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From: howie@sihame.com (Howie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to allow su? Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:45:15 GMT Organization: Metro Net Connections Inc Message-ID: <howie-2511962045530001@secondary.sihame.com> 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? Howie Schneider howie@brooklynny.com
From: howie@sihame.com (Howie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: compiling Date: 26 Nov 1996 02:27:26 GMT Organization: Metro Net Connections Inc Message-ID: <howie-2511962128040001@secondary.sihame.com> Hello all once again: Can a user logged into my cube compile files like a linux box? I know I sound naive, but I am real new at this. From a shell window, can someone take a tar file that normally might be compiled on aix or linux and config and compile it on next? Thnx fer all the help, Howie Schneider howie@brooklynny.com
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q:File System Type/Format wrt Data Recovery Date: 25 Nov 1996 22:14:14 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <57d5nm$26c@hpax.cup.hp.com> References: <3297C51C.62F6@research.att.com> <E1EtF6.n8@nidat.sub.org> In article <E1EtF6.n8@nidat.sub.org>, Peter Nitezki <Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de> wrote: >In article <3297C51C.62F6@research.att.com> Andrew Forrest ><forrest@research.att.com> writes: >> 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? >> >Plain ol'e Berkley Fast Filesystem like in any former BSD 4.2/BSD 4.3 >derivative. Used to be quite common some years ago (but is rather >outmoded nowadays). But there's more as Sam Streeper (who used to work at NeXT) says: From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Infos on Mach/NeXTSTEP 3.0 filesystem Date: 28 Sep 1996 15:31:21 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications arru@comi.inet.it (Gianni Arru) writes: >I'm searching for infos on the NeXT filesystem. >It seems to be a standard 4.3BSD UFS filesystem >but it's not. But it is. There are a few things you might find confusing. On black hardware, the default sector size is 1024 bytes, while on Intel hardware, the default sector size is 512 bytes. Also, all info on the disk is written in big-endian format, regardless of the endian-ness of the machine, so disks can be swapped between machines without problems. When the superblock or other structures are read into the kernel on a little endian machine, they will be swapped in memory so that the structure makes sense, but if you just read the disk by hand it will look pretty messed up - Remember short and long ints in the superblock stucture will look very odd when swapped. Finally, the Intel kernel recognizes MS-DOS style partitioning. A partition ID of 0xA7 indicates that the partition contains a NeXT version of the BSD 4.3 UFS; You can use the partition offsets to locate the disk's front porch, and the values in the superblock (whether at the beginning of the disk or the beginning of the partition) still reflect the absolute positions of the filesystems. One more thing, most NeXT BSD4.3 disks have 4 copies of the superblock, but the first one on Intel is always invalidated by the presence of the Intel booter. I don't remember what happens, but I bet the Intel kernel doesn't even write superblock copy #0. Hope this helps. I don't have any documentation but if you understand the above, then the standard docs apply. cheers -sam From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Infos on Mach/NeXTSTEP 3.0 filesystem Date: 28 Sep 1996 15:41:33 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications In my last post I sometimes wrote "superblock" when I meant "disk label". Sorry! The first copy of the disk label is invalidated by the Intel booter and gets ignored. Both structures are always written to the disk in big-endian format. -sam
From: csrfb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to alter CD-ROM SCSI-id Date: 26 Nov 1996 15:35:31 GMT Organization: RIVM Bilthoven, Netherlands Message-ID: <57f2o3$784@mississippi.rivm.nl> Up till now I have my CD-ROM drive on SCSI-id 2, but want it altered to SCSI-id 4. I just set the switches on the drive to id=4 and rebooted. Everything goes well till the window manager is to be started. Just before that the systems hangs. Probably my procedure is too simple and hopefully some system manager can help me. Please answer in this newsgroup and not by e-mail because it is unreliable at the moment -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Francois Bourgeois, postbak 1 | F.Bourgeois@rivm.nl Centre for Substances and Risk assessment (CSR) Risk Assessment Division | voice ++31 30 2742962 P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA BILTHOVEN, the Netherlands | fax ++31 30 2280174 RIVM - National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SoftPC4.* and internet connectivity Date: 1 Dec 1996 01:30:48 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <57qn48$7tg@news3.digex.net> Hi all, I'm trying out the demo of SoftPC4.0...I downloaded the 4.1 patch, but it won't work in demo mode, so I'm using SoftPC4.0 for now... Anyway, although Netscape Navigator 3.01 works just fine (actually it's FAST), telnet clients don't seem to work. So I'm guessing it has something to do with the winsock.dll? Does anyone know? Has anyone gotten a telnet client working through SoftPC? If so, how'd you do it? Has anyone upgraded the winsock.dll in SoftPC to a newer version? If so, could you tell me what version, or let me know if you could MIME/NEXTmail it to me? Why, you may ask, do I need a telnet client under SoftPC windows if I have Terminal.app? Well, a certain piece of legal research software uses telnet through a proprietary app for access... it doesn't work, nor does Ewan (a pd telnet client for windows) under SoftPC4.0 Any info would be great :) -- Thanks, later, John Kheit monoChrome, Inc. | ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NEXTmail OK NEXT/OPENSTEP Developer | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
From: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: 1 Dec 1996 01:52:17 GMT Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association Message-ID: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> Organisation: Sargood Manor I have a problem with Mail.app. I recently had a disk crash and was able to repair and restore from tape backups, however, my users are now unable to get new mail from the spool directory. The following error message appears in the console window each time they try: MailFetch: Permission denied MailFetch: Permission denied I have examined the permissions of both the Mailfetch program and the spool files and can't see anything wrong. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Please! David. -- David Green | Tel: +61 3 9827-6283 | david@legion.apana.org.au Melbourne, Australia| Fax: +61 3 9827-5876 | (NeXTMail & MIME accepted) PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@sw.oz.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What opinions?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: btr@trenet.com Date: 30 Nov 1996 22:04:48 EST Control: cancel <32a0c8d4.17352471@nntp.cts.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <32a0c8d4.17352471@nntp.cts.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.32a0c8d4.17352471@nntp.cts.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was Be a Beta Tester!
From: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: 1 Dec 1996 03:53:06 GMT Message-ID: <57qvf2$3ga@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> On 11/30/96, Peter Damiano wrote: >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 > Why not just buy a brand new NeXT CD Rom drive from Decision One (Bell Atlantic Calif). They are only about $270.00 Robert
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to allow su? Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 07:48:40 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126074830.14807C-100000@kira> References: <howie-2511962045530001@secondary.sihame.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Howie <howie@sihame.com> In-Reply-To: <howie-2511962045530001@secondary.sihame.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com they must be members of the group "wheel" TjL
From: fox@jeans.fokus.gmd.de (Oliver Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Web-Server Date: 26 Nov 1996 16:15:45 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <57f53h$80g@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Hello I like to install a NeXT as WebServer (NS 3.3) need some tips, pointers.... for Topics like MultiDomain, VirtualHosts, Who have experience with NeXT as WebServer? Who know a pointer to some information material ? thank you for help +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oliver Fox fox@fokus.gmd.de (NeXT mail welcome)
From: drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 26 Nov 1996 16:32:36 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <57f634$cle@smash.gatech.edu> References: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> Colin Eric Johnson (colinj@math.math.unm.edu) wrote: : So I have my zip drive, and I have a DB-25 to SCSI-2 (mini-centronics) : cable, it's plugged into my NeXT cube and the cube has been rebooted. : Why can't I seem to see any of the Zip disks? Is there a disktab entry : I need to add? Is there something special I should do? Any help anyone : can offer is appreciated. No disktab is needed... it should just work. Make sure your cable is good and make sure it is properly terminated. Also, you need to (generally) log into the workspace to mount the disk. -- Dave Rinker Georgia Institute of Technology - Computer Science
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:14:21 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961130201214.18861F-100000@kira> References: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > I recently had a disk crash and was able to repair and restore from tape > backups, however, my users are now unable to get new mail from the spool > directory. The following error message appears in the console window each > time they try: > > MailFetch: Permission denied > MailFetch: Permission denied > > I have examined the permissions of both the Mailfetch program and the > spool files and can't see anything wrong. It sure sounds like a permissions problem. MailFetch is just chmod 755 on my system, but the mailspool is drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 30 23:04 /usr/spool/mail/ could that be what was causing it (not the files inside the spool folder but the spool folder itself? TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:10:57 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961130200554.18861E-100000@kira> References: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Peter Damiano <damiano@pluto.space.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I can recommend an internal CD-ROM w/ an external case, as well as give you the ordiering info. The CD-ROM is 4x: Sony CD-ROM CDU-76S The external case is: CS-EXTDR1, "External drive case, 1 HH 5.25" for CD-ROM". The case should be no more than $48 and the drive no more than $101 Contact ASA Computers at 1-800-real-pcs (1-800-7325-727) Works just dandy. TjL ps -- you'll need a generic power cord and the proper SCSI cable also (the back of the external case is SCSI-1
From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT and NIS with other platforms (was Re: NeXT and Linux) Date: 26 Nov 1996 21:04:38 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Distribution: world Message-ID: <57fm16$2fb@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <329638B7.86E@CERF.NET> <576elp$21f@spodnet.org> Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Tim Gladding (tim@spodnet.org) had the courage to say: : 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?) Ypcat uses the yp_all() procedure, which is different from all the other NIS v2 procedures in that it uses TCP rather than UDP. Most NIS requests are simple query/response transactions: the client says "match this key in this map", and the server sends back the appropriate entry or an error. RPC connections for these are created with clntudp_create(). But for yp_all(), the client asks for the whole map to be transfered in one request. To do this quickly, yplib uses clnttcp_create() to set up the link, and there's some magic in the XDR filters to allow the whole map to be transfered. When the whole map is received, the link is destroyed. This is an important distinction: a new RPC CLIENT * handle is created each time yp_all() is called. But for the other calls. the CLIENT * handle is created once and then cached (there's a dom_binding structure which contains the RPC handle, plus the IP address and port of the remote ypserv). If the port becomes invalid (because ypserv crashes and restarts on another port, for example), ypbind is supposed to notice and create a new binding with the correct port, and life is supposed to go on. Caching the RPC handle is tricky though because a top level process may unwittingly step on the socket descriptor that the yplib code has allocated. In this case, the yplib code is supposed to notice that the descriptor is bogus and carefully construct a new handle. It's also supposed to notice if the process fork()s and prevent processes from accidentally sharing handles. (FreeBSD 2.1.x does not do any of this handle caching, but FreeBSD 2.2.x does. It took me a while to get it right.) What may be happening is that the NeXT isn't doing the caching right somehow and is losing descriptors. Or else it's not rebinding when it should. : 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 :) One last thing: you should run ypserv on the FreeBSD 2.1.x machine with the -k (SunOS 'kludge' mode) flag when using non-FreeBSD NIS clients. The ypbind in most NIS implementations insists on establishing bindings for both NIS v1 and NIS v2, even though NIS v1 is never used (it can be used as a fallback I suppose). In FreeBSD 2.1.x, ypserv has no NIS v1 support at all, so you need the -k flag: it forces the server to register itself as an NIS v1 server and handles the YPPROC_NONACK requests sent out by ypbind just well enough to fool it into shutting up. FreeBSD 2.2.x has a new ypserv written by me which has some support for NIS v1 (it supports all the main client procedues but doesn't know how to do NIS v1 master/slave map transfers) so the -k flag isn't needed. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "If you're ever in trouble, go to the CTR. Ask for Bill. He will help you." =============================================================================
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FLOPPY PROBLEM Date: 26 Nov 1996 22:50:08 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <57fs70$do9@scsing.switch.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello there ! Since I upgraded from NS 3.3 to 4.0 on my PC-based system I can not anymore read, write or initilize NeXT floppy disks !! It woks well with DOS and Macintosh !!¨ any ideas ? 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
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BOOT from CD-ROM ?? Date: 26 Nov 1996 22:56:41 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <57fsj9$do9@scsing.switch.ch> Hello there ! I have a NeXTstation on wich I need to reinstall NeXTstep 3.3 ! The problem is that the floppy disk that comes with the installation CD-ROm is out !! So is it possible to boot directly from the installation CD-ROM ? if yes how ?? Is it possible to make a copy of the floppy disk that comes with the installation CD-ROM ? " if I found one of it" 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
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Continued problems with bounced mail Date: 26 Nov 1996 23:29:45 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <57fuh9$1hs@dfw-ixnews5.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. The following example shows the problem. For those persistent enough to wade through the mail headers, a joke is the reward(?). Any suggested solutions would be appreciated. The original message was received at Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:34:33 -0500 (EST) from dub-img-7.compuserve.com [149.174.206.137] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <somewhere!12345.6789@uunet.uu.net> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 961126133058.0176 uux: error -- Bad system name: somewhere 961126133058.0195 uux: ERROR -- node somewhere, code 68 550 <somewhere!12345.6789@uunet.uu.net>... Host unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; relay2.UU.NET Received-From-MTA: dns; dub-img-7.compuserve.com Arrival-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:34:33 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; 76651.1710@relay2.UU.NET Action: failed Status: 5.1.2 Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:34:36 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: <Mailer-Agent@trego.com> Received: from dub-img-7.compuserve.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: dub-img-7.compuserve.com [149.174.206.137]) id QQbrnm07996; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:34:33 -0500 (EST) 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 Subject: You can pin this up on the lunch room bulletin board Message-Id: <961125161816_76651.1710_BHA115-1@CompuServe.COM> God decided he had had it with the Earth and began making plans to destroy it in a week's time. In preparation, he called the three most influential men in the world to Heaven to inform them. He chose Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Bill Gates. Upon telling them of his plans to destroy the world, he sent them back to Earth to tell the people. Bill Clinton assembled his cabinet and said, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is there indeed is a God. The bad news is He is mad at us and intends to destroy the world a week from now." Boris Yeltsin called Parliment together and said, "Comrades, I have bad news and worse news. We were wrong. There is a God. And, he's mad at the world and will destroy in one week's time." Bill Gates got together with his top programmers and said, "I have great news and even better news! God considers me one of the three most influential men in the world AND we don't have to fix Windows 95!" -- 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: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why does sendmail put machine name before domain? Date: 26 Nov 1996 17:53:24 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbdbc2$cf8d4160$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Aaaigh! I fixed this a couple years ago, but then this upgrade to OPENSTEP put me back at ground zero. All mail coming in and our of our OPENSTEP server ends up with the machine name in front of the domain name (ie: zac@opus.dreams.com or zac@dreams.dreams.com), on both the From: and To: lines. Why is this happening? If anyone can send me a sendmail.cf patch that stops this annoying behavior I would really appreciate it. Kind of a strange behavior to have in the default sendmail configuration, eh, NeXT??? --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocac Subject: cancel Control: cancel <01bbdfb9$df4f98a0$2e606d86@nik.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: 2 Dec 1996 03:57:10 GMT Organization: Ripco Communications Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57tk2m$39u$1@gail.ripco.com> <01bbdfb9$df4f98a0$2e606d86@nik.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> is excessively silly. -- David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased dr@ripco.com (312) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!
From: nickh@acs-online.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Token Ring and NeXTSTEP for Intel Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 02:11:15 GMT Organization: ACS Message-ID: <57tdk1$p1m@news.blkbox.com> Is anyone out there running NeXTSTEP for the x86 platform using Token-Ring? We run 3.3 on Compaq Prolinea Pentium/75MHz machines configured with supported hardware, and the IBM Token-Ring 16/4 adaptors. Some machines have the 3COM Tokenlink driver, set up for IBM Emulation Mode. The problem that we are experiencing is that the machines do not boot in a stable manner. 4 times out of 5, they will come up, but are not able to ping anything. It takes constant rebooting to get them to be able to see any IP host. Once a ping is successful, our applications work fine until the next time the system is rebooted. I tried the latest version of the IBM Token Ring driver (v.3.37) from the NeXT FTP site, only to find that it craters the OS. So, now we have two NeXTSTEP machines that are totally non-functional. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what I should look for to try and fix these problems? Thanks in advance. -Nick
From: karl@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Token Ring and NeXTSTEP for Intel Date: 2 Dec 1996 02:35:43 GMT Organization: Ensuing Technologies Distribution: world Message-ID: <57tf9v$mfc@enok.ensuing.com> References: <57tdk1$p1m@news.blkbox.com> nickh@acs-online.com writes > Is anyone out there running NeXTSTEP for the x86 platform using > Token-Ring? We run 3.3 on Compaq Prolinea Pentium/75MHz machines > configured with supported hardware, and the IBM Token-Ring 16/4 > adaptors. Some machines have the 3COM Tokenlink driver, set up for > IBM Emulation Mode. > We have three sites running NeXTSTEP on IBM Pentium boxes, using the IBM 16/4 ***auto**** token ring adapters on a 16Mb ring. They work with no problems, boot fine on the few times we need to reboot them, and don't usually have any problems. One or two boxes use Intel Token Express, which I seem to recall is very picky about what the production date was on the card. The biggest problem is that when someone's elses token ring card goes flaky, or someone puts a 4Mb device on the 16Mb network, the token ring cards may disconnect themselves from the ring. Once this happens, a reboot is the only thing I know that will get them back on the ring. We have one office that has bad wiring. This machine will leave the token ring when the network traffic is high. Everybody else is on category 5 wiring. ETR is set on the cards, and that may make a difference. > The problem that we are experiencing is that the machines do not boot > in a stable manner. 4 times out of 5, they will come up, but are not > able to ping anything. It takes constant rebooting to get them to be > able to see any IP host. If you are using netinfo, then the machines should not be able to come up until they can find the parent netinfo machine on the network. So if they are coming up, then IP is working for at least a bit, and you may have some other general fault in your configuration (like say a bad routed, that is changing the routes on machines) If you are not using netinfo, then the machines would perhaps boot without a working network interface. If the token ring card is not able to get the token to insert itself onto the ring within a reasonable time, the init of the card fails. At that point NextStep assumes a dead card or network, and you must reboot to get it to try again. The easiest way to tell whether the init is failing is to boot in verbose mode, or look at /usr/adm/messages -- Karl Kraft karl@ensuing.com http://www.relada.com/ (Play Java games online)
From: chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Forgotten User Preferences Date: 2 Dec 1996 03:51:24 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <57tjns$kd9@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> After each session, any user's preferences (besides root) are not saved: At the next login the user will have the generic setup. What might be causing this ? Regards-- Chris
From: nurban@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Nathan M. Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 1 Dec 1996 18:38:38 -0500 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> In article <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) wrote: > Moving your swapfile to a separate physical drive can have a large > positive impact on performance if both drives have equally good > performance when you need to swap because, as you hypothesized, you > benefit from parallel access. Question: Can you get even more parallel access by creating two swapfiles, one on each drive, so it can swap to two drives at once? Or will it only swap to one of them once the other is full? (Also, I was wondering, do people sell drives specifically intended to be used for swap drives? i.e., small capacity, very high speed. Or is it just more cost-effective to get a regular drive?) -- Nathan Urban | nurban@vt.edu | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: 2 Dec 1996 05:54:55 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <57tqvg$gkf@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> damiano@pluto.space.ualberta.ca (Peter Damiano) wrote: > Hi. I have a NeXTStation Turbo and I'm interested in hooking a > CD-ROM drive to it. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a > make of external drive that works well with the black hardware > (I'm assuming that one can hook a non-NeXT CD-ROM drive to the > NeXTSTation). See if you can pick up a used Apple CD300. It's double-speed, which is better than NeXT's original CD-ROM drive, and it will work fine with everything you want to do on a NeXTSTEP system. It should also be plentiful enough that a used one should be fairly cheap. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian Patrick Cardenas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Forgotten User Preferences Date: 2 Dec 1996 08:45:18 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <57u4uu$f00@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <57tjns$kd9@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator) writes: > After each session, any user's preferences (besides root) are not saved: > At the next login the user will have the generic setup. > > What might be causing this ? > We had this problem a couple of times and it was usually a problem (some kind of corruption) with the defaults database in ~/.NeXT. What I would do to fix the problem is login and remove the entire .NeXT directory. Next time you log out a new one will be created that should be usable. Alternatively the user may just not have write permission to his own ~/.NeXT directory. Make sure that the direcctory and the files under it are writable. -- Ian P. Cardenas (icardena@uiuc.edu) CCSO Sites Technical Support "Are they as successful as who,Microsoft? Only drug lords from South America are as successful as Microsoft." -Tim Byars, on the success of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: Sven Droll Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MusicCD - Toshiba3401 - play3401.... how??? Date: 2 Dec 1996 08:41:06 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <57u4n3$bp@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <E1LIJu.68@galileo.pr.net.ch> Hi Stefano. I have got one (simple) question: IS your CDROM-drive your external drive 1 ? My System has got three external devices (harddisc as 1, ZIP as 2, CDROM 3401 as 3) and if I start CD_evil (front end to play3401) it want to play my ZIP-discs: "Please insert disk in external drive 2" Workaround (sometimes): I have to insert a ZIP-disk before starting the CD-Player. Could you please post (or mail) the console-messages, that appear when you insert your AudioCD (especially after the sd..-errors)? (ok, that was a second question :-)) Is play3401 called as root or installed SUID? BTW: The newer version of play3401 is called playcd and has got support for another CDROM-drive (?which). -- Sven Droll __ ______________________________________________________/ / ______ __ sdroll@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/ /_ _/ _/ =====\_/======= LOGOUT FASCISM! ___________________________________________________________________ NeXT-mail, MIME-mail welcome ;-))
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 2 Dec 1996 12:16:51 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <57uhbj$m1o@nntp1.best.com> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> On 12/01/96, Nathan M. Urban wrote: >In article <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) wrote: >> 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. Actually I wrote the above in response to Scott's original question. >Question: Can you get even more parallel access by creating two >swapfiles, one on each drive, so it can swap to two drives at once? Or >will it only swap to one of them once the other is full? Multiple swapfiles are used sequentially not in parallel as you suspected. The only way to get spread swapfile acesses across multiple drives simultaneously is with a hardware RAID solution (the RAID controller makes multiple drives look like a single drive to the OS basically and it's the RAID controller's responsibility to distribute access among the individual drives in the array.) DPT's SmartCache IV series of controllers can be expanded with RAID functionality and work well with NeXTSTEP and OpenStep/Mach if you really want to do this. Note that the concept of parallelizing disk access can be used to your advantage in other areas as well though without investing in RAID. For instance if you have 3 drives you can put your swapspace on one, your application input files (e.g. source code) on another and direct the output (e.g. compiled object files) to the 3rd which allows the system to read data, write data and swap simultaneously. >(Also, I was wondering, do people sell drives specifically intended >to be used for swap drives? i.e., small capacity, very high speed. Or >is it just more cost-effective to get a regular drive?) A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) people used to make specialized small swap drives for mainframes and mini's (or so I've heard - was before my time :-) Nowadays though the fastest drives also tend to be the largest drives. (There are probably both economic/market and technical reasons for this - many of the same techniques which produce higher data densities directly lead to higher throughput.) Currently the very fastest drives typically only come in 1 or 2 gb or larger capacities. Since a couple hundred megs are all that most people would ever possibly need for swap-space this means you are faced with either wasting space or perhaps compromising swap performance. I typically get around this by using the rest of the space on the swap drive for installing other operating systems (in a multi-boot system), storing rarely used files, or storing applications rather than data files (on the theory that app files are accessed less frequently and randomly than data files reducing.) A couple of other random tips for swapfile performance: 1) Take note of a "typical" maximum swapfile size on your system and pre-create the swapfile at that size using the unix mkfile command to ensure that there is minimal swapfile fragmentation. Adjust your /etc/swaptab entry appropriately to make sure that the swapfile doesn't shrink below this pre-created size. 2) There can be significant performance differences between different zones on the disk. The outermost tracks on the disk offer the fastest sustained transfer rates. Try to create the partition holding the swapfile on the outermost tracks of the disk (I don't remember if this corresponds to low numbered tracks or high numbered tracks off the top of my head though - sorry.) --
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoftPC4.* and internet connectivity Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:06:59 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E1sCBo.9MH@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <57qn48$7tg@news3.digex.net> In article <57qn48$7tg@news3.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: > I'm trying out the demo of SoftPC4.0...I downloaded the 4.1 patch, but it > won't work in demo mode, so I'm using SoftPC4.0 for now... Oops... It probably should. My guess would be that I accidently started the demo period BEFORE uploading it - sorry guys! You need 4.1 to be able to use the 4.1 patch anyway, otherwise you won't be able to start Windows - we changed all the drivers. >Has anyone upgraded the winsock.dll in >SoftPC to a newer version? Quite considerably, several times! 4.0 was the inital version supporting winsock. It was only supposed to run a few specific apps. 4.1 is a major overhall of loads of stuff. However of relevance here is that winsock was completly rewritten. 4.1p1 is a minor fix which will be of relevance only if you're using udp. 4.1p1001 (we change the numbering scheme!) is a relativly major overhaul, which fixes a few bugs (but may introduce a few others - specifically it fixes Lotus Notes 4.0). It's important to note that each of these upgrades (other than 4.1->4.1p1) requires a DIFFERENT winsock.dll, and a matching SoftPC executable. They cannot be mixed, or bad things will happen. >Has anyone gotten a telnet client working through SoftPC? Telnet worked fine (can't remember which version) in 4.1. Can't be sure as to 4.0. on balance the best place to start from is 4.1. That runs most stuff pretty well. If that fails, then try 4.1p1001 (though I wouldn't recomend that unless you need it - there are a few slightly dodgy bits to it). $an
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zircom CE3-10/100 driver for Tecra Laptop Date: 2 Dec 1996 14:55:13 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <57uqkh$ppl@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <57gs82$h5u@hermes.is.co.za> In article <57gs82$h5u@hermes.is.co.za> gvandyk@icon.co.za writes: > I have a Toshiba Tecra 720 laptop running NeXT and need a driver for > the Xircom CE3-10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card > I Need to connect to a 10 Mbit network initially. The following (non-complete, surely) PCMCIA Ethernet cards supported by NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP: XircomIIpsNetworkDriver : Xircom PS-CE2-10BT (and Xircom PS-CE2-10BC) XircomNetwave : wireless, Xircom CreditCard Netwave Adapter (CNW(AM)) EtherLink3 : 3C589 PC Card Intel82595NetworkDriver : Cogent EM595 C PCMCIA (RJ-45/BNC) We're using an EtherLink card here with success on an IBM Thinkpad. Good luck. -- 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
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 1542B/2842VL --> no access!!! Date: 2 Dec 1996 15:39:48 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <57ut84$br6@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: Adaptec, SCSII Keywords: Adaptec, SCSII Hi I have an Adaptec 2842 VL SCSI card. And before, I had an Adaptec 1542 on an AST Bravo Pentium. Both of them I just can't install. I try to install them within the installation procedure or from within an already installed IDE boot disk. No difference. I install in Configure.app the appropriate driver, IRQ is ok, port address is ok; but nothing is recognized. I terminate both ends of the bus properly. There's only one internally connected HD with ID 0 at the moment. It seems it doesn't even find the SCSI bus. No message about it is printed at any time. I have also tried to disable the BIOS of the card. No effect. It seems as if there would be no driver at all. I have the impression, that there is no trial to access at any time. Has anybody an idea, what could be wrong? How could I test what's happening? Are there any tools? Do I have to change something special in the BIOS or the SCSI BIOS? Could those problems be, because I use the PR2 of OpenStep (I have ordered 4.1, but do not want 4.0)? I tried everything for days now. Thanks for all ideas Phil
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 2 Dec 96 10:55:46 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec2105546@slave.one.net> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <57uhbj$m1o@nntp1.best.com> In-reply-to: cwolf@wolfware.com's message of 2 Dec 1996 12:16:51 GMT In article <57uhbj$m1o@nntp1.best.com>, cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) writes: Currently the very fastest drives typically only come in 1 or 2 gb or larger capacities. Since a couple hundred megs are all that most people would ever possibly need for swap-space this means you are faced with either wasting space or perhaps compromising swap performance. I typically get around this by using the rest of the space on the swap drive for installing other operating systems (in a multi-boot system), storing rarely used files, or storing applications rather than data files (on the theory that app files are accessed less frequently and randomly than data files reducing.) A somewhat slick variation that I use is to take advantage of the multiple versions of NeXTSTEP I have installed. Right now, it's OpenStep and NeXTSTEP3.3. I install each on a seperate disk, then muck with /etc/fstab to get each to mount the other's disk on /Disk, then muck with /etc/fstab to have each swap to /Disk/private/vm/swapfile first, then /private/vm/swapfile. No high water mark, so the second disk is filled before it starts on my main disk. Use mkfile to lock down the space - better yet, use mkfile in single user mode or with a freshly mounted disk, so that you _know_ that the swapfile is as contiguous as the filesystem allows. 2) There can be significant performance differences between different zones on the disk. The outermost tracks on the disk offer the fastest sustained transfer rates. Try to create the partition holding the swapfile on the outermost tracks of the disk (I don't remember if this corresponds to low numbered tracks or high numbered tracks off the top of my head though - sorry.) No need for it to corrospond to any particular set of tracks, since SCSI will take care of the mapping. [Put another way - you probably can't say "The low-numbered tracks are faster" with any degree of generality.] Beyond that, keep in mind the seek times. Fast sustained transfer rates aren't much good if you have to seek alot. If you're using memory, then some pages will be sent to the swap file, and others will be dropped, to be swapped in directly from the original file (this is how executables work). So you could seek out to the swapfile to swap in some data, seek to the system partition to swap in pages of an executable, seek back out to the swap ... of course, that's not a problem if you're swapping on a different spindle (ie, disk) than your system files are on. 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: Swap configuration Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:51:30 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmclQWq00UhWI1vQNp@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 1-Dec-96 Re: Swap configuration by Nathan M. Urban@csugrad. >> 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. > > Question: Can you get even more parallel access by creating two > swapfiles, one on each drive, so it can swap to two drives at once? In theory, yes. In practice, however, you're normally better off having one drive be a dedicated swap drive with the preferred swapfile, and have the other drive(s) contain the operating system and user files. This is because most drives only have a single actuator, and you almost always are doing some kind of filesystem access to load a new application (or data file, or whatever) when you need to do VM I/O...almost all disk drives perform better dealing with single-threaded I/O requests. > Or will it only swap to one of them once the other is full? That depends on the prefer option in /etc/swaptab. Read 'man swaptab'. > (Also, I was wondering, do people sell drives specifically intended > to be used for swap drives? i.e., small capacity, very high speed. Or > is it just more cost-effective to get a regular drive?) Drive manufacturers no longer make small capacity drives period (well, pretty much ;-). The normal course of events is that you get a large capacity new drive for the OS, user files, etc, and you use your old drive as a swapdrive. Depending on how large the old drive is, you might want to use it's space to back up user home directories and other important files, or as storage space for less frequently used files. By the way, with RAM prices the way they are, you're better off solving the problem of swapping by getting more RAM. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dump/rdump verification. Date: 2 Dec 1996 13:00:03 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <57v5f3$avi@Vir.com> Hello all, I made a backup using rdump on a DAT tape. I was wondering how I can verify the tape to check the backup was properly made? Any help would be appreciated, stef
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:57:25 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <wmclW5u00UhW41vRpV@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <57uhbj$m1o@nntp1.best.com> In-Reply-To: <57uhbj$m1o@nntp1.best.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 2-Dec-96 Re: Swap configuration by Christopher Wolf@wolfwar >> Question: Can you get even more parallel access by creating two >> swapfiles, one on each drive, so it can swap to two drives at once? Or >> will it only swap to one of them once the other is full? > > Multiple swapfiles are used sequentially not in parallel as you suspected. I think that's only true if the prefer option is used. If you don't use the prefer option, multiple paging files should be used in parallel, although it appears that the pages from any particular process will only go to one swapfile. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: reusing an old boot HD / adaptec 2940AU Date: 2 Dec 1996 18:17:56 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <57v6gk$9ha@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <57ptpo$s9v@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <57ptpo$s9v@bignews.shef.ac.uk> On 11/30/96, mmalcolm crawford wrote: > 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? > Thanks to Paul Lynch for pointing me in the right direction... It now looks as if I could have saved my data if I'd found the relevant NeXTAnswer in time -- having spent a while looking through a bewildering number of files, mainly relating to 3.2, without coming up with the relavant keyword ("recovering") to find the most important page, though, Recovering Data Files from a Hard Drive You Can't Boot: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1469.htmld/1469.html which I found shortly afterwards <sigh>, I just reformatted the drive... I was caught in a catch-22 situation in that I could have rebooted from the existing h/d using the "Boot Drivers" directive at the boot: prompt, however by specifying "Adaptec2940SCSIDriver" the driver was loaded from the h/d, and the on-disk driver did not support the 2940AU... and if I didn't specify the driver, the boot failed... So, what I should have done was: (As per NeXTAnswers, but **note** for 3.3 the Floppy driver must be loaded from the CoreDrivers floppy cf 1921_Creating_FDs_From_Images_Under_NEXTSTEP_and_DOS.rtf http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1921.htmld/1921.html because deviceLoader doesn't work because of a missing link on the NEXTSTEP CD-ROM) 1. Put your installation floppy in the floppy drive, the installation CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive and turn on your computer. 2. At the boot: prompt, type: fd()mach_kernel -s rootdev=sd1a "Boot Drivers"="Floppy" (note: sd1a -- not sd0a) This will start the system in "single user mode": during startup you will first have to inerst the core drivers disk to load the flopy driver, and then take this opportunity to also load in the Adaptec driver. 3. You need to mount your internal hard drive on the filesystem mount -n -o ro /dev/sd0a /disk and the floppy containing the new driver: mount -n /dev/fd0a /floppy 4. The new driver can now be copied from the floppy to the disk, using cp: cp /floppy/.../DriverName.config /disk/.../ Re the 2940AU: It doesn't work because its ID isn't listed in the Default.table file in the .config directory: In the "Auto Detect IDs" list, you need to add 0x61789004 This is a kludge, and may end up trashing the disk, however it works for me for now! Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Update from CNews to PersonalINN??? Date: 2 Dec 1996 19:42:29 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Message-ID: <57vbf5$odu@news1.isdnet.net> Well my own personal configuration of Cnews works well. I wonder why I should change for INN... Maybe the fact that the overview files are in separate directories would make the articles launch more quickly! But is it worth the hassle of configuring? I don't know. Another thing is: what to do to update the actual news????? I mean I have a full News hierachy full of articles that I don't want to lose and INN is configured differently... =:-( What I'd like to use anyway is RPOST that I couldn't get compiled myself before (posix!). I think it's possible to use it with Cnews and slurp in my actual configuration (for what I understand, I only have to change the script 'post-news'... but for the moment the log says: "STOP: Empty spoolfile") I'd also like to use Slurp (different version? at least compiled differently from the NEGEN version...) because it uses log files and it's FINE! BUT I can't use it right now because it looks like it's hard coded to put incoming articles with the name "unknown00000" on /usr/spool/news/articles and it's not what CNews expects! Will I upgrade just to use this version of Slurp!?! mc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain"??? Message-ID: <E1qouw.2Lp@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <57jgck$qdn@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:42:32 GMT In article <57jgck$qdn@nntp.Stanford.EDU> root@hoek.dnai.com (Operator) writes: > 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? > This depends on your actual network setup. As you didn't give any sepecificd I'm left to give you a RTFM (which is the best choice, anyway). -- 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: mgrcnk@garfield.msms.doe.k12.ms.us (Christopher N. King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Hardware Password... Date: 2 Dec 1996 21:05:01 GMT Organization: MSMS Message-ID: <57vg9t$dk9@NNTP.MsState.Edu> References: <timothy-2611960102380001@ppp044-sf1.sirius.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126165206.22156A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : taking out the battery is the way.... Not necessarily. I haven't done this on a Cube, but on the Stations it is really easy. Located next to the battery, there are a few transistors (a lot on a regular station, only 2 on a Turbo). All you have to do is take a paper clip or other conductive material and jump the transistor that leads to the battery. You can figure out which one it is by looking for the inlaid copper wiring on the board running from the battery case. I have no clue as to exactly which pins you have to jump on the transistor, but if you hit them all, it works :) I got this tip from my boss who used to work for NeXT. chris -- Chris King Systems Administrator & Consultant Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology kingcn@cs.rose-hulman.edu "Life is fragile...handle with prayer." --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961202124510.0067fa5c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 13:45:10 +0100 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Subject: fstab? (Ignore Drive) hello After two weeks of waiting System Commander 3.02 and one to install the sofware Finally I installed OPENSTEP 4.0, DOS 6.22, OS/2 and NT 4.0 My computer have: ID:0 Micropolis 2 GB (OPENSTEP - DOS 6.22) ID:1 HP 1 GB (NT 4.0 NTFS filesystem - OS/2 HPFS filesystem) All run OK except when I boot to Openstep: the OS check the second drive and it shows a message: "drive illegible" and it asks if I want to INITIALIZE the drive. I can clik ignore button, but I am afraid that sometime I'll mistake and select initialize, wiping out the two OS from second drive I know that I could tell to OS to ignore the drive in fstab, but I don't know how /dev/xy1a ..........? Thanks ************************************************************************ * Zanitti Leo * * Viale Regina Elena, 299 * * I-00161 ROME * * * * E-Mail: zleo@istsan.interbusiness.it * * * * TEL +39 6 82.09.70.77 * * TEL +39 6 49.90.24.10 * ************************************************************************
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Hardware Password... Date: 2 Dec 1996 23:10:15 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <57vnkn$79m@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> References: <timothy-2611960102380001@ppp044-sf1.sirius.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126165206.22156A-100000@kira> <57vg9t$dk9@NNTP.MsState.Edu> mgrcnk@garfield.msms.doe.k12.ms.us (Christopher N. King) wrote: > Timothy Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: > > : taking out the battery is the way.... > > Not necessarily. I haven't done this on a Cube, but on the Stations it is > really easy. > > Located next to the battery, there are a few transistors (a lot on a > regular station, only 2 on a Turbo). All you have to do is take a paper > clip or other conductive material and jump the transistor that leads to > the battery. You can figure out which one it is by looking for the inlaid > copper wiring on the board running from the battery case. I have no clue > as to exactly which pins you have to jump on the transistor, but if you > hit them all, it works :) Oh, gawd... A dead short of something via a paper clip. If you're lucky, you'll short the battery itself through a transistor, IC, or other fragile component and bye-bye CPU board. Just pull the battery and go to sleep... -- 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: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Update from CNews to PersonalINN??? Date: 3 Dec 1996 00:21:18 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <57vrpu$tp@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <57vbf5$odu@news1.isdnet.net> Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> wrote: > Well my own personal configuration of Cnews works well. I wonder > why I should change for INN... First thing that comes to my mind is "never touch a running system", at least as long as you don't really need it... > Maybe the fact that the overview files are in separate directories > would make the articles launch more quickly! But is it worth the > hassle of configuring? I don't know. The seperate overview files sure give a performance boost, but I doubt that this alone is worth the change. Since the latest version of CNews is also able to make use of slurp instead of UUCP, there is not that much of a difference from a users standpoint once the system is up and running (there are internal differences since slurp is used in a different way; see below). (I don't know about non-UUCP posting in CNews - what does it use for that?). The biggest differences will probably lie in the future - PersonalINN will be manageable via a GUI and will be integrated with GateKeeper, a mail picture mechanism and other internet related apps to form a complete "internet package" - but that will still take some time. Configuring shouldn't be too much of a hassle with PersonalINN (I hope ;-) ). The bigger problem would be to remove CNews. Unfortunately, CNews uses binaries and configuration entries quite incompatible with PersonalINN and doesn't deinstall itself completely. So you must make really sure that you remove everything that had to do with CNews. > Another thing is: what to do to update the actual news????? I > mean I have a full News hierachy full of articles that I don't > want to lose and INN is configured differently... =:-( Hasn't CNews exactly the same format for the articles itself (i.e. each article in an ASCII file with a number as name)? Then it should be no problem to just rename your old directories so that they are "safe" when PersonalINN installs and move the article files and the active file into their new places afterwards. Make sure to do this as user news! You will loose the overview files, however, and will have to rebuild them (see the manpages). > What I'd like to use anyway is RPOST that I couldn't get compiled > myself before (posix!). I think it's possible to use it with > Cnews and slurp in my actual configuration (for what I understand, > I only have to change the script 'post-news'... but for the moment > the log says: "STOP: Empty spoolfile") Well, this means that your spoolfile (the file named SPOOLFILE in the post-news script) is a) empty ;-)) b) not in the path specified as OUTGOING in post-news c) not in the format "/path/to/the/article/relative/to/the/articles-dir. message-ID" Note that this format is DIFFERENT to the one used by UUCP! > I'd also like to use Slurp (different version? at least compiled > differently from the NEGEN version...) because it uses log files > and it's FINE! BUT I can't use it right now because it looks > like it's hard coded to put incoming articles with the name > "unknown00000" on /usr/spool/news/articles and it's not what > CNews expects! No, the slurp provided with PersonalINN CANNOT be used with CNews. The reason is that this slurp expects to feed the articles directly into PersonalINN rather than caching them in a file. Only in case of errors (innd not running) it caches the articles as "unknownXXXXX" in the articles directory. PersonalINN fetches them later from there. Hope this helps. Bye Uli BTW: if you consider modifying parts of PersonalINN for your purposes and are able to understand German, get yourself the article in NEXTTOYOU which describes all these topics in real detail (it has some 30 pages... ;-) ). -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to allow su? Date: 3 Dec 1996 00:37:05 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <57vsnh$p7o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126074830.14807C-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126074830.14807C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > they must be members of the group "wheel" I always that this was kind of a bad idea. This way, anybody who can su root can also accidently damage and group wheel system files. So... I created a new user, named him "suroot", put him in group "wheel", and set his login shell to be "/bin/su". Then I made myself an alias: alias sur "su - suroot" Now I don't have to be in group wheel in order to su root. Robert -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory ---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: File system (disk) error Message-ID: <E1t5AA.Kuu@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:32:34 GMT I have a black NeXT. Recently I'm experiencing a disk error. When I do dump backup and do fsck, I got "media error, retry...". The disk I'm talking about is the /dev/rsd0a, the system disk, a Maxtor 660MB. I just wonder if this error is significant and if the backup is usable. Thanks for any help.
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Change NetInfo clone to master? Date: 2 Dec 1996 23:59:55 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <580fkr$r61@Venus.mcs.net> I cloned my boot drive onto another so that I could put it into another station, but after I changed the hostname of the new station in /etc/hostconfig (and added it into NetInfo, and moved the serves directory contents from the old hostname to the new hostname in NetInfo), the new station not only seems to boot more slowly, but won't let me edit NetInfo with NetInfoManager.app anymore, which I have presumed is a symptom of a mangled configuration due to the computer's thinking it's a clone server. The question is, then, can I use the GUI tools to fix this situation and cause the computer to think it's really the master? Is there a place which can be edited easily that determines who's the master and who's the clone? (The old station and the new station won't be on the same network, either.) Or will I have to do this via the shell? Thanks for any tips. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: petcher@howdy.wustl.edu (Donald N. Petcher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI disk insists it is scsi id 3? Date: 2 Dec 1996 23:40:25 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA Message-ID: <57vpd9$lc5@newsreader.wustl.edu> I recently bought an IBM 2 Gb Ultrastar hard disk which I hooked up to my Next slab. It appears that the disk insists on being scsi id 3 no matter how I set the external switch. Symptoms are that when it is in a chain along with an MO (that also apparently insists it is scsi id 3 no matter how I set the dip switches) there is a conflict and the Ultrastar is not recognized. When I hooked it up to another slab and set it to id 0 to try to boot from it, it refused. I can't remember now what the log message was (only tried this once), but I have the impression that it had something to do with id 3. Is there some setting that would make the disk act like this? (Perhaps with my MO also?) I thought that when NeXTstep ran across conflicting scsi ids, it should happily assign them successive id numbers. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Don
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961202141650.006672b0@istsan.interbusiness.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 15:16:50 +0100 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Subject: Keyboards on OPENSTEP 4.0 Hello I have installed OPENSTEP 4.0 On the RELASE NOTES manual I read: All the NeXT* keymaps now support Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown... I tried italian, NeXTItalian, NeXTClassicItalian Keyboards but these keys don't work. Any help anyone can offer is appreciated. Thanks ************************************************************************ * Zanitti Leo * * Viale Regina Elena, 299 * * I-00161 ROME * * * * E-Mail: zleo@istsan.interbusiness.it * * * * TEL +39 6 82.09.70.77 * * TEL +39 6 49.90.24.10 * ************************************************************************
From: Wiesel <wiesel@next1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS-Config to work with terminalserver Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:18:24 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961203111047.4197A-100000@next1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to know how to config NS 3.3 in order to work with a terminal server. For instance connecting from the terminalserver by telnet makes it impossible to enter enter the names/passwords because return is not recognised. Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: transparent color showing as white??? Date: 3 Dec 1996 01:32:25 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <57vvv9$hu2@news.tamu.edu> I'm having a strange problem here. On my NS system at home I created a tiff of our university logo with with a transparent background using ToyViewer. When I uploaded the tiff to the NS system in our department, the same tiff always shows up with a white background instead of a transparent one. Different viewers, (OmniImage, ToyViewer, ..) all confirm that the image does contain alpha stuff. I tried replacing the originally white background with transparent one on the campus computers, but that would help either. We have several NS computer networked together there. This wouldn't display properly on any of them. I was suspecting that there might be some program installed on the system which is incorrectly filtering these tiffs and changing the transparent background to white. Anybody know of a program that would do this? We have OmniImage, ToyViewer2.4E, GifOMatic, FastView installed. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, since a deadline is looming large! 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: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 3 Dec 1996 04:38:01 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <580ar9$krb@nntp1.best.com> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <57uhbj$m1o@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Dec2105546@slave.one.net> In-Reply-To: <SHESS.96Dec2105546@slave.one.net> Scott Hess wrote: > 2) There can be significant performance differences between > different zones on the disk. The outermost tracks on the disk > offer the fastest sustained transfer rates. Try to create the > partition holding the swapfile on the outermost tracks of the disk > (I don't remember if this corresponds to low numbered tracks or > high numbered tracks off the top of my head though - sorry.) > >No need for it to corrospond to any particular set of tracks, since >SCSI will take care of the mapping. [Put another way - you probably >can't say "The low-numbered tracks are faster" with any degree of >generality.] SCSI handles the mapping between logical sector address and tracks but there is still a logical progression of how this is done. SCSI disks are made up of one or more physical platters, each platter has 2 usable surfaces, each surface is divided into concentric tracks (further subdivided into sectors.) A "cylinder" refers to all the tracks in the same relative position on the various platters. Usually available sectors are assigned sequentially within cylinders. e.g. If you have a drive with 2 surfaces (1 platter), sectors are assigned sequentially from track 0 on surface 0 then track 0 on surface 1 before going back and using track 1 on surface 0 and then track 1 on surface 1 (and then track 2 on surface 0 and then track 2 on surface 1 etc.) Why? Because each surface has it's own read/write head and it's faster to switch between which head is active than it is to reposition the head on a different track so it makes sense to assign sectors in this manner. So although SCSI handles the sector to physical location mapping it is done in such a way usually that sequential sectors ARE located in the same zone of the disk. >Beyond that, keep in mind the seek times. Fast sustained transfer >rates aren't much good if you have to seek alot. If you're using >memory, then some pages will be sent to the swap file, and others will >be dropped, to be swapped in directly from the original file (this is >how executables work). Excellent point and something which is easy to forget. >So you could seek out to the swapfile to swap >in some data, seek to the system partition to swap in pages of an >executable, seek back out to the swap ... of course, that's not a >problem if you're swapping on a different spindle (ie, disk) than your >system files are on. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXTstep on Sun Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1upBD.J7D@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 18:42:49 GMT References: <581cah$ft9@uni2f.unige.ch> Organization: University of Waterloo Keywords: Sun, NeXTstep In article <581cah$ft9@uni2f.unige.ch>, <moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch> wrote: >Hi all > > >Can anybody tell me on which sun platforms (UltraSPARC-I, UltraSPARC-II, SuperSPARC-I, SuperSPARC-II, microSPARC-I, microSPARC-II, microSPARC-IIep) NeXTstep runs? > SuperSPARC and microSPARC-II are the only supported platforms for NeXTSTEP or OS/Mach. I don't know about SuperSPARC-II and microSPARC-I. I know that it doesn't work on any UltraSPARC or HyperSPARC platforms. -- 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: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 problems Date: 3 Dec 1996 17:04:03 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <581mi3$pn9@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <57fctt$grm@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <57fctt$grm@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> On 11/26/96, David Bruce wrote: > I have an ATI Mach64 card while my Matrox is being sent back to the mfgr. > When booting it complains about (from /usr/adm/messages): > I/O Ports: Couldn't reserve range 000062ec-000062ef > Configuredriver: Could not allocate resources for class ati > and complains about IOProbeDriver not finding something (this flys by as > the system boots...probably the driver but it seems to be there from my > perspective). It then registers good ol' b&w VGA. > I've got the latest ATI driver, 3.37 and the card works fine in w95. > I have a similar problem with a machine I have just installed which has a Mach64 build onto the motherboard. I note from NeXTAnswers http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1735.htmld/1735.html "The Mach64 driver makes use of the board's BIOS to switch modes. This requires the user to set up the display adapter as specified in the documentation supplied by ATI. This will usually require running a setup utility. Until this is done, not all supported display modes will be available." I wonder if this might be the problem, and if so what is the magical incantation one must perform to set up the display adapter? Unfortunately the only documentation I have is on a CD-ROM and refers only to Windows... Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede) Subject: Re: transparent color showing as white??? Message-ID: <E1upCB.DCo@interpc.de> Sender: usenet@interpc.de Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH References: <57vvv9$hu2@news.tamu.edu> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 18:43:23 GMT Hanspeter Schaub writes > I'm having a strange problem here. On my NS system at home I created a tiff > of our university logo with with a transparent background using ToyViewer. > When I uploaded the tiff to the NS system in our department, the same tiff > always shows up with a white background instead of a transparent one. > Different viewers, (OmniImage, ToyViewer, ..) all confirm that the image > does contain alpha stuff. Only because a file has an alpha plane, doesn't mean that it really uses it! Probably you still have a problem with your original image. Which app did you use to create it? so long, jens
From: zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols,ppp Subject: ??? ppp2.2 <-> worldnet.att.net Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 20:27:27 -0500 Organization: @univ Message-ID: <32A4D37F.C3E@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has any one tried to connect an unix box, sun, linux, nextstep or other unixes, to worldnet.att.net using ppp 2.2 (unix)? The original dial-up package is for win95, I have managed to make it work for winNT, since they are essentially the same for dynamic-PPP connection. The configuration of encryption is not specially for MS. But, the login name defined in the package is ([0-9])*@worldnet.att.net where ([0-9])* is a string of 9 digits in [0-9]. This is very wiered. If you have made your unix box connect to worldnet.att.net using ppp2.2, may I know: 1. what is your operating system; 2. what is your modem; 3. what is your dial-out sw, tip or kermit; 4. what is your login-connect script an etc. ??? Thanks in advance, ZiZi
From: matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.app crashes opening 12meg mbox Date: 3 Dec 1996 17:37:23 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Message-ID: <581ogj$n4b@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: mail mbox size limits Running NS 3.3 Intel, get a "caught signal 11" error every time Mail.app tries to open a 12 meg Outgoing.mbox file. Mail.app immediately quits. Any hints? -- Geoffrey Matthews matthews@cs.wwu.edu voice:360-650-3797 fax:360-650-7788
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: transparent color showing as white??? Date: 3 Dec 1996 20:40:21 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <58237l$ku@news.tamu.edu> References: <57vvv9$hu2@news.tamu.edu> <E1upCB.DCo@interpc.de> In-Reply-To: <E1upCB.DCo@interpc.de> Turns out the problem has to do with what color resolution the systems are running. At home I am working in 16 bit color and the campus computers are mostly in 8 bit color. Creating transparent backgrounds while working on an 8 bit system also doesn't seem to work. I tried doing this using ToyViewer and GifOMatic. Anybody have any luck making transparent backgrounds on an 8 bit system? I'd rather not have to reboot the campus computer into a lower resolution (but 16 bit color) just to print my slides... HP -- Hanspeter Schaub Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant Aerospace Engineering Department Texas A&M University http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome) We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY! -Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 problems Date: 3 Dec 1996 13:18:30 -0800 Organization: Aimnet Corporation Message-ID: <5825f6$h4a@shell1.aimnet.com> References: <57fctt$grm@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> <581mi3$pn9@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In article <581mi3$pn9@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> wrote: > >I note from NeXTAnswers > http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1735.htmld/1735.html > >"The Mach64 driver makes use of the board's BIOS to switch modes. This >requires the user to set up the display adapter as specified in the >documentation supplied by ATI. This will usually require running a setup >utility. Until this is done, not all supported display modes will be >available." > >I wonder if this might be the problem, and if so what is the magical >incantation one must perform to set up the display adapter? Unfortunately >the only documentation I have is on a CD-ROM and refers only to Windows... ATI ships the card with a utility that you run to configure the display mode. If yours is built into your motherboard, you may not have received this utility. If that's the case, bitch to whoever made the motherboard. You might be able to download the utility from ATI--http://www.atitech.ca Lusty
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: reusing an old boot HD / adaptec 2940AU Date: 3 Dec 96 12:11:17 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec3121117@slave.one.net> References: <57ptpo$s9v@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In-reply-to: mmalcolm crawford's message of 30 Nov 1996 18:18:32 GMT In article <57ptpo$s9v@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> writes: 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? If the disk was NeXTSTEP formatted, with no fdisk partitioning, I'm pretty sure it should work without reformatting. I've moved disks between a DPT EISA and an NCR 810 PCI system, no problem. The PCI controller even handles a disk from a NeXT machine that I needed to read some stuff from. Note that you probably _won't_ be able to boot from the old disk, at least not without some hacking to the device configurations. Or perhaps with config=Default (I doubt it, as it still needs to talk to the SCSI card). The disk I mentioned above was manually hacked so that I could dual-boot it without having to reinstall. I did have another disk I was booting from at the time, though! 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? Did you mean "unrelated", or did you mean "related"? If you can't even install to the disk, that's a problem :-). I'd take the disk off the SCSI chain and scratch up a blank (or at least nukable) disk, and try installing on that. If that doesn't work, as a double-check try to install some other OS, like NT, or Linux. Or, heck, boot up a DOS floppy with the appropriate drivers, and try to format the blank disk. If you can't find the disk from DOS, it's probably not a software problem. If you can talk to the disk in DOS, but not in NeXTSTEP, Linux, or NT, then I'd suspect a termination problem. If you can talk to the disk in Linux or NT but not NeXTSTEP, then it's probably a NeXTSTEP driver or configuration problem. 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: alk <alk@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Novice Q: Recovering hacked system Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:57:00 -0600 Organization: MEANS Message-ID: <32A4B03C.59E2B600@pobox.com> References: <57ut84$br6@uni2f.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm an old Unix hand, but have no NetInfo experience. A NeXTStep 3.2 system of my acquaintance has been hacked and the root password changed. If I boot single-user, how can I reset the root password in NetInfo?
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Postscript converter (for non-PS printer) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:15:49 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.961203071504.315B-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm running NS3.3 for Intel and am about to purchase a color inkjet like an HP 870. I print a lot of TeX file with embedded postscript images. Since the HP870 (and most other affordable printers) don't do postscript, can I work around this? Any other printer suggestions? Thanks. Robert Jacobs
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstep on Sun Date: 3 Dec 1996 14:09:21 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <581cah$ft9@uni2f.unige.ch> Keywords: Sun, NeXTstep Hi all Can anybody tell me on which sun platforms (UltraSPARC-I, UltraSPARC-II, SuperSPARC-I, SuperSPARC-II, microSPARC-I, microSPARC-II, microSPARC-IIep) NeXTstep runs? Thanks Phil
From: rudy (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: transparent color showing as white??? Date: 3 Dec 1996 14:36:34 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <581dti$95h@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <57vvv9$hu2@news.tamu.edu> Cc: schaub@tamu.edu In <57vvv9$hu2@news.tamu.edu> Hanspeter Schaub wrote: > I'm having a strange problem here. On my NS system at home I created a tiff > of our university logo with with a transparent background using ToyViewer. > When I uploaded the tiff to the NS system in our department, the same tiff > always shows up with a white background instead of a transparent one. > Different viewers, (OmniImage, ToyViewer, ..) all confirm that the image > does contain alpha stuff. I tried replacing the originally white background > with transparent one on the campus computers, but that would help either. > AFAIK ToyViever show transparent color as white, but treats it as transparent. Or did you mean that you open a webpage in OmniWeb and the background is white there? I didn't have problem like that. Maybe some filtering service that doesn's support transparent colors is used in OmniWeb because of the way you installed it? Not sure how to fix, other than removing any apps/services other than you want. Good luck, Rudy -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: mjs@softnc.com (Mike Sorensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT 17" to PC 15-pin VGA adapter. Pointers? Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 05:43:48 GMT Organization: Zip News Message-ID: <32a3bd8b.4592738@snews2.zippo.com> I have a nice lookin 17" monitor here for a NeXT color workstation and have heard that I can get an adapter to hook it up to PC's. Can anyone refer me to a supplier? Thanks. mjs@softnc.com
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Re: Update from CNews to PersonalINN??? Date: 5 Dec 1996 12:13:05 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Message-ID: <586e8h$8hn@news1.isdnet.net> References: <57vbf5$odu@news1.isdnet.net> <57vrpu$tp@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> you wrote (I don't know about non-UUCP posting in > CNews - what does it use for that?). Nothing! (We can say that, since the available option 'nntpxfer' is not possible when you have not a fixed IP -- and most provider won't allow xfer anyway...) That's why I tried before to use 'rpost' but until your package it was not available in the NeXT world (strange!! Am I the only one who needs it???) I tried in vain to compile it but failed because of posix... Since I think your version of 'rpost' is compiled wih INN in mind (or at least the script. is done that way..), could you be kind enough to publish the source for the poor souls needing it for CNews? [I -for the moment- use the beta of HNNews to post this. Interesting but still very buggy!] > > The biggest differences will probably lie in the future - PersonalINN will be > manageable via a GUI and will be integrated with GateKeeper, a mail picture > mechanism and other internet related apps to form a complete "internet > package" - but that will still take some time. Very interesting! Gatekeeper is GREAT! What is "a mail picture mechanism "? > > Configuring shouldn't be too much of a hassle with PersonalINN (I hope ;-) ). > The bigger problem would be to remove CNews. Unfortunately, CNews uses > binaries and configuration entries quite incompatible with PersonalINN and > doesn't deinstall itself completely. Hummm... I think it's easy to deinstall CNews! Anyway I already installed your INN package (without modifyin' critical files) so real install could be one step away... The most important reason I won't do it for now is that all the configuration files are in German... so I'm not able to understand them... (maybe we could find the english ones in the original package?). Since English is the langage of this planet (not my native language as it shows!) why not include them... > > Hasn't CNews exactly the same format for the articles itself (i.e. each > article in an ASCII file with a number as name)? Then it should be no problem > to just rename your old directories so that they are "safe" when PersonalINN > installs and move the article files and the active file into their new places > afterwards. Make sure to do this as user news! You will loose the overview > files, however, and will have to rebuild them (see the manpages). So I guess the only thing to do is move the 'news' hierarchy from 'usr/spool/news' to 'usr/spool/news/articles'... And launch a program to create new overview files. And move the similar files in their new place. 'active' and other files of the same name should stay the same (?). What about same file with different names. I'll have a look on the english files when I get them. And anyway CNews is also very "touchy" when it comes to ownership... and more complicated since it's not always 'news/news'! Since many NeXT users still use CNews you _should_ explain the procedure in your package! =;) I'm willing to help... CNews seems to be a thing of the past now (there's not much discussion about it in 'news.software.nntp'!). And we don't want NeXTstep (wording and spelling intented) to be a thing of the past... (we already have bsd and sendmail from the last decade!). > Well, this means that your spoolfile (the file named SPOOLFILE in the > post-news script) is > a) empty ;-)) > b) not in the path specified as OUTGOING in post-news > c) not in the format > "/path/to/the/article/relative/to/the/articles-dir. message-ID" > Note that this format is DIFFERENT to the one used by UUCP! > All the three are OK... I think I'll switch sometime... Michel Coste
From: rog@ohm.york.ac.uk (Roger Peppe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: 5 Dec 1996 13:29:37 GMT Organization: Department of Electronics, University of York, UK. Message-ID: <586io1$8f@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> On 4 Dec 1996 23:32:36 GMT, Hugues RICHARD <hugues@precipice.fdn.fr> wrote: > Uli Zappe wrote: (quoting Art Isbell) > > > find . -type f -print | xargs egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' > Well, there's a more direct way of doing this within find : > > find . -type f -exec egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' {} \; -print but very slow, as it starts up an instance of egrep for every file. that's why xargs was invented. rog.
From: "·¨©s¾Ë" <batmon@abico.com.tw> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Another question with PCNFD... Date: 4 Dec 1996 04:42:40 GMT Organization: ¨Î¯à¥ø·~ Message-ID: <01bbe19d$edd51360$39ee45cb@abico.com.tw> I have run the "rpc.pcnfsd" under "/usr/etc/" and the Windows 95 with ICE.NFS application can find the NeXT Server now. However, when I try to access one of the directory under NeXT, it ask me for the username and the password. I use the username I use to get into NeXT but it doesn't work. I even try to use the username "me" and it still won't let me access the NeXT Server. Do I have to make another username and password list for PCNFSD, and how should I do that?? Please Help!! Thank you. Best Regards, batmon@abico.com.tw
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gcc 2.7.2.* and OPENSTEP Date: 5 Dec 96 09:06:03 EST Organization: Univ of Miami IR Distribution: world Message-ID: <1996Dec5.090603@umiami> References: <3290712A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> <56qcq2$d8v@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> I have the old f77 from Absoft which runs fine on my 3.2 system (Intel). I can compile without error on my new OpenStep 4.0 Intel system but when I run the binary, I get "bus error". Binaries compiled on the 3.2 system run fine on 4.0 though. Just thought I would mention this in case it has some bearing on the issue. Thomas J. Herbert University of Miami therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu In article <56qcq2$d8v@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>, dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) writes: > 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: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help setting up black as router! Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 09:40:54 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023280000512960940540001@news.tiac.net> References: <ukvenh6duzm.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I run a black slab as a gateway/router for a bunch of Macs with few problems. But ... 1. The 192.42.172.X IP addresses were assigned to NeXT, and are apparently intended for private networks (the available addresses will hardly handle all the NeXT customers). 2. I think fugue will find that System A is actually sending its traffic to System C as 128.135.232.86, and that System C has 128.135.232.86 stored in its routing tables as the path to System A. I expect that System C is (properly) ignoring all responses to 192.42.172.X, since those addresses are not (and shouldn't be) in the System C routing tables. 3. Our setup has a three bit subnet assigned by the ISP, with static IPs assigned to the NeXT and the Macs. Another, quite different, static IP is assigned to the PPP interface by the ISP. I expect this interface is shown as the proper route for the machine's IPs. (I haven't exercised dig on the ISP's routing tables yet.) 4. The NeXT has the names, IPs and ethernet addresses for the entire subnet stored on the root level of a two level netinfo hierarchy. The Macs have the NeXT identified as their gateway in MacTCP or OT. Either the NeXT or a Mac can bring up the PPP link and exchange traffic with the Internet. (The Mac routing info has to be changed, of course). Only the NeXT can gateway traffic for the other machines. It also provides anonymous FTP and WWW service. 5. The domain mail is MXed to a POP mailbox, from which we periodically download traffic with popOver, distributing it to the /usr/spool/mail/username with fromail and procmail. The Mac users then retrieve their mail with Eudora via POP. It all works fairly well, though I'm still adjusting the procmailrc, and we do get a few dropouts per week on the ppp connection. Gatekeeper eventually catches and repairs these. The preferred approach would be for the NeXT to proxy telnet, http, ftp and other desired non-mail services for the Macs, eliminating the need (and extra charges) for the subnet. That's the next project on the list, so I can route my Mac thru my NeXT without switching the setup ;-). Barney
From: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help setting up black as router! Date: 5 Dec 1996 14:40:32 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <586mt0$s90@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <c47cc$12352b.37a@nmb-news> In article <c47cc$12352b.37a@nmb-news> Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> writes: Check your routing tables on the NeXT. You should have a default route to the C machine. I have the situation set up at my location with a Mac on an Ethernet segment to my Black hardware which is ppp'd to a terminal server Addresses are Mac: 160.91.216.3 NeXT: 160.91.216.2 TermServer: 160.91.80.252 This is what I get with netstat -rn Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 2174 lo0 160.91.216.2 127.0.0.1 UH 1 72 lo0 160.91.80.252 160.91.216.2 UH 0 0 ppp0 default 160.91.80.252 UG 1 818 ppp0 160.91.216 160.91.216.2 U 4 4301 en0 > On Wed, Dec 4, 1996,6:28 PM fugue wrote: > : Hi all... > : Ok. Let me see if I can lay this out as simply as possible. First, some > : specs: > : > : System A: > : Black mono '040 running 3.2, ppp 2.2, Gatekeeper, gated, 14.4K modem > : > : System B: > : Black mono '040 running 3.0 > : > : System C: > : HP 9000/715 running HP-UX 9.0.7, iij-ppp > : > : > : 192.42.172.2 192.42.172.1 128.135.232.155 > : ----- ----- ----- > : | B +-----10^2----->+ A +----PPP------->+ C | > : ----- ----- ----- > : 128.135.232.86 > : > : System B is connected to System A via 10^2 (ThinNet) > : System A is connected to System C via a PPP connection > : System C is connected via FDDI to the Internet. > : > : System B has an IP of 192.42.172.2 on en0 > : System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1 on en0 > : System A has a static IP of 128.135.232.86 assigned to the PPP connection. > : System C has a static IP of 128.135.232.155 on en0. > : System C recognizes that System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1, and routes all > : packets correctly between A and the rest of the Net. > : > : What I'd like to do is figure out how to get packets routed THROUGH A to > : B correctly. Right now, it appears as though B is capable of sending packets > : OUT to the net (e.g., a ping to the 128.135 subnet makes it out to C), but > : the packets never come back. > : > : System B uses system A (192.42.172.1) as its gateway. > : > : As I understand it, this is a sticky point with this type of setup, and > : searching through various FAQs, archives, and DejaNews hasn't helped much. > : I have installed gated on System A, but am unsure how to proceed. > : > End of excerpt from fugue. > > I'm trying to do a similiar setup here, the only real difference is I have an > Zylogics Annex instead of the HP as System C and more than one machine behind > System A. > > One thing I thought was causing the problem early on was the fact that the > Annex was only routing packets for the IP it knew about on the connection. > That meant that System A could see the whole subnet and the outside net, but > nobody on either side saw beyond System A. This was because the Annex looked > at the IP and ignored it if the packet wasn't for System A. > > Changing this wasn't easy, but it also didn't fix the problem. You might check > this, maybe you are closer than I am to the solution. If you find a solution, > please pass it along as I would find it useful. > > Erik > > -- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Re: Help setting up black as router! Message-ID: <c47cc$12352b.37a@nmb-news> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 96 18:55:59 PST To: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Wed, Dec 4, 1996,6:28 PM fugue wrote: : Hi all... : Ok. Let me see if I can lay this out as simply as possible. First, some : specs: : : System A: : Black mono '040 running 3.2, ppp 2.2, Gatekeeper, gated, 14.4K modem : : System B: : Black mono '040 running 3.0 : : System C: : HP 9000/715 running HP-UX 9.0.7, iij-ppp : : : 192.42.172.2 192.42.172.1 128.135.232.155 : ----- ----- ----- : | B +-----10^2----->+ A +----PPP------->+ C | : ----- ----- ----- : 128.135.232.86 : : System B is connected to System A via 10^2 (ThinNet) : System A is connected to System C via a PPP connection : System C is connected via FDDI to the Internet. : : System B has an IP of 192.42.172.2 on en0 : System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1 on en0 : System A has a static IP of 128.135.232.86 assigned to the PPP connection. : System C has a static IP of 128.135.232.155 on en0. : System C recognizes that System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1, and routes all : packets correctly between A and the rest of the Net. : : What I'd like to do is figure out how to get packets routed THROUGH A to : B correctly. Right now, it appears as though B is capable of sending packets : OUT to the net (e.g., a ping to the 128.135 subnet makes it out to C), but : the packets never come back. : : System B uses system A (192.42.172.1) as its gateway. : : As I understand it, this is a sticky point with this type of setup, and : searching through various FAQs, archives, and DejaNews hasn't helped much. : I have installed gated on System A, but am unsure how to proceed. : End of excerpt from fugue. I'm trying to do a similiar setup here, the only real difference is I have an Zylogics Annex instead of the HP as System C and more than one machine behind System A. One thing I thought was causing the problem early on was the fact that the Annex was only routing packets for the IP it knew about on the connection. That meant that System A could see the whole subnet and the outside net, but nobody on either side saw beyond System A. This was because the Annex looked at the IP and ignored it if the packet wasn't for System A. Changing this wasn't easy, but it also didn't fix the problem. You might check this, maybe you are closer than I am to the solution. If you find a solution, please pass it along as I would find it useful. Erik
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: 5 Dec 1996 03:06:59 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <585e8j$rsp@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57kelf$poc@saturn.genoa.com> <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) wrote: > Uli Zappe wrote: (quoting Art Isbell) > > > > find . -type f -print | xargs egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' > > > If rootDirectoryForFind contains many files, the resulting > > > egrep command might exceed the maximum UNIX command length. > > Well, there's a more direct way of doing this within find : > > find . -type f -exec egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' {} \; -print The problem with using -exec is that an egrep process is spawned for every file found which is much slower than using xargs which spawns only a single egrep process. Well, I learned that xargs will break up long argument lists, so several egrep processes might be spawned, but not nearly as many as using -exec. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: jrm@chow.mat.jhu.edu (James Martino) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can I select a hostfile as the single source for sendmail lookup? Date: 5 Dec 1996 15:26:33 GMT Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Message-ID: <586pj9$gn5@news.jhu.edu> References: <E1HnpB.LoA@news.interactive.net> In article <E1HnpB.LoA@news.interactive.net> Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> writes: >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 Matt, You have options. One way is to add the nocanonify feature. I believe that your ISP's machine will resolve the queued mail there. This is what I do. I use smtp for outgoing, uucp for incoming. If you want to use uucp for outgoing, you can upgrade sendmail to at least version 8.7.x. Then you will be able to defer all DNS lookups until you're ready to deliver. You could specify your ISP as a smarthost using the uucp-dom mailer (you need to put mailer(smtp) back in your sendmail.mc) and also define the delivery mode as `d'. This will defer all DNS lookups (looks-up?) until the mail is ready to roll. One minor wrinkle this has is that you need to run your sendmail queue after recieving mail while your link is still up; lookups for mail coming in by uucp are deferred too until the mail queue runs. I'm no expert, but this is how things worked for me (debian linux 1.1, sendmail 8.7.x). I hope this is reasonably correct and of some help. Jim -- Jim Martino purinac@chow.mat.jhu.edu
From: mjs@softnc.com (Mike Sorensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Has anyone *successfully* hooked a NeXT 400 printer up to a PC? Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 06:08:43 GMT Organization: Zip News Message-ID: <32a665dc.3538696@snews2.zippo.com> I have Win95 Adobe drivers for the NeXT 400 laser printer and am curious about hooking it up to a PC I have on hand. Any comments?
From: az070@lafn.org (Bernard Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: installation of libg++ on nextstep 3.2 Date: 5 Dec 1996 16:21:42 GMT Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net Message-ID: <586sqm$qo1@zook.lafn.org> I am trying to upgrade the developer tools on v3.2. libg++-2.7.2 won't compile, with bus errors resulting (see below). The problem may be related to having installed the latest gnu malloc. Is this program possible? -- Bernard Mueller az070@lafn.org NeXTStep m68k v3.2 ----------------------------------------------------------- Configuring in ./libio Created "Makefile" in /libg++-2.7.2/libio using "target-mkfrag" make[1]: Entering directory `/libg++-2.7.2/libiberty' make[2]: Entering directory `/libg++-2.7.2/libiberty' rm -rf libiberty.a ar rc libiberty.a \ argv.o basename.o choose-temp.o concat.o cplus-dem.o fdmatch.o getopt.o getopt1.o getruntime.o hex.o floatformat.o obstack.o spaces.o strerror.o strsignal.o vasprintf.o xatexit.o xexit.o xmalloc.o xstrdup.o xstrerror.o getcwd.o strdup.o waitpid.o ranlib libiberty.a make[2]: Leaving directory `/libg++-2.7.2/libiberty' make[1]: Leaving directory `/libg++-2.7.2/libiberty' make[1]: Entering directory `/libg++-2.7.2/libio' if [ -n "" ] && [ ! -d pic ]; then \ mkdir pic; \ else true; fi touch stamp-picdir rootme=`pwd`/ ; export rootme; \ CC="gcc"; export CC; \ CXX="gcc -nostdinc++ -g -O2"; export CXX; \ CONFIG_NM="nm"; export CONFIG_NM; \ /bin/sh ./gen-params LIB_VERSION=2.7.2 >tmp-params.h /gen-params: 3087 Bus error /gen-params: 3089 Bus error /gen-params: 3091 Bus error /gen-params: 3093 Bus error ^C make[1]: *** [_G_config.h] Error 130 make[1]: Leaving directory `/libg++-2.7.2/libio' make: *** [all-target-libio] Error 2 myhost:33#
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap configuration Date: 5 Dec 96 10:59:16 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec5105916@slave.one.net> References: <57a5od$9g@sidney.cps.msu.edu> <57a8oe$5k8@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Nov25092148@howard.one.net> <57t4tu$6ms@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <57uhbj$m1o@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.96Dec2105546@slave.one.net> <580ar9$krb@nntp1.best.com> In-reply-to: cwolf@wolfware.com's message of 3 Dec 1996 04:38:01 GMT In article <580ar9$krb@nntp1.best.com>, cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) writes: Scott Hess wrote: > 2) There can be significant performance differences between > different zones on the disk. The outermost tracks on the disk > offer the fastest sustained transfer rates. > >No need for it to corrospond to any particular set of tracks, >since SCSI will take care of the mapping. [Put another way - you >probably can't say "The low-numbered tracks are faster" with any >degree of generality.] SCSI handles the mapping between logical sector address and tracks but there is still a logical progression of how this is done. <explaination snipped> The take-home point, though, is that you can't say "sector 0 is on the innermost track" with any certainty. You _can_ trust SCSI to be logical - you won't find adjacent sectors on wildly varying positions on the disk. The only way to tell for certain, though, which tracks of the disk have the fastest sustained transfer rate would be to use a program which actual streamed from different zones of the disk and told you how fast they were. [Specifically, though I've not yet put forth the effort to "prove" it, I suspect that sector 0 may very well be on an outermost track on some SCSI disks. Think about it, DOS FAT filesystem is "stupid" in that it allocates starting at 0 and moving onward. Though FAT is certainly not something to envy, it _is_ probably the single most common filesystem out there, even on SCSI disks. So if the disk vendor were to arrange disks so sector 0 is on an outermost track, it will make the disk appear faster under DOS, with no real expense on the part of the vendor.] 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: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Warning: Potential *nasty* bug in OpenWrite (Was: Trojan Horse or Bug?) Date: 5 Dec 96 09:50:15 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: world Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec5095015@slave.one.net> References: <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu> In-reply-to: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu's message of 5 Dec 1996 06:54:00 GMT In article <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu>, giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) writes: Another piece of evidence is that I did a complete text search of the *entire* hard drive for "/bin/rm -rf" and OpenWrite *does* contain that string (and not many other apps do). The last nail is the following, posted earlier by Christopher Wolf in c.s.n.bugs: >There is a bug in OpenWrite having to do with renaming a chapter >in a book which will wipe out all the files in your home >directory. A coworker of mine was bitten by it just a couple of >weeks ago. Sounds like this may have happened to you. Boy, that is _truly_ scary. Using system() or popen() to execute simple informative commands like "hostinfo" is bad enough. Using it to execute destructive commands is pretty bad - unforgivable in a program you're going to distribute. It's not like unlink() and rmdir() are really _that_ tough to use. Recursive directory deletion using kernel calls is certainly not a walk in the park, but I've written it enough times that I know it's about eight orders of magnitude simpler than a word processor :-). OTOH, OpenWrite was not written at Lighthouse, so fortunately this doesn't implicate other programs they've written. 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: root@nxs.math.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS Problems Date: 5 Dec 1996 18:11:35 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <58738n$2k34@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <57v675$fcg@yakko.cs.rose-hulman.edu> In article <57v675$fcg@yakko.cs.rose-hulman.edu> mgrcnk@mailhost.rose-hulman.edu (Christopher N. King) writes: > ... > Anyways, I want to be able to run NIS without having a NetInfo server. > Does anyone know what I did wrong, or better yet, have a cookbook list > as to how to get a NeXT running YP. I've got to be missing something, > I just don't know what. > I setup a small network of 10 NeXTstations and a NeXTcube into an existing NIS domain without any trouble, both with and without a NetInfo network. I don't reall doing anything special other than specifying the NIS domain name in SimpleNetworkStarter when I first configured each machine, and adding the "+:" magic cookie to /etc/group and /etc/passwd. I use NIS only for managing the user accounts (which are all NFS mounted off a Sun) and use NetInfo for everything else. I was going to avoid using NetInfo all together since nobody else here is very familiar with it, but it turned out to be a LOT easier to administer the machines using NetInfo than NIS and I didn't have to teach them much to get by. Integrating NetInfo into NIS is quite doable. BTW - I'm using NS 3.0. - Gareth Gareth Bestor Mathematics Department University of Wisconsin-Madison bestor@cs.wisc.edu
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: CAP60pl198 on NEXTSTEP Followup-To: poster Date: 5 Dec 1996 17:40:42 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5871eq$hl1@hpax.cup.hp.com> Summary: CAP60pl198 works Here's part of a message I posted to comp.protocols.appletalk a couple of days ago. This is on black hardware. >I just found out that CAP60 patch level 198 supports native >ethertalk for NEXTSTEP along with a modified version of bpf >(.25beta3) at ftp://ftp.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp/pub/adachi. >Everything works, but transfers are very very slow. The >Appletalk transfer icon to the left of the Apple menu comes on >and off frequently. A 60K file transfers in 30 seconds or so. I've subsequently found that there's no delay between a send and its corresponding done transaction when I run aufs with the "-a all" option, but there is a delay between each send/done transaction pair. Ultimately, I decided to fire off some email and here's the answer from Yoshiaki Suzuki (I'll paraphrase): Communication to/from PowerMacs are slow in general, but performance will improve dramatically if you define TREL_TIMEOUT in m4.features. I did and it takes 20 seconds to transfer a 3MB file. So far, CAP looks very promising and I may be able to chuck IPT's uShare/Partner because there are some serious deficiencies with IPT's solution and it doesn't help that they haven't updated the NeXT product in over 3 years. More testing tonight; expect a final posting along with some datapoints in a few days. My sincere thanks to Suzuki-san. Regards, Ken
From: schatt@scf.usc.edu (Drew Schatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q]: What do I need to do to get my cube and slab to boot? Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 11:19:20 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: schatt@comserv-e-03.usc.edu Message-ID: <schatt-ya023280000512961119200001@nnrp.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi everyone- I recently got a cube for $20 (no hd or ram) and a slab for around 200 (both mono and 25 mhz). However, I am having boot problems at startup, and I know that this isn't a hardware problem but solely configuration problem. Sadly, I don't have the install cd, so I can't just reinstall the system on these machines. They are both running 3.1, and both appear to hang in the boot process right after network_init loads. The last 2 lines on the screen are: >Starting RPC and network services: nmserver portmapadd bet default: gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx >Dec 5 xx xx cube netmsgserver[56]: network_init After that, the machine just hangs. No disk accesses, or anything. They both boot into single user fine, so anything that needs to (and can be) done from the command line I can do. I took a look at the hostconfig, and it seems fine to me, but these are the first NeXTs I've ever dealt with, so I may not be the best person to ask about that. If you have any ideas as to what I should do, please e-mail me, or if you know of any resources for the proper configuration (web pages, books, etc....) please tell me what they are. I would prefer e-mail, as I don't get a chance to read news as often as I would like. Thanks again for the time.... ---Drew Schatt schatt@scf.usc.edu
From: Steve Hayman <shayman@next.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 14:14:12 -0500 Organization: NeXT Software Canada Message-ID: <32A71F04.6C2C@next.com> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57kelf$poc@saturn.genoa.com> <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> <585e8j$rsp@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to caution all these new fans of xargs to avoid making the mistake I made once. In an effort to write a script that would clean out old files in /tmp, I set up something like this once to run (as root) from crontab every night: find /tmp -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm This is a BAD IDEA. Generally find and xargs work together nicely, but consider what happens in the (unlikely) case that you have a file with a newline in its name. Newlines are legal in Unix file names (the only chars you can't have in a filename are '/' and '\0'). find will write out the filename with the embedded newline, meaning that it is now writing out two consecutive lines rather than one, and xargs will see this single filename as two separate files, and will no doubt do the wrong thing. Perhaps this seems unlikely, but there is nothing to prevent a malicious user from creating a directory under /tmp called "\n". suppose you then create /tmp/\n/etc/passwd. the find command in the above example comes along and writes out what it thinks is one line ... /tmp/\n/etc/passwd and feeds it to "xargs rm", which reads two lines /tmp /etc/passwd and executes "rm /tmp /etc/passwd". whoops. this actually happened to me once. It wasn't a malicious user creating the \n directory - I actually created it myself to test this theory about find and xargs, verified the theory, and then forgot to remove the directory. So for a few days our password file was mysteriously getting removed every night until I remembered the little experiment I'd forgotten to clean up. Be careful with find and xargs! xargs is great, find and xargs together are often very useful, but these weird things can happen if you don't anticipate odd filenames. Some versions of "find" have a "-xargs" built in, and that's one way to avoid this particular problem. Stevea
From: Steve Hayman <shayman@next.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 14:17:09 -0500 Organization: NeXT Software Canada Message-ID: <32A71FB5.506A@next.com> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57kelf$poc@saturn.genoa.com> <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> <585e8j$rsp@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <32A71F04.6C2C@next.com> <32A71F74.54EE@next.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to caution all these new fans of xargs to avoid making the mistake I made once. In an effort to write a script that would clean out old files in /tmp, I set up something like this once to run (as root) from crontab every night: find /tmp -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm This is a BAD IDEA. Generally find and xargs work together nicely, but consider what happens in the (unlikely) case that you have a file with a newline in its name. Newlines are legal in Unix file names (the only chars you can't have in a filename are '/' and '\0'). find will write out the filename with the embedded newline, meaning that it is now writing out two consecutive lines rather than one, and xargs will see this single filename as two separate files, and will no doubt do the wrong thing. Perhaps this seems unlikely, but there is nothing to prevent a malicious user from creating a directory under /tmp called "\n". suppose you then create /tmp/\n/etc/passwd. the find command in the above example comes along and writes out what it thinks is one line ... /tmp/\n/etc/passwd and feeds it to "xargs rm", which reads two lines /tmp /etc/passwd and executes "rm /tmp /etc/passwd". whoops. this actually happened to me once. It wasn't a malicious user creating the \n directory - I actually created it myself to test this theory about find and xargs, verified the theory, and then forgot to remove the directory. So for a few days our password file was mysteriously getting removed every night until I remembered the little experiment I'd forgotten to clean up. Be careful with find and xargs! xargs is great, find and xargs together are often very useful, but these weird things can happen if you don't anticipate odd filenames. Some versions of "find" have a "-xargs" built in, and that's one way to avoid this particular problem. Steve
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From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trojan horse or bug - OpenWrite critical bug ! Date: 5 Dec 1996 22:03:47 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <587gs3$l96@transfer.stratus.com> References: <58706j$a8e@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In article <58706j$a8e@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> writes: > On 12/05/96, Christopher Wolf wrote: > > > There is a bug in OpenWrite having to do with renaming a chapter in a book > > which will wipe out all the files in your home directory. A coworker of > > mine was bitten by it just a couple of weeks ago. Sounds like this may > > have happened to you. > > > WHAT??!! > > I can hardly believe this. > > *If true* (I'd like to see some sort of confirmation) this is appalling... > not so much for the fact that the bug exists (although that such a malicious > bug should exist is bad enough), but rather for the fact that as far as I'm > aware no announcement has been made. > I'm not sure if I should be posting this here, but I think it's rather important that no one else hit this. The last time I posted some helpful info about HP 2-sided printing I got slammed by NeXT tech support. It'll probably happen again here but what the hell... ...have just identified a bug in OpenWrite that can POTENTIALLY delete your home directory...have finally been able to nail down a specific recipe for repeating this problem and it has just been fixed ...anticipate a new release available to all OpenWrite 2.x users will be available by the middle of next week... In the mean time, here is WHAT *NOT* TO DO: - Do NOT rename chapters after importing them into a book. Rename your file BEFORE importing into the book Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cannot write to root NetInfo Date: 5 Dec 1996 22:45:57 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <587jb5$6lj@news.next.com> References: <584m11$3jqu@news.doit.wisc.edu> root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Operator) writes: > I was doing some pretty innocuous host name changes that required > rebooting our NetInfo server. Oh dear! I'm sad to say that changing hostnames is not at all innocuous when it comes to Netinfo. As we see: > Now I cannot change any NetInfo info, > any attempt to add/change anything gives me the error: > > "NetInfo error writing property list: No writes allowed: all objects > are read-only. Aborting." Here's what is going on: A NetInfo domain is a collection of one or more servers, each of which has a replicated copy of a database. In a very simple domain, there is one server (called the "master" server) with one database. In a more complex domain, there is one master server, and a number of clone servers. Each clone server has a replica of the master's database. All changes that you make to the data in the domain are automatically sent to the master first. The master changes it's database, then it sends update messages to all the clones. This keeps all the clone databases synchronized with the master copy. If you want the nitty-gritty details about all this, see http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1276.htmld/1276.html. A server is identified by a string that looks like "hostname/tag". The "tag" is the name of the database on that host. The combination of hostname and tag is required, since you can have many NetInfo servers running on a single host. Every NetInfo domain contains a property (in the root directory) that specifies which host is the master for that domain. You can see it using NetInfoManager or niutil in the command line: niutil -read /foodomain / master: zippy/network So suppose you change the hostname of "zippy" to "skippy", but you didn't change the "master" property. When you reboot zippy and it becomes skippy, the NetInfo server for the "network" database starts up. It inspects the "master" property in its copy of the database and sees that some host named "zippy" is the master. Since this server is running on "skippy", it goes into operation as a clone. Now you try to make a change to the domain. All changes automatically go to the master first. Who's the master? "zippy/network", of course! At least that's what it says in the master property! Ooops - there's no zippy anymore, so your attempt to write in the database fails. How do you fix it? There are two methods. The first works in some cases, the second works in all cases. Disaster Recovery Method 1 - ONLY WORKS IF THE OLD HOSTNAME AND ADDRESS IS STILL IN THE DOMAIN. - Log into skippy as "root". - Edit the /etc/hostconfig file, and change the HOSTNAME and INETADDR variables back to "zippy" and zippy's IP address (as they still appear in the NetInfo domain). - Reboot. - The server will start, look at the master property, and go into operation as the master. - Change the "master" property to "skippy/network". Make sure that /machines/skippy is there with the correct ip_address and serves properties. - Edit /etc/hostconfig to set the HOSTNAME and INETADDR back to skippy. - Reboot. Disaster Recovery Method 2 - Log in to skippy as root and do this: cp /etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig.save cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig - Halt the system (power off). - Disconnect the network connection. - Boot the system. - Log in as root. - Use niutil with the "-t" option to change the master property: niutil -createprop -t localhost/network / master skippy/network - Restore the hostconfig file: cp /etc/hostconfig.save /etc/hostconfig - Halt. - Attach the network. - Boot. You can use method 2 to fix other really disastrous configuration errors in NetInfo. Be careful - it gives you enough rope to hang yourself if you don't understand what you are doing. I highly recommend that you read all the articles in the Summer 1993 issue of NEXTSTEP In Focus journal. It is the definitive reference on how NetInfo works: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/NABrowse?/Journals/NEXTSTEP_In_Focus/InFoc usSummer1993 -- Marc Majka
From: Jeremy G Mereness <jeremym+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Next Color Monitors? Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 17:53:04 -0500 Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0mdp9E200V4102kHw0@andrew.cmu.edu> I have some Next 17" Color monitors in service, and some of them are starting to die. Does anyone service or rebuild them? What kind of hardware/picture-tubes are in these units? Thanks in Advance! |Jeremy Mereness |Facilities Technical Manager |Institute for Technology and Management, NYC |Graduate School of Industrial Administration |Carnegie Mellon University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- jeremym@andrew.cmu.edu http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/jeremym/home.html
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Urgent!!! Locked out of NeXtstation! Please help! Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 18:13:41 GMT Message-ID: <849348858.22091.0@hps1.demon.co.uk> References: <199611190406.WAA13023@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.91.961119001136.89A-100000@arh0269.urh.uiuc.edu> <56tmis$gk0@netnews.hinet.net> <E1LtJ9.D3y@midway.uchicago.edu> bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (bryce) wrote: >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. I have been trying this with a single box. I doscovered you MUST have at least a T-piece and two terminators on the back of the machine (cost minimal), as the first thing Simple Network starter does is check there is a functioning network. - Andy Robinson
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$s9v@bignews.shef.ac.uk> I've finally got a replacement for my (VLbus-based object.station), and I want to reuse the h/d that came with it: the new system is, however, PCI-based. Should I be able to reuse the drive without reformatting it? I've tried a number of options, and it just doesn't seem to be interested: I've also tried reinstalling anyway, and this fails when it tries to use the new SCSI card. I wondered if these tow are unrelated: the card is an Adaptec 2940AU -- is this a new version different to those listed as being supported by NS3.3? If so, is there any backwards-compatibility mode I could set? Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: NIS Problems Message-ID: <2rwwuwa09e.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center References: <57v675$fcg@yakko.cs.rose-hulman.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 02:13:01 GMT mgrcnk@mailhost.rose-hulman.edu (Christopher N. King) writes: > Just to try something different, I went to another NeXT and tried to > get it running NIS. Instead of diabling NetInfo, I just: > > domainname blah > ypbind > > When I tried a ypcat hosts, it worked fine (unlike the other NeXT). > However, it wouldn't recognize the + lines in /etc/passwd. I am > assming that is because I didn't disable NetInfo. Unless you have some other reason to disable NetInfo, why not work with it? I think that's much easier than trying to disable it. It understands NIS just fine. What you (may have) forgot to do to get the + line recognized after adding it to /etc/passwd was niload passwd / </etc/passwd -- 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: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SoftPC4.* and internet connectivity Date: 1 Dec 1996 01:30:48 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <57qn48$7tg@news3.digex.net> Hi all, I'm trying out the demo of SoftPC4.0...I downloaded the 4.1 patch, but it won't work in demo mode, so I'm using SoftPC4.0 for now... Anyway, although Netscape Navigator 3.01 works just fine (actually it's FAST), telnet clients don't seem to work. So I'm guessing it has something to do with the winsock.dll? Does anyone know? Has anyone gotten a telnet client working through SoftPC? If so, how'd you do it? Has anyone upgraded the winsock.dll in SoftPC to a newer version? If so, could you tell me what version, or let me know if you could MIME/NEXTmail it to me? Why, you may ask, do I need a telnet client under SoftPC windows if I have Terminal.app? Well, a certain piece of legal research software uses telnet through a proprietary app for access... it doesn't work, nor does Ewan (a pd telnet client for windows) under SoftPC4.0 Any info would be great :) -- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Headless NeXT Cube Message-ID: <c57cc$13238.1e4@nmb-news> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 96 19:39:30 PST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Does anyone know if there's a way to setup a NeXT Cube as a headless machine? I have two perfectly good machines, but only one monitor. I'd like to try and use one as a dedicated router and the other as a user machine, but I can't do that if I can't boot. I tried just disconnecting the cable, but that immediately shuts the machine down. Alternatively if there's a way to use VGA or some low cost monitor solution that would help. Erik """"" /-O-O-\ +-ooO-(_)-Ooo-----------------------------+-------------------+ | "Through the modem, past the server, | Erik Walter | | over the backbone, down the Ethernet, | Rogue Programmer | + off the browser... NUTHIN' but net." | NetManage, Inc. | | ooO - Anonymous | ejw@netmanage.com | +-( )-Ooo-------------------------------+-------------------+ \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Re: Help setting up black as router! Message-ID: <c57cc$131916.0@nmb-news> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 96 19:22:24 PST To: "James B. Frazer" <jbf@frazer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, Dec 5, 1996,9:40 AM James B. Frazer wrote: : The preferred approach would be for the NeXT to proxy telnet, http, : ftp and other desired non-mail services for the Macs, eliminating : the need (and extra charges) for the subnet. That's the next : project on the list, so I can route my Mac thru my NeXT without : switching the setup ;-). : : Barney : End of excerpt from James B. Frazer. I actually found the proxy was the easiest way to do this. I just compiled up httpd from CERN and threw it into proxy server mode. It works great. Mac users can see the outside world through the proxy server. The CERN code knows how to do ftp, http, gopher and WAIS almost everything but Telnet. If you come across a telnet proxy server for the NeXT let me know.
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Trojan horse or bug? (This is scary!!!!!) Date: 6 Dec 1996 03:38:16 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <5884f8$q95@nntp1.best.com> References: <584i3p$30ao@news.doit.wisc.edu> <585djv$sd3@nntp1.best.com> <58706j$a8e@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <58706j$a8e@bignews.shef.ac.uk> On 12/05/96, mmalcolm crawford wrote: >On 12/05/96, Christopher Wolf wrote: > >> There is a bug in OpenWrite having to do with renaming a chapter in a book >> which will wipe out all the files in your home directory. A coworker of >> mine was bitten by it just a couple of weeks ago. Sounds like this may >> have happened to you. >> >WHAT??!! > >I can hardly believe this. > >*If true* (I'd like to see some sort of confirmation) this is appalling... >not so much for the fact that the bug exists (although that such a malicious >bug should exist is bad enough), but rather for the fact that as far as I'm >aware no announcement has been made. Can I prove it or document it? No - I personally don't ever have the need to use OpenWrite so I haven't worried about it. I've seen two people have the exact same thing happen to them though (they were rearranging/renaming chapters in a book in OpenWrite and most/all of their home directory files were deleted). When it happened to my co-worker several other people in our company commented that the had seen the same thing happen to them (we have LOTS of NeXTSTEP systems and site licenses for most of the Lighthouse apps) so I assumed this was already "common knowledge." >Not impressed at all, > >mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Re: [Q]: What do I need to do to get my cube and slab to boot? Message-ID: <c57cc$13208.157@nmb-news> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 96 19:33:33 PST To: Drew Schatt <schatt@scf.usc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, Dec 5, 1996,11:19 AM Drew Schatt wrote: : >Starting RPC and network services: nmserver portmapadd bet default: : gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : >Dec 5 xx xx cube netmsgserver[56]: network_init I saw this recently from a problem with routed. For some reason it was looking for a router that no longer existed and then it just hung. Since you bought these machines used, they might be looking for a router. I also might check to see if it's trying to use NFS and looking for volumes/hosts that don't exist. At the very least, I might try turning off the network and see if it boots then. Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Has anyone *successfully* hooked a NeXT 400 printer up to a PC? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1yw2s.M2p@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 00:59:12 GMT References: <32a665dc.3538696@snews2.zippo.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <32a665dc.3538696@snews2.zippo.com>, Mike Sorensen <mjs@softnc.com> wrote: >I have Win95 Adobe drivers for the NeXT 400 laser printer and am >curious about hooking it up to a PC I have on hand. > Not gonna happen. The NeXT Laser Printer uses a proprietary, high-speed serial protocol to send rasterised PostScript from the computer to the dumb engine inside the printer. Those drivers are likely PPDs for using the printer over a network. -- 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: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: 1 Dec 1996 01:52:17 GMT Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association Message-ID: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> Organisation: Sargood Manor I have a problem with Mail.app. I recently had a disk crash and was able to repair and restore from tape backups, however, my users are now unable to get new mail from the spool directory. The following error message appears in the console window each time they try: MailFetch: Permission denied MailFetch: Permission denied I have examined the permissions of both the Mailfetch program and the spool files and can't see anything wrong. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Please! David. -- David Green | Tel: +61 3 9827-6283 | david@legion.apana.org.au Melbourne, Australia| Fax: +61 3 9827-5876 | (NeXTMail & MIME accepted) PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@sw.oz.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What opinions?
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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Headless NeXT Cube Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 21:55:38 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961205215406.22062C-100000@kira> References: <c57cc$13238.1e4@nmb-news> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> In-Reply-To: <c57cc$13238.1e4@nmb-news> You'll get better responses than this, but.... I think you need to do a few things in the ROM monitor (turn off sound out tests for one) to make this work. You can run it headless, I'm just not 100% sure how. Turn stuff off til it works, I guess ;-) TjL
From: dchan@dchan.earthlink.net (Derek Chan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: strange mail process eating cpu time Date: 6 Dec 1996 05:28:20 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <588atk$e2a@uruguay.earthlink.net> References: <585aeb$pj6@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <ukvral5203c.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Cc: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu In <ukvral5203c.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu wrote: > dirk@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Lachmann-Tarkhanov) said: > > > > > On our mailserver a strange process takes up ~95% of the CPU time. > > If I manually kill the process, it goes away for some time, but then > > starts up again. Here is the 'ps -auxw' line: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND > > root 164 94.0 1.7 1.62M 272K ? R 76hr -[I think here is a user name] [here is a hostname]: DATA wait (sendmail) > > > > This thing has been arround for at least 2 weeks...(76 hours is > > since the last reboot) > > > > What is this process? Can I track down how it is created? > > > > thanks in advance, > > Michael Lachmann > > > > This isn't a NeXT-specific reply, but just one from a sysadmin's standpoint: > sounds like your mail daemon is hanging after some process connects, > asserts DATA, and disconnects. It sits there forever, waiting for some > data from a nonexistent client. In short, sounds like a sendmail problem. > What version are you using? > > I've had this problem too. I've noticed that in all cases it has been mail that was being sent by one of those e-mail service (spam service) companies. Could it be caused by the sender? -- dchan@earthlink.net | NeXTmail or MIMEmail welcome.
From: rwakeman@thoughtport.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: 1 Dec 1996 03:53:06 GMT Message-ID: <57qvf2$3ga@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> On 11/30/96, Peter Damiano wrote: >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 > Why not just buy a brand new NeXT CD Rom drive from Decision One (Bell Atlantic Calif). They are only about $270.00 Robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: [Q]: What do I need to do to get my cube and slab to boot? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1z50w.Hs8@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 04:12:31 GMT References: <schatt-ya023280000512961119200001@nnrp.usc.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <schatt-ya023280000512961119200001@nnrp.usc.edu>, Drew Schatt <schatt@scf.usc.edu> wrote: >Hi everyone- > I recently got a cube for $20 HOLY!!!!!! >Sadly, I don't have the install cd, so I can't just reinstall the system on >these machines. You can likely find a 3.3 Academic Bundle on c.s.n.marketplace for not a bad price, BTW. -- 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: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:18:26 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Dec1.121826.1230@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <57qvf2$3ga@news1-alterdial.uu.net> In article <57qvf2$3ga@news1-alterdial.uu.net> rwakeman@thoughtport.com writes: > On 11/30/96, Peter Damiano wrote: > >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). > > > Why not just buy a brand new NeXT CD Rom drive from Decision One (Bell > Atlantic Calif). They are only about $270.00 Because you can get a working CDROM driver for very much less than that. The Apple drives mostly work, as do the Toshibas. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: rudy (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: 1 Dec 1996 15:31:36 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <57s8co$t02@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <57q3jo$148m@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <57qvf2$3ga@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Cc: rwakeman@thoughtport.com In <57qvf2$3ga@news1-alterdial.uu.net> rwakeman@thoughtport.com wrote: > On 11/30/96, Peter Damiano wrote: > >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 > > > Why not just buy a brand new NeXT CD Rom drive from Decision One (Bell > Atlantic Calif). They are only about $270.00 > Robert > Aren't these slow? I.e. single-speed? -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: tralala@mlink.net (Andre Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to keep the clock synchronized between OS/M & NT? Date: 1 Dec 1996 18:17:30 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <57si3q$8ps@neon.Mlink.NET> References: <56m4m8$1so@news2.cais.com> In-Reply-To: <56m4m8$1so@news2.cais.com> On 11/16/96, EMI Software Engineering wrote: > I have a dual boot machine with OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1 >and Windows NT 4.0. I can't figure out how to set up each environment >so that the time is the same in both. Currently, the CMOS time is >the same as the NT time, with the OS/M time lagging behind by five >hours (the offset for EST). In both environments I've chosen Eastern >Standard Time. > > Thanks in advance. > > >Eric Marshall >EMI Software Engineering > ------------------------------------- This will fix your problem: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/clocks/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz It works flawlessly for me. Cheers, André -- Andre LALONDE 1457-A, rue Plessis Téléphone : (514) 526-3996 Montréal, Québec Fax : (514) 526-4004 CANADA H2L 2X2 Internet: tralala@mlink.net (NeXTMail - MIME) WEB: http://www.mlink.net/~tralala/ (en construction)
From: devan2m@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serial port connection between 2 Nexts?? Date: 1 Dec 1996 19:32:47 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <57smgv$qug@news.asu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121164424.266B-100000@euler> <E1A83M.7L@nidat.sub.org> Hello: I know that I prbably missed something. In fact, I know that I missed a lot, but that is besides the point. :-) What I am interested in know is why one wishes to connect two NeXT machines via a serial as oppose to an Ethernet? Are these Intel machines? Even still, I am interesting in know about the circumstances if you please. Peter Nitezki (Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org) wrote: : 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: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q]: What do I need to do to get my cube and slab to boot? Date: 6 Dec 1996 07:56:16 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <58955g$ldf@papoose.quick.com> References: <schatt-ya023280000512961119200001@nnrp.usc.edu> In article <schatt-ya023280000512961119200001@nnrp.usc.edu>, Drew Schatt <schatt@scf.usc.edu> wrote: >Hi everyone- > I recently got a cube for $20 (no hd or ram) and a slab for around 200 >(both mono and 25 mhz). However, I am having boot problems at startup, and >I know that this isn't a hardware problem but solely configuration problem. >Sadly, I don't have the install cd, so I can't just reinstall the system on >these machines. > They are both running 3.1, and both appear to hang in the boot process >right after network_init loads. The last 2 lines on the screen are: >>Starting RPC and network services: nmserver portmapadd bet default: >gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx >>Dec 5 xx xx cube netmsgserver[56]: network_init >After that, the machine just hangs. No disk accesses, or anything. They >both boot into single user fine, so anything that needs to (and can be) >done from the command line I can do. I took a look at the hostconfig, and >it seems fine to me, but these are the first NeXTs I've ever dealt with, so >I may not be the best person to ask about that. Try the following: 1. Boot into single user. 2. run fsck -p to preen the root filesystem. 3. When root fs comes up clean (which will probably be right away) go to step 4. else reboot -n -q and repeat step 3. 4. cd /etc 5. cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig . 6. mv netinfo netinfo.old 7. cp -rp /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo . 8. reboot This will get rid of any network and netinfo configuration the previous owner performed. You can then boot into multi-user and perform whatever administration is required for your setup. > If you have any ideas as to what I should do, please e-mail me, or if >you know of any resources for the proper configuration (web pages, books, >etc....) please tell me what they are. I would prefer e-mail, as I don't >get a chance to read news as often as I would like. Thanks again for the >time.... > ---Drew Schatt > schatt@scf.usc.edu N.B. This post had been cross-posted to csn.misc and csn.hardware I also emailed a copy of this to the original poster. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: 6 Dec 1996 08:27:45 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <58970h$lke@papoose.quick.com> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> <586io1$8f@netty.york.ac.uk> In article <586io1$8f@netty.york.ac.uk>, Roger Peppe <rog@ohm.york.ac.uk> wrote: >On 4 Dec 1996 23:32:36 GMT, Hugues RICHARD <hugues@precipice.fdn.fr> wrote: >> Uli Zappe wrote: (quoting Art Isbell) >> > > find . -type f -print | xargs egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' > >> Well, there's a more direct way of doing this within find : >> >> find . -type f -exec egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' {} \; -print > >but very slow, as it starts up an instance of egrep for every >file. that's why xargs was invented. Not only slow, but also probably not what you want. When you pass only a single file argument to grep it thinks that you know what file you are searching and thus does not (by default) print out the pathname of the file the string was in. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: damiano@pluto.space.ualberta.ca (Peter Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-ROM drive for NeXT Date: 6 Dec 1996 14:36:42 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <589b1q$dea@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Many thanks for all those who replied to my request. I'll consider it all as I look for a drive. Peter --
From: werner@success1.ip.cubenet.de (Dr. Werner Eberl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: X-Term Emulator? Date: 5 Dec 1996 22:58:23 GMT Organization: CUBENet Munich Message-ID: <587k2f$uul@salyko.cube.net> References: <32A6C82C.5F1F@nxs.physics.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greg Schaaff <greg@nxs.physics.gatech.edu> wrote: >Does anyone know if there is an X-Windows emulator for Next. I am >running OpenStep 3.3 on Black. Yes, there are several ones, commercial and non-commercial. For myself, I'm running Mouse-X, both on my color and on my mono black station. It works fine. I think I got it from one of the freeware CDs like Nebula, Peanuts, Nova, but you should also find it on www servers like http://peanuts.leo.org Have Fun, Werner
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Headless NeXT Cube Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 16:12:45 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E202DA.F7K@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <c57cc$13238.1e4@nmb-news> In article <c57cc$13238.1e4@nmb-news> Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> writes: > Does anyone know if there's a way to setup a NeXT Cube as a headless > machine? I have two perfectly good machines, but only one monitor. I'd > like to try and use one as a dedicated router and the other as a user > machine, but I can't do that if I can't boot. It's relativly staigthforwards if you've got the info... Stage one: from the boot monitor select the config option to use ttya as console. Make up a cable (man zs), and hook it into either your other machine, or some other terminal. You still need a monitor and keyboard hooked up at this point. You should now be able to switch it on/off from the switch on they keyboard, but with everything being displayed on the terminal. Stage 2 You now need the replacement power switch. This is a really trivial piece of hardware to build (one resistor!) - circuit diagrams available on various web/ftp sites (mail me if you can't find it). Thats it! Stage 3 You can now decide if you want to turn off the window server (etc/ttys). If you do so, then the machine will run faster, but certain features (like PS rendering/printing/ NXHosting) won't work. $an
From: Timm Wetzel <me@baloo.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: 6 Dec 1996 16:32:44 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <589hrc$e0u@gwdu19.gwdg.de> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57kelf$poc@saturn.genoa.com> <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> <585e8j$rsp@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <32A71F04.6C2C@next.com> <32A71F74.54EE@next.com> <32A71FB5.506A@next.com> The find/xargs problem regarding embedded newlines can be solved quite elegantly. From the GNU find manpage: -print0 True; print the full pathname on the standard output, followed by a null character. This allows filenames that contain newlines to be correctly interpreted by programs that process the find output. and GNU xargs: --null, -0 Input filenames are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace and the quotes and backslash are not special (every character is taken literally). However, any end of file string is still recognized. Useful with the GNU find -print0 option when filenames might contain white space, quote marks, or backslashes. Constructing an appropriate command sequence is left as an exercise to the reader. Timm --- Timm Wetzel <twetzel@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> <twetzel@gwdg.de> Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie, Abt. 081 Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Goettingen Steve Hayman <shayman@next.com> wrote: > I want to caution all these new fans of xargs to avoid making > the mistake I made once. In an effort to write a script that > would clean out old files in /tmp, I set up something like this > once to run (as root) from crontab every night: > > find /tmp -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm > > This is a BAD IDEA. Generally find and xargs work together > nicely, but consider what happens in the (unlikely) case > that you have a file with a newline in its name. Newlines > are legal in Unix file names (the only chars you can't have in > a filename are '/' and '\0'). find will write out the filename > with the embedded newline, meaning that it is now writing out > two consecutive lines rather than one, and xargs will see this > single filename as two separate files, and will no doubt > do the wrong thing. [...] > Some versions of "find" have > a "-xargs" built in, and that's one way to avoid this > particular problem. > > Steve
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trojan horse or bug - OpenWrite critical bug ! Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:54:02 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <ome5quW00UhW41vUs_@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <58706j$a8e@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <587gs3$l96@transfer.stratus.com> In-Reply-To: <587gs3$l96@transfer.stratus.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Dec-96 Re: Trojan horse or bug - O.. by R. Craig Dodson@vortex.c > I'm not sure if I should be posting this here, but I think it's rather > important that no one else hit this. The last time I posted some helpful > info about HP 2-sided printing I got slammed by NeXT tech support. Someone else who was a former NeXT employee had mentioned that NeXT lawyers starting giving him trouble for posting something he had learned after leaving NeXT. Way to go, NeXT.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help setting up black as router! Date: 6 Dec 1996 18:25:32 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <589oes$ofh@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <c47cc$12352b.37a@nmb-news> In-Reply-To: <c47cc$12352b.37a@nmb-news> On 12/04/96, Erik Walter wrote: >On Wed, Dec 4, 1996,6:28 PM fugue wrote: >: Hi all... >: Ok. Let me see if I can lay this out as simply as possible. First, some >: specs: >: >: System A: >: Black mono '040 running 3.2, ppp 2.2, Gatekeeper, gated, 14.4K modem >: >: System B: >: Black mono '040 running 3.0 >: >: System C: >: HP 9000/715 running HP-UX 9.0.7, iij-ppp >: >: >: 192.42.172.2 192.42.172.1 128.135.232.155 >: ----- ----- ----- >: | B +-----10^2----->+ A +----PPP------->+ C | >: ----- ----- ----- >: 128.135.232.86 >: >: System B is connected to System A via 10^2 (ThinNet) >: System A is connected to System C via a PPP connection >: System C is connected via FDDI to the Internet. >: >: System B has an IP of 192.42.172.2 on en0 >: System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1 on en0 >: System A has a static IP of 128.135.232.86 assigned to the PPP connection. >: System C has a static IP of 128.135.232.155 on en0. >: System C recognizes that System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1, and routes all >: packets correctly between A and the rest of the Net. >: >: What I'd like to do is figure out how to get packets routed THROUGH A to >: B correctly. Right now, it appears as though B is capable of sending packets >: OUT to the net (e.g., a ping to the 128.135 subnet makes it out to C), but >: the packets never come back. >: >: System B uses system A (192.42.172.1) as its gateway. >: >: As I understand it, this is a sticky point with this type of setup, and >: searching through various FAQs, archives, and DejaNews hasn't helped much. >: I have installed gated on System A, but am unsure how to proceed. >: >End of excerpt from fugue. > >I'm trying to do a similiar setup here, the only real difference is I have an >Zylogics Annex instead of the HP as System C and more than one machine behind >System A. > >One thing I thought was causing the problem early on was the fact that the >Annex was only routing packets for the IP it knew about on the connection. >That meant that System A could see the whole subnet and the outside net, but >nobody on either side saw beyond System A. This was because the Annex looked >at the IP and ignored it if the packet wasn't for System A. > >Changing this wasn't easy, but it also didn't fix the problem. You might check >this, maybe you are closer than I am to the solution. If you find a solution, >please pass it along as I would find it useful. > >Erik > I am also planning to soon use my NeXT Cube as a router for a small (2-computers) network at home. The problem is that my university will never want to route packets for my subnet. They don't even support PPP connections. I am currently using SliRP (PPP emulator) to connect my Cube to the net. This permits me to do nearly everything one would do with a real ip-address (http, telnet, ftp, smtp,...). Since this Slirp program (running at my university) can send ip packets and receive them for my home machine I suspected that it would be able to do it for two machines. Here is what I found that maybe could be of interest for the NeXT community also: SliRP/Linux router for a LAN: http://www.cnrcoll.nf.ca/~rick/slirp/slirp-LAN.html François Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: jens (Jens Breitenborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Warning: Potential *nasty* bug in OpenWrite (Was: Trojan Horse or Bug?) Date: 5 Dec 1996 17:10:48 GMT Organization: Universitaet Bremen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <586vmo$89b@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de> References: <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu In <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu> Michael Giddings wrote: > WARNING: Potential bug that may cause data serious data loss (everything in > your home directory)! > > [....] > > ***I would recommend that people refrain from using any of the book related > features of OpenWrite, and possibly refrain from using it at all, until there > is a definitive response from Lighthouse regarding this potential bug**** > > Unfortunately, this may be the final blow that causes me to go over to > Windoze and use MS-Word. Sad, I hope it doesn't come to that but it may . . > . > > Michael Giddings (my .signature got lost too) > I am using OpenWrite for a long time now. During the last 6 month I've written two mid-size book documents (my diploma thesis ~230 pages in 12 chapters and a manual ~ 150 pages in 11 chapters) using OpenWrite 2.1. Of course there are some (minor) bugs in OpenWrite - but I've never experience that kind of nightmare that you have described (Yes, I have renamed chapters several times ± and I've just tested it again without losing any files.) Which version of OpenWrite/OS do you use ? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Breitenborn mailto:jensb@MeVis.Uni-Bremen.DE http://WWW.MeVis.Uni-Bremen.de/~jensb
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Still trying to figure out Librarian + groff + new man pages Date: 6 Dec 1996 19:11:44 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-31.usc.edu Message-ID: <589r5g$b97@usc.edu> References: <5759vm$82k@usc.edu> <57kbo2$qtq@uni2f.unige.ch> Cc: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch In <57kbo2$qtq@uni2f.unige.ch> moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch wrote: > In Still trying to figure out Librarian + groff + new man pages comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x8ea70> writes, > > > Still trying to figure out Librarian + groff + new man pages: > > > [...] > > > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated in how to (a) get the manpages > > regarded as manpages by ixbuild, and (b) get Librarian to understand the > > formatting of the newer manpages. > > You should define it in a file called ".roffArgs". Hey Phil, thanks for the pointer, but I cannot find the manpages that would tell me what the proper format would be for .roffArtgs. If anyone has been setting up their system to easily access the new manpages with groff or whatever else is out there, I'd be grateful to know exactly how you're doing it. I'm looking to access the newer manpages from Librarian especially. From the commandline I can read them with the following: groff -mandoc -Tascii /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man8/sendmail.8 But that's a pretty draggy way of getting to them, and doesn't let me do searches first with Librarian. +++++++++++++++ Phil: Also, cannot for some reason send mail to that address, nor find you via nslookup, whois, etc. I keep getting that unige.ch is unknown. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: MusicCD - Toshiba3401 - play3401.... how??? Message-ID: <E1zrsB.Co4@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <57u4n3$bp@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:24:11 GMT Sven Droll writes > BTW: The newer version of play3401 is called playcd and has got support for > another CDROM-drive (?which). nec cdrom drives of the 500 series. Plus it comes with o a minimalistic toc facility o cmd line switch to specify the scsi device to use (sdN). Juergen --- Fon +49 511 92455-51 NeXTMail welcome No Mime Fax +49 511 92455-52 = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Has anyone *successfully* hooked a NeXT 400 printer up to a PC? Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 19:31:45 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <589tdn$j6i@news.wco.com> References: <32a665dc.3538696@snews2.zippo.com> mjs@softnc.com (Mike Sorensen) wrote: >I have Win95 Adobe drivers for the NeXT 400 laser printer and am >curious about hooking it up to a PC I have on hand. >Any comments? Well... Those Adobe 'drivers' specific to the NeXT laser printer are really just printer description files to let the PostScript generating driver in Windows know what the printer's capabilities are. The NeXT laser printer can't be connected directly to the PC. The usual way it is used is by connecting it to a NeXT computer which advertises the printer on a local network, and connecting the Windows machine to the same network. The NeXT printer doesn't contain the Raster Image Processor used to turn PostScript into bits of raster data. Instead, it relies on the 68k processor and Display PostScript interpreter in the NeXT computer to do the work. The printer is connected to the computer via a fast digital video (sort of serial, but definitely not RS-232...) line driven by the DMA engine in the computer. This was done to keep the printer cost low (well, low for Oct. 1988) while providing providing a honking fast RIP (How many printers came with 8 Mb of DRAM and demand paged VM back then? Now?) Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
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Then keep reading....please take five minutes to read this > article it will change your life, just like it did mine. It's true! > You can make up to or over $50,000 dollars in 4-6 weeks, maybe sooner! > I SWEAR I'M NOT LYING TO YOU, AND THIS IS NOT A SCAM! If you're > intrested, keep reading; if you're not, I apologize for wasting your > time. > Here we go. A little while back, I was browsing through these > newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to > this that said you could make thousands of dollars in weeks with only > an initial investment of $5! So, I thought, "Yeah, right, must be a > scam", but I was curious, like most of us , so I kept reading. Anyway, > it > said that you send $1 to each of the 5 names and addresses stated in the > article. You then place your own name and address in the article at > the bottom of the list at #5, and post the article in at least 200 > newsgroups (there are thousands). No catch, that was it! > So after thinking it over, talking to a few people first, I tried it. > I figured what have I got to lose except for 5 stamps and $5, right? > Well, guess what...within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! > I was shocked! I still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it > another thought. But then money kept coming IN, tripling in size and > multiplying by 10-20 times the amount that I got the first week! In my > first week I made about 20 to 30 dollars. But by the end of the second > week, I had made a total of over $1,000!!!! In the third week, I had > over $10,000 dollars, and it's still growing. This is my fourth week > (Oct 11) and I've made about $42,000 TOTAL, and the money is still > coming in..... > Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, WHY it > works...also, make sure you print a copy of the article NOW, so you get > the informatoin off of it, and begin making money. > > The process is very simple, and it consists of 3 EASY steps: > > STEP 1: Get 5 seperate pieces of paper and write the following on each > sheet of paper..."PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST. YOU ARE NUMBER > 4." Get five $1 bills and place ONE inside each piece of paper that > you just wrote on, and fold each piece of paper so the bill will not be > seen in the envelope (otherwise, nosey people who like to steal envelopes > with money in it will get yours). Put one paper inside the envelope > and seal it. Do the same for all 5. You should now have 5 envelopes > sealed, EACH have a piece of paper AND a $1 bill stuffed inside of the > paper. Make sure those words that were stated above are stated on each > paper. What you are doing is creating a service by this, this is > PERFECTLY LEGAL. Now then, mail the 5 envelopes with the paper and $1 > in each to the following 5 addresses: > > 1. H. H. , 435 Franklin TPA Apt 15 Mahwah, N.J. 07430 > 2. Bruce, P.O. BOX 63 4700 KEELE ST., NORTH YORK, ONTARIO, M3J 1P3 > 3. Meta Zupan, Dvorska vas 12, 4275 Begunje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia > 4. P.DEBOUZY, 9 rue des Lavandieres, 78530 BUC, FRANCE > 5. Nicholas Portmann, Vettersstrasse 54, Z.105, PLZ 09126, Chemnitz, > Germany > > STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the > other 4 names up (5 becoming 4, 4 becoming 3, ect.) and put YOUR NAME > as number 5 on the list. You can slightly alter this article if you need > to, editing what you need to edit. > > STEP 3: Post your amended article (with your name at #5) to at least > 200 news groups ( I think there are close to 18,000 of them). All you > need is say, at least 200. HOW TO DO THIS: If you have Netscape 3.0 > do EXACTLY the following: > > 1) Click on any news group like normal, THEN click on 'TO NEWS', which > is on the far left when you're in the newsgroups page. This will bring > up a box to type a message in. > > 2) Leave the newsgroup box like it is, CHANGE the subject box to > something flashy, like, "NEED CASH $$$ READ HERE $$$" or "FAST CASH"!!! > > 3) Tab once and you should be ready to type. Now, retype (only once) > THIS whole article WORD FOR WORD, except to insert your name at #5, and > to remove #1 off the list, plus any other small changes you think you > need to make. Keep almost all of it the SAME! > > 4) When you're done typing the WHOLE article, click on FILE in THIS > BOX, RIGHT ABOUVE SEND, NOT WHERE IT SAYS NETSCAPE NEWS ON THE FIRST > BOX. Click on SAVE AS when you're under FILE. Save you artcle as a > text file to your C: or A: drive. DO NOT SEND OR POST YOUR ARTICLE > UNTIL YOU DO THIS. Once saved, move on to number 5 below. > > 5) If you still have all of your text, send or post to this newsgroup > now by just clicking send, which is right below FILE, and right above > Cc: . > > 6)Here's where you're going to post all 200. OK, click on any news > group then click on 'TO NEWS', again in the top left corner. Leave the > NEWSGROUPS BOX alone again, put a flashy subject title in the SUBJECT > BOX, hit TAB once you're in the body of the message, and then click on > ATTACHMENTS, which is below the SUBJECT BOX. You will get another box > to come up. Click on ATTACH FILE, then find YOUR file that you saved; > click once on the file, and then click OPEN' now click on OK; if you did > this right, you should see your file name in the attachments box, and > it will be shaded green. > > IF YOU USE IE EXPLORER IT'S JUST AS EASY...HOLDING DOWN THE LEFT MOUSE > BUTTON, HIGHLIGHT THIS ARTICLE. THEN PRESS THE "CRTL" KEY AND THE "C" > KEY AT THE SAME TIME TO COPY THIS ARTICLE. THEN PRINT THIS ARTICLE FOR > YOUR RECORDS TO HAVE THE NAMES OF THOSE YOU WILL BE SENDING $1 BILLS > TO. NEXT GO TO THE NEWS GROUPS AND PRESS "POST AN ARTICLE" A WINDOW > WILL OPEN. TYPE IN YOUR HEADLINE IN THE SUBJECT AREA AND THEN CLICK IN > THE LARGE WINDOW BELOW. PRESS "CRTL" AND THEN "V" AND THE ARTICLE WILL > BE PLACED IN THE WINDOW. IF YOU WANT TO EDIT THE ARTICLE, DO SO AND > THEN HIGHLIGHT AND COPY IT AGAIN. NOW EVERYTIME YOU POST THE ARTICLE > > IN > A NEW NEWSGROUP ALL YOU HAVE TO REPEAT "CTRL" AND "V" AND PRESS POST. > > 7)That's it. Each time you do this, all you have to do is type in a > different newsgroup, so that way, it posts to 200 DIFFERENT newsgroups, > you see? Now you just have 199 to go!! (Don't worry, each one takes > about 30 seconds, once you get used to it) REMEMBER 200 IS THE MINIMUM. > The more you post the more money you will make. > > AND THAT'S IT!!! THAT'S THE ONLY 3 STEPS THERE IS!!! > > You are now in the mail order business and will start recieving your $1 > envelopes from various people all over the world within days. HINT THE > MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST TO, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE. You may want > to rent a PO Box eventually because of all the mail. If you wish to > stay anonymous, you can come up with a name, such as "manager" or > "investor". Just make sure all the addresses are CORRECT, please. > > LET ME TELL YOU WHY THIS SYSTEM WORK!!!! > > Out of every 200 postings, let's say I ONLY recieve 5 replies, which is > actually VERY LOW. So I made 5 dollars with my name at #5. Now then, > each person who just sent me $1 makes, say only 200 postings, now with > your name at number 4, WHICH IS A TOTAL OF 1000 POSTINGS, not including > yours too. 50 people send you $1 now; thats $50 you just made! Now, > then your new 50 agents post 200 each with YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 3, OR > 10,000 POSTING (50x200). Average return is 500 at $1 each is $500. > They make 200 postings, which is 5,000 returns at $1 each, which is > $5000 dollars! And finally, 5000 people make 200 postings wach with > YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 1. YOU NOW GET A RETURN OF $50,000 BEFORE YOUR NAME > DROPS OFF THE LIST. AND THAT'S IF EVERYONE MAKES 200 POSTINGS ONLY, > AND IF ONLY 5 PERSONS RESPOND!!!!! > When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest > posting that is appearing in the newsgroups, and SEND OUT ANOTHER $5 TO > THE NAMES ON THE LIST, PUTTING YOUR NAME AT 5 AGAIN. And start posting > again. The thing to remember is, do you realize that THOUSANDS OF > PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE JOINING THE INTERNET AND READING THESE > ARTICLES EVERY DAY, JUST LIKE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW!!! So can afford $5 > dollars and see if it really works? I think so..... > People have said, "What if the plan is played out and no one > sends you > the money?" So what! What are the chances of that happening when there > are TONS OF NEW HONEST USERS AND NEW HONEST PEOPLE who are joining the > Internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? > Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with THOUSANDS > of those joing the actual Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY > and this WILL WORK, I PROMISE YOU!!! You just have to be honest. Make > sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW, also, try to keep a list of > everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the mnewsgroups > to make sure everyone is playing fairly. REMEMBER, HONESTY IS THE BEST > POLICY. YOU DON'T NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE MONEY!! GOOD > LUCK TO ALL AND PLEASE PLAY FAIRLY AND YOU WILL REAP THE HUGE REWARDS > FROM THIS, WHICH IS TONS OF EXTRA CASH!!! > **By the way, if you try to decieve people by posting the > > messages with > your name on the list and not sending the money to the people already > > on > the list, you will not get much. Someone I talKed to knew someone who > did that and he only made $150 dollars, and that's AFTER seven or eight > weeks! Then he sent the 5 $1 bills, people added him to their lists, > and in 4-5 weeks, he had over $10K. > THIS IS THE FAIREST AND MOST HONEST WAY I HAVE EVER SEEN TO SHARE THE > WEALTH OF THE WORLD WITHOUT COSTING ANYTHING BUT OUR TIME!!! > . > > > > > > > > > > > >
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Warning: Potential *nasty* bug in OpenWrite (Was: Trojan Horse or Bug?) Date: 6 Dec 1996 23:31:20 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <58aac8$14r2@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu> <586vmo$89b@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Cc: jens In <586vmo$89b@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Jens Breitenborn wrote: > > I am using OpenWrite for a long time now. During the last 6 month I've > written two mid-size book documents (my diploma thesis ~230 pages in > 12 chapters and a manual ~ 150 pages in 11 chapters) using OpenWrite 2.1. > Of course there are some (minor) bugs in OpenWrite - but I've never > experience that kind of nightmare that you have described (Yes, I have > renamed chapters several times ± and I've just tested it again > without losing any files.) > > Which version of OpenWrite/OS do you use ? > > > I was using version 2.1. However, the woman I talked to at Lighthouse said she thought it affected all versions back to 1.x. BTW - Lighthouse has publicly acknowledged that this bug DOES exist, I think they posted to c.s.n.software or something like that. I'd say you're very lucky it never struck you, luckier than I was. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: jake@hep.physics.mcgill.ca (Jason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: windowserver hack for arrow keys? Date: 4 Dec 1996 13:28:08 GMT Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <583u98$fhg@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Hello everyone, Here is a silly question: Back in the NS 2.0 days there was a window server hack that cycled through windows using the arrow keys and command and alt keys, but the new window was the active window, rather than just simply at the front. Anyone know the whereabouts of a hack for version 3.3, say, of this nature? Thank you all in advance, and have a good day. Jake -- Why you wanna be reading them long-haired books for boy? -Foghorn Leghorn
From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Security under NS Date: 6 Dec 1996 23:40:33 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development Message-ID: <58aath$451@alice.turbocat.de> References: <199612050210.VAA05010@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > >After: > - checking for SETUID programs > - turning off Public Window Server > - turning off "exec" in /etc/inetd.conf > - making sure all the accounts have good passwords > >What security steps should be taken on a NeXT? A new Sendmail, Portwrapper, a program that asks you for the root-pw when booting single user mode. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: mwnc@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Niels Coelle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can I change the MTU? Date: 4 Dec 1996 13:22:41 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU Clausthal Message-ID: <583tv1$edv@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Hy folks! How can I change the MTU value? ifconfig en0 does not work. thanks Niels
From: stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Telecommuting setup Date: 6 Dec 1996 19:50:05 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <589tdd$lde@mark.ucdavis.edu> I'm about to go off and live in the woods in rural Humboldt County, CA and telecommute to my job (hurray!). I want to ask about my hardware setup. I'm taking with me my old NeXTstation and attached laserprinter, and an Ecesys Pentium running NeXTStep 3.3 which I use at work. I plan to buy a) A 4 port twisted pair ethernet hub. b) A 33600 baud US Robotics Sportster external modem. The proposed configuration is TwPair TwPair Modem + PPP Nextstation ======== Hub ======== PC ==== ... ====== ISP The general idea is that the Nextstation and the PC will talk via the ethernet (for filesharing and printing), and this tiny LAN will connect to the Internet via the modem attached to the PC dialing up a local ISP. Is there anything obviously infeasible about this? It looks on the Archive like Gatekeeper is the cool application for PPP. I was thinking that I would set up the LAN to use IP addresses in the 10.* (old arpanet) range. Obviously I won't broadcast those routes over the PPP line (by default, routed is run with the -q option). How do I configure the PC to have the two interfaces? Will packets from the NeXTstation get forwarded to the outside world by the PC? Any other comments on how to set this up very welcome, TIA, Stuart Staniford-Chen Computer Security Group, UC Davis.
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Apache 1.2b1 - can anyone compile this on OS 4.0? Date: 4 Dec 1996 13:44:37 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-0412960848000001@140.254.80.2> Hello, I've been absolutely pleased w/ the previous Apache distributions - of course, I was compiling them under NS 3.3 (Intel). Unfortunately, the combination of OpenStep 4.0 and Apache 1.2b1 doesn't seem to be too happy together. (Fails almost immediately, even if using Apaches REGEX implementation) Any successes? Thanks a bunch, John
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "Simple" net starter Date: 4 Dec 1996 13:39:58 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Message-ID: <583uve$lmu@news2.jaring.my> From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Subject: Net set up Date: 4 Dec 1996 13:36:18 GMT Organization: Personal I'm trying to do 2 things to set up a "personal" network. Here's the situation: I have 2 slabs...one monitor... one keyboard. Currently I only use one standalone, and connect to the internet via an ISP. I'd like to connect & run 'em both, maybe using one as a print server, share its disk, and basically experiment & learn. I tried to set up one slab running NS3.2 as a master server according Next's docs using my chosen hostname & the default IP address. When I get to "Build the Network" it says I have enough space for 34 users, I get the warning about /private/etc files being changed, and one other window goes whizzing by too fast to read. When I check the /etc files mentioned (mostly sendmail stuff), nothing has been changed. Same seems to be true about netinfo, but there is a new (& empty) /Net directory. Now when I try to reboot I get: "Still searching for parent network administration (Netinfo) server... press 'c' to continue without network user accounts. I already have 2 user accounts set up in / that have been in use standalone for a long time. Any suggestions for how to proceed from here? Part 2 -- any hints on how to get the "headless" node as part of my mini-network? Manually adding hosts seems to be mandatory, and I hope do-able. TIA -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Senior Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Fax: 6-03-5482329 Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia PGP Key available ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Simple" net starter Date: 4 Dec 96 11:52:47 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec4115247@howard.one.net> References: <583uve$lmu@news2.jaring.my> In-reply-to: michael@rumah.pc.my's message of 4 Dec 1996 13:39:58 GMT In article <583uve$lmu@news2.jaring.my>, michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) writes: I tried to set up one slab running NS3.2 as a master server according Next's docs using my chosen hostname & the default IP address. When I get to "Build the Network" it says I have enough space for 34 users, I get the warning about /private/etc files being changed, and one other window goes whizzing by too fast to read. When I check the /etc files mentioned (mostly sendmail stuff), nothing has been changed. Same seems to be true about netinfo, but there is a new (& empty) /Net directory. Now when I try to reboot I get: "Still searching for parent network administration (Netinfo) server... press 'c' to continue without network user accounts. I'm not exactly certain what is going on. I assume you're using SimpleNetworkStarter? Consider not using it :-). Do you have /etc/netinfo/network.nidb? That's where the master stores the / netinfo database. Does "nidump passwd /" work? That said, one option at this point would be to compare /etc/ files against /usr/template/client/etc using diff -rc. You can also copy (in single user mode!) /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb to clear out your netinfo database and start anew. [Make sure you have backups, though, because if things get truly messed up, you probably would have to reinstall. And backup your current local.nidb somewhere.] I already have 2 user accounts set up in / that have been in use standalone for a long time. Did you previously setup the machine as a standalone machine? That might be the problem. If you did this, I would try to get /etc back into more-or-less original shape, and start over. Quick hint - use nidump to dump out the various flatfiles to someplace safe, and then once you have a fresh netinfo database, use niload to put the info back in. Any suggestions for how to proceed from here? Part 2 -- any hints on how to get the "headless" node as part of my mini-network? Manually adding hosts seems to be mandatory, and I hope do-able. You can enter the host's ethernet address and desired username into HostManager, then it will find that information off the net from the master. It's pretty slick, none of my machines has this info hard-coded, it's all coming from the master ... I've not done the headless thing, but I've discussed doing it before. [Think "Could you stack a bunch of headless slabs and network them together?"] Does that count? You should be able to network the systems as you normally would. Then, you need a means of turn the second system _on_. In the ROM monitor (Command-~ at boot time, or "halt" as superuser), you can type p to change preferences, and then say y to "Enable serial port a as alternate console?" [I'm wording that from memory.] This should cause the machine to power up when DTR is turned on. Then, get/build a null modem cable to connect the two machines, and run it from one of the headed machine's serial ports to the headless machine's port a. Then, have the headed monitor open a connection to the serial port in /etc/rc.local, which _should_ cause the headless machine to power up. The most important consideration is getting that cable right. Read zs(4) a couple times, and hack a Mac printer cable or somesuch cable that's go the right connectors on the ends. Of course, if you only have one monitor, you've got somewhat of a problem. You could try to build the cable first, and then put the head on the second machine, with the cable powering up the main machine. The problem with this is that the second machine should be calling on the main machine for hostname and the like ... you could probably get around that by putting a regular terminal on the main host's serial port, and using that as a console temporarily. [Hmm, come to think of it, _I've_ got a slab boxed up which is already set up for my network, and a couple NeXT serial cables and a null modem connector ... hmm.] 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: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Help setting up black as router! Message-ID: <ukvenh6duzm.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:28:45 GMT Hi all... Ok. Let me see if I can lay this out as simply as possible. First, some specs: System A: Black mono '040 running 3.2, ppp 2.2, Gatekeeper, gated, 14.4K modem System B: Black mono '040 running 3.0 System C: HP 9000/715 running HP-UX 9.0.7, iij-ppp 192.42.172.2 192.42.172.1 128.135.232.155 ----- ----- ----- | B +-----10^2----->+ A +----PPP------->+ C | ----- ----- ----- 128.135.232.86 System B is connected to System A via 10^2 (ThinNet) System A is connected to System C via a PPP connection System C is connected via FDDI to the Internet. System B has an IP of 192.42.172.2 on en0 System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1 on en0 System A has a static IP of 128.135.232.86 assigned to the PPP connection. System C has a static IP of 128.135.232.155 on en0. System C recognizes that System A has an IP of 192.42.172.1, and routes all packets correctly between A and the rest of the Net. What I'd like to do is figure out how to get packets routed THROUGH A to B correctly. Right now, it appears as though B is capable of sending packets OUT to the net (e.g., a ping to the 128.135 subnet makes it out to C), but the packets never come back. System B uses system A (192.42.172.1) as its gateway. As I understand it, this is a sticky point with this type of setup, and searching through various FAQs, archives, and DejaNews hasn't helped much. I have installed gated on System A, but am unsure how to proceed. Now, oddly enough, system C (the HP machine) is set up in almost the exact same configuration as system A, in that system C is connected to two other HPs via FDDI on a local, disused subnet (I believe it's 192.5...), and uses gated to route packets from the correct, valid subnet (128.135) to and from these machines. Looking at the gated.conf for system C, I get lost. Basically, it looks like the following: ==================================== interface 192.5.84.4 passive preference 1 metric 2; interface 128.135.232.20 passive preference 2 metric 2; rip on { trustedgateways 128.135.232.20 192.5.84.4 192.5.84.2 128.135.232.155; }; static { 128.135.0.0 gateway 128.135.232.1 preference 1; default gateway 128.135.232.1; }; propagate proto rip { proto static { announce default; }; }; propagate proto rip interface 128.135.232.20 { proto rip { announce 192.5.84.4 mask 255.255.255.0 metric 2; announce maryl-fddi metric 1; }; }; propagate proto rip interface 192.5.84.4 { proto rip { announce 128.135.232.20 mask 255.255.255.0 metric 2; announce maryl metric 1; }; }; ================================= Ok, some clarification: 192.5.84.4 is the "dummy" IP for one of the machines FDDI'd to System C 128.135.232.20 is the published IP for a machine named "maryl", which is in fact the FDDI'd machine attached to System C maryl-fddi is the name assigned locally to the "dummy" IP 192.5.84.2 is the "dummy" IP of System C 128.135.232.1 is the gateway for System C Now, here's where I get confused: Let's assume I wanted to use this as a model for my home LAN (systems A and B). I have a "dummy" IP for System A (192.42.172.1) and System B (192.42.172.2), as well as a 'published' static IP for System A (128.135.232.86). In order to get this to work, would I have to get yet another static IP allocated for system B, so that there is a mapping between its "dummy" IP and the new static IP, as in the example above? Or could I just use this as a model, omitting the half of the statements that deal with that mapping? NOTE: I'm not concerned about letting the rest of the net access System B by name or IP...I'd simply like to be able to sit down at System B and use network services (telnet, etc) from a shell, instead of having to first telnet into System A before being able to do so. Sorry if this was a bit confusing...but next to sendmail.conf, gated.conf has to be one of the most confusing configurations I've come across in a long time, and I'm not quite sure I've got a handle on it. Any help whatsoever would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks so much! Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: bootstrap_register Date: 4 Dec 1996 18:37:13 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <584gcp$19j@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <E1w9E9.581@icgned.nl> In article <E1w9E9.581@icgned.nl> jerry@icgned.nl (Jerry Martin van der Duim) writes: > as the subject says boostrap_register problems.We have a numbe of HP > machines(intel) who give the message : > localhost loginwindow[212]:bootstrap_register failed - -102 It means you don't have sound (aat least that's what it typically means for me on Intel). Harmless. -- 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
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Does 'snmp' command work with SNMPv2 ?? Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 11:33:40 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <32A5C404.2C5D@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I been having problems with the "snmp" command under NeXTStep. Basically I'm just tring to get the following variable: interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 from a Cisco 2500 series router running SNMP. But when I query the counter, I seem to get random counts back: ie. snmp> get interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 4 (Counter) snmp> get interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 34 (Counter) snmp> get interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 82260 (Counter) snmp> get interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 4 (Counter) snmp> get interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 82260 (Counter) snmp> get interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.2 82260 (Counter) ... If I do a "walk" through interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets I get even different results on that interface. What gives? All our other agents here work fine with it. The Cisco is running SNMPv2, are the counters a different lengnth under v2 with is messing up my NeXT agent (which I'm assuming is v1)? Does anyone have a command line snmp agent running other then the one bundled that works? Thanks! -- James R. Pooton <james@DigiSys.net> DigiSys Inc.
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Trojan horse or bug? (This is scary!!!!!) Date: 4 Dec 1996 19:06:33 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <584i3p$30ao@news.doit.wisc.edu> This morning I was trying to save a document from WriteUp, and noticed that the folder I was trying to save to had disappeared. So I had a look at the File Viewer and noticed that a whole lot of the files in my home directory were MISSING! I also noticed that the disk was chugging away on something. I quickly started a terminal and did a ps aux. **There was a /bin/rm -rf process running under my user id**, which I promptly killed. Unfortunately, it had already removed 3/4 of my files (and nothing seems to have been touched outside my home directory). I couldn't determine what had spawned the process (I had already killed it), and it was attached to no terminal. THIS IS SCARY!!! Either it is a serious bug in one of the programs I was running (OpenWrite, WriteUp, LaunchBar, Backspace, Diagram2) OR it is some kind of trojan horse. There is no way I could have done this accidentally because there was no terminal window at the time. HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS BEFORE? Whatever caused this is VERY bad news. Here is a list of things that I was doing or had recently done on the system that were out of the ordinary, in case any of these things ring any bells: 1. Had for the first time started working with OpenWrite Books, and was in the process of creating a book. 2. I was running WriteUp, which I don't normally use, to try to save a document from it as RTFD. 3. I had unplugged the floppy drive from the computer (I've done this before with no problems). 4. Yesterday I had de-installed then reinstalled the PCMCIA and Xircom ethernet drivers 5. I recently installed LaunchBar and WideScreen, though WideScreen was not being run at the time. 6. I recently sent some negative mail to my NeXT sales rep about NeXT's pricing, and customer treatment (NeXT gets revenge!!) WHATEVER HAPPENED HERE IS VERY BAD NEWS. Please, if you've *ever* seen anything like this post here or send email to me. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cannot write to root NetInfo Date: 4 Dec 1996 20:13:21 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <584m11$3jqu@news.doit.wisc.edu> I was doing some pretty innocuous host name changes that required rebooting our NetInfo server. Now I cannot change any NetInfo info, any attempt to add/change anything gives me the error: "NetInfo error writing property list: No writes allowed: all objects are read-only. Aborting." How do I get my write privileges back (BTW - I am root already). I've tried resarting NetInfo to no avail, and tried adding a "_writers" property to the / directory of the / domain, but since I can't add anything to NetInfo this fails too. Any ideas would be appreciated. - Gareth bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Hardware Password... Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 19:58:09 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <584m6s$1uq@news.wco.com> References: <timothy-2611960102380001@ppp044-sf1.sirius.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126165206.22156A-100000@kira> <57vg9t$dk9@NNTP.MsState.Edu> mgrcnk@garfield.msms.doe.k12.ms.us (Christopher N. King) wrote: >Timothy Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: >: taking out the battery is the way.... >Not necessarily. I haven't done this on a Cube, but on the Stations it is >really easy. >Located next to the battery, there are a few transistors (a lot on a >regular station, only 2 on a Turbo). All you have to do is take a paper >clip or other conductive material and jump the transistor that leads to >the battery. You can figure out which one it is by looking for the inlaid >copper wiring on the board running from the battery case. I have no clue >as to exactly which pins you have to jump on the transistor, but if you >hit them all, it works :) >I got this tip from my boss who used to work for NeXT. Oh, dog... Of course, if he screwed up, all he had to do was hand the board to a rework or hardware lab tech ("Oh, Dan...") and get it fixed. Don't poke around on the CPU board. 1) Static hazard for the hardware 2) You might guess wrong. Pop goes the ASIC... 3) Didja remember to unplug it? Just pull the battery. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Trojan horse or bug? (This is scary!!!!!) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:20:53 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961204141731.13846C-100000@kira> References: <584i3p$30ao@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu In-Reply-To: <584i3p$30ao@news.doit.wisc.edu> I have been running LaunhBar 24/7 since it came out and have had no such experience. I am sure it is not WideScreen either. I am beginning to think that there is someone out there trying to bring trojan horses to NeXTStep. I have found /bin/sh setuid root twice now. However, I am not using OpenWrite or WriteUp, so I can't say they are connected. I rather expect it is something else TjL
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't use talk from OpenStep 4.0 Date: 4 Dec 96 16:23:06 EST Organization: Univ of Miami IR Message-ID: <1996Dec4.162306@umiami> I can't use talk or ytalk on my new OpenStep 4.0 system. If I try talk I get: [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] Requests from another machine for talk work normally except that I can't respond from the 4.0 machine. Everything else is working just great, including ftp, telnet, irc, news and web browsers. And, mail, of course. Any ideas? Thomas J. Herbert therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
From: moultont@red.seas.upenn.edu (Timothy L Moulton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to boot in single user Date: 7 Dec 1996 22:51:20 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <58csd8$ffu@netnews.upenn.edu> I just bought a next mono slab and I am trying to hook it up in a isolated 10b2 network with my NT 4.0 computer and maybe another pc. Well anyway, I hooked the two of them up and i guess i made a configuration error on the NeXT because it never makes it past "checking system files". I was wondering how to boot the next without the network because that is surely where the problem is. Also if anyone has done this please email me how they did it and any suggestions. Right now all i have to be able to do is access my NeXT to change the configuration. thanx in advance. tim moulton moultont@seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: How to assign swap to different drive? Message-ID: <ukv3exl3kx3.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 00:16:24 GMT Hi.... After much mental debate, I've decided to sell my Amiga (sue me, I like orphaned systems. :) This means I've got a spare 1.06gig SCSI drive, which I've just reformatted and attached to my black slab. I'm currently running a 205 meg drive as the boot drive on my slab, but now that I've formatted and mounted the 1.06gigger, I'd like to move /usr and /swap over to it. I know I can symlink /usr to point to the new drive, but how can I tell nextstep that I'd rather use part of the new drive as swap instead of the current drive? Any suggestions welcomed. Preferably those that don't involve installing on the 1.06 gigger and making it my boot drive, as I've invested too much time into getting a very oddd networking situation up and running, and I'd rather do as little to change the boot drive as possible. thanks, Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: 4 Dec 1996 23:32:36 GMT Organization: Individual - France Message-ID: <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57kelf$poc@saturn.genoa.com> Uli Zappe wrote: (quoting Art Isbell) > > find . -type f -print | xargs egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' > > If rootDirectoryForFind contains many files, the resulting > > egrep command might exceed the maximum UNIX command length. Well, there's a more direct way of doing this within find : find . -type f -exec egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' {} \; -print Hugues. -------------------------------------------------------------------- hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - French, English, Italian and a few JP ->OK ------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: strange mail process eating cpu time In-Reply-To: dirk@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of 5 Dec 1996 02:01:47 GMT Message-ID: <ukvral5203c.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <585aeb$pj6@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 02:31:35 GMT dirk@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Lachmann-Tarkhanov) said: > > On our mailserver a strange process takes up ~95% of the CPU time. > If I manually kill the process, it goes away for some time, but then > starts up again. Here is the 'ps -auxw' line: > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND > root 164 94.0 1.7 1.62M 272K ? R 76hr -[I think here is a user name] [here is a hostname]: DATA wait (sendmail) > > This thing has been arround for at least 2 weeks...(76 hours is > since the last reboot) > > What is this process? Can I track down how it is created? > > thanks in advance, > Michael Lachmann This isn't a NeXT-specific reply, but just one from a sysadmin's standpoint: sounds like your mail daemon is hanging after some process connects, asserts DATA, and disconnects. It sits there forever, waiting for some data from a nonexistent client. In short, sounds like a sendmail problem. What version are you using? -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Warning: Potential *nasty* bug in OpenWrite (Was: Trojan Horse or Bug?) Date: 8 Dec 1996 00:26:09 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <58d1v1$9ts@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu> <586vmo$89b@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de> <58aac8$14r2@news.doit.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <58aac8$14r2@news.doit.wisc.edu> >BTW - Lighthouse has publicly acknowledged that this bug DOES exist, I think >they posted to c.s.n.software or something like that. > Ok, I am no programming guru, but I'd say that this bug ought to be extremely easy to purge! Come on, what would it take to find the line that has the rm command and modify it? I'd say a new version of OpenWrite could and should be made available immediately if all this is true. Lighthouse? -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Warning: Potential *nasty* bug in OpenWrite (Was: Trojan Horse or Bug?) Date: 8 Dec 1996 00:31:37 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <58d299$9vh@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu> <586vmo$89b@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de> <58aac8$14r2@news.doit.wisc.edu> <58d1v1$9ts@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <58d1v1$9ts@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Posted the following before seeing Lighthouse's response. Looks like a new release will be forthcoming. Thanks, LH. rj On 12/07/96, Randy Jackson wrote: > >>BTW - Lighthouse has publicly acknowledged that this bug DOES >exist, I think >>they posted to c.s.n.software or something like that. >> > > >Ok, I am no programming guru, but I'd say that this bug ought to >be extremely easy to purge! Come on, what would it take to find the >line that has the rm command and modify it? I'd say a new version >of OpenWrite could and should be made available immediately if all >this is true. > >Lighthouse? > > > > >-- > Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o > __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, > _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | >(*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, > FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu > -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: Greg Schaaff <greg@nxs.physics.gatech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: X-Term Emulator? Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 08:03:40 -0500 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Message-ID: <32A6C82C.5F1F@nxs.physics.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know if there is an X-Windows emulator for Next. I am running OpenStep 3.3 on Black. Thanks -- ______________________________________________________ T. G. Schaaff greg@nxs.gatech.edu School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Phone: (404) 894-6814 837 State St. FAX: (404) 894-9958 Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430 http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~ts84/
From: Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX find utility program (xargs is great) Date: 6 Dec 1996 04:20:45 GMT Organization: Genoa Software Systems Message-ID: <5886ut$27c@saturn.genoa.com> References: <57gcp4$36k@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57hild$eh@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <57kelf$poc@saturn.genoa.com> <5851mk$47p@precipice.fdn.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr >> find . -type f -print | xargs egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' Hugues RICHARD wrote: > Well, there's a more direct way of doing this within find : > find . -type f -exec egrep 'aSearchRegularExpression' {} \; -print That works, but using xargs is much more efficient. (find -exec will create a subprocess for every file, xargs sends many files to just a few subprocesses) -- Alex Blakemore alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
From: dirk@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Lachmann-Tarkhanov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: strange mail process eating cpu time Date: 5 Dec 1996 02:01:47 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <585aeb$pj6@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Summary: how is this sendmail process created, why does it take so much cpu time? Keywords: sendmail mail foreign On our mailserver a strange process takes up ~95% of the CPU time. If I manually kill the process, it goes away for some time, but then starts up again. Here is the 'ps -auxw' line: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 164 94.0 1.7 1.62M 272K ? R 76hr -[I think here is a user name] [here is a hostname]: DATA wait (sendmail) This thing has been arround for at least 2 weeks...(76 hours is since the last reboot) What is this process? Can I track down how it is created? thanks in advance, Michael Lachmann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199612071516.KAA16034@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 96 10:16:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Security under NS Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Original Date: 6 Dec 1996 23:40:33 GMT > A new Sendmail, got it, however my mail doesn't get delivered locally via sendmail, but via POP3 from my ISP > Portwrapper, tcp_wrappers? > a program that asks you for the root-pw when booting single user > mode. fortunately I'm not worried about local trouble, since it's just me & the wife, and I don't think she even knows how to boot single user ;-) Thanks -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Trojan horse or bug? (This is scary!!!!!) Date: 5 Dec 1996 02:55:59 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <585djv$sd3@nntp1.best.com> References: <584i3p$30ao@news.doit.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <584i3p$30ao@news.doit.wisc.edu> On 12/04/96, Michael Giddings wrote: >This morning I was trying to save a document from WriteUp, and noticed that >the folder I was trying to save to had disappeared. So I had a look at the >File Viewer and noticed that a whole lot of the files in my home directory >were MISSING! > >THIS IS SCARY!!! Either it is a serious bug in one of the programs I was >running (OpenWrite, WriteUp, LaunchBar, Backspace, Diagram2) OR it is some >kind of trojan horse. There is no way I could have done this accidentally >because there was no terminal window at the time. > >HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS BEFORE? Whatever caused this is VERY bad news. > >Here is a list of things that I was doing or had recently done on the system >that were out of the ordinary, in case any of these things ring any bells: >1. Had for the first time started working with OpenWrite Books, and was in >the process of creating a book. There is a bug in OpenWrite having to do with renaming a chapter in a book which will wipe out all the files in your home directory. A coworker of mine was bitten by it just a couple of weeks ago. Sounds like this may have happened to you. >WHATEVER HAPPENED HERE IS VERY BAD NEWS. Please, if you've *ever* seen >anything like this post here or send email to me. > >-- >Michael Giddings >giddings@chem.wisc.edu >giddings@barbarian.com >(608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 >http://www.barbarian.com > > --
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Telecommuting setup Date: 8 Dec 1996 07:22:34 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <58dqbq$prs@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <589tdd$lde@mark.ucdavis.edu> In-Reply-To: <589tdd$lde@mark.ucdavis.edu> On 12/06/96, Stuart Staniford-Chen wrote: > >I'm about to go off and live in the woods in rural Humboldt County, CA and >telecommute to my job (hurray!). I want to ask about my hardware setup. > >I'm taking with me my old NeXTstation and attached laserprinter, and an >Ecesys Pentium running NeXTStep 3.3 which I use at work. I plan to buy > a) A 4 port twisted pair ethernet hub. > b) A 33600 baud US Robotics Sportster external modem. > >The proposed configuration is > > TwPair TwPair Modem + PPP > Nextstation ======== Hub ======== PC ==== ... ====== ISP > >The general idea is that the Nextstation and the PC will talk via the >ethernet (for filesharing and printing), and this tiny LAN will connect to >the Internet via the modem attached to the PC dialing up a local ISP. > >Is there anything obviously infeasible about this? > >It looks on the Archive like Gatekeeper is the cool application for PPP. I >was thinking that I would set up the LAN to use IP addresses in the 10.* (old >arpanet) range. Obviously I won't broadcast those routes over the PPP line >(by default, routed is run with the -q option). How do I configure the PC to >have the two interfaces? Will packets from the NeXTstation get forwarded to >the outside world by the PC? > >Any other comments on how to set this up very welcome, > >TIA, > >Stuart Staniford-Chen >Computer Security Group, >UC Davis. > Hi, First, just a comment: Why would you need a hub for this? If you have only a small subnet you should only use BNC connectors no twisted pairs. You should only buy an BNC ethernet card for the PC. This is very feasible but you will need to ask your ISP to route packets for both machines to the PC via the PPP connection. In this case you will have a real IP for both machines so 10.* addresses should be forgotten. Otherwise if you would like to ping a machine other than the PC from the NeXTStation the packets would not be returned. There is actually another way to do this without having any real IP address. Only a shell account at a permanently connected computer would be sufficient to start a subnet of your own without asking anything to your provider. Have a look at: http://www.cnrcoll.nf.ca/~rick/slirp/slirp-LAN.html But first, you need to go step by step and configure PPP on the PC. François Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: kpc@enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to drop into ROM monitor? Date: 8 Dec 1996 07:39:53 GMT Organization: diffwerks Message-ID: <kpc-0812960142430001@belial-6.d.enteract.com> Could someone clue me about how to drop into the ROM monitor at start-up using a black ADB keyboard? I've tried every combination of command bar, alternate keys, tilde key and power-on button, without success... thanks.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to assign swap to different drive? Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:34:32 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961204222507.10117C-100000@kira> References: <ukv3exl3kx3.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu In-Reply-To: <ukv3exl3kx3.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> > I'm currently running a 205 meg drive as the boot drive on my slab, but now > that I've formatted and mounted the 1.06gigger, I'd like to move /usr and > /swap over to it. I assume you mean /private/vm when you say /swap > I know I can symlink /usr to point to the new drive, yes, but the files themselves will still be on the 205 meg drive, so I am not sure what you mean > but how can I tell nextstep that I'd rather use part of the new drive as > swap instead of the current drive? the "easiest" way is to label the new drive "swapdisk" and change the /etc/rc.swap to use a higher HIWAT that will also move /tmp over to the new drive, which isn't a bad idea. read all about the swapdisk and swap faq at: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/swapfaq.ps > Any suggestions welcomed. Preferably those that don't involve installing > on the 1.06 gigger and making it my boot drive, as I've invested too > much time into getting a very oddd networking situation up and running, and > I'd rather do as little to change the boot drive as possible. Nonetheless, were I you, and I'm not, I would rather put my system on the newer (presumably faster) drive, and dedicate the 205 meg drive solely to swapping. Heck, if you _really_ wanted to, you could probably use "dd" or dump/restore and make a perfectly new version (on the large drive) of your existing setup (on the smaller drive). A 205 drive is a good size to set aside entirely for swapping. You could easily adapt my rc.swap file: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/rc.swap With a moderate amount of work you could keep your configuration but put it on the new drive, and have the older drive for swapping alone, which is much preferable. If you'd like to talk more about this, feel free to drop me a note. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Security under NS Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 02:50:39 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0812960250390001@slip-47-6.ots.utexas.edu> References: <199612071516.KAA16034@nerc.com> In article <199612071516.KAA16034@nerc.com>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: >> Portwrapper, > >tcp_wrappers? That's essential. But you should also check out portmap, ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/portmap_4.tar.gz a replacement for portmapper which does logging and access control for RPC services (ie, attempts to do for RPC services what tcp_wrappers does for services launched from inetd). Jacques Distler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) Subject: How to make kernel dump core? Message-ID: <1996Dec8.083126.3315@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 08:31:26 GMT I have looked in Digital Librarian, NeXTanswers, FAQ files, and searched the Web, and I could not find an answer to the following questions. Maybe somebody here can help. I am running NeXTstep 3.2 on an original 68040 mono NeXTstation computer, with the original ROM. 1) The machine panics occasionally, and I do not have access to a second machine from which to debug the kernel. Can one have Mach dump a core image? I could then examine the core at my leisure, to determine what was causing the crash. 2) I saw it mentioned in passing that there is a way to cause an automatic reboot when the machine panics. Is this actually possible? The machine is running various services, and must remain up at all times, even when I am away and can't babysit the machine. Thanks g. -- I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. ---Leo Tolstoy PER US CODE 47.227, UNSOLICITED E-MAIL ADS WILL BE BILLED $500/ITEM Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf@math.rochester.edu> http://www.cirp.org/~gtf/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Can't use talk from OpenStep 4.0 Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1x5pr.HAo@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 02:32:15 GMT References: <1996Dec4.162306@umiami> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <1996Dec4.162306@umiami>, Thomas J. Herbert <therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu> wrote: >I can't use talk or ytalk on my new OpenStep 4.0 >system. If I try talk I get: > >[Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] > >Requests from another machine for talk work normally >except that I can't respond from the 4.0 machine. > I've had this happen a few times on my trusty cube running 3.2. It would always go away as mysteriously as it came. I never did figure out what caused it. Since it'll now likely happen tomorrow, I'll keep you all posted... -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Warning: Potential *nasty* bug in OpenWrite (Was: Trojan Horse or Bug?) Date: 5 Dec 1996 06:54:00 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <585ri8$qb6@news.doit.wisc.edu> WARNING: Potential bug that may cause data serious data loss (everything in your home directory)! Earlier today I posted a message after a bunch of files had been wiped out on my hard drive by a "/bin/rm -rf" process that I could not figure out the source of. I was running OpenWrite using the Books feature, rearranging chapters at the time this occurred. At the time I didn't suspect OpenWrite was the cause, so later in the day I resumed work on my *backup* system (kept synchronized with RDIST). As soon as I started working with chapters I had a system panic, due to freeing a freed inode or some such thing. Upon re-boot a bunch of files were missing in my home directory on this system (though the panic seems to have stopped it early enough so it didn't destroy as many as it did this morning). This brought me to start suspecting OpenWrite. Another piece of evidence is that I did a complete text search of the *entire* hard drive for "/bin/rm -rf" and OpenWrite *does* contain that string (and not many other apps do). The last nail is the following, posted earlier by Christopher Wolf in c.s.n.bugs: >There is a bug in OpenWrite having to do with renaming a chapter in a book which >will wipe out all the files in your home directory. A coworker of mine was >bitten by it just a couple of weeks ago. Sounds like this may have happened to >you. Though I cannot currently prove that OpenWrite was the cause (and I'm not about to risk trying it again), at this point I *highly* suspect it has caused data in my accounts on two separate systems to be destroyed (this while my graduate prelim is due in less than 24 hours!) ***I would recommend that people refrain from using any of the book related features of OpenWrite, and possibly refrain from using it at all, until there is a definitive response from Lighthouse regarding this potential bug**** Unfortunately, this may be the final blow that causes me to go over to Windoze and use MS-Word. Sad, I hope it doesn't come to that but it may . . . Michael Giddings (my .signature got lost too)
From: gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to drop into ROM monitor? Date: 8 Dec 1996 15:55:26 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <58eode$cga@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <kpc-0812960142430001@belial-6.d.enteract.com> > Could someone clue me about how to drop into the ROM monitor at start-up > using a black ADB keyboard? During the 'Testing system...' step, press and hold the left-alternate (the one near the Caps Lock key), command, and tilde keys. Hold them down until the ROM monitor comes up. It may take a few moments, because the system has to finish POST first.... Just tried it on my ADB station, so I'm pretty confident this actually works. :) gdm
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 problems Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 11:35:02 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <32A553D6.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <57fctt$grm@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> <581mi3$pn9@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit mmalcolm crawford wrote: > > On 11/26/96, David Bruce wrote: > > I have an ATI Mach64 card while my Matrox is being sent back to the mfgr. > > When booting it complains about (from /usr/adm/messages): > > I/O Ports: Couldn't reserve range 000062ec-000062ef > > Configuredriver: Could not allocate resources for class ati > > and complains about IOProbeDriver not finding something (this flys by as > > the system boots...probably the driver but it seems to be there from my > > perspective). It then registers good ol' b&w VGA. > > I've got the latest ATI driver, 3.37 and the card works fine in w95. > > That's the problem ! The new driver includes new features and new bugs ! I had similar problems with ATI cards and version 3.37 or whatever is included on OS4.0 CD. I had luck with the earlier version 3.34 (i guess). Stefan -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: 8 Dec 1996 18:13:33 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> In article <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> writes: > I have a problem with Mail.app. > The following error message appears in the console window each > time they try: > > MailFetch: Permission denied > I have examined the permissions of both the Mailfetch program and the > spool files and can't see anything wrong. > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Please! Funny, this one just bit us for the first time last week. You must make the permissions on /usr/spool/mail: drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Dec 8 12:35 /usr/spool/mail/ This is because /NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch insists on removing /usr/spool/mail/username after transferring the messages to ~/Mail/active.mbox. Hence every user must have write permission to the /usr/spool/mail directory. Note that this means that any user can remove any other user's incoming mail (though they can't read it). Try it! Most mail-readers, including Pine and Eloquent.app, but not Mail.app, null out /usr/spool/username and hence don't require these vulnerable permissions on /usr/spool/mail. Robert -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Telecommuting setup Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 21:24:05 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Dec8.212405.27128@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <58dqbq$prs@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> In article <58dqbq$prs@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) writes: > On 12/06/96, Stuart Staniford-Chen wrote: > >The general idea is that the Nextstation and the PC will talk via the > >ethernet (for filesharing and printing), and this tiny LAN will > connect to > >the Internet via the modem attached to the PC dialing up a local ISP. > > > >It looks on the Archive like Gatekeeper is the cool application for > PPP. I > >was thinking that I would set up the LAN to use IP addresses in the > 10.* (old > >arpanet) range. Obviously I won't broadcast those routes over the > PPP line > >(by default, routed is run with the -q option). How do I configure > the PC to > >have the two interfaces? Will packets from the NeXTstation get > forwarded to > >the outside world by the PC? Configure the IP address of the PC as being the router for the slab. > This is very feasible but you will need to ask your ISP to route > packets for both machines to the PC via the PPP connection. In this > case you will have a real IP for both machines so 10.* addresses > should be forgotten. Otherwise if you would like to ping a machine > other than the PC from the NeXTStation the packets would not be > returned. > > There is actually another way to do this without having any real IP > address. No, there is another way (later). The NeXTSTEP/Intel + modem combo will run PPP at up to about 38.4kbps, which is a little slower than possible. To up the speed, you can install a rate multiplying serial card in the PC (Hayes ESP, ZyXEL 2S1P or SP111); or you can use a router. To get best speed possible, build a router. You need a cheap PC (no hard disk, with DOS) with your modem, and install IPRoute. This supports NAT, which lets you use a single IP address account from an ISP with an internal network (using 10.x.x.x IP addresses). Or, if you can get an ISDN ISP account, buy a cheap NAT router. The ZyXEL Prestige series are good for this. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: matthew@internet1.net (Matthew Hagerty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT hardware, different OS? Date: Sun, 08 Dec 96 22:13:52 GMT Organization: internet1 Message-ID: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> Is there any other UN*X that will run on the NeXT hardware? I have several NeXTststion Turbo Color computers, but the OS is Mach3.2 and NetInfo keeps getting in the way of making them useful. It's as bad as having to deal with NIS. Is there any way to run the system without NetInfo and the GUI? Thank you, Matthew Hagerty
From: lukeh@xedoc.com.au (Luke Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Security under NS Date: 8 Dec 1996 23:43:55 GMT Organization: Australian Business Access Pty Ltd Message-ID: <58fjrr$i45@tiger.aba.net.au> References: <199612050210.VAA05010@nerc.com> <58aath$451@alice.turbocat.de> Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > >After: > - checking for SETUID programs > - turning off Public Window Server > - turning off "exec" in /etc/inetd.conf > - making sure all the accounts have good passwords > >What security steps should be taken on a NeXT? Set trusted_networks in the root directory of your NetInfo domains to stop people snooping around you passwd database ("127" is a good choice if you only use NetInfo locally). Set login_accounting, secure_passwords, lockout, and discouarge_public_servers as values for the security_options property in the root directory of your local NetInfo domain. have a look at /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/SysAdminManual/14_Security.rtfd. -- Luke
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:12:17 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E24GoH.1Jt@micmac.com> References: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com> Cc: robert@amo.mit.edu In <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com> Robert Lutwak wrote: > You must make the permissions on /usr/spool/mail: > > drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Dec 8 12:35 /usr/spool/mail/ > > > This is because /NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch insists on removing > /usr/spool/mail/username after transferring the messages to > ~/Mail/active.mbox. Hence every user must have write permission > to the /usr/spool/mail directory. > > Note that this means that any user can remove any other user's incoming > mail (though they can't read it). Try it! Are you sure? I have the same permissions as you and can't remove anybody... (not owner!!!) -- mc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199612081827.NAA06722@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 13:27:31 -0500 Subject: Re: How to make kernel dump core? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) Original Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 08:31:26 GMT > 2) I saw it mentioned in passing that there is a way to cause an > automatic reboot when the machine panics. Is this actually > possible? The machine is running various services, and must remain > up at all times, even when I am away and can't babysit the machine. I have found this to be true for _some_ panics. Others just cause the panic window to remain there. I don't know what the magic reason for the difference is. TjL ps -- I believe this is the default behavior. Check the ROM monitor settings and see how it is set (do a "p" at the NeXT prompt) -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat
From: Martin Cron <martman@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Needing to revive a dead cube. Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:29:04 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961208192317.28960A-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: martman Hello All, I just bought a cube at a great price, unfortunately, I can't get it to boot to NextStep. When I turn it on, I get an error 'no default boot device found' and go to the ROM Monitor, so I type bsd -s to get to single user mode, which works Ok. When I trpye bsd (presumably multi-user mode) I get the exact same result. I would appreciate any suggestions telling me what could be keeping me from starting up the multi-user operationg system. (I am assuming that it isn't calling the loginwindow program for some reason) Unfortunately, I don't have the entire sysadmin manual, but rather what parts of it I could copy from a NeXT lab on campus and print. Thanks, -Martin Cron
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Needing to revive a dead cube. Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 22:17:10 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961208221651.21691C-100000@kira> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961208192317.28960A-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Martin Cron <martman@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961208192317.28960A-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> try bsd rootdev=sd0a TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Print panel vs. Shell Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E24HpD.tn@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:34:25 GMT Organization: University of Waterloo I've been having a very strange problem printing to a remote printer attached to a SPARCstation. Doing stuff like "date | lpr" is fine. If I print a document from an app, save it as PostScript using the Print Panel's "Save" button, and then print it using lpr, all is fine. However, if I click the Print Panel's "Print" button, things don't go so well--the remote machine's lpr spite out an error (don't ask what it is--Waterloo has bludgeoned lpd into something not of this earth). I think I'll replace "lpr" with a shell script that prints its arguments, just to get a clue as to what's going on. Anyone else have any ideas? -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Print panel vs. Shell Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E24In8.E6F@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:54:44 GMT References: <E24HpD.tn@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <E24HpD.tn@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > I think I'll replace "lpr" with a shell script that prints its arguments, >just to get a clue as to what's going on. Anyone else have any ideas? > Sorry to follow up my own article, but I did this and discovered that the lpd in question doesn't like the "-s" option that's passed to lpr. If I execute the same lpr command in a shell that the Print Panel uses, I get the same error. If I remove the -s, things are fine. Now, -s tells lpr to use symlinks, rather than copying the file. Surely this won't have an effect on the remote end? Seems very odd to me that it would. Meanwhile, is there an easy way of making the Print Panel not use -s, short of writing a shell script that covers lpr to gobble up the option? -- 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: Santa Claws <jonko@sandman.hiof.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: multiuser problem on NextQube Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 10:52:57 +0100 Organization: Hacker @ Halden Message-ID: <32ABE177.24D1@sandman.hiof.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I discovered a problem on the black i administrate. When multiple users are logged on,(6-8), new ones get thrown out on login. Some of the users have set csh as shell and some have tsch. The users with tsch seems to be the ones that get thrown out. (path for tsch is /usr/local/bin/tsch) Does anyone have a solution for this problem ? (actually, we are in the middle of an exam, and desperately need this machine to work on) Yours Jon Kolbeinsen sysadm nextstat3.hiof.no jonko@gyda.hiof.no
From: burnettn@math.enmu.edu (Nathan C. Burnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT hardware, different OS? Date: 9 Dec 1996 10:29:04 GMT Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <58gplg$m13@sahara.enmu.edu> References: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> Matthew Hagerty (matthew@internet1.net) wrote: : Is there any other UN*X that will run on the NeXT hardware? I have several : NeXTststion Turbo Color computers, but the OS is Mach3.2 and NetInfo keeps : getting in the way of making them useful. It's as bad as having to deal with : NIS. Is there any way to run the system without NetInfo and the GUI? I read that someone had managed to boot Plan 9, Bell Labs (a.k.a. Lucent) latest creation, on a cube. There's info about it in the Plan9 FAQ. OK so Plan9 is exactly a UN*X but it's sorta close in it's own special way. :-) l8r, Nate -- --- Nathan C. Burnett "When you were young, was there time ENMU Systems Administrator called 'one day'?" nathan.burnett@math.enmu.edu -Prick http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt
From: kpc@enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to drop into ROM monitor? Date: 9 Dec 1996 13:17:37 GMT Organization: diffwerks Message-ID: <kpc-0912960720320001@elijah-16.d.enteract.com> References: <kpc-0812960142430001@belial-6.d.enteract.com> <58eode$cga@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Thanks for that. It's etched in my mind now :-) In article <58eode$cga@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) wrote: > During the 'Testing system...' step, press and hold the left-alternate (the > one near the Caps Lock key), command, and tilde keys. Hold them down until > the ROM monitor comes up. It may take a few moments, because the system > has to finish POST first....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 00:21:08 -0500 Subject: /bin/su -> su.nowheel* /bin/su -> su.wheel* Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary can someone explain these two files -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6620 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.nowheel* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6668 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.wheel* Thanks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXT hardware, different OS? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E25JMM.1ws@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:13:33 GMT References: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> <58gplg$m13@sahara.enmu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <58gplg$m13@sahara.enmu.edu>, Nathan C. Burnett <burnettn@math.enmu.edu> wrote: >Matthew Hagerty (matthew@internet1.net) wrote: >: Is there any other UN*X that will run on the NeXT hardware? I have several >: NeXTststion Turbo Color computers, but the OS is Mach3.2 and NetInfo keeps >: getting in the way of making them useful. It's as bad as having to deal with >: NIS. Is there any way to run the system without NetInfo and the GUI? > >I read that someone had managed to boot Plan 9, Bell Labs (a.k.a. Lucent) >latest creation, on a cube. There's info about it in the Plan9 FAQ. OK so >Plan9 is exactly a UN*X but it's sorta close in it's own special way. :-) > However, Plan 9 will *NOT* run on a Turbo machine, and will *NOT* run on colour machines. So reasing why Matthew is out of luck on this one. :-( Short answer: there's no real way to run NeXTSTEP without NetInfo, at least that I'm aware of. You can likely fix it, although it will take some reading of the relavent parts of the NeXTSTEM sysadmin manual (which should be online). -- 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: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: 9 Dec 96 10:50:31 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec9105031@slave.one.net> References: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com> In-reply-to: robert@amo.mit.edu's message of 8 Dec 1996 18:13:33 GMT In article <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com>, robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak) writes: You must make the permissions on /usr/spool/mail: drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Dec 8 12:35 /usr/spool/mail/ This is because /NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch insists on removing /usr/spool/mail/username after transferring the messages to ~/Mail/active.mbox. Hence every user must have write permission to the /usr/spool/mail directory. Note that this means that any user can remove any other user's incoming mail (though they can't read it). Try it! Perhaps _you_ need to try it - because it doesn't work. The "sticky" bit ('t' at the end of the permissions) works specially for directories. Basically, you can create files in the directory and muck with them, but only with your _own_ files. Even though the directory is read-write, the sticky bit says that you can't delete stuff you don't own. Another potential security hole would be a denial-of-service attack by someone creating another user's spoolfile when the other user's Mail.app deleted the original. Fortunately, sendmail appears to force correct permissions in this case. 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: multiuser problem on NextQube Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:12:11 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961209101051.505D-100000@kira> References: <32ABE177.24D1@sandman.hiof.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Santa Claws <jonko@sandman.hiof.no> In-Reply-To: <32ABE177.24D1@sandman.hiof.no> > When multiple users are logged on,(6-8), new ones > get thrown out on login. > Some of the users have set csh as shell and > some have tsch. The users with tsch seems to be > the ones that get thrown out. > (path for tsch is /usr/local/bin/tsch) If '/usr/local/bin/tcsh' is in /etc/shells, I don't see why it would matter. I can see philosophical reasons for throwing users off for using t/csh, but that's another post ;-) TjL
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: su (wheel or not to wheel) Date: 9 Dec 1996 19:33:17 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <58hpht$aqb@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> Keywords: su, wheel, groups In article <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> writes: > > can someone explain these two files > > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6620 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.nowheel* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6668 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.wheel* su can be linked to one of them. su.wheel only allows su's from members of the group wheel. The other does not have this restriction. -- 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
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sniffing ports in NS Date: 9 Dec 1996 19:33:15 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <58hphr$e0d@news.tamu.edu> Could someone tell me how to check if I'm getting communication over a particular port? Right now I'm trying to check for UDP (over port 7657?). I'm not able to NXHost over ppp. Stephen -- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net Computer Consulting Int'l, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS on IBM Aptiva? Date: 9 Dec 1996 19:58:17 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <58hr0p$cmf@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I am going to purchase two new P200's to run NS 4.1 or 3.3 (if I can still buy an academic version). I have priced several machines that would be custom setup to run NS. I really like the looks of the IBM Aptiva. Reminds me a lot of the original NS machines. The problem that I have is that when you call the vendors, they sell the machines in one configuration only and are not good at telling me the hardware specifics inside the machine so I am worried that NS might not run on it without purchasing additional items. Has anyone put NS on an Aptiva? Thanks for any insight. -- Darryl _________________________________________________________________ Darryl L. James | darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail Texas Tech University | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/ME_Dept/ _________________________________________________________________
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: su (wheel or not to wheel) Date: 9 Dec 1996 19:52:48 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <58hqmg$a0d@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> <58hpht$aqb@crcnis3.unl.edu> Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: : In article <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> writes: : > : > can someone explain these two files : > : > : > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6620 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.nowheel* : > : > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6668 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.wheel* : su can be linked to one of them. su.wheel only allows su's from members of : the group wheel. The other does not have this restriction. No, this is wrong. From the manpage: 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. -- 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: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT hardware, different OS? Date: 9 Dec 1996 19:40:11 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <58hpur$eik@news.tamu.edu> References: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> In-Reply-To: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> On 12/08/96, Matthew Hagerty wrote: >Is there any other UN*X that will run on the NeXT hardware? I have several >NeXTststion Turbo Color computers, but the OS is Mach3.2 and NetInfo keeps >getting in the way of making them useful. It's as bad as having to deal with >NIS. Is there any way to run the system without NetInfo and the GUI? > >Thank you, >Matthew Hagerty > You can set them up as standalone, no netinfo, just using the standard unix files for networking, users, etc. But netinfo is really quite nice, its grasping the basic concepts that is the big first step. Stephen -- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net Computer Consulting Int'l, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717
From: robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a question - vt100 emulation with terminal.app or stuart.app Date: 9 Dec 1996 18:50:43 GMT Organization: "CARDEROCKDIV CDNSWC" Message-ID: <58hn23INNa2@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Hi Looking for info on getting keyboard mapping for vt100 emulation to work with terminal.app or stuart.app - we are working with NS 3.0 on a nextstation and are having no luck in getting the keyboard mapping to work - any and all insight : advice :etc much welcomed :) we only really need for the PF 1 - PF 4 keys to function correctly to tie into the host applications - but are still not having any luck Thanks Bob K PS - have tried various preference settings to no avail :\ -- Bob Kurhajetz Department of the Navy | NSWC CD | Code 3441 | S + T Media Lab Bethesda, MD 20084 | 301 227-1157 VOICE | 301 227-3360 FAX MIME bob@monet.dt.navy.mil | NEXTMAIL robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil "objects in mirror are closer than they appear"
From: Dan Pritts <danno@us.itd.umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT hardware, different OS? Date: 10 Dec 1996 02:34:25 GMT Organization: University of Michigan, Operations Management Message-ID: <58ii7h$8ed@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> References: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> Originator: danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu In article <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net>, Matthew Hagerty <matthew@internet1.net> wrote: >Is there any other UN*X that will run on the NeXT hardware? I have several >NeXTststion Turbo Color computers, but the OS is Mach3.2 and NetInfo keeps >getting in the way of making them useful. It's as bad as having to deal with >NIS. Is there any way to run the system without NetInfo and the GUI? You aren't using it as a computer, but as an X terminal, but I found a reasonable way to make these things useful. This assumes that an X terminal is useful to you. Note that I have not tested this with color machines, i don't knwo whether or how well it will work. get yourself a copy of Cub'X version 4.x (the current is 5.x but they will sell you an older version if you ask nicely and explain why). Cub'X is an X11R5 server (also has clients). It has one essential feature over the other X packages for NeXT: it can run without benefit of NextStep user interface (others need it to handle keyboard/mouse I/O, etc). Cub'X 5.0 removed this feature. Disable nextstep UI by editing /etc/ttys (RTFM if necessary) and rebooting. Add a line in /etc/rc.local that starts the cub'X X server with the -query option (or perhaps -indirect), which tells it to issue an XDMCP connection to the host given on the command line and request a login window. (just like an x terminal does). Voila, a useful computer. Cub'X cost me $100/copy academic. I don't know what the normal cost is. intuisys.com is the vendor; claire@intuisys.com was an e-mail address that worked for me. I've also heard rumors of an Open BSD port but it's in the planning stages. -- dan pritts Unix System Admin First Virtual Holdings, Inc. danno@fv.com 313-213-3791
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: 10 Dec 1996 17:43:15 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-69.usc.edu Message-ID: <58k7fj$2b6@usc.edu> References: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com> <SHESS.96Dec9105031@slave.one.net> Cc: shess@one.net In <SHESS.96Dec9105031@slave.one.net> Scott Hess wrote: > Perhaps _you_ need to try it - because it doesn't work. The "sticky" > bit ('t' at the end of the permissions) works specially for > directories. Basically, you can create files in the directory and muck > with them, but only with your _own_ files. Even though the directory > is read-write, the sticky bit says that you can't delete stuff you > don't own. > > Another potential security hole would be a denial-of-service attack by > someone creating another user's spoolfile when the other user's > Mail.app deleted the original. Fortunately, sendmail appears to force > correct permissions in this case. I think that the logically most secure method would be to change sendmail's delivery from /usr/mail/spool to holding areas in each specific user's home directory. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: phy070@spo312.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: strange mail process eating cpu time Date: 10 Dec 1996 17:55:53 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <58k879$jmo@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <585aeb$pj6@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <ukvral5203c.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> <588atk$e2a@uruguay.earthlink.net> The reason for -HELO or -DATA or -AA sessions is in (in this case) incoming mail. HELO greets (enveloppe matters), DATA (or AA) accepts the mailbody. If the mail hangs and the protocol can't detect it for whatever reason, it will stay this way forever - which is the next boot, of course (so much for eternity). So if a process is more than a day old and the incoming mail doesn't seem overly large (you would know this), it is save to kill DATA or HEL. Try a '-1' (HUP) or '-3' (QUIT) kill first and then a normal kill. The latter is most often needed. Do a kill -9 (KILL) only if really, really necessary to get rid of the process. It hurts more, than it does good normally - leaving files and ports/sockets in a mess. Then look into /usr/spool/mqueue and clean up there, if necessary - it often is. Bye, 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: Randy M Bowie <bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for HP Laserjet 6MP, 5M or 4MV Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:43:49 -0600 Organization: Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering Message-ID: <32ADAF65.7A56@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have any experience using a printer with multiple sheet feeder trays with NeXTStep? I'm really interested in drivers that support switching between trays in the HP laserjet 6MP, 5M or 4MV. I know I can run them as postscript printers but I want to be able to set which tray is used from the print panel. It would also be nice to kick in the draft mode from the print panel as well. Thanks for your help! Randy Bowie bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: installing Win95 on dual partition Win3.1/NS system Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:14:10 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <58kjr2$es@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I've got a system with 2 HD partitions, one running DOS/Win3.1 and the other NS3.2/Intel with the NEXTSTEP boot selector. I want to install Win95 to the DOS/Win3.1 partition. Will the Win95 upgrade CD installation process blow away the NEXTSTEP installed boot selector? Can I prevent this? How do I re-install the NS boot selector after it has been blown away? Couldn't find anything about this in the NS/Intel installation instructions. I did read a Win95 install README that talked about the same problem/process with OS/2 but it talked about the boot manager having a separate partition viewable with FDisk and that doesn't seem to be the case for the NS boot manager. -Karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: How to make a boot floppy ?? Message-ID: <E27LIE.Iz@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:49:26 GMT Hi, I have an Intel system where I need to boot from a floppy disk but have no idea how to do it automatically. It is possible to insert a disk and type "sd(0,a)mach_kernel" manually and the system will boot just fine. But I can't figure out a way to make it boot right away. The one thing I tried way to copy the System.config onto the disk and then modiy its Instance0.table to include Kernel="sd(0,a)mach_kernel"...but this has the effect that it will try to load all system drivers from the floppy disk...and I don't want that. I looked all over NeXTanswers but there is no document dealing with this kind of booting and so I am stuck. :-( Anybody know how to get this going ? Aloha Tomi
From: jmosher@think.com (Jessica Mosher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: question about fonts Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:58:08 -0500 Organization: Newsgate Sender: root@bone.think.com Message-ID: <9612110258.AA04689@gandalf.think.com> This is embarrassing... A year ago I replaced the disk on my NeXT and installed 3.2 from scratch. Now I'm trying to install some fonts, but I've had no luck with setting up the afm directory, outlines, etc. etc. In short, I've forgotten how to get the fonts installed, and the online sysadmin documentation AND my NeXT books don't detail the process. I found a reference to a Font Manager, but there is no such thing on my system. I ran buildafmdir according to its manual page but the font panels aren't changed in any of my applications. Please email me either the procedure or a pointer to the faq where it is. I'm sure there are instructions somewhere, but I'm missing them, which I recall doing three years ago when this issue came up before. Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jessica L. Mosher Thinking Machines Corporation Systems Support Engineer c/o American Express The secret of the universe is @*&^^^ NO CARRIER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ jmosher@Think.COM Pager: 1-800-946-4646
From: jmosher@think.com (Jessica Mosher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: font question: Never mind.. Date: 10 Dec 1996 23:47:10 -0500 Organization: Newsgate Sender: root@bone.think.com Message-ID: <9612110447.AA04960@gandalf.think.com> I found an old faq about a 3.1 bug and some other old, old documentation and was able to piece together a workaround. Thanks for any responses, though...I have n't tried the fonts with Frame yet, so may still need them. =) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jessica L. Mosher Thinking Machines Corporation Systems Support Engineer c/o American Express The secret of the universe is @*&^^^ NO CARRIER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ jmosher@Think.COM Pager: 1-800-946-4646
From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS on IBM Aptiva? Date: 11 Dec 1996 10:34:29 GMT Organization: Nanyang Technological University Message-ID: <58m2nl$gk4@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> References: <58hr0p$cmf@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Darryl L. James (darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu) wrote: : I am going to purchase two new P200's to run NS 4.1 or 3.3 (if I can : still buy an academic version). I have priced several machines that : would be custom setup to run NS. I really like the looks of the IBM : Aptiva. Reminds me a lot of the original NS machines. The problem : that I have is that when you call the vendors, they sell the machines : in one configuration only and are not good at telling me the hardware : specifics inside the machine so I am worried that NS might not run on : it without purchasing additional items. Has anyone put NS on an : Aptiva? Thanks for any insight. Please report back on this one, when you know YES or NO. Willem
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: 11 Dec 96 04:47:01 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec11044701@slave.one.net> References: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com> <SHESS.96Dec9105031@slave.one.net> <58k7fj$2b6@usc.edu> In-reply-to: reichman@usc.edu's message of 10 Dec 1996 17:43:15 GMT In article <58k7fj$2b6@usc.edu>, reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes: I think that the logically most secure method would be to change sendmail's delivery from /usr/mail/spool to holding areas in each specific user's home directory. That would be a pretty tough nut to crack. Currently the de facto standard setup is to have a mail hub handling all incoming email, generally by stuffing it into a local spool directory. That spool directory is then NFS mounted to other machines on the network. Putting the mailfiles in user's home directories would invert that, the mail hub would have to mount the home directories, possibly from many places. Then you get the problems associated with "User goes in and screws things up" and "User's home directory is on their personal machine, which they power down at night." Admittedly, these can be worked around, but the current solution localizes things so that you only fix it in one place rather than all over the place. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /bin/su -> su.nowheel* /bin/su -> su.wheel* Date: 11 Dec 1996 00:07:42 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <58ku0e$q38@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > >can someone explain these two files > >-rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6620 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.nowheel* >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6668 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.wheel* > Timothy!?!? :-) Read the man pages!! The second one is installed by default. The first one is a convenience version with setuid bit and allows user passwords. Greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz scholz@leo.org
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /bin/su -> su.nowheel* /bin/su -> su.wheel* Date: 11 Dec 1996 16:22:58 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <58mn52$pkq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> <58ku0e$q38@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@leo.org> wrote: : Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: : > : >can someone explain these two files : > : >-rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6620 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.nowheel* : >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6668 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.wheel* : > : Timothy!?!? :-) : Read the man pages!! : The second one is installed by default. The first one is a convenience : version with setuid bit and allows user passwords. Wrong! It's the other way round. su.nowheel is the normal, su.wheel is the convenience version, which is less secure (see manpage) -- 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: lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu (Sean La Shell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network trouble Date: 11 Dec 1996 16:12:04 GMT Organization: Default Usenet Organization Distribution: brandeis Message-ID: <58mmgk$jps@new-news.cc.brandeis.edu> Our network is being upgraded from a thin wire network to a ten base t network. The technician got a converter box so that our cube can talk to the ten base t network. The converter box works fine on other computers, but not on the cube. Everything SEEMS to be okay, but mail gets delayed and you can't always telnet INTO the machine. (Can telnet OUT fine.) We've tried 2 different brands of converter boxes and neither seems to work. Any words of wisdom? Thanks in advance! Sean La Shell lashell@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu
From: lasala@u.washington.edu (Steve LaSala) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: need help with modem software Date: 11 Dec 1996 17:54:23 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Sender: steve@icis.washington.edu (Steve LaSala) Message-ID: <58msgf$6ud@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <5717kc$4am@pauli.cnam.fr> NNTP-Posting-User: lasala I have an old NeXT machine (original cube, vintage ~1990), that I'm trying to set up at home to work remotely. This is one of those typical university situations where there is no money and your work with the hardware you have. The modem available is a US Robotics Sportster 14,400. Unfortunately, all the documentation that came with it assumes you are attaching to a PC. There is a 9-pin port on the back of the cube with an icon that might be a modem (or a printer?), or do I just go to a vanilla serial port. Any special cabling needs I should be aware of? Most important, I'm not sure what kind of software I should be looking for to drive the modem. Is there any chance of getting the machine to behave like an X-term, or should I be happy with a VT100 window? What's my best bet and where can I get it? Many thanks for any insights. Steve LaSala Seattle, WA steve@icis.washington.edu
From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD for HP Laserjet 6MP, 5M or 4MV Date: 11 Dec 1996 19:50:58 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <58n3b2$47g@transfer.stratus.com> References: <32ADAF65.7A56@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> In article <32ADAF65.7A56@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> Randy M Bowie <bowie@hydra.cche.olemiss.edu> writes: > Does anyone have any experience using a printer with multiple sheet > feeder trays with NeXTStep? > > I'm really interested in drivers that support switching between trays > in the HP laserjet 6MP, 5M or 4MV. I know I can run them as postscript > printers but I want to be able to set which tray is used from the print > panel. > > It would also be nice to kick in the draft mode from the print panel as > well. > > Thanks for your help! I usually just grab the ppd's from HP's web site. Did you try this ? Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,control From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Message-ID: <cancel.58ncgi$f2l@hil-news-svc-5.compuserve.com> Control: cancel <58ncgi$f2l@hil-news-svc-5.compuserve.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <58ncgi$f2l@hil-news-svc-5.compuserve.com> no reply ignore Organization: Semi-Automatic Chain Letter Remover Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 22:27:24 GMT Sender: invest@goldbergservices.com ignore Make Money Fast post canceled by news@news.msfc.nasa.gov. Make Money Fast has been posted thousands of times, enough to qualify as cancel-on-sight spam. The chain letter scheme it describes is illegal in many countries. For example, see: http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
From: wtheller@hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a network problem Date: 11 Dec 1996 23:54:36 GMT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Message-ID: <58nhjs$1ra@listserv.rice.edu> Hi, I am having this problem with one of the Intel machines in our lab (Micron P90). We had to replace the motherboard because it was dead. Now that I have a new motherboard installed, I can get the thing to boot up properly, but all of the services involving the network take forever to come up (during a -v boot). Once the machine has completed bootup, everything is slower than sluggish. I removed the network from the configuration at one point, and the machine seems to be its old self, when there is no network. I have tried "ping" from another machine in the lab, and the results are nothing like a healthy machine in the lab. A healthy machine gives the following report for "ping." PING Statistics---- 7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 0/1/9 The machine which we are having problems with gives results like: PING Statistics---- 39 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 66% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 6809/12066/15849 I am of the opinion that the network board died with the motherboard (for whatever reason). Does anyone else have any other suggestions for things to try? Any help would be very much appreciated. William Heller Rice University Physics Department
From: john@getafix.demon.co.uk (John Shirlaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Printing text to a non PS printer Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:35:26 GMT Message-ID: <850347326.13675.0@getafix.demon.co.uk> Q: Is there a way to send plain text files to a nextwork printer that is not a Postscript printer. The situation is I have a simple Inkjet pinter cpnnected to the network my next is own. All I want to print is program listing, hence there is no real nead to bother with postscript. Is there a program out there, or a mechanism that would alow me to send the file directly to the printer. I belive lpr does not work as it expects to be conected to a PS printer. Thanks for the help Regards John shirlaw
Control: cancel <58nc2v$bv1u@usenet1w.prodigy.net> From: Subscribe2@Juno.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <58nc2v$bv1u@usenet1w.prodigy.net> Message-ID: <Can_58nc2v$bv1u@usenet1w.prodigy.net> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 22:20:21 GMT Cancelled - doesn't fit Prodigy(r) "Terms of Use" Questions to admin@prodigy.com
From: schulhof@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: test Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:53:12 Message-ID: <58noi4$bap@news1-alterdial.uu.net> this is only a test, john do you see this.
From: lynne@lighthouse.com (Lynne Fitzpatrick Angeloro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: New version of OpenWrite 2.1-8 is now available Date: 12 Dec 1996 04:40:44 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <58o2cc$5c8@nntp1.best.com> Hi all, The new version of OpenWrite 2.1-8 is now available from our ftp site: ftp://ftp.lighthouse.com/pub/products/OpenWrite/ This version fixes the "deleting home directory files" bug identified late last week. NOTE: OpenWrite is a LARGE app, and our site is going to be pretty busy for the next week or so, so be patient and try to download late at night if you are having trouble getting connected. Best Regards, Lynne Angeloro -- Lynne Fitzpatrick Angeloro Manager Education & Services Lighthouse Design, Ltd. a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Business 2929 Campus Drive San Mateo, CA 94403-2534
From: Joe Freeman <joe@freemansoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Turbo as getway to internet (security) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:53:11 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32AF8FB7.32B0@freemansoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm thinking of using my NeXT turbo as a gateway to the internet for my local network. The idea is that I'd bring up PPP and then run a proxy server on the NeXT box so that the inside machines could do web browsing and news reading (assunming navigator can use proxies for news reading) So I wondering if any one is doing the following and how comfortable are they with the security of their NeXT system. 1) Remove all unnecessary user ids on the next box. It appears that there are at least 6 user ids that come with the system (agent, bin, nobody, root, sync, sys and uucp. Can I kill any of these? 2) I'd like to remove as many unnecessary services as possible. It appears that I can kill quite a few. Is there a FAQ out there that might tell me what I need? 3) I'm going to kill off most of the commands I'd imagine this includes telnet, ftp and all that good stuff. 4) Do I want to kill Netinfo? 5) I want to configure sendmail (a monster security whole in itself) so that all mail for my domain goes to a mail server behind the NeXT box. I also want to configure sendmail so that all mail to outside my domain is sent directly from sendmail. Does this sound hard? In other words I don't want any mail stored on this box. Any pointers on these topics are appreciated. <joe>
From: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP!: I need a whole bunch of daemons for 3.2 on black! Date: 12 Dec 1996 03:23:50 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn5auu7d.cn.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> Well, something truly random happened, and most of the daemons in /usr/ect on my black turbo running 3.2 have completely disappeared from my disk, only dangling symlinks from /usr/etc/* remain, pointed to fonts in my LocalLibrary! lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 36 Apr 13 1996 rrestore.old -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmr12.font/cmr12@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 36 Apr 13 1996 rshd -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmr10.font/cmr10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 rwhod -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmbx12.font/cmbx12@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 sa -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmbx10.font/cmbx10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 scsilock -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmss10.font/cmss10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 scsimodes -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/euex10.font/euex10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 sdform -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmtt10.font/cmtt10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 shutdown -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmti10.font/cmti10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 snmpd -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmmi10.font/cmmi10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 talkd -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmsy10.font/cmsy10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 34 Apr 13 1996 telnetd -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmr7.font/cmr7@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 36 Apr 13 1996 tftpd -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/cmsy7.font/cmsy7@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 36 Apr 13 1996 timedc -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/euex7.font/euex7@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 36 Apr 13 1996 tunefs -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/euex8.font/euex8@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 38 Apr 13 1996 vipw -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/eufb10.font/eufb10@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 36 Apr 13 1996 vmoprint -> /LocalLibrary/Fonts/eufb5.font/eufb5@ Would some kind soul out there NeXTmail me a copy so I don't have to borrow a CD ROM in order to reinstall? I'll make a new drive for myself in the near future, but until then, I do need to be able to work! -- _____________________________________________________________________ Paul Brown Grad student, UCB mathematics (510)-843-7817 pbrown@math.berkeley.edu http://math.berkeley.edu/~pbrown/ NeXTmail preferred. _____________________________________________________________________
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to Setup Samba Under OPENSTEP?? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:02:58 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32af5989.411617@netnews.hinet.net> It is nice to see OPENSTEP includes a SAMBA program, but there is no documentation tells me how to set it up. I have run the "install-samba" file by using the "sh install-samba" command under the terminal, and it did complete the installation by adding lines to inted.config and Netinfo. After this, I reboot the OPENSTEP machine but can't find any NeXT's drive under Win95's PC. What did I do wrong? Do I have to do any configuration? If yes, What do I have to do?? Please HELP!! best Regards, Batmon batmon@abico.com.tw Merry X'mas :>
From: "Håkan Jonsson" <hajons@combitech.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q:Local domain Date: 12 Dec 1996 08:23:55 GMT Organization: Dell Computer Corporation Message-ID: <01bbe806$29906f80$1f504b92@P080031.software.combitech.se> Hi! I recently switched ppp-provider and made the proper changes to the necessary files (resolv.conf and pppup), I thought. Ftp and telnet works fine, but when I try to start OmniWeb2.0 I get the following message: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping. , and OmniWeb goes asleep. Why? The messages file or ppp log file gives no clue. Yours, Håkan Jonsson
From: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Aaaa!! My HW is going to hell in a handbasket! Date: 12 Dec 1996 11:00:41 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn5avovu.6g.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> Everything I say below references my beloved Turbo slab. I managed to recover a bunch of the necessary daemons from a friend's 3.3 machine, and everything works OK to within reason. (At last well enough to allow me to work.) However, I tried using BuildDisk.app. Everything went fine, including installing the Foundation Patch and a few other miscillaneous items, but when booted, the new disk claims that "mach_init" and "init" fail on "signal 2". Unfortunately, the man pages for "init" and "mach_init" have nothing to say abot error signals. What can I do to get a bootable disk?!? -- _____________________________________________________________________ Paul Brown Grad student, UCB mathematics (510)-843-7817 pbrown@math.berkeley.edu http://math.berkeley.edu/~pbrown/ NeXTmail preferred. _____________________________________________________________________
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT hardware, different OS? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:12:03 -0600 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <32B020C3.369B@pswtech.com> References: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthew Hagerty wrote: > Is there any other UN*X that will run on the NeXT hardware? I have several > NeXTststion Turbo Color computers, but the OS is Mach3.2 and NetInfo keeps > getting in the way of making them useful. It's as bad as having to deal with > NIS. Is there any way to run the system without NetInfo and the GUI? There was some work done on a FreeBSD port, but I don't know the status of that. Since I haven't heard anything recently, I would guess it's not available. It is possible to incorporate NS machines into a regular UNIX network, w/o too much trouble. Take a look at Chapter 11 of the NS SysAdmin book. (It's in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin if you don't have the hardcopy.) ____________________________________________________________________ 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: Santa Claws <jonko@sandman.hiof.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ARGH! Total Crash!! Need Doctor! Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 18:30:27 +0100 Organization: Hacker @ Halden Message-ID: <32B04115.1A86@sandman.hiof.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My harddisk just got a media error, and it wont boot . .... UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY : RUN fsck MANUALLY reboot failed....help!!! faking root mount entries # .... Is there ANY program out there that could save my disk ?? (recover/salvage) Any help will do!! Jon
From: dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Looking for a list of kernel boot params Date: 13 Dec 1996 00:46:19 GMT Organization: PlainTalk Distribution: world Message-ID: <58q90r$eqf@Holly.aa.net> Does anyone know what command line boot parameters exist for the mach kernel under NS 3.3? (e.g., nbu and npro). -dpg
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to move User data to another PC? Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 03:06:42 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32b0c6fd.526956@netnews.hinet.net> Hi, We are using NeXT Cube with NeXT v3.3 as Web Server in our office. We have been using this Server for about a year now and feel like we should upgrade the Server's hardware to Pentium Pro 200 to increase server's speed. The question is, if we setup a Pentium Pro 200 with OPENSTEP, how do we transfer old server's users' info and Netinfo to the new server?? Any idea? Best Regards, batmon@abico.com.tw Merry X'mas :>
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to Setup Samba Under OPENSTEP?? Date: 13 Dec 1996 08:02:49 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <58r2j9$b2v@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <32af5989.411617@netnews.hinet.net> > Do I have to do any configuration? If yes, What do I have to > do?? Read "man smb.conf" for the configuration on the NeXT side. On Win95 clients you have to check whether TCP/IP and Microsoft Network Services are installed correctly and if your workgroup or domain name is consistent with the SMB configuration parameters. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP Problems --> Please Help Date: 13 Dec 1996 13:46:46 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <58rmo6$s3l@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: CAP Keywords: CAP I compiled CAP patch level 198 (I used BPF underneath). Afterwards I make startserver and it doesn't work: citenext# /usr/local/cap/start-cap-servers ioctl: set interface: No such device or address 14:20:44 12/13/96 pi_open: aarp_init: No such device or address init_enet: network initialization failed Interface /dev/bpf0, zone *, abInit: [ddp: 0.00, 0] starting 14:20:45 12/13/96 Reply num max for lkup reply is 5 (based on 104) 14:20:45 12/13/96 NIS: NIS socket not available: error -1: Address already in use 14:20:45 12/13/96 ECHO: ECHO socket not available: error -1: Address already in use Apple Unix File Server (citenext:AFPServer@*) starting citenext# Can anybody help me what's going wrong? I don't know why, but ioctl can't set the special file. Thanks for any help. Phil
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /bin/su -> su.nowheel* /bin/su -> su.wheel* Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:44:05 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <32AD3EF5.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <199612090521.AAA13222@nerc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > can someone explain these two files > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6620 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.nowheel* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6668 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.wheel* > > Thanks > TjL > > -- > Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) > http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat 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. -- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: jut@ukrv.de (J.-U. Thieme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: installing Win95 on dual partition Win3.1/NS system Date: 13 Dec 1996 16:22:31 GMT Organization: Charité - Virchow-Klinikum , Medical Faculty of Humboldt-University in Berlin Distribution: world Message-ID: <58rvs8$148@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <58kjr2$es@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Cc: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU In <58kjr2$es@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Karl Pfleger wrote: > I've got a system with 2 HD partitions, one running DOS/Win3.1 and the other > NS3.2/Intel with the NEXTSTEP boot selector. I want to install Win95 to the > DOS/Win3.1 partition. Will the Win95 upgrade CD installation process blow > away the NEXTSTEP installed boot selector? Can I prevent this? How do I > re-install the NS boot selector after it has been blown away? > > Couldn't find anything about this in the NS/Intel installation instructions. > I did read a Win95 install README that talked about the same problem/process > with OS/2 but it talked about the boot manager having a separate partition > viewable with FDisk and that doesn't seem to be the case for the NS boot > manager. > > -Karl > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Here is the answer : ------ Jon Day <jonday@wpi.edu> wrote: > on my Intel box. All was well until I I installed windows 95. It knocked > out my boot prompt for NeXT. Boot Win95, start FDISK and set the NEXTSTEP partition "active". When you reboot, NEXTSTEP will start normally. Then login as root and enter in a terminal window disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a (Use /dev/rhd0a instead of /dev/rsd0a if you have an IDE disk, not a SCSI disk.) This will restore the NeXT boot sector. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 Mail: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (MIME/NeXT accepted) WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink -------- 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: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ARGH! Total Crash!! Need Doctor! Date: 13 Dec 1996 14:02:42 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <58rnm2$lvt@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <32B04115.1A86@sandman.hiof.no> Santa Claws <jonko@sandman.hiof.no> wrote: : My harddisk just got a media error, and it wont boot . : .... : UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY : RUN fsck MANUALLY : reboot failed....help!!! : faking root mount entries : # : .... : Is there ANY program out there that could save my disk ?? : (recover/salvage) fsck and reasb should be able to do it (if the disk is not really broken) Run fsck by hand fsck /dev/rsd0a (assuming the bad blocks are on the system disk) When fsck reports that it can't read some blocks, try to reassign them using reasb /dev/rsd0a number_of_sector -r (number_of_sector will be given in the error output) if this doesn't work, try the same command without -r rerun fsck repeat until fsck gets through to the end. BE CAREFUL.... HTH Axel -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app crashes opening 12meg mbox Date: 13 Dec 1996 20:59:32 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <01bbe93a$28ea2870$3e031281@bananajr> References: <581ogj$n4b@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Try deleting the Outgoing.mbox/table_of_contents file. I've had a few cases of corrupted TOC files causing Mail to die. -Mark Geoffrey Matthews <matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu> wrote in article <581ogj$n4b@ra.cc.wwu.edu>... > Running NS 3.3 Intel, get a "caught signal 11" error > every time Mail.app tries to open a 12 meg Outgoing.mbox > file. Mail.app immediately quits. > > Any hints? > > -- > Geoffrey Matthews > matthews@cs.wwu.edu > voice:360-650-3797 > fax:360-650-7788 > >
From: robert@darkstar.erols.com (Robert Lutwak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Panic> recv uart overrun Date: 13 Dec 1996 16:07:19 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <58ruvn$coi@boursy.news.erols.com> Hi. I've just installed PPP version 2.2-0.4.6 on my 68040 NeXTcube running NS3.2, in order to connect to a commercial internet provider. Last time I toyed with PPP, several years ago, it was plagued with these "recv uart overrun" panics, and I abandoned it. I thought the problem was fixed now. There's a mention in the PPP documentation about using the latest serial drivers, but that's just for i386, right? Now I get a panic about once out of every ten times I use PPP, usually shortly after connect. I'm using /dev/cufa and rts/cts flow control, a Supra V.42 modem and a cable from B&W software (the NXFax guys). My Supra initialization is simply "AT&F2" (Autoreliable, RTS/CTS, Error Corrected Async, Disconnect on dropped DTR). Thanks for any advice or pointers you can provide, Robert -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP Problems --> Please Help Date: 13 Dec 1996 22:06:39 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <58sk1f$3f@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <58rmo6$s3l@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: CAP Keywords: CAP On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Ken Lui wrote: > In article <58rmo6$s3l@uni2f.unige.ch> you write: > >I compiled CAP patch level 198 (I used BPF underneath). > >Afterwards I make startserver and it doesn't work: > > > >citenext# /usr/local/cap/start-cap-servers > >ioctl: set interface: No such device or address > >14:20:44 12/13/96 pi_open: aarp_init: No such device or address > >init_enet: network initialization failed > >Interface /dev/bpf0, zone *, abInit: [ddp: 0.00, 0] starting > > Run the commands in start-cap-servers manually and see what commands > are failing. Following the commands an their outputs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ${CAP}/aarpd -D 20 /dev/bpf0 "*" ioctl: set interface: No such device or address 22:57:52 12/13/96 pi_open: aarp_init: No such device or address init_enet: network initialization failed Interface /dev/bpf0, zone *, # # ${CAP}/atis abInit: [ddp: 0.00, 0] starting 22:58:59 12/13/96 Reply num max for lkup reply is 5 (based on 104) 22:59:00 12/13/96 NIS: NIS socket not available: error -1: Address already in use 22:59:00 12/13/96 ECHO: ECHO socket not available: error -1: Address already in use # # ${CAP}/snitch -S -f "SUN 4 SunOS 4.0 UNIX" -l lwsrv # ${CAP}/lwsrv -n "Technical Services Spool" -p lw.tsa ${LWARGS} # ${CAP}/aufs -U 20 -V ${LIB}/afpvols -l ${LOGf} -n `hostname` Apple Unix File Server (citenext:AFPServer@*) starting # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'd say many of the problems in the following commands are because of the failing first one. > Did you install BPF properly? I'd say yes. Because it loads the LKD without any problems. Apart from that I don't know how I could test it. Many thanks already for this hint Phil
From: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP Panic> recv uart overrun Date: 13 Dec 1996 17:42:24 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <58s4i0$lc6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <58ruvn$coi@boursy.news.erols.com> In article <58ruvn$coi@boursy.news.erols.com> robert@darkstar.erols.com (Robert Lutwak) writes: > Hi. > > I've just installed PPP version 2.2-0.4.6 on my > 68040 NeXTcube running NS3.2, in order to connect > to a commercial internet provider. > > Last time I toyed with PPP, several years ago, it > was plagued with these "recv uart overrun" panics, and > I abandoned it. I thought the problem was fixed now. > There's a mention in the PPP documentation about using > the latest serial drivers, but that's just for i386, right? > > Now I get a panic about once out of every ten times I > use PPP, usually shortly after connect. > > I'm using /dev/cufa and rts/cts flow control, a Supra > V.42 modem and a cable from B&W software (the NXFax guys). > My Supra initialization is simply "AT&F2" (Autoreliable, > RTS/CTS, Error Corrected Async, Disconnect on dropped DTR). > > > Thanks for any advice or pointers you can provide, > > Robert > > -- > Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu I'm using the same configuration and get the same messages sometimes. Not sure of the conditions except fairly heavy usage by different applications. Any hints appreciated. -- J. W. Wooten <jwooten@korrnet.org> http://sacam.oren.ortn.edu/~wooten Internet Consultant NeXTmail preferred, MIME is welcome Please finger woo@160.91.216.2 for PGP public key
Message-ID: <32B1D641.25A1@nmaa.org> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:18:41 -0800 From: Daniel Fahey <dansources@nmaa.org> Organization: DanSources Technical Services Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.,announce,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.lang.objective-c Subject: Corba and Next Developers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HELLO CORBA and NEXT Developers: We are seeking a bunch of contract C++, Corba, Object Oriented and OpenStep Developers for a large and long telecommunications program located in the Washington, DC. area. Our client is developing most of their systems in OpenStep and merging the legacy systems with C++ and CORBA compliance. There are Senior to Junior Developer positions with as little as one year NEXT or CORBA experience. Training is available for those who need to upgrade to OpenStep. If you are interested, please email your resume. The best way to send is to Attach as a Word or Wordperfect file, or just Paste it to the Email. If your know any friends please pass this information to them. We have a excellent team of people and the customer is cool to work with. This project is hot and we need good people. Thank you for your time and patience. Sincerely, Dan Fahey
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness - help requested Date: 13 Dec 1996 21:05:58 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-j-37.usc.edu Message-ID: <58sgfm$gim@usc.edu> References: <57qoch$ovg$1@hock.apana.org.au> <58f0gd$t7o@boursy.news.erols.com> <SHESS.96Dec9105031@slave.one.net> <58k7fj$2b6@usc.edu> <SHESS.96Dec11044701@slave.one.net> Cc: shess@one.net In <SHESS.96Dec11044701@slave.one.net> Scott Hess wrote: > Putting the mailfiles in user's home directories would invert that, > the mail hub would have to mount the home directories, possibly from > many places. Then you get the problems associated with "User goes in > and screws things up" and "User's home directory is on their personal > machine, which they power down at night." > > Admittedly, these can be worked around, but the current solution > localizes things so that you only fix it in one place rather than all > over the place. Yes. But I've been watching the development of qmail and it seems to be a much more secure method. The only reason I haven't switched over to qmail from sendmail yet is because I cannot get Mail.app to work properly with it. Eloquent does fine by qmail. But as for this thread - I was really following up on the note of increased security, and certain aspects of sendmail like the recently fixed overflow bug wouldn't be possible with mail delivered to users with permissions set accordingly. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: Douglas Vernon Putnam <dvputnam@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installation crisis: 3.3 on Asus Cyrix Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:05:30 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <58sju9$o45@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> NS Intel 3.3 Hangs with black screen during boot The machinery: NS Intel 3.3 (worked great on my 486) Asus P55T2P4 (32 MB) Cyrix p150 Diamond Stealth64 (S3-trio)--2 MB DRAM Adaptec 1542F The problem: Hangs with black screen during boot even with boot: -v (as suggested in S3 NextAnswers) and hangs with "config=Default" Hangs with black screen during installation even with '-v'. I'm stumped. Any clues? Douglas Putnam dvputnam@ix.netcom.com dputna01@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: cmsg cancel <58na0n$fon@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Control: cancel <58na0n$fon@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Date: 11 Dec 1996 21:47:15 GMT Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory Message-ID: <58na53$fon@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> cancel
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: cmsg cancel <58na0n$fon@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Control: cancel <58na0n$fon@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Date: 11 Dec 1996 21:47:23 GMT Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory Message-ID: <58na5b$fon@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> cancel
From: Terry Gliedt <tpg@fv.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT hardware, different OS? Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:41:58 -0500 Organization: First Virtual Holdings Message-ID: <32B1DBB6.65A0B492@fv.com> References: <58fei8$p9b@eer-4861.internet1.net> <32B020C3.369B@pswtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Leon von Stauber wrote: > There was some work done on a FreeBSD port, but I don't know the status > of > that. Since I haven't heard anything recently, I would guess it's not > available. > I had a mail conversation with someone who is working on porting FreeBSD to black hardware. He was hoping to have something early next year. He said there were several people working on it. I'm personally hoping that will make it possible to port Linux to the box also. -- =================================================================== Terry Gliedt tpg@fv.com MIME OK First Virtual Holdings http://www.fv.com/ http://www.hps.com/~tpg/
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From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Turbo as getway to internet (security) Date: 12 Dec 96 10:58:56 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec12105856@slave.one.net> References: <32AF8FB7.32B0@freemansoft.com> In-reply-to: Joe Freeman's message of Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:53:11 -0500 In article <32AF8FB7.32B0@freemansoft.com>, Joe Freeman <joe@freemansoft.com> writes: I'm thinking of using my NeXT turbo as a gateway to the internet for my local network. That's what I'm doing. I've got a turbo slab with a 33.6k modem which does PPP to The World, and also runs an http proxy and a socks TCP proxy server. I've installed tcp_wrappers and use tcpd to protect access to pretty much every tcp facility in /etc/inetd.conf. I can telnet around on my internal network, but you _can't_ telnet in from outside. Pretty much everything is denied, including "harmless" things like finger. I've not gone overboard beyond that, because I feel that the work necessary and the protection provided don't warrant the effort in the face of a dynamic IP address and short connect times. [Someone would have to notice when I connect, what my current IP address is, and crack in through "chargen" in ten minutes or so. Yeah, I'm sometimes in for a half hour, but "chargen" is hard to crack :-).] Beyond that, I have an http proxy on the slab, so internal hosts can web browse easily. It works with OmniWeb, certainly, and it worked last time I tried with Navigator. The slab also has socks installed, which is a generalized tcp proxy server. It allows my internal hosts to telnet and ftp out to the real world using a socket on the slab (with a real IP address), using modified telnet and ftp executables. [It's relatively easy to "socksify" an app you have source to.] I haven't bothered nuking useful executables, mainly because I still want to be able to _use_ the machine. sendmail will take more work, and right now I don't use it (don't ask). If you're setting things up like I have, the problem is that you can't run sendmail anywhere else _except_ the "gateway" system - nobody else has a real IP address! Most likely, you'll have to run a hub/relay system. The hub would accept incoming email and spool it, the relay would accept outgoing mail from inside and send it onward, and both would be on the gateway host because it's the only host that can _get_ to outside. You _could_ run a proxy of some sort to let the hub live inside the gateway. I'm not sure if sendmail depends on where the incoming connection is from. And you _could_ socksify sendmail to let the outgoing email come from a relay inside the gateway, but when I said "relatively easy" above, I meant for reasonably-sized programs! 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: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Token Ring and NeXTSTEP for Intel Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 15:42:21 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961214153958.18155F-100000@pollux> References: <57tdk1$p1m@news.blkbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <57tdk1$p1m@news.blkbox.com> On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 nickh@acs-online.com wrote: > Is anyone out there running NeXTSTEP for the x86 platform using > Token-Ring? We run 3.3 on Compaq Prolinea Pentium/75MHz machines We use both, original IBM cards and 3Com Tokenlink III and they work very well, the 3Com even better because of the better configurability. You dont need the IBM emulation mode in order to use the IBM Token Ring driver. Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Ron Wood <rfw@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: need help with modem software Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 15:13:03 +0000 Organization: Earthlink Network Message-ID: <32B020FF.167EB0E7@earthlink.net> References: <5717kc$4am@pauli.cnam.fr> <58msgf$6ud@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve LaSala wrote: > > I have an old NeXT machine (original cube, vintage ~1990), that > I'm trying to set up at home to work remotely. This is one of those > typical university situations where there is no money and your work with > the hardware you have. > > The modem available is a US Robotics Sportster 14,400. > Unfortunately, all the documentation that came with it assumes you are > attaching to a PC. > > There is a 9-pin port on the back of the cube with an icon that > might be a modem (or a printer?), or do I just go to a vanilla serial > port. Any special cabling needs I should be aware of? > Unfortunately, you have to make your own modem cable; the pinouts are in the sysadmin books in the online help library. Also look at the zs man pages for more info concerning modems. It's involved, but not difficult. Reputedly, a Macintosh modem cable will work, but since there's no hardware flow control lines in the cable, the top speed you can use will be 9600 baud; the top modem speed with a "roll-your-own" cable will be only be 38.4K. > Most important, I'm not sure what kind of software I should be > looking for to drive the modem. Is there any chance of getting the > machine to behave like an X-term, or should I be happy with a VT100 > window? What's my best bet and where can I get it? > NS comes with both tip and cu, which work fine for simple connections, there are slip and ppp clients available on the net, for point-to-point connections. To run the ppp programs (not slip) you should be running NS 3.x on your cube; they don't seem to work with NS 2.x; the slip programs do, though. Look at anonymous ftp on bigtop.bville.com for the slip or ppp programs. I also have kermit there, which, for a generic terminal program, works just fine. To use the NeXT as an xterm, you should install co-Xist, or some other X-window package; be advised, these are commercial packages and may not be cheap. I use co-Xist, and it works fine. Many thanks for any insights. > > Steve LaSala > Seattle, WA > > steve@icis.washington.edu
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From: dg131@ciao.cc.columbia.edu (Douglas Geers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help? I'm trying to upgrade... Date: 14 Dec 1996 20:21:51 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <58v28v$j8q$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Hi. I have experience as a user of Next machines, but haven't done much system work on them. Now a acquaintance of mine wants me to upgrade his machine for him: Add a SCSI HD, add RAM, and (if possible) CPU upgrade. GENERAL INFO: His machine is an 030 cube which he purchased circa 1989, I believe. The only alterations he has made to the system is the addition of one SCSI disk, a 2-gig one. OK, now for my questions: HARD DISK: He has already purchased a 4 gig disk to add (he is doing music composition on the machine and needs alot of space.) I tried to add this using the Next sys admin GUI tools, but I couldn't figure out how to make it format the disk as 2 2-gig disks (since as far as I know that's the most the OS will recognize.) Any advice? RAM: He only has the factory RAM--Is this 8 meg or 16? Anyway, I think the machine will go up to 32meg--is this correct? What kind of SIMMS do I need to buy? Are there any tricky things I should know about installing them? I want to his machine to have the maximum amount of RAM. Also, he is complaining about his soundediting program, Edsnd, being awfully slow. Can I upgrade the DSP RAM?? If so, what do I need & what is the maximum amount of RAM for that? CPU: Is it possible to do a CPU upgrade for an old cube? Where do I go to get more info? What will I have to pay? How much faster will it go? Thank you all incredibly for any and all advice/help you can give me, and feel free to mail replies directly to me at geersde@woof.music.columbia. edu. --Doug Geers
From: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Aaaa!! My HW is going to hell in a handbasket! Date: 13 Dec 1996 02:20:08 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn5b1ero.a5.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> References: <slrn5avovu.6g.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> In article <slrn5avovu.6g.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu>, Paul R. Brown wrote: >[much sadness on my part expunged] It's all fixed! I rebuilt everything in /etc and now it's fine. So, if this every happens to someone else out there in netland, that's the solution. Grab /usr/template/client/etc and start over. Paul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199612141504.KAA16010@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 96 10:04:14 -0500 Subject: Re: PPP Panic> recv uart overrun Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: robert@darkstar.erols.com (Robert Lutwak) Original Date: 13 Dec 1996 16:07:19 GMT This really relates more to the NeXTStep PPP mailing list <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com> > I've just installed PPP version 2.2-0.4.6 on my > 68040 NeXTcube running NS3.2, in order to connect > to a commercial internet provider. The latest (beta) version is 2.3.0, and I have been using it since it came out with _very_ few panics. (THANKS STEVE!) > Last time I toyed with PPP, several years ago, it > was plagued with these "recv uart overrun" panics, and > I abandoned it. I thought the problem was fixed now. This is usually caused by running the serial port too high. 38400 is the maximum for a slab, I don't know if the cubes are the same. Someone else will surely know. > There's a mention in the PPP documentation about using > the latest serial drivers, but that's just for i386, right? yes > Now I get a panic about once out of every ten times I > use PPP, usually shortly after connect. define "shortly". I'm not kidding. Check the log, is it right after you see a line like this: pppd[13335]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa or is it after you get an IP address, or before/after /etc/ppp/ip-up runs/is finished. The honorable and beloved Mr Perkins (no really, without him I'd be using the Wi***ws machines at the lab to connect to the internet, with their 4meg ram, 14" screeens, and, well, ToyOS) suggested to me that I put a delay in my /etc/ppp/ip-up, because I was getting panics right after either the "Connect:" line or getting an IP. I put in a "sleep 10" as the first line of my /etc/ppp/ip-up and now things have been running very well. It is also my unconfirmed opinion (and difficult to prove, so I may be wrong) that if you get a lot of errors when you first connect (I see them as TE and RE on the display on my modem, for transmit error and receive error) that can cause PPP to run out of some sort of buffers and can panic. This may or may not be true, it is speculation, it is my opinion based on watching my modem lights right before the machine has paniced (is that enougb qualification?). Since adding the "sleep 10" to my /etc/ppp/ip-up and switching off my modem if I see it getting too many errors (just turn it off if I see too many.... how do I know what "too many" is? By waiting too long in the past ;-) I have seen almost ZERO PPP related panics. > I'm using /dev/cufa and rts/cts flow control, a Supra > V.42 modem and a cable from B&W software (the NXFax guys). > My Supra initialization is simply "AT&F2" (Autoreliable, > RTS/CTS, Error Corrected Async, Disconnect on dropped DTR). Well I can't imagine they sold you the wrong cable, that would be another option, but since you got it from the B&W group, and they make a living off of this, I rather imagine they got it right. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199612141501.KAA15952@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 96 10:01:25 -0500 Subject: anyone been able to compile "portmap" (NS 3.3 m68k)? Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary If so, please let me know. I have been entirely unsuccessful. Thanks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat
From: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: Help using NS/I to connect PCs to 'net Date: 15 Dec 1996 02:05:36 GMT Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association Message-ID: <58vmdg$1r2$1@hock.apana.org.au> Organisation: Sargood Manor People, I am planning to network a couple of PCs (Windoze) to the outside world through my NS/I box. My link is PPP through a 28.8 modem. I have cabled the house for Ethernet and am about to purchase network cards. Questions: 1. Can I do this (i.e. Use the NS/I machine as a gateway-cum-router) ? 2. Would I be better off using an old PC as a router and hanging all three machines off it? If so, what are your recommendations? 3. I have a 486/66 machine with ISA-VL bus, NS/I 3.3 (patched), 64M RAM. What is the network card that offers the best comprimise between speed, reliablitiy and cost? I am tending towards either an ISA version of the 3Com card or just installing a NE2000 and hoping for the best. I would be grateful for any advice, assistance, tales-of-woe that you can offer. Oh yes, one more question ... is there any advantage to upgrading to OS 4.0/4.1 ? David. -- David Green | Tel: +61 3 9827-6283 | david@legion.apana.org.au Melbourne, Australia| Fax: +61 3 9827-5876 | (NeXTMail & MIME accepted) PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@sw.oz.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What opinions?
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mini-network Date: 15 Dec 1996 12:35:17 GMT Organization: Unconfigured Message-ID: <590ra5$3v4@news2.jaring.my> I have 2 slabs, 1 keyboard, 1 monitor. Here's what I want to do: Connect them as a network. I have used SimpleNetworkStarter to set up slab1 as a server, then tried to manually add slab2 as a new host. Slab2 is set to automatically power on after a power failure so it doesn't need the eyboard to start up. I connected slab2 via thin ethernet cable, and started everything up. Slab1 cannot ping, telnet, etc. to slab2. Slab2 is listed as a host, but how to get it to be recognized. Any help? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Senior Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Fax: 6-03-5482329 Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia PGP Key available ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "T.E. Biesinger" <teb@eng.cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sony 4X CD-ROM DiscmanR and SLIM SCSCI Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 14:58:16 +0000 Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department Message-ID: <32B41208.3167@eng.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everybody, has anybody had difficulties in installing OPENSTEP 4.0 Intel/Mach from a Sony 4X CD-ROM DiscmanR and the {\bf supplied} Adaptec SLIM SCSCI? Adaptec's APA 460 SLIM SCSCI is supposed to be supported, but is it identical the supplied? here are more details: The PCMCIA CD-ROM is not recognized. The specifications of the CD-ROM drive plus Adaptec slimSCSI card is detailed at http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/ccpg/storage/discman/250WN.html. I am not certain, if the slimSCSI card is identical to the original APA 460, but it should be. Before I purchased the ThinkPad, I had confirmed by Joe_Liu@next.com: "I installed NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP on my ThinkPad using an Adaptec-SlimSCSI PCMCIA card, and an external CD-ROM drive. I also had an external floppy drive to boot the system from. All those drivers comes with 4.0." What CD-ROM drive would this be? Choosing the driver 'Adaptec 6x60 chipset' (option 6) which is http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2184.htmld/2184.html I believe, results in an error 'can't find host adapter'. This should not be the case according to the document which says that slim SCSI is supported. Choosing the driver 'PCMCIA to 6360' results in 'No SCSI or CD-ROM driver found'...'root device?'. In the release notes booklet on pg. 11, a Bus Driver and Adapter Driver are said to be required in addition to a third one. I do not understand this. Which one is the above and why do I need three overall. The document http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1985.htmld/1985.html refers to NeXTSTEP 3.3 only and is obsolete with 4.0? IBM uses the term PCCard rather than CMCIA? Thank you very much indeed! Best Regards, Thomas Biesinger --- Dr. Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. PGP-2.6.i key available!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Subject: SimpleNetworkStarter.app question Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961215092438.4497A-100000@euler> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 09:33:50 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I just tried to use SNS to create a simple two machine network. Following all of the steps outlined in the SysAdminManual Chapter_02 QuickStart, didn't work. In fact upon rebooting, no user login was available in the login window, not even root. Luckily, single user boot up still worked and I went in and restored the /etc/netinfo files that SNS had changed but thankfully backed up. My question: Since I followed the instructions to the letter, what might have gone wrong? Is SNS itself flawed? Am I losing my reading comprehension skills? Joe McWilliams
From: cattin@explorer (Philippe C. Cattin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: All diskless clients report: Stale NFS file handle Date: 16 Dec 1996 09:37:19 GMT Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Message-ID: <59358f$m2i@elna.ethz.ch> Hi, Every now and then all our diskless clients (Solaris 2.5) produce the following messages: Dec 16 10:18:50 pinta unix: NFS write error on host enterprise: Permission denied. Dec 16 10:18:52 pinta unix: (file handle: 800018 2 a0000 5d02 65ce4f82 a0000 e183 1d636369) Where enterprise is the os server and pinta our diskless client. A snoop on the network revealed that the messages are submitted by the nis_cachemgr. There is a patch on SunSolve (103266-07) for a similar problem with vi, but it didn't help. Has anybody had similar problems? any solutions? thanks in advance for your help Philippe -- Philippe C. Cattin (PGP Key on request) cattin@ifr.mavt.ethz.ch Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich ETHZ Tel: +41-1-632 25 29 Institute of Robotics, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zuerich Fax: +41-1-632 10 78
From: suzuki@sowa.is.uec.ac.jp (Suzuki Yoshiaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP Problems --> Please Help Date: 16 Dec 1996 10:46:53 GMT Organization: The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan Message-ID: <5939at$k1c@uecisb.is.uec.ac.jp> References: <58rmo6$s3l@uni2f.unige.ch> <58sk1f$3f@uni2f.unige.ch> In article <58sk1f$3f@uni2f.unige.ch> moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch writes: >> # ${CAP}/aarpd -D 20 /dev/bpf0 "*" >> ioctl: set interface: No such device or address It is wrong. It should be ${CAP}/aarpd en0 "myzone" .... en0 = your ether net interface .... myzone=AppleTallk zone of your network good luck
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: RE: portmap Date: 16 Dec 1996 16:40:35 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <593u23$mcg@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <199612141501.KAA15952@nerc.com> In article <199612141501.KAA15952@nerc.com>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> writes: > anyone been able to compile portmap? > If so, please let me know. I have been entirely unsuccessful. Yep, just uploaded portmap.4.README portmap.4.NIHS.bs.tar.gz to the ftp.peak.next.org submissions area. Contents of the README is appended at the end of this post. -- 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 -------------------------- portmap.4.README Dec 1996 An Installer.app package for a replacement portmapper that prevents theft of NIS (YP), NFS, and other sensitive information via the portmapper. This program supports access control in the style of the tcp wrapper package. Included is a replacement portmap binary and source. Read the documentation and the included Makefile for more information and compilation options used. A few minor modifications to the source was required for a successful build. CREDITS Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> Computer System Manager Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mathematics and Statistics http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Source ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/portmap_*.tar.gz.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,control From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Message-ID: <cancel.594c1n$ebj@oolong.memphis.edu> Control: cancel <594c1n$ebj@oolong.memphis.edu> Subject: cmsg cancel <594c1n$ebj@oolong.memphis.edu> no reply ignore Organization: Semi-Automatic Chain Letter Remover Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:10:34 GMT Sender: InfiNet ignore Make Money Fast post canceled by news@news.msfc.nasa.gov. Make Money Fast has been posted thousands of times, enough to qualify as cancel-on-sight spam. The chain letter scheme it describes is illegal in many countries. For example, see: http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
From: Michael Rietz <rietz@medea.eching.mppmu.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nextstation and 400dpi level II printer accassible by a unix machine Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:34:11 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Garching Message-ID: <ul220cqyy0c.fsf@medea.eching.mppmu.mpg.de> Hello, I'm a newbie in administering Nextstep. I would like to export the Next printer to my local Network so that other machines (unix) could use it. Using nidump on printcap yields: Printer Local_Printer can't be represented in printcap format. Is there any chance to get it exported under Nextstep V3.3??? Thanks Michael -- Michael Rietz | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik e-mail: rietz@mppmu.mpg.de | Werner Heisenberg Institut tel:+49-(0)89 32354-242,337,415,411 | Foehringer Ring 6 fax:+49-(0)89 32354-842 or 3226704 | D-80805 Muenchen GERMANY
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SimpleNetworkStarter.app question Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:54:28 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <594jv4$egs@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961215092438.4497A-100000@euler> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961215092438.4497A-100000@euler> On 12/15/96, Joseph McWilliams wrote: > >I just tried to use SNS to create a simple two machine network. Following >all of the steps outlined in the SysAdminManual Chapter_02 QuickStart, >didn't work. In fact upon rebooting, no user login was available in the >login window, not even root. Luckily, single user boot up still worked >and I went in and restored the /etc/netinfo files that SNS had changed but >thankfully backed up. > >My question: Since I followed the instructions to the letter, what might >have gone wrong? Is SNS itself flawed? Am I losing my reading >comprehension skills? > > >Joe McWilliams > > > I did the same last weekend (build a network of two computers) and believe me: SimpleNetworkStarter only works on untouched /etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo files. If you want to use it do the following: 1) Make a backup of /etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo/local.nidb and put it away from the /etc dir. 2) Delete /etc/hostconfig and every file in /etc/netinfo and in /private/etc/netinfo. 3) cp -rp /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb /etc/netinfo cp -rp /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb /private/etc/netinfo (last two lines all on the same entry) reboot and start SimpleNetworkStarter. In it you should not use any other service than automatic host addition. The other services can be added by hand later. When you will reboot you won't have any accounts on the system except the me account. Enter a password for me and log out then enter root account and set a password for it. Then you can create you old accounts again. Hope this helps, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing with Deskjet (GSPrintFIlter) Date: 17 Dec 1996 14:14:43 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5969sj$nna@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <595smj$bas@news1.mclink.it> In article <595smj$bas@news1.mclink.it> mario@momix writes: > Did anyone succeed in making NeXTSTEP 3.3 print with a HP deskjet 520 ? > I 'm trying it since a week but I have nothing :-( > No vanilla ASCII, no RTF and no PostScript (I tried with GSPrintFilter but > it stops at the installation moment !!!). I've had success using GSPrintFilter with HP500's and HP870's. Exactly how does it fail to install (keeping in mind you need to be root to install the package)? -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: zensyo@edp.eng.tamagawa.ac.jp (Suzuki Yoshiaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP Problems --> Please Help Date: 16 Dec 1996 03:54:59 GMT Organization: TAMAGAWA University Message-ID: <592h6j$b2b@news.tamagawa.ac.jp> References: <58rmo6$s3l@uni2f.unige.ch> >> I compiled CAP patch level 198 (I used BPF underneath). Afterwards I make startserver and it doesn't work: >> >> citenext# /usr/local/cap/start-cap-servers >> ioctl: set interface: No such device or address >> 14:20:44 12/13/96 pi_open: aarp_init: No such device or address please check your system . do you install bpf driver ? and is there bpf device files? if you dont make bpf device files , you can make bpf device files like this --- on csh.... cd /dev foreach n ( 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 \ 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ) mknod "bpf$n" c 32 $n end chgrp bpf bpf* chmod 660 bpf* ---- probably, you need to add group 'bpf'. let's try.
From: sieber@sybase.com (Stefan Sieber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Default character set? Date: 17 Dec 1996 12:13:47 GMT Organization: Sybase, Inc. Message-ID: <5962pr$fu@tribune.sybase.com> Hi! Can anybody tell me what's the default character set for Nextstep (e.g. ISO 1, cp850,...). I'm asking this question because of a conversion problem to machine which uses LATIN ISO 1. BTW, I don't have any access to a machine with Nextstep OS. Thanks, -- Stefan Sieber ------------------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Sieber CS&S Germany Technical Support Engineer phone: +49.211/5976:156 sieber@sybase.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
From: mario@momix Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing with Deskjet Date: 17 Dec 1996 10:29:39 GMT Organization: MC-link The World On Line Message-ID: <595smj$bas@news1.mclink.it> Did anyone succeed in making NeXTSTEP 3.3 print with a HP deskjet 520 ? I 'm trying it since a week but I have nothing :-( No vanilla ASCII, no RTF and no PostScript (I tried with GSPrintFilter but it stops at the installation moment !!!). Please, give any help: I don't want to buy a rich commercial driver for my cheap printer. Thanks. Mario Scarpa -- mc6983@mclink.it http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1008/
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using both partitions of a boot disk for NeXTSTEP. Date: 17 Dec 1996 04:08:09 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <595ntp$5on@Vir.com> Hello all, I just installed OpenStep 4.1 on a 2.2G HD. I partitioned the hard disk into two partitions. One partition is 500M the other is 1750M. While installing OpenStep I tried to set both partitions as OpenStep but the message I got was only one NeXTSTEP partition allowed. Or Something to that effect. Why is this? I installed OpenStep on the 500M partition hoping to use the disk utility, et al, to initialize the other partition so I could mount it and use it with OpenStep. I must be doing something wrong because I can't get it to work. How can I use (initialize) the other partition? How can I create two partitions on the boot disk and use them both for OpenStep? Thank you in advance for all your help, stef
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Using both partitions of a boot disk for NeXTSTEP. Date: 17 Dec 1996 12:18:46 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <596336$ii@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <595ntp$5on@Vir.com> Cc: stefanos@Vir.com In <595ntp$5on@Vir.com> Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > I just installed OpenStep 4.1 on a 2.2G HD. I partitioned the > hard disk into two partitions. One partition is 500M the other is 1750M. > While installing OpenStep I tried to set both partitions as OpenStep but > the message I got was only one NeXTSTEP partition allowed. Or Something > to that effect. Why is this? There are partitions and partitions. Specifically, you tried to create two fdisk/partition table type partitions for NeXTSTEP. What you really want is one NeXTSTEP partition (in fdisk), which you can then create multiple Unix type partitions within. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: r.daher@csuohio.edu (Rony Daher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up Quotas Date: 17 Dec 1996 15:28:54 GMT Organization: Cleveland State University Message-ID: <r.daher-1712961036500001@venus.csuohio.edu> Greetings, I'm looking for any information available on setting up filesystem quotas. After several looks at manual pages, I was unable to figure it out. Any help is appreciated. Please respond via email. Thanks, Rony Daher Network Support Technician Cleveland State University
From: Ron Wood <rfw@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to boot in single user Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:21:15 +0000 Organization: Earthlink Network Message-ID: <32B6741B.167EB0E7@earthlink.net> References: <58csd8$ffu@netnews.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Timothy L Moulton <moultont@red.seas.upenn.edu> The command, from the boot monitor is b (0,0,0) -s; or simply b -s; to boot into single user mode. If a hardware password has been set, you will be prompted for it. > I hooked the two of them up and i guess i made a configuration ... What files did you change? If the NeXT had been previously on a network, there might be some settings which reflect that network. The file /etc/hostconfig contains the network stuff which is used at boot time. Editing this file (after saving a copy) to reflect your current network configuration may help it boot. Especially if the NeXT had been configured to look for a master NetInfo station somewhere. Another thing to try is to simply boot the machine with a 'dummy' 10b2 connection on it. I've used a 't' connector, with 2 50 ohm dummy loads on it to simulate a network connection. It may take a long time to boot as it waits for various network requests to time out, but eventually it gets there. Once you get a login screen, login as root and use NetInfo to configure the computer to reflect your current network. Ron Wood
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199612162238.RAA09701@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 96 17:38:33 -0500 Subject: Re: SimpleNetworkStarter.app question Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Original Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 09:33:50 -0600 > Since I followed the instructions to the letter, what might > have gone wrong? Is SNS itself flawed? Am I losing my reading > comprehension skills? I can't honestly say what the problem was, although I do remember that SNS is flawed in that it only expects to "Start" a network, ie two machines that are already configured, not modify two machines which were previously running. That said, I must say it's only a guess as to what went wrong, I might be misdiagnosing it. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat *** I will be out of town from Dec 19th - Dec 31st *** For Helpful information about the NeXT USENET groups, see: http://www.digifix.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <gmohnl@frequentis.co.at> Message-ID: <AB8FED3281A33CD9@c2smtp.frequentis.co.at> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 96 16:35:00 +0000 From: Gerald MOHNL <gmohnl@frequentis.co.at> Sender: Gerald MOHNL <gmohnl@frequentis.co.at> Return-Receipt-To: <gmohnl@frequentis.co.at> Organization: Frequentis Subject: Q: Zyxel 2864IE ISDN Modem and OpenStep 4.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi! I'm asking myself if there is anybody who tried to establish a ppp link to a local internet provider via the Zyxel ISDN modem under OpenStep 4.0 or 4.1? Any useful hints concerning hardware ( modem configuration, cable,..) and software ( commercial or pd ) are wellcome. Perhaps somebody has done this already and can tell about things better not to do and things better to do first. lg, gerald gmohnl@frequentis.co.at Austria
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installation crisis: 3.3 on Asus Cyrix Date: 16 Dec 1996 14:33:25 +0800 Organization: University of Western Australia Message-ID: <txpw0bt2ve.fsf@antechinus> References: <58sju9$o45@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> In-reply-to: Douglas Vernon Putnam's message of Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:05:30 GMT The black screen is probably an interaction between the Diamond Stealth and Intel Triton chipset motherboards. This is actually in an FAQ in NeXTanswers. I get a hang regardless of setting BootGraphics=No as reported as a workaround in the FAQ. Try another video board, as it doesn't matter if you have NS booting in default VGA mode. Also, it seems the Cyrix will not work with NS3.3. I've had intermittent hangs running 3.3p1 and consistent hangs starting up OmniWeb 2.X. Another user reported she couldn't boot 3.3 at all with a Cyrix, but I'm able to boot and run for a random time. Replacing with a Pentium stops the problem. The other person (jessica@?) reported OS 4.0 stops the Workspace hanging, but Omniweb continues to hang. I've reported the problem to Omnigroup and NeXT and both of them have no intention of sourcing the problem. I'm about to start complaining to Cyrix but my chances are near zero. My advice is to sell the 6x86 ASAP. -- Leigh Smith Computer Science, University of Western Australia +61-9-380-1945 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) "In a world where success means gaining time, thinking has a single but irredeemable fault: it's a waste of time" - J-F. Lyotard
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:11:07 -0600 From: harderm@ucs.orst.edu Subject: NeXT workstation with time warp & dim screen problems. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <850804525.23661@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I currently have 2 problems with my 25MHz monochrome workstation: 1.) its begun generating "time warp detected" errors every few seconds which it sends ONLY to console.log until (after a few days) it fills the hard drive. The Preferences clock doesn't seem to be unusually inaccurate lately. What's a time warp error & How do I fix this? 2.) The screen is so dim i can barely read it in a lit room. Trying to increase brightness with the keyboard control doesn't solve the problem. Could there be some way of increasing screen brightness within the monitor case? Or do I need a new tube? If I do, can I replace the tube without sending the monitor in to Bell Atlantic? -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <597oq0$k94@crawler.dlc.fi> Date: 18 Dec 1996 04:57:01 GMT Control: cancel <597oq0$k94@crawler.dlc.fi> Message-ID: <cancel.597oq0$k94@crawler.dlc.fi> Sender: jorge@mailloop.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: nagendra@cs.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: multiple ethernet addresses Date: 18 Dec 1996 06:21:48 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Message-ID: <5982hs$n7a@news.bu.edu> Does anyone hane any information on the ifconfig command regarding setting up an alias to add an additional IP address to a machine? Thanks in advance Nagendra n@4i.com
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Using both partitions of a boot disk for NeXTSTEP. Date: 18 Dec 1996 01:28:55 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5982v7$cmr@Vir.com> References: <595ntp$5on@Vir.com> The answer to customizing the disk partitions when installing NeXTSTEP is to install the hard disk on a computer running NeXTSTEP, create a disktab entry for the disk, partition and initialize the hard disk. Once this has been done, reinstall the hard disk. stef Stefanos Kiakas (stefanos@Vir.com) wrote: : Hello all, : I just installed OpenStep 4.1 on a 2.2G HD. I partitioned the : hard disk into two partitions. One partition is 500M the other is 1750M. : While installing OpenStep I tried to set both partitions as OpenStep but : the message I got was only one NeXTSTEP partition allowed. Or Something : to that effect. Why is this? : I installed OpenStep on the 500M partition hoping to use the disk : utility, et al, to initialize the other partition so I could mount it and : use it with OpenStep. I must be doing something wrong because I can't get : it to work. : How can I use (initialize) the other partition? How can I create : two partitions on the boot disk and use them both for OpenStep? : Thank you in advance for all your help, : stef
From: peichun@ms7.hinet.net (Peichun Hong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to add one more SCSI device ("sc1") in /dev ? Date: 18 Dec 1996 10:35:46 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <598he2$g0j@netnews.hinet.net> I am trying to add one SCSI card (AHA 1542CF) into my system (Intel), however I could not find "sc1" in /dev . Does anyone have experience on adding device into /dev ? My ATAPI CD_ROM occupied the first SCSI port as "sc0" . So, I have to add one more SCSI port in /dev . The peripheral I want to attach on SCSI is a scanner . thanks !!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: sniffing ports in NS Message-ID: <E2M86w.AEr@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <58hphr$e0d@news.tamu.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:25:44 GMT Stephen Johnson writes > Could someone tell me how to check if I'm getting communication over a > particular port? Right now I'm trying to check for UDP (over port > 7657?). > I'm not able to NXHost over ppp. For tcp ports you can always use 'telnet <hostname(.domain) or localhost> <portnumber>'. If you get a response like '... connected....', you obviously got through to some process answering on that port. Otherwise, telnet will return a verbose error message of some kind. Juergen --- AnsweringMachine +49 511 92455-50 Fon -51 Fax -52 NeXTMail welcome = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) Subject: Re: Installation crisis: 3.3 on Cyrix Message-ID: <E2ME4u.373@tamtam.xs4all.nl> Sender: hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl (Hugo Burm) Organization: datagram References: <txpw0bt2ve.fsf@antechinus> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:34:06 GMT In article <txpw0bt2ve.fsf@antechinus> leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) writes: > The black screen is probably an interaction between the Diamond > Stealth and Intel Triton chipset motherboards. This is actually in an > FAQ in NeXTanswers. I get a hang regardless of setting BootGraphics=No > as reported as a workaround in the FAQ. Try another video board, as it > doesn't matter if you have NS booting in default VGA mode. Also, it seems the > Cyrix will not work with NS3.3. I've had intermittent hangs running > 3.3p1 and consistent hangs starting up OmniWeb 2.X. Another user reported > she couldn't boot 3.3 at all with a Cyrix, but I'm able to boot and > run for a random time. Replacing with a Pentium stops the problem. The > other person (jessica@?) reported OS 4.0 stops the Workspace hanging, > but Omniweb continues to hang. I've reported the problem to Omnigroup > and NeXT and both of them have no intention of sourcing the > problem. I'm about to start complaining to Cyrix but my chances are > near zero. My advice is to sell the 6x86 ASAP. > -- > Leigh Smith Computer Science, University of Western Australia > +61-9-380-1945 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) > "In a world where success means gaining time, thinking has a single but > irredeemable fault: it's a waste of time" - J-F. Lyotard I skipped the word Asus from the subject since your problems are not related with your Asus board. In case you have a Cyrix P166+ CPU version 2.6 or lower: There is a bug in the 2.6 version of the Cyrix 166+ cache. It hangs Windows NT (and probably also NS) after a random amount of time. Version 2.7 solves this problem. Maybe switching off the first level cache of your version 2.6 CPU will solve your problems (but it will also switch your P166+ system into P166- mode). I would not recommend the P166+ anyway because of its bad floating point performance. Display Postscript uses a FPU more heavily than Win95 or NT. The Cyrix dissipates between 8 and 10 Ampere into heat. The Pentium 166 about 6 A. So make sure you have adequate cooling. If your CPU gets too hot, this also may hang your system after a certain amount of time. If you have a 166+ version 2.6, you should start complaining to Cyrix and ask for a 2.7 version. This info is from the november and december issue of the German C'T magazine. Get a copy, it is the best computer magazine on this planet. hugob hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl
From: corlette@huarp.harvard.edu (David Corlette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SMB client for NeXT Date: 18 Dec 1996 18:32:16 GMT Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <599dbg$78d@decaxp.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Because of serious unexplained NFS problems, we'd like to try using SMB as our network filesystem. We have a mix of NeXTStep, DOS/Win/95/NT, Linux, and QNX computers. The M$ products of course come with SMB server/client support, Linux and QNX come with built-in client support and can use the Samba server, so NeXTStep is our only OS that we can't get to integrate. I've fairly successfully tested the Samba server, but need a client that allows mounting of SMB shares under the filesystem. Does anyone know where I can find such a beast? Please respond directly to corlette@huarp.harvard.edu. Thanks for any help. -- Cheers, Dave C --------------------------------------------------------- David Corlette mailto:corlette@huarp.harvard.edu (617)493-1533 http://www-arp.harvard.edu
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installation crisis: 3.3 on Cyrix Date: 18 Dec 96 15:00:28 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec18150028@howard.one.net> References: <txpw0bt2ve.fsf@antechinus> <E2ME4u.373@tamtam.xs4all.nl> In-reply-to: hugob@tamtam.xs4all's message of Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:34:06 GMT In article <E2ME4u.373@tamtam.xs4all.nl>, hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) writes: The Cyrix dissipates between 8 and 10 Ampere into heat. The Pentium 166 about 6 A. So make sure you have adequate cooling. If your CPU gets too hot, this also may hang your system after a certain amount of time. Apparently Cyrix has an idle instruction (or something of the sort) which causes the CPU to enter a low-power mode for a short time. Apparently Linux uses this to pause the CPU in the idle loop, which results in the chip running cooler overall (for most users, the idle loop runs most of the time, right?). Perhaps you could write a small program which runs the idle instructions, and then run it niced to level 20. Not quite as good as using it in the kernel idle loop, but it would probably help. OTOH, if you have to build a giant fan with a peltier cooling system and run your air conditioner in the middle of winter, you'd be better off just popping for the extra couple hundred bucks and getting an Intel CPU. :-), -- 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: Markus Pilzecker <markus.pilzecker@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing text to a non PS printer Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:55:24 +0000 Organization: GNI -- Internet fuer Odenwald, Rhein-Neckar, Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern, Heilbronn und Pfaffenhofen Message-ID: <32B8927C.1FB46373@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de> References: <850347326.13675.0@getafix.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Shirlaw <john@getafix.demon.co.uk> John Shirlaw wrote: > > Q: > > Is there a way to send plain text files to a nextwork printer that is not a > Postscript printer. > > The situation is I have a simple Inkjet pinter cpnnected to the network my > next is own. All I want to print is program listing, hence there is no real > nead to bother with postscript. > > Is there a program out there, or a mechanism that would alow me to send the > file directly to the printer. > > I belive lpr does not work as it expects to be conected to a PS printer. > > Thanks for the help > > Regards > > John shirlaw Hallo John, this question has been asked several times before. So, a look into the past via DejaNews may give You further hints. One very simple solution is to push Your data directly to /dev/pp0. You must be root to do this or You must (being root) change /dev/pp0's permissions. The standard NeXT parallel port driver is reported to be erroneous in some situations. You may use ParallelPortDriver.1.5.I.bs.tar.gz, which works fine for me. There is a whole bunch of printer filters around. Have a look into http://peanuts.leo.org/ and search for ``printer''. I played with Deskjet500.N.bs.tar.gz, djf_for_3.0.N.bs.tar.gz, ps2pcl.tar.gz, ghostHPDJ.0.2.I.bs.tar.gz, HP-DeskJet550C.d.tar.gz, GSPrintFilter.1.11.NIHS.tar.gz . The former three use DPS, the latter three ghostscript. I wrote these packages with raising personal preference in each group. Finally I use now GSPrintFilter, because I want to have ghostscript on my machine anyway. I think, I ran out of the box. Ciao, Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sackpost: Markus Pilzecker voice: +49 6251 39415 Am Wechsel 9a V34,V17: +49 6251 39575 D-64625 Bensheim email: markus.pilzecker@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not licensed to be distributed over the Microsoft Network. Microsoft may buy a license to distribute this message over their network for 100 US$. Should anybody see this message on the MSN, then please send a small email to me and to postmaster@msn.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil> Message-ID: <9612181415.AA01231@vermeer.dt.navy.mil> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Robert Kurhajetz <robertk@vermeer.dt.navy.mil> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 09:15:15 -0500 Subject: a question on 2.0 GB disks | Nextstep 3.3 and Intel Pentium Hello, I'm going thru our first Intel system running Nextstep 3.3 and I'm not quite sure whats happening with the disk partitioning; we have a 2.0 GB Quantum XP 32150 W disk as the primary disk - this system was set-up for us by a reseller who has very little experience with the Nextstep configurations. The first problem is when we attempt to bring up the disk information window under workspace - we get the panel indicating Disk:0 bytes and secondly after setting up the unit it appears that only the base partition mounts up - thus it appears for all the world that we have a 1.0 Gb disk and not a 2.0 GB disk - and when I run "df" it also appears that the only partition mounting up is "/" and the NFS mounted disks - I have edited the /etc/fstab file and set-up another partition named /Projects - however, it seems to have no effect on what gets mounted when rebooted - I'm not quite clear on what other areas I should be checking to straighten this out - any and all help / assistance / insight much appreciated - thanks in advance - --- Bob Kurhajetz Department of the Navy | NSWC CD | Code 3441 | S + T Media Lab Bethesda, MD 20084 | 301 227-1157 VOICE | 301 227-3360 FAX
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nbuf and the limit at 255. Date: 18 Dec 96 22:59:58 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec18225958@howard.one.net> [Yes, I'm on a low-level filesystem exploration kick lately.] From way back, one of the easy gains in NeXTSTEP was to increase the number of disk cache buffers with the nbuf kernel flag. Used to be that you'd increase it from a measly amount (what, 100?) up to the max (255) in your bootrom preferences. This was basically because NeXT's system didn't dynamically size the buffer space against the VM paging space like more modern operating systems do. [Of course, at the time NeXTSTEP _was_ more modern, but that's another story.] Then NS3.2 (or somesuch) came out, and was able to size the buffers more appropriately to your real memory size. My slab has 48M, and the system comes up with 250 odd buffers all by itself. But my 64M Intel system was only coming up with 100 and change, so I had to put a kernel flag in System.config/Instance0.table. Is the limit at 255 buffers a hard limit, or is it just a problem with parsing the kernel flag? I'd assume it's a hard limit, because if you enter 300, it finds 255 ... can you up that by modifying the default value directly? Or did some genius hardcode a single byte for the storage? Seems a waste to only have 1.27M of buffers on a 64M system used mainly for development ... [Besides, I'm researching the area, and would like to experiment with truly absurd values like 16M of buffers. Again, if you want to know what these buffers are about, read Design and Implementation of BSD4.3 Unix.] 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: leigh@antechinus.cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installation crisis: 3.3 on Cyrix Date: 19 Dec 1996 20:51:36 +0800 Organization: Computer Science, University of Western Australia Message-ID: <w4gk9qe7l47.fsf@antechinus> References: <txpw0bt2ve.fsf@antechinus.cs.uwa.edu.au> <E2ME4u.373@tamtam.xs4all.nl> In-reply-to: hugob@tamtam.xs4all's message of Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:34:06 GMT Actually, I am using a 2.7 version (checked with a id program by IBM) of the Cyrix/IBM chip. Certainly a 133MHz 6x86 outperforms a 133MHz Pentium running NS 3.3. It's just it's inclined to hang the system after printing the results of the benchmark :-( This is a major disaster from my perspective. It seems the problem is usually revealed by intensive multi-threading of OmniWeb 2.X, but on occasions I've had things freeze while using the FileManager. On the related topic, has anyone else had a situation where S3 cards (Diamonds Stealth 64 DRAM) will hang during boot on a Triton Chipset (HX) (regardless of the CPU), regardless of the BootGraphics setting? -- Leigh Smith Computer Science, University of Western Australia +61-9-380-1945 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) "In a world where success means gaining time, thinking has a single but irredeemable fault: it's a waste of time" - J-F. Lyotard
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MultiOS partitions impossible w/ NeXT/OPENSTEP Date: 19 Dec 1996 18:20:56 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <59c128$2fj@news3.digex.net> Hi All, I've been futzing w/ the following since the summer, and have come to the conclusion that a) either I'm to daft to figure it out (a very real possibility), or b) it just is not possible with NeXT/OPENSTEP. Here's the problem: You have a 4Gb drive and want to set up partitions like so: 1 - 500Mb partition for Win95/DOS (don't ask why :) 2 - 500Mb partition for OS/2 3 - 500Mb partition for NT4 4 - 500Mb partition for NEXTSTEP 3.3p1 5 - 2Gb partition for NEXTSTEP data (to hold /LocalApps, /LocalLibrary, etc.--two other physical drives will act as swap and as OPENSTEP) The way I understand it, only 'unix' partitions can house more than a 'single' NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP partition... Said another way, if you use fdisk to make partitions (i.e. non unix partitions) then you can only make a single partition to house NEXTSTEP, limited to 2Gb; within that 2Gb partition, if one chooses, s/he may make further 'unix' partitions. Thus, if one needs more than 2Gb's worth of NeXT/OPENSTEP partitions AND other operating system partitions, it is not possible to do...Is that right? Than the question turns to WHY THE HECK NOT? Why does the install program give an error saying I cannot use more than a single 'fdisk'-made partition onto which I would install NEXT/OPENSTEP things? Geez, as if the 2Gb partition limit weren't bad enough, now ways of trying to live w/ that limit are themselves limited. -- 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: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch (Philip Moetteli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP Problems --> Please Help Date: 19 Dec 1996 15:08:59 GMT Organization: ICU - Informatik Club der Uni Zuerich Message-ID: <59blqb$7p7@news.eunet.ch> References: <58rmo6$s3l@uni2f.unige.ch> <5939at$k1c@uecisb.is.uec.ac.jp> Thanks for all the answers!!! I finally found the problem (many thanks to Suzuki Yoshiaki): The interface must be "en0" and not "bpf0" as I put as argument for "aarpd". In the beginning I thought of "en0" as the necessary argument. But in the description "en0" hasn't been mentioned as one of the possible solutions. So I forgot it. Again many thanks!!! Phil
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: multiple ethernet addresses Date: 20 Dec 1996 03:27:22 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <59d12q$t1p@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <5982hs$n7a@news.bu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5982hs$n7a@news.bu.edu> On 12/17/96, nagendra mishr wrote: > >Does anyone hane any information on the ifconfig command regarding >setting up an alias to add an additional IP address to a machine? > >Thanks in advance > >Nagendra >n@4i.com > > Take a look at "man arp". You will find what you need there I think. Francois -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Sridhara Dasu <dasu@lobelia.physics.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SIMMS for NeXTStation (mono - non-turbo) Date: 19 Dec 1996 22:47:27 -0600 Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <u5681xom8w.fsf@lobelia.physics.wisc.edu> I am in possesion of four 4 MB SIMMS that came out of a MAC Quadra 700. I tried to use them in my NeXTStation unsuccessfully. First of all they need some "extra high" insertion force to fit into NeXT slots. I forced them in best as could, ensuring that the contacts are well established to my eye. When I boot, the NeXT does not see any memory in those slots. I tried four of those SIMMS in both banks with same misfortune. Are the NeXT SIMMs different from standard 30-pin 4MB SIMMs used by MAC Quadra 700? For now I put back all my old 1MB SIMMs and am chugging along with whole 8 MB RAM! Is there any trick to getting these 4MB SIMMs to work - I can really use some extra memory with OmniWeb-II. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sridhara Rao Dasu 1150 University Avenue Assistant Scientist Madison, WI 53706 ZEUS and CMS Groups Department of Physics 608-265-3043 (Phone) University of Wisconsin 608-263-0800 ( Fax )
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up Quotas Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:48:23 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580001912962348230001@news.tiac.net> References: <r.daher-1712961036500001@venus.csuohio.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <r.daher-1712961036500001@venus.csuohio.edu>, r.daher@csuohio.edu (Rony Daher) wrote: > I'm looking for any information available on setting up filesystem quotas. > After several looks at manual pages, I was unable to figure it out. Any > help is appreciated. Never been supported on NS. Barney
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modem pools and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP? Date: 20 Dec 1996 02:01:33 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <59ddkd$aj2@Vir.com> Hello all, I'm looking for the best way to setup a modem pool Intel Pentium machine running NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. I would like to setup 4 to 8 modems to provide ppp access. What hardware and software solutions do you recomend? Thank you, stef
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo availability for Solaris Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:17:36 -0600 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <32BAAE10.421C@pswtech.com> References: <32B9B059.4FB2@teclink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Reagen B. Ward" <ward@teclink.net> Reagen B. Ward wrote: > Is it possible to get NetInfo for Solaris? If so, where/how much? Supposedly this is available. IIRC, a third party handles NetInfo for non-NS machines. You can get some info here: http://www.next.com/OPENSTEP/Products/NetInfo/NetInfoDatasheet.html ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP: Cannot print! Date: 20 Dec 1996 15:31:08 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <59ebfs$ph5@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: CAP Printing Keywords: CAP Printing Dear experts... Hopefully this is the last problem I have with CAP. Please help me to solve it. I have a HP LaserJet 5P connected via JetDirect. I see it with atlook*. When I print something the printer becomes busy, but nothing is ever printed. Please have a look at the following logging: citenext# /usr/local/cap/atlooklws abInit: [ddp: 255.00, 70] starting Looking for =:LaserWriter@* ... 1 - HPLaserJet5P:LaserWriter@* [Net:255.241 Node:231 Skt:136] ---status: idle Address confirmed for socket 136 citenext# /usr/local/cap/lwpr -p 'HPLaserJet5P:LaserWriter@*' test.ps abInit: [ddp: 255.00, 70] starting Status: status: idle %no status status: busy; source: ETalk Sending test.ps PAPRead error -3109 citenext# When I print the self test of the printer, there is the same name for the printer, but another LocalTalk node ID (154) and another network number (0). When look up the current status of the printer by starting a maintenance programm on a Mac, it tells me that the printer has an ongoing job from ETalk. But nothing is ever printed. If I print via papif and an appropriate printcap entry, I have exactly the same problems. Thanks for any ideas Phil
Message-ID: <32B9B059.4FB2@teclink.net> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 15:15:05 -0600 From: "Reagen B. Ward" <ward@teclink.net> Organization: TECLink, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo availability for Solaris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is it possible to get NetInfo for Solaris? If so, where/how much? Thanks, Reagen
From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Default character set? Date: 19 Dec 1996 22:13:56 GMT Organization: DanNUG -- Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <59cen4$f9@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <5962pr$fu@tribune.sybase.com> Cc: sieber@sybase.com In <5962pr$fu@tribune.sybase.com> Stefan Sieber wrote: > Hi! > > Can anybody tell me what's the default character set for Nextstep (e.g. ISO 1, cp850,...). > I'm asking this question because of a conversion problem to machine which uses LATIN ISO 1. The standard PostScript encoding. > BTW, I don't have any access to a machine with Nextstep OS. Get recode from a GNU site near you. Recode can translate between just about any text encoding and the NEXTSTEP encoding is supported :-) Regards, 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
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@xedoc.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo availability for Solaris Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 17:30:41 +1000 Organization: Xedoc Software Development Australia Pty Ltd Message-ID: <32BCE3A1.1904@xedoc.com.au> References: <32B9B059.4FB2@teclink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Reagen B. Ward" <ward@teclink.net> CC: netinfo@xedoc.com.au Reagen B. Ward wrote: > > Is it possible to get NetInfo for Solaris? If so, where/how much? Yes; NetInfo is available for Solaris SPARC (1.x and 2.x) and Solaris x86 (2.5). You can purchase NetInfo for Solaris from Xedoc -- please see http://www.xedoc.com/ and/or contact netinfo@xedoc.com. -- Luke
From: edx@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sdform makes disk unusable - 0 usable sectors! Message-ID: <1996Dec21.233048.90879@cc.usu.edu> Date: 21 Dec 96 23:30:48 MDT Organization: Utah State University I have a 4Gig Seagate ST15150W which I was preparing to format with 2 2Gig partitions for NS. As per the instructions in NeXTanswers 1533, I first did a "sdform /dev/rsd1a". About half an hour later, it choked with an error I failed to write down. Now, when I attempt the same command, it gives: Read Capacity command failed I/O error scsimodes gives this result for the drive: > peyote:2# scsimodes /dev/rsd1a > read capacity failed > SCSI information for /dev/rsd1a > Drive type: SEAGATE ST15150W 002000 > 512 bytes per sector > 108 sectors per track > 21 tracks per cylinder > 3712 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) > 9 spare sectors per cylinder > 21 alternate tracks per volume > 0 usable sectors on volume Ack! It says 0 usable sectors on volume, when it should say 8388314 usable sectors. Any idea why, and how this can be remedied? Oh, SCSI_Inquirer gives the most detailed information when the Information button is clicked for the drive: > sr_io_status = 2, sr_scsi_status = 2, dma_xfer = 0, dma_max = 8 > Bytes Transferred: 0 of max: 8 > Driver Status: Check target status and extended sense > Target Status: CHECK CONDITION - Abnormal condition occured > Extended Sense: Media flaw Please! Any help getting this drive back into a usable condition would be appreciated. hcole@spanky.idec.sdl.usu.edu
From: esteban <esteban@CERF.NET> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NExt POP clients Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:02:52 -0800 Organization: slime Message-ID: <32BD074C.3F4C@CERF.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a good POP client for NeXt (running 3.2). Better yet, is there a version of the Maillapp that comes with Next that supports POP? -Esteban esteban@CERF.NET
From: David_Webster@scmolec.demon.co.uk (Dr David Michael Webster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to set domain name for mailer Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:36:27 GMT Message-ID: <851164587.4216.0@scmolec.demon.co.uk> I have a problem with people replying to my mail. Apparently my domain name's not set properly on my mailer so people can't just reply to my mail. Reply tries to send to <david@scmolec> rather than <david@scmolec.demon.co.uk>. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem Thanks David -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr David M Webster David_Webster@scmolec.demon.co.uk Southern Cross Molecular or +44 (0)1225 722896 david@scmolec.demon.co.uk NeXTmail + MIME accepted http://www.scmolec.demon.co.uk/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Date: 23 Dec 1996 00:02:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <587851299369@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. news:comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! news:comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
From: stefan@ping.at (Stefan Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MultiOS partitions impossible w/ NeXT/OPENSTEP Date: 22 Dec 1996 19:07:12 GMT Organization: Customer of PING - Personal InterNet Gate Message-ID: <59k0t0$c4s@peng.ping.at> References: <59c128$2fj@news3.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <59c128$2fj@news3.digex.net> On 12/19/96, John Kheit wrote: >Here's the problem: >You have a 4Gb drive and want to set up partitions like so: > [...] You might take a look at www.v-com.com although personally, I haven't checked that out yet - just heard of it. - Stefan -- Stefan Schneider Software Dipl.Ing. Stefan Schneider Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe voice/fax: +43-1-523-5834 e-mail: stefan@ping.at (NeXTMail preferred, MIME welcome) web: http://www.ping.at/members/stefan/
From: Thomas Vincent <info@sfbayrun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Apple Next FAQ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:06:41 +0000 Organization: SFbayrun Internet Message-ID: <32BD1640.23C0@sfbayrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The following is my expanded long summary of the whole situation. I will post this at http://www.sfbayrun.com/next/index.html . Later today. January 7, 1997 will be the big date for all of us. It will be the biggest MacWorld in history. Gil's got the ball, now it is time for him to run with it. In San Francisco he will announce Apple's OS strategy. It will hopefully be the day the Mac/Next fights back. Guy Kawasaki the ultimate in Macintosh evangelism predicted this in 1994. Well sorta, it was one of his fantasies: http://www.macworld.com/pages/november.94/Column.991.html . On the subject of Steve Jobs. He is going to be a part time technical advisor to Amelio. Next users always fault Job's management style, and Next's overall style of running a company. I don't think Job's will have much of a say in this one. What he will bring and have is his undying devotion to quality. One of the things that makes Next so stable is that, the NextStep OS, is Steve Jobs baby. It is a quality OS, and most of all stable. As for the Mach Kernel in the Next OS being out of date. Do you guys really think that Apple is going to sit still. to quote Amelio, "This will allow us to innovate for the next ten years, and give the copycats something to copy." If the Next Community is going too merge with the Apple community then you need to start reading up on it. Apple sponsors a number of mailing lists that are wonderful. You can give feedback there, and the top levels of Apple listen. Developers fear not, Heidi Roezen (Sorry I probably crucified the spelling of her name.) is on board as head of developer relations. She is one smart cookie. People call her the canary in the coal mine. If she leaves then were all in trouble. Check out http://devworld.apple.com/ for more info. To quote a MacUser Article at http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/onlinecol/myslewski12.html, the Mach Kernel is : "a fast, mature, and reliable UNIX kernel that supports symmetric multiprocessing, preemptive multitasking, and other "modern OS" features. NeXTStep's Display PostScript architecture could make it ideal for the Mac's core users, the publishing community." Apple has: A strong 26 million user base, with strong markets in multimedia. Apple has established technologies like Quicktime. They have good market share in Education, publishing, content creation, and small business. There development strengths again lay in content development, and multimedia. Future PPCP platform will free many companies to make clones, free's companies form relying on proprietary ASIC's. This will raise the user installed base even more. Power PC Chips are at close to 600 MGHZ, at the moment. They probably will be able to reach a 1GHZ by the end of next year. $50 million in assumed debt from Next, makes a nice tax write off. Disadvantage: Apples current OS, is buggy, and relatively unstable. Much more stable then Windows 95, but not as stable as Windows NT, or plane old UNIX. Next has: A small but loyal following of users. The NextStep/OpenStep OS has Multitasking Memory Protected SMP Network-Ready Object-Oriented Application Model WebObjects Client Server/Based Portable API Excellent UI, possibly a little to much for some though. Penetration in Markets such as Enterprise, Services, and Infrastructure. These are markets that Apple would like to penetrate. Programs like Mathamatica, and WingZ are already ported to the Next OS. Disadvantages: Still some Unix laying around, Apple has vowed to clean that up. Kernel needs updating Apple has a great little page on the advantages of the merger: http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q1/961220.pr.rel.chart.html The following is a set of links of everything i could find about the buy out. PC Dictionary definition of NextStep: http://www.sandybay.com/pc-web/NextStep.htm MacWeek's Articles: http://www.macweek.com/top_stories/nw_next.html http://www.macweek.com/mw_1049/nw_next.html http://www.macweek.com/mw_1049/op_capsule.html MacUser Article's: http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/onlinecol/gorey25.html http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/onlinecol/myslewski12.html MacAddict: http://www.macaddict.com/news.html History of Steve Jobs http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html Wired interview with Steve Jobs http://www.hotwired.com/wired/4.02/features/jobs.html Apple's Press Release: http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q1/961220.pr.rel.next.html Apple's & Next Meet the Press: http://www2.apple.com/home/news/ MacWorld Article: http://www.macworld.com/daily/daily.892.html Next's Merger Page http://www.next.com/Merger/Welcome.html Letter from BE http://www.macintouch.com/beletter.html Ellen Hancock's Letter to developers http://www.macintouch.com/hancockletter.html Mercury News Story: http://cgi.sjmercury.com/business/jobs/ ------------------------ Macintouch, run by Ric Ford, little if anything gets past him: http://www.macintouch.com/ Stepwise Server, the ultimate Next Resource: http://www.stepwise.com/ Apple's Home Page: http://www.apple.com Next's Home Page http://www.next.com -- Cheers, Thomas Vincent =============== SFbayrun Internet | SF Bay Area Running Pages http://www.sfbayrun.com/snet/ | http://www.sfbayrun.com/ --------------------------------------------------------- National High School Cross Country & Track and Field Pages http://www.sfbayrun.com/scholar/ ---------------------------------------------------------
From: bmw@visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Modem pools and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP? Date: 22 Dec 1996 15:24:26 -0500 Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Message-ID: <59k5dq$g4e@ampere.visgen.com> References: <59ddkd$aj2@Vir.com> In article <59ddkd$aj2@Vir.com>, Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@Vir.com> wrote: > > I'm looking for the best way to setup a modem pool Intel Pentium >machine running NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. I would like to setup 4 to 8 modems to >provide ppp access. I would (and *do*) use a Livingston Portmaster product--there's one with 10 ports--and connect modems to it. This gives you SLIP/PPP/Telnet/UUCP access, bidirectionally, to any host on your network. Very flexible. http://www.livingston.com -bmw -- OBJECTS IN SCREEN ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com
From: ivy@erinet.com (Aaron T. Dingus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need NextStep for Intel 3.3 Installation Help Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:00:39 GMT Organization: EriNet Online 513 436-1700 (Voice) Message-ID: <32be9081.151496@news.erinet.com> Seasons greetings, I am installing NextSTEP 3.3 for Intel on a system and it is not working, and I could use some advice. The Intel Pentium/133 machine has a 850MB EIDE HD as primary master, and a 6X IDE CD (an NEC model 280) as primary slave off a PCI controller fixed on a Triton II based MB. The CD works fine under DOS/Windows95 for both music and data. I select the Adaptec154x series the CD-ROM controller, as the NextAnswers documents say to . I then use the additional drivers diskette to select EIDE/ATAPI as the HD controller, also as the NextAnswers say to. It then shows a graphical window to a terminal, and says that it detects an ATA drive as well as ATAPI device 1. Eventually it shows the model name of the CD-ROM correctly. Then the fun begins. It says that it "cannot read a packet from device 1, Retrying..." . It then waits about 2 minutes, and tries again to the same avail. After about 7 tries, it attempts to mount the CD anyway and has a kernal panic. A couple of things else: - I have tried the current beta drivers for 154x and EIDE/ATAPI - they produce a message that is similar if not completey identical to the mesage created by the old EIDE/ATAPI drivers. - I have changed the BIOS settings in every way imaginable with regards to PIO and etc. - The NextAnswers document lists some NEC models as having known incompatiblities with the EIDE/ATAPI driver. It doesn't list this CD-ROM's exact model number however. At this point I am willing to try another CD-ROM if I have to, but I want to be certain that this one is the source of the problem first. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, as I trying to get NextSTEP up and running on this machine ASAP. Happy Holidays, Aaron T. Dingus ivy@erinet.com
From: am433@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Adrien S.Beaudin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modem's and NeXT Date: 23 Dec 1996 13:53:23 GMT Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <59m2sj$f2i@freenet-news.carleton.ca> Hi, I've got a Turbo NeXTStation and am trying to no avail to connect it up to the net through PPP. If I boot in single user, no problem to talk to the modem i.e. echo ATH >> /dev/cufa but if the machine comes up in multi-user, the TR light comes on on the modem and I can't access any serial device.., Thanks, Adrien
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up a subnet with PPP? Date: 23 Dec 1996 06:17:59 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <59lpp7$v98@Vir.com> Hello all, I was wondering about the best way to setup a subnet with PPP? I have a network running Netinfo on NeXTSTEP Intel, I want to setup another network (across town) running Netinfo on NeXTSTEP/OpenStep using PPP. I have no problem doing this with one machine. I set up PPP, connect, and the remote machine is connected. Now, how can I convert the remote machine into a network (subnet) over PPP? I'm considering setting up a subnet and using one of the NeXTSTEP (Intel) machines as a configuration server for the subnet. Does anyone have a "recipe" for this and Netinfo? What should I be careful of? I would appreciate any help, stef
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: root password protection in single user mode. Date: 23 Dec 1996 06:21:43 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <59lq07$97b@Vir.com> Hello all, I would be interested in a program (source) which would ask a user to enter the correct root password before allowing someone to access the harddisk in single user mode. Thanks in advance, stef
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adobe Type 1 PS Fonts SUMMARY Date: 23 Dec 1996 06:31:09 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <59lqht$b8l@Vir.com> Hello all, Sometime ago I asked about using Adobe Type 1 fonts with NeXTSTEP. The answer is yes. Below you will find a detailed description by Mike Hardy on how to do this. Thank you all for your help, stef ------------------------------------------------------------------- Font locations ============== Fonts can be installed in three locations: * /NextLibrary/Fonts - this contains fonts provided by NEXTSTEP; it should be the same on all machines, and you should never install your own fonts here * /LocalLibrary/Fonts - this contains fonts that are intended for use by everyone at your site, and should be the same on all machines * ~/Library/Fonts - this contains fonts intended for your own use; they won't be accessible to others. You should stick to the above rules wherever possible. If you don't, the printer may have trouble finding fonts you've added, and substitute them with Courier (a typewriter-style font). In particular, if you add fonts to your computer in /NextLibrary/Fonts or /LocalLibrary/Fonts without also adding them to the printer server, you're asking for trouble. Font files ========== Each font consists of two files. The outline file describes the outline of each character in the font, and the metrics file (also called the "AFM file") describes the size and position of each character. The outline file is stored as <fontname>/<fontname>, and the metrics file as <fontname>/<fontname>.afm. For example, if you add the AmasisMT font for your own use, it would be stored as ~/Library/Fonts/AmasisMT/AmasisMT (the outline) and ~/Library/Fonts/AmasisMT/AmasisMT.afm (the metrics). Font formats ============ Outline files commonly come in two "flavours": Type 1, and Type 3. The Type 1 format holds extra information, and should produce higher quality output. Almost all commercial fonts are Type 1, whereas many public domain fonts are Type 3. To make things more complex still, the data in each font can be encoded in three different ways: PFA (ASCII), PFB (binary), or PFM (Macintosh). NEXTSTEP uses Type 1 fonts using PFA encoding. It may also support Type 3 fonts using PFA encoding (I haven't checked), but it does not support PFB or PFM ecoding. There is only a single format of metrics file. Buying fonts ============ I have not been able to find a font vendor that still supplies fonts specifically for NEXTSTEP. Most offer a PC version (outline file is in PFB format) or a Mac version (outline file is in PFM format), whereas you need a version with the outline file in PFA format. Since the conversion from PFB format is easier, I would recommend you buy PC versions of a font. When buying a font, ensure its license covers you to use it on enough machines. You may need to purchase a special site license. Installing fonts ================ Transfer the outline and metric files from the distribution disk to your hard disk. Typically, they'll have "PFB" or "AFM" file extensions. Your first task is to convert the outline file to the PFA format required by NEXTSTEP. Unfortunately, NeXT don't supply you with tools for this, so you need to find, fetch and compile a suitable public domain tool yourself. I'd recommend the t1utils suite, available from many ftp sites such as ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/t1utils. To convert from PFB fonts for PCs, use the suite's "t1ascii" program; to convert from PFM fonts for Macintoshes, use the suite's "unpost" program. Note that I have not tested the latter. For example, to convert /tmp/font.pfb from PFB format to PFA format: t1ascii /tmp/font.pfb /tmp/font.pfa See the t1utils manual pages for details - for example "man t1ascii". You must next find the correct font name to use in naming the files, and move the files to their correct location. The font name is held in the PFA file in a line like this: /FontName /<fontname> def To find the name, type: grep FontName <PFA_file>. For example, say your PFA file was held in /tmp/font.pfa, and your metrics file in /tmp/font.afm. The session to find their font name and move them might look like this: % grep FontName /tmp/font.pfa /FontName /AmasisMT def % mkdirs ~/Library/Fonts/AmasisMT % mv /tmp/font.pfa ~/Library/Fonts/AmasisMT/AmasisMT % mv /tmp/font.afm ~/Library/Fonts/AmasisMT/AmasisMT.afm The fonts are now correctly named, and in the correct location. All you now need to do is to update NEXTSTEP's record of which fonts are available using the buildafmdir command. In the above example, you've put the font in ~/Library/Fonts, and so you would type: buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts Again, the manual page for buildafmdir has the full details. --- Mike Hardy Technical Author =================================#==================================== Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd # Email: mikeh@cam-ani.co.uk 20 Cambridge Place # Phone: +44 (0)1223 578100 Cambridge # Fax: +44 (0)1223 578101 CB2 1NR #==================================== United Kingdom # All opinions expressed are my own =================================#====================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: nextstation and 400dpi level II printer accassible by a unix machine Message-ID: <E2vB3E.8Ix@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ul220cqyy0c.fsf@medea.eching.mppmu.mpg.de> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:06:49 GMT In article <ul220cqyy0c.fsf@medea.eching.mppmu.mpg.de> Michael Rietz <rietz@medea.eching.mppmu.mpg.de> writes: > Hello, > > I'm a newbie in administering Nextstep. I would like to export the > Next printer to my local Network so that other machines (unix) could > use it. Using nidump on printcap yields: > Printer Local_Printer can't be represented in printcap format. > > Is there any chance to get it exported under Nextstep V3.3??? > It can be done. Just that it ain't that simple as you thought, inicially. The online manual covers this in some detail in the Chapter on "Mixed Networks". -- 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: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mouse pointer on ELSA dual-head Date: 23 Dec 1996 17:50:03 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <59mgob$chf@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> [ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.hardware ] [ Author was Chris Saldanha ] [ Posted on 17 Dec 1996 18:08:01 GMT ] I've got a problem on a dual-screen NeXTSTEP system. Sometimes when the system is running, the mouse pointer disappears and won't come back until the user logs out and restarts the window server (by logging in as "exit"). The mouse still works, but the pointer is gone. The cards are ELSA 2000PRO/X 4MB PCI. We are also running ScreenMachine II on one screen (the primary) and Cub'X on the other. Has anyone seen this problem before? --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst | 15 Capella Ct. Suite 128 computerActive Inc. | Nepean, ON, Canada K2E 7X1 chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Voice: (613)225-4824 Entrust and PGP keys on request | FAX: (613)225-1670 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The telephone was not invented by Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad
From: emi@cais3.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mouse pointer on ELSA dual-head Date: 23 Dec 1996 21:24:31 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <59mtaf$rja@news2.cais.com> References: <59mgob$chf@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Chris Saldanha (csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca) wrote: : I've got a problem on a dual-screen NeXTSTEP system. Sometimes when the : system is running, the mouse pointer disappears and won't come back until the : user logs out and restarts the window server (by logging in as "exit"). : The mouse still works, but the pointer is gone. : The cards are ELSA 2000PRO/X 4MB PCI. We are also running ScreenMachine II on : one screen (the primary) and Cub'X on the other. : Has anyone seen this problem before? Not me. I'm running OS for Mach 4.1 with two ELSA Winner 2000PRO/X-2. The only problem I have is that Grab won't grab from the second screen. This doesn't stop me from getting work done though. Eric Marshall EMI Software Engineering
From: rdi@interlog.com (Rick Innis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail reverse aliasing Followup-To: poster Date: 23 Dec 1996 21:51:09 -0500 Organization: InterLog Internet Services (416) 975-2655 info@interlog.com Message-ID: <59nget$snf@gold.interlog.com> Summary: what's the sendmail part of this? Simply put, how do I do this? What I want is for mail from local users (e.g. rick@localhost) to be appear as mail from username@isp.com (e.g. rdi@interlog.com) (Okay, I _could_ just change my local username to match my ISP usename, but (a) that's too easy (b) I don't want to and (c) I'll probably want to to do this again someplace anyway. FWIW, I've followed some of the directions in Appendix D (Using Sendmail) as far as I'm able; _viz_ I've done the netinfo stuff: - added an alias property to /users/rick/info - added a directory for rdi under /aliases with one member, rdi My real question is: What the !@#$%^&*( do I have to change in my sendmail config? (I have a feeling someone answered this question about two weeks ago, but I lost that in a major disk crash on Friday...) Salient technical details: sendmail 8.8.4, NS 3.3 on a NeXTStation Turbo. Though in the wake of Friday's announcement I'm salivating at the the thought of a PPC port at last.... --Rick.
From: gbh@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Install problems Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:01:49 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32BF55AD.603@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to install an old copy of NS3.2/intel. I bought an old Adaptec 1542 SCSI card thinking it would be supported, but ran into a problem. When I boot, I get the message: AHA-1540CP/ BIOS not intended to run on this AHA-1540C/1542C! I then get the boot prompt from the boot floppy. It begins to load the kernel but then I get the message: Loading mach_kernel biosread error 0x4 @ 2808, C:78 H:0 S:0 Error loading section Read error It then returns the boot prompt. I have tried to reach Adaptec's web page, but it seems to be down. Can anyone send me anything to help me out on this. I have a few other questions. First, I have an IDE hard drive with Win95 on it, but wish to install NS on another SCSI drive. Do I need to disconnect the IDE drive to install the OS? Can I just unplug the IDE adapter to do this? Second, the SCSI hard drive was previously partitioned with 3 linux ext2 filesystems. I want to keep the size of the partitions the same, use one for the NS OS, one as a swap partition, and keep one in reserve for other use. Will I need to partition it again or can I leave it alone? And last, are the device names the same for NS as they are for linux? Is this correct; /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, and /dev/sda3, for the fisrt, second, and third partitions on the SCSI drive? --GH
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Install problems Date: 24 Dec 1996 04:45:02 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <59nn4e$2nik@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <32BF55AD.603@erols.com> The Adaptec 1542CP is not supported, I believe, even under 3.3. The 1542B and 1542C are supported, however. Under 3.3 the later 1542CF is supported. I would disable the IDE drive in BIOS as well as physically removing it before installation of NEXTSTEP. You won't have to repartition if you want to use an existing partition for NEXTSTEP but you will need to install with the advanced options. In NEXTSTEP the device names are /dev/sd0a, /sd0b instead of /dev/sda1, etc. IDE devices are /dev/hd0a, ... . -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INN 1.5.x config.data anyone? From: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) Message-ID: <32bf6d01.0@news.provo.novell.com> Date: 24 Dec 96 05:41:21 GMT Has any got a working config.data file for INN 1.5.x? I'm about to pull out my hair.... -- Shawn Lynn "Clothes make the man. Naked grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com people have little or no influence in society." - Mark Twain
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nbuf and the limit at 255. Date: 22 Dec 96 22:48:02 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.96Dec22224802@howard.one.net> References: <SHESS.96Dec18225958@howard.one.net> <59jku9$43p@papoose.quick.com> In-reply-to: jq@papoose.quick.com's message of 22 Dec 1996 10:43:05 -0500 In article <59jku9$43p@papoose.quick.com>, jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) writes: In article <SHESS.96Dec18225958@howard.one.net>, Scott Hess <shess@one.net> wrote: >Is the limit at 255 buffers a hard limit, or is it just a problem with >parsing the kernel flag? I tried to get around the limit by patching the kernel binary by replacing the initial value of nbuf (255) with 1024. Very early in the boot phase my value would revert to 255. I asked about this and got some email from someone at NeXT who confirmed that this is hard coded. Apparently at some point in the very early boot phase there is a piece of code which says: if (nbuf > 255) { nbuf = 255; } I think that the only way around this is to track down those assembly language statements and replace the value with a hard coded assignment followed by a branch. Hmm, well, _then_ the question becomes "Did they rely on this behaviour later on?" By using an unsigned char as a loop counter, for instance. It would _seem_ that someone reasonably talented in the trade could find the assignment and patch the kernel (to nops, for ease of changing the value later), but if it's later just going to crash things, well, then ... Perhaps now they'll come out with a new kernel which supports bigger values. Better yet! Perhaps now they'll come out with a _modern_ kernel w#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!idiom.com!idiom.com!jcr From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP and Security. What needs fixing? Date: 24 Dec 1996 11:47:53 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 15 Message-ID: <jcr.851456629@idiom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: idiom.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Well friends, NeXTSTEP is just about to become the most widely-deployed UNIX in the world. Thousands of WEB sites, etc. will be running on NeXT/Mach, and that means that we're going to see these systems subjected to a very high level of scrutiny. So, the security holes that we've been warned about (Window server, old version of Sendmail, old FTP, etc. are now a *VERY* big problem. So, if anyone's interested, I think we should start talking about the holes we know, so we can deploy our Macs with some degree of safety. -jcr
From: jhsterne@earthlink.net (Jason S.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need NextStep for Intel 3.3 Installation Help Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:50:52 -0500 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <jhsterne-ya023280002412962350520001@news.earthlink.net> References: <32be9081.151496@news.erinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <32be9081.151496@news.erinet.com>, ivy@erinet.com (Aaron T. Dingus) wrote: > Seasons greetings, > > I am installing NextSTEP 3.3 for Intel on a system and it is not > working, and I could use some advice. > > The Intel Pentium/133 machine has a 850MB EIDE HD as primary master, > and a 6X IDE CD (an NEC model 280) as primary slave off a PCI > controller fixed on a Triton II based MB. The CD works fine under > DOS/Windows95 for both music and data. > > I select the Adaptec154x series the CD-ROM controller, as the > NextAnswers documents say to . I then use the additional drivers > diskette to select EIDE/ATAPI as the HD controller, also as the > NextAnswers say to. It then shows a graphical window to a terminal, > and says that it detects an ATA drive as well as ATAPI device 1. > Eventually it shows the model name of the CD-ROM correctly. > > Then the fun begins. It says that it "cannot read a packet from device > 1, Retrying..." . It then waits about 2 minutes, and tries again to > the same avail. After about 7 tries, it attempts to mount the CD > anyway and has a kernal panic. > > A couple of things else: > > - I have tried the current beta drivers for 154x and EIDE/ATAPI - they > produce a message that is similar if not completey identical to the > mesage created by the old EIDE/ATAPI drivers. > > - I have changed the BIOS settings in every way imaginable with > regards to PIO and etc. > > - The NextAnswers document lists some NEC models as having known > incompatiblities with the EIDE/ATAPI driver. It doesn't list this > CD-ROM's exact model number however. > > At this point I am willing to try another CD-ROM if I have to, but I > want to be certain that this one is the source of the problem first. > > Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, as I trying to get > NextSTEP up and running on this machine ASAP. > > Happy Holidays, > > Aaron T. Dingus > ivy@erinet.com <** smartass comment on **> Buy a Mac and wait a year!! <** end smartass comment **> J. (ok, flame me, i don't care>
From: gbh@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NS3.2 with PCI SCSI card Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:12:05 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32C0D3C5.15F0@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to install NS3.2 to take a look at the OS. Unfortunately I have a NCR53c815 SCSI card which is not supported in release 3.2. Is there a work around to get the OS to recognize the card? --GH
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adobe Type 1 PS Fonts SUMMARY Date: 25 Dec 1996 17:47:29 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <59rpbh$n51@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <59lqht$b8l@Vir.com> Cc: stefanos@Vir.com In <59lqht$b8l@Vir.com> Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > Hello all, > > Sometime ago I asked about using Adobe Type 1 fonts with > NeXTSTEP. The answer is yes. Below you will find a detailed description > by Mike Hardy on how to do this. > > Thank you all for your help, > stef > > > ... useful information about manually installing fonts omitted. Or simply use my freeware tool 'FontConvert.app' available on the NeXT archives. It can convert and install most Macintosh, Windows, Unix and some TrueType fonts. (You have to provide the Macintosh fonts on floppy). ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Fonts/converters/FontConvert.1.3b.NIHS.b.tar.gz -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: mario@momix Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail Sleeping Date: 25 Dec 1996 18:12:10 GMT Organization: MC-link The World On Line Message-ID: <59rqpq$3rj@news1.mclink.it> Hi there, I 'm having the following problem with NeXTstep 3.3 for Intel: when I send mail (with Mail.app or from the command line with -v option) I have to wait quiete a long time to have it delivered. I see the program connecting and waiting for something to happen. After three or four mins (!) it delivers the message. Once I read something (in a file about the sleeping of NetInfo while delivering mail) about this, but I never had the problem so that I can't remember the source. Does anyone know something about it ? Thanks. Mario Scarpa -- mc6983@mclink.it P.S. I made *no* change to the mail subsystem recently: the problem seems to have forgotten to raise till now !
From: Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mouse pointer on ELSA dual-head Date: Tue, 24 Dec 96 22:17:42 +0100 Organization: Warty Wolfs Message-ID: <9612242117.AA20486@basil.icce.rug.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.1mach v148) In article <59mgob$chf@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>, you wrote: > I've got a problem on a dual-screen NeXTSTEP system. Sometimes > when the system is running, the mouse pointer disappears and > won't come back until the user logs out and restarts the window > server (by logging in as "exit"). > > The mouse still works, but the pointer is gone. Don't know about your hardware trouble, but here is a little ditty that should get you your mouse pointer back without logging out. It helps to have a terminal window open in advance. (how to make it the active window with an invisible mouse pointer is left as an exercise to the reader :-P) --- showcursor --- #! /bin/sh pft <<! showcursor ! --- Same thing uuencoded: begin 755 showcursor @(R$@+V)I;B]S:`IP9G0@/#PA"G-H;W=C=7)S;W(*(0H` ` end Happy days, Tom. -- __/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTmail/Mime OK] __/ __/_/ IC Group <tom@icgned.nl> (work) __/__/__/ "Ed is the standard text editor" __/ _/_/ -- Unix Programmer's Manual
From: tlabs@mucc.mahidol.ac.th (Jay Busari ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: NS Install CD scratched Date: 25 Dec 1996 15:09:00 GMT Organization: Mahidol University, Thailand Message-ID: <59rg2c$o9a@mars.mahidol.ac.th> Hi all, The subject says it all...I was trying to reinstall my NS partition today and I got this error while the installation was copying files to the hard disk.... /private/etc/rc.cdrom: 58 Memory fault /private/etc/rc.cdrom: /private/tmp/mnta/private/etc/fstab: cannot create .... It didn't take long to realise that the CDROM had got scratched. It got scratch simply because I'd put the external CDROM drive on top of my monitor (thus being placed at a slight angle). The CDROM probably got scratched by the caddy :-( I'm sending this to warn people who couldn't be bothered to clear up their desk space (people like me). Anyway, I hope someone can help me by recommending what I can do...can I ask Next to replace the CDROM (it's NS 3.3 for Intel) came in an academic bundle sometime during March/April this year. Who do I contact? Is anyone at Next reading this? (I hope so). HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !! 'tis the season to be jolly... in bad shape down in Bangkok/Thailand Jay Busari
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: sdform makes disk unusable - 0 usable sectors! Message-ID: <E2zKno.7Ir@sounds.wa.com> Summary: Use sdformat -b1024 -f Keywords: sdformat Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <1996Dec21.233048.90879@cc.usu.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 20:23:47 GMT In article <1996Dec21.233048.90879@cc.usu.edu>, <edx@cc.usu.edu> wrote: >I have a 4Gig Seagate ST15150W which I was preparing >to format with 2 2Gig partitions for NS. As per the >instructions in NeXTanswers 1533, I first did a >"sdform /dev/rsd1a". About half an hour later, it >choked with an error I failed to write down. Now, >when I attempt the same command, it gives: > >Read Capacity command failed >I/O error I cannot make any guarantees, but you should try using the utility I wrote to replace sdform. It is called sdformat, and can be found at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/disk/sdformat.1.3.MIHS.tar.gz (don't forget the README there, too). An added bonus is that you can use sdformat to format the drive with 1024 byte sectors, which will increase the capacity and speed of your drive. The NEXTSTEP file system works in 1024 byte allocation chunks anyway, so this is the most efficient format. -- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
From: paul@griffin.plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mouse pointer on ELSA dual-head Date: 24 Dec 1996 12:20:39 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <59ohqn$q7l@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <59mgob$chf@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> In <59mgob$chf@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Chris Saldanha wrote: > [ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.hardware ] > [ Author was Chris Saldanha ] > [ Posted on 17 Dec 1996 18:08:01 GMT ] > > I've got a problem on a dual-screen NeXTSTEP system. Sometimes when the > system is running, the mouse pointer disappears and won't come back until the > user logs out and restarts the window server (by logging in as "exit"). This won't solve your problem, but you can usually get the mouse pointer back in these circumstances by: pft showcursor ^D Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Keller <kmartha@fs2.cvm.okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need help with sendmail/ppp Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 21:52:31 -0600 Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK Message-ID: <32C1F67F.4579@fs2.cvm.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I've got a problem getting my standalone, ppp connection to work. I have ppp2.2, and it appears to be correctly installed. I can receive mail (using PopOver), can web, can telnet, etc. What I CAN'T do is send mail. Mail.app takes the message, and appears to send it, but when I try to exit Mail, it hangs and I have to kill the process. Also, my syslog file gets filled with "Netinfo timeout connecting with local domain, sleeping" I'm not sure if the problem is with sendmail, or Netinfo. I have sendmail8.7.5, and I installed according to the faq at thoughtport.com. Any ideas? I'm stuck. -Bill Keller kmartha@fs2.cvm.okstate.edu
From: chanson@mcs.c#################################################################### From: ploeger@pedcard.uni-kiel.de (Andreas Ploeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mouse pointer on ELSA dual-head Date: 27 Dec 1996 10:04:01 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Kiel, Germany Message-ID: <5a06uh$9ua@infosrv.rz.uni-kiel.de> References: <59mgob$chf@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Cc: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca In <59mgob$chf@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Chris Saldanha wrote: > I've got a problem on a dual-screen NeXTSTEP system. Sometimes when the > system is running, the mouse pointer disappears ... > > The cards are ELSA 2000PRO/X 4MB PCI. We are also running ScreenMachine II on > one screen (the primary) and Cub'X on the other. > It happened to us too a few times when moving the mouse pointer from one screen to the other. We have a combination of a ELSA 2000PRO/X 4 and a 1000AVI running at different resolutions. No ScreenMachine, no Cub'X. -- Dr. Andreas Ploeger E-Mail: ploeger@toppoint.de Kiel University Phone: +49 431 597 1757 Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology FAX: +49 431 597 1745 or 1831 Schwanenweg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany *** NeXT & MIME Mail welcome ***
From: "Hassan N. Kelley" <hassan@ssnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why does samba compile fail? Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:59:58 -0500 Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Message-ID: <32C3F27E.278C@ssnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I cannot build samba-1.9.16p9. I believe all of the sources are compiled but the build fails during the linking. I noticed that in the make file the symbol "LIBS" was not assigned to anything. Anyway I would appreciate anyhelp from anybody. By the way I am running NEXTSTEP 3.3. Thank you Hassan Using CFLAGS = -O -DSMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/samba/var/log.smb" -DNMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/samba/var/log.nmb" -DCONFIGFILE= "/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf" -DLMHOSTSFILE= "/usr/local/samba/lib/lmhosts" -DLOCKDIR= "/usr/local/samba/var/locks" -DSMBRUN= "/usr/local/samba/bin/smbrun" -DWORKGROUP= "HOME_OFFICE" -DGUEST_ACCOUNT="guest" -DNEXT3_0 -arch m68k Using LIBS = Compiling server.c Compiling predict.c Compiling util.c Compiling system.c system.c: In function `sys_utime': system.c:193: warning: passing arg 2 of `utime' from incompatible pointer type Compiling charset.c Compiling kanji.c Compiling fault.c Compiling smbencrypt.c Compiling charcnv.c Compiling md4.c Compiling loadparm.c Compiling params.c Compiling pcap.c Compiling username.c Compiling time.c Compiling interface.c Compiling replace.c Compiling ufc.c Compiling smbpass.c Compiling access.c Compiling shmem.c Compiling trans2.c Compiling pipes.c Compiling message.c Compiling dir.c Compiling printing.c Compiling locking.c locking.c: In function `fcntl_lock': locking.c:85: warning: passing arg 3 of `fcntl' makes integer from pointer without a cast Compiling ipc.c Compiling reply.c Compiling mangle.c Compiling chgpasswd.c Compiling password.c Compiling quotas.c Compiling uid.c Linking smbd ld: Undefined symbols: _waitpid *** Exit 1 Stop.
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: INN 1.5.x config.data anyone? Date: 27 Dec 1996 10:48:10 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5a0r3q$q46@papoose.quick.com> References: <32bf6d01.0@news.provo.novell.com> In article <32bf6d01.0@news.provo.novell.com>, Shawn Lynn <grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com> wrote: >Has any got a working config.data file for INN 1.5.x? I'm about to pull out >my hair.... I have a config.data for INN 1.40 tuned for an installation path of /usr/local/news/* for config and binaries /usr/local/news/log/* for log output If you would like a copy send me an email. -- ___ ___ | 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: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTstation On The Internet Help Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:09:35 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580002712961209350001@news.tiac.net> References: <mpd-ya023180002612961929390001@news.gulf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <mpd-ya023180002612961929390001@news.gulf.net>, mpd@gulf.net (Mark Pappas) wrote: > I have all the ppp stuff configured right ( boy was I proud of myself :) ) > It logs into my isp just fine I even have it touch my isp every 15sec. I > have a static IP. I think my isp still does a drop after 30 minutes when no > packets go out on the net making the touch no good. So what I want to do is I have no idea what you mean by "touch". The easiest ways to keep a PPP link alive are to collect some mail from a POP server or ping someone (you can use a cron script to run popOver or /etc/ping). Every 15 minutes is usually good enough. But you will still get some dropouts, which is why folks use an app like GateKeeper or fancy scripts. I find that GateKeeper eventually (after 5-10 minutes) spots the dropout and reconnects. The latest version (2.?) includes a mod to spot an additional dropout mode, so use that. snip > then take the syslog.ph file and move it into the perl directory. When I > run that line I get directory not found. > > Do I need OpenStep Developer to do this? Fraid the headers are part of developer. > If so is there any other way to > make a Persistent PPP Connection? All I want is my 28.8 link to stay up and > if it drops redial back in to my isp. If there is a better way or > suggestions please e-mail. See comments above. Barney
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and Security. What needs fixing? Date: 27 Dec 1996 13:02:20 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.851720431@idiom.com> References: <jcr.851456629@idiom.com> You know, it occurs to me that a Security manager app would be a nice thing to have. You'd have to run it as root, and the GUI would let you hit buttons to allow or disallow finger, telnet, rwho, etc, etc. Thinking out loud, -jcr
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From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: root password protection in single user mode. Date: 28 Dec 1996 05:05:15 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bbf484$f465e700$a18193cf@home-166> References: <59lq07$97b@Vir.com> I recently picked up a used NeXTstation with a Single User Boot Hardware Password. I picked up this program to resolve the password issue: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/HardwarePassword.N.b.tar.gz This is for NeXT hardware Steve Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@Vir.com> wrote in article <59lq07$97b@Vir.com>... > > Hello all, > > I would be interested in a program (source) which would ask a > user to enter the correct root password before allowing someone to > access the harddisk in single user mode. > > Thanks in advance, > stef >
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: HELP NEEDED: Installing RAM in mono slab Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 28 Dec 1996 22:54:39 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5a48ff$m92@news3.texas.net> I finally went out and bought 32mb of 4mb 30pin 70ns SIMMs today, but am having a bit of a problem when installing it. With 4mb SIMMs in bank 0, system recognizes 16mb, but on boot gives "Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x100034c" With 4mb SIMMs in bank 0 and 1mb SIMMs in bank 1, system recognizes 20mb, but on boot gives "Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x100034c" With 4mb SIMMs in bank 0 and 1, system complains about mixed-mode SIMMs in both banks, does not recognize any of the RAM, and fails the system test. These SIMMs are brand new, 3-chip, 70ns Toshiba. All 8 are identical. Any suggestions? I was looking forward to a fun weekend finally installing some real apps on my NeXT and making it my main machine, but unless I can get more than 8mb in it, it's useless and I just wasted $200 on RAM that I can't get a refund on (only exchange). Please send replies to mrbill@texas.net so that I can get them faster. Thanks. bill -- bill bradford system admin, unix geek, super hero, BOFH mrbill@texas.net texas networking, inc. http://www.texas.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a test of the emergency signature system. Were this an actual signature, you would see amusing mottos, disclaimers, a zillion net addresses, or edifying philisophical statements. This is only a test.
From: root@milan.demon.co.uk (Ian Tait) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Socks for NeXT ? Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 16:44:44 GMT Message-ID: <851877884.9849.0@milan.demon.co.uk> Are there any precompiled binaries for Black hardware ? Thanks Ian -- Ian Tait, http://www.milan.demon.co.uk/ (NeXTmail)
From: aris@aris.next.com (Aris Colp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Soundblaster 32 Pnp Date: 29 Dec 1996 02:47:29 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5a4m41$jrj@news.next.com> References: <01b994b7$e8b807a0$f7e4989e@teiwaz.demon.co.uk> SoundBlaster support is currently only for the 8 and 16 models. Unless your card can pretend to work in a backward compatibility mode or perhaps work as a MicrosoftSoundSystem card, I don't think it will work. As for PnP support (assuming it is a ISA card): PnP support was recently re-vamped. See NeXTanswers: http://www.next.com/NeXTanwers/HTMLFiles/2268.htmld/2268.html You need to use the new EISABus driver. This is all moot unless your card can work in 8/16 mode. A. Tony Michalakopoulos (tonym@lizard.org) wrote: : I am trying to set up a Soundblaster 32 PnP under NS 3.3 without much : sucess so far. : Has anybody managed to get one of those cards working ? : : Tony Michalakopoulos : tonym@lizard.org -- Aris Colp (ALL OPINIONS ARE MY OWN) NeXT Technical Support (I DO NOT SPEAK FOR NeXT Software Inc.) aris@next.com; +1-415-780-3712; http://www.next.com/~aris
From: aris@aris.next.com (Aris Colp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Install problem Date: 29 Dec 1996 02:54:46 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5a4mhm$jrj@news.next.com> References: <32C3181B.79A4@erols.com> Sounds like your floppy disk is corrupt. You can download a image of the installation and drivers diskettes from NeXTanswers: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1921.htmld/1921.html You might use the command "dd" on another UNIX system or the DOS utility RAWRITE.EXE (found on many Linux distribution sites, eg: http:/www.debian.org). dd or rawrite.exe will allow you to create a floppy from a disk image file. A. gbh@erols.com wrote: : I am installing NS/intel 3.2 with a boot floppy and CD. : After the boot prompt, I get the following message: : : Loading mach-kernel (about 45 seconds elapse loading from floppy) : biosread error 0x4 @ 2808, C78 H:0 S:0 : biosread error 0x4 @ 2808, C78 H:0 S:0 : biosread error 0x4 @ 2808, C78 H:0 S:0 : biosread error 0x4 @ 2808, C78 H:0 S:0 : Error loading section : Read error : : Then the boot prompt returns. The machine I am : using has Phoenix BIOS 4.05. Is there any way : to fix this? : : --gh -- Aris Colp (ALL OPINIONS ARE MY OWN) NeXT Technical Support (I DO NOT SPEAK FOR NeXT Software Inc.) aris@next.com; +1-415-780-3712; http://www.next.com/~aris
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: INN 1.5.x config.data anyone? Date: 29 Dec 1996 06:17:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5a52el$kbq@news.digifix.com> References: <32bf6d01.0@news.provo.novell.com> <5a0r3q$q46@papoose.quick.com> In-Reply-To: <5a0r3q$q46@papoose.quick.com> On 12/27/96, James E. Quick wrote: >In article <32bf6d01.0@news.provo.novell.com>, >Shawn Lynn <grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com> wrote: >>Has any got a working config.data file for INN 1.5.x? I'm about to pull out >>my hair.... > >I have a config.data for INN 1.40 tuned for an installation path of >/usr/local/news/* for config and binaries >/usr/local/news/log/* for log output > >If you would like a copy send me an email. INN 1.5.x is a major overhaul, and the 1.4 configs don't seem to cover off the problem areas. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: nurban@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Nathan M. Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and Security. What needs fixing? Date: 28 Dec 1996 15:15:19 -0500 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5a3v4n$ihf@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <jcr.851456629@idiom.com> <jcr.851720431@idiom.com> In article <jcr.851720431@idiom.com>, jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: > You know, it occurs to me that a Security manager app would be a > nice thing to have. You'd have to run it as root, and the GUI > would let you hit buttons to allow or disallow finger, telnet, > rwho, etc, etc. That would be pretty nice and not too difficult. It could also do standard Unix security checks like running crack on the local password file, checking for SUID programs and global-writable files, etc. -- Nathan Urban | nurban@vt.edu | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help with sendmail/ppp Date: 29 Dec 1996 06:59:22 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <5a54sa$9vp@kanga.accessone.com> References: <32C1F67F.4579@fs2.cvm.okstate.edu> Cc: kmartha@fs2.cvm.okstate.edu In <32C1F67F.4579@fs2.cvm.okstate.edu> Keller wrote: > Hi. I've got a problem getting my standalone, ppp connection to work. > I have ppp2.2, and it appears to be correctly installed. I can receive > mail (using PopOver), can web, can telnet, etc. What I CAN'T do is send > mail. Mail.app takes the message, and appears to send it, but when I > try to exit Mail, it hangs and I have to kill the process. Also, my > syslog file gets filled with "Netinfo timeout connecting with local > domain, sleeping" Sounds like name services. If name services is working, you should be able to ping your mail server by name. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NExt POP clients Date: 29 Dec 1996 07:02:33 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <5a5529$9vp@kanga.accessone.com> References: <32BD074C.3F4C@CERF.NET> Cc: esteban@CERF.NET In <32BD074C.3F4C@CERF.NET> esteban wrote: > Is there a good POP client for NeXt (running 3.2). Better yet, is there > a version of the Maillapp that comes with Next that supports POP? PopOver can be found at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Using both partitions of a boot disk for NeXTSTEP. Date: 29 Dec 1996 06:54:16 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <5a54io$9vp@kanga.accessone.com> References: <595ntp$5on@Vir.com> Cc: stefanos@Vir.com In <595ntp$5on@Vir.com> Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > I just installed OpenStep 4.1 on a 2.2G HD. I partitioned the > hard disk into two partitions. One partition is 500M the other is 1750M. > While installing OpenStep I tried to set both partitions as OpenStep but > the message I got was only one NeXTSTEP partition allowed. Or Something > to that effect. Why is this? I assume that you defined the partitions within the framwork of the OpenStep installation? If, instead, you preceded the install with fdisk, then you need to start over again by removing all the fdisk partitions and letting the OpenStep(that's right, reinstall OpenStep) installation do the partitioning for you. You can learn more about the "unix way" by reading the 'disk' man page. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: How to keep NextStep from formatting disks? Message-ID: <E361no.Gx5@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <32845229.523B1D44@netgate.net> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961109104040.25867B-100000@kira> <5630kj$1bu@usc.edu> <328639B8.8CDD6C@netgate.net> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:16:36 GMT >> 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. >> >Matthew N. Reichman wrote: >> Yup, >> Ex: >> /dev/sd1b / ignore rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >> In article <328639B8.8CDD6C@netgate.net>, Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net> wrote: > >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 Try: sounds:brianw> man -k fstab mntent, fstab (5) - static information about filesystems sounds:brianw> man mntent ... There is a man page after all. P.S. Using Librarian for searching ManPages works much, much nicer than the command-line, because it is easier to find such "hidden" pages. -- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: FYI: No loginwindow problem solved - it was NOT netinfo Message-ID: <E36vF5.C9z@euler.han.de> Keywords: loginwindow problem netinfo Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:59:28 GMT Hi, last couple of days I had to struggle with the unfamous 'no loginwindow problem': A hang was forced due to a remote disk being switched off that was NFS mounted (interruptably) on my system. So I rebooted. The system boots fine up to the 'reboot complete' message, then the screen goes blank forever. The recommended procedure is AFAIK nstalling templates for /etc/hostconfig, /etc/netinfo, /usr/lib/NextStep (containing loginwindow.app), restoring the loginwindow symlink remove system from network. All this combined did not help. Finally I booted off an alternate disk, and _forced_ an fsck. And voila, kern_loader and mconnect were dignosed to be corrupt and removed. After a second fsck run I restored mconnect and kern_loader from the alternate boot disk. That did it. Now I wonder what took me so long to force an fsck on a reportedly clean disk. Well, afterwards it is always easy to say. Hope that information is of some help to someone. Btw, what's mconnect supposed to do? It's not mentioned in the docs anywhere. Juergen --- AnsweringMachine +49 511 92455-50 Fon -51 Fax -52 NeXTMail welcome = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Date: 29 Dec 1996 15:00:01 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5a611h$r0s@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <32C5C8EF.2AC6@xedoc.com.au> Cc: lukeh@xedoc.com.au In <32C5C8EF.2AC6@xedoc.com.au> Luke Howard wrote: > > I do like the tools, though. If I had three wishes for NetInfo, > > they would be: > > > > 1) Make it more robust, easier to withstand small problems. > > Examples? I recently spent several days tackling problems on a network of about 100 NS 3.3 machines using the NetInfo supplied with the systems. Just a couple of specific problems: 1) When making changes to the server configuration for a domain (i.e. which machines are clones and which is the master), new servers need to get a new database transferred to them. On a somewhat crowded network, the larger databases (with all the important information) often don't transfer completely, at least not within a reasonable length of time. Unfortunately, clients (including other servers) will still attempt to bind to half-formed servers for NetInfo service. As timeouts start happening, clients realize they need to find another server, and start broadcasting across all of creation, exacerbating any network congestion problems. Meanwhile, everybody's staring at the Spinning Pinwheel of Death. It's safer to transfer the databases manually (FTP), starting the server processes manually on the new server, and making all the proper changes in NetInfoManager by hand, meanwhile HUPping lookupd for good measure, and then hoping everything works. I believe this company's problem could be alleviated with some proper subnetting and reduction of network traffic. However, things work just fine under normal conditions. When something out of the ordinary happens, NetInfo flops and the network becomes unusable for most of the things these people need to accomplish. 2) An important but undocumented tip is that the "serves" property should be set correctly not only in the current domain, but also in its parent and child domains. For example, if a mid-level domain called "nextstep" has a database tagged "nextstep", you need not only "./nextstep" listed in the "serves" property for the server machine in the nextstep domain, but also "nextstep/nextstep" in the parent, and "../nextstep" in all children. If you don't do this, you can expect some problems, even though theoretically, this isn't required. But it can cause binds to fail if this isn't done. I like NetInfo. But one small change can ruin your whole day. > > 2) Support encryption everywhere. > > Using Secure RPC would require a substantial rework of NetInfo, which is unlikely to > be done unless there's a *LOT* of market demand (which, to date, there hasn't been). I didn't say it would be easy. ;-) I would like to see the market demand increase so that this can get done, assuming MacStep will use NetInfo by default for its network information service. > Even if Secure RPC were supported, you'd still have to support the bulk existing > clients that used unauthenticated RPC. Also, because NEXTSTEP hosts have a single > instance of lookupd running as root, it's not possible to authenticate based on the > client program's credentials. (as I discovered when porting the Linux NIS+ client to > NEXTSTEP...) Interesting... > I'd encourage you to subscribe to the netinfo-talk list > (netinfo-talk-request@xedoc.com.au) if you wish to discuss this further. Thanks for the pointer. > > 3) Make licensing inexpensive. (Anyone have current prices?) > > Current prices are on http://www.xedoc.com/. Ouch! I was hoping things had improved since the last time I'd looked. If I understand correctly, it's a $500 license per client? So for a network of about 200 machines, that's $100,000!!? Not to mention that server licenses are $5000 - $12,000 apiece. How could I possibly justify a purchase in excess of $100,000 for a product which provides little security and functionality over NIS, which is free? Ease of use ain't worth that much, and NIS isn't even that hard to use. > > I'd also like it supported on a few more platforms: IRIX, SCO, > > even Linux. Maybe even NT? If NetInfo could do all this, I could > > recommend it as an enterprise-wide solution for one of my current > > employers, instead of just using it for our NEXTSTEP machines. As > > it stands, I really can't. > > Judging by what's at http://www.xedoc.com.au/html/download.html, there are download > links for IRIX and Linux (although Linux is "not available" yet). Cool. You might want to get NeXT to update NetInfoDatasheet on their Web site. > The stock answer to NetInfo on NT is (from the NetInfo FAQ): > > "NetInfo for Windows NT is still a possibility, but as yet there are no plans > announced. One of the key questions to be resolved is the level of functionality > required as some UNIX concepts (such as mount entries) do not map logically to Windows > NT. There are certain technical challenges that would need to be overcome, but it is > generally agreed that it is feasible to develop some sort of migration product. The > other question outstanding revolves around determining the real market demand for such > a product." > > An easier way to integrate NEXTSTEP and NT may be (when NT 5.0 is released) to support > Kerberos and LDAP in loginwindow and lookupd, respectively. Thanks for the info. ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: "Raymond L. Ehrlich" <Rayehrlich@sprintmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help!!! Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:24:26 +0500 Organization: Internet Knowledge Bank Message-ID: <32C6710A.26F1@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While attempting to configure PPP application on my NeXTStation-lost my access to NextStep. Machines only loads kernal-can not get graphical interface up. Machine comes up in single user shell mode. Can anyone help please? Ray
From: gbh@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem installing NEXTSTEP Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 20:41:50 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32C71DDE.5CF5@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to install NEXTSTEP on an Intel based computer. After installing the drivers from the boot floppy, I reach this point and can't continue. Any help would be appreciated. --Greg NeXT Mach Operating System NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 22:08:07 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/ RC_i386/RELEASE_I386 physical memory = 40.00 megabytes. using 102 buffers containing 0.79 megabytes of memory available memory = 36.33 magabytes. vm_page_free_count = 122b ISA bus DriverKit version 320 Registering: PCKeyboard0 Resetting SCSI Bus... sc0: Probing for device Symbios Logic SCSI Adapter instance 0. IODirectDevice: Can't attach interrupts! objc error: FREED(id) message name sent to freed object=0x292c018 panic: (Cpu 0) objc: fatal error panic: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 22:08:07 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15 .obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386 System Panic Kernel panic exception (6,3,1) Waiting for remote debugger connection. (Type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
From: rdi@interlog.com (Rick Innis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail reverse aliasing Date: 29 Dec 1996 21:31:43 -0500 Organization: InterLog Internet Services (416) 975-2655 info@interlog.com Message-ID: <5a79if$gqv@gold.interlog.com> References: <59nget$snf@gold.interlog.com> In article <59nget$snf@gold.interlog.com>, I <rdi@interlog.com> wrote: > What I want is for mail from local users (e.g. rick@localhost) to be > appear as mail from username@isp.com (e.g. rdi@interlog.com) FWIW, I've followed some of the directions in Appendix D (Using Sendmail) as far as I'm able. In netinfo, I've - added an alias property to /users/rick/info - added a directory for rdi under /aliases with one member, rdi in next.mc I've added these lines LOCAL_CONFIG # added by rick in attempting to get reverse aliasing working KZnetinfo localhost/local:/users/%s/info alias LOCAL_RULE_1 # Sender Field Pre-rewriting S1 R$- $:$>3$(Z$1$) invert account to alias When I build sendmail.cf and try running sendmail I get the following message in the console log: sendmail[1026]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/sendmail.cf: line 125: readcf: map Znetinfo: class localhost not available I can only presume that this means that there's a missing link between sendmail and netinfo, but I haven't a clue what it is. FYI, the reason for the localhost/local in the K line is because the only netinfod instance on my machine is tagged "local", as per this ps output: 102 ? SW 0:01 /usr/etc/netinfod local Omitting the netinfo domain, i.e. rewriting the K line as KZnetinfo /users/%s/info alias results in the error /etc/sendmail.cf: line 125: readcf: config K line, map Znetinfo: no map class Salient technical details: sendmail 8.7.5, NS 3.3 on a NeXTStation Turbo. --Rick.
From: "Raymond L. Ehrlich" <Rayehrlich@sprintmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Fixed my problem Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 19:19:40 +0500 Organization: Internet Knowledge Bank Message-ID: <32C67DFC.285B@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks, I found some how I deleted hostconfig when I was setting up PPP installation. All looks OK now Thanks, Ray
From: falc@attila.tempest.org (bUrD uPh daAr n0rtH) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to NeXT printer from std. unix system? Date: 30 Dec 1996 09:05:32 GMT Organization: the storm Message-ID: <5a80ks$65m@mack.rt66.com> Hello folks, A while back I got an 040 cube (NS 3.0), and wanted to print to it from my linux box. My linux printcap was set up right, but the NeXT box (named aegis) always responded aegis: /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer access I posted a query here on how to fix that, and somebody told me how to disable access checking for the printer, and all was good. That was about 4 months ago. Recently, I upgraded to NS 3.1. The upgrade process lost all of my system's configuration for some reason. I managed to get the printer mostly reconfigured, but i still get that error when I try to print remotely. I tried (from the printer config utility) to allow public access, but then it wants tells me that I can't export a local printer to itself. I know there's an easy fix for this -- I think I touch an empty file somewhere, or move a file, or something. I just can't remember what it is. I looked through NeXTAnswers, but couldn't find anything. Can anybody help? Thanks many Joe -- / Joe Waters Intelligent Micro Machine Initiative \ falc@smash.mdl.sandia.gov Sandia National Laboratories \ "Making very small contributions to the state of the art" / http://www.mdl.sandia.gov/micromachine/
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why does samba compile fail? Date: 30 Dec 1996 17:04:45 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5a8snd$2dd@news.next.com> References: <32C3F27E.278C@ssnet.com> Hassan N. Kelley <hassan@ssnet.com> writes: > I cannot build samba-1.9.16p9. [...] Yes, there are some problems compiling SAMBA 1.9.16p9 for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP for Mach. Here are some diffs that fix it: > Compiling system.c > system.c: In function `sys_utime': > system.c:193: warning: incompatible pointer type for argument 2 of `utime' Just a warning. You can get rid of it with a cast: return(utime(dos_to_unix(fname,False),(time_t *)times)); > Compiling locking.c > locking.c: In function `fcntl_lock': > locking.c:85: warning: pointer given for argument 3 of `fcntl' same sort of thing: ret = fcntl(fd,op,(int)&lock); > Linking smbd > /bin/ld: Undefined symbols: > _waitpid Change chgpasswd.c line 283: if ((wpid = sys_waitpid(pid, &wstat, 0)) < 0) { and change system.c line 148: return wait4((int)pid,(union wait *)status,options,(struct rusage *)NULL); That should get it to compile and link properly. -- Marc Majka NeXT Software Inc.
From: Gerald Wildgruber <gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Has anyone built es-Shell on NeXT 3.3 Intel ? Date: 30 Dec 1996 19:15:52 +0100 Organization: Apatheia Corp. Sender: gewil@ue801be Distribution: world Message-ID: <x74th3aofb.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> I didn't succeed in compiling the es shell (v.0.84, a shell derived from Plan 9's rc) on my NeXT Intel machine; the compiler produces the following error: cd ~/es-0.84/ make cc -DNEXT -g -O -c access.c In file included from es.h:4, from access.c:6: stdenv.h:288: conflicting types for `longjmp' /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/setjmp.h:10: previous declaration of `longjmp' *** Exit 1 Stop. Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Mon Dec 30 16:56:37 I'm not very expert in these things, so i unfortunately couldn't fix the problem myself. Any hints how to proceed ? Thanks for your time Gerald -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gerald Wildgruber No one can have an idea gewil@ue801be.ppp. once he starts really lrz-muenchen.de listening. - John Cage (NeXTMail and MIME welcome)
From: "Raymond L. Ehrlich" <Rayehrlich@sprintmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installation of PPP-2.2 on Next slab Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:29:40 +0500 Organization: Internet Knowledge Bank Message-ID: <32C7B5B4.1F7@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------728051D064AF1" ------------728051D064AF1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anyone have any advise on installing the PPP-2.2 software under NS 3.3? Followed the installation instructions and got into trouble which I was able to recover from. The software installation went OK, but it was with the modification of the files described in the read me file that may have caused me problems. The area which seemed to give problems was in the HOSTCONFIG area. Just trying to get a PPP link up with dynamic IP assignment from an ISP server. Any advise would be helpful. Thanks, Ray rayehrlich@sprintmail.com Every Human Being Is A Potential Friend ------------728051D064AF1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Does anyone have any advise on installing the PPP-2.2 software under NS 3.3? Followed the installation instructions and got into trouble which I was able to recover from. The software installation went OK, but it was with the modification of the files described in the read me file that may have caused me problems. The area which seemed to give problems was in the HOSTCONFIG area. Just trying to get a PPP link up with dynamic IP assignment from an ISP server.</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Any advise would be helpful.</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Thanks,</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Ray</DT> <DT>rayehrlich@sprintmail.com</DT> <DT>Every Human Being Is A Potential Friend</DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------728051D064AF1--
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Needed pop3 deamon for NS 3.3 on black slab. Date: 31 Dec 1996 02:59:51 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5a9vj7$92j@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Needed pop3 deamon for NS 3.3 on black slab Keywords: black pop mail Hi, I need a pop3 deamon that will run on NS 3.3 on a black slab. I have tried Torrey Mcmcahon's compilation of pop3d and can't make it run. At boot the system reports pop3/tcp unknown service. I have it installed according to the instructions that came with it. Any help would be great. Maybe the lines in the instructions that were to be placed in the services and inetd.conf files were wrong. I have been unable to locate an e-mail address for Torrey that does not bounce. Thanks -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Why does samba compile fail? Message-ID: <E38DLv.13x@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <32C3F27E.278C@ssnet.com> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:29:55 GMT In article <32C3F27E.278C@ssnet.com> "Hassan N. Kelley" <hassan@ssnet.com> writes: > I cannot build samba-1.9.16p9. I believe all of the sources are > compiled but the build fails during the linking. I noticed that > in the make file the symbol "LIBS" was not assigned to anything. > Anyway I would appreciate anyhelp from anybody. By the way I am running > NEXTSTEP 3.3. > > Thank you > > > Hassan [several lines deleted] Hi Hassan, some time ago I compiled samba-1.9.16p9 for NS 3.3 QuadFat and faced the same problem. You are right, all of the sources ARE compiled. You need not assign the symbol LIBS to anything. You now have to modify two of the source files. Here is what worked for me and probably will work for you: open source/chgpasswd.c and search for the line if ((wpid = waitpid(pid, &wstat, 0)) < 0) and change it to if ((wpid = sys_waitpid(pid, &wstat, 0)) < 0) { Then open source/system.c and search for the line return waitpid(pid,status,options); change it to return wait4(pid, status, options, NULL); Save both files and recompile. Please let me know whether you succeeded. Good luck, 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: Soundblaster 32 Pnp Message-ID: <E38DsB.14p@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <01b994b7$e8b807a0$f7e4989e@teiwaz.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:33:47 GMT In article <01b994b7$e8b807a0$f7e4989e@teiwaz.demon.co.uk> "Tony Michalakopoulos" <tonym@lizard.org> writes: > I am trying to set up a Soundblaster 32 PnP under NS 3.3 without much > sucess so far. > Has anybody managed to get one of those cards working ? > > Tony Michalakopoulos > tonym@lizard.org Hi Tony, Some days ago I faced the same problem. Here is the solution that works for me (and should for you): First of all, you'll need the latest EISABus (v3.35) and SoundBlaster16 (v3.33 / 3.34) drivers. I am not sure where to get them, perhaps from the Peanuts Archive or via NextAnswers. The EISABus as well as the SoundBlaster16 driver now support the needed PnP features. Install both drivers via Configure (use the SoundBlaster16PnP driver) and reboot your machine. If all's well already, you needn't do the following: Then open /usr/Devices/EISABus.config, execute PnPDump and look for the line that shows you the Id. This Id is used to detect the card. Replace the Auto Detect ID-value in /usr/Devices/SoundBlaster16.config/Instance0.table. Reboot your machine and good luck. Please let me know whether you succeeded. Robert. ========================================================================== Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ==========================================================================
From: darwish@diderot.fre.jhu.edu (Miladus Edenensis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installation of PPP-2.2 on Next slab Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:02:10 -0500 Organization: Pleroma Message-ID: <darwish-ya023680003112961202100001@news.jhu.edu> References: <32C7B5B4.1F7@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit You need to give some more detailed info in order for anyone to give you some help. For instance what kinf of error messages are you getting, etc? Best, -- I am the cook. May good teeth, strong stomach with you be! And since you have got down my book, you should get on with me... Nietzsche
From: gomez@nick.chem.brown.edu (Maria A. Gomez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep 4.1 and PPP and MacOS Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:57:19 -0600 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Message-ID: <gomez-3112961257190001@dialup13.nmia.com> Hi, I'm trying to set up a small network at home. It will consist of two Macintoshes and a NeXTstation running OpenStep 4.1. Currently the two Macintoshes are talking to each other (as expected), but the NeXTstation is not. All three computers are running PPP so the NeXTstation is set up as a stand-alone machine but without the IP address set. How do I get all three of these talking to each other and be able to use PPP with internet service provider? Thanks, FgH...
From: root@bytewarecafe.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 32meg 70ns 72pin EDO simm for $140 Date: 31 Dec 1996 20:42:05 GMT Organization: bytewarecafe.com Message-ID: <5abtqt$82m@newman.pcisys.net> We are a new site on the internet and we can supply your hardware needs. As a promotion to get our name out to you, we are running a special promotion on 32Meg simms. For a very limited time, we are selling 32Meg/70ns EDO simms for just 140+shipping and handling, delivered to your door within 2-3 days. Just go to our site www.bytewarecafe.com and fill out the necessary information about yourself and your credit card information. Goto the products list and choose the memory item. From here, select the memory you want and click on the invoice button to see your total charges. If you wish to browse the other hardware categories, feel free to browse for as long as you wish. If you wish to buy anything else, just select that item from that category. If you are satisfied with your selection(s) and your personal information is correct, click on the submit order button. The bytewarecafe.com server will respond with an order number and a time stamp. You will need these two numbers for any future correspondences with bytewarecafe.com Your order will be prepared and delivered to your door within 2-3 days. Thank you.
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