextApps and /NextLibrary in /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary and for private applications in ~/Apps ~/Library All NextStep applications will treat the paths in these three pairs of directories in the same manner. - make yourself a member of group wheel if you install standard unix software (or GNU software) you can always compile without being root, and when everything is compiled, you issue the command 'su' (only works if you are a member of group wheel) and then you can often use 'make install' to place the software in the default destination (mostly /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man, usw. - always install unix (GNU) software under /usr/local For this to work transparently with man pages as well, you can create the following link structure as for /usr/man: /usr/local/man is a link to /LocalLibrary/Documentation/ManPages (the same way as /usr/man is a link to /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages) For this you also need to set the environment variable MANPATH: .profile (sh): .zshenv (zsh): export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man .login (csh,tcsh): setenv MANPATH /usr/local/man:/usr/man And if you want Cmd-Shift-M in Edit to work on /usr/local/man as well, you should also edit /NextApps/Edit.app/English.lproj/UI.strings (or for whatever Language you use: French.lproj,German.lproj, ...) and change: "MAN_COMMAND" = "man %s | editFilter"; to: "MAN_COMMAND" = "man -M /usr/local/man:/usr/man %s | editFilter"; - dwrite System NXCommandKeys "Open As Root,ø" The last character in the previous line (before the double quote) is an Alt-O. You can enter system wide NXCommandKeys using the Preferences application (the Menu panel). Hint: you can also create NXCommand keys specific to one application by a simple dwrite, just change 'System' in the above dwrite to the name of the applcation. with this dwrite you can use Cmd-Alt-O for open as root (Sesame) if you have selected a file in workspace. This is convenient for editing config files (e.g. click /etc/shells, Cmd-Alt-O, enter the root passwd, and Edit will launch as root with that file. If you need to edit additional files just command-drag them on the 'root-Edit' icon.) and also for installing packages (click *.pkg, Cmd-Alt-O, enter root passwd, and you can install wherever you like). These are some aspacts of the setup I use on my machine(s). I also have a question to the NeXTstep community: Is there somewhere a repository of tips and tricks for the administration of a Nextstep system and for convenient use of Nextstep? I'd be interested in additional information of the kind I offered above. Thanks in advance for any pointers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: farley@tds-gn.lmco.com (Patrick Farley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost the root password Date: 5 Nov 1996 13:04:46 GMT Organization: Loral Defense Systems East Sender: farley@sharpei (Patrick Farley) Distribution: world Message-ID: <55ne1e$sc5@news.tds-gn.lmco.com> Hello folks, I've recently been tasked with reconfiguring several of our NextStep PC's (Intel Based). The challenge of this is that no one knows the root password. I can get to single user mode know problem, but I can't simply do a passwd or edit the passwd file. Any suggestions on changing the root passwd? -Patrick
From: AMark@ncmi-ny.com (Allen Mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Restoring boot prompt Date: 5 Nov 1996 15:19:51 GMT Organization: NationBanc Capital Markets,Inc.(NY) Message-ID: <55nlun$i8@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> References: <327E7711.66D0@jorsm.com> From NeXT: NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors NEXTSTEP and Windows95 Dual Boot If you install NEXTSTEP after installing Windows95, you would have the NEXTSTEP boot prompt 'Press n for NEXTSTEP, d for DOS' and have the dual-boot option. However, if you install Windows95 after installing NEXTSTEP, you would no longer have the NEXTSTEP boot prompt and can only boot into Windows95 because installing Windows95 overwrites the boot sector of the hard drive. Here are the steps to fix this problem: 1. Boot into Windows95. 2. Launch a DOS shell and type fdisk. 3. Set the NEXTSTEP partition (non-DOS partition) to be the active partition. 4. Reboot the system; the system now will boot into NEXTSTEP. 5. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a If you're using an IDE disk, substitute /dev/rhd0a for /dev/rsd0a. 6. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setNeXTActive If you're using an IDE disk, substitute /dev/rhd0h for /dev/rsd0h. Note: You must execute this command as root. Incorrectly typing this command can have serious repercussions. Use caution when logged in as root. Note: With fdisk one needs to specify the raw device /dev/r*d0h, not /dev/r*d0a. Allen ----------------------------------------------------- Allen Mark email:amark@ncmi-ny.com ----------------------------------------------------- Randy Nelson <randyn@jorsm.com> writes > What is the command to restore the boot prompt program? Once I > installed 95 on my windows partition, it no longer prompted > for which partition to boot to. > > -- > Randy Nelson > mailto:randyn@jorsm.com > Senior Systems Engineer (NeXTSTEP Developer) > NationsBanc--CRT > randyn@crt.com
From: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@fichte.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: The "root" of my problems... Date: 05 Nov 1996 15:43:12 +0100 Organization: MPI biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, DE Message-ID: <we6www0y54v.fsf@Fichte.mpibpc.gwdg.de> References: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) writes: > One of the most frustrating things about working under NeXTSTEP (or > any other UNIX platform, I assume) is the fact that if you really > want to get anything done on the system, you need to be "root." To > install software, you need to have root access. To move files > around the file system, you need to have root access. Install software: You don't need root access to install software, if you can write to /LocalApps (say make it open for group wheel or staff). I had the perms on /Local* set to allow *.staff to write. Anyway, if setuid files are required OpenSesame opens Installer. Move files around: I don't know which files you want to move. Either you have created these files (installed something), or it's a multiuser system (the I think, it's a good idea, you cannot move files around). It's a _really_ good idea, you cannot accidently rm -rf /etc, or put /private in the recycler... I have not been forced to use the root account for a while (really forced to _login _as root) You can start the Installer.app using OpenSesame, you can install commandline tools using su or sudo and that's nearly all on a properly configured system. > Perhaps I'm spoiled but that's just too darn annoying. So, what > are my other options? I can't follow, sorry... > Use the root account as my default account? Many would say that > was dangerous (there's always the chance I'll do something stupid > and do a lot of damage from my priveleged account) and I'd hate > having my e-mail address be: root@whatever.com. > Can I rename the root account or delete it and change my UID to 0? > Can I just chown everything on the filesystem so that I own it? Or > is that just asking for trouble? Anything that would give your account the uid 0, would nearly make it a DOS machine from the security point of view. I'd never dare to. Ciao, Stephan -- Task: System Administration Unix (HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD) Email: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Mail: Abt. 081, MPI bpC, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 201 1 454
From: scott@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: The "root" of my problems... Date: 5 Nov 96 09:15:38 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.96Nov5091538@slave.one.net> References: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> In-reply-to: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com's message of 5 Nov 96 04:27:55 GMT In article <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com>, grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) writes: One of the most frustrating things about working under NeXTSTEP (or any other UNIX platform, I assume) is the fact that if you really want to get anything done on the system, you need to be "root." To install software, you need to have root access. To move files around the file system, you need to have root access. I can do quite a bit of this using "su" from a Terminal window or using Open Sesame, but there are still quite a few times during the day when I have to get out of everything I'm doing, log out as myself, log back in as root, install/move/configure/etc to my hearts content, and then log back out as root, and log back in as myself. Perhaps I'm spoiled but that's just too darn annoying. So, what are my other options? Uh, quit using root so often? Realistically, unless you are on a software installation spree or administering a network, you shouldn't have to su root more than once a week or so, perhaps in spurts. When you're installing a newserver or something, you might su root ten or twenty times that day! But in the day-to-day, static operation of your system, you shouldn't have to. Case in point, ppp. Since it's networking software, it really does have to run as root, since it needs to interact with the kernel. But you should have the appropriate setuid-root commands available for bringing your link up and taking it down, so you don't need root for that. Most other things should be set up this way, too. As much as possible, routine events should be automated once and ignored so long as they work. _Don't_ login as root for regular work. You _will_ burn yourself badly. And sending news and email as root@host.domain may be a tipoff for people to try to hack your system. [After all, if you routinely are logged in as root, it's probably safe to assume you're a neophyte administrator on that system :-).] 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
From: chris@vespucci.iquest.com (Chris Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prebuilt Python binaries? Date: 5 Nov 1996 11:52:06 -0600 Organization: interQuest Online Services -- Huntsville, AL Distribution: world Message-ID: <55nus6$lvl@vespucci.iquest.com> Does anyone have prebuilt python binaries dists? For NS3.2 and python version 1.2 or newer. thanks, chris -- "If unix were easy, Microsoft would have made a version by now." - Me (NeXTmail accepted) FreeBSD/NeXTstep/OSF/VSTa/Ultrix/SunOS/ URLs: www.nsa.org www.unix.org Linux/Unixware/Sco/Solaris/MicrosoftOS*
From: pb141@columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: where is Sendmail 8.8.2? Date: 5 Nov 1996 18:36:30 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <55o1fe$khi@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> I saw a mention here a while back about the latest sendmail but haven't found a copy on the archives. Where can I find sendmail 8.8.2 to download? -- _________________________________________ Paul Buckley 515 W 59th St., Apt. 22K New York, NY 10019 E-mail: pb141@columbia.edu Tel/Fax: 212-333-3382 _________________________________________ I'm like a dog with a bone; I gnaw on it until I understand the dynamics. Helen Caldicot, NPR interview
From: Karen Gray Edwards <edwards@asanet.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: 11x17/1800 dpi printer? Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 13:42:10 -0800 Organization: American Sociological Association Message-ID: <327FB4B2.40D4@asanet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am working on NeXTStep 3.3 on black hardware. When I initially purchased the system, a Newgen 1200PST printer was somehow installed. That printer is dead. I desperately need to hook up a printer with 11x17 capabilities, minimum 1200dpi (preferable 1800dpi). We have been trying to connect a LaserMaster Unity 1800XLO, without success. Is anyone successfully working on a similar system with a 11x17 high resolution printer connected to it? If so, please let me know ASAP. I'm in dire straits here . . . PLEASE E-MAIL ME DIRECTLY AT edwards@asanet.org If I successfully solve this, I will definitely post my results! Thanks. Karen Gray Edwards Director of Publications American Sociological Association
From: Str8.Man@Nice.Folks.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <55k1sa$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> Control: cancel <55k1sa$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 19:01:36 +1 Organization: Sprynet News Service Message-ID: <borra.55k1sa$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> References: <55k1sa$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hw@atlantic.fb12.tu-berlin.de. The Breidbart index was 676. See report "LOCATOR" in news.admin.net-abuse.announce. Subject was: @@@>> HOT COLLEGE BI-MALES!!! >PRIVATE< 1-900-825-6000 xt 9794.
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Man pages getting harder to figure out! Date: 5 Nov 1996 20:07:49 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-17.usc.edu Message-ID: <55o6ql$o4b@usc.edu> The newer man pages seem formatted differently and it is hard to figure out what to do. I got the recent groff, but what that has to do with my Librarian.app I've no idea. Specifically, sendmail 8.8.* man pages are made differently, but I think I've noticed it with other man pages. groff was supposed to be the solution, but cannot actually format the page to be readable with Librarian. Anyone have a solution? -- 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: jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adobe Type 1 fonts for NeXT. Date: 5 Nov 1996 23:13:33 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Message-ID: <55ohmt$8gu@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <55ailg$e0s@Vir.com> NNTP-Posting-User: jabi In-Reply-To: <55ailg$e0s@Vir.com> URL: http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/~wjabi/ On 10/31/96, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: >Hello all, > > I was considering getting some more fonts for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep >from Adobe. Can I use these fonts on NeXTSTEP? Are there any problems in >getting them to work? > > >Thank you, >stef > > I have had good luck purchasing vanilla Adobe Fonts for Macintosh and converting them to NeXTStep. There is an old recipe writeup that I dug up from the usual next archives and it worked. I now can use Trajan and Charlemagne fonts on NeXTSTEP very cool! :-) -- Wassim M. Jabi, Assistant Professor Department of Architecture - 312B Hayes Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14214-3087 Tel: +1 716.829.3485 Ext. 323 Fax: +1 716.829.3256 wjabi@arch.buffalo.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail)
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: How to setup PPP connection under OPENSTEP?? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:29:12 GMT Organization: j%nki~w€RJ3M-26XPLZ8L-BFGD44CT-1EA6BC82 Message-ID: <55oma6$jc8@netnews.hinet.net> Hello, I follow the steps show on the /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/PPP.rtf to setup the PPP connection. After I setup the ppp_reloc, it says to use kermit to test the PPP link; "If you are planning on using kermit, Stephane I. Matis <petergun@vectrex.login.qc.ca>, has supplied this excellent definition that you may place inside your .kermrc file to help with PPP testing: set term byte 8 # define pppd define pppd - !pppd < \v(line) > \v(line) defaultroute To use this, add the above to your ~/.kermrc file. Then start kermit. After you have started the remote PPP server by hand, return back to your local kermit prompt and execute the command 'do pppd'. In this particular circumstance, you will not need to exit from kermit." The question is, where is this .kermrc and ~/.kermrc file under OPENSTEP? Are they the same file? Best Regards, Batmon
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost the root password Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:46:59 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961105174449.26789A-100000@kira> References: <55ne1e$sc5@news.tds-gn.lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: farley@tds-gn.lmco.com In-Reply-To: <55ne1e$sc5@news.tds-gn.lmco.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Patrick, fix your Reply-To line! if you can get to single user mode "no" problem, use sh /etc/rc & that will start netinfo then use 'nu -m' on the root account, or 'passwd root' TjL On 5 Nov 1996, Patrick Farley wrote: > Date: 5 Nov 1996 13:04:46 GMT > From: Patrick Farley <farley@tds-gn.lmco.com> > Reply-To: $LOGNAME@reston.unisysgsg.com > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Lost the root password > > Hello folks, > > I've recently been tasked with reconfiguring several > of our NextStep PC's (Intel Based). The challenge of this > is that no one knows the root password. I can get to single > user mode know problem, but I can't simply do a passwd or > edit the passwd file. Any suggestions on changing the root > passwd? > > -Patrick > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: The "root" of my problems... Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:47:24 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961105110751.14333A-100000@kira> References: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> <55neo7$dvl@news.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Robert F Tobler <rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <55neo7$dvl@news.tuwien.ac.at> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > I also have a question to the NeXTstep community: Is there somewhere > a repository of tips and tricks for the administration of a Nextstep > system and for convenient use of Nextstep? I use 'asroot' with 'pico' to edit files as root. Actually I have a little shell script: #!/bin/sh for i in $* do /usr/local/bin/pico-2-9 $i && \ echo "Edited file $i from `pwd` at `date`" > ~/.pico.log done exit 0 I save that script as 'pico' and whenever I call 'pico' it calls 'pico-2-9' (which is the real pico binary) to edit the file, and when I am done it logs the edit in a file ~/.pico.log. This is very handy when you make your machine unbootable, because you have a record of what files you most recently edited. As I mentioned before, asroot is handy: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/asroot.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/asroot.tar.gz it allows anyone in 'wheel' to run commands as root. Install it in ~/Unix/bin rather than globally. I don't know how handy it might be, but you might want to get the file(s) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/tricks for some GUI type tricks. Not exactly on par with this particular topic, but might give you some ideas. also http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/dwrites has some obscure dwrites in it that may make life in general a little nicer, but not necessarily exactly on topic either. just thought I'd mention it... TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Courier Everything on a Black CUBE with NS 3.2 Date: 6 Nov 1996 04:32:50 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <55p4di$fs0@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961028121752.15195C-100000@kira> <1996Oct30.200731.19406@rdbois.uucp> <01bbc857$5feb80c0$8785eea5@sroller> <55fa4r$6cc@alice.turbocat.de> I don't get it.. what do you have against USR? Your quote only addresses the indeed sickening Rockwell pick-a-random-bug modem implementations. dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) wrote: >I would not rely on rockwell and USR. > >Here is a quote of <m0vHFYV-000A7ZC@greenie.muc.de> from gert@greenie.muc.de >(Gert Doering) >------------- >Now this is easy: every batch of Rockwell modems has different flaws. >The "end-manufacturer" can enable/disable certain options, modify the >firmware, etc., so they all are "slightly different". > >But nevertheless they all suck. > >gert >------------- -- 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 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzJ1JCkAAAEEALzCoYhlxTLI4DID5KpQINF8KM4PUnrZxoL2aRRFAQNX9v9c 8uBySUqVDxfyylB6M/ptUezWIs6DLjz6b8jr8MX40vQf2jU2db6oMDh2axOeXlg2 KCSHryZ9kthnnXOVt0kHLN9XjM9DvwKU28RzvT7umEVmbHFyp64kVG961wkZAAUR tCVDaHJpc3RpYW4gS3VodHogPGt1aHR6QGl4Lm5ldGNvbS5jb20+iQCVAwUQMnUk Ka4kVG961wkZAQFztgP+IgHBCz/d1Sc10Qg0Wmu4KnhNb4E4KsPh96V/olwbQS+e frdWMxSHzX8hGD1p/KbuwlNRrDktmZgVc+n89FGEeGcq3z9WK3o22JsyjJTlzobY qJIZ5bdOx4dOimQ83ha9zjF+bRnw92t1jC/GJ+LRyOEVMzD5TtL7AMdODO8fNC8= =sRe0 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
From: jeffh@dnai.com (Jeff Hoekman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: cmsg cancel <jeffh-0411960422520001@dynamic-213.dnai.com> Control: cancel <jeffh-0411960422520001@dynamic-213.dnai.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:43:54 -0800 Organization: DNAI ( Direct Network Access ) Message-ID: <jeffh-0611961043540001@d-79.dnai.com> cancel <jeffh-0411960422520001@dynamic-213.dnai.com>
From: andrew@inxpress.net (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GateKeeper and PPP Connection? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 02:50:53 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <andrew-0611960250530001@andrew.inxpress.net> Hi, I am using a GateKeeper and Throughport PPP 2.2 version for my Internet connection. The problem I am having right now is that everytime I unlink my PPP connection through the "Unlink" command from the GateKeeper and want to make a PPP connection again, I have to logout from my account and login as root then empty the contents of my "ppp-2.2.log" file in the usr/adm/ directory. Otherwise, I won't be able to re-establish the PPP connection either from my user or root accounts, since the OS thinks that the PPP is still connected, while actually the modem connection has been disconnected. My question is that does anyone know the ways to make PPP connection more convenient than the above method? In other words, are there solutions for making PPP connection from my user account without having to logout from my user account, login as root and delete the "ppp2.2.log" file? I think the important key here is to be able to delete the "ppp2.2.log" file from any accounts. Does anyone have pointers how to do this? Thanks in advance. Regards, Andrew.
From: Dbustrin@sait386.morgan.com (Craig Bustrin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Solution to postscript printing problem on mixed network Date: 6 Nov 1996 14:52:59 GMT Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY Message-ID: <55q8ob$9vj@sanews1.morgan.com> Hi all - You may recall that I was having printer problems: > I print over the net to an HP4Mx 600dpi PS printer. Everything works fine, except that when I try to print a document which has an unusual font (Sabon is my fave), the output from the printer defaults to Courier. However, if I save the document as "Postscript, Chosen Printer/Include Fonts," it will print just fine from the command line: lpr -Psap64 filename. Got any ideas about how to get things to print correctly from the Print panel? < The solution was simple. Many thanks to Izumi Ohzawa for the answer: _____________ In the printer entry in NetInfo, you need to insert a property "_nxfinalform" (with no value). Then, everything will automagically work without first saving to file. It's documented somewhere, use DL or do a search in NextAnswers at www.next.com. _____________ I tried it and it works beautifully. Cheers, Craig+
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adobe Type 1 fonts for NeXT. Date: 6 Nov 1996 16:38:19 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <55qetr$t2@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <55ailg$e0s@Vir.com> <55ohmt$8gu@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> Cc: jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu In <55ohmt$8gu@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote: > On 10/31/96, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > >Hello all, > > > > I was considering getting some more fonts for > NeXTSTEP/OpenStep > >from Adobe. Can I use these fonts on NeXTSTEP? Are there any problems > in > >getting them to work? > > > > > >Thank you, > >stef > > > > > > I have had good luck purchasing vanilla Adobe Fonts > for Macintosh and converting them to NeXTStep. > There is an old recipe writeup that I dug up from the > usual next archives and it worked. > > I now can use Trajan and Charlemagne fonts on NeXTSTEP > very cool! :-) > You can use my freeware program 'FontConvert 1.3' for this purpose (If the licence agreement of your font vendor allows!). It is available on the usual archives and will convert Macintosh fonts, Windows fonts (PFB), some TrueType and plain PFA format fonts to the NeXTSTEP 'font' format. If you find it useful, feel free to send me a bottle of whiskey (single highland malt prefered). :-) -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: where is Sendmail 8.8.2? Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:32:00 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961106092959.27598C-100000@kira> References: <55o1fe$khi@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: pb141@columbia.edu In-Reply-To: <55o1fe$khi@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > > I saw a mention here a while back about the latest sendmail but > haven't found a copy on the archives. Where can I find sendmail 8.8.2 > to download? it was on PEAK but no longer seems to be there -- trust me I've looked everywhere. I've tried emailing Robert LaFerla a few times, but haven't heard back from him. Probably busy with his real job (of all the nerve ;-) TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How to setup PPP connection under OPENSTEP?? Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:35:25 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961106093446.27598D-100000@kira> References: <55oma6$jc8@netnews.hinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mon-Sen Yang <batmon@abico.com.tw> In-Reply-To: <55oma6$jc8@netnews.hinet.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com the .kermrc and ~/.kermrc file are the same thing they should be in the home directory of the user who is invoking kermit. TjL On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Mon-Sen Yang wrote: > Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:29:12 GMT > From: Mon-Sen Yang <batmon@abico.com.tw> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Help: How to setup PPP connection under OPENSTEP?? > > Hello, > > I follow the steps show on the > /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/PPP.rtf to setup the > PPP connection. After I setup the ppp_reloc, it says to use kermit to > test the PPP link; > > "If you are planning on using kermit, Stephane I. Matis > <petergun@vectrex.login.qc.ca>, has supplied this excellent definition > that you may place inside your .kermrc file to help with PPP testing: > > set term byte 8 > > # define pppd > define pppd - > !pppd < \v(line) > \v(line) defaultroute > > To use this, add the above to your ~/.kermrc file. Then start kermit. > After you have started the remote PPP server by hand, return back to > your local kermit prompt and execute the command 'do pppd'. In this > particular circumstance, you will not need to exit from kermit." > > The question is, where is this .kermrc and ~/.kermrc file under > OPENSTEP? Are they the same file? > > > Best Regards, > > > Batmon > > > > > >
From: Ludger Solbach <solbach@tu-harburg.d400.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't find $LBL Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 18:56:14 +0100 Organization: TU Hamburg-Harburg Message-ID: <3280D13E.50F50BAF@tu-harburg.d400.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After trying to set boot graphics to "no" using Configure.app I get the message "Can't find $LBL", no matter what I enter at the boot prompt. What does this message mean and how can I make the machine boot again? Thanks for your help, Ludger -- ----------- Ludger Solbach, Distributed Systems Department ----------- | Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany | | e-mail: Solbach@TU-Harburg.d400.De, Tel.: +49-40-7718-3357 | --------------- http://www.ti6.tu-harburg.de/~ti6ls/ -----------------
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: It's time for "Guess That Problem"! Date: 6 Nov 1996 19:22:53 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-35.usc.edu Message-ID: <55qoid$dra@usc.edu> Pop Quiz - can you guess what my problem is? Clues: 1) Trying to startup a 'talk' session locally or non-locally elicits: You don't exist. Go away. 2) Here's the remarks when I try other things: ssh midnight/Users/fey#: ssh fey Bad host name: fey midnight/Users/fey#: ssh fey@midnight Bad host name: fey@midnight telnet midnight/Users/fey#: telnet fey fey: Unknown host midnight/Users/fey#: telnet fey@midnight fey@midnight: Unknown host 3) When I 'login' to another local user from a shell from my workspace: midnight/Users/fey#: login fey Password: setgroups: Not owner midnight~#: Looks like I'm in but fey's .zshrc doesn't function quite right. 4) The only thing I can think of is that a few weeks ago I changed my and another user's uid. I then did a find and replace of ownership to complete the process. I have no idea what's the problem. *** 5) I also notice that with some cases, adding user with UM.app that there's a strange situation with the "group" part, i.e. on more than one occassion I looked into a user's group membership list in UM and found that tho it's default group was properly listed in the short and long forms, that it wasn't starred or checked in the groups viewer. And a 'nidump groups .' didn't list them. Only after reinstating it through NetInfoMgr would either properly show the right information. 6) Power went down a week ago. Could that have screwed up some files and how would I know which? 7) Here's some relevant sys info: midnight~#: nidump group . wheel:*:0:root,reichman,mailback nogroup:*:-2: daemon:*:1:daemon sys:*:2: bin:*:3: uucp:*:4: kmem:*:5: news:*:6: ingres:*:7: tty:*:8: operator:*:9: staff:*:10:root other:*:20:fey,reichman guest:*:100:guest,reichman qmail:*:2107: nofiles:*:2108: misc,:*:500:reichman,misc midnight~#: nidump hosts . 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost 128.125.253.136 usc.edu 192.5.41.40 tick.usno.navy.mil 192.5.41.41 tock.usno.navy.mil 192.42.172.1 midnight midnight.usc.edu \ midnight.scf.usc.edu \ midnight.chaph.usc.edu \ midnight.scf-fs.usc.edu 128.125.253.183 scf-fs.usc.edu mailhost.usc.edu mailhost MUCH MUCH thanks to the winner who can get 7 for 7! Tho alot of thanks for any out of 7 or even just a couple of pointers..... -- 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: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need help installing new IBM DORS-32160 drive Date: 5 Nov 1996 21:12:27 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <55oajr$2jo@cnn.Princeton.EDU> I just got an IBM DORS-32160 (2.16 gig), for a NextStation Turbo. When I try to format it, using disk, BuildDisk, sdformat ... I get an error: boot block extends beyond front porch Once I solve this problem, do I need a new disktab entry? In the past, I have just connected new disks and formatted them with the workspace format menu command, and never needed to do more. Thanks. tim -- Timothy Van Zandt Email: tvz@princeton.edu Department of Economics WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~tvz Princeton University Voice: (609) 258-4050 Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 Fax: (609) 258-6419
From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Subject: Just try this, it will work Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 18:44:01 GMT Message-ID: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. The Internet has grown tremendously. It doubles in size every 4 months. think about it. You see those 'Make.Money.Fast' posts more and more. That's ... because it WORKS ! So I thought, all those new users might make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides, whats $5.00, I spend more than that in the morning on my way to work on coffee and cigs for the day. So I sent in my money and posted. Everyone was calling it a scam, but there are SO many new users from AOL, Netcom, etc. they will join in and make it work for you. Well, two weeks later, I began recieving bucks in the mail! I couldn't believe it! Not just a little, I mean big bucks! At first only a few hundred dollars, then a week later, a couple of thousand, then BOOM. By the end of the fourth week, I had recieved nearly $47,000.00. It came from all over the world. And every bit of it perfectly legal and on the up and up. I've been able to pay off all my bills and still had enough left over for a nice vacation for me and my family. Not only does it work for me, it works for other folks as well. Markus Valppu says he made $57,883 in four weeks. Dave Manning claims he made $53,664 in the same amount of time. Dan Shepstone says it was only $17,000 for him. Do I know these folks? No, but when I read how they say they did it, it made sense to me. Enough sense that I'm taking a similar chance with $5 of my own bucks. Not a big chance, I admit--but one with incredible potential, because $5 is all anyone ever invests in this system. Period. That's all Markus, Dave, or Dan invested, yet their $5 netted them tens of thousands of dollars each, in a safe, legal, completely legitimate way. Here's how it works in 3 easy steps: STEP 1. Invest your $5 by writing your name and address on five seperate pieces of paper along with the words: "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST." (In this way, you're not just sending a dollar to someone; you're paying for a legitimate service.) Fold a $1 bill, money order, or bank note inside each paper, and mail them by standard U. S. Mail to the following five addresses: 1- Fern Suarez Mallorca 112 Hato Rey, P.R., USA, 00917 2- Philippe 2104 De Mexico Chomedey, Laval Quebec, Canada H7M 3C6 3- Natalie Jansen Lancveldlaan 18 5671 CN Nuenen Holland 4- Chad Collier 2785 Cold Springs Rd. #49 Placerville, CA 95667 5- Steve Boltinghouse 1009 Bird St. Hannibal, MO 63401 STEP 2. Now remove the top name from the list, and move the other names up.This way, #5 becomes #4 and so on. Put your name in as the fifth one on the list. STEP 3. Post the article to at least 250 newsgroups. There are at least 19000 newsgroups at any given moment in time. Try posting to as many newsgroups as you can. Remember the more groups you post to, the more people will see your article and send you cash! STEP 4. You are now in business for yourself, and should start seeing returns within 7 to 14 days! Remember, the Internet is new and huge. There is no way you can lose. Now here is how and why this system works: Out of every block of 250 posts I made, I got back 5 responses. Yes, thats right,only 5. You make $5.00 in cash, not checks or money orders, but real cash with your name at #5. Each additional person who sent you $1.00 now also makes 250 additional postings with your name at #4, 1000 postings. On average then, 50 people will send you $1.00 with your name at #4,....$50.00 in your pocket! Now these 50 new people will make 250 postings each with your name at #3 or 10,000 postings. Average return, 500 people= $500. They make 250 postings each with your name at #2= 100,000 postings=5000 returns at $1.00 each=$5,000.00 in cash! Finally, 5,000 people make 250 postings each with your name at #1 and you get a return of $60,000 before your name drops off the list.And that's only if everyone down the line makes only 250 postings each! Your total income for this one cycle is $55,000. From time to time when you see your name is no longer on the list, you take the latest posting you can find and start all over again. The end result depends on you. You must follow through and repost this article everywhere you can think of. The more postings you make, the more cash ends up in your mailbox. It's too easy and too cheap to pass up!!! So thats it. Pretty simple sounding stuff, huh? But believe me, it works. There are millions of people surfing the net every day, all day, all over the world. And 100,000 new people get on the net every day. You know that, you've seen the stories in the paper. So, my friend, read and follow the simple instructions and play fair. Thats the key, and thats all there is to it. Print this out right now so you can refer back to this article easily. Try to keep an eye on all the postings you made to make sure everyone is playing fairly. You know where your name should be. If you're really not sure or still think this can't be for real, then don't do it. But please print this article and pass it along to someone you know who really needs the bucks, and see what happens. REMEMBER....HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.YOU DON'T NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE THE BUCKS! GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND PLEASE PLAY FAIR AND YOU WILL WIN AND MAKE SOME REAL INSTANT FREE CASH! *** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the bucks to the people already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this and only got about $150 (and that's after two months). Then he sent the 5 bills, people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10,000! TRY IT AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY!!! :o) !!!!!!!!!!
From: gfox@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Gordon Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Newbie can't boot up! Date: 6 Nov 1996 21:39:18 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Message-ID: <55r0i6$r2r@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> I was just given a hand-me-down NeXT -- I believe it's an old NeXTCube w/ a 68030 chip, b/w monitor, MO drive, etc. Anyway, it hangs on boot-up. It appears that it doesn't recognize the SCSI drive at all (when I try to boot it up with "bsd" as the command I get a series of "sc: selection failed" messages), and if I try to boot up from the MO, I get a series of ordinary diagnostic messages and then od1 at odc0 slave 1 SCSI 53C90 Controller, Target y, as sc0 at 0x2014000 and it hangs there -- no further messages, no nothing. I've fooled with it about as much as I have patience -- but as one w/ no prior experience w/ NeXT's, I suspect I could play with this for years and not get it fixed. Does anyone have any advice, or is this machine destined to be a pretty black paperweight?? Thanks. Gordon P.S. Please reply to me directly -- I'm not usually at a machine at which it's easy to read newsgroups. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help! Newbie can't boot up! Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: University of California, San Diego Keywords: I was just given a hand-me-down NeXT -- I believe it's an old NeXTCube w/ a 68030 chip, b/w monitor, MO drive, etc. Anyway, it hangs on boot-up. It appears that it doesn't recognize the SCSI drive at all (when I try to boot it up with "bsd" as the command I get a series of "sc: selection failed" messages), and if I try to boot up from the MO, I get a series of ordinary diagnostic messages and then od1 at odc0 slave 1 SCSI 53C90 Controller, Target y, as sc0 at 0x2014000 and it hangs there -- no further messages, no nothing. I've fooled with it about as much as I have patience -- but as one w/ no prior experience w/ NeXT's, I suspect I could play with this for years and not get it fixed. Does anyone have any advice, or is this machine destined to be a pretty black paperweight?? Thanks. Gordon P.S. Please reply to me directly -- I'm not usually at a machine at which I can conveniently read newsgroups. I was just given a hand-me-down NeXT -- I believe it's an old NeXTCube w/ a 68030 chip, b/w monitor, MO drive, etc. Anyway, it hangs on boot-up. It appears that it doesn't recognize the SCSI drive at all (when I try to boot it up with "bsd" as the command I get a series of "sc: selection failed" messages), and if I try to boot up from the MO, I get a series of ordinary diagnostic messages and then od1 at odc0 slave 1 SCSI 53C90 Controller, Target y, as sc0 at 0x2014000 and it hangs there -- no further messages, no nothing. I've fooled with it about as much as I have patience -- but as one w/ no prior experience w/ NeXT's, I suspect I could play with this for years and not get it fixed. Does anyone have any advice, or is this machine destined to be a pretty black paperweight?? Thanks. Gordon P.S. Please reply to me directly -- I'm not usually at a machine at which it's easy to read newsgroups. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help! Newbie can't boot up! Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: University of California, San Diego Keywords: I was just given a hand-me-down NeXT -- I believe it's an old NeXTCube w/ a 68030 chip, b/w monitor, MO drive, etc. Anyway, it hangs on boot-up. It appears that it doesn't recognize the SCSI drive at all (when I try to boot it up with "bsd" as the command I get a series of "sc: selection failed" messages), and if I try to boot up from the MO, I get a series of ordinary diagnostic messages and then od1 at odc0 slave 1 SCSI 53C90 Controller, Target y, as sc0 at 0x2014000 and it hangs there -- no further messages, no nothing. I've fooled with it about as much as I have patience -- but as one w/ no prior experience w/ NeXT's, I suspect I could play with this for years and not get it fixed. Does anyone have any advice, or is this machine destined to be a pretty black paperweight?? Thanks. Gordon P.S. Please reply to me directly -- gfox@ucsd.edu -- I'm not usually at a machine at which I can conveniently read newsgroups. -- ***************************************************************** Dr. Gordon A. Fox * Dept. of Biol. 0116 * U. of Calif., San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. * La Jolla, CA 92093-0116 * USA Fax: (619) 534-7108 * Voice: (619) 534-4114
From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't find $LBL Date: 6 Nov 1996 21:39:08 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <55r0hs$knq@BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <3280D13E.50F50BAF@tu-harburg.d400.de> Ludger Solbach <solbach@tu-harburg.d400.de> writes > After trying to set boot graphics to "no" using Configure.app I get the > message "Can't find $LBL", no matter what I enter at the boot prompt. > What does this message mean and how can I make the machine boot again? I've gotten this to work multiple times by booting into single user mode from the CD (or disk to CD) and then doing a '/usr/etc/disk -b /dev/rsd?a'. Then just boot normally. Granted the last time I reccommended doing this, it didn't work. Definitely worth a try. 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: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: cmsg cancel <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> Control: cancel <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:12:04 +1 Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: inet Message-ID: <cancel.713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> MMF chain letter spam cancelled by hw@atlantic.fb12.tu-berlin.de . This is part of an ongoing spam with huge Breidbart indices. See my report "S.Boltinghouse" in news.admin.net-abuse.announce or in de.admin.news.net-abuse.announce. Subject was: Just try this, it will work.
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: partitioning a 1gig drive Date: 7 Nov 1996 01:52:05 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Message-ID: <55rfc5$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> Cc: sroller@worldnet.att.net In <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> "Steve Roller" wrote: > > If you create two partitions for NeXT, I would guess that you would > still have the 10 minute wait. > > Steve > > Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> wrote in article > <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com>... > > > > When my NeXT panics, it takes about 10 minutes for 'fsck' to run on > > my 1gig drive. > > > > I am wondering if it would be faster if I partitioned it. Let me try my interpretation of the question, based on a fair amount of experience with different sizes of disks, and various partitioning schemes. Because of the way 'fsck' works, it is not possible to check the root file system in a single pass. The computer is re-booted without 'sync' and the root file system is 'fsck'd again. So if it takes 1.0 unit of time to check your 1.0 GB disk after a panic, and there is only one partition, the total 'fsck' time will be 2.0 units. On the other hand, if the drive is partitioned into a 0.25 GB root partition and 0.75 GB everything else, then only the smaller partition will be 'fsck'd twice, and the total time will be 1.25 units. This is a time saving in the ratio of 5 to 8. Actually, the time saving is greater, because the 'fsck' time for a partition increases more than linearly with the partition size. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sethostid Date: 7 Nov 1996 00:06:18 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <55r95q$hak@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Hi, Anybody has a compiled sethostid for NeXTSTEP? Thank you, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Restoring boot prompt Message-ID: <E0GGws.BrB@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <327E7711.66D0@jorsm.com> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:41:15 GMT In article <327E7711.66D0@jorsm.com> Randy Nelson <randyn@jorsm.com> writes: > What is the command to restore the boot prompt program? Once I > installed 95 on my windows partition, it no longer prompted > for which partition to boot to. > > -- > Randy Nelson > mailto:randyn@jorsm.com > Senior Systems Engineer (NeXTSTEP Developer) > NationsBanc--CRT > randyn@crt.com Hi Randy, try "man disk" at the console and read the man page. Pay attention to the section where the "-b" flag is explained. If this is what you want to do (I think it is), enter (as root) "disk -b /dev/rsd0h" at the console and it should work. Robert. ========================================================================== == Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ========================================================================== ==
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Lost the root password Message-ID: <E0GHEL.BsF@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <55ne1e$sc5@news.tds-gn.lmco.com> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:51:56 GMT In article <55ne1e$sc5@news.tds-gn.lmco.com> farley@tds-gn.lmco.com (Patrick Farley) writes: > Hello folks, > > I've recently been tasked with reconfiguring several > of our NextStep PC's (Intel Based). The challenge of this > is that no one knows the root password. I can get to single > user mode know problem, but I can't simply do a passwd or > edit the passwd file. Any suggestions on changing the root > passwd? > > -Patrick Hi Patrick, get to single user mode and try running the rc script to activate the system drivers etc. Enter "sh /etc/rc &" at the prompt (without the quotes), wait until it has finished and press enter to get a prompt again. Then enter "passwd root" and it should work. After you have set the password, you have to reboot (e.g. halt). Hope this helps, Robert. -- ========================================================================== == Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ========================================================================== ==
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD files and Print panel Date: 7 Nov 1996 01:39:48 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Message-ID: <55rel4$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> Does anyone understand the interaction between the text of a PPD file and the printer setup options that appear in a Print panel? As an example, I have an HP LaserJet 5MP connected to my local network using a Lantronix Ethernet printer controller. I have set up a PPD file, /LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/HP_LaserJet_5MP.ppd, taking the file from ftp.adobe.com. When I click Print to send something to this printer, I am offered a panel of Printer Options, namely Paper Feed, Resolution, Levels of Gray, and Resolution Enhancement. Most of these options are present in the PPD file as "OpenUI" statments. Each of the OpenUI statements in the PPD file is followed by a selection of text, which is presumably PJL commands to send to the printer. There are other "OpenUI" statements in the PPD file, such as Economode, that are not presented to me in the Printer Options panel. There is yet a third class of options, such as Density, for which I think I know the proper PJL, but they are not present in the PPD file. My real question is: what is the mapping between option commands found in the PPD file and Printer Options presented in the GUI panel. Can I add other commands to the PPD file and have them show as user-selectable Printer Options. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: partitioning a 1gig drive Date: 7 Nov 1996 05:01:56 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <55rqg4$uc@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> <55rfc5$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote: > Because of the way 'fsck' works, it is not possible to check the root file > system in a single pass. The computer is re-booted without 'sync' and the > root file system is 'fsck'd again. Hmmm. This hasn't been my experience. Only a single fsck of the root partitions seems to be required on my system after an abnormal shutdown. > So if it takes 1.0 unit of time to check your 1.0 GB disk after a panic, and > there is only one partition, the total 'fsck' time will be 2.0 units. On the > other hand, if the drive is partitioned into a 0.25 GB root partition and > 0.75 GB everything else, then only the smaller partition will be 'fsck'd > twice, and the total time will be 1.25 units. This is a time saving in the > ratio of 5 to 8. Actually, the time saving is greater, because the 'fsck' > time for a partition increases more than linearly with the partition size. This doesn't seem to be what I experience, either :-) After an abnormal shutdown, all file systems that were mounted when the shutdown occurred seem to require checking upon reboot, not just the root file system. This also includes automounted volumes like MO or floppy disks. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: It's time for "Guess That Problem"! Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 17:59:23 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961106175553.26836E-100000@kira> References: <55qoid$dra@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <55qoid$dra@usc.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Total guesses: the "you don't exist" thing used to happen to me a lot. Telnetting to the same host might fix it. you might try adding "localhost" as an alias for your machine. try 'su - NAME' instead of 'login' that should fix their 'setgroups: not owner' thing. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: slow remote login in NS3.3 Date: 7 Nov 1996 05:24:15 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <55rrpv$mrm@news.tamu.edu> We have a few intel nextstep systems networked together with one being a netinfo server (atlantis, Nextstation) and others being netinfo clones. With one of the computers we are having some strange problems. When someone logs in on it with an account whose home directory is on that computer, everything works fine. All the user files are being stored on that computer and the major apps are loaded from the server atlantis. However, when one logs in on this computer with an account whose home directory is not on this computer, but on another nextstep systems, then the computer seems to come to a crawl periodically. I say periodically, because this doesn't always happen, but most of the time. The problem seems to be specifically reading and especially writting to the remote home directory. Loading up programs of the atlantis server is still no problem. If I log in through a command line telnet session, then there are never any problems. Response time seems normal. Only when I actually remote log in through the GUI is there a problem. Other computer are configured the same way as far as I can tell and they don't show this problem. Having a network account, I can log into any other computer and access stuff from my home account relatively fast. At this point I am not really sure where to start to look. I guess it could be a hardware problem (bad ethernet card, ethernet cable, ...) or bad software configuration (Netinfo hangs on waiting for some process?, wrong configuartion, ....) I would really appreciate any suggestions or hints as what could be going on here. Thanks a bunch, 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: andrew@inxpress.net (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help!!! How to recover root account? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 17:33:37 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <andrew-0611961733370001@andrew.inxpress.net> Hi, I lost my root account so I could not login as root. Does anyone know how to recover or recreate my root account manually (single user) or graphically? By the way, I am running NeXTStep 3.3 for Intel machine. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Andrew.
From: martin@rat.se (Martin Wennerberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help!!! How to recover root account? Date: 7 Nov 1996 11:11:20 GMT Organization: Research & Trade AB Distribution: world Message-ID: <55sg4o$6sm@baldwin.rat.se> References: <andrew-0611961733370001@andrew.inxpress.net> Read /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/15_Trouble.rtfd. This is basically how: 1) Boot up in single user mode. 2) Start system services by entering "sh /etc/rc &". 3) Set a new password by entering "passwd root". 4) Reboot. /Martin
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: 30 Oct 1996 15:54:53 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <557tod$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$83u@nntp1.best.com> Denise Howard said: >Opener has changed a great deal since it "first came out" >In fact with Opener 3.3, I've had zero bug reports... And not nearly as many kudos as you deserve, I'll bet. Let me take this chance to say thanks for Opener.app. I've used it for years, and consider it one of the classic NeXTSTEP .apps. I always get a kick when a new NeXT user (I use NeXTs in a graduate lab) asks me how to open some compressed file that he/she's just snarfed in from an ftp or Web site. "Do you have a copy of PKUNZIP on the NeXTs?" they ask. I show them that just double-clicking the file makes Opener do all the work like magic, and they *always* say: "Wow! That's so easy!" -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: scott@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: partitioning a 1gig drive Date: 7 Nov 96 09:13:25 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: world Message-ID: <SCOTT.96Nov7091325@howard.one.net> References: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> <55rfc5$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> <55rqg4$uc@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> In-reply-to: aisbell@ix.netcom.com's message of 7 Nov 1996 05:01:56 GMT In article <55rqg4$uc@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) writes: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote: > Because of the way 'fsck' works, it is not possible to check the > root file system in a single pass. The computer is re-booted > without 'sync' and the root file system is 'fsck'd again. Hmmm. This hasn't been my experience. Only a single fsck of the root partitions seems to be required on my system after an abnormal shutdown. That's my experience, too. The reason the computer reboots is so that it gets a clean root filesystem. Nobody honestly expects it to just fsck the root filesystem and then just directly _mount_ it, do they? I mean, this isn't your joe average filesystem - this is the _root_ filesystem, the filesystem on which the entire operation of your system depends. If it's still munged, and you continue operating off of it, it's likely that you'll lose not just your root filesystem ... In any case, you can get multiple passes, depending on what needs fixed. Sometimes fsck can't fix everything in one pass. I've very seldom seen this, though. It means that the fixes applied in the first pass uncovered more problems. If I ever see it again, my first action will be to backup files on that filesystem as needed, and reformat it. If it's a root, it will get a full reinstall. And I'd probably throw in a disk integrity check while I was at it. Multiple passes of fsck on the same filesystem generally means you have some _serious_ problems - after that first pass fails to fix things, the greatest likelihood is that no future pass will make it good again. You might pass fsck at some point, but you've lost files ... > So if it takes 1.0 unit of time to check your 1.0 GB disk after a > panic, and there is only one partition, the total 'fsck' time > will be 2.0 units. On the other hand, if the drive is > partitioned into a 0.25 GB root partition and 0.75 GB everything > else, then only the smaller partition will be 'fsck'd twice, and > the total time will be 1.25 units. This is a time saving in the > ratio of 5 to 8. Actually, the time saving is greater, because > the 'fsck' time for a partition increases more than linearly with > the partition size. This doesn't seem to be what I experience, either :-) After an abnormal shutdown, all file systems that were mounted when the shutdown occurred seem to require checking upon reboot, not just the root file system. This also includes automounted volumes like MO or floppy disks. Again, I agree with Art, here. The number of fsck's for any filesystem should normally be _0_, and for most problems it only has to do it once. One way to speed up your fsck if you have many disks is to make sure you arrange the passno indicators correctly. All filesystems with the same passno in fstab will be checked on the same pass of fsck. Always (_always_) put root as pass 1 by itself. [Reference above point about root being _important_.] Beyond that, you can put as many filesystems as you want in each pass, just make certain that you don't have one physical disk fsck'ing multiple partitions at a time. Running fsck on two disks in parrallel is more efficient than doing them in serial - but running fsck on two partitions on one disk is going to result in some _serious_ thrashing as each fsck contends for the disk heads, and will slow things down overall. Of course, most NeXTSTEP users just let Workspace automount disks, so this is a pretty abstract point ... 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 Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961107071709.00676088@istsan.interbusiness.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 08:17:09 +0100 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Subject: CD-ROM and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP My CD-ROM NEC 210 is dead, I have buy a Pioneer 10X and this work well But, because the OS check the CD-ROM all second to see if in the drive there is a CD, I'm afraid that my CD-ROM break in this manner. On the other hand if I put always CD on the drive, I'm afraid to stress the drive. What is better for life of my CD-ROM? An CD always in the drive or the OS that check the drive for a CD all second. I don't would that my new drive dead how the previous after only seven months, even if it were used sparingly. 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 * ************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Re: It's time for "Guess That Problem"! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961107110351.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <55qoid$dra@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:03:51 GMT Check whether Terminal (or Stuart) is suid: > ls -l /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -rwsr-xr-x 1 root 253952 Apr 30 1996 /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal* If it is not, then certain log files cannot be updated, causing other programs to conclude that something is wrong (i.e., you don't exist). Perhaps also check whether "nidump group" and "nidump passwd" agree with each other, and with "ls -lg". >6) Power went down a week ago. Could that have screwed up >some files and how would I know which? Brain outages are much more likely to screw up a system, in my experience. :) -Magnus
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: partitioning a 1gig drive Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:31:57 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <8mUVoBW00Uh741nV8R@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> <55rfc5$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> <55rqg4$uc@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.96Nov7091325@howard.one.net> In-Reply-To: <SCOTT.96Nov7091325@howard.one.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 7-Nov-96 Re: partitioning a 1gig drive by Scott Hess@one.net > Hmmm. This hasn't been my experience. Only a single fsck of the > root partitions seems to be required on my system after an abnormal > shutdown. > > That's my experience, too. The reason the computer reboots is so that > it gets a clean root filesystem. Yes. > Nobody honestly expects it to just fsck the root filesystem and then just > directly _mount_ it, do they? A few OS's do it, but I don't think it's a good idea-- if fsck cleaned the root fs, rebooting and mounting a clean fs almost as fast. [ ... ] > In any case, you can get multiple passes, depending on what needs > fixed. Sometimes fsck can't fix everything in one pass. I've very > seldom seen this, though. It means that the fixes applied in the > first pass uncovered more problems. Sometimes. Sometimes the problem(s) encountered are non-innocuous and beyond what 'fsck -p' is willing to repair, so the autoboot sequence wants you to run fsck manually since there is a chance of data loss. I've seen the normal fsck fail when the system crashed writing inode metainformation ("invalid inode type=XXXX" or some similiar error) that was repairable running fsck manually. > If I ever see it again, my first action will be to backup files on that > filesystem as needed, and reformat it. That's always a reasonable course if it's convenient. A fs that gets truly screwed up never seems to be as stable as it should be from then on. [ ...good comments after this... ] -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting auto-dial PPP working on OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 7 Nov 1996 17:46:36 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbccd3$9e0034c0$50b08ccc@zbeckman.cyberverse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! First off, let me say that OPENSTEP 4.0 looks great and works fine. It runs of my "old" software without a hitch... so if 'yer thinking of upgrading, I'd say do it. I'm running into one dilema, though: configuring PPP. It appears I have two options: OPENSTEP comes with a version of PPP, and I have Teleconnect PPP (1.4.1, which was designed for NS 3.3). I want an on-demand connection, so that the link comes up whenever there's traffic--no manually running a startup program. It doesn't appear that OPENSTEP's PPP can be set to do this. Which leaves me with Teleconnect--but the vendor tells me "we haven't tried that on OPENSTEP yet." I'm hesitant to install it, 'cuz I'm afraid my machine won't boot again... 8-( Does anyone have any idea what I should do? --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: "Matthew E Richards" <m-richards@cecer.army.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ROM monitor at power-up Date: 7 Nov 1996 18:40:40 GMT Organization: USACERL Message-ID: <01bbccdb$ddc993a0$a614e581@matt> References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960923234543.28392A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> type 'p' from the monitor and for the boot option use 'sd(0,0,0)' or whatever your boot device is.
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems formatting new IBM DORS-32160 hard drive Date: 6 Nov 1996 13:59:50 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <55q5km$5t0@cnn.Princeton.EDU> I just got an IBM DORS-32160 (2.16 gig), for a NextStation Turbo, running NS 3.2. When I try to format it, using disk, BuildDisk, sdformat ... I get this error: boot block extends beyond front porch Any suggestions? Once I solve this problem, do I need a new disktab entry? In the past, I have just connected new disks and formatted them with the workspace format menu command, and never needed to do more. Thanks. tim
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compiled skey-ified "login" and "ftpd"? (NS3.3 m68k) Date: 8 Nov 1996 04:50:46 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-72.usc.edu Message-ID: <55ue76$km4@usc.edu> Compiled skey-ified "login" and "ftpd"? (NS3.3 m68k) If so, much appreciated if you would NeXTMAIL them to me. -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Exception #3 during boot Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 19:18:31 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961107191327.9203A-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.961107102430.1628A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.92.961107102430.1628A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com This is a motherboard error, indicating you need to replace it, but it might also be indicative of something else. Someone wrote this to me: "I had the same error when I added 32Mb to my NeXT Cube. I had non parity ram in the first 8 slots and parity ram in the other. When I switched them so banks 0-7 (1-8) had the parity ram in all works fine." Have you added any RAM lately? Someone else told me that by leaving the battery out for 3 days they no longer get this error. I was getting it for awhile, and then it magically stopped. I replaced the battery in mine, don't know if that helped. 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 Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Ryan J Mitchell wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:29:25 -0800 > From: Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Exception #3 during boot > > > Hello, > > AFter power-up of my 030 cube, it appears to pass a self-test, and starts > to load the system, then it drops into the monitor, saying it got an > Exception #3 (0xC) at 0x1F2. > > After which, I can manually type 'b sd(0,0,0)' (for boot scsi device) to > boot the system, which it completes succesfully. While using the system I > can find nothing wrong with its operations. > > Does anyone know what technical references exist that could document what > an Exception #3 is? Or can anyone tell me what kind of error this is, > given when it happens during boot? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > >
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: It's time for "Guess That Problem"! Date: 7 Nov 1996 22:23:48 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-66.usc.edu Message-ID: <55tnhk$9ep@usc.edu> References: <55qoid$dra@usc.edu> <961107110351.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Cc: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu No go. *( In <961107110351.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Magnus Nordborg wrote: > Check whether Terminal (or Stuart) is suid: > > > ls -l /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root 253952 Apr 30 1996 > /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal* Both Stuart and Terminal were and are suid root. > If it is not, then certain log files cannot be updated, > causing other programs to conclude that something is wrong > (i.e., you don't exist). > > Perhaps also check whether "nidump group" and "nidump > passwd" agree with each other, and with "ls -lg". They match up. > > 6) Power went down a week ago. Could that have screwed up > > some files and how would I know which? > > Brain outages are much more likely to screw up a system, in > my experience. > Tell me about it! -- 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: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace manager & .gz files Date: 8 Nov 1996 10:50:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <55v38s$7dm@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <846342249.12259.0@milan.demon.co.uk> <1996Oct29.100019.25530@roper.uwyo.edu> <555i6f$qv@majipoor.cygnus.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961029183636.21528C-100000@kira> >> I can't tell you how many times I lost HUGE downloads because Opener was >> stupid) > Heh? Opener was so stupid? Maybe it's you! Opener places all decrunched / untared files in /tmp/O_xxx So you probably closed the automatically opened Workspace directory window and didn't find the contents anymore? You'd better RTFM --- or be just a little bit more precise why Opener should have been the cause for your downlaod losts, before obscurely blaming something of a bad operations. Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >You should never have lost anything, it should have been in /tmp/OmniWeb >(if you used OmniWeb -- otherwise I don't know why/how it would have been >lost) see abover. Opener decrunches to /tmp/O_xxx. This is even true if you download via OmniWeb. Only files not processed by Opener will stay in the OmniWeb directory. Greetings, Bernhard.
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: partitioning a 1gig drive Date: 8 Nov 1996 12:24:04 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <55v8p4$2tq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> <55rfc5$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> Carl Lowenstein <cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu> wrote: [...] : Let me try my interpretation of the question, based on a fair amount of : experience with different sizes of disks, and various partitioning schemes. : Because of the way 'fsck' works, it is not possible to check the root file : system in a single pass. The computer is re-booted without 'sync' and the : root file system is 'fsck'd again. AFAIK this is not true. The root-fs is mounted read/write when fsck runs on it, so the computer must be rebootet without sync to prevent it from flushing its buffers onto the device. On the second reboot, fsck does not run again on the same partition, but checks any additional partitions. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems formatting new IBM DORS-32160 hard drive Date: 8 Nov 1996 12:27:31 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <55v8vj$2tq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <55q5km$5t0@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU> wrote: : I just got an IBM DORS-32160 (2.16 gig), for a NextStation Turbo, : running NS 3.2. When I try to format it, using disk, BuildDisk, sdformat ... : I get this error: : boot block extends beyond front porch Add the following to /etc/disktab: IBM DORS-32160:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:ns#125:nt#5:nc#6703:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#196:\ :pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD: -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199611080404.XAA06430@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 96 23:03:42 -0500 Subject: Re: The "root" of my problems... Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: <327ec24b.0@news.provo.novell.com> <9611072156.AA09950@lipschitz.sfasu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Responding To: "J. Kelly Cunningham" <deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu> Original Date: Thu, 7 Nov 96 15:56:35 -0600 Message-ID: <9611072156.AA09950@lipschitz.sfasu.edu> > >probably not all you wanted... it would be nice if you could > >start another WM session as root, but it doesn't work (I've > >tried it, don't suggest it > What happened? I got messages saying: When starting WM.app Workspace: error window 34 already registered *** Received launch notice from unknown process in the console.log, and then a panel "Workspace Internal error 1106 occurred Contiue (at your own risk)? Log Out Continue" When Starting Workspace.app: Nov 7 19:32:57 Workspace: Cannot register device insertion notification port with bootstrap server : bootstrap service already active Nov 7 19:32:57 Workspace: Removable disk operations disabled run: can't open connection to Webster on local host. Nov 7 19:32:59 Workspace: Cannot register Workspace with Bootstrap server : bootstrap service already active Nov 7 19:33:00 Workspace: Cannot exec /usr/lib/viewer/WM.app: (not a valid program) Nov 7 19:33:00 Workspace: Cannot define WorkspaceReply : Netnameserver: name is not yours And maybe, just maybe, that's what made my root directory drwxrwxrwxt Anyway, don't do it..... TjL
From: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: 8 Nov 1996 14:28:48 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <55vg30$1q3m@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> 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> <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: >An SCSI drive is possible to _map_ out bad sectors and replace them by >good one. This is done completely transparent to the drive user (normally >and OS driver). You won't loose any bit of disk capacity! True only for a limited amount of sectors. In the case that all spare-blocks are used up, you will also see errors and will have to re-format the drive and then loose diskcapacity which is used up by the new spare-blocks. >As far as I know EIDE drives can't do this. > I was told the opposite by a drive reseller. --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Exception #3 during boot Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 09:34:18 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-0811960934180001@news.tiac.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.961107102430.1628A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <Pine.SUN.3.92.961107102430.1628A-100000@kelly.teleport.com>, Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> wrote: > Does anyone know what technical references exist that could document what > an Exception #3 is? Or can anyone tell me what kind of error this is, > given when it happens during boot? This REALLY should be in the FAQ, if it isn't already. These errors are documented in the Motorola manuals for the 68XXX processors. From Table 8-1 of the M68040 Users Manual: V Number V Offset Assignment 2 008 Access Fault 3 00C Address Error 4 010 Illegal Instruction 5-7 Instruction Traps 8 020 Priviledge Violation and so on up to 255. The ones folks usually post about are 2 and 3. Access fault occurs when the external (RAM, video, SCSI controller?) bus aborts, or various internal cache / MMU problems occur. Address fault occurs when the processor attempts an instruction fetch from an odd address. Over the years I've seen a fair number of postings where address error was cured by booting with "bsd". Even happened to me once or twice. Seems to go away by the next boot. Barney
From: Matt Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:29:09 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108172049.29485B-100000@delphi.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NeXT'ers: Hi, I'm running 3.0 and have AppleTalk enabled. I see other servers in my zone, but my NeXT station doesn't show up. Can i be a server in the AppleTalk zone? If so, how do i enable this? I'm also going to upgrade to 3.2 this weekend. Can i grap the appletalk package from 3.0 and put it in my 3.2 setup and have things work correctly? I understand that i need 3.3 to run the good web-browser. can i patch 3.2 to run it? is there a decent browser for 3.2? (not that i care, really, i like lynx the best. ;-) ) While you are helping me with these questions, maybe you can help with another. when i send mail to myaccount@mymachine.blah.blah, it doesn't bounce, but it doesn't get there either? how do i set it up to recieve mail? do i have to be a server? (i just had a thought, would being a server fix the other thing with the appletalk? hmmm...) thanks for listening, matt.
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing using SAMBA. Date: 8 Nov 1996 12:14:15 -0500 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <55vpp7$e4s@Vir.com> Hello, I'm trying to set up my SAMBA print services for NeXTSTEP 3.3. I have a HPLaserJet5L and a HPDeskJet660C which work fine under NeXTSTEP 3.3 and Ghostscript. Now I want to make the printers available for a PC running Win3.11. I tried using nidump to create printcap entries but nidump returns with the following message: traveler> nidump printcap /traveler Printer HPLaserJet5L can't be represented in printcap format. What does this mean? Can I just create a printcap entry using the values in the NetInfo database or will this corrupt files. I was wondering how to go about this? Any help would be appreciated, stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199611081826.NAA07286@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 96 13:25:48 -0500 Subject: permissions weirdness Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Something is very wrong. If I click on a .tar.gz file and Opener.app opens it in /private/tmp, it is owned by root. If I use 'mkdir' the folder comes out owned by root. Same with 'mkdirs' If I use the 'mkdir' off the NeXTSTep3.3 CD ROM then things are OK. If I use 'mkdirs' off of the NeXTStep3.3 CD ROM then it is owned by root. Various other operations seem to come out as being owned by root. Anyone have any idea what is going on? TjL
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Installation Date: 9 Nov 1996 04:39:19 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5611tn$9a3@news3.digex.net> References: <327DEC88.794B@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> wrote: > I feel sure the problem is either related to the BIOS/Motherboard. Has anyone had similar problems with such a machine and how did they solve the problems. Any suggestions would be helpful as I have tried everything I can think off. Windows seems to work okay but progams do die for no reason quite often. If you give the make and chipset of the motherboard, that will help. Also, what are the settings in the bios? Finally, double, TRIPLE, check scsi settings; termination, et. al. -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NEXTmail OK NEXT/OPENSTEP Developer | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
From: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to keep NextStep from formatting disks? Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 01:43:05 -0800 Organization: NetGate Communications Message-ID: <32845229.523B1D44@netgate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I find it pretty scary that when a user logs in to NextStep, it will look for DOS and Mac partitions on the hard drive and "helpfully" offer to initialize any partitions it doesn't recognize (Linux, NTFS, Plan 9 and so on). So far I have been careful with hitting the right button, but I would really love to either specify the list of partitions to ignore or keep Workspace from looking for disks altogether. Any suggestions? An e-mailed copy of your responce would be very helpful, since news here expire after several days. -- _. _ . (_ ,_ _ , . / ` _ _L | Email: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> ._)| U(_)\/\/ \_,(_L/L | Visit http://math.math.CSUFresno.EDU/~oleg/math.html ------------------------' to get my programs + PGP public key
From: Peter Güntzer <peter.guentzer@pn.siemens.de> Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 15:09:46 -0800 Organization: Siemens AG,(Hofmannstr) Munich-Germany-Europe. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32850F3A.698E@pn.siemens.de> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> <glyn.elara-0811961804280001@ppp161.tcom.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Glyn Edwards wrote: > > > Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. > > > > By forwarding that message to me, you have participated in electronic > chain mail, which not only > irritates everyone involved but is also an abuse of the Internet. You have > allowed someone to > exploit you for their purposes. Even worse, you have helped them exploit > even more people and > waste more time, bandwidth, disk space, and money. It's bad enough to be a > victim, but it's worse > to become an accessory. If everyone forwarded every piece of chain mail to > the number of people > requested, normal email delivery would grind to a halt, thanks to the > exponential growth of chain > mail. Please do not ever forward chain mail again." with one word: Netikette... Peter
From: chris (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: zyxel 288s Date: 9 Nov 1996 21:07:29 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <562rqh$s38@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> hi ! i just want to know if the zyxel 288s is fully compatibel to the 1496 modem. because of all the next programms that support only the zyxel 1496. or is the any other modem that I can use with next perfectly ? thanx christian vollmert nextmail to: b0445889@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de
From: Winners of Washington Director <winners@pobox.com> Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 13:28:28 -0800 Organization: Winners of Washington Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3284F77C.7B44@pobox.com> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> <glyn.elara-0811961804280001@ppp161.tcom.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Glyn Edwards <glyn.elara@technocom.com> Glyn Edwards wrote: > > > Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. > > > > By forwarding that message to me, you have participated in electronic > chain mail, which not only > irritates everyone involved but is also an abuse of the Internet. You have > allowed someone to > exploit you for their purposes. Even worse, you have helped them exploit > even more people and > waste more time, bandwidth, disk space, and money. It's bad enough to be a > victim, but it's worse > to become an accessory. If everyone forwarded every piece of chain mail to > the number of people > requested, normal email delivery would grind to a halt, thanks to the > exponential growth of chain > mail. Please do not ever forward chain mail again." Yeah, and it wasn't even very nice! -- From the desk of Ron in Seattle! KC7SQC Visit Seattle Counseling Information: http://pobox.com/~sci
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? Date: 10 Nov 1996 20:08:51 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <565coj$ejl@nntp1.best.com> References: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> <E0o1nH.BIC@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0o1nH.BIC@midway.uchicago.edu> On 11/10/96, Andrew Chang wrote: >In article <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG>, >Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >> >>I seem to be lacking a man page for 'fstab' under NS 3.3. >> >>Was this left off the CDs? >> >It's not on the NS 3.3 CD. Can not be found. > The missing fstab man page (as well as man pages for disk, driverLoader, fdisk, fsck, mount & pico) can be found on the NeXTAnswers web page. - Chris --
From: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to keep NextStep from formatting disks? Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:23:20 -0800 Organization: NetGate Communications Message-ID: <328639B8.8CDD6C@netgate.net> References: <32845229.523B1D44@netgate.net> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961109104040.25867B-100000@kira> <5630kj$1bu@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > > In <Pine.SUN.3.95.961109104040.25867B-100000@kira> Timothy > Luoma wrote: > > > > There's an option to 'ignore' for /etc/fstab, isn't there? > > > > I remember hearing about it a while ago, but I can find the > references. > > > > This was for 3.3 > > Yup. > Ex: > /dev/sd1b / ignore rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > Thanks, this is a handy feature, although I found a few odd things when trying to use it: 1) man 5 fstab is nowhere to be seen 2) "mount -t ignore /dev/hd1a /" doesn't produce the expected result 3) Ignoring partition hd1a ignores the whole hard drive 4) Only the first ignore line in fstab has an effect on mount -av. Any extra lines trigger an error message "mount: failed to open /dev/vol0" and the disks are not being ignored. I had to modify rc.boot to modify fstab on the fly and ignore partitions one by one. Sounds like too many features are implemented in the kernel. -- _. _ . (_ ,_ _ , . / ` _ _L | Email: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> ._)| U(_)\/\/ \_,(_L/L | Visit http://math.math.CSUFresno.EDU/~oleg/math.html ------------------------' to get my programs + PGP public key
From: zbeckman@hondo.cyberverse.com (Zacharias Beckman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with OPENSTEP 4.0 & serial drivers... broken? Date: 10 Nov 1996 06:43:59 GMT Organization: Cyberverse Online (310-643-3783) Sender: zac@dreams.com Message-ID: <563tjf$2nr@rodelo.cyberverse.com> I'm trying to set up an OPENSTEP 4.0 system to use an external ISDN modem. I'm running into two really nasty problems (this is disgusting--so far, our Windows95 system has proven a better gateway that OPENSTEP--I can't believe this is happening)! 1. Serial ports don't work Obviously a show-stopper. Has anyone gotten serial ports to work on an OPENSTEP Intel system? Whenever I try to access the ports, I get "no such device" errors. At boot time it looks like the device has been properly detected and configured. The device file (/dev/cu[f]a) exists and has the right permissions... 2. Serial port speed From the documentation, it looks like OPENSTEP's maximum serial speed is going to be around 19K or 36K. This is rediculous. The port is rated at 250K, and the ISDN modem operates at that speed as well--is there no way to use a high-performance serial port with OPENSTEP??? Any suggestions or comments are appreciated! Please respond via email to zac@dreams.com. Thank you! Zacharias zac@dreams.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,biz.comp.hardware,comp.linux.setup,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fido.0-alles_um_den_computer,fido.linux.ger,fras.text.hardware,hannover.uni.comp.linux,maus.sys.next,t-netz.linux,z-netz.alt.linux From: tom ring <tar@pclink.com> Subject: Re: NEXT LINUX-IBM or CYRIX Message-ID: <328648F8.572D@pclink.com> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:28:24 -0600 References: <6KYdHWxqCxB@maroudas.on-line.leine.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Maroudas, Xenios wrote: > > Hobbingen (Hannover) 09 Nov 96 Sa > > Hey > > until the next months i want to buy a new computer to work with > Open Step and Linux. > so i want to now if there are any problems when i get a On the CPU front, I have had very good results with a Cyrix 6x86-120 (150+). It compiles the kernel faster and runs X faster than my Pentium (TM) 133 at work. I would estimate (mileage may vary) that it runs Linux about 50% faster than the P133. I have found no compatibility problems, so far. The posts about the FPU are correct, it's not as fast as a Pentium(TM) at floating point, but it's fast enough for anything that I do. And I do a lot of antenna CAD design. My problem with processors lately is that the antenna optimizers are too quick to control, no matter whose you're using. tom WA2PHW
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199611101730.JAA09315@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 12:29:45 -0500 Subject: Re: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? References: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Responding To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Original Date: Sat, 9 Nov 96 23:22:32 -0500 Message-ID: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> > I seem to be lacking a man page for 'fstab' under NS 3.3. > > Was this left off the CDs? Thanks to Matthew Reichman who pointed out that it could be found as "/NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man5/mntent.5". I made a link to /usr/local/man/man5/fstab.5 and all is well. Thanks for the pointer, I owe ya one ;-) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> / <luomat@peak.org> Web Page (NeXTInfo): http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/ Peak FTP Site: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 96 23:22:32 -0500 Subject: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? Cc: reichman@usc.edu Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I seem to be lacking a man page for 'fstab' under NS 3.3. Was this left off the CDs? Thanks TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> / <luomat@peak.org> Web Page (NeXTInfo): http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/ Peak FTP Site: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: permissions weirdness Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:17:28 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961110144929.959C-100000@kira> References: <199611081826.NAA07286@nerc3.nerc.com> <E0nGJF.706@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de In-Reply-To: <E0nGJF.706@nidat.sub.org> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > Seems like you accidentally s-UIDed some executables to 'root'. > > In case you have no clue, I advise to run a 'find' for executables both to > the active system and the copy on CD and 'diff' the output. Actually, I used 'showmods /usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom' /bin/sh was SETUID ROOT! Now there's no chance in hell I did that on purpose, I've got no idea what's going on. My fear is that some .pkg (not necesarily a NeXTstep one) that needed to be installed as root fiddled with the permissions. Yes, I'm claiming something of a virus or a trojan horse. Unbelievable? Well, if you wanted to compromise a UNIX machine, what would be the base file you could attack? I'd go for /bin/sh. I've done plenty of really stupid things in my life, but changing /bin/sh to setuid root is very hard for me to believe. Anyway, I've got a script now that checks for setuid files and reports them to me, and turned on logging for chmod and chown. I'd suggest to people that you use the GNU-find and this command: find / -perm +4000 -ls and checkout what setuid files are on your system. There were few right from the NeXTStep CD. Get that list, make a hard copy or put it on a non-writable something or another and check it periodically. TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:21:42 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961110152003.959E-100000@kira> References: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> <E0o1nH.BIC@midway.uchicago.edu> <565coj$ejl@nntp1.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christopher Wolf <cwolf@wolfware.com> In-Reply-To: <565coj$ejl@nntp1.best.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > > The missing fstab man page (as well as man pages for disk, driverLoader, fdisk, > fsck, mount & pico) can be found on the NeXTAnswers web page. yes, it can, but it is also at /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man5/mntent.5 the one of the NeXTanswers is not in proper 'man' format, just ascii. You probably know that, it's just a comment. a simple ln -s /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man5/mntent.5 \ /usr/local/man/man5/fstab.5 will do... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to keep NextStep from formatting disks? Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:28:47 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961110152651.959G-100000@kira> References: <32845229.523B1D44@netgate.net> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961109104040.25867B-100000@kira> <5630kj$1bu@usc.edu> <328639B8.8CDD6C@netgate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <328639B8.8CDD6C@netgate.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Oleg Kibirev wrote: > Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:23:20 -0800 > From: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> > To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > 2) "mount -t ignore /dev/hd1a /" doesn't produce the expected result what did you expect it would do? > 3) Ignoring partition hd1a ignores the whole hard drive probably because if the HD had no partitions it would be considered "hd1a" > 4) Only the first ignore line in fstab has an effect on mount -av. > Any extra lines trigger an error message "mount: failed to open > /dev/vol0" and the disks are not being ignored. I had to modify > rc.boot to modify fstab on the fly and ignore partitions one by one. > Sounds like too many features are implemented in the kernel. could you explain the changes you made? Thanks TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,biz.comp.hardware,comp.linux.setup,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fido.0-alles_um_den_computer,fido.linux.ger,fras.text.hardware,hannover.uni.comp.linux,maus.sys.next,t-netz.linux,z-netz.alt.linux Message-ID: <6KYdHWxqCxB@maroudas.on-line.leine.de> From: X.Maroudas@on-line.leine.de (Maroudas, Xenios) Organization: Maroudas X. Subject: NEXT LINUX-IBM or CRIX Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 12:49:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hobbingen (Hannover) 09 Nov 96 Sa Hey until the next months i want to buy a new computer to work with Open Step and Linux. so i want to now if there are any problems when i get a Gigabyte 568 HX with a IBM 6x86 P150 or P166 or it is better to get a intel CPU so on i want to now which Soundcarts, VGA Carts, Harddisks, Motherboards and SCSI carts are recommendable whith this software!! Thanks for help in answers!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** X.Maroudas ** E-Mail XXO@Jumbo1-h.leine.de X.Maroudas@ON-Line.leine.de 8-) :-) ;-) X-) 8-O :-O ;-O X-O ++ Wenn ich deinen Hals berühre deinen Mund zu meinem fuehre ++ ++ ach wie sehne ich mich nach dir du geliebte Flasche Bier ++ ## CrossPoint v3.11 ##
From: tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Inkjet printer on Sparc5 running NS 3.3 Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:56:46 GMT Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research - Georgia Tech Distribution: world Message-ID: <564qfe$e1n@smash.gatech.edu> I would like to buy and install an inkjet printer on a Sparcstation 5 running NEXTSTEP 3.3. I guess I need to buy the rather expensive parallel cable from Sun too. Once I have the cable and the printer, how difficult is it to make it all work? I also would like to use the printer with Solaris 2.5 and possibly Linux (on different disks, of course). Any advice and suggestions, especially from people who have this working on their machines will be greatly appreciated. Also, if you have a preference or suggestion for an inkjet printer to buy, I would appreciate hearing about that too. Thank you very much. T. Govindaraj, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA. http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty/T_Govindaraj, +1 404 894 3873
From: filip@nebula.filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: zyxel 288s Date: 10 Nov 1996 16:28:34 GMT Organization: Filtronix Distribution: world Message-ID: <564vri$k1@nebula.filtronix.eunet.be> References: <562rqh$s38@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Christian Vollmert writes > i just want to know if the zyxel 288s is fully compatibel to > the 1496 modem. > because of all the next programms that support only the > zyxel 1496. Unless the program retrieves the model number from the modem (which will report 2864 instead of 1496), the program will be fully compatible. Filip -- ---------------------------- FILTRONIX ----------------------------- |-- --- \ / Software Development - OpenStep|Windows-NT/95 |- | X Web Design & Development - HTML|CGI|JAVA|WebObjects | | / \ ---> info@filtronix.eunet.be
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: permissions weirdness Message-ID: <E0nGJF.706@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <199611081826.NAA07286@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 10:16:27 GMT In article <199611081826.NAA07286@nerc3.nerc.com> writes: > Something is very wrong. > > If I click on a .tar.gz file and Opener.app opens it in > /private/tmp, it is owned by root. > > If I use 'mkdir' the folder comes out owned by root. Same with > 'mkdirs' > > If I use the 'mkdir' off the NeXTSTep3.3 CD ROM then things are > OK. > > If I use 'mkdirs' off of the NeXTStep3.3 CD ROM then it is owned > by root. > > Various other operations seem to come out as being owned by root. > > Anyone have any idea what is going on? > Seems like you accidentally s-UIDed some executables to 'root'. In case you have no clue, I advise to run a 'find' for executables both to the active system and the copy on CD and 'diff' the output. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Re: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? Message-ID: <E0o1nH.BIC@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago References: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 17:52:28 GMT In article <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >I seem to be lacking a man page for 'fstab' under NS 3.3. > >Was this left off the CDs? > It's not on the NS 3.3 CD. Can not be found.
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: File System Management: /etc customization Date: 11 Nov 1996 03:44:06 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <5667e6$ftt@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <5665ga$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) wrote: > In my efforts to separate third party(and other custom) files > from NeXT files, I have managed quite well with all directories > except /etc. I'd like to apply /etc file changes elsewhere(perhaps > /usr/etc), and have them overlay /etc. I'm interested to know > how others have managed their customizations. % su Password: # mv /etc/foo /etc/foo.orig # mv ./newfoo /usr/local/etc/foo # ln -s /usr/local/etc/foo /etc/foo # cat - >> /usr/local/buildlinks mv /etc/foo /etc/foo.orig; ln -s /usr/local/etc/foo /etc/foo ^D # exit % /usr/local/buildlinks is an executable /bin/sh script that I can run after a clean re-install of the system distribution. My /Local*, /Users, /usr/local, and a few other things are actually links from the partition /local, which has everything that isn't on the CD, including the 'buildlinks' script. The first thing that 'buildlinks' does is reinstall these branches, and also /.cshrc and /.login and other stuff in the root directory that will get modified when I log in as root. This setup should be 100% clean, and it's worked for me through a couple of upgrades now without a glitch. Remembering to add a line to 'buildlinks' each time you muck with something becomes automatic after a while. Oh, and /local itself is rendered invisible, by replacing /.hidden with a link to a modified one in /local. All the Unix directories (/adm, /bin, /cores, /dev, /etc, /lib, /private, /tmp, and /usr) also get linked into /Unix and then hidden, so that all I see at the left of my browser is /Local*, /Net, /Next*, /Unix, and /Users. Is there a hyphen |======================================================= in `anal-retentive'? | Joshua W. Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu -- Jim Propp |=======================================================
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GateKeeper and PPP Connection? Date: 11 Nov 1996 03:01:07 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <5664tj$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> References: <andrew-0611960250530001@andrew.inxpress.net> <562ogo$bsh@kanga.accessone.com> <56301v$1bu@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu In <56301v$1bu@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > In <562ogo$bsh@kanga.accessone.com> Marc Salvatori wrote: > > In <andrew-0611960250530001@andrew.inxpress.net> Andrew M. Priasmoro wrote: > > > My question is that does anyone know the ways to make PPP > > > connection more convenient than the above method? In > > > other words, are there solutions for making PPP > > > connection from my user account without having to logout > > > from my user account, login as root and delete the > > > "ppp2.2.log" file? I think the important key here is to > > > be able to delete the "ppp2.2.log" file from any > > > accounts. Does anyone have pointers how to do this? > > I rarely use the unlink command. Have you tried using the > > toolbar stop button? > Actualy, it sounds like Marc's problem might be that > GateKeeper isn't running suid root. Using the unlink command > or the toolbar should bother work 'conveniently' from any > user account. That's a good point, Matt. Andrew, try disabling, then re-enabling "Display Diagnostics". You should end up with something like what I have from /usr/adm: p-w----r-t 1 root staff 0 Nov 10 12:55 ppp2.2.log With this, your logging should work, and hopefully your disconnects will be clean. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: File System Management: /etc customization Date: 11 Nov 1996 03:11:06 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <5665ga$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> In my efforts to separate third party(and other custom) files from NeXT files, I have managed quite well with all directories except /etc. I'd like to apply /etc file changes elsewhere(perhaps /usr/etc), and have them overlay /etc. I'm interested to know how others have managed their customizations. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: nextjet@bellsouth.net (german gobel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netscape Trashes my downloads. Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 13:08:24 -0400 Organization: gobel&associates Message-ID: <nextjet-0611961308240001@d00839.mia.bellsouth.net> Hello, I am attempting to download some demo apps from the usual archives to my mac. But when I save the files as source and transfer them over appletalk to my cube all I get is text files every time.if anyone has covered this in the faq I apologize. tia german gobel.
From: dirk@object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to keep NextStep from formatting disks? Date: 11 Nov 1996 08:15:29 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <566nb1$926@isabella.object-factory.com> References: <32845229.523B1D44@netgate.net> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961109104040.25867B-100000@kira> <5630kj$1bu@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > In <Pine.SUN.3.95.961109104040.25867B-100000@kira> Timothy > Luoma wrote: > > > > There's an option to 'ignore' for /etc/fstab, isn't there? > > Yup. > Ex: > /dev/sd1b / ignore rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 Well, I had quite a lot of trouble trying to get this to work. It does perfectly if the partition is on another disk than the one you booted NS off. I still did not manage to successfully ignore my /dev/rsd0(h) dos partition. -dirk --- _____________________________________________________________________ Dirk Olmes OBJECT FACTORY Gesellschaft für Informatik und Datenverarbeitung mbH Otto-Hahn Str. 18, 44227 Dortmund, Germany Telephon +49 (0) 231 975 137 19 Telefax +49 (0) 231 975 137 99 dirk@object-factory.com http://www.object-factory.com/
From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't find $LBL Date: 11 Nov 1996 07:50:57 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development Message-ID: <566lt1$1ms@alice.turbocat.de> References: <3280D13E.50F50BAF@tu-harburg.d400.de> Ludger Solbach <solbach@tu-harburg.d400.de> wrote: > After trying to set boot graphics to "no" using Configure.app I get the > message "Can't find $LBL", no matter what I enter at the boot prompt. > What does this message mean and how can I make the machine boot again? Try installing a new boot record with disk (in the shell). (Boot from cd with rootdev sd0a) _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to keep NextStep from formatting disks? Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:51:00 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961109104040.25867B-100000@kira> References: <32845229.523B1D44@netgate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <32845229.523B1D44@netgate.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com There's an option to 'ignore' for /etc/fstab, isn't there? I remember hearing about it a while ago, but I can find the references. This was for 3.3 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: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netscape Trashes my downloads. Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:34:15 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-1111961534150001@news.tiac.net> References: <nextjet-0611961308240001@d00839.mia.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <nextjet-0611961308240001@d00839.mia.bellsouth.net>, nextjet@bellsouth.net (german gobel) wrote: > I am attempting to download some demo apps from the usual archives to > my mac. But when I save the files as source and transfer them over appletalk to > my cube all I get is text files every time.if anyone has covered this in the faq > I apologize. tia german gobel. Whoa! Saving files as text kind of guarantees trashing the high order bit, and you are downloading binaries. You should be accessing the ftp server with a ftp:// preamble to the url. This will trigger Netscape to perform a download in binary mode if the filename ends in a recognized binary suffix (like Z or gz). If you don't see a ftp preamble when you start the transfer, it probably isn't going to work right and you should bail out right away. As I recall, the NeXT browser (OmniWeb) doesn't support FTP. So use Yftp, which has the advantage of caching directories, and the disadvantage of hanging when you try to dump a long or hung transfer from a site. (Kill it in Workspace.) That's if you want to use your NeXT for FTP. If that's too hard, use Fetch on your Mac, and make sure the transfer is in binary mode. You should get a Save As dialog, and select raw data for the transfer type. I do it all the time, being too lazy to switch my connection, and it "just works". Barney
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:34:48 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cmVpKcK00UhBA1itgP@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <567een$kje@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <567een$kje@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> First, there is never a need to seperately post the same article to two seperate NeXT newsgroups. There isn't much need to crosspost the same article, either, but at least crossposting saves disk space and transfer time for news servers all over the world. Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 11-Nov-96 DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT S.. by Lones A Smith@lones.mit. > I am very worried. I have NS 3.2 on a 486 100 mhz system at home. > I received, for the first time ever, the command in the subject header > > DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER [ ... ] > What does this error mean? It indicates that either your hard drive (or less likely, your hard drive controller) is failing when the BIOS in your machine tries to boot the system. There are a large number of ways that this could be happening, but because it sounds like the problem goes away when you warm-boot it, perhaps the hard drive is enountering stiction (when the lubricant for the bearings is cold, some drives can't get enough oompf to overcome starting friction, a problem made famous by the Quantum 105), or possibly some chip needs to be reseated, etc. > Is it hardware or software? Hardware. > Exactly what must I do to fix the problem? Well, I'd first make sure that I had a complete backup of anything I cared about on that drive. Secondly, I'd probably swap hard drive controller cards and reconnect all cabling if convenient and see whether that made a difference. If it doesn't, and the drive is still under warranty, I'd probably return the drive. -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: partitioning a 1gig drive Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:19:33 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <wmUqiZO00UhWA1ldxz@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199611010626.BAA04510@nerc3.nerc.com> <01bbc855$b2227a80$8785eea5@sroller> <55rfc5$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> <55v8p4$2tq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <55v8p4$2tq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Nov-96 Re: partitioning a 1gig drive by Axel Habermann@buran.fb1 > : Because of the way 'fsck' works, it is not possible to check the root file > : system in a single pass. The computer is re-booted without 'sync' and the > : root file system is 'fsck'd again. > > AFAIK this is not true. The root-fs is mounted read/write when fsck > runs on it, so the computer must be rebootet without sync to prevent > it from flushing its buffers onto the device. So far so good. It reboots without sync so that the superblock which has (hopefully) been set to the clean state is not written over as being mounted since the superblock is always cached. > On the second reboot, fsck does not run again on the same partition, > but checks any additional partitions. Fsck actually does run and look at the root partition after the auto-reboot, but fsck doesn't actually do any work if the file system is clean. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installer.app for others than root Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:15:01 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <327DDE45.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The subject says it all. I want to give a other user rights to install software via /NextAdmin/Installer.app. By default you've got to have root privileges to use Installer.app. I thought giving write permissions to /LocalApps und /NextLibrary/Receipts/ should be enough. But that's wrong. Log says something like 'csh permissions denied'. I also tried to give Installer a sticky bit without success. Is anybody out there using Installer.app as a use other than root. Thanks in advance. Stef ______________________________________________________________________ /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: Patrick T Hickey <patrick@netscape.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep Solaris and OpenStep Mach-NFS issues Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:10:56 -0800 Organization: ...in perpetual flux Message-ID: <3287964F.77E6@netscape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm having a pisser of a time trying to make the following combination of machines speak proper NFS to each other... NeXT turbo color (4.0) exporting my home directory Sun Sparc 20 (2.5.1) running OpenStep (1.1) trying to NFS mount same. The process takes FOREVER and the NeXT's console window reflects a steady stream of the following... nfs_server: bad sendreply from xxx.x.xx.xxx (IP address) svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed The data eventually shows up but it takes too long to be used by mortals. Can someone confirm the lack of a complete synergy between these two machines? Looks pretty nasty to these eyes. thanks, regards, patrick ________________________________________ (415) 937.3473 Professional Services Division
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Message-ID: <199611111523.KAA10776@nerc3.nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 10:23:10 -0500 Subject: SUBMISSION: BackupChanges -- FREE/BETA Backup program Cc: <mikeh@cam-ani.co.uk>, <jacob@dannug.dk>, <rencsok@channelu.com>, <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl>, <aisbell@ix.netcom.com>, <Christian.Limpach@nice.ch> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com (right now this is at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/BackupChanges.1.0.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz it will move to ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/BackupChanges.1.0.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ) This is a BETA release of a backup script that I wrote. It requires that you have a version of GNU-find which you can get from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu (you'll have to compile it). Future releases will hopefully include a 4fat GNUfind. It also requires some careful configuration on your part. Don't let this scare you too much. I've commented on things and it should be easy to follow. I'm hoping for some pointers on where this could be improved and where it could be made more clear. However it is functional at my site. A list of "THANKS" is at the bottom. Each of these people helped me in the past with questions about "find"'s rather strange syntax. Without them I wouldn't have been able to do this. However, they are not to blame for anything, if anything doesn't work, it is because of an error I made. HOWEVER YOU TAKE THE RISK. You have been warned. I think a free backup program should be available for NeXTstep. As far as I know there isn't one. This program hopes to fill that void, at least to some degree. The README is below TjL # begin readme AUTHOR: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> DATE: 11 Nov 1996 VER: backup 1.0.0 find2backup 1.0.0 Purpose: To find and backup any file which has changed since "FILE" was created. WARNINGS: 1) Use at your own risk 2) 'backup' should be run as root 3) this program uses the !!!GNU!!! version of "find" which is not included in the standard distribution, but can be found (as source code) at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu. 4) YOU MUST EDIT BOTH SCRIPTS TO BE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR MACHINE. This is not hard, but CRUCIAL. Reading through the scripts it should be obvious what needs to be changed. If not, the program will fail. 5) For the initial startup, you must provide the name of a file which is used as the "starting point". THIS FILE WILL BE REMOVED AND REPLACED by this script. Make a copy of some file and use that. 6) This is the first release. I don't know where things are unclear, because I wrote it myself. I am hoping for feedback in order to improve this script. THANKS TO (in no particular order): Michael Hardy <mikeh@cam-ani.co.uk> Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> "Randall J. Rencsok" <rencsok@channelu.com> Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Art Isbell <aisbell@ix.netcom.com> Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@nice.ch> for their help with some early questions in the development of this script. However, none of them are to blame for the end result. FUTURE: Include a 4fat version of GNUfind Improve easy-to-use quality
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mapping paths with Samba? Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:28:28 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961111232508.2653A-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, i wouldlike to know if there is any way to use Samba, from a unix client, other than with smbclient. I would like to map a Samba file service into the filesystem maybe in the way NFS is mapped into the filesystem. Is this possible? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Compiling Samba on NS3.3... getting link errors Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:32:36 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961111233052.2653B-100000@pollux> References: <E0DA6D.rM@interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> In-Reply-To: <E0DA6D.rM@interactive.net> On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Matthew Hocker wrote: > Has anyone succesfully built Samba on NextStep 3.3? I'm having problems > due to link errors, and would appreciate some help. > > Email, please. It compiles well on NS 3.3 Intel Patch1, at least with GCC 2.7.2 but i guess it will compile also with 2.5.8. Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multiple network cards? Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:34:40 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961111233339.2653C-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
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Symbios 8751SP SCSI Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:39:55 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961111233720.2653D-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is the Symbios 8751SP SCSI Host Adapter being supported by the standard NCR/Symbios drivers, i mean is the chipset compatible to the former models (53c810)? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting auto-dial PPP working on OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 9 Nov 1996 20:14:07 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <562omf$bsh@kanga.accessone.com> References: <01bbccd3$9e0034c0$50b08ccc@zbeckman.cyberverse.com> Cc: zac@dreams.com In <01bbccd3$9e0034c0$50b08ccc@zbeckman.cyberverse.com> "Zacharias J. Beckman" wrote: > It doesn't appear that OPENSTEP's PPP can be set to do this. Which leaves > me with Teleconnect--but the vendor tells me "we haven't tried that on > OPENSTEP yet." I'm hesitant to install it, 'cuz I'm afraid my machine won't > boot again... 8-( Look at GateKeeper for an example of dial-on-demand. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GateKeeper and PPP Connection? Date: 9 Nov 1996 20:11:04 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <562ogo$bsh@kanga.accessone.com> References: <andrew-0611960250530001@andrew.inxpress.net> Cc: andrew@inxpress.net In <andrew-0611960250530001@andrew.inxpress.net> Andrew M. Priasmoro wrote: > My question is that does anyone know the ways to make PPP connection more > convenient than the above method? In other words, are there solutions for > making PPP connection from my user account without having to logout from > my user account, login as root and delete the "ppp2.2.log" file? I think > the important key here is to be able to delete the "ppp2.2.log" file from > any accounts. Does anyone have pointers how to do this? I rarely use the unlink command. Have you tried using the toolbar stop button? -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? Date: 11 Nov 96 12:05:15 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov11120515@howard.one.net> References: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> In-reply-to: Timothy J Luoma's message of Sat, 9 Nov 96 23:22:32 -0500 In article <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: I seem to be lacking a man page for 'fstab' under NS 3.3. Was this left off the CDs? Don't you know that NeXTSTEP is not a "server" OS? Tongue firmly in cheek, -- 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
From: glyn.elara@technocom.com (Glyn Edwards) Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 18:04:28 +0000 Organization: Elara Associates Limited Distribution: inet Message-ID: <glyn.elara-0811961804280001@ppp161.tcom.co.uk> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> > Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. > > By forwarding that message to me, you have participated in electronic chain mail, which not only irritates everyone involved but is also an abuse of the Internet. You have allowed someone to exploit you for their purposes. Even worse, you have helped them exploit even more people and waste more time, bandwidth, disk space, and money. It's bad enough to be a victim, but it's worse to become an accessory. If everyone forwarded every piece of chain mail to the number of people requested, normal email delivery would grind to a halt, thanks to the exponential growth of chain mail. Please do not ever forward chain mail again."
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:29:04 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <567r9g$gm2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> <E0o1nH.BIC@midway.uchicago.edu> <565coj$ejl@nntp1.best.com> cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) wrote: > On 11/10/96, Andrew Chang wrote: > >In article <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG>, > >Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >> > >>I seem to be lacking a man page for 'fstab' under NS 3.3. > >> > >>Was this left off the CDs? > >> > >It's not on the NS 3.3 CD. Can not be found. > > > > The missing fstab man page (as well as man pages for disk, > driverLoader, fdisk, fsck, mount & pico) can be found on the > NeXTAnswers web page. Actually, this manpage IS NOT missing. A man -k fstab reveales that it just "hides" behind man mntent... Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help!!! How to recover root account? Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:46:41 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961108094157.11758E-100000@kira> References: <andrew-0611961733370001@andrew.inxpress.net> <55sg4o$6sm@baldwin.rat.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: andrew@inxpress.net In-Reply-To: <55sg4o$6sm@baldwin.rat.se> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com And then read http://www.digifix.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html to explain why this message should not have been posted to csn/bugs/misc/software/syadmin (not even crossposted, just repeatedly posted).
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:48:39 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <567se7$lul@nntp1.best.com> References: <567eck$kje@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <567eck$kje@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> On 11/10/96, Lones A Smith wrote: >Hi, > I am very worried. I have NS 3.2 on a 486 100 mhz system at home. >I received, for the first time ever, the command in the subject header > >DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER > >What does this error mean? >Is it hardware or software? >Exactly what must I do to fix the problem? This is an error from the system BIOS which means that it cannot find a bootable device. One situation it will occur if there's a non-bootable floppy in the floppy disk drive. The other situation it will occur if you are trying to boot from disk and the system can't find a bootable hard-disk - this sounds like what's happening to you. This implies that it's probably a hardware problem with your boot disk - it's either dying and failing to spin up when powered on or there's a loose power or data cable or something else. I'd suggest a) backing up any critical data on that system ASAP b) listening to see if the disk is actually powering up correctly c) checking all your cable connections to the boot disk. Good luck. Chris --
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:11:07 -0600 From: Michael Cam <mike@ali.bc.ca> Subject: Booting from Jaz drive on laptop Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi Message-ID: <847753964.21320@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Hi, I have a NEC 4050H laptop with an internal IDE hard drive. I also have a JAZ connected to it via an Adaptec 1460A slim-scsi adapter. I would like to be able to boot of my internal IDE drive as Windows 95. I would like to be able to boot of the JAZ as Windows NT 4.0 server. I would also like to boot of another JAZ cartridge as OpenStep on MACH. Is this possible? At what level would I have to decide which fixed/removable drive to boot off from: BIOS or is there some boot manager that will allow this. Thanks in advance, ...Mike. ___________________________________________________________________ | | | ___ ^ ... /\ BEAUTIFUL | | _|_::| ___o '|`^ .. o_ . .. /\ / \ BRITISH | | |:::|:| \ \, ^ '|`|` (`_|/____') / / /\ COLUMBIA | | |:::|:| (o)/ (o) '|`'|`|`` ,,/ . ... . .. / \ | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| | Michael C. Cam E-MAIL (NeXT, MIME) TEL: 604-279-5422 ext.325 | | ALI Technologies mike@ali.bc.ca FAX: 604-279-5468 | |___________________________________________________________________| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was posted to Usenet via the Posting Service at Deja News: http://www.dejanews.com/ [Search, Post, and Read Usenet News]
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: The "From" line in Mail Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:58:01 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-1111961558010001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Like many of us, I've been unhappy with strange From lines but unwilling to tackle the grisly configuration files of sendmail, or update to 8.8.X. Finding that the standard NeXT sendmail (5.67+) was a well known (IDA) and still respected (ie, not "braindead") variant, I asked Lennart Lovstrand (the father of IDA and a well known NeXT developer) if the added IDA capabilities had anything to do with NeXT sticking with 5.67++. "Well, not really ..." Then he responded to my list of desired capabilities, which included "an arbitrary from line", by pointing out that Mail.app 3.3 will do this. So I tried it and it works. Go to the preferences menu, expert subwindow. In the Additional Outgoing Headers area type "From" (no colon) in the left field and your desired email address in the right field, and click set. Answer yes if you get a dialog about saving the changes (I don't think the set button really does what it needs to). Quit Mail and restart to confirm the change took. I now get a "From: jbf@frazer.com" on my NeXT outgoing mail, and no 8.X configuration hassles. Admittedly, I still get a "Sender: root@mozart.xyz.whatever" header, where "xyz.whatever" seems to depend on what remailer I chose to echo test mails. This may be because I have sendmail running off a subsidiary.cf file, and it doesn't complete the hostname field. I haven't had the time to play with it yet (or for the past 6 months, to tell the truth). Although there are two lines for additional headers, adding a "Sender" line won't fix the problem. It won't do anything, in fact. But, at least, the from line now says what I want! Barney
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost the root password Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 15:22:53 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <327F4DBD.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <55ne1e$sc5@news.tds-gn.lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Patrick Farley wrote: > > Hello folks, > > I've recently been tasked with reconfiguring several > of our NextStep PC's (Intel Based). The challenge of this > is that no one knows the root password. I can get to single > user mode know problem, but I can't simply do a passwd or > edit the passwd file. Any suggestions on changing the root > passwd? > > -Patrick 0. hoping you are really the root of the system. 1. "-s" boot in single user mode 2. go to multiuser prompt, root's password is in netinfo ! # sh /etc/rc 3. # passwd root without a prompt for the old one 4. # reboot to get the windowmanager again Stefan -- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Faxing? w/ OPENSTEP? Date: 12 Nov 1996 21:41:37 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd0e2$3b3f2180$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, I have a fax modem; I have OPENSTEP 4.0; I have a program called FaxReader.app. Now, surely, there's a way to get these things to work together? I can't find anything about adding a fax modem to the system... --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Compiling Samba on NS3.3... getting link errors Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:46:50 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Message-ID: <32889BEA.7F98@harmonic.co.il> References: <E0DA6D.rM@interactive.net> <Pine.NXT.3.95.961111233052.2653B-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> CC: hocker@interactive.net Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Matthew Hocker wrote: > > > Has anyone succesfully built Samba on NextStep 3.3? I'm having problems > > due to link errors, and would appreciate some help. > > > > Email, please. > > It compiles well on NS 3.3 Intel Patch1, at least with GCC 2.7.2 but i > guess it will compile also with 2.5.8. > > Regards > --- > Konstantin Wiesel > Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de I am looking for Samba over NS3.3 (black 68k box). If you have this as binaries, and you can put it as tar/gzip/whatever in some accessible ftp site I will be very grateful. Regards -- ************************************* Uri Shkolnik - System Administration Harmonic Lightwaves - Israel Tel 972-4-8550-180 (Ext 122)
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Host filtering for sendmail? Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:38:56 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Anyone know of a quick and dirty way to filter incoming mail connections? For example, not allowing *.spammer.com to connect. Basically a mail firewall of some kind... TIA -- James Pooton <james@digisys.net>
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep Solaris and OpenStep Mach-NFS issues Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 00:29:15 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MmWJmf200Uh702tcpE@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3287964F.77E6@netscape.com> <ImVy7sm00UhBM2sb4A@andrew.cmu.edu> <3288cd65.0@news.hampshire.edu> In-Reply-To: <3288cd65.0@news.hampshire.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Nov-96 Re: OpenStep Solaris and Op.. by jon klein@freon.artifici > Hmm... you thing so? I had the same problem with my NeXT speaking to a > sparc IPC running SunOS 4.1.3_U1. Well, Patrick @ Netscape sent me a thank-you email, saying that mounting with rsize=1024 solved his problems. However, the problem is only supposed to happen with Solaris 2.4+, not SunOS 4.x-- perhaps you've encountered some other problem...? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: zbir@seven.ucs.indiana.edu (Zachery "Tigger" Bir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 for Intel Date: 13 Nov 1996 00:47:16 -0500 Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Message-ID: <mbtwwvqim1n.fsf@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> I'm trying to install NS3.3 for Intel on my machine. It seems happily to go about its business up to the point where I decide which packages to install, and click "install". After that it installs maybe 20 files or so, then freezes. No reaction from mouse, or keyboard. I have to restart the machine. Here's my configuration: Cyrix 6x86 150+ Processor Quantum Fireball 1280 HD Atapi CR-ROM Number 9 Motion 331 Video Card I've followed the instructions in "EIDE and ATAPI Support in NS 3.3" from NeXTanswers, but am now at a loss. If you don't know about this, it says, "NS will treat Atapi CD-ROM's just like SCSI CD-ROM's, but because of a bug, you need to initially tell NS that it's using Adaptec 154x Drivers. Then load the EIDE and Atapi Drivers. After the whole installation, remove the Adaptec Driver." But I can't even get the whole thing installed. Anybody run into this? Solve it? TIA, -- Zachery J. Bir - zbir@indiana.edu UCS Support Center - Knowledge Base Programmer/Editor http://seven.ucs.indiana.edu/~zbir/index.html
From: Chris Morrow <morrowc@mrj.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Host filtering for sendmail? Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 00:04:44 -0500 Organization: MRJ, Inc./Oakton, Virginia, USA Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961113000156.13119A-100000@gecko.mrj.com> References: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, James R. Pooton wrote: > Hello, > > Anyone know of a quick and dirty way to filter incoming mail > connections? For example, not allowing *.spammer.com to connect. > Basically a mail firewall of some kind... Have you tried tcp-wrappers? you should be able to setup a set of allow/deny conditions to known sites... I THINK that this might work, though I don;t think that this was the original intent for tcp-wrappers... oh, and your sendmail will have to run from inetd, not as a daemon, which means you'll have to have a sendmail -q in your crontab, to run however many minutes/hours/days you normally have the q re-run time set to... (this tcpwrappers/sendmail-in-inetd thing will eat up some more CPU though, launching sendmail and tcpwrappers everytime you get some incoming e-mail...oh well, that's the price for security) -Chris
From: humanist@interport.net (Michael Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to change display driver without seeing?!?! Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 07:35:14 GMT Organization: Humanist Movement Message-ID: <56btcg$i0f@park.interport.net> I have a brand-new installation of NS 3.30. I replaced the VGA driver with the proper one, but now the monitor is all out of sync. It's the second time, the first I was still able to see enought to fix it. Isn't there a way to try out a driver before rebooting, or revert to vga, or reconfigure the driver from single-user mode? ------------------- "Computers are like people; the old generation can never figure out the software in the newer generations. "
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint Date: 13 Nov 1996 07:32:15 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-23.usc.edu Message-ID: <56bthv$p5h@usc.edu> Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: permissions weirdness Date: 13 Nov 1996 07:35:11 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <56btnf$jqq@kanga.accessone.com> References: <199611081826.NAA07286@nerc3.nerc.com> <E0nGJF.706@nidat.sub.org> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961110144929.959C-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.95.961110144929.959C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > /bin/sh was SETUID ROOT! > > Now there's no chance in hell I did that on purpose, I've got no idea > what's going on. My fear is that some .pkg (not necesarily a NeXTstep > one) that needed to be installed as root fiddled with the permissions. I can't remember the specifics of your earlier post, Tim, so please forgive me if I'm off track. Someone once pointed out that if you don't explicitly declare a partition in /etc/fstab, even though OpenStep automounts it, any of its files that you touch can wreak havok to ownerships. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: Ann Kennedy <ann@ann.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Booting from Jaz drive on laptop Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 23:45:09 -0800 Organization: Not Very Well Organized Organization Message-ID: <32897C85.34EA@ann.com> References: <847753964.21320@dejanews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mike@ali.bc.ca Michael Cam wrote: > > I have a NEC 4050H laptop with an internal IDE hard drive. I also have a JAZ connected to it via an Adaptec 1460A slim-scsi adapter. > > I would like to be able to boot of my internal IDE drive as Windows 95. > I would like to be able to boot of the JAZ as Windows NT 4.0 server. > I would also like to boot of another JAZ cartridge as OpenStep on MACH. > > Is this possible? At what level would I have to decide which fixed/removable drive to boot off from: BIOS or is there some boot manager that will allow this. Out of curiosity, what operating system will be managing the Adaptec Slim-scsi card before booting in order to recognize the JAZ drive? Pretty hard to boot from a device whose interface (IRQ and memory address) are not yet established. My Samsung 810 has a neat trick of being able to convince (before boot) itself that the CD drive is *really* the boot floppy, so what you're talking about can obviously be done, but today the PC card itself requires drivers, either in the OS or running under an OS, which is a different deal than the "hard-coded" devices. Love that JAZ drive, so I understand wanting to use it this way. My brother has convinced his Solaris 2.5.1 box that the JAZ really is a CD, and that the cartridge contains the OS install software. You can do very cool things with a JAZ. My point is that you have to be able to talk to it first of all. I'll keep tuned to see how you make out...
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Multiple network cards? Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 03:15:15 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Nov13.031515.25267@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961111233339.2653C-100000@pollux> In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.961111233339.2653C-100000@pollux> Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> writes: > > 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? NeXT don't support the forwarding, but it seems to work. The simplest way to set up the routing is to edit /etc/iftab. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep Solaris and OpenStep Mach-NFS issues Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 03:13:52 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Nov13.031352.25102@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <3287964F.77E6@netscape.com> In article <3287964F.77E6@netscape.com> Patrick T Hickey <patrick@netscape.com> writes: > nfs_server: bad sendreply from xxx.x.xx.xxx (IP address) > svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed A well known incompatability between NeXTSTEP and Solaris. Use an rsize of 1024 for the mount. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can I access Windows NT fileservers from NEXTSTEP machines? Date: 13 Nov 1996 15:10:26 GMT Organization: Customer of EUnet Germany; Info: info@Germany.EU.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <56cod3$d70@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> I'm setting up a couple of NEXTSTEP machines in a heterogeneous network (Sun, Mac, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Novell). There are four types of file servers: AppleShare, Windows NT, Novell and Sun. I can access the Sun server using NFS. I think I will be able to access the Novell server using NEXTSTEP's Novell client implementation. I am hoping to be able to access the AppleShare servers using the commercially available software. I have absolutely no idea about how to access the Windows NT fileservers. The system administrators of the NT boxes do not accept NFS on the NT servers ("due to security reasons"). Is there any way / any product that allows me to access the NT file servers from my NEXTSTEP Workspace? (I suppose I could use ftp but that's not the kind of integration I'm hoping for.) Thanks in advance, Piers pwalter@mediahaus.de
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] No such host, but DNS OK ? Date: 13 Nov 1996 12:46:09 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <56cfuh$kpr@news.xs4all.nl> Keywords: DNS nslookup resolv Would anyone care to guess what could be wrong when programs like Mail and OmniWeb complain about 'Host unknown' or 'No such host', while DNS lookups with nslookup have no problem? This is on an OPENSTEP 4.0 (Mach/Intel) system that is a subsidiary of a master netinfo server (same configuration), on which the problem does not exist. What else is needed besides a correct /etc/resolv.conf (which is the same on both machines) ? TIA -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Startup problems on clone netinfo server Date: 13 Nov 1996 16:04:36 GMT Organization: Customer of EUnet Germany; Info: info@Germany.EU.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <56crik$fel@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> I've got several NEXTSTEP PCs, all of them with Windows 95 / NT on a second partition. The NetInfo network is a simple two domain network with a root domain and one subdomains for each machine. I can guarantee for no machine to be running NEXTSTEP all the time. So in order to be able to keep my NetInfo network running nevertheless, I decided to turn several machines into clone NetInfo servers (hoping that at least one of the master or clone NetInfo servers will be running at all times). So far my setup does not work quite the way I intended it to work, since the clone NetInfo servers do not start up when the master NetInfo server is down ("Still searching for parent network administration (NetInfo) server...."). I took a look at the NEXTSTEP in Focus articles and found this statement: "Whenever a clone server process starts up, it looks in its own copy of the database to get the name of the master and the network address of the computer that runs the master. It contacts the master to make sure it's up to date before it starts providing lookup services using its own copy of the database.". Am I right in interpreting this that no clone server can startup while the master is down? If so, is there any other way to achive what I want to do (set up the NetInfo network so that any machine can boot with network services as long as at least one of several server machines is running)? Thanks in advance, Piers Uso Walter pwalter@mediahaus.de PS: Here's the way I set things up in NetInfo: NetInfo domain /: / master: nimaster/network /machines/nimaster serves: ./network nimaster/local /machines/niclone1 serves: niclone1/local ./network NetInfo domain /nimaster: / master: localhost/local /machines/localhost serves: ./local /machines/broadcasthost serves: ../network NetInfo domain /niclone1: / master: localhost/local /machines/localhost serves: ./local /machines/broadcasthost serves: ../network
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Date: 13 Nov 1996 17:28:04 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <56d0f4$b3t@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <567een$kje@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <cmVpKcK00UhBA1itgP@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <cmVpKcK00UhBA1itgP@andrew.cmu.edu> On 11/11/96, Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 11-Nov-96 DISK BOOT > FAILURE: INSERT S.. by Lones A Smith@lones.mit. > > I am very worried. I have NS 3.2 on a 486 100 mhz system at home. > > I received, for the first time ever, the command in the subject header > > > > DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER > [ ... ] > > Is it hardware or software? > > Hardware. > > > Exactly what must I do to fix the problem? > > Well, I'd first make sure that I had a complete backup of anything I > cared about on that drive. Secondly, I'd probably swap hard drive > controller cards and reconnect all cabling if convenient and see whether > that made a difference. If it doesn't, and the drive is still under > warranty, I'd probably return the drive. > I'd guess that Lones' machine is a Canon object.station..? If so, sorry Lones, this has been happening to a number of systems, and despite excellent suggestions and help from many in csn.*, there doesn't seem to be any solution most of the time. I've been threatening for a while to beat up on Canon about this, and every time I've been just about to, I've had another promise that something will be done to fix my system, I'm getting a bit fed up with this... Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Printing using SAMBA. Message-ID: <E0tB0n.A1E@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <55vpp7$e4s@Vir.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:02:47 GMT In article <55vpp7$e4s@Vir.com> stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up my SAMBA print services for NeXTSTEP 3.3. > I have a HPLaserJet5L and a HPDeskJet660C which work fine under NeXTSTEP > 3.3 and Ghostscript. Now I want to make the printers available for a PC > running Win3.11. > > I tried using nidump to create printcap entries but nidump > returns with the following message: > > traveler> nidump printcap /traveler > Printer HPLaserJet5L can't be represented in printcap format. > > > What does this mean? Can I just create a printcap entry using > the values in the NetInfo database or will this corrupt files. > > I was wondering how to go about this? > > Any help would be appreciated, > stef Hi Stef, I don't know what this messages (can't be represented) is about, I've never seen it before, but I used this command to create my samba-printcap file; I think it should also work for you. lpc status | grep ":" | sed s/:/\|/ > /samba/lib/printcap Robert. -- ========================================================================== == Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ========================================================================== ==
From: jes@rednsi.com (Josep Egea i Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Additional PS Fonts and PS Printers Date: 6 Nov 1996 15:01:19 GMT Organization: NEXUS Servicios de Informacion, s.l. Message-ID: <55q97v$i6j$1@diana.ibernet.es> Hi all, I have recently installed some PS fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts and they work on screen and "dummy" printers (NeXTLaser and Epson Stylus + GSCorp's driver). Unfortunately, I cannot get they printed on a Texas Instruments PS Level 2 printer (which lacks these fonts). I have the PPD file for the printer, which works very well for every other aspect (papel source, resolution, etc). It includes the list of available fonts in the printer, and the new fonts are not there. Anyway, print jobs generated from applications don't include the font definition, and, thus,it gets changed by Courier. Is there any way of changing this behaviour? Do I have to download the fonts every time I turn the printer on (which tool should I use for it)? Any help really appreciated Thanks and best regards. PS: I used FontConvert.app by Frank Siegert which is a superb tool for font conversion available in the Peanuts archive ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Fonts/converters/FontConvert.1.3b.NIHS.b.tar.gz -- Josep Egea - jes@rednsi.com - NeXTMail & MIME OK Nexus Servicios de Informacion - Barcelona (Spain) Telf: + 34 3 285 00 70 - Fax: + 34 3 285 00 70
From: jes@rednsi.com (Josep Egea i Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PS Fonts and Printers Date: 6 Nov 1996 15:04:11 GMT Organization: NEXUS Servicios de Informacion Message-ID: <55q9db$i6j$2@diana.ibernet.es> Hi all, I have recently installed some PS fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts and they work on screen and "dummy" printers (NeXTLaser and Epson Stylus + GSCorp's driver). Unfortunately, I cannot get they printed on a Texas Instruments PS Level 2 printer (which lacks these fonts). I have the PPD file for the printer, which works very well for every other aspect (papel source, resolution, etc). It includes the list of available fonts in the printer, and the new fonts are not there. Anyway, print jobs generated from applications don't include the font definition, and, thus,it gets changed by Courier. Is there any way of changing this behaviour? Do I have to download the fonts every time I turn the printer on (which tool should I use for it)? Any help really appreciated Thanks and best regards. PS: I used FontConvert.app by Frank Siegert which is a superb tool for font conversion available in the Peanuts archive ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Fonts/converters/FontConvert.1.3b.NIHS.b.tar.gz -- Josep Egea - jes@rednsi.com - NeXTMail & MIME OK Nexus Servicios de Informacion - Barcelona (Spain) Telf: + 34 3 285 00 70 - Fax: + 34 3 285 00 70
From: rdi@interlog.com (Rick Innis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Slow NewsGrazer startup; NNTP problem? Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:36:35 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <56dt33$k37@news.interlog.com> I've recently started running NewsGrazer over a 28.8K PP link and have noticed that it takes a while to start up - specifically, to load the active file. Takes around 3 or 4 minutes, not a big deal if I've got other things to do but annoying enough to discourage casual newsreading. (Not necessarily a bad thing...) Anyway, are there ways around this? F'rexample, could I run an NNTP slavw and cache news.active locally? Useful suggestions welcomed. --Rick.
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Problems compiling Perl-5.003 Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:18:13 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.847937517@shellx> References: <56dhbs$abr@netnews.upenn.edu> <56ds87$4c7@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: > David R. Anstine wrote: >> Has anyone successfully compiled 5.003? >The kind people at TipTop have it at their ftp site in a pkg! >ftp://ftp.tiptop.com/pub/Objective/<YOUR-OS>/ On NS3.3 I compiled and installed perl 5.003 from the sources from a local CPAN site without any problem just using the normal autoconfiguration, and it passed all the standard tests. I don't have more info on the version since it just says: elvis > perl -version This is perl, version 5.003 with EMBED built under next at Sat Jul 06 1996 01:03:29 GMT + suidperl security patch Sorry if that's not helpful. -sam
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Host filtering for sendmail? Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:20:12 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <wmWc7Qu00UhBQ2sFcO@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.961113000156.13119A-100000@gecko.mrj.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961113000156.13119A-100000@gecko.mrj.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Nov-96 Re: Host filtering for send.. by Chris Morrow@mrj.com >> Anyone know of a quick and dirty way to filter incoming mail >> connections? For example, not allowing *.spammer.com to connect. >> Basically a mail firewall of some kind... > > Have you tried tcp-wrappers? you should be able to setup a set of > allow/deny conditions to known sites... [ ... ] Actually, the newest versions of sendmail (ie, 8.8.x) support that functionality internally without needing to invoke tcpd. From src/READ_ME: "TCPWRAPPERS Turns on support for the TCP wrappers library (-lwrap). This library is available on ftp.win.tue.nl in /pub/security; grab tcp_wrappers_<VER>.tar.gz (where <VER> is the highest numbered version)." -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Nik Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SB AWE32 PPP with NS3.3 Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:11:37 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <56d30p$11f6@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, what is necessary to get the PNP version of the SB AWE32 run under NS3.3 for Intel? Answers please to uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:29:24 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1311962129240001@slip-35-16.ots.utexas.edu> References: <56bthv$p5h@usc.edu> In article <56bthv$p5h@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: >Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint > ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/ucb/src/sendmail/ Try it, you'll like it. Jacques Distler
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint Date: 14 Nov 1996 05:33:04 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-17.usc.edu Message-ID: <56eaug$j30@usc.edu> References: <56bthv$p5h@usc.edu> <distler-1311962129240001@slip-35-16.ots.utexas.edu> Cc: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu In <distler-1311962129240001@slip-35-16.ots.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler wrote: > In article <56bthv$p5h@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote: > > >Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint > > > > ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/ucb/src/sendmail/ > > Try it, you'll like it. That's true. But I can't compile and was hoping for binaries and man pages, etc. plus source. BTW, as I have 8.8.1 running (Thanks RLF), I notice there's an 8.8.2.1 patch --> if I use the patch program, can I do that with this to my 8.8.1 sendmail and have 8.8.2 on the spot? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <imre@cyber.matteusskolan.stockholm.se> Message-ID: <9611131003.AA05008@matteusskolan.stockholm.se> Comments: Authenticated sender is <imre@[193.13.53.1]> From: "Imre Hoffmann" <imre@cyber.matteusskolan.stockholm.se> Organization: Matteus school Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:26:25 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Submission Priority: normal
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netscape Trashes my downloads. Date: 13 Nov 1996 17:52:29 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <56d1st$cck@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <nextjet-0611961308240001@d00839.mia.bellsouth.net> <jbf-1111961534150001@news.tiac.net> In-Reply-To: <jbf-1111961534150001@news.tiac.net> On 11/11/96, James B. Frazer wrote: > In article <nextjet-0611961308240001@d00839.mia.bellsouth.net>, > nextjet@bellsouth.net (german gobel) wrote: > > > I am attempting to download some demo apps from the usual > > archives to my mac. But when I save the files as source and > > transfer them over appletalk to my cube all I get is text files > > every time.if anyone has covered this in the faq I apologize. tia > > german gobel. > > Saving files as text kind of guarantees trashing the high order > bit, and you are downloading binaries. > I can't say that I've ever had this problem with NEXTSTEP. > As I recall, the NeXT browser (OmniWeb) doesn't support FTP. So > use Yftp, which has the advantage of caching directories, and the > disadvantage of hanging when you try to dump a long or hung transfer > from a site. (Kill it in Workspace.) > That's if you want to use your NeXT for FTP. If that's too hard, > use Fetch on your Mac > Umm, what??!! I don't remember any time when OmniWeb didn't support FTP, and other NEXTSTEP browsers (there are apps other than OmniWeb -- NetSurfer in particular has an excellent FTP tool) do too. I find it difficult to believe anyone would find any difficulty in using ftp under NEXTSTEP. Please, I'm sure you were trying to be helpful, but you could easily have researched your answer a little more thoroughly -- and you would have given rather more accurate advice. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Host filtering for sendmail? Date: 14 Nov 1996 05:35:23 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-17.usc.edu Message-ID: <56eb2r$j30@usc.edu> References: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.961113000156.13119A-100000@gecko.mrj.com> <wmWc7Qu00UhBQ2sFcO@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <wmWc7Qu00UhBQ2sFcO@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Nov-96 Re: Host > filtering for send.. by Chris Morrow@mrj.com > >> Anyone know of a quick and dirty way to filter incoming mail > >> connections? For example, not allowing *.spammer.com to connect. > >> Basically a mail firewall of some kind... > > > > Have you tried tcp-wrappers? you should be able to setup a set of > > allow/deny conditions to known sites... > [ ... ] > > Actually, the newest versions of sendmail (ie, 8.8.x) support that > functionality internally without needing to invoke tcpd. From > src/READ_ME: > > "TCPWRAPPERS Turns on support for the TCP wrappers library (-lwrap). > This library is available on ftp.win.tue.nl in /pub/security; > grab tcp_wrappers_<VER>.tar.gz (where <VER> is the highest > numbered version)." Also check out: „http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html plus the links there. Lots of information/examples of the new 8.8.* rules which do many many things. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: Michael R Greaves <greaves+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep and Colormaps Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 03:41:22 -0500 Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <smWhgm600YUt0wzkU0@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello: Does anyone have any information on how to prevent colormap colorflashes from occuring in Openstep 1.1? Thanks. Michael R. Greaves
From: smbakh@milind (Milind Bakhle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: unexpected kernel page fault Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:42:42 GMT Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center Message-ID: <56dfci$pfs@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> Hello all. Recently, my NeXTstation has been crashing once or twice a week. The panic message is always: "unexpected kernel page fault failure" What does this indicate? How can I diagnose if the problem is related to software/hardware? How do I stop these panics? Thanks for any help. Sorry about the From: address in my posting. Milind -- Milind A. Bakhle Milind.A.Bakhle@lerc.nasa.gov
From: smbakh@milind (Milind Bakhle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: unexpected kernel page fault Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:47:25 GMT Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center Message-ID: <56dfld$pgh@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> References: <56dfci$pfs@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov> Sorry about the follow-up to my own post. This one has a Reply-To field with my correct e-mail address. Hello all. Recently, my NeXTstation has been crashing once or twice a week. The panic message is always: "unexpected kernel page fault failure" What does this indicate? How can I diagnose if the problem is related to software/hardware? How do I stop these panics? Thanks for any help. Sorry about the From: address in my posting. Milind -- Milind A. Bakhle Milind.A.Bakhle@lerc.nasa.gov
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: When does NEXTSTEP look for an NTP server? Date: 13 Nov 1996 22:34:05 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd1b3$09ed04e0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've configured our OPENSTEP machine to use a network time server using HostManager. It clearly knows what to do, as a manual "ntp -F" correctly locates the server and sets our local time. But, how often does OPENSTEP _do_ this on its own? We use an ISDN line (which is configured to _not_ bring up the link on NTP requests). I would have thought something very frequently, such as every hour, was the standard. But, after several days our system time was still slightly wrong... indicating that OPENSTEP had not consulted the NTP server while the ISDN line was up. For the time being, I've added a crontab entry to run "ntp -F" every hour, forcing time correction fairly frequently. The ISDN line is up at least four, sometimes twenty, hours a day... so sooner or later, it synchronizes. How does this sound as a solution? Seems like a hack... --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with OPENSTEP 4.0 & serial drivers... SOLVED Date: 13 Nov 1996 22:30:49 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd1b2$9525ffe0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> References: <563tjf$2nr@rodelo.cyberverse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to everyone that responded to my original posting. I'm replying to the group with a summary of what I learned. 1. OPENSTEP & Serial Ports For some reason, OPENSTEP 4.0 will detect and install the correct serial port drivers for a machine, but it neglects to install the TTY port driver as well, which is required in order to tie devices to the serial ports. You have to do this manually, or your serial ports won't work. Just use Configure.app to install the TTY Port Driver, then all should be well. 2. Port Speed OPENSTEP's native serial port drivers are limited to a measly 57,600 baud. This is of course completely archaic, and barely adequate for even 28,800 baud modems (since data compression can usually double the perceived speed of a modem). This won't do at all for ISDN or newer ADSL modems. There are two ways to fix the problem: Install a better driver, or get a serial card that supports "rate multiplying." I've looked into both. You can find a better serial port driver in the public domain MUX package. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the latest version is--version 1.7 had some problems building under OPENSTEP; it should be easy to fix, though, if you're familiar with the system. This driver will allow you to use your ports at up to 128,000 baud. The solution I followed was to purchase a Hayes ESP serial port card, which operates at speeds up to 910,000 baud (!). It comes with DOS/Windows configuration software, so you'll need to pop a DOS diskette into your system, boot up, then run the DOS command line utility "espca" to configure the card. I've set mine to utilize full optimization, multiply all serial rates by 4 (so 57,600 baud, for instance, becomes 230,400 baud), and use FIFO buffers. The card "looks" like a standard 16550 high-performance serial card to OPENSTEP... but when you look at the modem statistics, you'll see much higher throughput rates than OPENSTEP believes it is using. I'm using my ISDN modem at 230,400 baud with this technique, and it's working great. --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com Zacharias Beckman <zbeckman@hondo.cyberverse.com> wrote in article <563tjf$2nr@rodelo.cyberverse.com>... > I'm trying to set up an OPENSTEP 4.0 system to use an external ISDN modem. > I'm running into two really nasty problems (this is disgusting--so far, > our Windows95 system has proven a better gateway that OPENSTEP--I can't > believe this is happening)! > > 1. Serial ports don't work > > Obviously a show-stopper. Has anyone gotten serial ports to work on an > OPENSTEP Intel system? Whenever I try to access the ports, I get "no such > device" errors. At boot time it looks like the device has been properly > detected and configured. The device file (/dev/cu[f]a) exists and has the > right permissions... > > 2. Serial port speed > > From the documentation, it looks like OPENSTEP's maximum serial speed is > going to be around 19K or 36K. This is rediculous. The port is rated at > 250K, and the ISDN modem operates at that speed as well--is there no way > to use a high-performance serial port with OPENSTEP??? > > Any suggestions or comments are appreciated! Please respond via email to > zac@dreams.com. Thank you! > > Zacharias > zac@dreams.com > >
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba & Windows95 Printers? Date: 13 Nov 1996 22:41:54 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd1b4$219bd5c0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We just finished installing Samba (w/ OPENSTEP 4.0) and it works great. We can easily access the server from our Windows95 desktops. Now... how can we do the reverse? I'd like to set it up so that /Net/<blah> access the Windows95 machines and, _more important_, the OPENSTEP system has access to the Windows95 network printer (which is Postscript, of course). Please help! There's precious little documentation... what there is makes it sound doable, but without adequate explanation. Reply via email would be appreciated--thanks in advance! --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GateKeeper and PPP Connection? Date: 13 Nov 1996 22:46:38 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd1b4$caaa56a0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> References: <andrew-0611960250530001@andrew.inxpress.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew M. Priasmoro <andrew@inxpress.net> wrote... > My question is that does anyone know the ways to make PPP connection more > convenient than the above method? Well, if you didn't find an answer that solves the problem _using_ ppp 2.2 and GateKeeper (I suspect you did, though), here's another recommendation: Morning Star PPP was recently acquired by Progressive Systems. I've upgraded to the latest version, which works great on OPENSTEP 4.0. The difference with this product is that its a "real" PPP daemon which binds your ethernet directly to the PPP daemon. You don't need to do anything to bring up or shutdown the link (ie: no need for GateKeeper). You also have extensive control over the interface, protocols, and bringup/keepup/pass parameters. Highly recommended (though I don't know what the current market price is). --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: vadim@physics.utexas.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Additional PS Fonts and PS Printers Date: 14 Nov 1996 06:51:12 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <56efh0$f4f@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <55q97v$i6j$1@diana.ibernet.es> jes@rednsi.com (Josep Egea i Sanchez) wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently installed some PS fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts and they work > on screen and "dummy" printers (NeXTLaser and Epson Stylus + GSCorp's > driver). Unfortunately, I cannot get they printed on a Texas Instruments PS > Level 2 printer (which lacks these fonts). > > I have the PPD file for the printer, which works very well for every other > aspect (papel source, resolution, etc). It includes the list of available > fonts in the printer, and the new fonts are not there. Anyway, print jobs > generated from applications don't include the font definition, and, thus,it > gets changed by Courier. > > Is there any way of changing this behaviour? Do I have to download the fonts > every time I turn the printer on (which tool should I use for it)? > > Any help really appreciated > > Thanks and best regards. > > PS: I used FontConvert.app by Frank Siegert which is a superb tool for font > conversion available in the Peanuts archive > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Fonts/converters/FontConvert.1.3b.NIHS.b.tar.gz On NS 3.1 and later, there is an obscure printcap entry _nxfinalform that tell the NS printing software to include all the font descriptions with the postscript file. This is particularely handy for remote printing when your NeXT has no knowledge or control over printer-resident fonts and the only safe assumption is that NO fonts at all are resident and all the info must be supplied with the printing job. For other situations, this is overkill, but it works. There are a few drawbacks, however, so use your discretion: 1) -nxfinalform does not work with NS 3.0 or earlier. If you use 3.0 printing software for the sake of AppleTalk, this is a problem. 2) Downloading ALL the fonts means that you duplicate fonts already resident on the printer. This may be a problem if the connection is slow (9600 baud serial) or you are remote-printing and are charged per kbyte of PS rather than per page. On the other hand, if you own/control the printer, you might save printer memory by not downloading any resident fonts at all. 3) lpr and other command-line printing commands do not grok -nxfinalform. If you already have a PS file minus the font descriptions, open it in Preview, then use Print command of the Preview.app (this is a kludge, but it works). The syntax of the _nxfinalform is very simple -- it's a valueless entry in /etc/princap file or equivalently, a valueless property in the printers/YourPrinter directory of netinfo. For an example, here is an entry from /etc/printcap on my system blw|lw9_303|BLW: \ :_nxfinalform:af=/usr/adm/lp.acct:cf=/usr/lib/transcript/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/transcript/psdf:gf=/usr/lib/transcript/psgf: \ :if=/usr/lib/transcript/psif:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:lp:mx#0: \ :nf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf: \ :note=Printer in RLM 9.303 via utaphy: \ :of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:rm=utaphy.ph.utexas.edu:rp=lw9_303: \ :rf=/usr/lib/transcript/psrf:rw:sb:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/BLW:sf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/transcript/pstf:ty=Apple LaserWriter IIg: \ :vf=/usr/lib/transcript/psvf: NOTE: if you use netinfo, you should nidump printcap . >/etc/printap # edit /etc/printcap as appropriate niload printcap . </etc/princap which may or may not work, depending on whether the appropriate printer entry is in printcap format or not. If it's not, you may write one from scratch and niload. Alternatively, you may use NetInfoManager.app directly, without bothering with /etc/printcap: open directory printers/printer_name and add a property _nxfinalform (no values). I have no idea how to set _nxfinalform form using PrinterManager.app; it may or may not be possible. In any case, do not even try to re-configure a REMOTE printer using PrinterManager. I hope this helps. -- Vadim. -- ***************************************************************************** Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, | vadim@physics.utexas.edu (NextMail OK) Associate Professor of Physics, | #include <std_disclaimer.h> University of Texas at Austin. | #excuse bad_typing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199611140400.UAA16981@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 96 22:59:54 -0500 Subject: how to read lockfile for PID Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I'd like to be know how to read the PID that is locking my modem. The PID is contained in "/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufa" but it isn't readable by mere mortals, just by some processes (kermit and pppd at least). I am wondering if someone has a program to convert the lockfile info into plain text. TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Startup problems on clone netinfo server Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:18:30 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <ImWZR6600UhBA2gtYJ@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <56crik$fel@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> In-Reply-To: <56crik$fel@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Nov-96 Startup problems on clone n.. by Piers Uso Walter@mediaha > I can guarantee for no machine to be running NEXTSTEP all the time. So in > order to be able to keep my NetInfo network running nevertheless, I > decided to turn several machines into clone NetInfo servers (hoping that > at least one of the master or clone NetInfo servers will be running at all > times). That won't work. You really need to dedicate a machine to being the master NetInfo server, and it needs to be up 24-7. That machine can and probably should also serve DNS information and be the central mail hub. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: anstine@orion.sas.upenn.edu (David R. Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Problems compiling Perl-5.003 Date: 13 Nov 1996 22:16:28 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <56dhbs$abr@netnews.upenn.edu> Trying to compile Perl-5.003 on a NeXTstation running 3.2. I get the following error during make: ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2text.PL *** Segmentation fault Stop. Has anyone successfully compiled 5.003? -dave
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can I access Windows NT fileservers from NEXTSTEP machines? Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:21:19 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <ImWZTjC00UhBE2gu56@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <56cod3$d70@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> In-Reply-To: <56cod3$d70@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Nov-96 How can I access Windows NT.. by Piers Uso Walter@mediaha > I have absolutely no idea about how to access the Windows NT fileservers. > The system administrators of the NT boxes do not accept NFS on the NT > servers ("due to security reasons"). > > Is there any way / any product that allows me to access the NT file > servers from my NEXTSTEP Workspace? (I suppose I could use ftp but that's > not the kind of integration I'm hoping for.) There's something called Samba, which is NT's equivalent to NFS. However, there are more security holes in Samba than there in NFS-- if the NT admins aren't willing to accept NFS for security reasons, they aren't going to accept _any_ remote filesystem implementation. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: imre.hoffmann@mbox300.swipnet.se (Imre Hoffmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Web server problem Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 22:56:23 GMT Organization: Matteus school Message-ID: <56djmu$md0@mn5.swip.net> NNTP-Posting-User: s-56380 Our home pages work perfect, but I have a serious problem. I want to install private home pages in the directories ../user/"username"/public_html but when I open these URL's I see only HTML codes in grey background, no graphic, no formatted text. What shall I do to get it work? I'm VERY THANKFUL for any help. Please write to me at the address imre.hoffmann@mbox300.swipnet.se or imre@matteusskolan.stockholm.se
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Problems compiling Perl-5.003 Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:22:15 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-22.usc.edu Message-ID: <56ds87$4c7@usc.edu> References: <56dhbs$abr@netnews.upenn.edu> Cc: anstine@orion.sas.upenn.edu In <56dhbs$abr@netnews.upenn.edu> David R. Anstine wrote: > Trying to compile Perl-5.003 on a NeXTstation running 3.2. > I get the following error during make: > > ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2text.PL > *** Segmentation fault > Stop. > > Has anyone successfully compiled 5.003? The kind people at TipTop have it at their ftp site in a pkg! ftp://ftp.tiptop.com/pub/Objective/<YOUR-OS>/ -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Host filtering for sendmail? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961113200729.1425C-100000@charisma> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:08:46 -0500 References: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> To: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> In-Reply-To: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII sendmail 8.8.2 has a feature to do this, I believe. I don't know of any NeXTstep package to do this. There was one around, but it seems to have vanished. TjL
From: hhoff@ultra.modern-video.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Openstep and Colormaps Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:48:26 GMT Organization: media group Message-ID: <56f4eq$qdu@gate.seicom.net> References: <smWhgm600YUt0wzkU0@andrew.cmu.edu> Michael R Greaves (greaves+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: >Does anyone have any information on how to prevent colormap colorflashes >from occuring in Openstep 1.1? Hm..colormap flashes? This (and the 1.1) sounds a lot like you're running on Solaris. If that's the case, there are two possible answers: 1) Yes: buy a true-color (24 bits/pixel) board. 2) No: the X Window system has no working color management, and owsm steals a lot of the available colors from the color cube. I suffer badly from (2) every day, but was able to reduce the pain somwhat by issuing the following arcane sayings in my ~/.Xdefaults: DPSColorCube.PseudoColor.8.reds: 6 DPSColorCube.PseudoColor.8.greens: 5 DPSColorCube.PseudoColor.8.blues: 5 DPSColorCube.PseudoColor.8.grays: 7 Thanks go to the SUN OpenStep team, which promptly answered my question. This will make your OpenStep icons look a little grubby, but other X programs like e.g. Netscape look good again, even without gross workarounds like a private colormap. Btw, where did you get 1.1? Is it released yet? Is the DPS server still such a terrible memory hog? Holger -- Object web weaver | @work: hhoff@media-group.de Media group | @home: hhoff@schwaben.de (NeXTmail & PGP ok) Stuttgart, Germany | Be cool.
From: pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can I access Windows NT fileservers from NEXTSTEP machines? Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:42:39 GMT Organization: Customer of EUnet Germany; Info: info@Germany.EU.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <56dtef$9dl@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> References: <ImWZTjC00UhBE2gu56@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <ImWZTjC00UhBE2gu56@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > > I have absolutely no idea about how to access the Windows NT fileservers. > > The system administrators of the NT boxes do not accept NFS on the NT > > servers ("due to security reasons"). > > > > Is there any way / any product that allows me to access the NT file > > servers from my NEXTSTEP Workspace? (I suppose I could use ftp but that's > > not the kind of integration I'm hoping for.) > > There's something called Samba, which is NT's equivalent to NFS. > However, there are more security holes in Samba than there in NFS-- if > the NT admins aren't willing to accept NFS for security reasons, they > aren't going to accept _any_ remote filesystem implementation. I may be mistaken but here's my knowledge about Samba: I always used it for file access the other way round: accessing my NEXTSTEP filesystem directly out of a Windows 95 File Explorer. For this the Samba server is running on a NeXTstation and the Windows network automagically knows how to connect to it. I have heard about a Samba client that works the other way round (as a client to a Windows server) but it's supposed to offer just about the same interface as ftp (is this correct?), so I might as well stick to ftp. My NT admins *do* accept the native Windows 95/NT networking, so they accept at least one remote filesystem implementation. To me it seems like it should be possible to write a NEXTSTEP client for the native Windows 95/NT networking. Such a beast might be accepted by my NT admins. Has anybody ever heard of such a product? Thanks Piers Uso Walter pwalter@mediahaus.de
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad NIS information Date: 14 Nov 1996 21:00:12 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <56g18s$qr5@news.next.com> References: <327E3719.7967@delphi.umd.edu> In article <327E3719.7967@delphi.umd.edu> Matt Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> writes: > Help! > > I seriously (?) MUNGed (tm) (Munged Until No Good) my Turbo NeXT Station > (ADB, 32MB ram, NS 3.0 [anyone want to donate 3.3 ;-)]) > > Last night they turned on the ethernet in my dorm. After plugging my > slab into the wall I ran SimpleNetworkStarup.app and set my ip addr and > gateway. After rebooting, the slab seemed to see the network, and it did > launch a few daemons i hadn't seen before. I tried telnetting to a host > here on campus by name (as opposed to numeric ip) and got a "host not > found". Aha! i thought to myself, i forgot to fill in the nameserver. > Like a moron (can you tell i'm new to network administration and NeXTs > in general?), i set the NIS domain server field to our nameserver. Now > when the slab boots, it hangs, looking for the NIS server. > > wow, sorry to be so long, i'm trying to be detailed. Boot in single user mode and edit the /etc/hostconfig file change the line that says: YPDOMAIN=nameserver to YPDOMAIN=-NO- and reboot your machine. To fix the DNS problem add a file to /etc called resolv.conf with this line in it: nameserver <ipaddress> where nameserver is literal (not the name of the DNS server) and <ipaddress> is the numerical ipaddress of the DNS server. -- Jim Sowers - NeXT Technical Support <jsowers@next.com>
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pageup and Pagedown Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:27:46 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961114092549.12239A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII How do I get Pageup and Pagedown to work on my Intel machine running NeXTStep 3.3? I'm tired of using Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B to go forward and back in vi. Thanks. Rob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: permissions weirdness Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961114131657.13517C-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:21:01 -0500 References: <199611081826.NAA07286@nerc3.nerc.com> <E0nGJF.706@nidat.sub.org> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961110144929.959C-100000@kira> <56btnf$jqq@kanga.accessone.com> To: salvo@accessone.com In-Reply-To: <56btnf$jqq@kanga.accessone.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is my fstab file, my only other drives are my EZ-drive and CD-ROM /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 The /bin/sh file is in /dev/sd0a, of course. Does this make sense? TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: When does NEXTSTEP look for an NTP server? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:15:01 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gmWq6Zu00UhW01vEYe@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <01bbd1b3$09ed04e0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> In-Reply-To: <01bbd1b3$09ed04e0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Nov-96 When does NEXTSTEP look for.. by Zacharias Beckman@dreams > But, how often does OPENSTEP _do_ this on its own? We use an ISDN line > (which is configured to _not_ bring up the link on NTP requests). I would > have thought something very frequently, such as every hour, was the > standard. But, after several days our system time was still slightly > wrong... indicating that OPENSTEP had not consulted the NTP server while > the ISDN line was up. If you are running NTPD, you must have a network connection always available to the timeserver(s) you are syncronizing from. NTPD (or at least XNTPD) has a backoff strategy that will only want responses every 1024 seconds iff you've got a stable connection. However, if a timeserver becomes unreachable, I believe that NTPD will stop trying to syncronize with that server. > For the time being, I've added a crontab entry to run "ntp -F" every hour, > forcing time correction fairly frequently. The ISDN line is up at least > four, sometimes twenty, hours a day... so sooner or later, it synchronizes. Simply doing that is fine for your purposes. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can I access Windows NT fileservers from NEXTSTEP machines? Message-ID: <1996Nov14.154319.25672@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 14 Nov 96 15:43:19 MST References: <ImWZTjC00UhBE2gu56@andrew.cmu.edu> <56dtef$9dl@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Distribution: world Cc: pwalter@mediahaus.de In <56dtef$9dl@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Piers Uso Walter wrote: > My NT admins *do* accept the native Windows 95/NT networking, so they > accept at least one remote filesystem implementation. To me it seems like > it should be possible to write a NEXTSTEP client for the native Windows > 95/NT networking. Such a beast might be accepted by my NT admins. > > Has anybody ever heard of such a product? I saw somewhere that there is a small NFS server program that you can run on a Unix box that "interfaces" between SAMBA and makes the SAMBA remote drive into an NFS mounted volume so that the Unix OS can access it as if it were just a mounted NFS drive.... It is calles smdmount and I think that it might work undex NS,.... I have not had time to play with it... Nor -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: Rudolf Blazek <blazek@stt.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Printing with fonts included Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:13:19 -0500 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <328BA78F.582@stt.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: blazek@stt.msu.edu Hallo, we are using NeXTstation and NeXTcube wint NS 3.2 in a mixed network. Remote printing is configured using niload printcap . < printcap.file approach. The only problem we have is that if we want to print a document with non-standard fonts, we have to save the printout in a postscript file. In addition we have to choose the 'Include Fonts' option. Then we have to open the .ps file and print it on the remote postscript printer (HP LaserJet 4m+ and similar) Is there a way how to tell NS to include the fonts in each print job to a given printer? Maybe some trick with the 'lpr' command? Or some optional value in the NetInfo database? Thanks for any help. Please respond to blazek@stt.msu.edu as I don't have access to the news very often. Have a nice day. Rudy. Rudolf Blazek Department of Statistics and Probability Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: hannes@ping.at (Hannes Tiefenbrunner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Precompiled Samba for 3.3 Motorola Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:24:32 GMT Organization: Customer of PING - Personal InterNet Gate Distribution: world Message-ID: <56g9ng$9n8@peng.ping.at> Keywords: samba Originator: hannes@esprit Regarding: comp.sys.next.sysadmin article "Compiling Samba on NS3.3... getting link errors" from Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> As Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> needed a precompiled version of samba for black 3.3, I've put one on our ftp server. If anybody else can make use of it - feel free to download: ftp://hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at/NeXT/networking/samba.1.9.16.tar.gz It's samba version 1.9.16 compiled for NEXTSTEP 3.3 Motorola only. I've compiled it with the default directory settings - so one must expand the archive to '/usr/local'. Hope it helps... ..J.T. __________________________________ Johannes Tiefenbrunner hannes@ping.at, NeXTMail & MIME ok For PGP Public Key: finger hannes@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at -- .J.T. __________________________________ Johannes Tiefenbrunner
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PS Fonts and Printers Date: 15 Nov 1996 02:01:11 GMT Organization: Psycho German Ninja Blitz Hackers On Steroids, Inc. Message-ID: <56git7$9ib@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <55q9db$i6j$2@diana.ibernet.es> Cc: jes@rednsi.com In <55q9db$i6j$2@diana.ibernet.es> Josep Egea i Sanchez wrote: > PS: I used FontConvert.app by Frank Siegert which is a superb tool for font > conversion available in the Peanuts archive > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Fonts/converters/FontConvert.1.3b.NIHS.b.tar.gz > Wow! Thank you very much for your kind words! Have a nice day Frank -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can I access Windows NT fileservers from NEXTSTEP machines? Date: 15 Nov 1996 02:25:24 GMT Organization: Customer of EUnet Germany; Info: info@Germany.EU.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <56gkak$o20@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> References: <1996Nov14.154319.25672@roper.uwyo.edu> In article <1996Nov14.154319.25672@roper.uwyo.edu> writes: > In <56dtef$9dl@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Piers Uso Walter wrote: > > > My NT admins *do* accept the native Windows 95/NT networking, so they > > accept at least one remote filesystem implementation. To me it seems like > > it should be possible to write a NEXTSTEP client for the native Windows > > 95/NT networking. Such a beast might be accepted by my NT admins. > > > > Has anybody ever heard of such a product? > > > I saw somewhere that there is a small NFS server program that you can run on > a Unix box that "interfaces" between SAMBA and makes the SAMBA remote drive > into an NFS mounted volume so that the Unix OS can access it as if it were > just a mounted NFS drive.... It is calles smdmount and I think that it might > work undex NS,.... I have not had time to play with it... I tried to check this. Here's my preliminary conclusion: First, smbmount currently only seems to exist for Linux, I haven't yet looked into the source code to evaluate the effort required for porting to NEXTSTEP. Second, as I understand it smbmount needs a Samba remote drive (a Samba server), which would have to run on Windows NT to solve my problem. Don't Samba servers run only on various flavors of Unix? If so, smbmount would not help me very much. Regards Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH pwalter@mediahaus.de
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SUBMISSION: BackupChanges -- FREE/BETA Backup program Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:14:30 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961112083610.677B-100000@kira> References: <199611111523.KAA10776@nerc3.nerc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199611111523.KAA10776@nerc3.nerc.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Sorry folks, my email alias for this group is "admin" and my alias for the announcements group (aka sanguish@digifix.com) is "announce"... I must have confused them! This should have been an announcement, not a sysadmin post TjL
From: stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Stephane Etienne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Recurrent crashing Date: 07 Nov 1996 14:49:18 +0000 Organization: University of Glasgow Sender: stephane@mousa.dcs.gla.ac.uk Message-ID: <ty20e6x8nl.fsf@mousa.dcs.gla.ac.uk> Hi There, I'm running NeXT 3.3 onto an intel based machine (DECpc XL Server 590). Nice machine and system except that it keeps crashing at least once every two days. After a few hours of work (it is irregular, it may be running fine for two days and then crash twice in 4 hours time. I rebooted it yesterday night when leaving and it crashed 6 hours later right in the middle of the night although nobody was using the machine.). When it crashes, a small window appears right in the middle of the screen and it displays very quickly all sort of informations as if it was rebooting (info which is typically found in /private/adm/messages). It then stops and writes: fp not one. The prompt is panic> and I have the choice between to continue, to reboot or to monitor. Within the monitor, I should be able to halt the computer (so that it reboots nicely) but it does not work, it simply says fp not one and comes back to the panic prompt. I can also run a debugger remotely, sync (does not work), print the stack and stuff like that. Every time, I have to eventually reboot and it will find that I left without syncing when it's gonna reboot. Really annoying, I had to reinstall the whole system twice already. I am running a web sever and it has a cgi counter program. Many times (not always though), the contain of the file recording the number of hits and their link is erased. Many people uses it so I am quite reluctant to remove it (it will annoy far many people than just myself). I had a look at this program but found nothing peculiar. Furthermore, it is runned as nobody, so... My web server is httpd_1.5c-export. I join the contain of the /private/adm/messages file for information. BTW, I asked syslog to display all messages on the console but I never got something weird. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Stephane Etienne. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Stephane Etienne | University of Glasgow | | phone: +44 141 330 6040 | Department of Computing Science | | Fax: +44 141 330 4913 | 8-17 Lilybank Gardens | | E-mail: stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk | Glasgow G12 8QQ | |URL: http://mousa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephane| Scotland, UK | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:31:49 PDT 1994; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: physical memory = 128.00 megabytes. Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: using 255 buffers containing 1.99 megabytes of memory Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: available memory = 122.36 megabytes. vm_page_free_count = 3d2e Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: ISA/EISA bus support enabled Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: CPU: EISA id 10a32001 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: PCI Ver=2.00 BusCount=1 Features=[ BIOS16 CM2 ] Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Found PCI device: ID=0x04a38086 at Dev=0 Func=0 Bus=0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Found PCI device: ID=0x70789004 at Dev=1 Func=0 Bus=0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Found PCI device: ID=0x04828086 at Dev=2 Func=0 Bus=0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Found PCI device: ID=0x88d05333 at Dev=6 Func=0 Bus=0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: PCI bus Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: DriverKit version 330 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Adaptec 2940 Host Adapter found at Bus 0 Device 1 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Resetting SCSI Bus... Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: a2940_0 at 0xd100 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sc0 at a2940_0 SCSI Bus 0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd0: SEAGATE ST12550N 0013 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sd0a Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 2040 MB Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd1: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-4101TA 0064 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 1 LUN 0 at sc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sd1a Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd1: Waiting for drive to come ready.............. Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd1: Disk Not Ready Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd2: DEC RZ26L (C) DEC 440C Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 2 LUN 0 at sc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sd2a Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd2: Device Block Size: 512 bytes Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd2: Device Capacity: 1001 MB Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: sd2: Disk Label: Extra Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: Intel824X0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: com0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: fc0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: fd0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: fd0a Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: PS2Controller Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: PCKeyboard0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: PCI bus support enabled Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: PCI0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: EISA0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: event0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: kmDevice0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: rootdev 600, howto 0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: PS2Mouse Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: pp0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Display0: vendorID=5333 deviceID=88d0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Display0: physicalAddress = 7f800000 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Display0: 4MB RAM installed. Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Display: Mode selected: 1152 x 864 @ 60 Hz (RGB:444/16) Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: Display0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: Registering: en0 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: EtherExpress16C at port 300 irq 10 Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" Nov 7 10:30:29 mousa mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:aa:00:5d:d1:4a Nov 7 10:30:30 mousa netinfod[114]: checking NetInfo database network.nidb Nov 7 10:30:30 mousa netinfod[113]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb Nov 7 10:30:51 mousa reboot: Reboot complete Nov 7 10:30:56 mousa loginwindow[236]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 7 10:30:56 mousa loginwindow[236]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 7 10:31:00 mousa loginwindow[236]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk Nov 7 10:31:09 mousa loginwindow[236]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 7 10:31:09 mousa loginwindow[236]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 Nov 7 10:31:10 mousa loginwindow[246]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace Nov 7 10:31:10 mousa Workspace[246]: logged in -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Stephane Etienne | University of Glasgow | | phone: +44 141 330 6040 | Department of Computing Science | | Fax: +44 141 330 4913 | 8-17 Lilybank Gardens | | E-mail: stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk | Glasgow G12 8QQ | |URL: http://mousa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephane| Scotland, UK | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTs and YP Date: 14 Nov 1996 22:11:42 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <56g5eu$r4v@news.next.com> References: <327E6F36.72FC@create.ucsb.edu> In article <327E6F36.72FC@create.ucsb.edu> Stephen Travis Pope <stp@create.ucsb.edu> writes: > Hello, > > We have a mix of NeXT and Sun hardware here. Is there a well-known and > simple > way of making the NeXT machines be clients of Sun's yellow pages (like > NetInfo)? > > Maybe not as simple as NetInfo, but not too bad. The easiest way is to edit the /etc/hostconfig file and change the line that says YPDOMAIN=-NO- to YPDOMAIN=nisdomainname Then in the flatfiles, on the next machines, that control the information you want from NIS (e.g., /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/networks, etc, etc), append a line the each file that says: +: This tells NextStep that it is an NIS client for those NIS Maps. Reboot the machines, and you are in business. If you are running OS 4.0, it is a little trickier. You need to replace the OS 4.0 /usr/etc/lookupd with a NS 3.3 /usr/etc/lookupd, and implement the changes listed above. Good Luck -- Jim Sowers - NeXT Technical Support <jsowers@next.com>
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Date: 15 Nov 1996 09:03:26 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-25.usc.edu Message-ID: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Along with the dial-on-demand feature of GateKeeper - would there be other advantages? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WandDat on NS 3.3 Intel Keywords: wangdat tape nextstep intel Distribution: world Message-ID: <328c3791.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Date: 15 Nov 96 09:27:45 GMT Hello, I have a WangDat 3200 tape drive connected to my Pentium NS 3.3 system. I installed the SCSI Tape driver (3.30) from my CD, and when booting it is registered as st0. Now I want to write on it with tar. I tried tar cf /dev/rst0 blabla but I always got an I/O error. On NextAnswers I found a hint, that one has to configure the tape driver for the WangDat. But I couldn't locate the reference. I have no experience with tapes at all, so I might be doing something stupid. Can someone help? Frank
From: rfuric@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (Richard Furic) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: defrag and enlarge partition Date: 15 Nov 1996 10:13:06 GMT Organization: Universite de La Rochelle Message-ID: <56hfni$2nn@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr> Hello, Is there a tool to defrag a disk under NeXTSTep 3.3 ? Is there a tool to enlarge a partition ? ( I know 'fips.exe' which split a partition into 2 partitions) --- ########################## # # Richard FURIC # Service informatique # IUT La Rochelle (17) # rue de Vaux de Foletier # #### # # richard.furic@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr # rfuric@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr # ##########################
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can I access Windows NT fileservers from NEXTSTEP machines? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:02:58 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <328C6A02.5891@ibp.de> References: <1996Nov14.154319.25672@roper.uwyo.edu> <56gkak$o20@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Piers Uso Walter wrote: [smbmount - snip] > I tried to check this. Here's my preliminary conclusion: > First, smbmount currently only seems to exist for Linux, I haven't yet > looked into the source code to evaluate the effort required for porting to > NEXTSTEP. > Second, as I understand it smbmount needs a Samba remote drive (a Samba > server), which would have to run on Windows NT to solve my problem. Don't > Samba servers run only on various flavors of Unix? If so, smbmount would > not help me very much. Doh. It wants an SMB server (I don't know how they are called in MicroSoftSpeak) and your NT box is exactly that already. Samba is an SMB server implementation for Unix.. Also, Samba comes with a program called smbclient. It does have an ftp-like interface, and I understand this is not what you finally want, but you should give it a try to see if it can help you in the meantime, that is, before you have anything like smbmount on the NeXT. Good luck, Lars
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Date: 11 Nov 1996 14:48:52 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <567eck$kje@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Hi, I am very worried. I have NS 3.2 on a 486 100 mhz system at home. I received, for the first time ever, the command in the subject header DISK BOOT FAILURE: INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER one a week ago, and ignored it, and hit the reset button, and was off to the races. It then recurred 2 or 3 times over the next few days, which raised my concern. (I am not networked at home, and thus turn my system off when I am not using it for a couple hours.) This morning, the error (at the DOS boot screen) recurred 8 times in a row, and I was sure I was lost. Fortunately, it eventually relented. What does this error mean? Is it hardware or software? Exactly what must I do to fix the problem? Many thanks for any help! Right now I am afraid to power it down until I find out the problem. A non-computer-literate NeXT user with only limited access to a group system admin who doesn't know NeXT, Lones PS I do not even have a 3.2 boot disk, but do not know if this would have helped had the problem not relented, or where I could get one. (I do recall having seen a boot disk for a 2.x OS.) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. / L \ O / N \ E / S \ / S \ M / I \ T / H \ / `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' ` Lones Smith, Economics Department, M.I.T., E52-252C, Cambridge MA 02139 (617)-253-0914 (work) 253-6915 (fax) lones@lones.mit.edu
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Win95 driver for NeXT400 printer Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:00:24 +0200 Organization: NetVision LTD. Message-ID: <328C7778.1B36@harmonic.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I run Samba, so my PC can print to the NeXT printer (next 400). What is the Win95 driver which may use for this printer ? (Or maybe you have the orginal ?) Please replay to: uri@harmonic.co.il Regards Uri
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to soft reboot/interrupt on portable? Date: 11 Nov 1996 19:34:00 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <567v38$2oug@news.doit.wisc.edu> Hi I used to have a Thinkpad and now I have a Tecra, and I have had the same problem with both: I can't soft interrupt/reboot! The problem is, on many portables the NumLock key not standard or is missing altogether. Advice or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to read lockfile for PID Date: 15 Nov 96 09:07:29 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov15090729@slave.one.net> References: <199611140400.UAA16981@PEAK.ORG> In-reply-to: Timothy J Luoma's message of Wed, 13 Nov 96 22:59:54 -0500 In article <199611140400.UAA16981@PEAK.ORG>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: I'd like to be know how to read the PID that is locking my modem. The PID is contained in "/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufa" but it isn't readable by mere mortals, just by some processes (kermit and pppd at least). I am wondering if someone has a program to convert the lockfile info into plain text. If it's not alreay in plain text, your next best bet is to see if it's in binary. Run od -h on it, and do the math. Or, if it's two bytes long, assume it's a short, and write a short program to read it in. If it's four bytes long, assume it's a long, same program: void main( void) { int fd=open( "/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufa"", O_RDONLY); short pid=0; read( fd, &pid, sizeof( pid)); printf( "PID==%d\n", pid); } Modify that as needed to accomplish your goal. Shouldn't be any problems with byte ordering - the byte ordering will be appropriate for the machine the serial port is on, and that's the machine where the process is going to be at. Just make sure you run the PID-reader on the same machine! Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HOW TO RESET THE SPOOL MAIL Date: 15 Nov 1996 15:19:43 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <56i1mf$bd2@scsing.switch.ch> Hello there ! I would like to know how to reset the spool usr/spool/mqueue thank you in advance Lionel -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CYBERLaB NeTWORK<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< lionel@cyberlab.ch (MiME & NeXTmail WELCOME !!) Tel: +41 (0)21 623.66.10 http://www.cyberlab.ch Fax: +41 (0)21 626.40.00 Ask for or my PGP public key ------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: change netinfo parent domain Date: 15 Nov 1996 15:07:32 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <56i0vk$k2a@news.tamu.edu> I have a computer which has some severe slow downs (intel NS3.3 + patch) when one tries to access a network account whose home directory is not on this computer or the main servers. The patch is correctly installed now. One odd thing that I found was that with NetInfoManager.app, when ask for the parent (Cmd Shift P) it shows another computer on the network (not the server). All other clients don't do this and run fine. So therefore I suspect that this might be part of the problem. Turns out the other computer had the server+ip_address entered under its machines subdirectory in netinfo. I removed the server name leaving the computer itself,localhost and broadcasthost only. Then the parent of the troubled machine was pointing to a different client. It too had the server added under the machine subdirectory in Netinfo. After removing the server name form here too I made sure that no other clients had the server added under machines entry. However, the parent of the troubled computer is still pointing towards the last computer to have the server under machines. How can I control what the parent is of this troubled machine? Would it be better to get a new host name + ip and try to redo all the host/netinfo stuff? Obviously I am no expert at netinfo stuff, so I would appreciate any suggestions or comments on this. send email to schaub@tamu.edu 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: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pageup and Pagedown Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 01:18:01 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <328C977B.588B@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961114092549.12239A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote: > > How do I get Pageup and Pagedown to work on my Intel machine running > NeXTStep 3.3? I'm tired of using Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B to go forward and back > in vi. Thanks. > > Rob Press and hold the Alt key. Then click the scroll buttons in the Edit.app, or any applicatins. It's very simple. YoungHoon Kil From South Korea ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean)
From: anstine@orion.sas.upenn.edu (David R. Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Problems compiling Perl-5.003 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Date: 15 Nov 1996 16:01:21 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <56i44h$u4v@netnews.upenn.edu> References: <56dhbs$abr@netnews.upenn.edu> <56ds87$4c7@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman (reichman@usc.edu) wrote: : The kind people at TipTop have it at their ftp site in a pkg! : : ftp://ftp.tiptop.com/pub/Objective/<YOUR-OS>/ Unfortunately, they compiled Perl with a hardcoded path of /LocalDeveloper. -dave
From: wtheller@spec.rice.edu (William Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a problem in our network Date: 15 Nov 1996 16:43:39 GMT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Message-ID: <56i6jr$in1@listserv.rice.edu> Hi. I am having a bit of a problem with one of the machines on our network. We recently had to replace the motherboard, and since then, we have not been able to get the network up and running in a satisfactory way. The machine is a P90/32Meg Intel box, and any information which has to come to it over the network from our group's server is taking forever (the server is a P166/64Meg machine, and it is flying along just fine). All of the network information on the problem machine appears to be OK, and it can be booted with the network, if you are willing to wait a LONG time to accomplish so much as a change in directories. Does this sound like the network board is fried and needs to be replaced? At one point I tried to swap out the network board with one of the other machines in the lab, but with no sucess. The original board is an SMC Ultra, and the board that I tried to replace it with is an Intel EtherExpress16. I know that I changed the drivers under Nextstep 3.3 to the correct ones, taken from the machine where the board was. The machine was still not able to connect to the network. Here, finally, I come to my second set of questions (yes, I know, and I am sorry for this long message). 1. The EtherExpress16 will only come up in 8 bit mode. Will this make it unrecognizable by the group's server? 2. I know that the board itself, or a new board to be installed, has a different Ethernet address than the original (the 6 number sequence that is built into the board). Do I need to somehow tell the server that this number has changed for this machine? I tried to figure out how to do this using HostManager.app, but I cannot get at the information. Is there a way to go in and change this manually, if need be? Thank you very much for your time. William Heller a confused sysop new to the job and just not prepared for this
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? (how to soft interrupt?) Date: 15 Nov 1996 17:30:36 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <56i9bs$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32877bd2.0@news.provo.novell.com> Cc: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com It is interesting to see the continuing discussion about the Tecras generated by my initial query - however, I now have one, and though it is large and slow to recharge, I am quite happy with it compared to the Thinkpad 755ce I had, which had a 640x480 screen. However, there is one thing I can't figure out: if I need to force a halt or reboot, I can't figure out a key combination that will do this. The only way seems to be by using the hard reset button on the side, which forces a long fsck-reboot cycle. Is there any way of accessing the soft interrupt with this keyboard? If not, can it be set up to do so using the keyboard driver? Also, does anyone else out there long for a working suspend/resume? I do, and if I can get hold of further info I may try to figure out how to write an LKS to make this work. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: zbir@seven.ucs.indiana.edu (Zachery "Tigger" Bir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble installing NS 3.3 Intel Date: 15 Nov 1996 13:33:34 -0500 Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Message-ID: <mbtn2wjw6m9.fsf@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> I'm trying to install NS3.3 for Intel on my machine. It seems happily to go about its business up to the point where I decide which packages to install, and click "install". After that it installs maybe 20 files or so, then freezes. No reaction from mouse, or keyboard. I have to restart the machine. Here's my configuration: Cyrix 6x86 150+ Processor Quantum Fireball 1280 HD Atapi CD-ROM Number 9 Motion 331 Video Card I've followed the instructions in "EIDE and ATAPI Support in NS 3.3" from NeXTanswers, but am now at a loss. If you don't know about this, it says, "NS will treat Atapi CD-ROM's just like SCSI CD-ROM's, but because of a bug, you need to initially tell NS that it's using Adaptec 154x Drivers. Then load the EIDE and Atapi Drivers. After the whole installation, remove the Adaptec Driver." But I can't even get the whole thing installed. Anybody run into this? Solve it? TIA, -- Zachery J. Bir - zbir@indiana.edu UCS Support Center - Knowledge Base Programmer/Editor http://seven.ucs.indiana.edu/~zbir/index.html
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Win95 driver for NeXT400 printer Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:06:25 +0000 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <328C4EB1.343E@mpr.ca> References: <328C7778.1B36@harmonic.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: mewett@planeteer.com Uri Shkolnik wrote: > > Hi, > > I run Samba, so my PC can print to the NeXT printer (next 400). > What is the Win95 driver which may use for this printer ? > (Or maybe you have the orginal ?) > > Please replay to: uri@harmonic.co.il > > Regards > > Uri You can find the driver here: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/326e.htm Hope this helps. Scott
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: More than two tape drives? Date: 15 Nov 1996 20:37:44 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <56ikao$r3f@inet-prime.comshare.com> Greetings, I may need to hook up more than two SCSI tape drives to a NeXTStation (running 3.3). There are only two device entries, and it looks like /dev/MAKEDEV would barf if anything other than st0 or st1 was specified. Is there some special reason for this? I've used MAKEDEV on BSDI system to add a third and fourth set of device files for tapes. Any thoughts? Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Putting a Mac on an OPENSTEP 4.0 network??? Date: 15 Nov 1996 19:52:54 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd32e$b364baa0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So, now that AppleTalk support has been removed from OPENSTEP 4.0, how do we put a Mac on the network? Can we use the AppletTalk packages from a 3.3 CDROM? Or is there a public domain package like "samba" but for Macs? Or do we resort to off-the-shelf purchases, and if so, which ones? Desperately in need of help. Any suggestions very much appreciated! --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: anstine@orion.sas.upenn.edu (David R. Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Problems compiling Perl-5.003 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Date: 15 Nov 1996 20:18:43 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <56ij73$ism@netnews.upenn.edu> References: <56dhbs$abr@netnews.upenn.edu> <56ds87$4c7@usc.edu> <sams.847937517@shellx> Samuel G. Streeper (sams@best.com) wrote: : On NS3.3 I compiled and installed perl 5.003 from the : sources from a local CPAN site without any problem : just using the normal autoconfiguration, and it : passed all the standard tests. I don't have more info on the : version since it just says: : elvis > perl -version : This is perl, version 5.003 with EMBED : built under next at Sat Jul 06 1996 01:03:29 GMT : + suidperl security patch : Sorry if that's not helpful. I just grabbed Perl 5.003 source off a CPAN site, and it compiled with no problems. I had downloaded my previous source files from prep.ai.mit.edu. -dave
From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prebuilt Python binaries? Date: 12 Nov 1996 20:56:47 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Distribution: world Message-ID: <56aoaf$fi@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <55nus6$lvl@vespucci.iquest.com> Cc: chris@vespucci.iquest.com In <55nus6$lvl@vespucci.iquest.com> Chris Fisher wrote: > Does anyone have prebuilt python binaries dists? For NS3.2 and python > version 1.2 or newer. > Bill Bumgarner has made this available recently: The Objective-C module for Python has been coming along nicely. It is now mature enough to build full-blown NEXTSTEP applications and it is compatible with the GNU runtime as well. ftp://ftp.thoughtport.net/pub/next/lang/Python-bin.pkg.b.SHIN.tar Installer packages of Python 1.4b3 w/all of Lele (and mine) patches integrated. The smaller package (-bin) contains just the python binary and python library files; none of the libraries are headers necessary to build the PyObjC module are included. The non -bin package contains everything. Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen PGP-keyID: 1F0F3839 Email (NeXT, MIME and SUN) jacob@dannug.dk Maintainer of NEXTSTEP Software Reviews http://www.dannug.dk/jacob & My own home page :-) http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: "su" does not prompt for root password Message-ID: <E0x3nq.LoM@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:14:14 GMT I have a black NeXT machine. I just reinstalled the NS 3.3 user+dev. Now when I use "su" to switch to root, I was not prompted for root password. The following is my setup: After the installation, from "me" account, I su to root and set the root password there. Then I set the "me" password and log out. After I log into "root" account, I created my own user account with default group of wheel (this may not be a good idea). I then restore my own user files from the tape. This is the current state. I tried to use the Usermanager.app to change my default user group to "other" and be a member of the "wheel" group. But this does not change anything. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem. Thanks.
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: connect two Openstep machines through ethernet Date: 16 Nov 1996 00:06:03 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <56j0hb$d7o@news.tamu.edu> I have an old Nextstation and a new PC running Openstep at home now. How is it possible to network these two together without having any real internet addresses? All the online docs seem to appear for the case where some computer is actually hooked up to the internet. Thanks for any suggestions since I am at this networking stuff ;-) blue skies, 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: caljouwr@cadvision.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unknown System Date: 16 Nov 1996 03:34:09 GMT Organization: GS/X Computing Corporation Distribution: World Message-ID: <56jcnh$2g6u@elmo.cadvision.com> Hi all. I'm thinking of buying an Intel machine for use with NS 3.3. I came across a pentium machine that looks like it should run NS just fine from looking at the specs but I have never heard of the brand. It's called a Global??? Has anyone ever heard of or used one of these? It looks like a pretty good deal but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with one. Thanks.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:06:28 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cmX9I4u00UhW81bPts@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Nov-96 On a standalone with dial-i.. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the > advantage of running a nameserver? Several. DNS lookups should be faster, since there will be a local cache of DNS info, and there should be less DNS-related traffic. You can even do things such as becoming a secondary for DNS zones that are commonly-referred to. You get negative caching for null results. Furthermore, you get nice logging and debugging information about DNS events, you get newer versions of DNS tools like nslookup and dig. You even get a modern and correctly functioning libresolv.a which you can use when compiling other software instead of having to use NeXT's resolver with it's NetInfo/lookupd braindamage. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:08:09 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YmXHsdi00UzxA2irpF@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> <cmX9I4u00UhW81bPts@andrew.cmu.edu> <56ib72$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <56ib72$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Nov-96 Re: On a standalone with di.. by Michael Giddings@menomin > I have encountered one problem with this. Using the pppd included with > OpenStep 4.0/4.1, it instructs one to install it so that it logs to > daemon.debug in /etc/syslog.conf. However, the nameserver daemon also logs > to daemon.debug, giving profuse output to any monitor program such as > Gatekeeper, and slowing the system in the process. Is there a way to get > pppd logging without nameserver logging using the pppd included with > OpenStep? Why not change the facility that the nameserver daemon logs to? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Putting a Mac on an OPENSTEP 4.0 network??? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:52:29 -0600 Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <328D5685.2CB6@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <01bbd32e$b364baa0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> <56jiol$d88@peng.ping.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: hannes@ping.at, zac@dreams.com Hannes Tiefenbrunner wrote: > > In article <01bbd32e$b364baa0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> "Zacharias J. Beckman" > <zac@dreams.com> writes: > # So, now that AppleTalk support has been removed from OPENSTEP 4.0, how do > # we put a Mac on the network? > # > # Can we use the AppletTalk packages from a 3.3 CDROM? Or is there a public > # domain package like "samba" but for Macs? Or do we resort to off-the-shelf > # purchases, and if so, which ones? > # > > To be honest, I`ve given up to use AppleShare as the link between our macs and > NeXTs. "Fetch", the FTP client software for Macs, in version 3.0 is so > comfortable (drag and drop to/from finder etc.), that I`m very pleased with FTP > as an AppleShare replacement. Ok - you can`t load/save directly from other apps > from/to the NeXT, but it`s inexpensive, reliable and fast. Also try Anarchie, version 2.0 just came out today, and it is quite nice- it does some things Fetch doesn't, and vice versa. Available from: http://www.share.com/peterlewis/anarchie/index.html The following is from Macintouch- http://www.macintouch.com Nov. 15 Peter Lewis released Anarchie 2.0. The new version can upload and download folders, supports ftp site indexing, and updates both the user interface and the documentation. MacUser Software Central has the new version, and Kragie-Newell is mirroring it, too. -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 ASCII, MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail Instructional Technology Services@Illinois State University I can move any mountain- Shamen (Techno Band) http://www.nemeton.com ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Date: 15 Nov 1996 18:02:10 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <56ib72$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> <cmX9I4u00UhW81bPts@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <cmX9I4u00UhW81bPts@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: [re: advantages of running a nameserver:] > Several. DNS lookups should be faster, since there will be a local > cache of DNS info, and there should be less DNS-related traffic. You > can even do things such as becoming a secondary for DNS zones that are > commonly-referred to. You get negative caching for null results. I have encountered one problem with this. Using the pppd included with OpenStep 4.0/4.1, it instructs one to install it so that it logs to daemon.debug in /etc/syslog.conf. However, the nameserver daemon also logs to daemon.debug, giving profuse output to any monitor program such as Gatekeeper, and slowing the system in the process. Is there a way to get pppd logging without nameserver logging using the pppd included with OpenStep? Thanks -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: hannes@ping.at (Hannes Tiefenbrunner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to read lockfile for PID Date: 16 Nov 1996 03:46:08 GMT Organization: Customer of PING - Personal InterNet Gate Distribution: world Message-ID: <56jde0$aj8@peng.ping.at> References: <199611140400.UAA16981@PEAK.ORG> Keywords: uucp lock tty serial Originator: hannes@esprit In article <199611140400.UAA16981@PEAK.ORG> writes: # # I'd like to be know how to read the PID that is locking my modem. # # The PID is contained in "/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufa" but it # isn't readable by mere mortals, just by some processes (kermit and # pppd at least). # # I am wondering if someone has a program to convert the lockfile # info into plain text. # # TjL # It's a unsigned int, binary written into the file. Read it with : unsigned int pid; f = fopen("/private/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..ttya", "r"); fread(&pid, sizeof(pid), 1, f); Hope it helps... -- .J.T. __________________________________ Johannes Tiefenbrunner
From: hannes@ping.at (Hannes Tiefenbrunner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: How can I access NT server... and: Samba & Windows95... Date: 16 Nov 1996 05:16:45 GMT Organization: Customer of PING - Personal InterNet Gate Distribution: world Message-ID: <56jint$d87@peng.ping.at> Keywords: samba nfs smb Windows NT 95 Originator: hannes@esprit pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) wrote: >My NT admins *do* accept the native Windows 95/NT networking, so >they accept at least one remote filesystem implementation. To me >it seems like it should be possible to write a NEXTSTEP client for >the native Windows 95/NT networking. Such a beast might be accepted >by my NT admins. Chris Morrow <morrowc@mrj.com> wrote: >Um...unless your win95 maachines have nfs servers I don;t think you can >do this so easily...I DO remeber though, that there was a set of mount >binaries for LINUX that would allow one to mount WFW shares (SMB shares) >called smbmount I think... You might be able to get the source and tweak >it, then compiole it for your next... Linux offers 'sambafs'. It`s a SMB<->NFS converter, making it possible to nfs-mount pc-servers running SMB via TCP. Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at> built a framework for compiling Linux filesystems on NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP machines by creating a rudimental kernel-framework. This way one can compile a Linux filesystem module to a daemon running under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. This daemon then serves as a nfs-server translating the foreign filesystem to nfs. He made an announcement on comp.sys.next.announce - see there. With this framework, one could also compile sambafs for OPENSTEP - just would have to patch the tcp-access module. Neither he nor me have the time to do so - but as there seem to be some people out there, needing such thing - I thought they might be interested. ..J.T. __________________________________ Johannes Tiefenbrunner hannes@ping.at, NeXTMail & MIME ok For PGP Public Key: finger hannes@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at
From: hannes@ping.at (Hannes Tiefenbrunner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Putting a Mac on an OPENSTEP 4.0 network??? Date: 16 Nov 1996 05:17:09 GMT Organization: Customer of PING - Personal InterNet Gate Distribution: world Message-ID: <56jiol$d88@peng.ping.at> References: <01bbd32e$b364baa0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Originator: hannes@esprit In article <01bbd32e$b364baa0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> writes: # So, now that AppleTalk support has been removed from OPENSTEP 4.0, how do # we put a Mac on the network? # # Can we use the AppletTalk packages from a 3.3 CDROM? Or is there a public # domain package like "samba" but for Macs? Or do we resort to off-the-shelf # purchases, and if so, which ones? # To be honest, I`ve given up to use AppleShare as the link between our macs and NeXTs. "Fetch", the FTP client software for Macs, in version 3.0 is so comfortable (drag and drop to/from finder etc.), that I`m very pleased with FTP as an AppleShare replacement. Ok - you can`t load/save directly from other apps from/to the NeXT, but it`s inexpensive, reliable and fast. ..J.T. __________________________________ Johannes Tiefenbrunner hannes@ping.at, NeXTMail & MIME ok For PGP Public Key: finger hannes@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to read lockfile for PID Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:22:43 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961115232140.11232D-100000@kira> References: <199611140400.UAA16981@PEAK.ORG> <SHESS.96Nov15090729@slave.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <SHESS.96Nov15090729@slave.one.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com about 30 people explained that od -l /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufa | awk '{print $2}'|head -1 would print it in plain English thanks all TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HOW TO RESET THE SPOOL MAIL Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:29:51 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961115232711.11232F-100000@kira> References: <56i1mf$bd2@scsing.switch.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Lionel Tinguely <lionel@cyberlab.ch> In-Reply-To: <56i1mf$bd2@scsing.switch.ch> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > I would like to know how to reset the spool usr/spool/mqueue [12 line .sig snipped ;-] Ummm... reset how? Do you mean you want to get rid of all the files in it? (you should keep syslog and syslog.old even) you can try to get rid of the mail in there by /usr/lib/sendmail -q you could just delete all the df* and other files in there, but I would suggest that is a _bad_ idea, unless you don't mind vanishing email... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: POP3 server for NS? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:26:07 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961115232432.11232E-100000@kira> References: <01bbd1f9$b7c62a60$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> In-Reply-To: <01bbd1f9$b7c62a60$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I'm sure many people have mentioned PopOver.app by now, as they should.... the coolest way to get this app is to go to http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mail.html It will also give you some very nifty info about other mail programs available for NeXTstep.... entirely unbiased TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: WindowServer huge under 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961115100709.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Keywords: memory, top, ps Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:07:09 GMT Hi, could someone please explain the following mystery, that may be specific to 4.0 (I don't have comparable configurations): When I "ps" or "top" to look at processes, I see an enormous WindowServer, even if the machine is freshly rebooted: > ps ax USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 0 7.7 14.4 131M 13.8M ? U 0:09 kernel idle magnus 195 1.2 71.6 71.2M 68.8M ? SW 0:03 WindowServer This simply cannot be true. On the other hand, "top" thinks I have Memory: 96M Tot, 12M Act, 24M Inact, 5832K Wired, 51M Free, 0K in, 0K out which looks quite reasonably. How could the WindowServer process make "ps" believe it uses more memory than it does? Thanks, -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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:33:14 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961115233141.11232G-100000@kira> References: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> <cmX9I4u00UhW81bPts@andrew.cmu.edu> <56ib72$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu In-Reply-To: <56ib72$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > > I have encountered one problem with this. Using the pppd included with > OpenStep 4.0/4.1, it instructs one to install it so that it logs to > daemon.debug in /etc/syslog.conf. However, the nameserver daemon also logs > to daemon.debug, giving profuse output to any monitor program such as > Gatekeeper, and slowing the system in the process. Is there a way to get > pppd logging without nameserver logging using the pppd included with > OpenStep? > On my system I have this in /etc/syslog.conf: local2.debug /usr/local/adm/ppp2.2.log [that whitespace MUST be TABS not spaces] it might be different in OS 4.x, this is under NS 3.3 TjL
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep Solaris and OpenStep Mach-NFS issues Date: 12 Nov 96 19:17:57 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <3288cd65.0@news.hampshire.edu> References: <3287964F.77E6@netscape.com> <ImVy7sm00UhBM2sb4A@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Nov-96 OpenStep Solaris : and OpenSt.. by Patrick T Hickey@netscap : > I'm having a pisser of a time trying to make the following combination : > of machines speak proper NFS to each other... : > : > NeXT turbo color (4.0) exporting my home directory : > Sun Sparc 20 (2.5.1) running OpenStep (1.1) trying to NFS mount same. : It's probably due to the old version of NFS running on the NeXT box. : From the Solaris 2 FAQ: : "5.11) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs. : In starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit : NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default. : This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations : (such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and possibly NeXT) Hmm... you thing so? I had the same problem with my NeXT speaking to a sparc IPC running SunOS 4.1.3_U1. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com My cat failed the Turing test miserably.
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Problems compiling Perl-5.003 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 14:31:41 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Nov16.143141.9514@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <56ij73$ism@netnews.upenn.edu> In article <56ij73$ism@netnews.upenn.edu> anstine@orion.sas.upenn.edu (David R. Anstine) writes: > I just grabbed Perl 5.003 source off a CPAN site, and it compiled with no > problems. I had downloaded my previous source files from prep.ai.mit.edu. Be aware that most packages I have seen for NeXTSTEP have a bug in the socket code. This usually means that it works OK on black, but not on Intel. The simple test is to attempt to run mirror :-). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pageup and Pagedown Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 08:49:01 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@elaine10.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961116084607.171A-100000@elaine10.Stanford.EDU> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961114092549.12239A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> <328C977B.588B@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> In-Reply-To: <328C977B.588B@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Holding down the Alt key and pressing Pageup or Pagedown gives me a beep in Edit.app. Any other ideas? Rob On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, YoungHoon Kil wrote: > Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote: > > > > How do I get Pageup and Pagedown to work on my Intel machine running > > NeXTStep 3.3? I'm tired of using Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B to go forward and back > > in vi. Thanks. > > > > Rob > > > Press and hold the Alt key. Then click the scroll buttons in the > Edit.app, > or any applicatins. > > It's very simple. > > > YoungHoon Kil > From South Korea > ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) > http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean) > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Slow NewsGrazer startup; NNTP problem? Message-ID: <E0ynLI.8Er@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <56dt33$k37@news.interlog.com> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:22:30 GMT In article <56dt33$k37@news.interlog.com> rdi@interlog.com (Rick Innis) writes: > I've recently started running NewsGrazer over a 28.8K PP link and have > noticed that it takes a while to start up - specifically, to load the > active file. Takes around 3 or 4 minutes, not a big deal if I've got > other things to do but annoying enough to discourage casual newsreading. > (Not necessarily a bad thing...) > > Anyway, are there ways around this? F'rexample, could I run an NNTP > slavw and cache news.active locally? Useful suggestions welcomed. > The only good fix is to replace NG. It is not good at making use of NNTP. I run a Cnews server on a NS 3.3 slab with NNTP service installed and have tried several (beta) News readers on a Ethernetted NS 3.3/OS 4.0 TurboColor. NG is very sluggish on NNTP (and rather crashy) so I always run it in flat file mode with the spool directory NFS mounted on the client. NewsFlash and the other available News readers work very well over NNTP. So, I advise you to go shopping on the archives. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Faxing? w/ OPENSTEP? Message-ID: <E0yLz6.8D0@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bbd0e2$3b3f2180$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 10:47:30 GMT In article <01bbd0e2$3b3f2180$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> writes: > Ok, I have a fax modem; I have OPENSTEP 4.0; I have a program called > FaxReader.app. Now, surely, there's a way to get these things to work > together? I can't find anything about adding a fax modem to the > system... You need driver software appropriate for your modem. NS (and OS) only supply "demo" level age old drivers almost nobody can use anymore. There is PD software on the usual archives (Peak and Peanuts) together with a commercial product named NXFax. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: Printing with fonts included Message-ID: <E0yMr1.8Dt@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <328BA78F.582@stt.msu.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:04:13 GMT In article <328BA78F.582@stt.msu.edu> Rudolf Blazek <blazek@stt.msu.edu> writes: > Hallo, > we are using NeXTstation and NeXTcube wint NS 3.2 in a mixed network. > Remote printing is configured using > > niload printcap . < printcap.file > > approach. The only problem we have is that if we want to print a > document with non-standard fonts, we have to save the printout in a > postscript file. In addition we have to choose the 'Include Fonts' > option. > > Then we have to open the .ps file and print it on the remote postscript > printer (HP LaserJet 4m+ and similar) > > Is there a way how to tell NS to include the fonts in each print job to > a given printer? > > Maybe some trick with the 'lpr' command? Or some optional value in the > NetInfo database? > Mixed network printing in a most complicated setup, I suppose ;-) NS/OS applications can be made foreign printer aware by including the empty property '_nxfinalform' in the appropriate printer directory of the NetInfo database. All NS/OS apps will then print in a way that all font outline info is always downloaded to the printer before the actual printable data. This obviously doesn't apply to remotely inserted print jobs. They must either come with all outline info included or they will have to go to a known directory where they must be opened with Preview.app and will have to be "manually" printed from there. Otherwise NS/OS will not add the font outlines to foreign print jobs. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "su" does not prompt for root password Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:51:46 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8mXTwmO00Uh741fLI8@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E0x3nq.LoM@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0x3nq.LoM@midway.uchicago.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 15-Nov-96 "su" does not prompt for ro.. by Andrew Chang@gsbux1.uchi > I have a black NeXT machine. I just reinstalled the NS 3.3 user+dev. > Now when I use "su" to switch to root, I was not prompted for root > password. The following is my setup: [ ... ] > I tried to use the Usermanager.app to change my default user group to > "other" and be a member of the "wheel" group. But this does not change > anything. Actually, it might....from 'man su': An alternative implementation of su is in /bin/su.wheel. This version, which is shipped without the setuid-root bit turned on, allows users in the ``wheel'' group (group 0) to su to ``root'' using either their own password or the root password. This version offers more convenience, but if your site is concerned about the increased potential for security problems, you should continue to use the standard version of su. Sounds familiar, hmm? Make sure that you're not using su.wheel, and make sure that your account and root both have passwords set. -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: WindowServer huge under 4.0 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:28:18 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cmXUT2600Uh781fGNd@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <961115100709.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> In-Reply-To: <961115100709.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Nov-96 WindowServer huge under 4.0 by Magnus Nordborg@darwin.u > could someone please explain the following mystery, that may be > specific to 4.0 (I don't have comparable configurations): When I "ps" or > "top" to look at processes, I see an enormous WindowServer, even if the > machine is freshly rebooted: > >> ps ax > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND > root 0 7.7 14.4 131M 13.8M ? U 0:09 kernel idle > magnus 195 1.2 71.6 71.2M 68.8M ? SW 0:03 WindowServer That does seem weird. My machine (NS 3.3.1, 80MB RAM, mono Turbo) is at: 90-tertius% ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND chuck 197 3.6 9.4 26.1M 7.49M ? SW 588hr - console (WindowServer) root 0 0.0 8.3 17.8M 6.61M ? R N 282hr (kernel idle) ...and it's been up for ~70 days now. What is your system configuration? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Slow NewsGrazer startup; NNTP problem? Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:00:14 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961116115459.17272C-100000@kira> References: <56dt33$k37@news.interlog.com> <E0ynLI.8Er@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: rdi@interlog.com In-Reply-To: <E0ynLI.8Er@nidat.sub.org> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com All the NeXTStep newsreaders (and their readmes) are linked to: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/next/newsreaders.html a brand-spankin' new page by yours truly... TjL ps -- the icons are also there too, so you can see which one is the most coolest-looking...
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHosting Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:29:42 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-1411960929420001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Has anyone run the canonic /NextApps/Webster.app/Webster -NXHost myhost over a ppp connection with NS3.3? I seem to get errors regardless of whether I replace "open" or not. Seems to be something to do with a srr hash table. Of course, the examples NeXT provides don't seem to go beyond a subnet, ie, they have machine names but no domain component. Barney
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Date: 16 Nov 1996 22:05:29 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <56ldr9$3nim@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> <cmX9I4u00UhW81bPts@andrew.cmu.edu> <56ib72$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961115233141.11232G-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.95.961115233141.11232G-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > On my system I have this in /etc/syslog.conf: > > local2.debug /usr/local/adm/ppp2.2.log > [that whitespace MUST be TABS not spaces] > > it might be different in OS 4.x, this is under NS 3.3 > > TjL Yes, it is different. The docs instruct one to use "daemon.debug" as opposed to local2.debug. If I switch it to local2.debug (which worked with the pppd from the ftp site), I get no output. If I do it as instructed for "daemon.debug", then I get the output from pppd as expected, but I also get all the output from the nameserver daemon, which is profuse, and therefore slows the system down. Maybe the only solution is to use the binaries at the ppp web site in replacement for those that ship with 4.x. Thanks -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: Michael R Greaves <greaves+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Sun Hardware and Nextstep Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 17:12:42 -0500 Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8mXXlOy00YUq0KtEY0@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello: I am currently using a Sun Ultra Enterprise 150, and am interested in converting to the NextStep. Currently, I am using a version of OpenStep downloaded from the Sun web site, however experiencing colormap problems with my X server. I am under the impression that if I do fully convert to NextOS, neither my SUN cards (ie SunPC, and third party video capture and video editing) nor Solaris software (i.e Photoshop, MAE, or Framemaker) will work. Is this assumption correct, and if so, what alternatives do I have? Additionally, does the commercial version of Openstep deal with colormap problems? Thanks, Michael R. Greaves
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pjoe@charon.muc.de (Peter Eybert) Subject: Re: no 'fstab' page for 3.3? Message-ID: <E0x30K.LG@charon.muc.de> References: <199611100422.UAA20801@PEAK.ORG> <E0o1nH.BIC@midway.uchicago.edu> <565coj$ejl@nntp1.best.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:00:20 GMT Christopher Wolf <cwolf@wolfware.com> wrote: : The missing fstab man page (as well as man pages for disk, driverLoader, fdisk, : fsck, mount & pico) can be found on the NeXTAnswers web page. or look for mntent(5). fstab(5) was a link to that since 3.1 I think but it never worked for me. Peter. -- pjoe@charon.muc.de
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: On a standalone with dial-in ppp - what would be the advantage of running a nameserver? Date: 16 Nov 1996 23:36:44 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-21.usc.edu Message-ID: <56lj6c$a63@usc.edu> References: <56hbku$j6g@usc.edu> <cmX9I4u00UhW81bPts@andrew.cmu.edu> <56ib72$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961115233141.11232G-100000@kira> <56ldr9$3nim@news.doit.wisc.edu> Cc: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu In <56ldr9$3nim@news.doit.wisc.edu> Michael Giddings wrote: > Yes, it is different. The docs instruct one to use "daemon.debug" as opposed > to local2.debug. If I switch it to local2.debug (which worked with the pppd > from the ftp site), I get no output. If I do it as instructed for > "daemon.debug", then I get the output from pppd as expected, but I also get > all the output from the nameserver daemon, which is profuse, and therefore > slows the system down. > > Maybe the only solution is to use the binaries at the ppp web site in > replacement for those that ship with 4.x. I'm pretty sure that Stephen J. Perkins compiled local2.debug into 'his' pppd, and that OS4.0 has just compiled it vanilla style so that it falls onto the daemon thing. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Putting a Mac on an OPENSTEP 4.0 network??? Date: 16 Nov 1996 23:43:05 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-21.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <56lji9$a63@usc.edu> References: <01bbd32e$b364baa0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> <56jiol$d88@peng.ping.at> Cc: hannes@ping.at In <56jiol$d88@peng.ping.at> Hannes Tiefenbrunner wrote: > To be honest, I`ve given up to use AppleShare as the link > between our macs and NeXTs. "Fetch", the FTP client > software for Macs, in version 3.0 is so comfortable (drag > and drop to/from finder etc.), that I`m very pleased with > FTP as an AppleShare replacement. Ok - you can`t load/save > directly from other apps from/to the NeXT, but it`s > inexpensive, reliable and fast. This was the answer to this question for NS3.3 (from Ron Wood): I have a NeXT slab on an ethernet with a Mac Quadra. I use NCSA Telnet (FTP) to transfer files between them. I did have a demo license to a program called NFS Share, which ran on the Mac and allowed NFS mounting of drives from the NeXT. It worked great, but I couldn't afford a permanent license so I had to go back to FTP. A 10Base2 (thin coax) ethernet requires no hubs, but the PowerBook would require an AUI to ethernet transceiver (about $60 or so). You'd have to configure DNS on the NeXT, and MacTCP on the Mac. Both of which are fairly easy to do. Another method is to simply connect them via null modem cable, and use some sort of communications software on the Mac, and kermit (or cu) on the NeXT. This may require building your own null modem cable, as the NeXT may require enabling flow control, which Mac cables don't support. I know that to make my modems work on the NeXT, I had to make my own serial cables, but I've never tried a null modem cable. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: connect two Openstep machines through ethernet Date: 16 Nov 1996 23:50:19 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-h-21.usc.edu Message-ID: <56ljvr$aoe@usc.edu> References: <56j0hb$d7o@news.tamu.edu> Cc: schaub@tamu.edu In <56j0hb$d7o@news.tamu.edu> Hanspeter Schaub wrote: > I have an old Nextstation and a new PC running Openstep at home now. How is > it possible to network these two together without having any real internet > addresses? All the online docs seem to appear for the case where some > computer is actually hooked up to the internet. > > Thanks for any suggestions since I am at this networking stuff ;-) The instructions should be just fine. You're setting up an intranet - a self-contained internet, that's all. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4.1 Configure.app trashes System.config/Instance0.table! Date: 16 Nov 1996 15:06:59 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <56klaj$dn8@news2.cais.com> I just upgraded to OS/Mach 4.1 and had the misfortune of using Configure.app. It zeroed out the Instance0.table file in both System.config and my display driver directory. Needless to say, this is a *bad thing*, since OS won't even boot after that. Fortunately, I had an extra NS machine which I added my hosed OS boot drive onto and replaced the corrupted .table files. Sheesh. Anybody at NeXT even using this program lately?! Eric Marshall EMI Software Engineering
From: emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to keep the clock synchronized between OS/M & NT? Date: 17 Nov 1996 04:35:20 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <56m4m8$1so@news2.cais.com> I have a dual boot machine with OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1 and Windows NT 4.0. I can't figure out how to set up each environment so that the time is the same in both. Currently, the CMOS time is the same as the NT time, with the OS/M time lagging behind by five hours (the offset for EST). In both environments I've chosen Eastern Standard Time. Thanks in advance. Eric Marshall EMI Software Engineering
From: emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 4.1 Configure.app trashes System.config/Instance0.table! Date: 17 Nov 1996 04:42:52 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <56m54c$22i@news2.cais.com> References: <56klaj$dn8@news2.cais.com> EMI Software Engineering (emi@cais.cais.com) wrote: : I just upgraded to OS/Mach 4.1 and had the misfortune of : using Configure.app. It zeroed out the Instance0.table file in both : System.config and my display driver directory. Needless to say, : this is a *bad thing*, since OS won't even boot after that. Fortunately, : I had an extra NS machine which I added my hosed OS boot drive onto : and replaced the corrupted .table files. Following up on my own post, it turns out that Configure.app zeroed out *every* Instance0.table file on my system, not just the two I mentioned above. Fortunately, it seems to have settled down and after several hours of wrestling with it OPENSTEP 4.1 seems to be running smoothly. Good luck to everyone upgrading to 4.1 :-) Eric Marshall EMI Software Engineering
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pointer needed for implementing RLF's cacheing-only dns setup. Date: 17 Nov 1996 06:06:46 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-01.usc.edu Message-ID: <56ma1m$ad0@usc.edu> My questions are about what things I need to change in the example files for the cacheing only setup for my particular setup (ppp dial-in, NS3.3 patched, m68k). The only thing I could tell for certain was to change "machine.mydomain.com" in the db.127.0.0 file. (In my case: my machine name = midnight my account = reichman my address = reichman@scf-fs.usc.edu so "machine.mydomain.com" is rewritten to "midnight.scf-fs.usc.edu"?) And pare down my /etc/resolv.conf as indicated to just my domain (which I'm using as "usc.edu") BUT, what else should I be changing in the files: root.cache & named.boot? (I'm assuming the file "cache" is to be an empty file in /etc/DNS until filled by dns queries?) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP & dynamic IP Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:06:05 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-1811961006050001@news.tiac.net> References: <3290DE31.7B68@harmonic.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <3290DE31.7B68@harmonic.co.il>, uri@harmonic.co.il wrote: > We have few Unix machine and one of them is remote. > I want to use ppp method to connect it to our LAN. > Do you know how can I configure NS3.3 to get dynamic IP from a router ? Have the LAN end of the link configured to assign the address; have the NS end configured to accept the address. Read the ppp man page to find out how to do this. The NS machine is assigned a normal LAN IP. Its end of the link is assigned the dynamic IP. The NS kernel bridges traffic from one IP to the other. The LAN DNS maps the NS IP to the dynamic IP and marks the info as non-cache. Barney
From: Chris Morrow <morrowc@mrj.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Samba & Windows95 Printers? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:28:00 -0500 Organization: MRJ, Inc./Oakton, Virginia, USA Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961114002439.16212A-100000@flash.mrj.com> References: <01bbd1b4$219bd5c0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <01bbd1b4$219bd5c0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> On 13 Nov 1996, Zacharias J. Beckman wrote: > We just finished installing Samba (w/ OPENSTEP 4.0) and it works great. We > can easily access the server from our Windows95 desktops. > > Now... how can we do the reverse? I'd like to set it up so that /Net/<blah> > access the Windows95 machines and, _more important_, the OPENSTEP system > has access to the Windows95 network printer (which is Postscript, of > course). Um...unless your win95 maachines have nfs servers I don;t think you can do this so easily...I DO remeber though, that there was a set of mount binaries for LINUX that would allow one to mount WFW shares (SMB shares) called smbmount I think... You might be able to get the source and tweak it, then compiole it for your next... The printing is easy, as long as your printers are network printers...you just have to turn on TCP/IP on the printers and print to them...easy, eh? At my office we print to networked printers all the time from next machiens or wfw machines. -Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: HELP: Black with 3.0 hangs on boot! Message-ID: <ukvralrqsz2.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:16:17 GMT Hi... My fiance has a black NeXTStation running 3.0. Recently, when the machine is booted, it'll complete the boot process, start up workspace, and just hang there with the busy cursor, never displaying the login screen. She is able to boot single-user. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? (She swears up and down that nothing was deleted, and I have checked...everything appears to be there...) Thanks, Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu (Stephen Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 and OPENSTEP??? Date: 18 Nov 1996 16:13:59 GMT Organization: Yale University Message-ID: <56q207$ci8@news.ycc.yale.edu> References: <01bbd4ce$663c4d00$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> In-Reply-To: <01bbd4ce$663c4d00$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> On 11/17/96, "Zacharias J. Beckman" wrote: >Has anyone been able to get Emacs 19.34 to compile on OPENSTEP 4.0? (Or >better yet, is there a package available on the Net somewhere)? After I complained (in every direction I could think of) about the fact that emacs wouldn't work under 4.0, and you can't compile anything any more on account of the number of changes OpenStep introduces, Steven Nygard (<nygard@agt.net>) worked on 19.34 for a while and got it to compile. What's involved is mostly changes to src/unexnext.c. Steven built it for Intel, and I have since built it on black harware. Of course 19.34 only works (a) in a terminal window, started with emacs -nw; or (b) under X (I built it with the libraries for co-Xist 3.0, and it seems to work - I still use co-Xist because that's the only X for NeXT that supports the ND board). The only version I know of that works with the NS/OS window system is the pre-compiled 3.3 binary on the archive of Carl Edman's last version, based on 19.29. No one has yet succeeded, as far as I know, in getting all of the massive quantity of changes made that would allow more recent versions of emacs-for-nextstep to compile and run under 4.0. If you would like to build 19.34 under OS 4.0, get the patch from my machine: <ftp://sapir.ling.yale.edu/pub/emacs.19.34b.os4.0.patch>. I take no credit for this, but Steven Nygard (who did the work) isn't on the net, so I'm happy to make his patch available (with his permisssion) to the rest of the community. --Stephen R. Anderson Dept. of Linguistics Yale University
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: POP3 server for NS? Date: 14 Nov 1996 07:00:00 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd1f9$b7c62a60$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need to find a POP3 server for NEXTSTEP... anybody have suggestions? --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help - Can't access tape drive (/dev/nrst0)? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 18 Nov 1996 11:39:19 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <56pht7$gu3@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <01bbd4ca$91031040$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> But I remember, that under NS3.3 (after getting and installing the correct(ing) tapedriver package) you had to 'add' the tapedriver in Configure(.app) under the 'miscellanous' compartment. Have you done that, too? Then I wouldn't know why it doesn't work and could also not correct the bug. Greetings, Ruediger -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: screwy behaviour: root can't save preferences, other users can Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:03:03 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961118090219.13579A-100000@kira> References: <rreiner.848291666@nexus.yorku.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Richard Reiner <rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca> In-Reply-To: <rreiner.848291666@nexus.yorku.ca> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com My guess is that root's $HOME has been misdefined somewhere. Open UserManager.app and see if it thinks root's $HOME is / or /Users/root or /root or what. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Re: WindowServer huge under 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961118122219.205AAFcF.magnus@darwin> Keywords: memory, top, ps Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <961115100709.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:22:19 GMT I wrote: >Hi, > > could someone please explain the following mystery, that may be >specific to 4.0 (I don't have comparable configurations): When I "ps" or >"top" to look at processes, I see an enormous WindowServer, even if the >machine is freshly rebooted: > >> ps ax >USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND >root 0 7.7 14.4 131M 13.8M ? U 0:09 kernel idle >magnus 195 1.2 71.6 71.2M 68.8M ? SW 0:03 WindowServer > >This simply cannot be true. On the other hand, "top" thinks I have > >Memory: 96M Tot, 12M Act, 24M Inact, 5832K Wired, 51M Free, 0K in, 0K out > >which looks quite reasonably. How could the WindowServer process make "ps" >believe it uses more memory than it does? I have found that the problem is due to the Elsa display driver. When I switch to the default VGA driver, everything looks normal. From the performance of the machine (swapping), it also seems clear that the amount reported by the first line of "top" is correct, and the result output by "ps" simply wrong. To rephrase the question: How is it possible for the Elsa driver to make "ps" (or, rather, whatever system function "ps" calls) report an incorrect amount? Thanks, -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
Newsgroups: alt.good.news,desy.h1.news,fj.sys.news,swnet.internet.news,uk.net.news,alt.fan.news-admins,alt.tv.news-shows,uk.net.news.config,de.admin.news.groups,de.admin.news.misc,de.admin.news.net-abuse.misc,de.admin.news.software,de.alt.newsgroups,fj.news.newsite,relcom.mn.newspaper,alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.si Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work From: rscott@fcc.com_ (R. Scott Perry) Organization: Computerized Horizons References: <133.353194369934@news.nemonet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <329101fc.0@207.41.47.8> Date: 19 Nov 96 00:40:28 GMT In article <133.353194369934@news.nemonet.com>, sbolting@nemonet.com (Steve Boltinghouse of 1009 Bird St., Hannibal, MO 63401) says... > By the end of the fourth week, I had recieved nearly $47,000.00. No, you didn't... you made perhaps $5. And, considering you could be fined $1,000 and go to jail for 5 years, would making $47,000 be worth it? Not only are chain letters illegal in the U.S. (2 year jail term for first offence, see below), they CAN NOT WORK. There would have to be over 1,000,000,000,000 people participating for them to work. Here's PROOF: --- The chain letters claim that you will make at least $10,000 (often they claim $20,000 or $50,000), by people sending you $1 bills. If the person who originally wrote the chain letter made $10,000 off of it, then there are at least 10,000 people who have joined so far. That's obvious; if someone made $10,000 from people sending him $1, then 10,000 people have joined so far. In order for each of those 10,000 people to make $10,000, there would need to be 100,000,000 people joining (10,000 people already in the program, each causing another 10,000 to join; 10,000 times 10,000 is 100,000,000). That, too, is quite obvious. So, if you saw this chain letter and joined it, according to the way the chain letter claims it works, there would be 100,000,000 other people joining. For all of you to make your $10,000, you would each need to cause another 10,000 people to sign up. How many are we at now? It's simple: 100,000,000 people times 10,000 new people each. That's 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) people joining. That's about 200 times as many people as there are on this planet. Now do you understand why chain letters won't work? --- Chain letters are illegal if the chain letter or money is transferred via U.S. Mail, and can get you a $1,000 fine and a 2 YEAR jail sentence for your first offense. The second offence can get you in jail for 5 years. Even if transmitted via the Internet, they violate Title 18 USC Section 1302, the Postal Lottery Statute. For verification, you can currently go to http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/ chainlet.htm to see that it is illegal, and go to http://www.usps.gov/ websites/depart/inspect/usc18/lottery.htm for the text of the law). --- Feel free to copy this in response to any chain letters you see, hopefully as enough people see this, the chain letters will stop. -Scott RSP
From: AMark@ncmi-ny.com (Allen Mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to keep the clock synchronized between OS/M & NT? Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:29:02 GMT Organization: NationBanc Capital Markets,Inc.(NY) Message-ID: <56q9te$ij2@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> References: <AmXpCUy00UzxI1iMUc@andrew.cmu.edu> The name of the package is TimeShift, authored by James Quick. If you can't find it, I can mail it to you. Allen ----------------------------------------------------- Allen Mark email:amark@ncmi-ny.com ----------------------------------------------------- Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Nov-96 How to keep the > clock synch.. by EMI S. Engineering@cais. > > I have a dual boot machine with OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1 > > and Windows NT 4.0. I can't figure out how to set up each environment > > so that the time is the same in both. Currently, the CMOS time is > > the same as the NT time, with the OS/M time lagging behind by five > > hours (the offset for EST). In both environments I've chosen Eastern > > Standard Time. > > NEXTSTEP is doing the right thing. Every hardware clock in the world > should try to sync to GMT (aka UT -- "universal time"), and every > operating system should be smart enough to understand time zones and > apply the appropriate offset for whereever the machine is physically > located. However, one popular OS vendor decided to do things > differently which screws up a lot of people who dual-boot. > > I believe there is a package on the NeXT FTP archives which will set and > reset your clock when you switch operating systems, but I forget the > exact name. Perhaps someone else remembers.... > > -Chuck > > > Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- > I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: wdeng@arc.unm.edu (Ward Deng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I need your help! (I "trashed" my mouse driver.) Date: 18 Nov 1996 12:23:50 -0700 Organization: Albuquerque Resource Center, HPCERC Message-ID: <56qd46$tou@taos.arc.unm.edu> Keywords: mouse driver I need your help! I am new to NS and still struggling with its pure-GUI style. I tried to configure PPP and installed v3.33 ISASerialDriver. During the configuration, I accidently "remove" the serial mouse driver (I am still not sure because I can still see it under /private/Drivers.) and I lost my mouse after rebooting the system. Is there any way for me to install/configure the serial mouse driver remotely from a UNIX/X-Win system? I have only one NeXT system on our network. I also saw a package "Serial Port Server Driver" and I don't if I need this too. PPP document mentioned "you _must_ get the latest NeXT serial drivers from NeXTAnswers. You need both the serial and ttyport drivers (version 3.33 or later)." However, I searched NeXTAnswers but did not see anything close to "ttyport." I guess there are three drivers involved. I hope I can get some instructions from here because the GUI Configure.app does not seem to be very intuitive to me. Even worse, I cannot use it now. :-( I also have a question which is more general. Is it possible to install a package without logging in as root? I was able to "su" root and "cd" Installer.app to find the executable to launch it in command line. Is there better way to do that? In many Unix SVR4 systems, GUI installer pops up a window to let you "su" root and then continues. I guess NS is such an elegant system especially its user interface and it could be due to my ignorance. BTW, I am in the "wheel" group. Thanks, --Ward Deng wdeng@arc.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <kpc@enteract.com> Message-ID: <v01540b00aeb4fffb5fda@[207.112.154.16]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:03:02 -0500 From: kpc@enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Subject: re: connect two Openstep machines through ethernet Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Just assign each a unique IP address to each machine. The IETF has published RFC 1597 on just this topic (IP address ranges for networks that are not routing through the I-net) and defined some numbers to use. I've used 192.168.1.x in situations like yours. e.g. 192.168.1.1 through 192.168.1.255 for more info see the InterNIC http or ftp servers with Internet Drafts and Requests for Comments. or you could just pick an arbitrary network address range ... -Kevin posted to comp.sys.next.sysadmin: >From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)>Subject: connect two Openstep machines through ethernet >Date: 16 Nov 1996 00:06:03 GMT > >I have an old Nextstation and a new PC running Openstep at home now. How is >it possible to network these two together without having any real internet >addresses? All the online docs seem to appear for the case where some >computer is actually hooked up to the internet. > >Thanks for any suggestions since I am at this networking stuff ;-) > >blue skies, > >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) K e v i n C o f f e e / d i f f w e r k s <diffwerk@enteract.com> <kpc@enteract.com>
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gcc 2.7.2.* and OPENSTEP Date: 18 Nov 1996 19:18:26 GMT Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Distribution: world Message-ID: <56qcq2$d8v@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> References: <3290712A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> In article <3290712A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> writes: > I have tried installing gcc and g77 under OPENSTEP > 4.0 on both Intel and NeXT hardware and although > everything goes okay during installation and installs > okay, there is a problem with creating binaries with > g77. The following error messages are seen. > > [error messages deleted] > > The executable created cannot be run. > > Giving the command g77 -v gives the output below which > shows -lgcc being loaded twice. This is obviously the > problem but how do I create an executable that does > not have this double request for -lgcc. > > Has anyone else seen this and if so how do I compile > without this problem. > > Dave I have the same problem. I get the same error messages, except that they refer to Intel rather than Motorola hardware. I get the same warnings about the dynamic shared library. An executable is created, but when I run it, I get a "Bus error" message and the program does not run. The only differences I see are that I am using g77-0.5.18 (rather than 0.5.17) and my second line (about Reading specs from) refers to 2.7.2.f.1 rather than 2.7.2.1. I assume the .f in mine means that the /f subdirectory was copied into the gcc directory. A Fortran-aware version of gcc is required. Even so, I get the same error messages. All of this seems to work under NEXTSTEP 3.3, but not under OPENSTEP 4.0. Without really knowing what I'm doing, I tried to do the final "make -k install" on the 4.0 system after doing everything else under 3.3, but that gave the same results. I'd really love to hear a solution to this problem. We have these nice new Pentium Pro systems that we can't use until we get Fortran running. I hate to think I have to downgrade to 3.3 to get things going. Can anyone help? Thanks, Gregg =========================== Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FLOPPY DISK PROBLEM Date: 19 Nov 1996 09:17:31 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <56rtvb$5ld@scsing.switch.ch> Hi there ! I have a little problem. Since I upgraded from NS3.3 to 4.0 I can not read, write or even initialize a NeXT Floppy disk ! It is ok with Mac and DOS file system not with NeXT ? Does anyone knows anything ? Thank you LiONEL -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CYBERLaB NeTWORK<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< lionel@cyberlab.ch (MiME & NeXTmail WELCOME !!) Tel: +41 (0)21 623.66.10 http://www.cyberlab.ch Fax: +41 (0)21 626.40.00 Ask for or my PGP public key ------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Subject: FONTS: is there a number limit ? Message-ID: <E125BD.4o7@galileo.pr.net.ch> Keywords: fonts Sender: stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Organization: @Home, Tenero - Switzerland Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:38:00 GMT Hello NeXTSteppers! In my /LocalLibrary/Fonts dir I have about 400 [fourhundred] fonts. First problem is that when an editor starts, it take a while to load all the fonts... :-))) ok, I can imagine why... The real problem is with printing [I have a NeXTPrinter]. If I try to print a document with, say, 40 fonts, the printing fails and I receive following dialog message: Printing ----------- Due to a PostScript language error, some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be printed. [OK] Yes, ok, but why? Any idea? [ ] No idea, but do you really need 400 fonts ???? [ ] You reached the fonts limit, setted on ___ fonts. [ ] You reached the limit for a single document, setted on ___ fonts. [ ] For sure neither the library nor the document have a limit in fonts. [ ] At least one of your fonts is damaged. Find it and remove it. [ ] Thank you, and be well. Stefano
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: WindowServer huge under 4.0 Date: 18 Nov 96 15:24:27 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov18152427@howard.one.net> References: <961115100709.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> <961118122219.205AAFcF.magnus@darwin> In-reply-to: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu's message of Mon, 18 Nov 1996 18:22:19 GMT In article <961118122219.205AAFcF.magnus@darwin>, magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) writes: How is it possible for the Elsa driver to make "ps" (or, rather, whatever system function "ps" calls) report an incorrect amount? Virtual memory mapping. ps doesn't report an actual amount of memory used, as that would be hard to calculate precisely. Instead, it reports the total amount of memory _mapped_. This includes executables, shared libraries, memory mapped files, and any other sort of copy-on-write. read-only, or zero-fill memory mapping. Thus, even the most minimal program will require 700k or 1.5M or so (depending on which shared libraries it pulls in). Furthermore, you can vm_allocate() a _very_ large chunk of ram, but since it's not actually "real" until you try to access it, it just sits out there being potential. ps doesn't know any better. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk on NeXT! Date: 18 Nov 1996 21:43:31 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <56qla3$q72@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <328f3829.0@news.hampshire.edu> <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> Cc: jbf@frazer.com In <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> James B. Frazer wrote: > > Or lift the Columbia Appletalk package from a Sun (the FTP versions require > too many patches to be applied to be feasible), port it to NeXT, and become > a hero! > The hero already has a name: Satoshi Adachi He ported the Berkeley Packet Filters (BPF) to NeXTSTEP and provided the neccessary patches to CAP 6.0pl196: cap60pl196-next.README ($Id$) We can compile and install "Columbia AppleTalk Package for UNIX" (CAP) on our NeXTstaton's in the following way. (1) Get the CAP60 source code and *many* paches from cap60.patch001 to cap60.patch196. (2) Make the CAP60 Patch Level 196 by the patch command. (3) Copy the patch file "cap60pl196-next.diff" to the top directory of cap60pl196. In the top directory, type patch -p1 < cap60pl196-next.diff (3) Read the documentations in CAP and continue the installation. Good luck. This software is tested on NeXTSTEP(Motorola,Intel). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remark: (1) Only Native EtherTalk (Phase 1,Phase 2) is supported. In usual environment, you should use Phase 2. (Who wants to use Phase 1 nowadays ?) (2) Before compilation of CAP, the the header file "bpf.h" in the directory "${BPF}/net" should be copied to "/usr/local/include/net/bpf.h" by hand. (3) If you plan to use Native EtherTalk, make sure many special files "/dev/{bpf0,bpf1,...}" are made. (At our site, bpf0,...,bpf31 are prepared.) If you need more than 32 BPF special devices, then increase the constant "NBPFILTER" in the file "bpfilter.h". (4) Do not forget to give the CAP daemons and commands the permission to access the BPF special devices "/dev/{bpf0,bpf1,...}". At our site, the owner and the group of "/dev/{bpf0,bpf1,...}" are "root" and "bpf" and their permission is set to "crw-rw----". So, all the CAP deamons and commands which need to access "/dev/{bpf0,bpf1,...}" belong to the group "bpf" and their group set-id bit is turned on. ----- The BPF can be used for tcpdump, building a rarp daemon and other tasks too. You can get it from his site, the diffs for CAP and others are included in the distribution: ftp://ftp.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp/pub/adachi/ (Anyone wants to build a binary release of CAP and put it on the archive servers...? :-)) Have a nice day Frank -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail Date: 18 Nov 1996 06:39:24 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-19.usc.edu Message-ID: <56p0as$j2p@usc.edu> References: <56og8o$o0s@usc.edu> <56oisk$j2p@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu In <56oisk$j2p@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > P.S. - I've also tried it as: > > ALL: ALL (/usr/local/bin/safe_finger -l @%h | /usr/ucb/mail > -s %d-%h reichman) & > > > AND, ideally, I'd rather the output from safe_finger went > to syslog or tcpdlog. Okay, okay, I forgot to put a colon after the second ALL. Sorry about the post. BUT I have a different problem, now that it works - I'm gettting too unspecific information. When one person tries to finger me (i.e. me rlogged into my school account - reichman@phakt.usc.edu, fingering me at home machine), I get everyone logged into that server instead of telling me it's me specifically who tried to finger me (at my home machine). See - [phakt.usc.edu] Login Name TTY Idle When Where haney Scott Andrew Haney *pts/199 5d Tue 00:10 comserv-i.usc.edu wolfgram `Ofa Moana`auli`i Wo *pts/142 Sun 18:45 saas-pc8.usc.edu jchinn Jeff W.J. Chinn pts/124 Sun 17:45 sal-sun32.usc.edu operator UCS Operations console 5 Thu 20:45 garndt Gary Grant Arndt *pts/15 Sun 17:52 res-0131.usc.edu reichman Matthew Nathaniel Re pts/93 Sun 18:53 comserv-d-19.usc.edu panati Vijayakrishna Panati pts/146 7 Sun 18:37 comserv-g-10.usc.edu othman A. Othman *pts/113 1:11 Sun 17:39 lvl-mac049.usc.edu [etc., etc. etc.] Sooo. how would I know which of those people actually was the culprit who fingered me? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: pb141@columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint Date: 19 Nov 1996 11:41:38 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <56s6di$d7q@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <56bthv$p5h@usc.edu> <distler-1311962129240001@slip-35-16.ots.utexas.edu> <56eaug$j30@usc.edu> <56orpk$89a@lorien.mallorn.com> <56p0h5$j2p@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <56p0h5$j2p@usc.edu> On 11/17/96, Matthew N. Reichman wrote: >In <56orpk$89a@lorien.mallorn.com> Christopher Lindsey wrote: >> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: >> >> >> >Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint >> >> > >> >> ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/ucb/src/sendmail/ >> >> >> >> Try it, you'll like it. >> >> 8.8.3 is out now as well... > > >And what's its claim to exist? > >-- >Be well, > >Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> >NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome >PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" > > Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com published a sendmail-8.8.1.README in the News beginning with the comment (my copy is dated Nov 2): "Finally, a decent up-to-date sendmail for NEXTSTEP! This version is compiled for multiple architectures, supports NetInfo, NIS, smrsh, mail.local and outgoing aliases (YourName@host.com) with the user database. 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." This was quickly followed by an annoucement of the bug-fixed version 8.8.2. Both notes included the claim that the software would be on an archive (inluding Peak, I believe). Since then, however, nobody that I'm aware has been able to find the distribution and Robert is not returning email. As for the ftp://ftp.sendmail.org version, these won't compile on NS without Robert's magic tricks. I'd settle for 8.8.1 if someone wants to send me a copy. -- _________________________________________ Paul Buckley 515 W 59th St., Apt. 22K New York, NY 10019 E-mail: pb141@columbia.edu Tel/Fax: 212-333-3382 _________________________________________ I'm like a dog with a bone; I gnaw on it until I understand the dynamics. Helen Caldicot, NPR interview
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Subject: Boot up error--need advice Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961118151502.2385C-100000@euler> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:44:01 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Motorola 68080 25MHZ NeXTStation When booting this computer, the boot process is quickly halted and thrown into the NMI mini monitor. Rebooting from the NeXT ROM monitor, the boot process follows its normal procedure through all the floppy and SCSI checks, etc. The last successful check it makes it the ethernet card and returns: =================== en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:01:45:ed IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" =================== On a normal boot the next check is the DSP chip. It is precisely at this point that my machine jumps back into the NMI mini monitor. Occasionally, and unpredictably, I am able to get logged on in single-user-mode from the ROM monitor. When this happens, the boot process has smoothly completed the DSP check and moved on. Once there, "exit" will cause the boot process to continue from the point it left off when it entered single-use-mode. Thus it doesn't have to recheck the DSP. Next time I try a reboot, it may or may not get past the DSP check. My question: Is the DSP chip a simply plug in chip? Could it be loose and thus be causing intermittent operation? (I've tried firmly pushing it into its socket with no improvement). Could the DSP chip be intermittently bad? Is the DSP chip even the cause of this problem? This may or may not be related: On boot up, the 3rd or forth line in verbose mode is "sc: scintr program error". What does this mean? "Help, help I'm being repressed!" Thanks for your help. Joe McWilliams
From: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch (Philip Moetteli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk on NeXT! Date: 19 Nov 1996 10:55:52 GMT Organization: ICU - Informatik Club der Uni Zuerich Message-ID: <56s3no$nip@news.eunet.ch> References: <328f3829.0@news.hampshire.edu> <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> <56qla3$q72@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <56qpiu$c08@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan Scott (scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu) wrote: : frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) wrote: : >In <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> James B. Frazer wrote: : >> : >> Or lift the Columbia Appletalk package from a Sun (the FTP versions require : This is great! Thanks Satoshi Adachi! Since I don't have the time or knowledge to build : a binary release, I am hoping someone within the NeXT community will put one together as But don't we need first KIP? For me, this is a problem. I just can't get it to work... Phil
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to keep the clock synchronized between OS/M & NT? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:22:28 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961118152204.12506D-100000@kira> References: <AmXpCUy00UzxI1iMUc@andrew.cmu.edu> <56q9te$ij2@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <56q9te$ij2@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com TimeShift may be found here: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/clocks/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: WriteNow editor Date: 19 Nov 1996 14:47:50 GMT Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <56sham$5q8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961118164722.6175A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.961118164722.6175A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> writes: > I have lots of WriteNow files on an old Nextstation that I'd like to be > able to use on my new Intel machine running NS3.3. Does anyone have a > nice word processor that can read and write WriteNow files? Claris Works on the Mac actually imports NeXT WriteNow files (specifically!) Then you can dump 'em as RTF or what-have-you. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------ David A. Coyle Ask for my PGP public key. Max-Planck-Institut f r Kernphysik Heidelberg, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------ dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de dcoyle@weizen.rt.schwaben.de http://goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de/fission/fissionhome.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Where-fore-art-tho sendmail_8.8.2? -hint hint Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:38:55 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1911961038550001@slip-15-6.ots.utexas.edu> References: <56bthv$p5h@usc.edu> <distler-1311962129240001@slip-35-16.ots.utexas.edu> <56eaug$j30@usc.edu> <56orpk$89a@lorien.mallorn.com> <56p0h5$j2p@usc.edu> <56s6di$d7q@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> In article <56s6di$d7q@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, pb141@columbia.edu wrote: >As for the ftp://ftp.sendmail.org version, these won't compile on NS without >Robert's magic tricks. > Simply NOT true. They compile perfectly 'out of the box'. Assuming you have a recent (8.7.x) version of sendmail running, compiling and installing the latest version from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org takes 10 minutes, tops. >I'd settle for 8.8.1 if someone wants to send me a copy. It has KNOWN security flaws. Settle for it at your peril. Jacques Distler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: love Date: 19 Nov 1996 11:00:52 EST Control: cancel <10004837.22CC@anonymous.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <10004837.22CC@anonymous.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.10004837.22CC@anonymous.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was >>> ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE? <<<
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Problems compiling Perl-5.003 Date: 19 Nov 1996 16:42:31 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <56so1n$a3j@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <56ij73$ism@netnews.upenn.edu> <1996Nov16.143141.9514@seer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1996Nov16.143141.9514@seer.demon.co.uk> On 11/16/96, Paul Lynch wrote: > Be aware that most packages I have seen for NeXTSTEP have a bug in the > socket code. This usually means that it works OK on black, but not on > Intel. The simple test is to attempt to run mirror :-). > Rats... I think I've just found this trying to run Radical Solutions' ml (for checking URLs in WWW docs): given: socket(S, $AF_INET, $SOCK_STREAM, $proto); bind(S, $this); connect(S, $other); print S "HEAD $filename HTTP/1.0\r\n"; S->autoflush(1); $timeout = 60; vec($rin, fileno(S), 1) = 1; ($nfound, $timeout) = select($rin, undef, undef, $timeout); (all the checks etc omitted -- it all works OK up to here though; now however...) if ($nfound < 1) { print "** Timeout ($timeout) occurred while accessing $url\n"; close S; return 0; } This seems to return immediately, "indicating" a timeout error. I've tested it on a SparcStation, though, and it works fine. Any suggestions? Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WriteNow editor Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:49:37 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961118164722.6175A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have lots of WriteNow files on an old Nextstation that I'd like to be able to use on my new Intel machine running NS3.3. Does anyone have a nice word processor that can read and write WriteNow files? Robert
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk on NeXT! Date: 18 Nov 1996 22:56:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <56qpiu$c08@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <328f3829.0@news.hampshire.edu> <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> <56qla3$q72@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) wrote: >In <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> James B. Frazer wrote: >> >> Or lift the Columbia Appletalk package from a Sun (the FTP versions require >> too many patches to be applied to be feasible), port it to NeXT, and become >> a hero! >> > >The hero already has a name: Satoshi Adachi > >He ported the Berkeley Packet Filters (BPF) to NeXTSTEP and provided the >neccessary patches to CAP 6.0pl196: > >cap60pl196-next.README ($Id$) > >We can compile and install "Columbia AppleTalk Package for UNIX" (CAP) >on our NeXTstaton's in the following way. <Snip - compilation instructions> >The BPF can be used for tcpdump, building a rarp daemon and other tasks too. > >You can get it from his site, the diffs for CAP and others are included in >the distribution: > > ftp://ftp.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp/pub/adachi/ > >(Anyone wants to build a binary release of CAP and put it on the archive >servers...? :-)) > >Have a nice day > > Frank >-- >* Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net >* NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy This is great! Thanks Satoshi Adachi! Since I don't have the time or knowledge to build a binary release, I am hoping someone within the NeXT community will put one together as soon as possible. Based on the number of questions posted to c.s.n.*, I know this would be greatly appreciated by many. Later, Ryan
From: Andrew Kaczorek <andrew@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Urgent!!! Locked out of NeXtstation! Please help! Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:36:17 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961118222947.18827A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I just bought a 25mhz NeXTstation. It was working fine----I had the root password given to me by the company that sold them. After a couple hours of tinkering, I was able to "undo" all of the old network settings and get my machine up and running on TCP/IP. Everything worked........except DNS. So, I used the network "simplestarter". I set up the station as a single machine-----meaning it had no administrative tasks for a NeXT network (there are no other NeXTs on this network). So, I rebooted. Here's what happened upon reboot. During startup it froze on "starting YP server"-----ok, if I press control-C it skips through that. It also freezes on "starting automounter. Then, I control-C through it again. Finally it gives me the login window. However, when I put in the same old root login/password.....it won't let me in!! What's different about the login is that usually it either instantly let you in or it didn't. However, now when you type in a id/password, it will spin the cursor for a few seconds before denying you access. What can I do? I'm locked out of my system!?! Do I need to flash the rom or something? Do I need to boot single user? (i don't know how) Do I have to reinstall the os? (I have the cd but no cdrom drive--os was preinstalled) What are my options? I'd appreciate any help you could give. Please reply through email as well as the newsgroup since I am not able to check it frequently. Thanks Andrew Kaczorek andrew@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:13:25 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1811962213260001@slip-84-11.ots.utexas.edu> References: <56og8o$o0s@usc.edu> <56oisk$j2p@usc.edu> <56p0as$j2p@usc.edu> <distler-1811960132240001@slip-24-1.ots.utexas.edu> <3290681f.0@news.hampshire.edu> In article <3290681f.0@news.hampshire.edu>, jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) wrote: >What? Who said that? There's the same chance of installing identd on a NeXT >as there is on say, SunOS, one of the most popular in the world--it doesn't >come with identd installed. Perhaps true, but my experience (totally unscientific) is that all of the linux machines, and most of the AIX and HP-UX machines I tend to deal with are running IDENT daemons. But NONE of the NS machines (except for mine :-)) are. I do not care to speculate on why this is the case; it just is. >: b) the IDENT daemon is returning reliable information. >: If the person fingering you has root access on the foreign machine, >: IDENT could return anything at all! But then, reverse-fingering would >: not return reliable information either. > >Which is most users on the internet -- well, not really, but, considering >that there are so many Mac and Windows users, it might as well be: they too >can set their identd reply to whatever they want, if they choose to use it at >all. Identd is 90% useless most of the time. If IDENT is useless, then so is finger. Either you will get no response whatsoever (because the PC isn't running a finger daemon) or you will get whatever the hell the owner of the PC wants you to see. That criticism (commonly leveled against IDENT) holds for ANY daemon being run on a PC (or, more generally, when the common user effectively has root access on the machine). You can't trust the veracity of what it says. But hell, some information is better than none. > >TCP wrappers should be compiled with RFC931 support anyway -- there's an >option in the makefile. That should be done automatically. Also, look >for a new fingerd -- one that can be configured to so you who is being >fingered, and also shows you logging info. Getting a new fingerd and or finger for NS is a pretty good idea. Try finger 0@my.next.machine You will be amused to obtain a (partial) list of all your users. Try finger @my.next.machine and find out which of them are logged on. Frankly, neither of these queries should be answered by a well-configured fingerd (or, at least, answering the latter should be optional). Jacques Distler
From: Andrew Kaczorek <andrew@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Urgent!!! Locked out of NeXtstation! Please help! Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:15:13 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961119001136.89A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> References: <199611190406.WAA13023@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199611190406.WAA13023@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> Where's the sysadmin online manual? I've never heard of that one. I don't have any manuals that are a bit technical. I really don't think reinstalling the OS is an option now---for one thing, I don't know anyone with a SCSI cdrom drive... Right now I'm in the process of letting my system sit without a battery to get around the hardware password. But I still really don't know what to do once I get in single user mode....it's like my computer's contacting a server to validate logins....but there isn't one. I'm going to have to edit the /etc files... hope for the best-----let me know if you know anything about this. Thanks Andrew > In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.961118222947.18827A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> you write: > >I just bought a 25mhz NeXTstation. It was working fine----I had the root > >password given to me by the company that sold them. After a couple hours > >of tinkering, I was able to "undo" all of the old network settings and > >get my machine up and running on TCP/IP. Everything worked........except > >DNS. So, I used the network "simplestarter". I set up the station as a > >single machine-----meaning it had no administrative tasks for a NeXT > >network (there are no other NeXTs on this network). So, I rebooted. > > > >Here's what happened upon reboot. During startup it froze on "starting > >YP server"-----ok, if I press control-C it skips through that. It also > >freezes on "starting automounter. Then, I control-C through it again. > >Finally it gives me the login window. However, when I put in the same > >old root login/password.....it won't let me in!! What's different about > >the login is that usually it either instantly let you in or it didn't. > >However, now when you type in a id/password, it will spin the cursor for > >a few seconds before denying you access. > > > >What can I do? I'm locked out of my system!?! Do I need to flash the rom > >or something? Do I need to boot single user? (i don't know how) Do I > >have to reinstall the os? (I have the cd but no cdrom drive--os was > >preinstalled) What are my options? > > > >I'd appreciate any help you could give. Please reply through email as > >well as the newsgroup since I am not able to check it frequently. > > > > I guess you did not read the sysadmin on-line manual. Now you have no > chance to login to read it. I have a standalone machine, so I can not > tell the problem of your network setup. It may have been messed up. > My suggestion is to reinstall OS. If you have important things to back up, > connect a tape drive (or something like that), then from the the system > "mon" window, just type "bsd -s". From the single-usr screen, use dump 0 > to backup everything. > > Then borrow a cd-rom drive (this should not be hard, you can pick up one > for $40) and reinstall the NS. Read the on-line sysadmin manual and > figure out how to set up the mixed network. It's not that hard. > > If you can not borrow the drive and can not solve the problem, I may be > able to help you. Just let me know. >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GateKeeper and PPP Connection? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:43:58 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961118214322.28162C-100000@kira> References: <andrew-0611960250530001@andrew.inxpress.net> <01bbd1b4$caaa56a0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> In-Reply-To: <01bbd1b4$caaa56a0$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Anyone have an email address for Progressive Systems? TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Urgent!!! Locked out of NeXtstation! Please help! Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:54:17 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961118214604.28162D-100000@kira> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961118222947.18827A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andrew Kaczorek <andrew@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961118222947.18827A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > > I just bought a 25mhz NeXTstation. It was working fine----I had the root > password given to me by the company that sold them. After a couple hours > of tinkering, I was able to "undo" all of the old network settings and > get my machine up and running on TCP/IP. Everything worked........except > DNS. So, I used the network "simplestarter". I set up the station as a > single machine-----meaning it had no administrative tasks for a NeXT > network (there are no other NeXTs on this network). So, I rebooted. SimpleNetworkStarter should not be used after the initial configuration of the machine. NetInfoManager, HostManager, and UserManager are your friends.. > Here's what happened upon reboot. During startup it froze on "starting > YP server"-----ok, if I press control-C it skips through that. It also > freezes on "starting automounter. Then, I control-C through it again. > Finally it gives me the login window. However, when I put in the same > old root login/password......it won't let me in!! What's different about > the login is that usually it either instantly let you in or it didn't. > However, now when you type in a id/password, it will spin the cursor for > a few seconds before denying you access. yup, something is screwy. Sounds like it is trying to find some authentication and can't > What can I do? I'm locked out of my system!?! Do I need to flash the rom > or something? Do I need to boot single user? (i don't know how) Do I > have to reinstall the os? (I have the cd but no cdrom drive--os was > preinstalled) What are my options? read http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1295.htmld/1295.html to boot into single user - power on - hold down BOTH "command" keys and press the ~ (over the 7 on the keypad) - enter 'bsd-s' at the NeXT prompt > I'd appreciate any help you could give. Please reply through email as > well as the newsgroup since I am not able to check it frequently. sounds like you should ;-) when you're settled, get this file: htto://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/next-digest-info or send me email with the SUBJECT send-ascii next-digest-info (the body of the message will be ignored) TjL
From: next@abico.com.tw (·¨©s¾Ë) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Urgent!!! Locked out of NeXtstation! Please help! Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:25:53 GMT Organization: ¨Î¯à¥ø·~ Message-ID: <56tmis$gk0@netnews.hinet.net> References: <199611190406.WAA13023@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.91.961119001136.89A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> Andrew Kaczorek <andrew@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> wrote: >Where's the sysadmin online manual? I've never heard of that one. I >don't have any manuals that are a bit technical. I really don't think >reinstalling the OS is an option now---for one thing, I don't know anyone >with a SCSI cdrom drive... > >Right now I'm in the process of letting my system sit without a battery >to get around the hardware password. But I still really don't know what >to do once I get in single user mode....it's like my computer's >contacting a server to validate logins....but there isn't one. I'm going >to have to edit the /etc files... hope for the best-----let me know if >you know anything about this. > >Thanks > >Andrew > Try this: 1) boot to single user mode by using "bsd -s" command 2) At "#" prompt, delete the "hostconfig" file and "netinfo" directory under /etc by using "rm" and "rmdir" command 3) Copy the clean "hostconfig" and "netinfo" back to /etc by using cp command: cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /etc cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc the "-r" is to copy the directory. After you did these, just reboot your NeXT and it should startup without any password and network connection. Batmon
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Ident daemon on NeXSTEP -- (Was: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 22:21:38 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8mYbZ2200Uh7E2Y9lo@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Nov-96 Ident daemon on NeXSTEP -- .. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > 1) Are there any pros to running identd on NS? Sure. There are a few sites which will refuse to accept connections from your machine if it's not running an identd (mainly MUDs, or so I hear). It also provides remote admins with better logging, and improves response to places which do an identd check (including anybody running a modern sendmail with that option on). > 2) Has someone compiled it for NS 3.3 m68k? > I looked on my system but didn't find an ident daemon, > only the ident binary.. You can check the standard NeXT FTP sites-- I recall finding a binary for it somwhere, or do a web search. > 3) Is there an identd man page? Yes. Want me to email it to you? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ident daemon on NeXSTEP -- (Was: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail) Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:37:59 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-06.usc.edu Message-ID: <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> Cc: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu I'm running NS3.3 m68k. 1) Are there any pros to running identd on NS? 2) Has someone compiled it for NS 3.3 m68k? I looked on my system but didn't find an ident daemon, only the ident binary.. 3) Is there an identd man page? Be well Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: tlegvold@jagor.srce.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [?] Bootloader handle multiple drives? Date: 18 Nov 1996 00:18:58 GMT Organization: Public host at University Computing Centre, Zagreb, CROATIA Distribution: world Message-ID: <56oa1i$53e@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have 2 physical hard disks. Will NeXTs bootloader allow me to specify a second drive to boot off of (Linux/Win95)??? Regards, -- Thor Legvold | Tlf: +47 90 05 58 68 Presently in exile in Croatia | PGP: finger tlegvold@public.srce.hr "Where I'm from is far less | WWW: http://www.geopages.com/Paris/1964/ relevant than where I've been." -me | NeXT/MIME mail accepted
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help, want to turn off sound on USR internal modem Date: 19 Nov 1996 21:36:10 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <56t98a$ka9@paraguay.earthlink.net> Can someone please tell me how to disable the sound on my USR 28.8 VFC modem, internal? I am running NSFIP 3.3. Ive done this in the past with the help from someone on these newsgroups. There is some sort of script that he/she provided. Unfortunately I dont have that anymore. If any one has it, please email it to me at one of the addresses below. Thank you. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ Gerardo Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net quinonez@usa.net NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: zensyo@edp.eng.tamagawa.ac.jp (Suzuki Yoshiaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk on NeXT? Date: 19 Nov 1996 16:22:45 GMT Organization: TAMAGAWA University Message-ID: <56smsl$9pk@news.tamagawa.ac.jp> References: <328f3829.0@news.hampshire.edu> <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> Follow up from Japan. >> Or lift the Columbia Appletalk package from a Sun (the FTP versions require >> too many patches to be applied to be feasible), port it to NeXT, and become >> a hero! Mr. Adachi had been ported BPF to NeXT. It makes us to be able to use Native EtherTalk and UAR . We can use CAP on them. The BPF sources will get following URL ftp://ftp.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp/pub/adachi/bpf_NeXT And you need CAP official patch 198 . But, if you use NEXTSTEP3.3 for Intel Processor , you must read README file in BPF patch. Because some Intel plathome's ethernet drivers 'NOT' support multicast!. AppleTalk Phase2 uses multicast. if you use BlackHardWares , CAP will work OS 3.2 and 3.3. We did't test other Plathomes ( SPARC , HP ). AND , is it work on NEXTSTEP4.4?????
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Subject: Workspace Info Panel...: Disk: 0 byte !!! Message-ID: <E14v3F.5M2@galileo.pr.net.ch> Sender: stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Organization: @Home, Tenero - Switzerland Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:50:03 GMT Hello NeXTFriends! Since I changed the internal harddisk from original 440Mb to a new one with 2Gb, I lost the information in the Workspace' Info Panel. At the bottom right the Disk label says... 0 byte! On the contrary, the File Viewer show me the correct available space. What could be the reason? How to inform the Info Panel? My workstation is standalone and runs NS 3.2. I have to say I've defined my station as an Host with HostManager in order to give it a name, visible as root name and in the login panel. This operation creates a /Net directory (void, with a world as icon), but this doesn't disturb me at all. Thank you! Be well, Stefano - Stefano Unternaehrer <postmaster@galileo.pr.net.ch>
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail Date: 18 Nov 1996 02:05:12 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-e-70.usc.edu Message-ID: <56og8o$o0s@usc.edu> Q: TCP_wrappers & mail I'm trying the following line (in /etc/hosts.deny) out of the man pages for hosts_access to no apparent effect: ========beg========== ALL: ALL (/usr/local/bin/safe_finger -l @%h | /usr/ucb/mail -s %d-%h reichman@usc.edu) & ========end========== When I run it manually (with a non-variable subject line): ========beg========== midnight~#: /usr/ucb/mail -s dh reichman@usc.edu & [1] 6525 midnight~#: [1] + 6525 suspended (tty input) /usr/ucb/mail -s dh reichman@usc.edu ========end========== How do I get this to work properly? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: next@abico.com.tw (·¨©s¾Ë) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Does NeXT support PCNFSD daemon?? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:14:43 GMT Organization: ¨Î¯à¥ø·~ Message-ID: <56tltu$fuq@netnews.hinet.net> Hi, Is there any way I can configure NeXTStep v3.3 or OPENSTEP so it could PCNFSD deamon? I am using a shareware called ICE.NFS for Windows 95 and it will allow me to see the NFS server under Windows 95. After I install it and find the NeXT Server, it tells me the UNIX Server has to support PCNFSD daemon. If you know anything about this, please let me know. Thank you. Best Regards, Batmon
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail Date: 18 Nov 1996 02:49:56 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-19.usc.edu Message-ID: <56oisk$j2p@usc.edu> References: <56og8o$o0s@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu P.S. - I've also tried it as: ALL: ALL (/usr/local/bin/safe_finger -l @%h | /usr/ucb/mail -s %d-%h reichman) & AND, ideally, I'd rather the output from safe_finger went to syslog or tcpdlog. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pointer needed for implementing RLF's cacheing-only dns setup. Date: 18 Nov 1996 02:50:53 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-19.usc.edu Message-ID: <56oiud$j2p@usc.edu> References: <56ma1m$ad0@usc.edu> <UmXq3uq00UhB81fkVh@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <UmXq3uq00UhB81fkVh@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Nov-96 Pointer needed > for implemen.. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > > BUT, what else should I be changing in the files: root.cache > > & named.boot? (I'm assuming the file "cache" is to be an > > empty file in /etc/DNS until filled by dns queries?) > > Read the Bind Operations Guide (BOG), or 'man named'. > Your questions are best answered there.... Okay... I think I'm setup properly. How do I know tho... What way can I test that I am now a cacheing thingy? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why does "man finger" give me the man page for 'find'? Date: 18 Nov 1996 03:06:25 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-19.usc.edu Message-ID: <56ojrh$j2p@usc.edu> Why does "man finger" give me the man page for 'find'? Both Librarian and from a shell I get the man page for find whenever I man for finger... And both files are definitely in /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man1/ -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7096 Jul 23 1992 man1/find.1 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2496 Oct 22 1990 man1/finger.1 And, when cat'ed they are different and correct files. Any ideas? (and I have rerun ixbuild). And what man page deals with this? 8-) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FONTS: is there a number limit ? Date: 19 Nov 1996 22:06:06 GMT Organization: Private NEXTSTEP site, Germany Message-ID: <56tb0e$gpl@mimi.in-berlin.de> References: <E125BD.4o7@galileo.pr.net.ch> Cc: stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch In <E125BD.4o7@galileo.pr.net.ch> Stefano Unternaehrer wrote: > > Hello NeXTSteppers! > > In my /LocalLibrary/Fonts dir I have about 400 [fourhundred] fonts. > First problem is that when an editor starts, it take a while to load > all the fonts... :-))) ok, I can imagine why... > > The real problem is with printing [I have a NeXTPrinter]. > If I try to print a document with, say, 40 fonts, the printing fails > and I receive following dialog message: > > Printing > ----------- > Due to a PostScript language error, some or all of the pages > in your print request couldn't be printed. [OK] > > Yes, ok, but why? Any idea? Hi! No there ist no limit (in NS 3.3) for the number of fonts. Maybe some of your fonts are broken and cannot be printed?! Check font by font which one causes an error. Gerald -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | GERALD ERDMANN | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) | crypt: pgp2 public key available |
From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy Subject: cancel Control: cancel <56tv12$pmd@ns1.autonet.net> Date: 20 Nov 1996 04:59:59 GMT Organization: Ripco Communications Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <56u38f$m2b$1@gail.ripco.com> <56tv12$pmd@ns1.autonet.net> is excessively silly. -- David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased dr@ripco.com (312) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!
From: lindsey@wri.com (Christopher Lindsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot single-user Date: 18 Nov 1996 05:26:31 GMT Organization: Mallorn Computing Message-ID: <56os27$89v@lorien.mallorn.com> References: <rreiner.848241750@nexus.yorku.ca> rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) writes: >I just picked up a used NeXTstat9on slab... no manuals. >A simple question: How do I boot this thing single-user? When it first starts up, hit both <COMMAND> keys (on either side of the spacebar) along with the ~ key over the keypad. Then type 'b sd -s' Chris -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Lindsey Senior UNIX System Administrator Wolfram Research, Inc. Mallorn Computing http://www.wolfram.com/~lindsey http://www.mallorn.com/~lindsey
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34 and OPENSTEP??? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:53:21 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <32932971.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <01bbd4ce$663c4d00$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> <56q207$ci8@news.ycc.yale.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Anderson wrote: > > On 11/17/96, "Zacharias J. Beckman" wrote: > >Has anyone been able to get Emacs 19.34 to compile on OPENSTEP 4.0? > (Or > >better yet, is there a package available on the Net somewhere)? > > After I complained (in every direction I could think of) about the > fact that emacs wouldn't work under 4.0, and you can't compile > anything any more on account of the number of changes OpenStep > introduces, Steven Nygard (<nygard@agt.net>) worked on 19.34 for a > while and got it to compile. What's involved is mostly changes to > src/unexnext.c. Steven built it for Intel, and I have since built it > on black harware. > > Of course 19.34 only works (a) in a terminal window, started with > emacs -nw; or (b) under X (I built it with the libraries for co-Xist > 3.0, and it seems to work - I still use co-Xist because that's the > only X for NeXT that supports the ND board). The only version I know > of that works with the NS/OS window system is the pre-compiled 3.3 > binary on the archive of Carl Edman's last version, based on 19.29. No > one has yet succeeded, as far as I know, in getting all of the massive > quantity of changes made that would allow more recent versions of > emacs-for-nextstep to compile and run under 4.0. > ... what is about Emacs for NeXTStep ? I use the latest one of Carl. Unfortunately he quits developing NeXT/OpenStep software. Again a native port of a newer GNUemacs version is extremely hard and makes no sence at all. As Carl posted once, the FSF didn't want to include the patches for the DPS-Windowsystem in the distribution. So you've got to start from zero with each new gnu-emacs version. Meanwhile the very good binary distributions of xemacs (former lucid emacs) is winning the editor war ! It's faster and easier to install. Just untar one shared file and one for every platform in an arbitrary location. It is quit very handy on mixed networks. (one site-start.el over all platforms and so on) The only way to make Emacs popular again is to speak with the authors of xemacs as Carl has planed to do sometimes. The binray should appear next to the X11 binaries. ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/editors/xemacs/ one of the mirrors I think Carl's Emacs.app is quite the best for NeXtStep. The xemacs version should be a native OpenStep version and could be compiled on Solaris/OpenStep and WinNT/OpenStep too. Let's hope somebody have time and knowledge to to it. Stefan Ried -- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: robin@pswtech.com (Robin Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How to soft reboot/interrupt on portable? Date: 20 Nov 1996 22:27:49 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <5700l5$idv@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <567v38$2oug@news.doit.wisc.edu> giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) wrote: } Hi } I used to have a Thinkpad and now I have a Tecra, and I have had the same } problem with both: } } I can't soft interrupt/reboot! The problem is, on many portables the NumLock } key not standard or is missing altogether. } } Advice or suggestions would be appreciated. The Tecra has a keyboard combination that equates to the right "Alt" key. Use the "Fn-(Left)Alt" combination to simulate the (Right)Alt key on your normal keyboard. Pressing this and F11 works for me. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: robin@pswtech.com (Robin Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: WriteNow editor Date: 20 Nov 1996 22:57:33 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <5702ct$idv@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961118164722.6175A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> <56sham$5q8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle) wrote: } In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.961118164722.6175A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> } Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> writes: } > I have lots of WriteNow files on an old Nextstation that I'd like to be } > able to use on my new Intel machine running NS3.3. Does anyone have a } > nice word processor that can read and write WriteNow files? } } Claris Works on the Mac actually imports NeXT WriteNow files } (specifically!) } Then you can dump 'em as RTF or what-have-you. In our copy of WriteNow.app, there is a file (within the app bundle) called: "wn-rtf". It is a command-line program that will convert a file from "WriteNow" format to "RTF" format. I wrote the following shell script: --------------------CUT HERE------------------------- #!/bin/sh # This must be run on NeXT (black) hardware WRITENOWAPP=/LocalApps/WriteNow.app if [ $# = 0 ] then echo "usage: $0 <file> [file [file [...]]]" exit -1 fi for file in $* do if [ -f "$file" ] then # Replace the ".wn" file extension with "rtf" outfile=`echo $file | sed -n 's/\.wn$/\.rtf/p'` $WRITENOWAPP/wn-rtf $file > $outfile fi done -----------------------CUT HERE---------------------- A couple of weaknesses to this -- this "wn-rtf" program only runs on Black hardward (it is part of the WriteNow product bundle), and it doesn't convert graphics or headers/footers... But if the files you need to use don't have a lot of graphics or headers/footers, this works quite well. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Summary: WindowServer huge under 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961120093656.204AAFcF.magnus@darwin> Keywords: memory, top, ps Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <961115100709.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:36:56 GMT I apologize for the last, superfluous post -- my fingers were too fast. What I wanted to say was that several sources have informed me that the memory usage reported by "ps" simply cannot be taken as absolute. It should therefore not come as any surprise that "ps" reports: > ps ax USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 0 7.7 14.4 131M 13.8M ? U 0:09 kernel idle magnus 195 1.2 71.6 71.2M 68.8M ? SW 0:03 WindowServer whereas "top" tells me I have close to 60% memory free. I guess I knew this on some level, I just hadn't seen an error of this magnitude before. Thanks to all that respond, -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: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT with NS 3.3 freezes. Patchlevel problem? Date: 21 Nov 1996 00:49:05 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn5979dr.283.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> I have a NeXTstation which has started freezing-up every so often, but only since it has been updated to NS 3.3... I'm not sure which patchlevel it's running (as I transplanted the drive with 3.3 on it from a turbo which I purhcased), but could this be a patchlevel problem? Do I need to buy a new drive? (It just freezes, sometimes panics, but usually just freezes with no diagnostic information whatsoever.) Many thanks for any help. Paul -- _____________________________________________________________________ Paul Brown Grad student, UCB mathematics (510)-843-7817 pbrown@math.berkeley.edu http://math.berkeley.edu/~pbrown/ NeXTmail preferred. _____________________________________________________________________
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail Date: 18 Nov 96 13:43:59 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <3290681f.0@news.hampshire.edu> References: <56og8o$o0s@usc.edu> <56oisk$j2p@usc.edu> <56p0as$j2p@usc.edu> <distler-1811960132240001@slip-24-1.ots.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler (distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu) wrote: :Say the other guy has configured HIS tcpd in the same way Good point... : I think what you are after is: : finger : ALL : rfc931 : allow : This does an IDENT lookup on the guy who tried to finger you. The usefulness : of the resulting information requires : a) the foreign host is running an IDENT daemon. : Most NeXTs don't, but in the rest of the Unix world, running an ident : daemon is pretty de rigeur. What? Who said that? There's the same chance of installing identd on a NeXT as there is on say, SunOS, one of the most popular in the world--it doesn't come with identd installed. : b) the IDENT daemon is returning reliable information. : If the person fingering you has root access on the foreign machine, : IDENT could return anything at all! But then, reverse-fingering would : not return reliable information either. Which is most users on the internet -- well, not really, but, considering that there are so many Mac and Windows users, it might as well be: they too can set their identd reply to whatever they want, if they choose to use it at all. Identd is 90% useless most of the time. TCP wrappers should be compiled with RFC931 support anyway -- there's an option in the makefile. That should be done automatically. Also, look for a new fingerd -- one that can be configured to so you who is being fingered, and also shows you logging info. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com My cat failed the Turing test miserably.
From: "Robert S. Herbst" <bobh@dnrc.bell-labs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP for NT Question Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:11:50 -0500 Organization: Bell Laboratories Message-ID: <32933BD6.2CB4@dnrc.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have upgraded my NS FIP from 3.3 to 4.0, or so I thought. What I recveived is OpenStep 4.x for NT. That is fine, but my question is which version of NT will this run best on, 3.51 or 4.0 ?? Anxiously awaiting a response! Thanks, Bob -- Robert S. Herbst Bell Labs Research Computing - Holmdel,NJ Providing Innovations to Lucent Technologies
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gcc 2.7.2.* and OPENSTEP Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:22:34 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <3290712A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have tried installing gcc and g77 under OPENSTEP 4.0 on both Intel and NeXT hardware and although everything goes okay during installation and installs okay, there is a problem with creating binaries with g77. The following error messages are seen. ld: warning archive library: /usr/intel/lib/gcc-lib/i386-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/libgcc.a appears after reference to dynamic shared library and will be searched as a dynamic shared library ld: warning archive library: /usr/intel/lib/gcc-lib/i386-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/libgcc.a appears after reference to dynamic shared library and will be searched as a dynamic shared library The executable created cannot be run. Givving the command g77 -v gives the output below which shows -lgcc being loaded twice. This is obviously the problem but how do I create an executable that does not have this double request for -lgcc. Has anyone else seen this and if so how do I compile without this problem. Dave monk:tmp:{79}# g77 -v gcc -v -fnull-version -o /usr/tmp/gf027408 -xf77-cpp-input /dev/null -xnone Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/specs gcc version 2.7.2.1 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/cpp -lang-c -v -undef -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=7 -D__mc68000__ -D__m68k__ -D__NeXT__ -D__unix__ -D__MACH__ -D__BIG_ENDIAN__ -D__ARCHITECTURE__="m68k" -D__mc68000 -D__m68k -D__NeXT -D__unix -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(mach) -Acpu(m68k) -Amachine(m68k) -D_LANGUAGE_FORTRAN -traditional -D__STDC__ -D_NEXT_SOURCE /dev/null /usr/tmp/cc027408.i GNU CPP version 2.7.2.1 (68k, MIT syntax) #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /usr/local/include /usr/local/m68k-next-nextstep3/include /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/include /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/include/ansi /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/include/bsd /NextDeveloper/Headers /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi /NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd /LocalDeveloper/Headers /LocalDeveloper/Headers/ansi /LocalDeveloper/Headers/bsd /NextDeveloper/2.0CompatibleHeaders /usr/include /usr/include/bsd End of search list. /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/f771 /usr/tmp/cc027408.i -quiet -dumpbase null.F -version -fversion -fnull-version -o /usr/tmp/cc027408.s GNU F77 version 2.7.2.1 (68k, MIT syntax) compiled by GNU C version 2.5.8. GNU Fortran Front End version 0.5.17 compiled: Sep 13 1996 17:46:53 as -o /usr/tmp/cc0274081.o /usr/tmp/cc027408.s ld -o /usr/tmp/gf027408 -lcrt0.o -L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1 -L/usr/local/lib /usr/tmp/cc0274081.o -lgcc -lsys_s -lgcc ld: warning archive library: /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2.1/libgcc.a appears after reference to dynamic shared library and will be searched as a dynamic shared library ld: Undefined symbols: _main -- --------------------------------------------------------------- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Rudolf B Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP LaserJet 5si MX Date: 20 Nov 1996 17:56:26 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <56vgoa$18a3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Keywords: Printer Driver Hallo, we got a new cool printer - HP LaserJet 5si MX. It can print two sided printouts and similar cool stuff. The problem is that only Win95 users are able to use these features (and Apple too) Is there someone who created a driver for NeXTstep? What would that involve? Just writing a description postscript file? And would above features work over the net? What I am interested in is finding out if there is anything available. A commercial product, shareware, freeware, advice - anything would be appreciated. Thanks, Rudy. Rudolf Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Ident daemon on NeXSTEP -- (Was: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail) Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:14:48 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-d-39.usc.edu Message-ID: <56vhqo$cs4@usc.edu> References: <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> <56v71k$1mp@crcnis3.unl.edu> Cc: rdieter@math.unl.edu In <56v71k$1mp@crcnis3.unl.edu> Rex Dieter wrote: > In article <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) > writes: > > 2) Has someone compiled it for NS 3.3 m68k? I looked on my system > > but didn't find an ident daemon, only the ident binary.. > > I think I uploaded pident-2.7.1 to ftp.next.peak.org. If you can't > find it there, try: Thanks. I found it. Very nice of you to pkg it. I've installed it as you've recommended, but I have a couple of questions: 1) What exactly is the use of 'root' to replace 'sys' in the inetd.conf line have to do with the man page issue dealing with kmem access but no write access? Anything? 2) There is no actual identd daemon? Or is the ident --> in.identd make the latter the daemon which only runs upon a call? 3) Didn't find the 'itest' program, nor information on the 'identconn' binary. Thanks again for the pkg! -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: jut@ukrv.de (J.-U. Thieme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Does NeXT support PCNFSD daemon?? Date: 20 Nov 1996 12:52:18 GMT Organization: Charité - Virchow-Klinikum , Medical Faculty of Humboldt-University in Berlin Message-ID: <56uuu2$2d5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <56tltu$fuq@netnews.hinet.net> Cc: next@abico.com.tw In <56tltu$fuq@netnews.hinet.net> Š¤‚s¬¸ wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way I can configure NeXTStep v3.3 or OPENSTEP so it could > PCNFSD deamon? I am using a shareware called ICE.NFS for Windows 95 > and it will allow me to see the NFS server under Windows 95. After I > install it and find the NeXT Server, it tells me the UNIX Server has > to support PCNFSD daemon. > > If you know anything about this, please let me know. Thank you. > > > Best Regards, > > > Batmon > > very simple : write in your rc.local : if [ -f /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd ]; then /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd fi CIAO JUT -------------------------------------------------------------- - Dipl.-Ing. (FH) J.- U. Thieme - -------------------------------------------------------------- - send to : jut@ukrv.de or jut@rz.charite.hu-berlin.de - - -> NeXTMail & PGP welcome <- - - phone : +49 30 450 66127 - - fax: +49 30 450 66937 - -------------------------------------------------------------- - location : virchow-hospital in berlin (germany) - -------------------------------------------------------------- - "I am saddened -- not by Microsoft's success, I have no - - problem with their success, they've earned their success - - ...for the most part -- I have a problem with the fact - - that they just make really third-rate products." - - - - Steven Paul Jobs - --------------------------------------------------------------
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help, want to turn off sound on USR internal modem Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:36:54 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961120173615.27310D-100000@kira> References: <56t98a$ka9@paraguay.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "G. Quinonez" <quinonez@ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <56t98a$ka9@paraguay.earthlink.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Try sending atM0 to the modem. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk on NeXT? Date: 20 Nov 1996 20:24:33 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <56vpe1$mcf@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <56smsl$9pk@news.tamagawa.ac.jp> <328f3829.0@news.hampshire.edu> <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> In Re: AppleTalk on NeXT? comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x282b38> writes, > Follow up from Japan. [...] > AND , is it work on NEXTSTEP4.4????? Well I tried it for 4.0PR2 and 4.0. After adding a "#endif" and changing the call of "time()" to "microtime" in the new beta version, it compiled with a few warnings. Unfortunately those make it impossible to load the kernel driver afterwards: kern_loader: Link failed rld(): Undefined symbols: dyld_stub_binding_helper kern_loader: server bpf won't link Server bpf didn't initialize Those were the messages for 4.0PR2. For 4.0 I have some more in addition to the ones above. All concerning spl* ("splimp", "splx2, "spln"). I think "splimp" is macro, but even if I import the header <kernserv/machine/spl.h>, nothing changes. Does anybody know what the problem is? Regards Phil
From: daveney@altus.speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I prevent DNS lookups with sendmail 8.6.12? Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 20 Nov 1996 20:40:53 GMT Organization: Customer of Access One Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Message-ID: <56vqcl$55p@news.mel.aone.net.au> References: <E16CB4.3FK@news.interactive.net> Matthew Hocker (hocker@interactive.net) wrote: : In the last build of my .cf file, I used the NODNS feature, but that : doesn't seem to make a difference. To compound the problem, I : inadvertently deleted one of the .mc files I used to build the sendmail.cf : file with (using m4) so I have the additional need to get a new .mc file. Sorry I cannot help you more as I am having this problem myself, but one thing I can tell you regarding your problem of the deleted .mc file. If you look into the top of your /etc/sendmail.cf file you should see a list there of all the .m4 files that were used to create the sendmail.cf. I also used the NODNS feature as well, but I have the same problems as you. Regards Graham Daveney daveney@speednet.com.au
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Ident daemon on NeXSTEP -- (Was: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:14:14 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <smYrGaW00UzxM2DWxo@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> <56v71k$1mp@crcnis3.unl.edu> <56vhqo$cs4@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <56vhqo$cs4@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 20-Nov-96 Re: Ident daemon on NeXSTEP.. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > 1) What exactly is the use of 'root' to replace 'sys' in the inetd.conf > line have to do with the man page issue dealing with kmem access but no > write access? Anything? Identd needs to rummage through some networking tables in the kernel's memory image (/dev/kmem) to determine which process is associated with which TCP port number. The group and ownership permissions of /dev/kmem and maybe /sdmach determines who you need to run identd as. > 2) There is no actual identd daemon? Or is the ident --> in.identd make > the latter the daemon which only runs upon a call? in.identd is the identd daemon. It's just named according to a convention that things started from inetd between with 'in.', just as RPC services are supposed to start with 'rpc.' > 3) Didn't find the 'itest' program, nor information on the 'identconn' > binary. No need-- NEXTSTEP does not suffer from the bug being tested for by itest. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: benjy@vt.edu (Ben E. Cline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with gcc 2.7.2 on OpenStep/Mach 4.0 Date: 20 Nov 1996 20:02:09 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <56vo41$1ti@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Anyone successfully installed gcc 2.7.2 under OpenStep 4.0 on an Intel box. I was able to build a stage1 compiler, but it appears anything compiled with the stage1 xgcc produces an immediate bus error when the executable is run. Any ideas? Benjy -- Benjy Cline, AC4XO, Ph.D. Virginia Tech Computing Center benjy@benjy.cc.vt.edu http://benjy.cc.vt.edu:1951/~benjy/
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: kermit take file problem Date: 20 Nov 1996 19:02:18 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <56vkjq$j4i@paraguay.earthlink.net> Hello fellow NS users. Im getting a weird message when I activate kermit with my dial-up script. It reads as follows.... haemophilus> kermit ppp/earth Warning: Last line of TAKE file lacks terminator Number: 1 213 620 8910 Device: /dev/cufb, modem-dialer: courier, speed: 38400 Dial timeout: 30 seconds To cancel: type your interrupt character (normally Ctrl-C). Speed changed to 28800 Call complete. Warning: Last line of TAKE file lacks terminator Its this line with the TAKE file that is annoying. Never used to have that before. I dial up just fine, no problem. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you -- _____________________________________________ Gerardo Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net quinonez@usa.net NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: How do I prevent DNS lookups with sendmail 8.6.12? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: news@news.interactive.net (USENET News) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E16CB4.3FK@news.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:59:28 GMT I recently have changed my configuration from a dial-up UUCP connection to a TCP-connected UUCP connection. However, I have run across a couple of problems: 1. When incoming mail to my machine comes in, sendmail attempts to look up the address in the DNS. This causes a failure, because my domain has no address records (MX only). 2. Furthermore, something has happened to cause sendmail to attempt to validate the address even when my IP line is down, once again causing a failure. Since I don't have a permanent connection to the 'net, this is also a problem. In the last build of my .cf file, I used the NODNS feature, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. To compound the problem, I inadvertently deleted one of the .mc files I used to build the sendmail.cf file with (using m4) so I have the additional need to get a new .mc file. If someone could give me a pointer, or better yet, their .mc file that they used to build a sendmail.cf file in a configuration like this, I would be MOST appreciative! Thanks in advance. If anyone needs a copy of my final work, once I get this working, I would be happy to share. Matt -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Ident daemon on NeXSTEP -- (Was: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail) Date: 20 Nov 1996 15:10:44 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <56v71k$1mp@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> In article <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: > 1) Are there any pros to running identd on NS? You get the ident service. (-; > 2) Has someone compiled it for NS 3.3 m68k? > I looked on my system but didn't find an ident daemon, > only the ident binary.. I think I uploaded pident-2.7.1 to ftp.next.peak.org. If you can't find it there, try: http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/Software/OpenStep/Unix/ pidentd-2.7.1.README pidentd-2.7.1.NIHS.tar.gz Enjoy -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Re: WindowServer huge under 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961120092833.204AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Keywords: memory, top, ps Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <961115100709.203AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:28:33 GMT From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: WindowServer huge under 4.0 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:07:09 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Hi, could someone please explain the following mystery, that may be specific to 4.0 (I don't have comparable configurations): When I "ps" or "top" to look at processes, I see an enormous WindowServer, even if the machine is freshly rebooted: > ps ax USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 0 7.7 14.4 131M 13.8M ? U 0:09 kernel idle magnus 195 1.2 71.6 71.2M 68.8M ? SW 0:03 WindowServer This simply cannot be true. On the other hand, "top" thinks I have Memory: 96M Tot, 12M Act, 24M Inact, 5832K Wired, 51M Free, 0K in, 0K out which looks quite reasonably. How could the WindowServer process make "ps" believe it uses more memory than it does? Thanks, -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
Date: 20 Nov 1996 10:31:59 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy Message-ID: <cancel.56tv12$pmd@ns1.autonet.net> Control: cancel <56tv12$pmd@ns1.autonet.net> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: save@grocery.com Subject: cmsg cancel <56tv12$pmd@ns1.autonet.net> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19961120.27 for further details
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: btr@trenet.com Date: 21 Nov 1996 02:57:04 EST Control: cancel <32437383.1433326@nntp.cts.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <32437383.1433326@nntp.cts.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.32437383.1433326@nntp.cts.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was Be a Beta Tester!
From: Ian_Stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace Info Panel...: Disk: 0 byte !!! Date: 21 Nov 1996 09:10:43 GMT Organization: VeriFone ICD Distribution: world Message-ID: <5716aj$g3a@pornstorm.eit.com> References: <E14v3F.5M2@galileo.pr.net.ch> I believe this is a known bug in NS 3.2. It incorrectly reports the size of drives over 2 GB and does not correctly partition them when installing from scratch. it has been a while since I heard about this, but I do believe 3.3 fixes this. Ian H. Stewart Flash! Ian joins WinStar Wireless, Full T1 circuits for under $300 per month! --- NYRO Technix, Inc. 236 W. Portal Ave Suite 341 San Francisco CA 94127 415 664-1170 voice 415 664-5530 fax NYRO Technix, Inc. is proud to announce, NYRO-SPACE(tm), "The Auto-Scrolling Virtual Window Manager!"(tm) for Windows 95. Download your FREE trial version today. http://www.nyro.com/NYRO/ In article <E14v3F.5M2@galileo.pr.net.ch> stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) writes: > > Hello NeXTFriends! > Since I changed the internal harddisk from original 440Mb to a new one > with 2Gb, I lost the information in the Workspace' Info Panel. > At the bottom right the Disk label says... 0 byte! > On the contrary, the File Viewer show me the correct available space. > What could be the reason? How to inform the Info Panel? > My workstation is standalone and runs NS 3.2. > I have to say I've defined my station as an Host with HostManager > in order to give it a name, visible as root name and in the login panel. > This operation creates a /Net directory (void, with a world as icon), but > this doesn't disturb me at all. > > Thank you! > Be well, > Stefano > - > Stefano Unternaehrer <postmaster@galileo.pr.net.ch>
From: asoto@wsc.com (Andre L. Soto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Date: 20 Nov 1996 22:40:35 GMT Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc. Message-ID: <5701d3$3ts@cerberus.wsc.com> I hope I am not asking this for the 10th time. My apologies if I am. What is the latest version of sendmail? More specifically, which is the latest version that has been compiled for NeXTstep? More importantly, where can I find it? Any and all responses are greatly appreciated. Thank you, Andre L. Soto asoto@wsc.com
From: nextjet@bellsouth.net (german gobel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netscape Trashes my downloads solved!!! Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:36:49 -0400 Organization: gobel&associates Message-ID: <nextjet-0711961136500001@d00761.mia.bellsouth.net> Thanks to all who responded.Specially to James,it seems that by simply using fetch, on the mac side of my network. Iam able to download my binary files and then save them an unknown format.With this I then tranfer them over the network and voila, no more garbage files they "just work". thanks to all. german gobel
From: phil@asterix.cnam.fr (Philippe Provost) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: System Panic : Help Date: 21 Nov 1996 09:33:00 GMT Message-ID: <5717kc$4am@pauli.cnam.fr> Greetings, we ve set up a server (hence the urgence of useful replis) with a PentiumPRO processor. The architecture is this one; motherboard : AT format, from EPoX scsi card DPT 2144UW HD: DORS 2Go (3 units) Ulltra wide a Matrox millenium 2MB adapter an ISA Ethernet card from Intel (PRO/10+) with the latest driver (4.0) now the system is aimed to serve about 40 to 60 users, is using 64 MB of RAM, but we have more and more system panic. below are the messages we were able to grab out of the console or messages file. Unexpected kernel trap d eip 14833a .... Invalid frame pointer 4050f1c .... and another serie of messages (a few system panic later) in the NMI window: Frame 7b7bf5c called by 1454d5 args 6086de0 01 11 Frame 7b7bf94 called by 1514cd args fffffffff 11 1 Frame 7b7bc0 called by 1802ed args 0 0 6096204 1 Frame 7b7bff4 called by 17649f args 6096204 7ca005 7cb005 85c005 Invalid Frame pointer 609621c Failed instruction exception (2,d,0) Waiting for remote debugger connection (type c to continue or r to reboot) the system works during a few hours and at some point, it just crash... the problem is that the machine is a server, and that the panic system appear several times a day. any useful help is very _very_ welcome. PLEASE REPLY DIRECTLY TO phil@cnam.fr , I will make a post with all the replies we will get in a few days. Philippe
From: wli@pluto (Dr. Wei Li) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Configuring NeXTStation as print server Date: 21 Nov 1996 01:52:05 GMT Organization: The University of Alabama in Huntsville Message-ID: <570ck5$iej@info.uah.edu> I need help on configuring my NeXT station as a printer server for a Win95 machine. Specifically, I would like to print out MS Word and Excel documents from my NeXT laser printer via a thin ethernet connection between the Win95 machine and my NeXT station running NeXTStep. Any experience and advice are greatly appreciated. Thanks. -wei, wli@cs.uah.edu
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange mail problem - "not setgroup owner"? Date: 21 Nov 1996 11:51:33 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-58.usc.edu Message-ID: <571fo5$fc2@usc.edu> Just noticed the following problem with sending mail... (1) I log in as user "fey" and try to send my own acct mail: ====================BEG============================== midnight~#: su fey Password: midnight~#: mail -v reichman@chaph.usc.edu Subject: Testing mail for fey . Cc: cannot chdir(/usr/spool/mqueue): Permission denied ===================END=============================== (2) So I test sending mail from my own account: ===================BEG=============================== midnight~#: mail -v reichman Subject: ldlld . Cc: reichman... Connecting to local... setgroups: Not owner reichman... Sent ===================END=============================== (3) Here's the permissions: ===================BEG=============================== drwxrwx--- 3 root wheel 1024 Nov 20 20:39 mqueue/ -r-xr-sr-x 1 root kmem 393404 Nov 18 19:08 /usr/lib/sendmail* ==================END================================ (4) Here's the groups: ==================BEG================================ midnight~#: nidump group . wheel:*:0:root,reichman,mailback nogroup:*:-2: daemon:*:1:daemon sys:*:2: bin:*:3: uucp:*:4: kmem:*:5: news:*:6: ingres:*:7: tty:*:8: operator:*:9: staff:*:10:root other:*:20:fey,reichman,skey guest:*:100:guest,reichman qmail:*:2107: nofiles:*:2108: misc,:*:500:reichman,misc ==================BEG================================ So, the solution is probably staring me in the face, but I can't see it. Ideas? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Ident daemon on NeXSTEP -- (Was: Q: TCP_wrappers & mail) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:38:42 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961120173825.27310E-100000@kira> References: <56t5r7$8up@usc.edu> <56v71k$1mp@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <56v71k$1mp@crcnis3.unl.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/pidentd.2.7.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/pidentd.2.7.1.README this might be what you are looking for TjL
From: sbrandon@music.gla.ac.uk (Stephen Brandon - SysAdmin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using NeXTs to retrieve mail from NetWare servers? Date: 21 Nov 1996 10:30:47 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <571b0n$n3l@singer.cent.gla.ac.uk> The majority of users in this university have NetWare accounts. The Music Dept is trying to hold out against the flow... Problem is, some student e-mail is sent to the NetWare accounts. I need to be able to retrieve this from our NeXTs, preferably using Mail.app. option 1: I suppose we can use forwarding from NetWare. It would be nice if it could forward without deleting. Anyone tried that? option 2: is there a unix client to be able to retrieve mail from NetWare servers? I do realise that NeXTSTEP has a NetWare client, but it's NetWare v3, and the university is running v4. In any case, if we could specify the exact NetWare server, does incoming mail exist in a normal directory accessable this way? Do I really want to go down this path? Stephen Brandon Systems Administrator, Department of Music, e-mail: sbrandon@music.gla.ac.uk 14 University Gardens, (NeXT mail welcomed) University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6065 Glasgow. Fax: +44 (0)141 330 8018
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Host filtering for sendmail? Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:38:56 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <328918A0.6C62@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Anyone know of a quick and dirty way to filter incoming mail connections? For example, not allowing *.spammer.com to connect. Basically a mail firewall of some kind... TIA -- James Pooton <james@digisys.net>
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is this rtf file formatted correctly? And how to fix it if it isn't. Date: 21 Nov 1996 04:47:51 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-70.usc.edu Message-ID: <570mtn$okn@usc.edu> I'm having a screwy problem whenever I use Mail.app to reply to a mail that is in MIME or NeXTMAIL format, and uses my .signature.rtf file. The fonts get all screwy in the intro and quoted lines. The signature looks fine. So, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my .signature.rtf file formatting. I don't know how to edit it, though, or what to look for. Here's the file: ============beg================= midnight~#: cat .signature.rtf 8:41pm {\rtf0\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fmodern Courier;\f1\fnil Times-Roman;\f2\fmodern Ohlfs;} \paperw9840 \paperh8400 \margl120 \margr120 {\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red37\green114\blue65;\red39\green84\blue49;} \pard\tx520\tx1060\tx1600\tx2120\tx2660\tx3200\tx3720\tx4260\tx4800\tx5320\f0\b0\i0\ulnone\fs24\fc1\cf1 Be well\ \ \pard\tx1140\tx2300\tx3440\tx4600\tx5760\tx6900\tx8060\tx9200\tx10360\tx11520\f1\b\fc0\cf0 Matthew Reichman \gray335\fc2\cf2 <reichman@usc.edu>\ \b0 NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome \b \ \gray261\fc3\cf3 PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" } ============end================= I don't know why there's an Ohlfs definition there, since my signature is regular courier for the "Be well", and then Times-Roman, in a combination of regular, bold, black and greens for my name and the following stuff. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: invisible login on ttyp0 in NS 3.2 Date: 21 Nov 1996 13:18:51 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Message-ID: <571krr$plk@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In NS3.2 running on a slab, the first user logging in on ttyp0 is not visible when doing "w". What might be the cause - anyone? -- Torsten =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Torsten Belschner ZKM | Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie Institut fuer Musik und Akustik Ritterstrasse 42 T: +49 721 9340 300 D-76137 Karlsruhe F: +49 721 9340 39
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pageup and Pagedown Date: 21 Nov 1996 13:54:17 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Message-ID: <571mu9$qil@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961116084607.171A-100000@elaine10.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> writes No, the original poster meant holding Alt and CLICKING the UP- or DOWN-arrow BUTTONS underneath the scroll bar. It's that simple. Torsten | Holding down the Alt key and pressing Pageup or Pagedown gives me a beep | in Edit.app. Any other ideas? | | > > How do I get Pageup and Pagedown to work on my Intel machine running | > > NeXTStep 3.3? I'm tired of using Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B to go forward and back | > > in vi. Thanks. | > > | > > Rob | > | > | > Press and hold the Alt key. Then click the scroll buttons in the | > Edit.app, | > or any applicatins. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Torsten Belschner ZKM | Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie Institut fuer Musik und Akustik Ritterstrasse 42 T: +49 721 9340 300 D-76137 Karlsruhe F: +49 721 9340 39
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pageup and Pagedown Date: 21 Nov 1996 13:54:31 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Message-ID: <571mun$qiq@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961116084607.171A-100000@elaine10.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> writes No, the original poster meant holding Alt and CLICKING the UP- or DOWN-arrow BUTTONS underneath the scroll bar. It's that simple. Torsten
From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: WriteNow editor Date: 21 Nov 1996 18:48:07 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <572857$8vs@transfer.stratus.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961118164722.6175A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.961118164722.6175A-100000@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@apollo7.Stanford.EDU> writes: > I have lots of WriteNow files on an old Nextstation that I'd like to be > able to use on my new Intel machine running NS3.3. Does anyone have a > nice word processor that can read and write WriteNow files? > > Robert If you can find a copy of WriteUp.app, this will do what you want. However, AFS is out of the business of writing/supporting it (joined recently by GSCorp from what I can tell) so you may have a hard time finding it. Good Luck . . . Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How do I prevent DNS lookups with sendmail 8.6.12? Message-ID: <E17sxr.Aq2@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <56vqcl$55p@news.mel.aone.net.au> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:56:15 GMT In article <56vqcl$55p@news.mel.aone.net.au> daveney@altus.speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney) writes: > Matthew Hocker (hocker@interactive.net) wrote: > : In the last build of my .cf file, I used the NODNS feature, but > : that doesn't seem to make a difference. To compound the problem, > : I inadvertently deleted one of the .mc files I used to build the > : sendmail.cf file with (using m4) so I have the additional need to > : get a new .mc file. > > Sorry I cannot help you more as I am having this problem myself, > but one thing I can tell you regarding your problem of the deleted > .mc file. > > If you look into the top of your /etc/sendmail.cf file you should > see a list there of all the .m4 files that were used to create the > sendmail.cf. > > I also used the NODNS feature as well, but I have the same problems > as you. > Well, the NODNS directive will (successfully, I suppose!) tell sendmail to do no DNS lookup but as it does (and has to) a NetInfo lookup lookupd will do DNS lookup for all servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf. This is standard NetInfo behaviour and can't be suppressed. As an alternative, you could configure sendmail to avoid NetInfo lookups and use use flat file only. But that's ugly... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS problems Date: 21 Nov 1996 22:28:36 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <572l2k$fho@inet-prime.comshare.com> Greetings, I'm NFS mounting to a NeXTSTEP 3.3 machine from a Solaris 2.5.1 machine. I'm seeing long delays and apparent packet fragmentation. I didn't see anything pertinent in NeXTAnswers, but I vaguely remember reading postings about similar problems. Can anyone offer some insight? Regards, Alan Frabutt alanf@izzy.net
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: proaudio and multiple continuous sound problem Date: 21 Nov 1996 20:51:23 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <572fcb$he6@guyana.earthlink.net> Ever since I reinstalled my OS with a new motherboard I seem to have a problem with my sound card. When the system calls for a sound, instead of just sending out a single beep it sends out multiple continuous beeps. Regardless what the preferences sound is, it still puts out multiple sounds. I have the proaudio studio drivers with the mixer, it is the non NeXT supplied driver. However, the problem occurs regardless of what driver I am using. I have the following system Intel 90MHZ Pentium 64 Mb RAM Adaptec 2940 SCSI card Micropolis 1 GB SCSI HD Toshiba 3401 SCSI CD Diamond Stealth 2 Mb VRAM Proaudio studio Sound card GMB-P54IPS motherboard(Intel 82430FX system chipset, Winbond W83783/W83768 Super I/O controller) Thank you If anyone knows or has seen this problem please email to one of the addresses below. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ Gerardo Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net quinonez@usa.net NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange mail problem - "not setgroup owner"? Date: 21 Nov 1996 18:42:51 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-19.usc.edu Message-ID: <5727rb$r21@usc.edu> References: <571fo5$fc2@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu Addendum: I made the following change: -r-xr-sr-x 1 root wheel 393404 Nov 18 19:08 /usr/lib/sendmail* drwxrwx--- 3 root wheel 1024 Nov 21 10:22 mqueue/ But, it's still a problem, and I'm still getting the following: ===================BEG=============================== midnight~#: mail -v reichman Subject: ldlld . Cc: reichman... Connecting to local... setgroups: Not owner reichman... Sent ===================END=============================== I don't know why sendmail was in the kmem group in the first place. AND I discovered that /etc/sendmail/sendmail.st was also owned by root.kmem. I changed that to root.wheel. Mystery why it was kmem group. But the problem continues. I can send mail out but with these messages all the time. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange mail problem - "not setgroup owner"? Date: 21 Nov 1996 18:46:03 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-19.usc.edu Message-ID: <57281b$r21@usc.edu> References: <571fo5$fc2@usc.edu> <5727rb$r21@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu One other observation: The error message only shows up when I mail locally. ex: (1)======================: midnight~#: su fey Password: midnight/Users/reichman#: mail -v reichman Subject: gogogogo lllll . Cc: reichman... Connecting to local... setgroups: Not owner reichman... Sent (2)======================: midnight/Users/reichman#: mail -v reichman@chaph.usc.edu Subject: llll ddd . Cc: reichman@chaph.usc.edu... Connecting to scf.usc.edu via relay... 220 scf-fs.usc.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.6/8.7.3/usc; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:43:32 -0800 (PST) >>> EHLO usc.edu 250-scf-fs.usc.edu Hello fey@comserv-i-19.usc.edu [128.125.224.91], pleased to meet you 250-EXPN 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-VERB 250-ONEX 250 HELP >>> MAIL From:<fey@usc.edu> SIZE=47 250 <fey@usc.edu>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<reichman@chaph.usc.edu> 250 Recipient ok >>> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 KAA20654 Message accepted for delivery reichman@chaph.usc.edu... Sent (KAA20654 Message accepted for delivery) Closing connection to scf.usc.edu >>> QUIT 221 scf-fs.usc.edu closing connection -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: ad244@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Orrin C. Kerr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Account problem - doesn't work on one workstation Date: 21 Nov 1996 18:35:42 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Message-ID: <5727du$e2v@freenet-news.carleton.ca> The basic scenario: From my host, foobar I create a NeXTSTEP account for: User: dinky on /Net/fooserv/xdisk/dinky. Then when I test the account creation by logging on to it on my system (foobar), the File Viewer appears briefly and then vanishes. With subsequent logons, the File Viewer doesn't even appear. Mail, Preferences, etc. appear to run fine - just no file access. Logons are fine on two other systems, a NeXTstation and a Dell. Our Unix guru, wise beyond his years - and suspiciously far too knowledgeable about pubs and beers - kills the account on the grounds that if it's damaged, it could screw up the X-Windows application for which it was created. He re-creates the account. Same File Viewer idiosyncracy when logging on to my host, foobar. My question to this extinguished panel is this : Are the Cardassians the descendants of the professional contestants from the International Federation of Bodybuilders, the resident 'duhs' on American Gladiators, the guys and guyettes of the WWF and various other California airhead and/or biker type steroidal head cases or are they the innocent victims of this late 20th century insanity arising from the chick flick, 'Muriel's Wedding' which appears to be causing a revival of Abba tunes, hence the constantly flexed-in-agony neck and face muscles, tendons and blood vessels ? My next question is: does anyone have any ideas as to why File Viewer would blow up, apparently only on one system? One last item of information : after I first created the account, my co-sysop had to change home directory ownership from `nobody' to `dinky' and did so on fooserv itself. It didn't fix the anomaly but it was a nice bit of professional attention to detail. -- Orrin C. Kerr ad244@freenet.carleton.ca All opinions expressed are my own and not the responsibility of my innocent employer (who shall remain nameless)(but it's gummint).
From: pb141@columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail Date: 21 Nov 1996 22:00:28 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <572jds$h84$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <5701d3$3ts@cerberus.wsc.com> In-Reply-To: <5701d3$3ts@cerberus.wsc.com> On 11/20/96, Andre L. Soto wrote: >I hope I am not asking this for the 10th time. My apologies if I am. > >What is the latest version of sendmail? More specifically, which is the >latest version that has been compiled for NeXTstep? More importantly, where >can I find it? > >Any and all responses are greatly appreciated. > >Thank you, > >Andre L. Soto >asoto@wsc.com > Please let me be the one to tell you, since several people have just told me. THE latest sendmail version can be donwloaded and compiled via http://WWW.Sendmail.ORG from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org. The makefile there does not install the man pages or the program, but the later is easy to do if mail is already working on your system. My next question is: to get the user database to work it is recomended that <=3.3 users need a newer version of the DMB library. Has anywone got a makefile for this? -- _________________________________________ Paul Buckley 515 W 59th St., Apt. 22K New York, NY 10019 E-mail: pb141@columbia.edu Tel/Fax: 212-333-3382 _________________________________________ I'm like a dog with a bone; I gnaw on it until I understand the dynamics. Helen Caldicot, NPR interview
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange mail problem - "not setgroup owner"? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:01:47 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gmZAAvq00UzxE2A8oR@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <571fo5$fc2@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <571fo5$fc2@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Nov-96 Strange mail problem - "not.. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > (3) Here's the permissions: > ===================BEG=============================== > drwxrwx--- 3 root wheel 1024 Nov 20 20:39 mqueue/ > -r-xr-sr-x 1 root kmem 393404 Nov 18 19:08 /usr/lib/sendmail* > ==================END================================ Here's the problem, too. Sendmail should have these permissions and ownership for maximum security (from Eric Allman's _sendmail_ book): -r-s--s--x 1 root kmem 221184 Sep 30 19:46 /usr/lib/sendmail* Do a "chmod 6511" to sendmail and see whether that fixes things. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEVER MIND! -- Re: Strange mail problem - "not setgroup owner"? Date: 21 Nov 1996 19:04:08 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-19.usc.edu Message-ID: <572938$1ko@usc.edu> References: <571fo5$fc2@usc.edu> <5727rb$r21@usc.edu> <57281b$r21@usc.edu> Cc: reichman@usc.edu sendmail should've been setuid rather than setgid. Have no idea how it got to be setgid in first place. Gremlins. So problem solved and created by me. as usual. 8-) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Subject: Serial port connection between 2 Nexts?? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121164424.266B-100000@euler> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:46:06 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have activated serial port A on both machines. Now how do I get the 2 machines talking to each other?
From: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Odd sendmail message Date: 21 Nov 1996 23:26:34 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <572ofa$78h@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> I am occassionally seeing the following in a ps -ax 27760 ? R 80hr -running queue: /usr/spool/mqueue (sendmail) 27762 ? SW 0:00 mail -r promote@mail.strutstuff.com -d sald I can't find any flags for mail like -r or -d. What is happening here? -- J. W. Wooten <jwooten@korrnet.org> NEXTSTEP / OpenStep Software Development & Network Consulting Services NeXTmail preferred, MIME is welcome Please finger woo@160.91.216.2 for PGP public key
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange mail problem - "not setgroup owner"? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:10:16 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MmZAIsK00UzxE2A=M2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <571fo5$fc2@usc.edu> <5727rb$r21@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <5727rb$r21@usc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Nov-96 Re: Strange mail problem - .. by Matthew N. Reichman@usc. > I don't know why sendmail was in the kmem group in the first place. AND I > discovered that /etc/sendmail/sendmail.st was also owned by root.kmem. I > changed that to root.wheel. Mystery why it was kmem group. Sendmail wants to look at /dev/kmem to determine the load average, and I think it has to write to /dev/kmem on some systems to change the process title displayed by 'ps'. Things which do that must either be setgid to the kmem group, and/or be setuid-root. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: tmccarth@usc.edu (Thomas McCarthy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No Active.mbox in Mail.app? Ack! Date: 22 Nov 1996 03:19:36 GMT Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: tmccarth@comserv-h-72.usc.edu Message-ID: <573648$nnl@usc.edu> Hi all, I have just downloaded my mail the same way I always do (PopOver), but now when I try to check for new mail, I get a panel that says: Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error: No such file or directory Huh? What is wrong here? The Active mailbox is there, and I can read messages that are already in it. But no new mail... I also got this console message: MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile. MailFetch: No such file or directory I sure hope someone has a fix for this, because I really rely on my mail (who doesn't?). Just don't e-mail it to me! Please post it here, or use my non-NeXTmail address (below). TIA, -- Tom --- Thomas McCarthy tmccarth@usc.edu (NeXTmail and MIME) tmccarth@afs2000a.usc.edu (ASCII only) (213) 740-5692
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Odd sendmail message Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:38:26 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-01.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <572sm2$p7p@usc.edu> References: <572ofa$78h@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Cc: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov In <572ofa$78h@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> John W. Wooten wrote: > I am occassionally seeing the following in a ps -ax > > 27760 ? R 80hr -running queue: /usr/spool/mqueue (sendmail) > 27762 ? SW 0:00 mail -r promote@mail.strutstuff.com -d sald > > I can't find any flags for mail like -r or -d. > > What is happening here? Actually, if you look further into the manpage for mail: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SUMMARY (Adapted from the `Mail Reference Manual') Each command is typed on a line by itself, and may take arguments following the command word. The command need not be typed in its entirety - the first command which matches the typed prefix is used. For commands which take message lists as arguments, if no message list is given, then the next message forward which satisfies the command's require- ments is used. If there are no messages forward of the current message, the search proceeds backwards, and if there are no good messages at all, mail types ``No applicable mes- sages'' and aborts the command. [snip] delete (d) Takes a list of messages as argument and marks them all as deleted. Deleted messages will not be saved in mbox, nor will they be available for most other commands. [snip] reply (r) Takes a message list and sends mail to the sender and all recipients of the specified mes- sage. The default message must not be deleted. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: snpschap@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.3 Intel Installation (Adaptec 1542B) Date: 22 Nov 1996 05:57:37 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19961122055900.AAA25616@ladder01.news.aol.com> Hi. I'm using the driver off of the 3.3 Installation Disk and am trying to install on a 3.2G EIDE disk. Both the CD-ROM and the Controller are terminated. Once I've loaded all the drivers I get the message: No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found I've looked at NextAnswers #1541 where it gives special instructions, but it appears like the instructions only apply to NS 3.2. PLEASE HELP!!! My system config: Quantex QP6/200Mhz PentiumPro. IBM-3200 3.2gig EIDE Adaptec 1542B SCSI Controller NEC Multispin 3x CD-ROM Again, I'm only using the drivers which shipped on the 3.3 floppies. Any pointers would be appreciated. -Sam
From: Derek Scott <derek@imana.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: virtual hosts... Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:51:44 -0800 Organization: Imana Message-ID: <32951537.630E@imana.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm using a friends NeXT computer for a web server and I want to make a virtual host on it. I know how to configure the server software for it but I don't know how to set multiple IP addresses, mainly because I don't have the manual for the computer to get any info from. Anyone know what files I need to modify and how I should modify them?
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS problems Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:39:06 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmZF9_q00UhBI2iKdo@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <572l2k$fho@inet-prime.comshare.com> In-Reply-To: <572l2k$fho@inet-prime.comshare.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Nov-96 NFS problems by alanf@izzy.net > I'm NFS mounting to a NeXTSTEP 3.3 machine from a Solaris 2.5.1 machine. > I'm seeing long delays and apparent packet fragmentation. I didn't see > anything pertinent in NeXTAnswers, but I vaguely remember reading > postings about similar problems. Can anyone offer some insight? From the Solaris 2 FAQ: "5.11) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs. In starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default. This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations (such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and possibly NeXT) There are two workarounds. The first one works and is: mount all filesystems from such servers with rsize=1024. The second one, which requires a patch for bugid #1193696 is: Edit /etc/system and add: set nfs:nfs_shrinkreaddir = 1 and reboot." -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can I get Librarian to format the newer man page formats properly? Date: 22 Nov 1996 02:55:58 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-01.usc.edu Message-ID: <5734nu$p7p@usc.edu> I've noticed I've got two different types of manpages: (1) the kind that Librarian can format: .TH NDC 8 "November 27, 1994" .UC 5 .SH NAME ndc \- name daemon control interface .SH SYNOPSIS .B ndc .I directive [ ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION This command allows the name server administrator to send various signals to the name server, or to restart it. Zero or more directives may be given, from the following list: (2) the kind that Librarian can't format: .Dd September 20, 1996 .Dt SENDMAIL 8 .Os BSD 4 .Sh NAME .Nm sendmail .Nd an electronic mail transport agent .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm sendmail .Op Ar flags .Op Ar address ... .Nm newaliases .Nm mailq .Op Fl v .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Sendmail sends a message to one or more .Em recipients , routing the message over whatever networks I do have the latest groff + stuff but really don't understand how to make Librarian readable man pages with it. I've asked this question in another way before, but confess to be quite confused. And I'm not happy that some manpages I can't access except from the commandline. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No More? For a while I was able to preview jpgs and gifs in WM inspector (w/ ToyViewer help??) Date: 22 Nov 1996 07:36:57 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-01.usc.edu Message-ID: <573l6p$p7p@usc.edu> No More? For a while I was able to preview jpgs and gifs in WM inspector (w/ ToyViewer help??) Now no more. I have no idea what happened, either how it came about that it was working like that and now how come it isn't. Anyone have it working and wish to inform me and inform me will go straight to Park Place. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proaudio and multiple continuous sound problem Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:03:56 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <573q9s$k1f@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <572fcb$he6@guyana.earthlink.net> G. Quinonez <quinonez@ucla.edu> wrote: [...] : When the system calls for a sound, instead of just sending out a single beep : it sends out multiple continuous beeps. Regardless what the preferences : sound is, it still puts out multiple sounds. Two possibilities come to my mind: - IRQ conflict (some other device is using the same IRQ as the sound card) - 16 Bit DMA Bug (mail me for patched driver) -- 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: fox@jeans.fokus.gmd.de (Oliver Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pointer needed for NeXT as WebServer, MultiDomain, VirtualHosts... Date: 22 Nov 1996 14:01:18 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <574bne$9m7@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Keywords: WebServer, VirtualHosts Hello I like to install a NeXT as WebServer (NS 3.3) need some tips, pointers.... for Topics like MultiDomain, VirtualHosts, Apache configuration... Who have experience with NeXT as WebServer? Who know a pointer to some information material ? thank you for help +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oliver Fox fox@fokus.gmd.de (NeXT mail welcome) Hardenbergplatz 2 D-10623 Berlin Germany GMD-FOKUS GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: wilkie@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Odd sendmail message Date: 22 Nov 1996 14:11:05 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <574c9p$41i@news.tuwien.ac.at> > I am occassionally seeing the following in a ps -ax > > 27760 ? R 80hr -running queue: /usr/spool/mqueue (sendmail) > 27762 ? SW 0:00 mail -r promote@mail.strutstuff.com -d sald > > I can't find any flags for mail like -r or -d. > > What is happening here? It happened to me as well, and if someone finds out what causes this, please post your wisdom. In my case the solution was to wipe the /usr/spool/mail directory and reboot. My _uneducated_ guess is that this is the result of plain stupidity on the part of some other sendmail. It looks like an incoming mail contained a request for some kind of automatic reply, which then hangs (in my case the target @addr for the "reply" didn't even exist). Unfortunately I'd already wiped the incoming message in question by the time the trouble started so I couldn't check the mail headers. ys Alexander Wilkie -- e-mail: wilkie@cg.tuwien.ac.at (NeXTMail preferred, MIME o.k.) www : http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wilkie/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: save@grocery.com Date: 22 Nov 1996 12:06:27 EST Control: cancel <574c9u$oc@ns1.autonet.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <574c9u$oc@ns1.autonet.net> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.574c9u$oc@ns1.autonet.net> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was Save 80% On Your Grocery Bills!!!
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk on NeXT! Date: 22 Nov 1996 18:19:10 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-22.usc.edu Message-ID: <574qqu$82k@usc.edu> References: <328f3829.0@news.hampshire.edu> <jbf-1811960144390001@news.tiac.net> <56qla3$q72@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <56qpiu$c08@mark.ucdavis.edu> Cc: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu In <56qpiu$c08@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan Scott wrote: > This is great! Thanks Satoshi Adachi! Since I don't have the time or knowledge to build > a binary release, I am hoping someone within the NeXT community will put one together as > soon as possible. Based on the number of questions posted to c.s.n.*, I know this would > be greatly appreciated by many. Has someone taken up this challenge (for the compiled binaries...)? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FONTS: is there a number limit ? Date: 22 Nov 1996 18:11:17 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <574qc5$dqr@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <E125BD.4o7@galileo.pr.net.ch> <56tb0e$gpl@mimi.in-berlin.de> Cc: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de In <56tb0e$gpl@mimi.in-berlin.de> Gerald Erdmann wrote: > In <E125BD.4o7@galileo.pr.net.ch> Stefano Unternaehrer wrote: > > > > In my /LocalLibrary/Fonts dir I have about 400 [fourhundred] fonts. > > First problem is that when an editor starts, it take a while to load > > all the fonts... :-))) ok, I can imagine why... > > > > The real problem is with printing [I have a NeXTPrinter]. > > If I try to print a document with, say, 40 fonts, the printing fails > > and I receive following dialog message: > > > > Printing > > ----------- > > Due to a PostScript language error, some or all of the pages > > in your print request couldn't be printed. [OK] > > > > Yes, ok, but why? Any idea? > > Hi! No there ist no limit (in NS 3.3) for the number of fonts. Maybe some of > your fonts are broken and cannot be printed?! Check font by font which one > causes an error. > My FontConvert.app can check fonts (both outlines (say PostScript code) and AFMs) using the FontDoctor 'Examine' function. You can get FontConvert from the usual archive sites - it's free. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Henning R. Eggers" <hre@maz-hh.de> Subject: Re: How do I prevent DNS lookups with sendmail 8.6.12? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3295737B.64880EEB@maz-hh.de> Sender: news@maz-hh.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: MAZ Hamburg GmbH References: <E16CB4.3FK@news.interactive.net> <56vqcl$55p@news.mel.aone.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 09:33:47 GMT Graham Daveney wrote: > > Matthew Hocker (hocker@interactive.net) wrote: > : In the last build of my .cf file, I used the NODNS feature, but that > : doesn't seem to make a difference. To compound the problem, I > > I also used the NODNS feature as well, but I have the same problems as you. > What you need is feature(nocannonify) (sp?). I have not tried this out myself but read it some where else. I dove into the sendmail.cf file and found the rule that did the cannonifying and commented it out. I guess that is the same the feature does by not putting it in there in the first place. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Henning R. Eggers, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) hre@maz-hh.de bei MAZ Hamburg GmbH, GB Breitbandkommunikation -> Unless stated otherwise, all views expressed are my own. <-
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No Active.mbox in Mail.app? Ack! Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:21:28 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961122101640.20384K-100000@kira> References: <573648$nnl@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: tmccarth@afs2000a.usc.edu In-Reply-To: <573648$nnl@usc.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I've seen a few people have this problem lately. Try this: - look for a lockfile within Active.mbox (.lock or lock or something). if found, remove and restart Mail.app - check read/write permissions on /usr/spool/mail/yourusername - check read/write permissions on Active.mbox - check read/write permissions on the files inside Active.mbox - transfer (using Mail.app) all the messages from Active.mbox to another mailbox. Then compact Active.mbox and see if there are any files still inside Active.mbox. If there are, remove them and restart Mail.app. this should be safe, but use at your own risk (if all the email is transferred out of there, you shouldn't be losing anything let me know what the problem turns out to be... or the solution! TjL On 22 Nov 1996, Thomas McCarthy wrote: > Date: 22 Nov 1996 03:19:36 GMT > From: Thomas McCarthy <tmccarth@usc.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: No Active.mbox in Mail.app? Ack! > > > Hi all, > > I have just downloaded my mail the same way I always do (PopOver), but > now when I try to check for new mail, I get a panel that says: > > Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error: No such file or > directory > > Huh? What is wrong here? The Active mailbox is there, and I can read > messages that are already in it. But no new mail... > > I also got this console message: > > MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile. > MailFetch: No such file or directory > > I sure hope someone has a fix for this, because I really rely on my > mail (who doesn't?). Just don't e-mail it to me! Please post it here, > or use my non-NeXTmail address (below). > > TIA, > > > -- > Tom > --- > Thomas McCarthy > tmccarth@usc.edu (NeXTmail and MIME) > tmccarth@afs2000a.usc.edu (ASCII only) > (213) 740-5692 > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: NS 3.3 on Compaq Prosignia 300 Message-ID: <E18M0v.En3@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:24:31 GMT I'm trying to load the NS 3.3 onto a Compaq Prosignia 300. It's a P150 machine with build-in SCSI controller (what they called SMART controller). Because the SCSI controller is not standard, I had hard time to find the driver for the SCSI controller. Has anyone had a similar problem? The next thing I can do is to borrow a Adaptec SCSI controller and connect everything to the supported Adaptec controller. Any other suggestion? Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Serial port connection between 2 Nexts?? Message-ID: <E1A83M.7L@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121164424.266B-100000@euler> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:18:57 GMT In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121164424.266B-100000@euler> Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> writes: > I have activated serial port A on both machines. Now how do I get the 2 > machines talking to each other? > Get a nullmodem cable and read the man-page on 'tip'. If you want more functionality get 'kermit'. -- 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: esteban gutierrez <esteban@CERF.NET> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: NeXT and Linux Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:35:19 -0800 Organization: Corps of Engineers, North Pacific Division Message-ID: <329638B7.86E@CERF.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to integrate Linux into a mostly NeXT (3.1) network in a big way. Is it futile of me to run NIS/NYS/NIS+ between these OSs for password synchronzation? How would I get NETINFO to mesh happily with this. Does anyone have any pointers for docs on getting this setup? -- esteban ___________________________________________________________ esteban@cerf.net webmaster@rcr.com mucus@slime.com ___________________________________________________________
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No More? For a while I was able to preview jpgs and gifs in WM inspector (w/ ToyViewer help??) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:50:08 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961122144647.29761B-100000@kira> References: <573l6p$p7p@usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <573l6p$p7p@usc.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com On 22 Nov 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote: > No More? For a while I was able to preview jpgs and gifs in WM inspector > (w/ ToyViewer help??) > > Now no more. I have no idea what happened, either how it came about that > it was working like that and now how come it isn't. Anyone have it > working and wish to inform me and inform me will go straight to Park > Place. sounds more like a software problem, Matthew, unless you think your sysadmin is the one who messed it up ;-) OmniImage.app? WMInspector.bundle? Did you recently delete anything like that? TjL
From: cybermo@netins.net (BRIAN MORRISON) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: modem suggestions wanted Date: 23 Nov 1996 04:31:20 GMT Organization: netINS, Des Moines, IA, USA Message-ID: <slrn459cvgo.e8l.cybermo@worf.netins.net> I am looking for a good modem to use with my 040 NeXT. Any suggestions? I have been looking at the USRobotics 33.6 Sportster Voice and the Cardinal MVPV34I 33.6 Fax Modem. Comments, suggestions? cybermo@netins.net
From: tim@spodnet.org (Tim Gladding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: NeXT and NIS with other platforms (was Re: NeXT and Linux) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 23 Nov 1996 09:03:53 -0000 Organization: Spodnet International. Distribution: world Message-ID: <576elp$21f@spodnet.org> References: <329638B7.86E@CERF.NET> esteban gutierrez (esteban@CERF.NET) wrote: : I am trying to integrate Linux into a mostly NeXT (3.1) network in a big : way. Is it futile of me to run NIS/NYS/NIS+ between these OSs for : password synchronzation? How would I get NETINFO to mesh happily with : this. Does anyone have any pointers for docs on getting this setup? I don't know about Linux (follow-ups trimmed accordingly), but I've experienced no end of problems trying to make a NeXT (3.0) use NIS/YP from a FreeBSD (2.1) server. Initially, it works.. but, after an unknown number of accesses, commands that need NIS to lookup information (ps and ls, notebly) just stop working (ie, they sit there and hang waiting for the NIS info, which never arrives). However, oddly enough, ypcat continues to work (is this cached somehow?) If anyone has any ideas on just why this happens then I'd love to hear them. Is it that NeXT 3.0 doesn't like using other platforms for NIS, or is it that the whole NIS system in 3.0 is basically unreliable? Discuss :) -- Tim Gladding, Cambridge, England. http://www.spodnet.org/ Exec. Admin/Coder, Paradise. telnet://paradise.spodnet.org:2010/
From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Configuring NeXTStation as print server Date: 23 Nov 96 09:20:50 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Distribution: world Message-ID: <af.848740850@iaka> References: <570ck5$iej@info.uah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit wli@pluto (Dr. Wei Li) writes: >I need help on configuring my NeXT station as a printer server for >a Win95 machine. Specifically, I would like to print out >MS Word and Excel documents from my NeXT laser printer via >a thin ethernet connection between the Win95 machine and >my NeXT station running NeXTStep. Any experience and >advice are greatly appreciated. You will probably want to install SAMBA on your NeXT box. It's a free SMB server for Unix. Works very nicely. Check your favourite ftp search service. The README file says: The main anonymous ftp distribution site for this software is nimbus.anu.edu.au in the directory pub/tridge/samba/. The distributed Makefile seems to have an entry for NeXT's brain-challenged Unix, so that shouldn't be quite difficult. Good luck, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) (0)1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) (0)1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba firing up PPP link "spontaneously," please help! Date: 23 Nov 1996 07:35:02 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd910$d3bb6b40$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've recently installed Samba on our NEXT server (OPENSTEP 4.0). It works great, but there's one REALLY ANNOYING problem... Every time a Windows box tries to access a server service (file system, printer, etc.) it causes the server to fire up our PPP link. Worse, the Windows box gets put on hold until the link is up. I suppose what's happening is that smbd starts up and makes some type of network request; this starts up the PPP daemon and a connection is made; then smbd gets on its merry way. I'd like to stop this behavior. One thought I've had is that perhaps smbd does some kind of domain lookup when it starts--would runnings smbd as a daemon solve this? If so, how can this be done (the man pages don't mention much about how to configure it as a daemon). Another thought: what about running a name server (never done that--pointers would be appreciated). And of course, perhaps my theory on why the PPP link starts up is lame. If you know better, I'd love to hear about it. Many thanks in advance... Reply by email appreciated--I'll post a summary later if anyone is interested. --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Monitor power-off screen saver... where? Date: 23 Nov 1996 07:37:52 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd911$39403040$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I anyone aware of a screen saver module (preferably that works with the login panel as well as logged-in accounts) which will power-off an energy star compliant power saving monitor? This would be for OPENSTEP 4.0... --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
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From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: screwy behaviour: root can't save preferences, other users can Date: 23 Nov 1996 19:11:16 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <577i8l$r3p@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <rreiner.848291666@nexus.yorku.ca> In-Reply-To: <rreiner.848291666@nexus.yorku.ca> On 11/17/96, Richard Reiner wrote: >I'm new to NEXTSTEP (but not at all new to BSD systems), so forgive me >if this is the best-known problem in the NeXT world (although it isn't in >the FAQ): > >On my NeXTstation running NEXTSTEP 3.3, root cannot save certain >preferences set through Preferences.app and through the Preferences >dialogs of other applications. Some preferences are saved between >logins (such as sound in Preferences.app), but others (such as all of >Terminal's settings, as well as Keyboard and Mouse and LoginWindow >settings in Preferences.app, and all Dock changes) are lost... they >simply revert to previous values on the next login > >This is only happening to root ... other users can save all settings >with no problem. > >Help?! > In nearly all Intel installations I have done (3 at least) I always had this problem. Anybody can help? Thank you, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: modem suggestions wanted Message-ID: <1996Nov23.144131.954@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: cybermo@netins.net Organization: Disorganization References: <slrn459cvgo.e8l.cybermo@worf.netins.net> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:41:31 GMT In <slrn459cvgo.e8l.cybermo@worf.netins.net> BRIAN MORRISON wrote: > I am looking for a good modem to use with my 040 NeXT. Any suggestions? > I have been looking at the USRobotics 33.6 Sportster Voice and the Cardinal MVPV34I 33.6 Fax Modem. Comments, suggestions? > > The USR Sportster is cheap and work well with NeXT. Older US versions have a bug, so get one produced after Aug 96 !! Besides that, very reliable. 5 years warranty. -- ----- Thomas Funke ----------------------- thomas@gamelan.shnet.org ----- C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem suggestions wanted Date: 23 Nov 96 13:27:46 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov23132746@howard.one.net> References: <slrn459cvgo.e8l.cybermo@worf.netins.net> In-reply-to: cybermo@netins.net's message of 23 Nov 1996 04:31:20 GMT In article <slrn459cvgo.e8l.cybermo@worf.netins.net>, cybermo@netins.net (BRIAN MORRISON) writes: I am looking for a good modem to use with my 040 NeXT. Any suggestions? I have been looking at the USRobotics 33.6 Sportster Voice and the Cardinal MVPV34I 33.6 Fax Modem. Comments, suggestions? I've been using a Cardinal MVPV34XF (whatever - it's external, V.34bis, flash rom) on my mono turbo station for a couple months, now. No problems I can attribute to the modem. Just make certain you get the correct cable. I mostly get 31.2k and 28.8k connections, but I doubt it's the modem's fault. Note that this is data-only. I don't use/need fax or voice support. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Re: How do I prevent DNS lookups with sendmail 8.6.12? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: news@news.interactive.net (USENET News) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E1Dsuv.6oM@news.interactive.net> References: <E16CB4.3FK@news.interactive.net> <56vqcl$55p@news.mel.aone.net.au> <3295737B.64880EEB@maz-hh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:40:07 GMT Which is the rule specifying canonification? And, for my enlightenment, could you tell me what canonification means? I'd appreciate seeing a sendmail.cf snippet to understand this more. Thanks Matt In comp.mail.sendmail Henning R. Eggers <hre@maz-hh.de> wrote: : Graham Daveney wrote: : > : > Matthew Hocker (hocker@interactive.net) wrote: : > : In the last build of my .cf file, I used the NODNS feature, but that : > : doesn't seem to make a difference. To compound the problem, I : > : > I also used the NODNS feature as well, but I have the same problems as you. : > : What you need is feature(nocannonify) (sp?). I have not tried this out : myself but read it some where else. I dove into the sendmail.cf file : and found the rule that did the cannonifying and commented it out. I : guess that is the same the feature does by not putting it in there in : the first place. : -- : ---------------------------------------------------------------- : Henning R. Eggers, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) hre@maz-hh.de : bei MAZ Hamburg GmbH, GB Breitbandkommunikation : -> Unless stated otherwise, all views expressed are my own. <- -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: "Tone <DoD>" <tone@wildfire.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Read my email remotely via PPP/win95? Date: 23 Nov 1996 19:49:08 GMT Organization: Wildfire Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <01bbd977$70b0ef40$2e44b5c7@fire.wildfire.com> I have a nextstep/intel machine at work (3.0 I believe), and am stuck at home where I have just Win95. I can PPP access the lan at work, but I need to know how to gracefully send/receive email through my Next account. Can someone tell me how I do this? Also, for extra credit, I would really like to make Next's mail program open up a window for another account on that box, without requiring me to logout and login the other account. Can this be done? Please, since I can't really read my email (for reasons that should be obvious) reply by posting. tony
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Swap configuration Date: 24 Nov 1996 18:56:13 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> Hi All, I'm in the process of upgrading my disk configuration. I am soliciting opinions on the best way to proceed. I will describe my main gripes and proposed solutions and I would like to hear comments. My biggest problem is that I currently use a swapfile on my main disk. As has been previously discussed, the swap file can grow, but it will not shrink. This means that my availble disk space seems to dwindle until it gets to the point where I have to reboot. The second gripe I have is with disk access speed. I currently have a single 1G disk (almost full) and I use an NCR 825 PCI SCSI card. I am thinking about upgrading to an Adaptec 2940UW and buying a 2 or 4 Gig UW drive. I believe that this will be about the fastest access I can get (anyone want to correct me here?). Would I be better off with the 39xx (the one that has 2 independent controllers... I forgot the number)? My question now relates to the swapping. I could still rely on the standard swapfile. Or, I could partition a single disk and use one partition as a swap file. Or, I could add a second disk with a swap partitiion. Will a second disk with swap partition give me better performance? I'm thinking that the controller could simultaneously access both the swap disk and the information disk simultaneously. Finally... if the swap disk is not an UW disk, would I get better performance leaving everything on the UW disk? Again, I'm looking at the performance when swapping is involved. And yes... I realize that more memory will help the problem but I'm looking at the best disk subsystem for when my memory does run out. Thoughts appreciated on this. - 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-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.3 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 24 Nov 1996 19:47:26 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> On 11/24/96, Stephen J. Perkins wrote: >I currently have a single 1G disk (almost full) and I use an NCR 825 PCI SCSI >card. I am thinking about upgrading to an Adaptec 2940UW and buying a 2 or 4 >Gig UW drive. I believe that this will be about the fastest access I can get >(anyone want to correct me here?). Would I be better off with the 39xx >(the one that has 2 independent controllers... I forgot the number)? If you really want the ultimate in SCSI performance under NeXTSTEP/OpenStep I'd get one of the DPT caching/raid controllers such as the DPT PM2144UW. The DPT controllers are extremely fast, expandable, and work great under NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. >My question now relates to the swapping. I could still rely on the standard >swapfile. Or, I could partition a single disk and use one partition as a >swap file. Or, I could add a second disk with a swap partitiion. Will a >second disk with swap partition give me better performance? I'm thinking >that the controller could simultaneously access both the swap disk and the >information disk simultaneously. > >Finally... if the swap disk is not an UW disk, would I get better performance >leaving everything on the UW disk? Again, I'm looking at the performance >when swapping is involved. And yes... I realize that more memory will help >the problem but I'm looking at the best disk subsystem for when my memory >does run out. Moving the swapfile to a different partition on the same drive will not benefit performance and since the swapfile can only use the aspace on that partition adn not steal space from the Moving your swapfile to a separate physical drive can have a large positive impact on performance if both drives have equally good performance when you need to swap because, as you hypothesized, you benefit from parallel access. The question of whether you will get better performance by putting the swapfile on a separate but somewhat slower disk or by leaving it on your fastest disk is a tough one - the answer will vary depending on your usage patterns and the relative speeds of the disks. The rule of thumb I've heard used in the past is that if the swap drive is more than 30% slower than your fast disk then you'll probably get better performance by leaving the swapfile on the fast disk. I don't know where they came up with that figure though. Your mileage may vary. >Thoughts appreciated on this. Good luck. > >- 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-2.3 > NeXT PPP-2.3 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ > > --
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 24 Nov 1996 19:53:45 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <57a949$45r@news3.digex.net> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) wrote: > Finally... if the swap disk is not an UW disk, would I get better performance leaving everything on the UW disk? Again, I'm looking at the performance when swapping is involved. And yes... I realize that more memory will help the problem but I'm looking at the best disk subsystem for when my memory does run out. My experience with this is... If the drive you are using for swap, isn't at least 65% (or so, give or take depending on other things...) the speed of your main drive, it's more a drag on performance then a help... So if you get UW drive that is more than double the performance of your proposed swap drive, it may not be a good idea... There are somethings you can do to improve things as well...the ideal solution, I think, is so: Have two controllers (dont throw that other SCSI controller away!)... Put the swap drive on a seperate controller, actually put all your devices other than your UW devices on your old controller. Format the proposed swap drive with 8k blocks if possible (that is what the swapper pulls in and out). This way, you balance the load on each card, and make the drive more 'ideal' for swaping... Oh, and consider a DPT over the adaptec...I think the 2940UW and the DPT 2044UW go for about the same price. I have the adaptec and find the DPT an overall better card, not only in performance, but in quality...Plus the DPT is upgradable to cache and raid... As always, your milage may vary... -- Thanks, be well, take care, cio for now, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^) monoChrome, Inc. | ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NEXTmail OK NEXT/OPENSTEP Developer | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: Andrew Forrest <forrest@research.att.com> Subject: Q:File System Type/Format wrt Data Recovery Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3297C51C.62F6@research.att.com> Sender: news@research.att.com (netnews <9149-80593> 0112740) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: AT&T Research Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 03:46:36 GMT I am faced with hiring a data recovery service for a hard disk that I used with my NeXTstation. Because of the comparative rarity of NS systems and the fact that I would like maximum flexibility in choosing the service, I anticipate that I might need to educate them about the NS file system. Unfortunately, I don't have a hot clue. Can anyone tell me what the format of the NS file system is and if it is similar or compatible with any other (preferably wide-spread) file system? Any other advice on this matter (save "you shoulda backed up") is welcome. Many thanks in anticipation, Andrew Forrest (e-mail preferred)
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Monitor power-off screen saver... where? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:15:11 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <3298D6F6.1CF8@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <01bbd911$39403040$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Zacharias J. Beckman wrote: > I anyone aware of a screen saver module (preferably that works with the > login panel as well as logged-in accounts) which will power-off an energy > star compliant power saving monitor? This would be for OPENSTEP 4.0... > --- > Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax > 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 > http://www.dreams.com I Also want the screen saver module supports an energy star compliant monitor like Sony monitor...others... YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Read my email remotely via PPP/win95? Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:43:34 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmZr06C00Uh7I1uIpS@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <01bbd977$70b0ef40$2e44b5c7@fire.wildfire.com> In-Reply-To: <01bbd977$70b0ef40$2e44b5c7@fire.wildfire.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 23-Nov-96 Read my email remotely via .. by "Tone <DoD>"@wildfire.co > I have a nextstep/intel machine at work (3.0 I believe), and am stuck at > home where I have just Win95. I can PPP access the lan at work, but I need > to know how to gracefully send/receive email through my Next account. Can > someone tell me how I do this? Well, it depends on how your company handles your email and how you've got your 95 machine set up. If they have a SMTP gateway, and you can receive SMTP email on your 95 box, you want to set up MX (Mail eXchange) records in the DNS which let that SMTP server queue your mail when your PPP line is not active and directly deliver mail when the PPP line is up. Of course, the companies' nameserver should have the appropriate A and PTR records for your remote machine. You also could set up a POP3 server (PopOver.app on the NS side, I believe). Or you could simply telnet into the NeXT system and use /usr/ucb/mail. > Also, for extra credit, I would really like to make Next's mail program > open up a window for another account on that box, without requiring me to > logout and login the other account. Can this be done? While logged in locally? Go to a terminal window, 'su' (maybe 'su -l') to the other user account, and run /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail (or /usr/ucb/mail).... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: screwy behaviour: root can't save preferences, other users can Date: 24 Nov 1996 17:22:28 GMT Organization: Private NEXTSTEP site, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <57a08k$vvq@mimi.in-berlin.de> References: <rreiner.848291666@nexus.yorku.ca> <577i8l$r3p@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Cc: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca In <577i8l$r3p@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Francois Magnan wrote: > On 11/17/96, Richard Reiner wrote: > >I'm new to NEXTSTEP (but not at all new to BSD systems), so forgive > me > >if this is the best-known problem in the NeXT world (although it > isn't in > >the FAQ): > > > >On my NeXTstation running NEXTSTEP 3.3, root cannot save certain > >preferences set through Preferences.app and through the Preferences > >dialogs of other applications. Some preferences are saved between > >logins (such as sound in Preferences.app), but others (such as all of > >Terminal's settings, as well as Keyboard and Mouse and LoginWindow > >settings in Preferences.app, and all Dock changes) are lost... they > >simply revert to previous values on the next login > > > >This is only happening to root ... other users can save all settings > >with no problem. > > > >Help?! > > > > In nearly all Intel installations I have done (3 at least) I always > had this problem. Anybody can help? > It's a FAQ: There is a bug in UserManager.app. Check the home directory of root! Its probably /root instead of /. Change it with NetInfoManager.app! Gerald -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | GERALD ERDMANN | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome) | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin) | crypt: pgp2 public key available |
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:33:20 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961124170453.27427C-100000@kira> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@cps.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com My belief is that a separate partition won't help. What you need to improve things is a second disk, to get the double-spindle effect where the swapdisk is running at the same time the main disk is performing its operations. Also, creating a large swapfile with mkfile and keeping it large with a LOWAT. You'll need to adjust the rc.swap. You can see mine at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/rc.swap or get it by sending me email with one of the following SUBJECT lines send-ascii rc.swap send-uuencoded rc.swap send-mime rc.swap TjL ps -- there's more of this at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/swapfaq.ps
From: Jarrid Hall <jarrid@fygir.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Do you install Nextstep? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:27:19 -0500 Organization: Fygir, Inc. Message-ID: <329A0F37.6952@fygir.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I amlooking for someone who can: 1 rent me a unit with nextstep installed (intel based) 2. install nextstep on a Toshiba Tecra 720CDT. I need the rental for 11/27/96 and an install of the same week. I am in Boston, Mass. You can reach me at: jarrid@fygir.com or 617-270-0601 Jarrid Hall
From: timothy@sirius.com (Timothy Stonis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Hardware Password... Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 01:02:38 -0800 Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <timothy-2611960102380001@ppp044-sf1.sirius.com> Hi, I'm sure you all have dealt with the likes of me before, but I'm new to the NeXT world via used university hardware. Anyway, I've managed to get to the Hardware Password: prompt, and from there: no luck. So, my question is: how do I get around this? From reading a couple other messages, I get the feeling I have to open 'er up, remove the battery, and wait for some NVR to purge? Is this true, or are there any shortcuts? Thanks for the help. _Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1HIs5.7xp@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:52:52 GMT References: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu>, Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote: >So I have my zip drive, and I have a DB-25 to SCSI-2 (mini-centronics) >cable, it's plugged into my NeXT cube and the cube has been rebooted. >Why can't I seem to see any of the Zip disks? Is there a disktab entry >I need to add? Is there something special I should do? Any help anyone >can offer is appreciated. > I didn't have to do anything special, apart from the usual SCSI things (non- conflicting IDs, correct termination). Does your machine identify the Zip drive when you boot up in verbose mode? If you stick a blank disk in, what happens? Nothing? The disk that came with the drive won't work, BTW. You have to use either a Mac or a PC to turn off the write-protect. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Date: 26 Nov 1996 17:41:28 GMT Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <57fa48$keh@lynx.unm.edu> References: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> In article <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu>, Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote: >So I have my zip drive, and I have a DB-25 to SCSI-2 (mini-centronics) >cable, it's plugged into my NeXT cube and the cube has been rebooted. >Why can't I seem to see any of the Zip disks? Is there a disktab entry >I need to add? Is there something special I should do? Any help anyone >can offer is appreciated. Just so it is said, I am running OS4.0. This is a 68040 cube. When the machine boots it recognizes the internal SCSI HD and the Optical Drive. It makes no mention of the Zip Drive. I have bot the SCSI tests and Verbose mode turned on. any thoughts anyone? -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: Matija Exel <exel@lag.ensieg.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: no kernel namelist Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:41:18 -0800 Organization: E.N.S.I.E.G./Service Informatique et L.A.G. Message-ID: <329B720E.67ED@lag.ensieg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello, I just lost the contents of the current directory I was examining in Workspace... how very pleasant! I get the following indication with "dmesg": >>> Can't get kernel namelist ... and I keep geting this message on each subsequent "dmesg"!!! The reboot didn't help. Otherwise everything seems to work... Any hints? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Matija Exel, E.N.S.I.E.G., Service Informatique et L.A.G., Tel : 76 82 71 12 Fax: 76 82 63 88 e-mail : exel@lag.ensieg.fr (NO NextMail please) -----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: WEB Browser Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:56:39 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126165519.22156B-100000@kira> References: <57f9s2$b3s@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de In-Reply-To: <57f9s2$b3s@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com go to this folder ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/www/OmniWeb/OmniWeb.2.1.5/ that's the newest version.... you can get the one just for your arch (N,I,H,S) it is free for single users TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Hardware Password... Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:52:23 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126165206.22156A-100000@kira> References: <timothy-2611960102380001@ppp044-sf1.sirius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Timothy Stonis <timothy@sirius.com> In-Reply-To: <timothy-2611960102380001@ppp044-sf1.sirius.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com taking out the battery is the way.... TjL
Date: 26 Nov 1996 12:50:12 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <cancel.329af3f2.71827704@news.inet-direct.com> Control: cancel <329af3f2.71827704@news.inet-direct.com> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: Steffin Subject: cmsg cancel <329af3f2.71827704@news.inet-direct.com> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19961126.25 for further details
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Can I select a hostfile as the single source for sendmail lookup? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: news@news.interactive.net (USENET News) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E1HnpB.LoA@news.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:39:11 GMT In my continuing, and frustrating, battle to get sendmail 8.6.12 working with a part-time dialup PPP connection running UUCP, I am looking into a possibility. It seem that since I run NetInfo, lookups are automatically sent to the DNS which of course fails when I'm not connected. I've removed the smtp mailer from my config, to no avail, and tried to kill the DNS lookup in any way I can - again no luck. So the thought now is to point sendmail to a flat "hosts" file. My questions are: 1. is this possible? 2. would it help? That is, would sendmail gracefully queue things up with UUCP like it used to in my direct-dial uucp days? Another idea: remove canonification through the nocanonify feature. I've gotten tips that removing canonification would cause problems with domain resolution. Would this be handled at my service provider's end, once his machine receives the queued mail? Thanks for everyone's help on this. The mystery continues... Matt -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Continued problems with bounced mail Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 01:48:16 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <AmayEkK00UhB051lk3@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <57fuh9$1hs@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <57fuh9$1hs@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Nov-96 Continued problems with bou.. by Art Isbell@ix.netcom.com > Under NS 3.3 with the standard sendmail, etc., mail received for > non-existent users is bounced appropriately, but the address composed for > the bounced message is bogus which results in the bounced message > returning yet again to our Mailer-Agent user. UUNET is our email > provider. [ ... ] Received: from relay3.UU.NET (relay3.UU.NET [192.48.96.8]) by dub-img-7.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id NAA27079; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:34:28 -0500 Received: from uucp5.UU.NET by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: uucp5.UU.NET [192.48.96.36]) id QQbrnm22321; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:34:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from trego.UUCP by uucp5.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:34:26 -0500 Received: by trego.com (NX5.67f2/NX3.0.07.18.96.M) id AA09118; Mon, 25 Nov 96 11:37:05 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 11:37:05 -0800 From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent@trego.com> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: <9611251937.AA09118@trego.com> To: somewhere!12345.6789@uunet.uu.net <-- HOW IS THIS BOGUS ADDRESS CREATED? ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 f.bar... 550 User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: <12345.6789@CompuServe.COM> Received: by trego.com (NX5.67f2/NX3.0.07.18.96.M) id AA09083; Mon, 25 Nov 96 11:37:05 -0800 Received: from arl-img-6.compuserve.com by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: arl-img-6.compuserve.com [149.174.217.136]) id QQbrjl01045; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:19:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by arl-img-6.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id LAA27260; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:19:43 -0500 Date: 25 Nov 96 11:18:17 EST From: 12345.6789@CompuServe.COM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To: f.bar@trego.com ========================== The bogus address is created from the "From:" header in the message above (underlined by carets). UUNet should try to send XXXXX.YYYY numeric addresses to CompuServe, and this is running into some weird conflict with UUCP addresses (normally hostname.UUCP)...it looks like UUNet tries to deliver the mail via UUCP to C$, and one of the two can't figure out where it should go, so it tacks on the "somewhere!" part in a botched attempt to generate the antiquated UUCP-style path-based email addresses. Since the "From:" address is not valid, CompuServe bounces the email to the envelope address (the "From" header without a colon outside of the body of the message itself) as a desperate last resort...which is why Mailer-Agent@trego.com gets a bounce report back. Somebody at UUNet (most likely) or maybe CompuServe should fix the problem-- I don't believe that there is anything that trego.com is doing wrong. I've been wrong before, 'tho. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Andrew Kim" <akim@cogent.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help!!! Bootup problems Date: 26 Nov 96 12:05:35 -0800 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <AEC08DEA-F5E8@207.13.170.17> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.sysadmin, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.bugs, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.hardware Everytime I turn on my NeXTstation Color it boots up until when it checks for network connection. Then it waits for about 10 sec and then it ask me to press "control + c" to continue. I did configure network but it keep looking for connection. Here is what NeXT rom monitor displayed. "No response from network configuration server. Type Control-C to start up computer without a network connection" Is there any suggestion?
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Weird messages Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:16:07 +0100 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.961127170934.2062A-100000@koncon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi there Next guru's, I have a system here (586, 32MB ram, 2GB disk, serving WWW and 20 users) which has started giving me the following messages in the "messages" file: Nov 27 15:21:15 koncon last message repeated 125 times^M Nov 27 15:21:37 koncon mach: tty1028: canon input overrun^M Nov 27 15:21:37 koncon last message repeated 61 times^M Nov 27 15:21:46 koncon mach: tty1028: canon input overrun^M Nov 27 15:23:45 koncon last message repeated 255 times^M Nov 27 15:24:58 koncon mach: tty1028: canon input overrun^M Nov 27 15:25:17 koncon last message repeated 62 times^M Sometimes it is on ttyscc1. Does anybody know what is going on here and how to fix it? This is quite important for me so please let me know if you know anything about this. Private email is the fastest for me - I can summarise for the list. There was a thread a while ago about running AppleTalk on a Next. I missed the conclusion of that. If there is source code out there I could compile it, or are binaries already available? Cheers, and thanks a lot for any help, Paul pauld@koncon.nl Paul Doornbusch Sonology Dept. Royal Conservatory Den Haag The Netherlands
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 01:26:30 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MmaxwKa00UhB051k8J@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.programmer: 27-Nov-96 Looking for a UNIX find uti.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un > Is there any UNIX utility that does that? Browsing the manpages, I couldn't > find one. Does the Workspace use a UNIX utility or does it execute that > itself? Read 'man grep'. The Workspace uses something called Grepper.bundle to perform searches, if I remember right. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "su" does not prompt for root password Date: 27 Nov 1996 11:17:39 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <57h80j$l4f@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <E0x3nq.LoM@midway.uchicago.edu> <8mXTwmO00Uh741fLI8@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 15-Nov-96 "su" does not prompt >for ro.. by Andrew Chang@gsbux1.uchi >> I have a black NeXT machine. I just reinstalled the NS 3.3 user+dev. >> Now when I use "su" to switch to root, I was not prompted for root >> password. The following is my setup: >[ ... ] >> I tried to use the Usermanager.app to change my default user group to >> "other" and be a member of the "wheel" group. But this does not change >> anything. > >Sounds familiar, hmm? Make sure that you're not using su.wheel, and >make sure that your account and root both have passwords set. > It probably isn't the point. After a complete new installation there is only one user and he set up this user to be in the group 'wheel'. However for getting su working with passwords you are requested to have at least one real (no deamon etc.) other user _not_ in the wheel group. This is a known 'feature' of BSD. Greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz boerny@xenia.hsh.stusta.mhn.de Tel.: 3232996
From: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FONTS: is there a number limit ? Date: 27 Nov 1996 11:24:03 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <57h8cj$l4f@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <E125BD.4o7@galileo.pr.net.ch> <56tb0e$gpl@mimi.in-berlin.de> <574qc5$dqr@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) wrote: >In <56tb0e$gpl@mimi.in-berlin.de> Gerald Erdmann wrote: >> In <E125BD.4o7@galileo.pr.net.ch> Stefano Unternaehrer wrote: >> > >> > In my /LocalLibrary/Fonts dir I have about 400 [fourhundred] fonts. >> > First problem is that when an editor starts, it take a while to load >> > all the fonts... :-))) ok, I can imagine why... >> > >> > The real problem is with printing [I have a NeXTPrinter]. >> > If I try to print a document with, say, 40 fonts, the printing fails >> > and I receive following dialog message: >> > >> > Printing >> > ----------- >> > Due to a PostScript language error, some or all of the pages >> > in your print request couldn't be printed. [OK] >> > >> > Yes, ok, but why? Any idea? >> RTFAQ about Printing. Add _nxfinal to the printers property list in NetInfo. Greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz boerny@xenia.hsh.stusta.mhn.de Tel.: 3232996
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HELP!.... NeXT and dynamic SLIP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:10:03 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <omb7LfK00Uh7M1elkY@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <57hkb4$vad@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> In-Reply-To: <57hkb4$vad@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> First, this post belongs in c.s.n.sysadmin only. It has nothing to do with programming, and by definition, nothing should be crossposted to c.s.n.misc and another NeXT newsgroup. Followups set appropriately. Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 27-Nov-96 HELP!.... NeXT and dynamic .. by Kyle Hearfield@morgan.uc > I am trying to set up my next to access the internet through my > university. We have a system which only supports dynamic slip. The simplest solution is for you to convince your university to give you a static IP address. Sure, they may claim to only support dynamic addresses as a policy, but they could give you a static address if they wanted to. Tell them your software doesn't support dynamic SLIP, or that you have a Unix box which really wants a static IP address and it's tough to configure for dynamic SLIP, or whatever else you can think of to convince them. :-) Failing that, it's a _real_ pain to handle dynamic addresses. You have to manually write customized expect scripts for their login procedure which determines the dynamic IP address given, and then reconfigure the local networking setup appropriately. You'll have to read the docs, since describing what to do can't be done in a shorter fashion. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Date: 27 Nov 1996 19:45:43 GMT Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <57i5p7$7ql@lynx.unm.edu> References: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> <57fa48$keh@lynx.unm.edu> <57hcrv$dgr@sun3.uni-essen.de> Well it turned out to be a bad SCSI cable. After a quick bus ride back to the "Cable Place" (no really) and an exchange of cables I'm up and running just fine. And as everyone said it would it just worked. Thanks to everyone who offered assistance with this, your help was much appreciated. -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP!.... NeXT and dynamic SLIP Date: 27 Nov 1996 20:46:31 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <57i9b7$1jse@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <omb7LfK00Uh7M1elkY@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <omb7LfK00Uh7M1elkY@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: +> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 27-Nov-96 HELP!.... NeXT and > dynamic .. by Kyle Hearfield@morgan.uc > > I am trying to set up my next to access the internet through my > > university. We have a system which only supports dynamic slip. > > The simplest solution is for you to convince your university to give you > a static IP address... Agreed. Or get them to support PPP which is what everyone seems to be using these days. I see no advantage to SLIP over PPP unless you have to. > Failing that, it's a _real_ pain to handle dynamic addresses.... Well, its not THAT bad! :-) Really, the procedure is fairly straight-forward and I did it using Mamakos' PNI SLIP s/w a couple of years ago just by poking around some of his example scripts. I wrote it all up and submitteed it to cs.orst.edu (now ftp.next.peak.org). The URL is ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/comm/How_To_Instal l_PNI1.9b.txt This assumes you're using Mamakos's TransSys PNI ver 1.9beta, which is availble from the same place as ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/comm/TransSys-PNI- 1.9-beta.tar.gz There's also another thing in the same dir that may be of interest (no idea what it is but the name sounds promising). Check out ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/comm/PNI-DynamicIP rtfd.compressed You might have to get your hands a little dirty but setting it dynamic IP for SLIP isn't so bad (or wasn't for me, your mileage may vary). - Gareth bestor@cs.wisc.edu
From: root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Potential security hole in NS/OS? Date: 27 Nov 1996 21:18:56 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <57ib80$2jgs@news.doit.wisc.edu> This may be of interest to NS/OS sys admins, especially because it wasn't apparantly fixed in NS3.3 (as far as I know) and only *promised* to be in OS4.0. Does anyone know more about this? It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in NeXTanswers. As far as I can tell, NeXT hasn't fixed it or provided a patch for NS3.3 so if you need to run NFS on NS3.3 you're basically SOL. It would be nice to confirm whether this is fixed (or not) in OS 4.0/4.1 Of course I'd like to hear otherwise... - Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu *************************** SDSC Security Bulletin 96.003 Original Issue Date: 1996/09/26 Version: $Id: rpc.statd,v 1.9 1996/09/26 22:34:34 tep Exp $ Topic: rpc.statd based attacks seen "in the wild" __________________________________________________________________________ ______ The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Pacific Institute of Computer Security (PICS) have detected "in the wild" and analyzed an automated attack related to the problems with rpc.statd as discovered from source code analysis by Andrew Gross and alluded to by CERT Advisory CA-96.09.rpc.statd. This advisory is furnished by SDSC, PICS and the San Diego Regional Information Watch (SDRIW) as a public service to the Internet community. CERT is aware of this problem, and is reportedly working with vendors to deal with this issue. However, there is increasing evidence that this attack is becoming widespread, is not easily detected by most monitoring, and required access to vendor source code to verify that the symptoms did indeed constitute an attack. Therefore, SDSC, PICS and SDRIW have decided to make this information available independently of the CERT channels, so that users may look for this attack on their systems and take steps to protect their systems. [rest deleted, but basically statd can be tricked into giving root access and its VERY hard to detect. Check http://www.sdsc.edu/Security/public_bulletins/96.03.rpc.statd] *************************** The original CERT advisorty had this to say about CA-96.09.rpc.statd: *************************** .. NeXT Software, Inc. =================== This vulnerability will be fixed in release 4.0 of OpenStep for Mach, scheduled for 2Q96. [that's it!] .. ***************************
From: mpd@gulf.net (Mark Pappas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Novice Hoses Himself, PLEASE HELP Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:49:18 -0500 Organization: Mark Pappas Development Message-ID: <mpd-ya023180002711961649180001@news.gulf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I think I kinda hosed myself. Ok here goes. The system came with a 105meg drive internal with 3.2 loaded. I have a extra Maxtor 500meg drive. So I run builddisk on the 500meg drive everthing goes great. Now I pull the 105 internal and put the 500meg in its place SCSI ID 0 :)....The system boots to just a regular user, so I logout to boot as root and it crashes. After crashing it ask me for a hardware key, we'll guess what I don't have the hardware key. I read the NeXT faq and ah it says pull the battery to reset the machine. I did that and now the NeXT is stuck on "Loading from network" I guess I know enough to be dangerous :) Please help. -- Thanks Mark Pappas ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Pappas Development E-mail: mpd@gulf.net Consultant http://www.gulf.net/~mpd/ 3915 Lynn Ora Dr. Phone: (904) 476-3773 Pensacola, FL 32504 Specializing in Macintosh Databases & NMI's Microbrew
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP!.... NeXT and dynamic SLIP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 27 Nov 96 16:40:08 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov27164008@howard.one.net> References: <57hkb4$vad@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <omb7LfK00Uh7M1elkY@andrew.cmu.edu> In-reply-to: Charles William Swiger's message of Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:10:03 -0500 In article <omb7LfK00Uh7M1elkY@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 27-Nov-96 HELP!.... NeXT and dynamic .. by Kyle Hearfield@morgan.uc > I am trying to set up my next to access the internet through my > university. We have a system which only supports dynamic slip. The simplest solution is for you to convince your university to give you a static IP address. <...> Failing that, it's a _real_ pain to handle dynamic addresses. Or you might badger them into upgrading their terminal servers to support PPP. Dynamic IP addresses are pretty much transparent, then. I mean that literally - a year ago I decided to save a couple bucks a month by going to dynamic IP, and I didn't find out when it happened until after my ISP had already changed things. System didn't miss a beat. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP!.... NeXT and dynamic SLIP Date: 28 Nov 1996 04:32:13 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <57j4kd$9cg@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <57hkb4$vad@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <omb7LfK00Uh7M1elkY@andrew.cmu.edu> <SHESS.96Nov27164008@howard.one.net> shess@one.net (Scott Hess) wrote: > Or you might badger them into upgrading their terminal servers > to support PPP. Dynamic IP addresses are pretty much transparent, > then. I mean that literally - a year ago I decided to save a > couple bucks a month by going to dynamic IP, and I didn't find > out when it happened until after my ISP had already changed > things. System didn't miss a beat. Wow---please tell me more! I've been running the older version of Mamakos's SLIP package (the one with a date in the name, not the PNI one) for almost three and a half years now. Setting it up was a one-time royal pain: about six hours to get it sorta running, then a week to track down an MTU packet-length incompatibility, and another six weeks or so before I had a sendmail.cf that did what I wanted from it. I've left it alone since because it ain't broke, but some programs still hang in unfriendly ways when the SLIP line goes down in mid-connection and then comes up with a different dynamic IP number. (Alexandra is always crashing for me because of this problem.) Does PPP conceal an IP number change from running apps better than SLIP for some reason? If so, how? And what do I do to install it? (More frighteningly, what must I do to DE-install SLIP first? I am terrified of screwing things up so badly that I have to go back to kermit or cu while I'm getting unscrewed.) I don't suffer from |====================================================== insanity. I enjoy it | Joshua W. Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu wholeheartedly. |======================================================
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: NeXT and Linux Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:33:19 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <329AE38F.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <329638B7.86E@CERF.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit esteban gutierrez wrote: > > I am trying to integrate Linux into a mostly NeXT (3.1) network in a big > way. Is it futile of me to run NIS/NYS/NIS+ between these OSs for > password synchronzation? How would I get NETINFO to mesh happily with > this. Does anyone have any pointers for docs on getting this setup? > > -- Read the documentation on the NeXTsystem. There's a chapter on NeXT in mixed networks. Just do the right setting with Hostmanager->Local. /etc/passwd /etc/group like on any NIS Client. That's all. Openstep/mach has a more advanced lookupd. See releasenotes. Stefan -- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to allow su? Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:36:22 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <329AE446.2781@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <howie-2511962045530001@secondary.sihame.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howie wrote: > > sorry fer a real dumb one, but I cant seem to find a way to allow users to > either remotely log in as root or to allow them to su once they are in. > Any suggestions? Include the users in the group wheel, then su is possible. Or change /etc/ttys to "on secure" then telnet by root is possible. -- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program Date: 28 Nov 1996 04:22:12 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <57j41k$grl@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) wrote: > Ooops, seems that was an easy one! :-) > > Thanks to you all for the answers I immidiately received! :-) Hey, that's been a question for the "How to get flooded by mail because of one little posting" award ;-))) After lots of you sent me answers, now lots of you complained that I didn't tell what is the solution. Sorry, after I got the mails I just thought it was terribly obvious (meanwhile I've found it even in the reference book I use to consult - one paragraph below where I had read... ;-) ) So here is the answer in the words of Art Isbell (I hope quoting is alright with you, Art) that summarize it best: > > I need to search files for their content (exactly the way the > > Finder panel of the Workspace, Popup "Find items with contents > > that match", does) from a script. Is there any UNIX utility that > > does that? > > > > cd rootDirectoryForFind > find . -type f -print | xargs egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' > > If rootDirectoryForFind contains many files, the resulting > egrep command might exceed the maximum UNIX command length. You > might want to limit the number of files searched using other > "find" options like -name 'aNameToMatch', -perm aFilePermission, > -user aUser, etc. See the find man page for details. > > You can also arrange for find to execute egrep for each > file rather than combining all files into a single egrep process. > This is considerably slower, but it avoids the excessing command > length limit. However, I don't believe that egrep prints the > file name unless it has more than one argument, so the following > hack should work: > >find . -type f -exec egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' /dev/null {} \; Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Potential security hole in NS/OS? Date: 28 Nov 1996 04:38:51 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <57j50r$9cg@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <57ib80$2jgs@news.doit.wisc.edu> root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Operator) wrote: > This vulnerability will be fixed in release 4.0 of OpenStep for Mach, > scheduled for 2Q96. Hey, looks like NeXT got a release out about 99 years and 7 months early. That's not bad at all. Oh, wait. <<squinting>> That's a Q, isn't it? Never mind.... This article is a natural product. The slight |============================= variations in logic and coherence enhance its | Joshua Burton (847)677-3902 individual character and beauty and in no way | jburton@nwu.edu are to be considered flaws or defects. |=============================
From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Configuring NeXTStation as print server Date: 23 Nov 1996 23:30:03 GMT Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5781dr$loq@scipio.cyberstore.ca> References: <570ck5$iej@info.uah.edu> wli@pluto (Dr. Wei Li) wrote: > >I need help on configuring my NeXT station as a printer server for >a Win95 machine. Specifically, I would like to print out >MS Word and Excel documents from my NeXT laser printer via >a thin ethernet connection between the Win95 machine and >my NeXT station running NeXTStep. Any experience and >advice are greatly appreciated. Look at my NS page at http://www.bcog.org/~dreely/openstep.html Hope it helps, Darren
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Weird messages Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 12:17:05 +0100 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.961128120458.2539A-100000@koncon> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.961127170934.2062A-100000@koncon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.961127170934.2062A-100000@koncon> OK, here's a summary of the replies (many thanks neuss and aisbell :) The ttyscc1 overrun problem is a serial port problem. Tty1028 is unknown. Solutions: Reduce serial port speed and/or CPU load. Well, the serial port is at 9600, and that stopped the crashes, but I still get the messages. I might fiddle the "sz" and "rz" source to build in some delays as I'm pretty certain it's file transfers that caise the ttyscc1 problem. I cannot use the updated drivers because of the particular mix of hardware and software here :[ I still cannot figure out what tty1028 is, but I'm suspecting sendmail. Maybe it's a network I/O problem? However, I shoot files all over our network with none of these messages appearing... Reducing the CPU load sounds like a good idea. Is there any way of doing this programatically, maybe via a dynamic "nicing" of some processes? Cheers and thanks, Paul On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, I wrote: > > Hi there Next guru's, > > I have a system here (586, 32MB ram, 2GB disk, serving WWW and 20 > users) which has started giving me the following messages in > the "messages" file: > > Nov 27 15:21:15 koncon last message repeated 125 times^M > Nov 27 15:21:37 koncon mach: tty1028: canon input overrun^M > Nov 27 15:21:37 koncon last message repeated 61 times^M > Nov 27 15:21:46 koncon mach: tty1028: canon input overrun^M > Nov 27 15:23:45 koncon last message repeated 255 times^M > Nov 27 15:24:58 koncon mach: tty1028: canon input overrun^M > Nov 27 15:25:17 koncon last message repeated 62 times^M > > Sometimes it is on ttyscc1. > > Does anybody know what is going on here and how to fix it? This is > quite important for me so please let me know if you know anything > about this. Private email is the fastest for me - I can summarise > for the list. > > There was a thread a while ago about running AppleTalk on a Next. I > missed the conclusion of that. If there is source code out there I > could compile it, or are binaries already available? > > Cheers, and thanks a lot for any help, > Paul > > pauld@koncon.nl > Paul Doornbusch > Sonology Dept. > Royal Conservatory > Den Haag > The Netherlands > > > > Paul Doornbusch Sonology Dept. Royal Conservatory Den Haag The Netherlands
From: root@hoek.dnai.com (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain"??? Date: 28 Nov 1996 07:52:52 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <57jgck$qdn@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Keywords: NetInfo When I double-click on UserManager.app I get this error: "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain." I'm using a stand-along NS/Intel, and have only been able to send mail from my root login because of this. Can anyone help? Please reply to <jhoekman@stanford.edu> Thanks, Jeff
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Novice Hoses Himself, PLEASE HELP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 28 Nov 1996 11:47:59 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <57ju5f$1daa@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <mpd-ya023180002711961649180001@news.gulf.net> Mark Pappas (mpd@gulf.net) wrote: > The system came with a 105meg drive internal with 3.2 loaded. I have a > extra Maxtor 500meg drive. So I run builddisk on the 500meg drive everthing > goes great. Now I pull the 105 internal and put the 500meg in its place > SCSI ID 0 :)....The system boots to just a regular user, so I logout to > boot as root and it crashes. After crashing it ask me for a hardware key, > we'll guess what I don't have the hardware key. I read the NeXT faq and ah > it says pull the battery to reset the machine. I did that and now the NeXT > is stuck on "Loading from network" I guess I know enough to be dangerous :) Sounds like you didn't do anything weird - theoretically, it should have booted without any problems. Funny thing is that it asked for the passwd, at a normal boot (just "b") this is normally not the case. What you can do is the following: at the boot prompt, type "b sd". It will boot your machine of the first SCSI device in the chain, which should be your Maxtor drive. If at some later point in the boot process you should get stuck, boot as single user "b -s" (after "b sd" it will store sd as the default boot device, so that subsequent "b" commands will load from disk) and try to fix the setup. If necessary, copy netinfo and hostconfig from /usr/template (instructions are in NextAnswers, or send me private email. Remove the "nospam" from my mailid of course). Alternatively, put the 105 device back in and re-do the builddisk. One Cthing to make your life easier: Use SCSI id 1 for your internal drive, not 0. This way, you can always attach an external device, set its id to zero, and boot from that. Makes troubleshooting a lot easier. Yes, you can always explicitely boot off another device, but its simply more hassle. Hope this helps. Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OmniWeb 2.1.5N Date: 28 Nov 1996 12:50:01 GMT Organization: Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison Message-ID: <57k1pp$2r5u@news.doit.wisc.edu> I'm running NS 3.2 on black. I got the most current OmniWeb browser from the Lighthouse ftp site and installed it in /LocalApps in the usual way. When I try to run it, I get Nov 28 06:42:54 Workspace: Cannot exec /LocalApps/OmniWeb.app/OmniWeb : Bad executable (or shared library) I also tried 2.1.4 with the same result. Does anyone know what the problem is here? Do I need 3.3 to run this, maybe? -- [Jess Anderson % anderson@doit.wisc.edu % Network Engineering Technology Group] [Div of Information Technology O- Univ of Wisconsin % The opinions are my own.] [------------------> Stupidity is evil waiting to happen. <-------------------]
From: mpd@gulf.net (Mark Pappas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Novice THANKS ALL!! Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:00:59 -0500 Organization: Mark Pappas Development Message-ID: <mpd-ya023180002811961000590001@news.gulf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I just wanted to thanks to all for the great respones to my post. I have never had such great feedback from a newsgroup. -- Thanks Mark Pappas ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Pappas Development E-mail: mpd@gulf.net Consultant http://www.gulf.net/~mpd/ 3915 Lynn Ora Dr. Phone: (904) 476-3773 Pensacola, FL 32504 Specializing in Macintosh Databases & NMI's Microbrew
From: blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Rudolf B Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OmniWeb 2.1.5N Date: 28 Nov 1996 16:18:25 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <57ke0h$1nhp@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <57k1pp$2r5u@news.doit.wisc.edu> Jess Anderson (anderson@macc.wisc.edu) wrote: : I'm running NS 3.2 on black. I got the most current OmniWeb : browser from the Lighthouse ftp site and installed it in : /LocalApps in the usual way. When I try to run it, I get : Nov 28 06:42:54 Workspace: Cannot exec /LocalApps/OmniWeb.app/OmniWeb : : Bad executable (or shared library) : I also tried 2.1.4 with the same result. Does anyone know what : the problem is here? Do I need 3.3 to run this, maybe? I downloaded the one from ftp-next.peak.org and it runs fine. Also on NS3.2 on black. The only strange thing is that if I go to OmniGroups web site and read the Release Notes for OmniWeb 2.1, the release 2.1.5 has an example: "See, this cell doesn't show the background image, even though the cell's background color is not set." But I can see the background image, as if the color was transparent. ?? Rudy.
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Still trying to figure out Librarian + groff + new man pages Date: 28 Nov 1996 15:39:46 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <57kbo2$qtq@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <5759vm$82k@usc.edu> In Still trying to figure out Librarian + groff + new man pages comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x8ea70> writes, > Still trying to figure out Librarian + groff + new man pages: > [...] > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated in how to (a) get the manpages > regarded as manpages by ixbuild, and (b) get Librarian to understand the > formatting of the newer manpages. You should define it in a file called ".roffArgs". Regards Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: trythis@money.com Date: 28 Nov 1996 16:45:04 EST Control: cancel <329e061e.91514626@news.inet-direct.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <329e061e.91514626@news.inet-direct.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.329e061e.91514626@news.inet-direct.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was Please Help!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce) Subject: Re: Urgent!!! Locked out of NeXtstation! Please help! Message-ID: <E1LtJ9.D3y@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago References: <199611190406.WAA13023@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.91.961119001136.89A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> <56tmis$gk0@netnews.hinet.net> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:35:33 GMT I have the exact same problem with my NeXT. I've replaced /etc a number of times, but it still won't let me run any of the AdminTools like SimpleNetworkStarter, with the error "NetInfo Communication Failure: Could not contact host." or something like that. Only DNS doesn't work. Everything else seems fine as I have it configured, but it IS annoying not to have DNS. Thank you very much for any advice, bryce -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady NeXT mail Welcome (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\
From: shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bad netinfo and ppp interaction -- solved Date: 25 Nov 1996 00:09:45 -0500 Organization: Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT Sender: shivers@lambda.ai.mit.edu Message-ID: <qiju3qepxpi.fsf_-_@lambda.ai.mit.edu> References: <qij3ey0aca2.fsf@lambda.ai.mit.edu> In-reply-to: shivers@ai.mit.edu's message of 23 Nov 1996 13:37:09 -0500 The problem was that you must add a line to your rc.local file saying to route packets intended for your local machine to the loopback local host 127.0.0.1. The line is route add <your-ip-address> localhost 0 This is actually covered in the readme file, but it's a little obscure and easy to miss. -Olin
From: lacourse@midusa.net (Dan LaCourse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OmniWeb 2.1.5N Date: 29 Nov 1996 19:15:14 GMT Organization: Netspace Internet Services Message-ID: <57nco2$1vh1@news.midusa.net> References: <57k1pp$2r5u@news.doit.wisc.edu> Cc: anderson@macc.wisc.edu In <57k1pp$2r5u@news.doit.wisc.edu> Jess Anderson wrote: > I'm running NS 3.2 on black. I got the most current OmniWeb > browser from the Lighthouse ftp site and installed it in > /LocalApps in the usual way. When I try to run it, I get > > Nov 28 06:42:54 Workspace: Cannot exec /LocalApps/OmniWeb.app/OmniWeb : > Bad executable (or shared library) > > I also tried 2.1.4 with the same result. Does anyone know what > the problem is here? Do I need 3.3 to run this, maybe? > > This error occurs because OmniWeb uses the Foundation Classes shared library, which NS3.2 doesn't include (NS3.3 does). Getting NS3.3 should solve the problem, but you can also install the Foundation Classes on 3.2. Grab a package call "FoundationUserPatch.pkg" from the archives and install. -- Best wishes, Dan LaCourse
From: daveney@altus.speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I prevent DNS lookups with sendmail 8.6.12? Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 25 Nov 1996 10:58:17 GMT Organization: Customer of Access One Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Message-ID: <57bu49$s4m@news.mel.aone.net.au> References: <E16CB4.3FK@news.interactive.net> <56vqcl$55p@news.mel.aone.net.au> <3295737B.64880EEB@maz-hh.de> <E1Dsuv.6oM@news.interactive.net> Matthew Hocker (hocker@interactive.net) wrote: : Which is the rule specifying canonification? And, for my enlightenment, : could you tell me what canonification means? : I'd appreciate seeing a sendmail.cf snippet to understand this more. : Thanks : Matt Canonification is where you have something like user@host To canonify this mail address would be to do a DNS lookup and turn it into something like this :- user@host.domain.com The canonical name for a site is the full domain name that is used for internet email. Someone may be able to explain it better than me. I edited my xxx.mc file that I used to create the sendmail.cf file and put the line in FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl And when I redid the sendmail.cf file ther line # pass to name server to make hostname canonical R$* < @ $* $~P > $* $: $1 < @ $[ $2 $3 $] > $4 Was taken out of my sendmail.cf file. Which stopped sendmail trying to check with the name server every time I sent an email message to try and canonify it. Thanks Graham Daveney
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: User disk quotas? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:43:41 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <329F20CD.7C6B@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Does anyone have user disk quotas running under NS 3.3 (or OS 4.0) ? I'd love to hear from you! -- James R. Pooton <james@digisys.net> NeXTMail/MIME Welcome! DigiSys Incorporated
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program Date: 29 Nov 96 11:41:07 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov29114107@howard.one.net> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57j41k$grl@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-reply-to: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de's message of 28 Nov 1996 04:22:12 GMT In article <57j41k$grl@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>, uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) writes: So here is the answer in the words of Art Isbell (I hope quoting is alright with you, Art) that summarize it best: > > I need to search files for their content (exactly the way the > > Finder panel of the Workspace, Popup "Find items with contents > > that match", does) from a script. Is there any UNIX utility that > > does that? > > > > cd rootDirectoryForFind > find . -type f -print | xargs egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' > > If rootDirectoryForFind contains many files, the resulting egrep > command might exceed the maximum UNIX command length. You might > want to limit the number of files searched using other "find" > options like -name 'aNameToMatch', -perm aFilePermission, -user > aUser, etc. See the find man page for details. xargs _should_ take care of automagically breaking long strings of parameters up into shorter strings. From xargs.1: Each arguments-list is constructed starting with the initial-arguments, followed by some number of arguments read from standard input (Exception: see -i option). Options -i, -l, and -n determine how arguments are selected for each > command invocation. When none of these options are coded, > the initial-arguments are followed by arguments read con- > tinuously from standard input until an internal buffer is > full, and then command is executed with the accumulated > arguments. This process is repeated until there are none > left. When there are option conflicts (e.g., -l vs. -n), the last option takes precedence. If xargs isn't working right because of this, you could always specify options to xargs to break things up into smaller commands. The maximum command length can be a problem when using zsh to do similar things, for instance "egrep 'aSearchString' **/*.h". Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NTP: Time server does not adjust time on other hosts? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:19:41 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmbpBhS00UhWM1v=Jv@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <57m4kq$44q@news.NL.net> In-Reply-To: <57m4kq$44q@news.NL.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 29-Nov-96 NTP: Time server does not a.. by P.J.L.van Emmerik@solair > If i change the time on the server i by say 1 hour, i do not see any > changes in time on the clients unless i hit the synchronize button. > I thought the idea of NTP was to automatically adjust the time of the clients > in the network. > > Where do i go wrong? Nothing. The idea for NTP is to adjust the clocks gradually so that there are no large gaps (which can confuse NFS, make, etc). Normally, one completely resets the time of a client to the server when you boot, and then let's it go. You shouldn't need to make large adjustments in the master time server unless it's clock is bad (in which case, use another machine for the master time server). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (Michael Pieper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Novice Hoses Himself, PLEASE HELP Date: 29 Nov 1996 19:03:26 GMT Organization: I.N.-Regionaldomain oche.de, Aachen, Germany Message-ID: <57nc1u$kif@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> References: <mpd-ya023180002711961649180001@news.gulf.net> mpd@gulf.net (Mark Pappas) wrote: >The system came with a 105meg drive internal with 3.2 loaded. I have a >extra Maxtor 500meg drive. So I run builddisk on the 500meg drive everthing >goes great. Now I pull the 105 internal and put the 500meg in its place >SCSI ID 0 :)....The system boots to just a regular user, so I logout to >boot as root and it crashes. After crashing it ask me for a hardware key, >we'll guess what I don't have the hardware key. I read the NeXT faq and ah >it says pull the battery to reset the machine. I did that and now the NeXT >is stuck on "Loading from network" I guess I know enough to be dangerous :) There has to be one disk that supplies termpower to the SCSI bus. The SCSI adapter in a NeXTstation does not supply termpower (which is absolutly abnormal for a SCSI adapter). Normally the built in disk is configured to supply termpower. So if you simply change it and do not attach the old disk externally, you have a problem. Ther is AFAIK nothing about this in the Online Documentation of NS 3.2 an later. I have found it in the handbooks some day. Michael -- Michael Pieper, Bluecherplatz 14, D-52068 Aachen, Tel. : +49 - (0)241 - 902455 Fax: +49 - (0)241 - 902456 Mail : michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) PGP : Public Key on demand
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 25 Nov 96 09:21:48 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> In-reply-to: cwolf@wolfware.com's message of 24 Nov 1996 19:47:26 GMT In article <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com>, cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) writes: On 11/24/96, Stephen J. Perkins wrote: >My question now relates to the swapping. I could still rely on >the standard swapfile. Or, I could partition a single disk and >use one partition as a swap file. Or, I could add a second disk >with a swap partitiion. Will a second disk with swap partition >give me better performance? I'm thinking that the controller >could simultaneously access both the swap disk and the information >disk simultaneously. Moving your swapfile to a separate physical drive can have a large positive impact on performance if both drives have equally good performance when you need to swap because, as you hypothesized, you benefit from parallel access. The question of whether you will get better performance by putting the swapfile on a separate but somewhat slower disk or by leaving it on your fastest disk is a tough one - the answer will vary depending on your usage patterns and the relative speeds of the disks. The rule of thumb I've heard used in the past is that if the swap drive is more than 30% slower than your fast disk then you'll probably get better performance by leaving the swapfile on the fast disk. I don't know where they came up with that figure though. Your mileage may vary. This also probably depends on what amount of memory you have installed. As your memory size grows, you should swap less, and thus should be able to gain even by swapping to a slower disk. I would guess that there are degenerate cases, but they should only happen when you're thrashing anyhow, and at that point your disk speed really isn't going to make any difference at all. Another thing to consider would be putting other portions of your system on the slow disk, rather than the swapfile. While putting the root filesystem on the slow disk might be going too far, since you're pretty likely to be reading it, you might put other large things, like X11, or web server files. Or even the user home directories, though that can be a loss if you do compiles or the like there. [Personally, I usually link object directories into /tmp on the compile server, and then compiles go much faster. Probably would help with strictly local compiles, too.] Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Subject: MusicCD - Toshiba3401 - play3401.... how??? Message-ID: <E1LIJu.68@galileo.pr.net.ch> Sender: stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Organization: @Home, Tenero - Switzerland Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:38:18 GMT Hello NeXTSteppers! I have a NeXTStation running NS 3.2, and the Toshiba 3401 CDROM driver. I also have the play3401 program, and would like to hear music. Can you please tell me the step I have to follow??? I've tryed some ways, but without success: - I call play3401 . message panel: Please insert disk in external drive 1 . I insert the music-cd . the message disappears . the music-cd is ejected - I call CDPlayer.app . message panel: Please insert ... . I insert the music-cd . the message disappears . CDPlayer.app starts, but I need headphones to hear the music - I call CDPlayer.app . message panel: Please insert ... . I insert the music-cd . the message disappears . now, I call play3401 . the music-cd is ejected . message panel: Please insert... . starting from now any cd will be ejected and the message panel continue to appear. I have to kill the CDPlayer application :-))) Many thanks! Be well, Stefano
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Qpopper 2.2 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:16:46 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <329F8AFE.1B79@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Has anyone gotten Qpopper 2.2(from Qualcom) to work completely under NeXTStep? It compiles with 'make next' just fine, but the bulletin feature never seems to work? And the debugging doesn't really show any clues. Any help would be greatly appreciated and rewarded ;-) -- James Pooton <james@digisys.net>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Henning R. Eggers" <hre@maz-hh.de> Subject: Re: How do I prevent DNS lookups with sendmail 8.6.12? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3299878E.41C67EA6@maz-hh.de> Sender: news@maz-hh.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: MAZ Hamburg GmbH References: <E16CB4.3FK@news.interactive.net> <56vqcl$55p@news.mel.aone.net.au> <3295737B.64880EEB@maz-hh.de> <E1Dsuv.6oM@news.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:48:31 GMT Matthew Hocker wrote: > > Which is the rule specifying canonification? And, for my enlightenment, Quite simple: The comment for the rule said: # Pass to nameserver to make name canonical :-) There is some token to be used on the RHS that calls the name server. > could you tell me what canonification means? AFAIUI (AFAI understand it :) it means to make sure that the host name is a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) and if not append the appropriate domain name. This is also a way of verifying that the host name exists because it has a name server enrty. Canonical names are marked by adding the (usually implicitly left out) trailing dot of the root domain. > > I'd appreciate seeing a sendmail.cf snippet to understand this more. > I am sorry but I did this at home on my Linux box. I will try and remember to send you one from there. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Henning R. Eggers, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) hre@maz-hh.de bei MAZ Hamburg GmbH, GB Breitbandkommunikation -> Unless stated otherwise, all views expressed are my own. <-
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Novice Hoses Himself, PLEASE HELP Date: 30 Nov 1996 03:26:47 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <57o9hn$55i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> References: <mpd-ya023180002711961649180001@news.gulf.net> <57nc1u$kif@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (Michael Pieper) wrote: > There has to be one disk that supplies termpower to the SCSI bus. The SCSI > adapter in a NeXTstation does not supply termpower (which is absolutly > abnormal for a SCSI adapter). > Normally the built in disk is configured to supply termpower. So if you > simply change it and do not attach the old disk externally, you have a > problem. Unless you configure the replacement internal disk to supply TERMPWR. I've been told by a former TI SCSI device engineer that every SCSI device should be configured to supply TERMPWR to the SCSI bus to ensure that the extremes of the SCSI bus have sufficient termination voltage and to deal with poor SCSI implementations that supply insufficient TERMPWR such as a recent Micropolis drive that I had to finally give up on and return. -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: User disk quotas? Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 20:10:44 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961129170134.21764D-100000@kira> References: <329F20CD.7C6B@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> In-Reply-To: <329F20CD.7C6B@digisys.net> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I'm not using it, but I just compiled the "Quota" app QuadFat. ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/Quotas.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/Quotas.README This is an older app, but it compiled just dandy. Hope it works for you... TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: NeXT and NIS with other platforms (was Re: NeXT and Linux) Message-ID: <2rybfqgfau.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center References: <329638B7.86E@CERF.NET> <576elp$21f@spodnet.org> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:12:09 GMT tim@spodnet.org (Tim Gladding) writes: > I don't know about Linux (follow-ups trimmed accordingly), but I've > experienced no end of problems trying to make a NeXT (3.0) use NIS/YP > from a FreeBSD (2.1) server. We've served NIS to many NeXTs (3.0 and 3.2) from Sun servers for years, with no problems. -- Bob Cook (415) 926-2769 bobcook@slac.stanford.edu Stanford Linear Accelerator Center PGP public key: ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/pgp/bobcook/bobcook.publickey
From: howie@sihame.com (Howie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: peaceful coexsistence Date: 26 Nov 1996 02:19:56 GMT Organization: Metro Net Connections Inc Message-ID: <howie-2511962120340001@secondary.sihame.com> hello all. My cube (running 3.3) has jus been made lucky enough to join a class c on a t1. It does nothing but sit there (for now). No other nexts are there. I just want to assign an ip address and a name to the machine that is the same as what I set up in the DNS server. How do I do that? Thnx Howie Schneider howie@brooklynny.com
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reusing an old boot HD / adaptec 2940AU Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:18:32 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <57ptpo$s9v@bignews.shef.ac.uk> I've finally got a replacement for my (VLbus-based object.station), and I want to reuse the h/d that came with it: the new system is, however, PCI-based. Should I be able to reuse the drive without reformatting it? I've tried a number of options, and it just doesn't seem to be interested: I've also tried reinstalling anyway, and this fails when it tries to use the new SCSI card. I wondered if these tow are unrelated: the card is an Adaptec 2940AU -- is this a new version different to those listed as being supported by NS3.3? If so, is there any backwards-compatibility mode I could set? Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Date: 26 Nov 1996 04:21:18 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> So I have my zip drive, and I have a DB-25 to SCSI-2 (mini-centronics) cable, it's plugged into my NeXT cube and the cube has been rebooted. Why can't I seem to see any of the Zip disks? Is there a disktab entry I need to add? Is there something special I should do? Any help anyone can offer is appreciated. -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to decode this panic? Date: 25 Nov 1996 17:52:45 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <57dbgd$92v@Venus.mcs.net> I've recently moved from a NeXTstation mono to a NeXTstation color. The mono was rock solid and not that slow running 3.3p1. The color is rather slow using the same software, but that's the price of moving around more data on the screen, I suppose. I've been getting panics twice a week, and I'm not sure what's causing them. I finally did get something in /usr/adm/messages today, and I would like to know if I can narrow the problem down. System: NeXTstation color running NEXTSTEP 3.3p1, NeXT ROM Monitor 2.3 v64, with 32M parity RAM (80 ns in 0-3, 60 ns in 4-7) Panic looks like: Nov 25 16:59:23 font syslogd: going down on signal 15 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 6 rw 1 faultaddr 0xe5b40070 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: trap: pc 0xe5b40074 sp 0x7ff9b0 sr 0x2300 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x10187b00 proc 0x101875c0 pid 231 pcb 0x10187d00 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: traceback: fp 0x23040405 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: last fp 0x23040405 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.3 v64 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:56:06 PDT 1995; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: Killing all processes <4>zs1: recv uart overrun Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: .. Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: continuing Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting glare ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting stare ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting blink ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting wink ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: rebooting Mach... Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: Is it my memory? Is it my serial port? I've either been running ppp or was just starting ppp the last two times panics have occurred. If it's my memory, should I take out half at a time and run the system like that for a week to see which bank is causing trouble? Or can I tell from the panic message which SIMMs may be causing trouble? Or would more panic message sets be needed to pinpoint this? Or should I be reading a panic FAQ somewhere? :-) Thanks and be well. Wait, that's someone else's signoff. :-) -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem suggestions wanted Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:18:24 -0600 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <3299E2F0.545@pswtech.com> References: <slrn459cvgo.e8l.cybermo@worf.netins.net> <SHESS.96Nov23132746@howard.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Hess wrote: > In article <slrn459cvgo.e8l.cybermo@worf.netins.net>, > cybermo@netins.net (BRIAN MORRISON) writes: > I am looking for a good modem to use with my 040 NeXT. Any > suggestions? I have been looking at the USRobotics 33.6 Sportster > Voice and the Cardinal MVPV34I 33.6 Fax Modem. Comments, > suggestions? > > I've been using a Cardinal MVPV34XF (whatever - it's external, > V.34bis, flash rom) on my mono turbo station for a couple months, now. > No problems I can attribute to the modem. Just make certain you get > the correct cable. I mostly get 31.2k and 28.8k connections, but I > doubt it's the modem's fault. I plugged a USR 33.6 in place of my old ZyXel 14.4, turned it on, and it's been working fine since. Same disclaimers as above. > Note that this is data-only. I don't use/need fax or voice support. Ditto. ____________________________________________________________________ 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: damiano@pluto.space.ualberta.ca (Peter Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: 30 Nov 1996 19:57:44 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Hi. I have a NeXTStation Turbo and I'm interested in hooking a CD-ROM drive to it. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a make of external drive that works well with the black hardware (I'm assuming that one can hook a non-NeXT CD-ROM drive to the NeXTSTation). Sincerely Peter Damiano --
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MusicCD - Toshiba3401 - play3401.... how??? Date: 30 Nov 1996 20:35:40 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <57q5qs$6ei@news3.digex.net> References: <E1LIJu.68@galileo.pr.net.ch> stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) wrote: > I have a NeXTStation running NS 3.2, and the Toshiba 3401 CDROM driver. I also have the play3401 program, and would like to hear music. Can you please tell me the step I have to follow??? I've tryed some ways, but without success: You might try Arvind Soni's CD_evil.app. It lets you play and record the actual digital CD over the scsi bus. But it doesn't work with all cdroms. But if you have a toshiba, or one of the supported cdroms, it works nicely. It should be on the next ftp sites... -- Thanks, later, John Kheit monoChrome, Inc. | ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NEXTmail OK NEXT/OPENSTEP Developer | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: using webcopy Date: 26 Nov 1996 14:30:29 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <57euu5$fgf@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, Has anyone had success using Webcopy under OS4.0? I couldn't use it and don't know if I have to change something? Thanks very much, Khanh Nguyen,
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