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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...
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From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.2 with PCI SCSI card Date: 1 Jan 97 11:30:13 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan1113013@howard.one.net> References: <32C0D3C5.15F0@erols.com> In-reply-to: gbh@erols.com's message of Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:12:05 -0500 In article <32C0D3C5.15F0@erols.com> gbh@erols.com writes: 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? There's an NCR 810 driver on NeXT's site, you need to poke around and figure out how to write it to a floppy to use during the boot process. I just wrote it using another NeXTSTEP machine - obviously not an option for many people :-). But I think there are instructions on the site about generating a floppy for this use. 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: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Date: 1 Jan 1997 17:34:00 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5ae768$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> Cc: leonvs@occam.com In <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> Leon von Stauber wrote: > NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY,COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADMIN D'oh! c.s.n.*sysadmin* > Was your Christmas less than merry, Tim? You certainly seem in a > foul mood this holiday season. > > In <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> Tim wrote: > > In article <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net>, > > Leon von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com> wrote: > > >NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY,COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC > > > > > >In <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> Tim wrote: > > >> that being said, security becomes an issue with the power you > > >> get under all that GUI. Fortunatly NS is one of the more secure > > > > Damn, here I thought I all but avoided getting into areas that > > could provoke holy wars. Out of a monster post, you managed to > > yank out the very few sentances that had the least relivance > > to what I was posting about. Also, didn't I post in > > Sorry, I forgot about the Usenet law that requires me to address > your entire post. > > > comp.sys.next.sysadmin about this? If I didn't pardon me, > > that's where I THOUGHT the conversation was supposed to be, > > and it's where I THOUGHT I posted. I may have been totaly mistaken, > > but I don't think so. > > Well, no you didn't post in c.s.n.admin. I followed up in that > group, since it's the more appropriate place for this discussion. > I'm setting followups appropriately for this article as well, since > you neglected to post yours to c.s.n.admin again. > > > >Security is an issue anytime a system provides services over a > > >network, or is physically accessible by people who shouldn't touch > > >it. It's *less* of an issue with a UNIX (or even NT) system than > > >with something entirely lacking in multiuser support and basic > > >filesystem security, such as MacOS or DOS/Windows. > > > > There isn't a computer on the face of the earth that doesn't > > have security accesible by people who shouldn't touch it. Usualy > > I think I just said that. > > > we describe those people as "users". And don't _even_ bring > > NT into this discussion, as it's less stable than a crack junky > > on a pogo stick security wise. > > I agree it's got some work left. (I recently saw an advertisement > for a company that claimed it could "recover" lost Administrator > passwords in a matter of hours.) However, all I said was that it > is superior to single-user systems in that regard. > > > So other than pompusly mis-stating the obvious there, what's > > your point? > > I misstated nothing. > > > >As for NEXTSTEP, it's no more secure than any other UNIX. In > > >fact, it's arguably a little lacking in that area. No support for > > >ACLs, and a study of the stability of UNIX tools in various > > >environments rated NEXTSTEP the worst. (I might be able to hunt > > >down a URL if anyone's interested.) The naming service used > > >(NIS, NIS+, NetInfo) is a separate issue. > > > > Oh please, is this the equivocating argument of the month or what? > > NeXTSTEP has it's faults security wise, just like any other > > OS, but it's not bad, and it's better than allot of other > > unixes that are out there. > > Like which ones, and in which specific ways? > > > If you're going to cite studies, fucking > > cite them, don't refer to them in the '9 out of 10 dentists' bad TV > > mode. > > This is not baseless assumption. As I said, there was an independent > study done, and there is a URL for it. Unfortunately, I don't have it > with me, and couldn't locate it just now. I'm almost sure it's > referenced in _Practical UNIX & Internet Security_ by Garfinkel and > Spafford. I left my copy at work, so I'll have to check on it > tomorrow. > > The gist of the study was this: A tool was written which would throw > random input at UNIX utilities. Many of these utilities would break > (either crap out themselves or hang or crash the whole system) due > to problems with buffer overruns and the like, which are the types of > problems that crackers often like to exploit. Something like 8 versions > of UNIX were tested, including NEXTSTEP and Linux, and I believe SunOS > and Solaris. NEXTSTEP rated the absolute worst in the quality of its > tools, with something like 46% of them being vulnerable to bad input. > The least vulnerable? Linux. > > The study was done twice, a few years apart, and both times NEXTSTEP > did poorly. (The others really didn't fare very well, either, with > most posting only minor improvements over the years.) > > > >> Unix based OS's that you can find. Netinfo is -way- superior to > > >> NIS & NIS+ in that respect, and it's also a bit easier to secure > > > > > >NIS is a crock wrt security, so it's not saying much that NetInfo > > >beats it there. But NIS+ supports encryption of authentication and > > >information transfers, which NetInfo can't do. > > > > Last time I checked there was authentication mechanisims in Netinfo > > Read what I wrote. It's not encrypted. Passwords are sent in the > clear over the network. > > > that were pretty good. NIS+ does have encrypted info transfers, > > but that isn't exactly an ass saver in the security department. > > Better than it was granted, but if you are depending on that, > > well, you're probably owned. Telnet and rlogin and all the > > rest of the possible sniffable universe is a far easier target > > on the same wire. > > But if you've secured yourself against these problems (using ssh > and the like), and your network information service is still > vulnerable, then you haven't helped yourself all that much. In > this situation, something like NIS+ or Kerberos or DCE *is* an > ass-saver. > > > >NetInfo is also notoriously touchy. Futzing up a machine or even > > >an entire NetInfo network is easier than toasting bread. > > > > For who? I've never had any significant problems. Nor has anyone > > ever said that to me. I've seen Netinfo get hosed up bad, but > > usualy by stuff like the insertion of bad data. And I've got > > This is one way to do it. And recovery is a pain. > > > experience on some pretty huge Netinfo networks too. Other > > than that, the problems that I've had with it have been attributable > > to stupid things *I* have tried to do, usualy without checking > > docs, or similar stuff, and they've all been local experiments > > & the like. > > It's also vulnerable when the network isn't in the greatest of shape. > See c.s.n.admin for some specific examples I've posted. > > > >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. > > > > > >2) Support encryption everywhere. > > > > > >3) Make licensing inexpensive. (Anyone have current prices?) > > > > > >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. > > > > Erk, you're sort of ill-informed here. There's a company called > > Xedoc that makes it for all sorts of platforms. And was doing a > > survey about 7 months ago on wether people wanted it on NT. > > Er, no I'm not. IRIX support was only recently added by Xedoc, a > SCO version does not exist, nor does a Linux version (although > they're working on it). Nor does an NT version, regardless of > whether a survey was done. > > > As for your 3 points, I concur with them, but take exception > > to the first one. It needs some more warnings to prevent people > > from doing things that'll break it. But I wouldn't want to sacrifice > > the power it gives me either. > > I agree. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > 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: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 1 Jan 1997 23:45:31 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> I've been reading a good bit lately about the Ping of Death problem, and I was wondering if anyone knows when NeXT might have it solved? I gather that it takes a 32K packet to crash a NeXT machine, but for now, when any luser with a windoze box can take a nextstep system down, I can't tell my customers to put a NeXTSTEP system live on the net. -jcr
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT boot sector changed with NT setup Date: 1 Jan 1997 23:34:00 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5aes98$8ht@bolivia.earthlink.net> Hello fellow users. I have recently installed a small 200 MB NT partition on my NSFIP 3.3 system. Surprisingly it did not erase the NeXT boot sector. However, when I boot up and get the option of which OS to run, n is for NeXT and d does not take me into NT. Instead it got placed in the 1 partition. I would like to have NT booted with the "d" option. If I use the nextanswers solution to the deleted boot sector, will that solve the issue? Its not that big of a deal, but would be nice to have that setup. Thanks for your replies. Please respond to the email address below. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ Gerardo Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net quinonez@usa.net NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Painfully Slow Text Scrolling in ROM Monitor on ND Turbo Cube Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 2 Jan 1997 03:35:49 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5afvhl$bln@pesto.cs.utexas.edu> Ident-User: liuyi Summary: Slow Text Scrolling Prob. in ROM Monitor on ND Turbo Cube Keywords: Text Scrolling, ND, Cube, Turbo [ Crosspost: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,] [ comp.sys.next.sysadmin ] [ Followup: comp.sys.next.misc ] I recently got a ND Turbo Cube. It runs everything perfectly except for this problem: Problem: When booting in verbose mode, the text scrolls very slowly line-by-line from bottom to top, kind of like watching a terminal connected via 2400 baud modem, but felt a lot slower and a lot more annoying. HW + SW: 040 33MHz ND Cube, 32MB on ND, 32MB on 040, all simms non-parity 70ns, running NS3.3, 1 200MB boot + 1 3.2GB HDs. I'd never owned a ND Turbo Cube or any Color motorola hardware before. But compared to my 040 33MHz slab whose ROM monitor scrolls text fast and smoothly --- jump scroll (?), the ND Turbo Cube's text scroll is more like a snail scroll. I tried playing with "p" command in the ROM monitor, but short of switching off the "verbose" mode, nothing seems to affect this behavior. On top of this, everything else runs fine with visually comparable speed to the Turbo slab once the machine boots up. So my question: Is this a normal behavior in the ROM monitor on the ND Turbo Cube? Thanks! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@anet-dfw.com> | <liuyi@usa.net> Dallas, TX
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pop3D problem fixed, thanks Date: 2 Jan 1997 04:29:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5afdip$fog@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Pop3d problem fixed, thanks Thanks to all who sent the answer, niload fixed it. -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
From: help@spry.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5ackvj$5g3@chile.earthlink.net> Control: cancel <5ackvj$5g3@chile.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:41:20 +0100 Organization: Self Help Corp Message-ID: <borra.5ackvj$5g3@chile.earthlink.net> References: <5ackvj$5g3@chile.earthlink.net> EMP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. The Breidbart index was 494. See report "totalmarketing" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: FREE EDUCATIONAL VIDEO/CDs.
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and Security. What needs fixing? Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 09:12:51 -0600 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <32CBD073.35D4@pswtech.com> References: <jcr.851456629@idiom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John C. Randolph wrote: > 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. Distributing NEXTSTEP/MacStep with up-to-date stable versions of server software is a good first step. I'd also like to see as many security tools bundled as possible: tcp_wrappers, ssh, sudo, Tripwire, COPS, etc. These should probably be preinstalled and preconfigured in a reasonable manner, since the proportion of folks w/ sysadmin experience among the Mac community is much lower than among NEXTSTEPpers. I also wouldn't mind if most services were disabled by default (telnetd, ftpd, etc.), as long as Apple/NeXT provides a tool for easy administration (instead of making people learn about inetd.conf, for instance). > 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. Another good start would be to study the results of the University of Wisconsin study of the reliability of UNIX tools on various systems, in which NEXTSTEP fared quite poorly. The paper is available as ftp://grilled.cs.wisc.edu/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.ps ____________________________________________________________________ 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 2 Jan 1997 15:19:55 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> In article <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) writes: > I've been reading a good bit lately about the Ping of Death problem, and > I was wondering if anyone knows when NeXT might have it solved? My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the ping of death. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXTstation as net bridge? Message-ID: <E3Dtnz.ByL@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <gomez-3112961251480001@dialup13.nmia.com> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:04:46 GMT In article <gomez-3112961251480001@dialup13.nmia.com> gomez@nick.chem.brown.edu (Maria A. Gomez) writes: > Hi, > > I would like to set up my NeXTstation running OpenStep 4.1 as a > net bridge for my small network at home through my PPP provider. > What you want is a router, not a bridge! > 1. Is this possible? Yes, of course. > 2. Do I need additional software/hardware? The PPP package (try Peak or Peanuts) > 3. Where do I get detailed information or the software? Get any Unix/Internet admin book that still has a section on BSD (they're aplenty) and read the OS/Mach man-pages/DL sysadmin manual sections on networking/routing. -- 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: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:24:48 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0201971224480001@slip-32-8.ots.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the >ping of death. What platform? Also, note that crashing the operating system is not the only (merely the worst) symptom. I know that some NEXTSTEP Systems will kill their Network Interface in response to the Ping 'O Death. This is not as bad as having the System crash, but bringing the network back up requires a reboot just the same. JD
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 2 Jan 1997 19:29:55 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5ah2bj$6f4@huffalump.visi.com> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> <distler-0201971224480001@slip-32-8.ots.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler (distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu) wrote: : >My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the : >ping of death. : : What platform? : : Also, note that crashing the operating system is not the only (merely the : worst) symptom. I know that some NEXTSTEP Systems will kill their Network : Interface in response to the Ping 'O Death. This is not as bad as having : the System crash, but bringing the network back up requires a reboot just : the same. The Ping o' Death home page claims that NS/FIP is susceptable, but Sparc and Motorola are not. I've been noticing odd behavior recently from my Intel box here at the office; the network interface will die for hours at a time, and come back seemingly spontaneously. This only happens when I'm away from the console. Lately, the machine has been locking hard rather than just losing ether. I'm suspicious... -- # david young: +oo developer # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com, dwy@ace.net (NeXTmail ok)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 2 Jan 1997 20:29:53 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5ah5s1$oo3@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5ah2bj$6f4@huffalump.visi.com> In article <5ah2bj$6f4@huffalump.visi.com> dwy@ace.net (David Young) writes: > Jacques Distler (distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu) wrote: > : >My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to > : > the ping of death. > : > : What platform? m68k and i386 platforms were tested, pinging from a Win95 box. > The Ping o' Death home page claims that NS/FIP is susceptable, but Sparc > and Motorola are not. I know. I sent them the results of my testing a couple months ago. Apparently they didn't update their information. I bet the susceptibility has something to do with the particular networking hardware (and driver) used. I've tested Intel boxes with DEC24010 (?) based PCI cards, and SMC EtherElite ISA cards. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXTSTEP/Career Position/Syst Admin Date: 2 Jan 1997 20:50:18 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <5ah72a$qut@tofu.alt.net> System Administrator NEXTSTEP-------------Commercial experience---1yr+ Career Position------Excellent working conditions & growt potential Area-----------------NY State-----not city Relocation-----------Company Assistance Must Be--------------US Citizen or Greencard To Be Considered-----Fax resume or mail a hard copy. -- ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax] Omni Search (419) 893-6334 [voice] 1310 Craig Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Adding a non-NeXT printer to black Message-ID: <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:48:09 GMT hi all... My SO and I are considering buying a laserprinter (NEC 5i) for the house, which would be connected to my mono black slab, which serves as a PPP network gateway/router/firewall/mailserver. I've checked everywhere, but the only discussion about adding non-NeXT printers to a slab has to do with rewiring a serial connector. Is it possible to add a non-NeXT printer to a black slab? What should I ask for in the way of accessories when I purchase this beastie? Do I need a parallel-serial converter, and the serial connector hack in the FAQ? Do I need something else? What do I have to do on the software side of things? We're both very excited, as this will be our first in-home laser printer, but I'm a bit concerned, since getting the thing connected to my slab is a big grey fog for me right now. Could someone clarify? Thanks, Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: Steve Hoffman <steveh@neog.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what the heck did I do?? Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 16:54:30 -0600 Organization: Neoglyphics Message-ID: <32CC3CA6.7DB7@neog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Man do I feel stupid. OK, having trouble with my hard drive. Here's the setup. Got a NStation that I had a Fujitsu M2624SA 520MB drive in. Worked great for 5-6 years and like a dummy I went and swapped it for a 1gb disk I got from my brother. Well, I decided to take it out and put that drive in an external case instead and put the old 520 disk back inside. However, now I've messed something up because I'm getting this as it's searching for the disks during startup (I can only boot if a second disk is attached). With no second disk: sc: unexpected msg: 1 (keep repeating) With second disk: sc: unexpected msg: 1 (3 times) booting from blk0 (from second drive - you know what I mean) sc: unexpected msg: 1 sd: target 1 lun 0 opcode 18 sd: addr 0x43BBF10 bcount 66 rdflag 1 sd: sdstatus 0 sdstate 0 rdflag 1 sc: s5c state 7 status 0x87 sc: intrstatus 0x8 seqstep 0x4 sc: fifolevel=0 transfer count=0 sc: command 0x10 config 0x57 (This repeats 3 times and then it boots fine off the internal drive with no other problems that I can tell (internal drive is scsi id 1, external is 4 I think)). I could sure use some help with this one. I have NO IDEA what the heck I did. Perhaps I forgot a jumper or something but I don't see how. Also, I sysadmin friend suggested I try writing a new boot block on the internal drive (/usr/etc/disk -b /dev/rsd0a). I did, but still no luck. I would be SOOOOO grateful for any help. Steve -- Steve Hoffman (steveh@neog.com)
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.1 and PPP and MacOS Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 19:02:58 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E3EA8z.915@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <gomez-3112961257190001@dialup13.nmia.com> In article <gomez-3112961257190001@dialup13.nmia.com> gomez@nick.chem.brown.edu (Maria A. Gomez) writes: > 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? You don't make a couple of things clear - there are two issues here: 1) internal networking 2) linking to the outside world Address them one at a time. 1) Are you useing PPP as your exclusive network solution, or have you some other network installed (ether or appletalk?). If you're on ether than problem is solved - this is the best solution (even if it means buying some ether cards). If you're on appletalk you will need to bridge onto ether to connect the NeXT effectivly (possibly expensive, and fiddly). If you're entirly on PPP, then setup the NeXT as your main machine, and plug the Mac's into the NeXT serial ports, log in from each Mac, and run pppd [just use fixed ip addresses] (cheap, but slow, and you've just run out of serial ports on the NeXT - we haven't connected the modem yet) The Macs will talk to each other via the NeXT. 2) If you're using MacTCP, then only the NeXT will suppoort multiple IP interfaces. OpenTransport should be better but I've never used it. This means you need to connect outside via the NeXT. Setup PPP as per intructions, and connect out to you provider. Chances are that your IP provider DOES NOT support multiple addresses, so you can't connect DIRECTLY from the Macs to the rest of the world. The easy workaround is to get an http server (try the webobjects package), and make it do proxying, then point the Macs at the NeXT as a gateway in whatever browser tools you use. If you can get multiple IP addresses (at reasonable cost), then you need to setup a subnet (but thats more complex, and I don't really have much experience of that). OK that was a bit quick, but mail me if you want to talk more about this. Also if anyone has got an appletalk<->ether bridge, I'd be interested in finding out more as I really need to go this route. $an
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Toshiba laptop video driver? Date: 2 Jan 1997 15:19:37 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852247139@idiom.com> Summary: Which driver will work with a Toshiba Satellite 420CDT? Will this work with the default S3 driver? Anyone else gotten 3.3 going on this box? -jcr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701022356.PAA04232@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 97 18:56:38 -0500 Subject: another one of them interesting console messages Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary "Retry zone_gc" Anyone care to guess? I was running two gnutar/gzips at the time, and had PPP running That was the message "Retry zone_gc". It appeared only once so far. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Awaiting Apple's NeXTStep
From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network Printer Newbie Problem Date: 3 Jan 1997 10:21:21 GMT Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Message-ID: <5aimj1$ll3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Setup: two Nexts connected in a network, one NextStation TurboColor running OS 4.0, one NextStation Turbo running NS3.2. The NS Turbo has a Next printer connected to it. The machines are happily networked together in a NetInfo network. Problem: when I try to make the Next printer Public in PrintManager, I cannot do it and I get the following error message: Printer cannot be exported to this same computer. What do I do?
From: ccdc@phish.nether.net (nicholas mohunta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP NEEDED!!! Date: 3 Jan 1997 10:45:15 GMT Organization: Nether.Net -- Public access Linux system Message-ID: <5ainvr$re5@news.cic.net> Subject: HELP NEEDED!!! Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Organization: Nether.Net -- Public access Linux system Summary: Keywo Subject: HELP NEEDED!!! Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc Organization: Nether.Net -- Public access Linux system Summary: Keywords: I dont know if this is the right newsgroup i am posting to. But what ever suggestions you give or advise for that matter will be greatly valued. Well here it goes. I want to start an ISP service giving out TCP/IP connections with all the regular services attached such as DNS, FTP, WWW, telnet, etc. I am looking to start with 750-100 customers with expansion for more. DEcided that i will have to have a T1 line. But here is my dilemma. !. What kind of a server will be needing to serve the above services? Initilall i was thinking of pro-pentiums with BSD OS. But now am thinking of SS20 with sunOS? Is this wise or should i stick with pro-pentiums and BSD.Some for and against arguments would be very much helpful.O are there any other systems which i can take into considerations regarding perofrmance/price 2) How many servers will i need? 3) What kind of modems will serve my purpose? 4) I intened to give shell acess too so what else do i need for the shell acess? I would really appreciate some detailed answers to my first question becuaase that is biggest dilemma i am facing. Thank You for your patience. Apoorva Mohunta
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to a NeXT Black printer from Windows NT Date: 3 Jan 1997 11:18:54 -0600 Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5ajf1u$pnp@falcon.inetnebr.com> NNTP-Posting-User: bettis I need to be able to print to a NeXT printer from Windows NT, I have set up the printer as a LPR printer in Windows NT, and set the printer up as if it were a Apple Laserwriter, since there is no Generic Postscript option in Windows. BUT! I am getting numerous postscript errors when printing from windows apps, including Notepad. How can I install the NeXT.ppd file or make it go somehow? -Jeremy
From: tgraham@qualcomm.com (Tony Graham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk, Netware removed from OpenStep 4.0? Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 09:42:48 -0800 Organization: QUALCOMM, Inc. Message-ID: <tgraham-0301970942480001@agraham-mac.qualcomm.com> Hello all, I'm using the student version of OpenStep 4.0 for Intel and don't seem to find any AppleTalk or Novell Netware functionality. Some of the documents in the Sysadmin library reference them, but they're not on the machine. Were these only included with the NeXT hardware or NeXTStep 3.x? Thanks, -Tony Graham tgraham@qualcomm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Adding a non-NeXT printer to black Message-ID: <E3FMs8.C7M@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 12:31:20 GMT In article <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu writes: > hi all... > > My SO and I are considering buying a laserprinter (NEC 5i) for > the house, which would be connected to my mono black slab, which > serves as a PPP network gateway/router/firewall/mailserver. I've > checked everywhere, but the only discussion about adding non-NeXT > printers to a slab has to do with rewiring a serial connector. > > Is it possible to add a non-NeXT printer to a black slab? What > should I ask for in the way of accessories when I purchase this > beastie? Do I need a parallel-serial converter, and the serial > connector hack in the FAQ? Do I need something else? What do > I have to do on the software side of things? > > We're both very excited, as this will be our first in-home laser > printer, but I'm a bit concerned, since getting the thing connected > to my slab is a big grey fog for me right now. Could someone > clarify? > Asking DigitalLibrarian about the occurences of "printer" in the SysAdmin manual shows ten hits. One of them is the chapter on "Peripherals" which includes a step by step account about the procedures to attach a new printer to a NEXTSTEP system. I think that should do in your case (at least for the starter). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: what the heck did I do?? Message-ID: <E3Fpt3.C8J@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <32CC3CA6.7DB7@neog.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:36:38 GMT In article <32CC3CA6.7DB7@neog.com> Steve Hoffman <steveh@neog.com> writes: Although I never owned a M2624SA (I have two M2694), I think I know what might be the cause of your trouble. Unfortunately, this will only be a hint. The actual doing is with you. The older Fujitsu had no integrated SCSI-1 mode, you had to switch manually from SCSI-2 to SCSI-1. And a Fujitsu in SCSI-2 mode isn't bootable from black hardware. You must make sure all drives are SCSI-1, asynch. Otherwise, a black machine won't boot correctly! Unfortunately, Fujitsu used to have a habit of switching controller assemblies almost every other week. So I can't help you with correct jumper settings. I used to get around by the help of a very customer friendly OEM distributor who used to fax me the actual data sheet after I phoned him with the full drive type and electronic assembly number at hand. I hope you can find some kind soul of that type ;-) > Man do I feel stupid. OK, having trouble with my hard drive. > Here's the setup. Got a NStation that I had a Fujitsu M2624SA > 520MB drive in. Worked great for 5-6 years and like a dummy I > went and swapped it for a 1gb disk I got from my brother. Well, > I decided to take it out and put that drive in an external case > instead and put the old 520 disk back inside. However, now I've > messed something up because I'm getting this as it's searching > for the disks during startup (I can only boot if a second disk > is attached). With no second disk: > > sc: unexpected msg: 1 (keep repeating) > > With second disk: > > sc: unexpected msg: 1 (3 times) > booting from blk0 (from second drive - you know what I mean) > sc: unexpected msg: 1 > sd: target 1 lun 0 opcode 18 > sd: addr 0x43BBF10 bcount 66 rdflag 1 > sd: sdstatus 0 sdstate 0 rdflag 1 > sc: s5c state 7 status 0x87 > sc: intrstatus 0x8 seqstep 0x4 > sc: fifolevel=0 transfer count=0 > sc: command 0x10 config 0x57 > (This repeats 3 times and then it boots fine off the internal > drive with no other problems that I can tell (internal drive is > scsi id 1, external is 4 I think)). > > I could sure use some help with this one. I have NO IDEA what > the heck I did. Perhaps I forgot a jumper or something but I > don't see how. > > Also, I sysadmin friend suggested I try writing a new boot block > on the internal drive (/usr/etc/disk -b /dev/rsd0a). I did, but > still no luck. > -- 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: dturren@dukebar.crml.uab.edu (Don Turrentine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: enrc: no network buffers Date: 3 Jan 1997 17:51:09 GMT Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Message-ID: <5ajgud$cls@maze.dpo.uab.edu> What does this messages mean "enrx: no network buffers? Please e-mail replies, I need an answer fast! Thanks, Don -- Don Turrentine, Network Specialist University of Alabama Health Services Foundation 301 South 20th Street LNB 201 Birmingham, AL 35233 (205) 731-9666 Direct (205) 731-9856 Fax dturren@hsf.uab.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Message-ID: <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:35:45 GMT Pohl Longsine wrote: > There's a similar "crashme" program that generates random executables > to test a kernel's stability, and Linux can also run this for hours > at a time on both Intel, SPARC, and Alpha versions. I don't know of > anybody running "crashme" on NeXTstep. Has anybody tried this? > [geek curiosity]. Yup. I have it running on my NS 3.3pl1/x86 box right now. Nothing happens, except that it eats some CPU time. I also played with the parameters, but still no crash in sight. Btw, I absolutely agree on the OS issues..Linux or a recent version of 4.4BSD with its kick-ass VM/buffer/cache system would *definitely* be a big plus. Holger -- Object web weaver | @work: hhoff@media-group.de Media group | @home: hhoff@schwaben.de (NeXTmail & PGP ok) Stuttgart, Germany | OPENSTEP? Yes, It Will.
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5ajp93$i8i@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Date: 3 Jan 1997 21:14:10 GMT Control: cancel <5ajp93$i8i@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5ajp93$i8i@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Sender: tccs@sprintmail.com Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: CDRMEDIA Original Subject: CD-R Media for Sale
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.1 and PPP and MacOS Message-ID: <137cd$e725.2af@nmb-news> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 97 14:10:45 PST To: Ian Stephenson <ians@cam-ani.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, Jan 2, 1997,7:02 PM Ian Stephenson wrote: : Also if anyone has got an appletalk<->ether bridge, I'd be interested in : finding out more as I really need to go this route. : I picked up a couple of Shiva Fastpath's from my employer a year ago. These work pretty well, but require a Mac on localtalk to configure, the ethernet software is flakey. The hard part is getting them to pass TCP/IP. I was able to just plug them in and get Appletalk to the NeXT, but TCP/IP was a little more work. Now that I have it working I never touch it, but if you need more info I'd be glad to dig it out. I also found that the GatorBoxes work well. I just picked up the Fastpath's for nothing, so they seemed the best solution. Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E3GG02.1BH@flop.schwaben.de> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 23:02:26 GMT Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > Yup. I have it running on my NS 3.3pl1/x86 box right now. > Nothing happens, except that it eats some CPU time. > I also played with the parameters, but still no crash in sight. I spoke to soon.. I just learned The Hard Way that running crashme as root with some funny large number of processes (say, 100) WILL lock up NS 3.3pl1 pretty much instantly. Even the last-resort monitor is dead. With fewer processes, it just runs without end. Not sure how the UID affects the outcome. Holger -- Object web weaver | @work: hhoff@media-group.de Media group | @home: hhoff@schwaben.de (NeXTmail & PGP ok) Stuttgart, Germany | OPENSTEP? Yes, It Will.
From: qvi@ix.netcom.com(Hergen Eilers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named daemon Date: 4 Jan 1997 01:03:51 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5aka9n$biv@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> I am trying to configure a computer running NeXT 3.3 to be a name server for non-NeXT computers on our small network that is NOT connected with the Internet. I have tried following the instructions in the NeXT Library and man pages to set up the named daemon, but I am having trouble setting up the named.boot and cache files. We only have six computers on our network. We are not connected to the Internet. Therefore, I have only set up a root domain. I don't think we need any secondary name servers. I tried the following: Added the following line to /etc/rc.local: /usr/etc/named In the file /etc/named.boot: directory /etc/DNS cache . root.cache In the file /etc/NDS/root.cache: 99999999 IN NS maxwell. maxwell. 99999999 IN A 192.72.142.1 When I entered "nslookup maxwell" in Terminal on the server (maxwell), I get the following response: Server: maxwell Address: 0.0.0.0 res_mkquery(0, maxwell., 1, 1) ____________ Got answer: HEADER: opcode = QUERY, id = 1, rcode = SERVFAIL header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail. questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, additional = 0 QUESTIONS: maxwell, type = A, class = IN _____________ *** maxwell can't find maxwell: Server failed I would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Could you please send a copy of your responce to qvi@ix.netcom.com. Thanks. Brian Olmsted
From: Eric Davis <eld@dimensional.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tip'ing probs after re-install Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 22:47:25 -0700 Organization: Dimensional Communications Message-ID: <32CDEEED.33EE@dimensional.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had Openstep installed and tip worked perfectly. I had to repartition my harddrive to give Openstep more space. After re-installing Openstep, my ports, and tty server, tip won't work. It claims: 'unable to syncronize Hayes' Any ideas on this one? I am not getting modem lights or anything. All hardware configs are the same..com port 2 with a USR 288 on white hardware. ericd
From: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Incoming faxes won't connect Date: 4 Jan 1997 08:46:35 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5al5db$nl8@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> I've got a ZyXEL 2864 on black hardware, with NXFax. Worked fine for a long time, but now it will not recieve faxes. Modem answers and tries to handshake, but does not complete and times out with "Unspecified Phase B Error" reported to the calling modem/fax machine. This happens with several different fax machines that worked previously. Deleting and reInstalling NXFax, re-uploading firmware to the modem all have no affect. I can send faxes fine, and connect to my ISP without problem. ZyXEL has tried hard but unable to resolve the problem, ditto B&W (NXFax). Thanks for any help, JP -- Please respond as needed to: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com NeXTMail/MIME welcome
Message-ID: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:47:43 -0600 From: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Organization: ServiceNet, LLC. Andersen/BBN MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with L.sys Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure for this? Anyone else have problems with this? http://www.isd.net/eulmer
From: chrisf@chesapeake.net (CF Publishing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: We Create Web Pages! Date: 4 Jan 1997 18:30:51 GMT Organization: CF Publishing Message-ID: <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Do you or your company want to be seen by millions of people via the Internet but not have the ability to accomplish this by yourself? A lot of people have this yearn, but do not have the means of achieving this. The solution to this problem is simple. I will publish your web page for you, and put it up on a web server of your choice. There, with proper advertising, it can be seen by millions! Your page will be complete with graphics, frames, and the text that you want. All you need to do is send me the ideas you have for your page, any text you would like to see there, and I will create it for a minimal fee. This is a great way of letting your friends and family worldwide keep in touch with you, or let your business be seen! Many businesses have pamphlets or brochures that they create to keep their customers informed. With your own web page, we can publish your pamphlets or brochures online so your customers can view them with ease. We can even set up forms to allow them to mail in their orders securely! We guarantee that our pages that we create will please you, and if they do not, there is no charge to you. Our guarantee can not be beat. We will publish your pages for you, and them show them to you for your approval. You may then suggest any changes that you wish to be made. If these changes do not make you absolutely happy, you will not be billed for our services. We do not want our customers to be unhappy with any of our services, so we will continue to make changes to keep the pages we create closest to the pages you originally showed us. Our prices for web publishing can not be beat. We will beat any other written estimate you may have. If you are interested in any of our services, simple email us at chrisf@chesapeake.net, or call us at (301) 855-9902. Thank you for your interest in our services.
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys Date: 4 Jan 1997 20:30:41 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5amelh$skp@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> wrote: > I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working > for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are > working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However > the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure > for this? Anyone else have problems with this? Not sure by your problem description, but I had problems until I added the "P_ZERO" keywork to my L.sys script: scruz Any;1 DIR 38400 cufa \ ABORT BUSY \ ABORT NOCARRIER \ "" P_ZERO \ "" atdt5551212 \ CONNECT \r\r \ ogin:~10 aLogin \ ssword:~10 aPassword -- 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: Bryan Wilson <wil-design@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 15:49:52 +0000 Organization: Wil-Design Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am running NeXTStep 3.3 on a Intel machine. I am trying to connect to an AppleTalk network. The machine connects fine to a NetWare 4 network. I have perused all available docs at NeXTanswers and it mentions the Apple icon that appears in the window brought up by the Preferences application ( display, mouse settings, etc. ). The problem is that the Apple icon does not appear at all. NeXT's docs state that the AppleTalk client is included with NS 3.3. Is there a special driver or installation option that need tobe loaded / selected in order to communicate with AppleTalk devices? I am using a Intel EtherExpress 16 network card and NS 3.3's driver for it. I have not been able to try another network card ( or another mfr's driver either ) yet... Please e-mail me at wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com if you have been successful in connecting NeXTStep to AppleTalk machines / printers via EtherNet. I will post a solution when it has been found to usenet. Thanks! Bryan wldesign@jax.janet.com
From: pjb@imaginet.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys Date: 4 Jan 1997 21:04:11 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5amgkb$pmg@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> In article <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> writes: > I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working > for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are > working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However > the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure > for this? Anyone else have problems with this? > > http://www.isd.net/eulmer You may embed a \20 or \40 or \32 (I think it should be hexa, but I'm not sure) to send a space. May be that enclosing the send string in quote would work too. Have a look at /etc/uucp/UUAIDS/L.sys.samples. __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: news@cmc.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: cmsg cancel <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Date: 4 Jan 1997 22:26:35 GMT Control: cancel <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Sender: chrisf@chesapeake.net (CF Publishing) Spam cancelled by news@cmc.net
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: We Create Web Pages! Date: 4 Jan 1997 14:43:17 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852417619@idiom.com> References: <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> chrisf@chesapeake.net (CF Publishing) writes: [most of the spammer's ad deleted] >estimate you may have. If you are interested in any of our services, simple >email us at chrisf@chesapeake.net, or call us at (301) 855-9902. Guys, this is a rare chance to slam a spammer but good. I just tried the number above, and it's live. It appears to be his home number. Call him up, and tell him why it's wrong to spam usenet newsgroups!!! >Thank you for your interest in our services. Yeah, good luck getting a clue, dipshit. -jcr
From: root@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Audio Probs with Intel Mb Date: 5 Jan 1997 03:05:21 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5an5ph$oti@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I purchased an Intel Atlantis motherboard (P133) a few months back and am running NS 3.3 on the machine with no problems except I can't get the onboard sound system to work (as I was told it would by the company that I purchased it from). The onboard sound is listed as a Crystal 4232 audio controller and Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesizer. Having looked at the 3.3 compatibility guide I came to the conclusion that it would not work. So I purchased a Sound Blaster 16 PNP. Once I installed the Sound Blaster, my machine will not boot giving me an error message stating that a PCI interrupt conflict exists. I looked in the BIOS to see if I could turn off the onboard audio figuring that was the conflict but I could not figure out how to do that. Also, looking in the mb reference manual I could not find any reference for disabling the onboard audio. Could that be the problem or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks for any insight. Darryl
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: cmsg cancel <jcr.852417619@idiom.com> Control: cancel <jcr.852417619@idiom.com> Date: 5 Jan 1997 03:25:04 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <5an6ug$edt@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> This article canceled.
From: student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syslogd not working? Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:34:17 -0800 Organization: California State University Sacramento Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103001816.966A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone I doubled checked my rc and syslog.conf files to see why my syslogd is not running . Even with the "ps au" command. My other daemons seem to work. I did "kill -HUP syslogd " 1 time because I added some lines to my syslog.conf but I am not sure if that is the cause. As I understand that process ends but will start again. I also typed "syslogd" at the command line and looked at the syslog.pid file each time and the pid did change. So I was not sure why the pid changes but the process did not show up in "ps au" . Inetd, named,others work. Now the /usr/adm/messages and /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog stopped getting updated. Any solution? What should I do to restart syslogd whenever I modify syslog.conf besides killing with HUP (from the man page), rebooting and typing syslogd by hand at the command line? I also uncommented accounting "accton" near the end of the rc file. That did not create a acct file for accounting. I have rebooted the machine several times to get syslogd and accounting running again but there was still no results. Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "John Stiening" <jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Help:Nextstation boot problems Message-ID: <01bbfa5e$3bb7ed40$9a128780@starlock.Uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:01:33 GMT I have come across a NextStation Turbo, which I would like to pick up. Unfortunately, the machine fails to complete the boot process. Initially I start the machine booting by using the command "b sd". All works fine until the machine attempts to find the network. The computer then continuously attempts to find some phantom server on the network. Is there a way I can disable the network functions, or maybe to get the machine to boot without initializing any of the network parameters? I need the next to ignore all network functions durning boot. If you could reply by email I would appreciate it. thanks, john "jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: HELP: Find ljf? Message-ID: <ukv9168nnyr.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:25:32 GMT Hi... I'm trying to find either Bert Lindgren, <gt8855a@prism.gatech.edu>, or a copy of ljf, whichever comes first. Looks as though Bert has left GA Tech. Does anyone know where to find him, or his HP LaserJet program, jlf? Thanks! -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reenabling syslogd? Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:00:49 -0800 Organization: California State University Sacramento Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103215704.23327A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone I doubled checked my rc and syslog.conf files to see why my syslogd is not running . Even with the "ps au" command. My other daemons seem to work. I did "kill -HUP syslogd " 1 time because I added some lines to my syslog.conf but I am not sure if that is the cause. As I understand that process ends but will start again. I also typed "syslogd" at the command line and looked at the syslog.pid file each time and the pid did change. So I was not sure why the pid changes but the process did not show up in "ps au" . Inetd, named,others work. Now the /usr/adm/messages and /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog stopped getting updated. Any solution? What should I do to restart syslogd whenever I modify syslog.conf besides killing with HUP (from the man page), rebooting and typing syslogd by hand at the command line? I also uncommented accounting "accton" near the end of the rc file. That did not create a acct file for accounting. I have rebooted the machine several times to get syslogd and accounting running again but there was still no results. Al
Message-ID: <32D006DC.260E@ebs.ac.com> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 13:54:04 -0600 From: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Organization: ServiceNet, LLC. Andersen/BBN MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> <5amelh$skp@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Art Isbell wrote: > > Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> wrote: > > I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working > > ...... Sure enough your solution below worked like a charm. Parity was messed up. I added your solution to my NeXT WWW page at http://www.isd.net/eulmer Thanks! > the "P_ZERO" keywork to my L.sys script: > > 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: Eric Davis <eld@dimensional.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 13:56:37 -0700 Organization: Dimensional Communications Message-ID: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is fine until I re-enter OpenStep. /eld
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Message-ID: <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> Distribution: inet Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:35:02 GMT In article <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> Bryan Wilson <wil-design@worldnet.att.net> writes: > I am running NeXTStep 3.3 on a Intel machine. I am trying to connect > to an AppleTalk network. The machine connects fine to a NetWare 4 > network. I have perused all available docs at NeXTanswers and it > mentions the Apple icon that appears in the window brought up by the > Preferences application ( display, mouse settings, etc. ). The > problem is that the Apple icon does not appear at all. NeXT's docs > state that the AppleTalk client is included with NS 3.3. Is there a > special driver or installation option that need tobe loaded / selected > in order to communicate with AppleTalk devices? > > I am using a Intel EtherExpress 16 network card and NS 3.3's driver > for it. I have not been able to try another network card ( or another > mfr's driver either ) yet... > I don't know where in the docs you read about AppleTalk client support in NS 3.3, but you definitely got something wrong. AppleTalk client support was only included up to NS 3.0! And as NS 3.0 was Motorola only, there never was any AppleTalk client support from NeXT for any other architecture but Motorola. If you got a black NeXT machine, AppleTalk client support software can be installed from the NS 3.0 User CD using the Intaller.app on the same CD (later versions can't handle the older containers correctly). You then get a rather buggy but usable AppleTalk(EtherTalk) client on a NEXTSTEP system. The technology was discontinued at NeXT and sold off to IPT. If you got lots of money you can try to ask them if they'd be willing to sell you something for later versions and/or other architectures of NEXTSTEP machines. Their address might be in the FAQ on Peanuts. -- 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: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 5 Jan 1997 23:14:19 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5apckb$i1j@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <5ah5s1$oo3@crcnis3.unl.edu> Just to add a datapoint, NEXTSTEP 3.2 hppa is also not susceptible. (Tested on an HP712/60). I've also checked out m68k (cube and slab), and i586 with Intel EtherExpress 16 adapter. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: smlin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Sz-Ming Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: 6 Jan 1997 01:46:32 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? : : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is : fine until I re-enter OpenStep. : This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to Greenwich, the clock will be correct again:)
From: John Hornkvist Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys Date: 5 Jan 1997 21:56:12 GMT Organization: Chalmers Tekniska Högskola Message-ID: <5ap81s$mnu@nyheter.chalmers.se> References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Cc: ulmerer@ebs.ac.com In <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Eric Ulmer wrote: >I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working >for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are >working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However >the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure >for this? Anyone else have problems with this? > I recommend using Taylor UUCP, if that works on 3.0. I've been running it for two years with few problems. I believe there is a nice installer package for it at ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl/pub/next --- Sorry for not leaving my address in the header, but I get too many spam mails already... If you want to reach me, try nhoj at cd dot chalmers dot se John Hornkvist Working on MSc in Computer Engineering, and MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management of Technology Does anyone need a NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP savvy programmer for the summer of '97?
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 02:18:53 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580000601970218530001@news.tiac.net> References: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org>, Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de wrote: > I don't know where in the docs you read about AppleTalk client support in > NS 3.3, but you definitely got something wrong. There's all sorts of stuff about AppleTalk support still in the NeXT manuals/NeXTAnswers. You can try to buy a commercial package, port CAP, or just use FTP. i'd recommend the latter approach. Try Yftp from Mac to NeXT. Forget the NeXT as a Mac fileserver. Barney
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: 6 Jan 1997 06:52:54 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5aq7g6$bfu@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> smlin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Sz-Ming Lin) wrote: > Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: > : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is > : fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to Greenwich, > the clock will be correct again:) Just to clarify, no OPENSTEP/Mach bug is involved. All UNIX systems set their internal clocks to Greenwich Mean Time and offset this time in software to the correct time zone. Windows sets the internal clock to the local time. Some consider this to be an inferior design. As a result, the displayed time on NT and OPENSTEP/Mach will differ by the offset of the local time zone from Greenwich Mean Time. A nice little $10 shareware utility is available for OPENSTEP/Mach that automatically resets the clock to avoid this discrepancy. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Isaac <isaac@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 17:51:01 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970104174920.26261C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> On 2 Jan 1997, Rex Dieter wrote: > In article <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) writes: > > I've been reading a good bit lately about the Ping of Death problem, and > > I was wondering if anyone knows when NeXT might have it solved? > > My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the > ping of death. For what it's worth, NEXTSTEP 3.0/motorola is susceptible to the ping of death. It causes an immediate reboot. -Isaac
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@vuur (Hans Mulder) Subject: Re: Unnoficial Apple/Next FAQ - improving admin Message-ID: <E3L99s.453@icgned.nl> Sender: news@icgned.nl Organization: IC Group References: <32BD0901.48ED@sfbayrun.com> <59kdkl$ohd@news4.digex.net> <david_rehring-ya023580002212961732340001@news.aurora.net> <32BDE31D.50A6@exnext.com> <59le1d$oiq@duke.squonk.net> <59ncfr$p@duke.squonk.net> <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:25:04 GMT In <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> Luke Howard (lukeh@xedoc.com.au) wrote: >> The fstab issue is a little trickier. Technically you could >> just let automounter handle it, but then the userid's don't >> get saved away. Again, it shouldn't be hard to put a nice >> front-end on that, but it is something that is important on >> a NeXT and does not really match anything in the world of >> Macintosh. >Under NEXTSTEP currently, you do this with NetInfo -- and there are a >number of tools (HostManager, UserManager, etc) which provide an >additional "dummy" layer of abstraction on top of it. How would I do that? Currently, I have in /etc/fstab on my server: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd2a /Disk3 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 /dev/sd3a /Disk4 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 I'd prefer to put that stuff in NetInfo, provided it works. Note that the disks must be mounted *before* /etc/rc runs exports, otehrwise those disks won't get exported. Can I do that with NetInfo? -- HansM
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syslogd not working? Date: 6 Jan 1997 15:02:42 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5ar46i$268@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103001816.966A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103001816.966A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> writes: > What should I do to restart syslogd whenever I modify syslog.conf? Yes. kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslogd.pid` > I also uncommented accounting "accton" near the end > of the rc file. That did not create a acct file for accounting. If you read the man page, it tells you accounting is ONLY enabled AFTER the acct accounting file is created. touch /usr/adm/acct, then /usr/etc/accton... and viola, accouning is on. You'll want to summarize/compact the accounting data periodically, via the command: /usr/etc/sa -s Here's what I put in /usr/adm/daily for this purpose: # condense command accounting if [ -f /usr/adm/acct ]; then echo -n "Condensing command accounting (sa -s)..." /usr/etc/sa -s > /dev/null echo "Done." fi -- 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: Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network printer with NeXTStep 3.2 Date: 6 Jan 1997 15:14:50 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5ar4ta$4k8@news3.texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Anybody know how I can get my NeXTStation running NeXTStep 3.2 to print to a HP LaserJet III (with Postscript cartridge) running on our network? The HP is connected to a NT box that runs lpd; all of our other UNIX boxes can print to it fine but I cannot figure out how to add a network printer with NextStep. PrintManager only gives me a "serial" option for how printers are connected... -- Bill Bradford (BB2623) Systems Admin, UNIX geek, BOFH mrbill@texas.net * mrbill@mrbill.net Texas Networking, Inc. "I'ts hard to beleive that the entire fate of 823 Congress, Suite 440 the world lies in the hands of the Phone Austin, TX 78701 Company" - War of the Worlds http://www.texas.net
From: ramdrive@ee.snu.ac.kr (Seongbae Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unnoficial Apple/Next FAQ - improving admin Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 6 Jan 1997 15:33:38 GMT Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Message-ID: <5ar60i$ds0$1@usenet.seri.re.kr> References: <32BD0901.48ED@sfbayrun.com> <59kdkl$ohd@news4.digex.net> <david_rehring-ya023580002212961732340001@news.aurora.net> <32BDE31D.50A6@exnext.com> <59le1d$oiq@duke.squonk.net> <59ncfr$p@duke.squonk.net> <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> <E3L99s.453@icgned.nl> Hans Mulder (hans@vuur) wrote: > >Under NEXTSTEP currently, you do this with NetInfo -- and there are a > >number of tools (HostManager, UserManager, etc) which provide an > >additional "dummy" layer of abstraction on top of it. > How would I do that? > Currently, I have in /etc/fstab on my server: > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 > /dev/sd2a /Disk3 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 > /dev/sd3a /Disk4 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 > I'd prefer to put that stuff in NetInfo, provided it works. > Note that the disks must be mounted *before* /etc/rc runs > exports, otehrwise those disks won't get exported. > Can I do that with NetInfo? Use NFSManager.app. Everthing will be clear with just double-clicking. > -- HansM -- Seongbae Park (ڼ) http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~ramdrive ASCII,MIME,NeXT Mail To: ramdrive@thor.snu.ac.kr School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Laser Printer problems Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 11:28:19 -0500 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <32D12823.7A23@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some time back I posted about a problem I was having with my NeXT Laser Printer: it seems to think the paper its printing on is taller than it is. If I print a line 1 inch from the bottom edge in a draw program, for example, the line will appear about 0.5 inches from the bottom edge. If I use the PrinterManager test function, the test picture runs flush to the bottom edge of the paper rather than having a white border (as on the top and sides). This problem still occurs. Some suggested checking that the toggle on the paper tray is set to Letter (rather than A4). It is. The Page Format panels all show Letter, 8.5x11 inches, as the chosen size. I would be grateful for any suggestions. -- Stefano Pagiola 850 N Randolph Str No.817, Arlington VA 22203, USA All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Diamond Stealth on NS 3.2 Date: 6 Jan 1997 17:07:09 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5arbft$dmq@news.tamu.edu> Does anyone have experience with getting a Diamond Stealth 2mb card working under 3.2? I downloaded and installed the 3.2 driver but at boot it says it doesn't find the Diamond Stealth card, so does default VGA. Stephen
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: 6 Jan 1997 17:45:09 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5ardn5$jds@news.next.com> References: <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In article <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> smlin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Sz-Ming Lin) writes: > Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: > : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > : > : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all > : is fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > : > > This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to > Greenwich, the clock will be correct again:) Not really a bug. NT expects the hardware clock to be in local time, OpenStep expects it to be in GMT. Just a basical incompatability. There's a program called TimeShift that fixes this problem when going back and forth. Check the usual archive servers. joe
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help!!! Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 21:18:18 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Message-ID: <32D14FF9.6BBB@harmonic.co.il> References: <32C6710A.26F1@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------9D873D41BC10" To: Rayehrlich@sprintmail.com ------------9D873D41BC10 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii /usr/etc/reboot sd -- Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc. Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122) Fax: 972-4-8550180 Email: uri@harmonic.co.il ------------9D873D41BC10 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>/usr/etc/reboot sd<BR> -- <BR> Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator<BR> Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc.<BR> Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122)<BR> Fax: 972-4-8550180<BR> Email: uri@harmonic.co.il<BR> </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------9D873D41BC10--
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP - can't boot to multiuser. Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 21:26:23 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Message-ID: <32D151DF.2903@harmonic.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------7B5874A634111" ------------7B5874A634111 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I have 3 NS3.3 (Black) in my site. I had to reinstall the netinfo on one of them (Not the netinfo master domain). That computer doesn't open a 'Login' window, but enter us "Me" every time. I tried the /usr/etc/reboot sd without results. P.S. the computer run everything fine (network, samba, http deamon...) Do you have an idea ? Regards -- Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc. Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122) Fax: 972-4-8550180 Email: uri@harmonic.co.il ------------7B5874A634111 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Hi,</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>I have 3 NS3.3 (Black) in my site. I had to reinstall the netinfo on one of them (Not the netinfo master domain). That computer doesn't open a 'Login' window, but enter us "Me" every time. I tried the /usr/etc/reboot sd without results.</DT> <DT>P.S. the computer run everything fine (network, samba, http deamon...)</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Do you have an idea ?</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Regards</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>-- <BR> Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator<BR> Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc.<BR> Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122)<BR> Fax: 972-4-8550180<BR> Email: uri@harmonic.co.il<BR> </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------7B5874A634111--
From: falk@born. (Adam Falk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: modem and data calls Date: 6 Jan 1997 14:50:23 GMT Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Message-ID: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> I would like to set up my NS 3.3 Intel box as a PPP server (so that I can dial in from home). The problem I am having is getting the modem to accept incoming data calls. I know that the modem itself works fine, because I can use NXFax to send and receive faxes without problem. However, due to a bug in NXFax which I don't understand (does Black and White Software still exist?) -- I think that NXFax is locking the modem port -- I can't get it to process data calls through NXFax. What I want to do now is to TURN OFF NXFax, and set up the modem to receive data calls by hand, and send them on to PPP. What EXACTLY do I need to do to configure the modem and the system correctly? I have had lots of help from well-meaning people who tell me "more or less" what I should do, and I thank them, but it's not getting me anywhere. I stress that my problems are not with PPP itself, but earlier in the connection process. As it stands, the modem simply hangs up on incoming data calls before any connection is established. Thanks to anyone for their help. Adam -- Adam F. Falk Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218 falk@jhu.edu, (410) 516-7817 (phone), (410) 516-7239 (fax) http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/personnel/falk/falk.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Re: Help:Nextstation boot problems Message-ID: <167cd$f2a22.3e@nmb-news> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 97 15:48:48 PST To: John Stiening <jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sun, Jan 5, 1997,5:01 AM John Stiening wrote: : I have come across a NextStation Turbo, which I would like to pick up. : Unfortunately, the machine fails to complete the boot process. Initially : I start the machine booting by using the command "b sd". All works fine : until the machine attempts to find the network. The computer then : continuously attempts to find some phantom server on the network. Is : there a way I can disable the network functions, or maybe to get the : machine to boot without initializing any of the network parameters? I need : the next to ignore all network functions durning boot. : I would boot into single user mode and then edit the /etc/rc scripts to avoid the net or point to a better address. Erik
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Still can't talk with 4.0 Date: 6 Jan 97 16:19:47 EST Organization: Univ of Miami IR Message-ID: <1997Jan6.161947@umiami> This is a repeat post - Still, after some months with a new 4.0 Openstep Intel machine, talk does not work. If I try to use talk that came with the 4.0 system or talk or ytalk compiled for 3.2, I get a message that the proper control socket cannot be opened: [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] I've looked at everything I can think of and can't get anywhere. Any ideas on what is going on? Does anyone else have talk working on 4.0? This might help me decide if something is screwed up on my system or if talkd is not working in 4.0. (I also have problems "talking" from another system so I am beginning to suspect talkd, not talk.) Thomas J. Herbert reply please to: tom@darwin.cox.miami.edu
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unnoficial Apple/Next FAQ - improving admin Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:34:54 -0600 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <32D18C1E.7320@pswtech.com> References: <32BD0901.48ED@sfbayrun.com> <59kdkl$ohd@news4.digex.net> <david_rehring-ya023580002212961732340001@news.aurora.net> <32BDE31D.50A6@exnext.com> <59le1d$oiq@duke.squonk.net> <59ncfr$p@duke.squonk.net> <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> <E3L99s.453@icgned.nl> <5ar60i$ds0$1@usenet.seri.re.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Seongbae Park wrote: > Hans Mulder (hans@vuur) wrote: > > Currently, I have in /etc/fstab on my server: > > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > > /dev/sd1a /Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 > > > I'd prefer to put that stuff in NetInfo, provided it works. > > Note that the disks must be mounted *before* /etc/rc runs > > exports, otehrwise those disks won't get exported. > > > Can I do that with NetInfo? > > Use NFSManager.app. Everthing will be clear with just double-clicking. Not for local volumes, though. There is no simple tool for this yet. I'd like to see a DiskManager.app (or p/h VolumeManager.app) in MacStep, which could do this and subsume the functionality of BuildDisk.app as well. ____________________________________________________________________ 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: Ones-And-Zeros@prodigy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ! MASS POST Was Here! (amMNpB) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 97 00:40:54 GMT Organization: Mass Post Message-ID: <5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> MASS POST--the program by Ones and Zeros--has been used to send this message to thousands of newsgroups. (amMNpB)
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Date: 7 Jan 1997 02:19:09 GMT Control: cancel <5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Sender: Ones-And-Zeros@prodigy.net Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: ONESZEROS Original Subject: ! MASS POST Was Here! (amMNpB)
From: Bryan <wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:43:21 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <32D1C659.3240@jax.jaxnet.com> References: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org> <jbf-ya023580000601970218530001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com Guys, Thanks for the responses so soon. Wow I really thought I could connect out-of-the-box to AppleTalk. More work ahead. BTW, I called IPT at (805) 541-3000 and talked to Steve Yates. He was helpful but he did confirm that the product "Partner" worked as a full AppleTalk client ( Filesharing to and from ) for NS 3.0 only and will not work for NS > 3.0. I did not ask about OpenStep... The web site for IPT is http://www.iptech.com ( only one "t" ). I wonder how much it would take for Apple to decide fill this hole in connectivity-- Apple & Jobs really did keep their distance up until recently. It sure would be great to point to old '89 '030 cubes talking with Apple computers when people consider the other ( WinTel ) side with alternatives like NetWare! At least now Apple has someone like Jobs who knows about OS's steering Apple toward the right product focus-- beat NT at their own game and on their own turf, mid-size to large size businesses / corporate America! Too bad these same people often only see one perspective on computing and think that all other choices are for MacHeads, NeXTHeads, etc. Go Jacksonville Jaguars! Bryan Wilson wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com
From: tralala@mlink.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 -> TimeShift Date: 7 Jan 1997 03:36:43 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <5asgcb$9m6@neon.Mlink.NET> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> In-Reply-To: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> On 01/05/97, Eric Davis wrote: > In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > > My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is > fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > > /eld --------------------------------- James E. Quick has solved this problem. It works flawlessly on NS3.3 and probably will on OS4.x ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too ls/hack/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz (22kb) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too ls/hack/TimeShift.README Cheers, -Andr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Greg Lindholm <gsl@netcom.com> Subject: Netscape plug-in for Nextmail? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <32D1CA12.50D4@netcom.com> Sender: gsl@netcom7.netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 03:59:14 GMT Has anyone heard of a Netscape Mail plug-in for Nextmail? If so can you tell me where I can get it? TIA
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Toshiba laptop video driver? Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 02:33:57 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32d1b588.7354302@netnews.hinet.net> References: <jcr.852247139@idiom.com> On 2 Jan 1997 15:19:37 -0800, jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >Will this work with the default S3 driver? Anyone else gotten 3.3 going on this >box? > >-jcr > Check ou NeXTAnswer, I beleive one of the company has the driver for toshiba 720 video driver which can display upto 1024*768. Other than that, I think Toshiba 650 can only display default VGA. Use the keyword "toshiba" to do the search. Batmon sˡ]batmon^ ί~ѥq x___147 qܡG02-716-8266 245 ǯuG02-716-5780
From: "Kevin P. Hannan" <khannan@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 01:51:15 -0500 Organization: AutoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <32D1F263.4FF6@ibm.net> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sz-Ming Lin wrote: > > Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: > : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > : > : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is > : fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > : > > This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to Greenwich, > the clock will be correct again:) I thought this was due to the fact that OpenStep sets the system clock to GMT then adjusts the displayed time to your timezone.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701070224.SAA13246@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 97 21:24:25 -0500 Subject: booting off SyQuest removable drive Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Because I know I should, I'm trying to build a 2nd bootable disk. Actually, it's built. It boots fine... verbose booting reports no errors at all, but then when the grey screen comes up before the login panel.... NOTHING. I am wondering if I have some sort of NetInfo problem? last time this happened it was /etc/ttys and I've checked that. Thanks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Awaiting Apple's NeXTStep
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MIDI player for NeXTSte/68k ? Date: 7 Jan 1997 17:27:11 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5au11f$mtt@news3.texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm looking for a MIDI file player for black hardware. thanks. -- Bill Bradford (BB2623) Systems Admin, UNIX geek, BOFH mrbill@texas.net * mrbill@mrbill.net Texas Networking, Inc. "I'ts hard to beleive that the entire fate of 823 Congress, Suite 440 the world lies in the hands of the Phone Austin, TX 78701 Company" - War of the Worlds http://www.texas.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bz@nolspop.nols.edu Subject: appletalk Message-ID: <E3nJ38.GMx@nols.edu> Sender: usenet@nols.edu Organization: National Outdoor Leadership School Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:52:19 GMT Hi - My next is connected to a network that has Macs. I would like to see the appletalk zones from my Next. I know that there existed an appletalk stack for NeXTStep 3.0. I am running 3.3 and have no idea how to find an appletalk stack. Any help would be appreciated. bill -- Bill Zell bz@nols.edu 307-332-1279
From: gbh@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: automatic boot floppy Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 16:21:48 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32D2BE6C.699F@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a way to create a boot floppy that will automatically boot the first partition of the first SCSI drive (sd0a)? I would like it to boot directly, without stopping at the boot prompt, and without having to type 'sd()mach_kernel'. --Greg
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: 7 Jan 1997 21:42:47 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Hi All, I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical way in which data is moved around the net? For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... Anyway, maybe I have the above all wrong...and I'd like to find out what is right, authoritatively. If anyone knows of a good source, or any experts would be willing to talk to me (I'll spring for the call); it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes for what I need to know... I'd appreciate it very much. -- Thanks, later, John Kheit monoChrome, Inc. | ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NEXTmail OK NEXT/OPENSTEP Developer | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... | http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: hpterm entry for termcap Date: 7 Jan 1997 23:45:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5aun6f$sgc$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, I have had trouble logging into my NeXTstation from hpterm windows on HP700 machines which run HPUX9.X. When I telnet or rlogin using the 'hp' or 'xterm' termcap entry, I lose many capabilities (backspace, etc.) and I also get uninterpreted characters. I was wondering if anyone had a termcap entry for hpterm or some other work around. Thanks, Ryan
From: Kok Fock Seng <fskok@silicon.net.my> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:22:06 -0800 Organization: Silicon Navigator Sdn Bhd Message-ID: <32D3F3DE.3D01@silicon.net.my> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Kheit wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? > > For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and > down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I > send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets > with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that > info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it > some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... The way you think is right. At lease at the conceptually level. But to understand all of it, it depends up to what level you want to know. In the data communication area, people always mention about OSI 7 layers. These 7 layers of course divid the whole data communications field into 7 levels of funtionalities. And from there comes different level of profesional in this field: Applications programmers, Network programmers,Network Engineers, People who write TCP/IP stack, People who build NEtwork card, router, hub, switch..... But, basically, In internet, computers communicate thro TCP/IP, every computer will have an IP address assgned by a Internet body called InterNic. When you dial up your computer to your Internet Service Provider, 1 IP address will be assigned to you. Then, you are consider on line. When you send a packet of data to another computer, A TCP/IP header will be used to envelope your packet of data. In this TCP/IP header, it will contents your IP address known as sender and the other party's IP address as receiver. In the middle of the network, (Of course not all the time the 2 computers are side by side) router will play his roles. The router(basically is a computer loaded with routing information) will based on the receiver IP address, deliver the packeet to the receiver computer. Huh, still quite a long way to actually tell you all. Hope you understand this. > > Anyway, maybe I have the above all wrong...and I'd like to find > out what is right, authoritatively. If anyone knows of a good > source, or any experts would be willing to talk to me (I'll spring > for the call); it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes for what I > need to know... I'd appreciate it very much. > > -- > 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://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit > New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 05:23:09 GMT We're hooking up the place I work to a 56k framerelay connection to the internet, low usage, mostly for email and occasional ftp as wel as giving IP access to the First Class BBS. I'm looking at this as an opportunity to get a NeXT machine into the office especially since Color Turbos are available so cheap. Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with relatively light Internet use. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: cevans@gis.net (Claudia Evans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 23:28:37 -0500 Organization: Zip News Message-ID: <cevans-ya023580000701972328370001@news.gis.net> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There is a big 3 volumn set on TCP/IP networking, but I expect you'd like something more to the point. The place to look is http://www.internic.net/std/ where you will find std-index.txt with a list of all IETF standards. The following are likely to tell you more than you wanted to know: 0005 Internet Protocol. J. Postel. September 1981. (Format: TXT=241903 bytes) (Also RFC0791, RFC0950, RFC0919, RFC0922, RFC792, RFC1112) 0006 User Datagram Protocol. J. Postel. August 1980. (Format: TXT=5896 bytes) (Also RFC0768) 0007 Transmission Control Protocol. J. Postel. September 1981. (Format: TXT=172710 bytes) (Also RFC0793) 0008 Telnet Protocol. J. Postel, J. Reynolds. May 1983. (Format: TXT=44639 bytes) (Also RFC0854, RFC0855) 0009 File Transfer Protocol. J. Postel, J. Reynolds. October 1985. (Format: TXT=148316 bytes) (Also RFC0959) 0013 Domain Name System. P. Mockapetris. November 1987. (Format: TXT=248726 bytes) (Also RFC1034, RFC1035) 0018 Exterior Gateway Protocol. D. Mills. April 1984. (Format: TXT=63836 bytes) (Also RFC0904) 0034 Routing Information Protocol. C. Hedrick. June 1988. (Format: TXT=91435 bytes) (Also RFC1058) 0037 An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol. David C. Plummer. November 1982. (Format: TXT=21556 bytes) (Also RFC0826) 0038 A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. Ross Finlayson, Timothy Mann, Jeffrey Mogul, Marvin Theimer. June 1984. (Format: TXT=9345 bytes) (Also RFC0903) 0043 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams over IEEE 802 networks. J. Postel, J.K. Reynolds. August 1993. (Format: TXT=34359 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0948) (Also RFC1042) 0051 The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). W. Simpson, Editor. July 1994. (Format: TXT=151158 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1549) (Also RFC1661, RFC1662) Nte that http, nntp and smtp are missing, and many of those above may have been modified by the noted RFCs. So you also need to check http://www.internic.net/rfc/ where you will find another index. The RFCs are concise, to the point, and give a precise step by step description of the information exchange. (I never knew the STDs existed till tonight, but I expect they are equally good.) Barney (posting from a friend's account)
From: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: root password protection in single user mode. Date: 8 Jan 97 08:09:19 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <scratch.852710959@sunset.sce.carleton.ca> References: <59lq07$97b@Vir.com> <E2xDJr.8ws@nidat.sub.org> <59tu02$ptq@ultron.rnb.com> yufeng@rnb-bankinv.com writes: >Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >> In article <59lq07$97b@Vir.com> stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) writes: >> >> > 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. There is such a program. It is called pw_check, and you call it from /.profile Search NextAnswers for pw_check, perhaps. It is there somewhere. Let me know if you can't find the program and installation instructions. Note that on an Intel Box like mine, at least, you can't stop someone from plugging in an external SCSI drive and making it the root device, and then they can do what they want. I had suggested years ago to NeXT that they allow a password to be required if someone wants to change the boot options. This has never been done though, as far as I know. >> No good idea, INHO. The standalone mode is the last resort of the >> sysadmin and for the knowing only. Like University student types. >> It can only be used from the console >> and, as a measure of desaster relief, is meant to put as few roadblocks in >> your way as possible. My sysadmin likes a few roadblocks to protect our network. > Therefore, no checks and automatisms are included >> in the singleuser boot process. And that's the way it's meant to be! -- W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 520-5740 (Dept.) Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home) Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 520-5727 (Dept.)
From: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting devices after booting single-user off of the CD-ROM. Date: 8 Jan 97 07:38:45 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <scratch.852709125@sunset.sce.carleton.ca> Summary: How do I mount a device after booting single-user from the CD-ROM? Keywords: Mount Singe-user CD-ROM Hi. I need some help. Between installing parts of OpenStep Developer 4.0 on my Intel machine, I realized that I needed more space on my root disk, and so I moved a few directories to an external scsi drive. Unfortunately, one of these directories included the Frameworks subdirectory. This was unfortunate for a number of reasons, one of them including the fact that many of the standard unix commands, like mount, need to access the System Framework. Anyways, my computer became inoperable before I could remedy the problem. What I need to do is copy the Frameworks subdirectory back to the root disk. No problem, I thought, I will just boot single-user from the CD-ROM and then fix things up. When I do this, a message from the bottom of /etc/rc.boot appears on the screen suggesting that I mount a read/write device over the /tmp directory, as the CD-ROM is mounted read-only. A suggested command is /etc/mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp (we are told that the -n option stops mount from writing to the /etc/mtab file, which it can't becase you can't write very easily to a CD-ROM) Well, I tried this command, but was given an error message to the effect that mount is giving up trying to mount on /private/tmp and mentioning a read-only filesystem. Is there something that I should know that /etc/rc.boot is not telling me? How can I correct my problem? Thanks for any advice. Craig -- W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 520-5740 (Dept.) Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home) Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 520-5727 (Dept.)
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hpterm entry for termcap Date: 8 Jan 1997 01:32:40 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852715622@idiom.com> References: <5aun6f$sgc$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan, Don't use HPTERM. It has a very dangerous security hole, due to its all-too-complete emulation of HP terminals. The danger is that escape sequences can program the function keys of your virtual terminal, and (here's the dangerours part) execute them! So, if I know that you're reading mail with HPTERM, for example, I can include up to 256 characters of a shell commands, which will be stored in one of the function keys, and then I can exectue that function key, and the upshot is that as far as your HP host knows, you typed those characters yourself. If you're reading mail in elm, I could send you <escape sequence to program an fkey> !csh <cr> rm * <cr> <escape sequence to invoke the fkey> If you must run HPUX, for safety sake, use xterm when you connect to other hosts. -jcr scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) writes: >Hi all, >I have had trouble logging into my NeXTstation from hpterm windows on >HP700 machines which run HPUX9.X. When I telnet or rlogin using the >'hp' or 'xterm' termcap entry, I lose many capabilities (backspace, >etc.) and I also get uninterpreted characters. I was wondering if >anyone had a termcap entry for hpterm or some other work around. >Thanks, >Ryan
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@xedoc.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and Security. What needs fixing? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 22:11:58 +1000 Organization: Xedoc Software Development Australia Pty Ltd Message-ID: <32D38F0E.2277@xedoc.com.au> References: <jcr.851456629@idiom.com> <32CBD073.35D4@pswtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> > > 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. > > Distributing NEXTSTEP/MacStep with up-to-date stable versions of server > software is a good first step. I'd also like to see as many security > tools > bundled as possible: tcp_wrappers, ssh, sudo, Tripwire, COPS, etc. These > should probably be preinstalled and preconfigured in a reasonable > manner, Even something like NT's services control panel that reconfigured inetd (which would be made easier by inetd looking in NetInfo) and sent it a SIGHUP would be useful. > since the proportion of folks w/ sysadmin experience among the Mac > community > is much lower than among NEXTSTEPpers. [begin wishlist] I'd really like to see some decent authentication (eg. Kerberos) built into DO, and maybe even Kerberised versions of /bin/login, loginwindow, etc. Of course, support for pluggable authentication modules (as in Solaris and Linux, perhaps done with Objective-C bundles) would be great. DO in 4.x is probably extensible enough to let you do this, and you can replace a lot of the existing Unix utilities, but OS-level support would be cool. (I guess it does depend on who the expected customer is...) What else? Support for LDAP clients (like web browsers). Support for using NT directories alongside NetInfo (for OPENSTEP/NT sites). BSD 4.4 and/or a working POSIX library. I wonder whether they'll offer separate server editions of the OS, a la NT... -- Luke [speaking for myself, not anyone else]
From: cjones@wellesley.edu (Carl Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Instlalling Linux on NEXTSTEP PC Date: 7 Jan 1997 23:56:55 GMT Organization: Wellesley College Distribution: world Message-ID: <5auns7$4ic@cokie.wellesley.edu> I want to install Linux on an unused DOS partition of a PC running NEXTSTEP 3.3. Will the NEXTSTEP boot manager allow me too choose which OS to run at boot time or do I need to use something else? Carl -- cjones@wellesley.edu (NeXTMail/MIME OK)
From: Brian Wolfe <bwolfe@obs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:19:06 -0600 Organization: Open Business Systems Inc., Addison, IL USA Message-ID: <32D2D9EA.4AF1@obs.net> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Kheit wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? > > For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and > down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I > send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets > with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that > info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it > some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... If you really want to know how "data moves" check out "TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1" by Richard Stevens, it shows lots of detail for actual applications, it's probably going to be a bit much for anyone who's not already fairly familiar with TCP/IP. If you are new to TCP/IP you probably want to get an introductory book on TCP/IP too, there's lots of them out there, Douglas Comer has a good series on principles of TCP/IP as well as programming. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Wolfe Voice: 630-916-7570 Open Business Systems Inc. FAX: 630-916-7630 2121 Army Trail Rd Suite 106 bwolfe@obs.net Addison, IL 60101 http://www.obs.net Sun Microsystems Expert Level 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INN on NeXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 8 Jan 1997 09:34:56 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5b0bag$ccf@Vir.com> Hello, I'm trying to get INN to work. This is the first time I'm setting it up. I complied it ok and then installed it. It was working OK, but I switched my news feed provider and now I get the following output in the console. nnrpd[3469]: ? cant gethostbyaddr 207.107.55.5 No such file or directory What does it mean? How can I fix this? Any help would be appreciated. stef
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem and data calls Date: 8 Jan 1997 09:52:15 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5b0cav$mdn@Vir.com> References: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> Adam here are the steps you need to do to get this to work 1) Set up your modem for hardware flow control and to pick up the line after a few rings. 2) Modify the /etc/ttys file so that the ttydfa line looks like ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on 3) Add the following to gettytab D19200:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#19200: 4) Reboot or kill -HUP 1 Dial in to test the connection. Then increase the speed if you like. stef
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:36:51 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E3p1xG.Fp@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> In article <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? It's all about layers (seven of them to be precise). Physical, DataLink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application. (Hope that's right - It's a long time scince I did this). Each layer uses the layer below to gradually add functionality. Each layer can be swapped out for a differnt implementaion (in princlple), so you can run ether over three different cabling types. I can run TCP over PPP etc... Physical is the piece of cable, the electrical spec. DataLink sends a packed from one machine to the next (ethernet packets). ???? suports forwarding across machines, so you dont have to directly connected (datagram packets) Transport turns these packes into a reliable stream (a tcp/ip socket). This is the layer that unix presents. Session turns this connection into a transaction - if the connection is dropped it will be restarted, and rollback is added so things stay nicely in sync. Presentation handles different data formats so that things like endianness, and float formats are hidden. Application turns communication into an action - say a function call which represents something meaningfull to the app. (so I can say "mount disk" do an NFS client, and all the lower stuff is handled transparaently). These top three layes are far less tightly defined/understood, as they're implemented by apps or libraries, rather than being part of the standard OS which is known and documented. Standards do exist for certain operations though. ASome deatils might be a bit iffy, as I don't do this stuff much any more. However this is the basic outline. For more deails two books which spring to mind are Fred Halsall - networks and datacoms (or some such) Andrew Tanenbaum - computer networks (or some such) (the authors are correct even if the names are iffy, $an
From: Sven & Jennifer Crouse <svenifer@snet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reading local non-next partitions? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:04:43 +0000 Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <32D3B78B.264F0FFB@snet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to mount a linux (ext2) partition in OPENSTEP 4 from the same drive as OPENSTEP boots. I have tried vmount, "vmount -i /dev/sd0a" returned "mounting read only" with no further info as directions state it should. but am uncertain if it can mount local drives. It seems to require NFS which I know little about. Can vmount do what I need? If so, any suggestions. If not any other ways mount local partition? Much thanks, Sven
From: Ed Vanwieren <vanwiere@cadvision.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo 3.3 and 4.1 compatability... is there any? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 09:54:57 -0700 Organization: Zokero Inc. Message-ID: <32D3D160.738D@cadvision.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good day.... We are attempting to upgrade one of our systems to use OpenStep 4.0 while keeping another system at NeXTStep 3.3. The OpenStep 4.0 box is the NetInfo master and is configured to allow new networked computers to be automatically recognized upon startup. After upgrading the box to 4.0, the 3.3 box will check for a NetInfo server.... At this point, one of two things happens: A. The netinfo server is NOT detected, and I can continue startup without networking. B. The netinfo server is detected, I am prompted for both the hostname and the network password... After entering both, I get the same response as A! So... Has anyone managed to get this configuration working? If any difficulties were encountered along the way, what were they and how can i resolve them? NOTE: Please respond via e-mail in addition to posting an answer. My service provider does not maintain many messages in comp.sys.... Ed Vanwieren vanwiere@cadvision.com Nexar Research Inc.
From: i455@stio1 (Bergmann Winfried) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Instlalling Linux on NEXTSTEP PC Date: 8 Jan 1997 16:59:16 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b0jp4$9mg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <5auns7$4ic@cokie.wellesley.edu> Carl Jones (cjones@wellesley.edu) wrote: : I want to install Linux on an unused DOS partition of a PC running : NEXTSTEP 3.3. Will the NEXTSTEP boot manager allow me too choose which OS : to run at boot time or do I need to use something else? : Carl You could use Linux' lilo to boot both OS's. Look which parition NS is on with fdisk (it has a tag of 0xa7), and add it to lilo.conf. Of course you have to install lilo in the master boot record (mbr). : -- : cjones@wellesley.edu (NeXTMail/MIME OK) -- ========================================================================== Winfried Bergmann | Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page ==========================================================================
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: 8 Jan 1997 17:50:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5b0mpe$pg0$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: > > We're hooking up the place I work to a 56k framerelay connection to the >internet, low usage, mostly for email and occasional ftp as wel as giving >IP access to the First Class BBS. I'm looking at this as an opportunity >to get a NeXT machine into the office especially since Color Turbos are >available so cheap. > > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like >I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with >relatively light Internet use. > I use a color NeXTstation for the same applications. Get the latest sendmail and POP servers. I haven't set up DNS, but it doesn't look to difficult. I believe many others have done it before. --RS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Message-ID: <1997Jan8.115024.665@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: isaac@lab.housing.fsu.edu Organization: Disorganization References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970104174920.26261C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:50:24 GMT In <Pine.LNX.3.95.970104174920.26261C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Isaac wrote: > For what it's worth, NEXTSTEP 3.0/motorola is susceptible to the ping of > death. It causes an immediate reboot. > I pinged a Motorola 3.2 and it completely brought down the network, still the OS was running fine. -- C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 8 Jan 1997 18:33:31 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b0p9r$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> More and more frequently, various processes running under OS/Mach/m68k 4.1 become uninterruptible (their "ps" state is "U"). When this happens, the processes hang and cannot be killed (at least, kill -9 from root doesn't work). Yesterday, the WM process became uninterruptible causing Workspace to hang. Terminal was still running fine, so I was able to kill WorkspaceManager, thus causing a logout. But logging in again didn't get rid of the uninterruptible WM process, so Workspace was still hosed. A clean shutdown wasn't possible, probably because of this unkillable process. Several other apps like OmniWeb and Alexandra have become uninterruptible as well. Does anyone know why this happens and how it might be avoided? If it's unavoidable, how might one return a process to its runnable state? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem and data calls Date: 8 Jan 1997 18:45:27 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b0q07$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> References: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> <5b0cav$mdn@Vir.com> stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) wrote: > Adam here are the steps you need to do to get this to work > > 1) Set up your modem for hardware flow control and to pick up the > line after a few rings. > > 2) Modify the /etc/ttys file so that the ttydfa line looks like > > ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on > > 3) Add the following to gettytab > > D19200:\ > :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#19200: > > 4) Reboot or kill -HUP 1 > > Dial in to test the connection. Then increase the speed if you like. The above steps are valid if NXFax isn't being used, but Adam uses NXFax. The above setup won't work because NXFax, not getty, needs to monitor the port device. So ttys should not be modified as you suggest in step 2. NXFax also automatically configures the modem to use hardware flow control and to autoanswer if NXFaxMonitor's preferences are set to accept incoming calls. So step 1 isn't required. The installation of NXFax adds a gettytab entry as well, so step 3 isn't required. -- 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: yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu (York Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Questions about turbocolor Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 13:56:26 -0700 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <yblock-0801971356270001@10.phoenix-001.az.dial-access.att.net> Hi, I just got my Turbo Color. It is beatiful!!!. I have some questions for you guys: * It came without hard disk. I am thinking to buy an *internal* hard disk between 1.6 and 2.0 g. Does anyone can give an advise with this?? (Where to get it, price, speed, etc). * What kind of modem I can use with my turbo?? - I have a SupraExpress 288 Pnp for PC, a USRobotic 14.4 for Mac and a ISDN Motorola BitSURFER PRO for Mac.( I have an ISDN line ) Well those are my questions for now, but I am sure I will be asking more. ;-) Thank you for your advises!!! York P. Block ps. NeXT UI is better than Mac UI. However, a good combination of both would be even better!!! ;-)
From: deh@atype.com (David E. Hollingsworth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: 08 Jan 1997 14:41:58 -0500 Organization: Archetype, Inc. Sender: deh@beth.atype.com Message-ID: <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> In-reply-to: fmlazar@interactive.net's message of Wed, 8 Jan 1997 05:23:09 GMT In article <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) writes: > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like > I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with > relatively light Internet use. Here at Archetype, we've used black hardware NeXTs in this manner for years. Here are some of the things that we've used: o sendmail (both stock NeXT version and IDA) o qpopper (POP3) '<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper>' o bind (DNS) '<ftp://ftp.vix.com:/pub/bind/release>' o Apache (web) '<http://www.apache.org>' o wu-ftpd (ftp) '<ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd>' You'll almost certainly want to upgrade (or replace! <http://www.qmail.org>) your sendmail, unless you'll willing to live with all of the security holes that have cropped up since your version was released. One issue with replacing the stock software that sometimes crops up is NetInfo. For example, when we installed IDA sendmail, we switched to using an aliases file instead of the NetInfo entries. Presumably some software can be told to use NetInfo, but that's not always the case. You should probably also turn *off* all of the daemons that you don't need, remove any extra accounts, etc. --David Hollingsworth deh@atype.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701082102.QAA03245@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 6cb3a5ef46ad06dd99e9e8ba66fb7974 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:02:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Mounting devices after booting single-user off of the CD-ROM. Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 6cb3a5ef46ad06dd99e9e8ba66fb7974 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Original Date: 8 Jan 97 07:38:45 GMT > /etc/mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp > > (we are told that the -n option stops mount from writing to the > /etc/mtab file, which it can't becase you can't write very easily > to a CD-ROM) > > Well, I tried this command, but was given an error message to the > effect that mount is giving up trying to mount on /private/tmp > and mentioning a read-only filesystem. Try this mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / or mount -on remount /dev/sd0a / before trying to do anything else. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Apple + NeXT = Rhapsody (in black? ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701082107.QAA05022@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 928e0692669285e0ccfbbbc0a67a8459 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:07:40 -0500 Subject: Re: ED Floppy question Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 928e0692669285e0ccfbbbc0a67a8459 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Original Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 21:29:05 -0600 > When I insert them into the floppy drive nothing happens. > I'm assuming the NeXT would detect the new media and ask me what I > wanted to do with it, but no luck. I perused the FAQ but found > nothing related to floppy drives on NeXT hardware. Is the FD a SCSI > device? Any clues on how to format them from the shell? Hmm. It should have recognized it. You might try this (as root) if your FD is /dev/rfd0a, which I assume it is. change "MyHost" to your hostname and "DiskLabel" to what you want the disk to be called /usr/etc/disk -i -h "MyHost" -l "DiskLabel" /dev/rfd0a TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Apple + NeXT = Rhapsody (in black? ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 04:30:36 GMT In article <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com>, deh@atype.com (David E. Hollingsworth) wrote: > In article <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) writes: > > > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like > > I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with > > relatively light Internet use. > > Here at Archetype, we've used black hardware NeXTs in this manner for years. > Here are some of the things that we've used: > > o sendmail (both stock NeXT version and IDA) > o qpopper (POP3) '<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper>' > o bind (DNS) '<ftp://ftp.vix.com:/pub/bind/release>' > o Apache (web) '<http://www.apache.org>' > o wu-ftpd (ftp) '<ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd>' > > You'll almost certainly want to upgrade (or replace! <http://www.qmail.org>) > your sendmail, unless you'll willing to live with all of the security holes > that have cropped up since your version was released. > > One issue with replacing the stock software that sometimes crops up is > NetInfo. For example, when we installed IDA sendmail, we switched to using an > aliases file instead of the NetInfo entries. Presumably some software can be > told to use NetInfo, but that's not always the case. > > You should probably also turn *off* all of the daemons that you don't need, > remove any extra accounts, etc. > At the moment, I'm starting literally from zero, as althoug I've done some unix stuff, I'll be literally doing this on my first NeXT machine. I've decided to get one of those $600 dollar Color Turbos being offered in one of the posts in next.marketplace and outfitting it with drives and OS and other neccessary stuff. Your post will be a BIG help. Save for the web stuff, virtually all of these functions will be run on the same machine. It's a relatively low usage environment, being used mainly for DNS and email for about 20 users total, a mixture of Macs and a few salespeople using terminals to another unix box (SCO), both connected via ethernet. Even most of the ftp will be run out through one of various Macs, the NeXT being mainly for DNS in that usage. The machine is supposed to come with a "right to use" for the OS and a friend of mine in the city will help me with that part. I'd appreciate knowing of any particular books or other support materials that would be recommended for a first-time NeXT user. Those who might have such for sale are encouraged to email me back. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Uri Raz <uraz@iil.intel.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: 9 Jan 1997 09:52:41 GMT Organization: Intel Corp. Message-ID: <5b2f59$1bi0@www.iil.intel.com> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jkheit@cnj.digex.net John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? > > For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and > down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I > send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets > with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that > info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it > some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... > A correct, though simplified, view of how things work. > > Anyway, maybe I have the above all wrong...and I'd like to find > out what is right, authoritatively. If anyone knows of a good > source, or any experts would be willing to talk to me (I'll spring > for the call); it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes for what I > need to know... I'd appreciate it very much. > Check the following online resources : 1. gopher://gopher-chem.ucdavis.edu/11/Index/Internet_aw/ 2. http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/comm/tcpip.htm 3. http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/ 4. http://web.cnam.fr/Network/TCP-IP/tcp-ip.html 5. http://www.psp.demon.co.uk/tfl/techlinks.htm 6. http://www.sangoma.com/fguide.htm Phil Scott's Home Page contains links to his lecture notes for various courses, including networking courses. http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/staff/pscott/pscott.home.html The following people's home-pages might include further info : 1. Richard stevens' home page is at http://www.noao.edu/~rstevens/ 2. Douglas Comer's home page is at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/comer 3. Andrew Tanenbaum's home page is at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/ 4. William Stallings's home page is at http://www.shore.net/~ws Uri Raz. +---------+---------------------------+-------+-----+-----+ | Uri Raz | mailto:uraz@iil.intel.com | Noire | :-) | :-( | | All opinions are mine. Others may share them. | +---------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Subject: hard drive failure Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp> Sender: news@postman.riken.go.jp (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sidney Organization: RIKEN Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:57:21 GMT I'm running NS 3.3 on a Pentium, 4 GB Quantum Atlas partioned 3 ways with Linux, NS, and NT. The NS partion generates hard drive error messages during bootup and stops to ask for a manual fsck, which does not fix the problem: sd0: Media error; FATAL target:0 lun:0 op:Read block: 3075802 Cannot read: BLK 280160 The following sectors cannot be read: 280172,280173,280174,280175 The error messages can be overridden by a Command Q, the boot up continues normally, and the system looks normal upon login except for a few corrupted data files. The question is how can I repair this abnormal boot sequence so I don't have to intervene manually. Is there something less drastic than reformatting to lock out bad sectors? -- Sidney Lehky Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan
From: "Kristin Ziel" <kaziel@students.wisc.edu> Subject: Seeking Information Source Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <01bbfe2d$0d16c4c0$9f0478cc@sprout.inxpress.net> Date: 9 Jan 97 13:00:24 GMT I'm a student who is learning/working as a sysadmin at the local university, and I got the opportunity to work on a nextstation. I've been having some difficulties getting my next box set up as i'd like it, and the sysadmin handbooks don't seem to clarify much for me, ie...when i try to add a user manually, why can't i do a chown on the directory? I only have one netinfo domain (root), and the add user util won't allow me to add anyone to anything BUT root...which seems wrong to me, since that should cover everything. Anyway, maybe I'm just not used to sysadmin lingo yet, but I'd appreciate it if anyone could give me a good source (ie, book on next administration) that might clarify some things for me. Thanks. K. Ziel
From: chris@computerActive.on.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP Tape drive woes Date: 9 Jan 1997 16:00:48 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <5b34ng$9vl@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> I've got a P5-133 machine running NeXTSTEP 3.3pl1 and an HP C1533A 8GB DAT drive (internal, connected to a Symbios Logic SCSI card). My problem is that none of the command-line tools like mt, tar, gnutar are unable to write to the tape. mt works for "rewind" and "offline", but not for "eof". Each time I attempt a write operation I get something in the messages file like: -------- st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write filemarks returned Check Status, Sense Valid Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 -------- or -------- st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write data (10 byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 -------- and all the commands say is "I/O error" on /dev/rst0. Is there a place where I can find out what the codes mean? Has anyone seen this problem with this tape drive? I'm also running the same tape drive (external, on a black turbo slab, NeXTSTEP 3.2) and it works A-OK. --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst | 15 Capella Ct. Suite 128 computerActive Inc. | Nepean, ON, Canada K2E 7X1 chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Voice: (613)225-4824 Entrust and PGP keys on request | FAX: (613)225-1670 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The telephone was not invented by Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad
From: mparent@unix-mikesparc.mcgh.org (Mike Parent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can I ..... attach multiple Fax Modems to a single queue? Date: 9 Jan 1997 16:10:42 GMT Organization: Mount Clemens General Hospital Message-ID: <5b35a2$cc1@misgate.mcgh.org> We are automatically faxing a large number (1000+/day) of documents from our application through two modems.... we can arbitrarily queue them on the seperate modems but it would be a lot nicer if we could put both modems on the same queue and have them sent to the next available modem rather than using seperate queues...... Anyone have any clues how this can be accomplished on black boxes running 3.3? I know you can have multiple printers on a queue, can you do the same with modems? Thanks for any help! Mike
From: sherwood@mars.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding a non-NeXT printer to black Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:43:28 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5b3ao0$10c0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Hooking it up is easy. HOwever you will be disappointed with the speed with any file that contains embedded bit map graphics. The next serial port can't be driven any faster than 38,800 baud, which works out to aoubt 3.5 K /sec. So a file that includes a 500K tiff file (Not difficult to do... I had one file that ran 10 MB/page) that page will take several minutes to print. A better solution is to get a printer that is 'network ready'. HP printers can have a jetdirect card added. Lexmark sells either a native card, or a cute box that has one ethernet port, and 2 parallel ports on it. The latter solution is more expensive, a little slower, but more general in that you can use it with any parallel printer. Adding the printer is trivial. If it's a network printer, you give it a name, and an IP number, and add that information to machines in netinfo. If it's a serial printer you can add it using printer manager. Then add it to netinfo under printers as a remote printer. If the printer doesn't have a ppd file you can get one usually from ftp.adobe.com. They collect them. Walt|W|walt|Walt: \ :rm=arafel:rp=WLP:lp=:ty=QMS ColorScript 100 Model 10: \ :note=! VERY EXPENSIVE TO RUN !:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Walt:lo=lock: The above is a printcap entry for walt, a remote printer on arafel. For a network pritner the rm=printer that is, the machine name and the printer name are the same. The ty field is the same as the PPD file, with all the _ turned to spaces. The ppd file goes in /Library/Printers/something or other. Find out where the other ones live by doing a "find / -name "*.ppd" -print" You can write a file similar to this, then load it with the command niload printcap / < filename. I find this easier than using NetInfoManager. You may have to reboot for the new printer to be recognized. BSD derived lpd daemons are a tad flakey about recognizeing changes in configuration. fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu wrote: : hi all... : My SO and I are considering buying a laserprinter (NEC 5i) for the house, : which would be connected to my mono black slab, which serves as a PPP network : gateway/router/firewall/mailserver. I've checked everywhere, but the only : discussion about adding non-NeXT printers to a slab has to do with rewiring : a serial connector. : Is it possible to add a non-NeXT printer to a black slab? What should I : ask for in the way of accessories when I purchase this beastie? Do I need : a parallel-serial converter, and the serial connector hack in the FAQ? Do : I need something else? What do I have to do on the software side of things? : We're both very excited, as this will be our first in-home laser printer, : but I'm a bit concerned, since getting the thing connected to my slab is a : big grey fog for me right now. Could someone clarify? : Thanks, : Mark : -- : fugue : "The police used to watch over the people. : Now they're watching the people." -- Sherwood Botsford | "Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed. Physics Dept | She knew that I knew that her father was dead. U of Alberta | She knew that I knew what a life he had led. Edmonton, AB, | She knew that I knew what she meant when she said, T6G 2J1 | "Go to father." New address: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:34:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5b3a7l$9rh$3@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: >In article <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com>, deh@atype.com (David E. >Hollingsworth) wrote: > >> In article <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> >fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) writes: >> >> > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like >> > I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with >> > relatively light Internet use. >> >> Here at Archetype, we've used black hardware NeXTs in this manner for years. >> Here are some of the things that we've used: >> >> o sendmail (both stock NeXT version and IDA) >> o qpopper (POP3) '<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper>' >> o bind (DNS) '<ftp://ftp.vix.com:/pub/bind/release>' >> o Apache (web) '<http://www.apache.org>' >> o wu-ftpd (ftp) '<ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd>' >> >> You'll almost certainly want to upgrade (or replace! <http://www.qmail.org>) >> your sendmail, unless you'll willing to live with all of the security holes >> that have cropped up since your version was released. >> >> One issue with replacing the stock software that sometimes crops up is >> NetInfo. For example, when we installed IDA sendmail, we switched to using an >> aliases file instead of the NetInfo entries. Presumably some software can be >> told to use NetInfo, but that's not always the case. >> >> You should probably also turn *off* all of the daemons that you don't need, >> remove any extra accounts, etc. >> > > > >At the moment, I'm starting literally from zero, as althoug I've done some >unix stuff, I'll be literally doing this on my first NeXT machine. I've >decided to get one of those $600 dollar Color Turbos being offered in one >of the posts in next.marketplace and outfitting it with drives and OS and >other neccessary stuff. Your post will be a BIG help. Save for the web >stuff, virtually all of these functions will be run on the same machine. >It's a relatively low usage environment, being used mainly for DNS and >email for about 20 users total, a mixture of Macs and a few salespeople >using terminals to another unix box (SCO), both connected via ethernet. >Even most of the ftp will be run out through one of various Macs, the NeXT >being mainly for DNS in that usage. > > The machine is supposed to come with a "right to use" for the OS and a >friend of mine in the city will help me with that part. I'd appreciate >knowing of any particular books or other support materials that would be >recommended for a first-time NeXT user. Those who might have such for >sale are encouraged to email me back. > Make sure you try to get at least NS 3.3 for this setup. It will save you a lot of headaches in the future. --Ryan
From: sherwood@mars.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hard drive failure Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:47:35 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5b3avn$10c0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp> Bensonglorioskin! Go buy a new disk. Disks are cheap! Use the old disk for overflow space. An Atlas should be under warranty. Call up Quantum. See if you can arrange a hot swap -- they send you a disk, you send the old one back. Generally I figure that after the initial scan for bad blocks, the disk should never show another bad block until it's ready to be a paperweight. Sidney Lehky (sidney@postman.riken.go.jp) wrote: : I'm running NS 3.3 on a Pentium, 4 GB Quantum Atlas partioned 3 ways : with Linux, NS, and NT. : The NS partion generates hard drive error messages during bootup : and stops to ask for a manual fsck, which does not fix the problem: : sd0: Media error; FATAL : target:0 lun:0 op:Read block: 3075802 : Cannot read: BLK 280160 : The following sectors cannot be read: 280172,280173,280174,280175 : : The error messages can be overridden by a Command Q, the boot : up continues normally, and the system looks normal upon login : except for a few corrupted data files. : The question is how can I repair this abnormal boot sequence : so I don't have to intervene manually. Is there something less : drastic than reformatting to lock out bad sectors? : -- : Sidney Lehky : Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) : Saitama, Japan -- Sherwood Botsford | "Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed. Physics Dept | She knew that I knew that her father was dead. U of Alberta | She knew that I knew what a life he had led. Edmonton, AB, | She knew that I knew what she meant when she said, T6G 2J1 | "Go to father." New address: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: sherwood@mars.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Nextstation boot problems Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:52:24 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5b3b8o$10c0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <01bbfa5e$3bb7ed40$9a128780@starlock.Uchicago.edu> John Stiening (jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote: : I have come across a NextStation Turbo, which I would like to pick up. : Unfortunately, the machine fails to complete the boot process. Initially : I start the machine booting by using the command "b sd". All works fine : until the machine attempts to find the network. The computer then : continuously attempts to find some phantom server on the network. Is : there a way I can disable the network functions, or maybe to get the : machine to boot without initializing any of the network parameters? I need : the next to ignore all network functions durning boot. There are a couple possibilities: If it's looking for a netinfo server, hit control-C, and it will carry on. If it's hanging on mounts, then boot single user and edit /etc/fstab and put a # in front of any non local file systems. If netinfo is the problem, then start up NetInfoManager, click on machines, click on broadcast host, then double click on it. It will bring up another window, with the property serves. See if there is an value for the serves property of ../network. If there is select it then delete it. (Under Edit/delete I think in the menu) If this doesn't work, email me with more specific details. -- Sherwood Botsford | "Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed. Physics Dept | She knew that I knew that her father was dead. U of Alberta | She knew that I knew what a life he had led. Edmonton, AB, | She knew that I knew what she meant when she said, T6G 2J1 | "Go to father." New address: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: 9 Jan 97 11:05:57 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan9110557@slave.one.net> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> <E3p1xG.Fp@cam-ani.co.uk> In-reply-to: ians@cam-ani.co.uk's message of Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:36:51 GMT In article <E3p1xG.Fp@cam-ani.co.uk>, ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) writes: In article <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net>, John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? <...> For more deails two books which spring to mind are Fred Halsall - networks and datacoms (or some such) Andrew Tanenbaum - computer networks (or some such) (the authors are correct even if the names are iffy, Also "Internetworking with TCP/IP" by Comer. Easy to find (I _always_ have to prevent myself from purchasing a newer edition when I'm in a bookstore). Specific to TCP/IP, but ... well, these days, who cares? As with any other book that really tells you how things work, expect to read it at least twice. First time through, ignore all of the specific numeric stuff - very few people _really_ need to know which order the IP headers are in. Second time through, you'll see all the nice little subtleties that you missed the first time through ... the second time through is also a good time to do the excercises at the ends of the chapters. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] 3.3 on Versa 6030X Date: 9 Jan 1997 18:21:01 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <5b3cud$rgp@news.xs4all.nl> Has anyone tried installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 across the network onto a NEC Versa 6030X laptop? We had to because it cannot handle both a floppy and a CD-ROM drive at the same time. With NetInstallHelper I set up a netinstall server, declared the portable as a client, and made the two special boot diskettes. I am using the 3COM EtherLink3 PCMCIA 3.33 driver and the EIDE 3.34 driver, but the boot sequence fails after it says: ... root on en0 rootdev 0, howto 0 initrootnet: autoaddr failed panic: (Cpu 0) whoami: initrootnet failed Can anyone give me a clue as to what might be wrong here? Thanks in advance, Jan-Willem jwdb@fygir.nl -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: wtheller@hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Date: 9 Jan 1997 20:22:59 GMT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Message-ID: <5b3k33$oee@listserv.rice.edu> Hi, I am having trouble getting an Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN adapter working on an Intel box running NeXTStep 3.3. I have the driver installed (version 3.31) and I have it configured exactly as I set it up using the software (for DOS) that comes with it. During bootup using the -v option, there is a complaint that there is a non-Intel ethernet address found in the EEPROM. The bootup proceeds with no network installed. Has anyone seen this message before and have any idea what all of the whining is about? Any help would be appreciated. William Heller wtheller@ion.rice.edu
Message-ID: <32D31481.44D3@ebs.ac.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 21:29:05 -0600 From: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Organization: ServiceNet, LLC. Andersen Consulting and BBN Internet MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ED Floppy question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just recently picked up a few packages of ED disks for $3.00 a pack (They're on clearance at BestBuy if you're interested). Anyhoo, When I insert them into the floppy drive nothing happens. I'm assuming the NeXT would detect the new media and ask me what I wanted to do with it, but no luck. I perused the FAQ but found nothing related to floppy drives on NeXT hardware. Is the FD a SCSI device? Any clues on how to format them from the shell? -- Eric Ulmer Networking Consultant, ServiceNet, LLC. eulmer@isd.net ulmerer@ebs.ac.com http://www.isd.net/eulmer http://www.ac.com/topstories/currnews/ts_dfr96-0618.html
From: Eric Davis <eld@dimensional.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 -> TimeShift Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 20:40:15 -0700 Organization: Dimensional Communications Message-ID: <32D3171F.3BDD@dimensional.com> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> <5asgcb$9m6@neon.Mlink.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit tralala@mlink.net wrote: > > On 01/05/97, Eric Davis wrote: > > In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any > ideas? > > > > My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the > clock, all is > > fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > > > > /eld > --------------------------------- > > James E. Quick has solved this problem. It works flawlessly on > NS3.3 and probably will on OS4.x > > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too > ls/hack/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz (22kb) > > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too > ls/hack/TimeShift.README > > Cheers, > -Andr I'll go on record saying that timeshift is a great app. problem solved /eld
From: student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:42:01 -0800 Organization: California State University Sacramento Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970109183658.29338A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone Has anyone used a Iomega ,1 of those zip drives, as a 2nd external hard drive? Is it even possible? I think there might be some compatiblity problems with cabling and ports? I heard some devices like cdroms (Non NeXT brands) have problems connecting to NeXTs. Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E3rxMD.5q0@news.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:56:37 GMT I've been pulling my hair out on this one. Here's the situation: System: NextStep 3.3, 25mhz colorstation Software: Taylor-UUCP, sendmail 8.8.3. Connection: UUCP via TCP/IP on a part-time dialup line. Symptoms: Received mail works fine. That is, I can email from outside and it will make it in on the next dialup. Mail inside the machine works fine. If mail is sent while the SLIP line is up, it makes it out just fine. However, mail to the outside world gets queued up in the /usr/spool/mqueue directory and never sees the light of day if the machine is not connected at the time the mail is sent. For example, my /usr/spool/mqueue directory looks like this: (truncated) -rw------- 1 hocker 298 Jan 9 21:31 dfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 hocker 297 Jan 9 21:32 dfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 296 Jan 9 22:35 dfWAA03913 -rw------- 1 root 593 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 root 592 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 591 Jan 9 22:35 qfWAA03913 -rw-r----- 1 root 35113 Jan 9 22:35 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root 29753 Jan 8 07:01 syslog.old Suspicion: I suspect that sendmail doesn't know how to make rmail work. But I can't figure out why not. Here's my .mc file: define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:egate) divert(0)dnl VERSIONID(`@(#)samizdat.mc 8.6 (Berkeley) 3/23/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(waldo.com)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(uucp)dnl In addition, I believe that even though I say nodns, it is trying to look the address up via NetInfo. So...: How do I resolve this? I have scoured books, made pleas on the Net, and looked everywhere for help that I can. My appreciation would be HUGE for help in this area. PLEASE help! Thanks for any assistance. Honest! Matt -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem and data calls Date: 9 Jan 1997 22:59:31 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b4er3$tq@Vir.com> References: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> <5b0cav$mdn@Vir.com> <5b0q07$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : The above steps are valid if NXFax isn't being used, but Adam uses NXFax. : The above setup won't work because NXFax, not getty, needs to monitor the : port device. So ttys should not be modified as you suggest in step 2. According to Adam he wanted to turn of NXFax, from which it seemed to me, he no longer wanted to use NXFax. stef ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefanos Kiakas stefanos@uniscape.com http://www.uniscape.com/ e-Scape Information Systems Inc. (514) 729-9643
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:50:59 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580001001970250590001@news.tiac.net> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net>, fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: >I've > decided to get one of those $600 dollar Color Turbos being offered in one > of the posts in next.marketplace and outfitting it with drives and OS and > other neccessary stuff. Good for you! You'll love the overall design, even if its a bit slow by current standards. > The machine is supposed to come with a "right to use" for the OS and a > friend of mine in the city will help me with that part. I'd appreciate > knowing of any particular books or other support materials that would be > recommended for a first-time NeXT user. Those who might have such for > sale are encouraged to email me back. There are books for the developer, but they aren't relevant. The on-line sysadmin doc (in /NextLibrary) will get you started. There is a User Manual that isn't on-line, but I've never seen that it added that much. You might be able to borrow a copy locally. Most of the config issues have been discussed on Usenet, but I'm not sure there is a well-indexed archive anywhere. Posting in this group usually gets sensible answers. Barney
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hard drive failure Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:12:54 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580001001970312540001@news.tiac.net> References: <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp>, Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> wrote: >> The error messages can be overridden by a Command Q, the boot > up continues normally, and the system looks normal upon login > except for a few corrupted data files. > > The question is how can I repair this abnormal boot sequence > so I don't have to intervene manually. Is there something less > drastic than reformatting to lock out bad sectors? I believe there is software that allows you to replace the bad block with spares (which all SCSI disks I've ever looked at have). Sorry, my archives don't seem to have a reference to it. Perhaps someone else could help? The command is Reassign Blocks (07h). I would certainly try for a return on the disk. Longer term, any decent SCSI has automatic reallocation on read/write, which should be enabled. Of course, you need to heed any such reallocations, and consider return/increased backups. You might also enable parity error detection, which often seems to be jumpered off. Barney
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to do the backup with EXABYTE Model 8500 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:24:56 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32d60acb.25319718@netnews.hinet.net> Hi all, We have just find a EXABYTE Model 8500 SCSI Backup device in our office, and would like to use it to backup NeXT Server. I buy a new 2GB 8mm DAT tape which will insert to the EXABYTE backup system, and would like to use it for backup. Can anybody tell me how to write out the "dump" command on the NeXT to do the full backup? In addition, if I would like to continue use the same tape (don't rewind after the full backup) and make another backup just backup users' information, users home directories' data, and directories' sturcture, then how should I write the "dump" command? And how to write the command to restore the data? If there is any good very easily understand refence about how to do the backup, please let me know too. Thank you. Best Regards, sˡ]batmon^ batmon@abico.com.tw Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd. Part of ABiCO Group
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Date: 10 Jan 1997 08:35:30 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5b4v0i$5lc$2@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5b3k33$oee@listserv.rice.edu> wtheller@hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller) wrote: > Hi, > I am having trouble getting an Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN adapter > working on an Intel box running NeXTStep 3.3. I have the driver > installed (version 3.31) and I have it configured exactly as I set it > [...] This is correct. Driver version 3.31 only works with the EtherExpress PRO/10, but not with the PRO/10+. Just get NeXTAnswers document #2164, which contains the Intel 82595 driver version 3.35. This should work fine with your PRO/10+ card. 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701091859.KAA07403@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 5e991bece0efa5414bd049bc4abfbd1a - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 97 13:58:57 -0500 Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 5e991bece0efa5414bd049bc4abfbd1a - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Original Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 04:30:36 GMT Message-ID: 5e991bece0efa5414bd049bc4abfbd1a - > I'd appreciate knowing of any particular books or other support > materials that would be recommended for a first-time NeXT user. > Those who might have such for sale are encouraged to email me > back. I don't know of any resource that would be anywhere near as helpful as these groups have been to me over the past 5 years. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Apple + NeXT = Rhapsody (in black? ;-)
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From: Horst_Dries@stratus.com (Horst Dries) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Upgrade Next 3.3 -> 4.1 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:38:03 GMT Organization: stratus.com Message-ID: <32d644d5.20965243@news> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi , i am just on the way to upgrade a NEC Versa 4080H from Next 3.3 to Openstep 4.1 und facing the problem: that the Upgrader.app writes : Cant,t open //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom BUT //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom is there !!!! any idea whats going wrong ?? Thanks & regards Horst
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 Supersedes: <587851299369@digifix.com> Date: 10 Jan 1997 16:42:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <475852914532@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. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Upgrade Next 3.3 -> 4.1 Date: 10 Jan 1997 14:19:19 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5b64nn$san@papoose.quick.com> References: <32d644d5.20965243@news> In article <32d644d5.20965243@news>, Horst Dries <Horst_Dries@stratus.com> wrote: >Hi , >i am just on the way to upgrade a NEC Versa 4080H from Next 3.3 to >Openstep 4.1 und facing the problem: that the Upgrader.app writes : > >Cant,t open //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom > >BUT //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom is there !!!! >any idea whats going wrong ?? Make sure that you log in as root before running Upgrader.app. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to replace /bin/sh Date: 14 Jan 1997 14:03:58 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and didn't see it. I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me this should work and would provide all the command line niceties (e.g, command-completion) that the distribution shell lacks. ( I have replaced the distribution csh with tcsh with no obvious ill effects.) Unfortunately, if I do: mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old; cp /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/sh; chown root.wheel /bin/sh; chmod 755 /bin/sh then the system fails to boot fully. It gets to "faking root mount entries..." and then leaves me at the single user bash prompt. If I try to use UserManager to change root's login shell to anything but the "genuine" /bin/sh, LoginWindow refuses to allow root to login and displays a message saying that the imposter shell will be run and its output ignored. Do init and/or LoginWindow.app do some kind of internal test to detect the "real" /bin/sh? If so, is there any way around it? -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Installation FAQ? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:02:05 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware? Thanks, Jason
From: matthias@amg.de (Matthias Schuerhoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Date: 10 Jan 1997 08:41:03 GMT Organization: AMG Industrieconsulting GmbH Message-ID: <5b4vav$go1@hagen.amg.de> References: <5b3k33$oee@listserv.rice.edu> wtheller@hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller) wrote: > Hi, > I am having trouble getting an Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN adapter > working on an Intel box running NeXTStep 3.3. I have the driver > installed (version 3.31) and I have it configured exactly as I set it > up using the software (for DOS) that comes with it. During bootup > using the -v option, there is a complaint that there is a non-Intel > ethernet address found in the EEPROM. The bootup proceeds with no > network installed. > Has anyone seen this message before and have any idea what all of the > whining is about? > > Any help would be appreciated. I also have trouble with this card. My system shows the message that it can't find the card at the address 0x300. This address is set in Confiure.app and on the card with softset2.exe. The testmode of softset2.exe recognizes the card correctly. Any ideas? Greetings Matthias ================================================ Matthias Schuerhoff E-Mail: matthias@amg.de (NeXT & MIME mail ok) ================================================
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NS Install on new HD? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:58:42 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4AC2.6987@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXTstation mono with a 100MB internal hard drive that I would like to replace with a 1GB Seagate ST31230N. The new SCSI hard drive mounts fine but I do not know how to install NeXTSTEP onto it. I have NS 3.0 on cdrom and I have a NEC 6x SCSI cdrom connected to the NeXTstation and it works with the 100MB drive with NS loaded. When I boot with the new hard drive I get to a ROM monitor and I type b to boot. It examines the SCSI devices and then tries to load off of the cdrom and then craps out. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) Subject: Re: HP Tape drive woes Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <E408CA.JxJ@bri.hp.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:28:58 GMT References: <5b34ng$9vl@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Chris Saldanha (chris@computerActive.on.ca) wrote: : I've got a P5-133 machine running NeXTSTEP 3.3pl1 and an HP C1533A 8GB DAT drive : (internal, connected to a Symbios Logic SCSI card). : My problem is that none of the command-line tools like mt, tar, gnutar are unable : to write to the tape. mt works for "rewind" and "offline", but not for "eof". : Each time I attempt a write operation I get something in the messages file like: : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write filemarks returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- Which means ... it reckons it's write protected. Sense code 30h, IFF it is the ASC (really it would be nice to have the ASCQ as well) could be: incompatible medium can't read media, unknown format cannot read media, incompatible media cleaning cartridge installed. none of which tie up with the inital sense key. : or : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write data (10 byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- : and all the commands say is "I/O error" on /dev/rst0. Is there a #################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.apfel.de!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!mr.net!news.mid.net!crcnews.unl.edu!manager From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: 14 Jan 1997 15:50:22 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5bg9vu$fma@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Reply-To: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mathlab58.unl.edu In article <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me Do not replace sh! Bad idea... might (most likely will) break things. /bin/sh must be statically linked, at least. Better idea, have /bin/sh and /bin/bash side-by-side use the one most appropriate for each job/user/shell. -- 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: "D. Scott" <dscott@netuser.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStation Need Help Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:15:11 +0000 Organization: M+ Message-ID: <32D6BF6D.598C@netuser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just purchased a NextStation that I have been able to boot, but unable to get into the system since I bought it used from a broker. I have read most of the newsgroup messages listed in these two forums and tried www.next.com to get answer with no luck. Can someone help in these areas? How do I get around the Graphical USER and PASSWORD to reset it for my own use and delete all other users. Where would I find software for this system, maybe CD or floppies? Does it cost?? Where would I find the System Admin manuals, I only have the User Guides. Any suggestions for software available? I am just using it to explore the Next Station. Any help is appreciated. Dale Scott dscott@netuser.com
From: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Non updating man files with Librarian Date: 11 Jan 1997 21:22:04 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5b909s$18v@sun168.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi all, after installing perl5.003 I expected the new man pages to come up in Librarian. However this did not happen. By examining the contents of the man dir I noticed that the man pages were in place but the respective cat directory contained the nroffed files with old contents. After deleting the contents of the cat diretory I had proper Librarian access again. Has somebody experienced similar? Any clues for a workaround? How are the contents of the Librarian config files like .index.iname ... to be set? TIA. Stefan Boehringer
From: "Mike" <mdeman@next.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named daemon Date: 12 Jan 1997 20:22:22 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc00f2$387e05c0$0b071281@windchaser> References: <5aka9n$biv@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> Hergen Eilers <qvi@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article <5aka9n$biv@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>... > I am trying to configure a computer running NeXT 3.3 to be a name > server for non-NeXT computers on our small network that is NOT > connected with the Internet. I have tried following the instructions in > the NeXT Library and man pages to set up the named daemon, but I am > having trouble setting up the named.boot and cache files. > > We only have six computers on our network. We are not connected to the > Internet. Therefore, I have only set up a root domain. I don't think we > need any secondary name servers. > > I tried the following: > > Added the following line to /etc/rc.local: > /usr/etc/named > > In the file /etc/named.boot: > directory /etc/DNS > cache . root.cache > > In the file /etc/NDS/root.cache: > 99999999 IN NS maxwell. > maxwell. 99999999 IN A 192.72.142.1 > > When I entered "nslookup maxwell" in Terminal on the server (maxwell), > I get the following response: > > Server: maxwell > Address: 0.0.0.0 > res_mkquery(0, maxwell., 1, 1) > ____________ > Got answer: > HEADER: > opcode = QUERY, id = 1, rcode = SERVFAIL > header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail. > questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, additional = > 0 > > QUESTIONS: > maxwell, type = A, class = IN > > _____________ > *** maxwell can't find maxwell: Server failed > > I would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Could you please send > a copy of your responce to qvi@ix.netcom.com. Thanks. > > Brian Olmsted > > > > Did you setup the inverse-lookup and loopback address? Sometimes wierd things will happen if DNS doesn't have an entry for the loopback - 127.0.0.1. (michael@rum.cs.wwu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701111600.LAA14656@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fa4261a7aa5b5df8f85fa6f732d4d90f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 97 10:59:59 -0500 Subject: Re: NextStation Need Help Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fa4261a7aa5b5df8f85fa6f732d4d90f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "D. Scott" <dscott@netuser.com> Original Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:15:11 +0000 > I just purchased a NextStation that I have been able to boot, but > unable to get into the system since I bought it used from a broker. > I have read most of the newsgroup messages listed in these two > forums and tried www.next.com to get answer with no luck. Can > someone help in these areas? > > How do I get around the Graphical USER and PASSWORD to reset it for > my own use and delete all other users. Be fast: 1)power it on. 2)hold down BOTH "command" buttons" 3)Right after you see the lights flash on the caps lock, press the ~ key (over the 7 on the keypa#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!uni-erlangen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!newscaster-1.mcast.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-penn.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.NetVision.net.il!news From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mounting Win95 filesystem Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:54:35 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Lines: 48 Message-ID: <32DBBA4A.ABD@harmonic.co.il> References: <32D9B480.6A9D@erols.com> Reply-To: uri@harmonic.co.il NNTP-Posting-Host: uri.harmonic.co.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------4D04184A649F1" X-Sender: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) To: gbh@erols.com X-Priority: Normal ------------4D04184A649F1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, One of the two - Run a PC NFS software on the win95 (~500 $) Run Samba on the NeXT (~0 $ .....) -- Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc. Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122) Fax: 972-4-8550180 Email: uri@harmonic.co.il ------------4D04184A649F1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Hi,</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>One of the two -</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Run a PC NFS software on the win95 (~500 $)</DT> <DT>Run Samba on the NeXT (~0 $ .....)<BR> -- <BR> Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator<BR> Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc.<BR> Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122)<BR> Fax: 972-4-8550180<BR> Email: uri@harmonic.co.il<BR> </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------4D04184A649F1--
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:57:55 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DBBB13.658F@ibp.de> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Terry R. McConnell wrote: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me > this should work and would provide all the command line niceties (e.g, > command-completion) that the distribution shell lacks. ( I have replaced > the distribution csh with tcsh with no obvious ill effects.) > > Unfortunately, if I do: [snip] I know you didn't ask, but... Why do you want to replace /bin/sh? If you want to have bash as your default shell, you might simply set it in UserManager.app (after having it added to /etc/shells) I might be missing the point completely - then I'm sorry... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Strange mach message Message-ID: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Organization: Disorganization Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:36:33 GMT After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get a lot of messages Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine.
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:45:48 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DB8E0C.4809@ibp.de> References: <E3yrAB.1MG@mediahaus.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Piers Uso Walter wrote: > > Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS > > I'm using an ethernet based Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS to print from > NEXTSTEP. I think I've got everything set up correctly in Netinfo since > I can print without any problem and can set the printer options > (resolution, paper feed, fine print etc.) as well. > > I cannot, however, correctly print documents containing non-standard > fonts (e.g. Stone Serif Medium). Since the LaserWriter does not know > these fonts, they come out as Courier. Is there anything I can do so > that the fonts not known by the printer are automatically downloaded to > the printer with the PostScript job? > > Currently I have to resort to the "Save" option in PrintPanel, > specifying "Chosen printer, include fonts" and then print the resulting > PS file. Surely there must be an easier way (what would all the Mac > guys say if this is how they'd have to print in the future ;-). > > Does anybody have any idea? > > Piers Uso Walter > ilink GmbH > Piers_Walter@ilink.de Maybe fontloader(1) can help you. It's got a man page... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: system hangs while booting Date: 14 Jan 1997 19:13:28 GMT Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Message-ID: <5bglso$4vp@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: hang, freeze, DEC, Celebris, NEXTSTEP Hi, I have a NEXTSTEP for Intel system that often freezes while booting or logging in. This seems to happen, on average, about once out of every 3 or 4 times I power on. Also, the failures seem to be related to powering off and on, rather than simply restarting without powering off. I don't know what is causing this. Does anyone have any suggestions? SETUP: I bought the system from a company that specializes in configuring NEXTSTEP for Intel systems. The basic system is a bare DEC Celebris XL 6200. The Pentium Pro 200 MHz CPU, the motherboard, the power supply, and the case came from DEC. Also, DEC provides an onboard NCR 53C810 SCSI adapter. All of the drives are SCSI. The hard drive is a 4-gb Seagate Barracuda and the CD-ROM drive is a Plextor 6Plex. There is also a Conner DAT drive on the SCSI chain. The video card is an ELSA Winner 2000 Pro/X with 4-mb of VRAM, the sound card is a SoundBlaster-16, and the network card is a Cogent EM110. I bought some extra memory from the system vendor and some more extra memory from another third party. I am running OPENSTEP 4.0. SYMPTOMS: The system freezes completely. This has occurred at various points along the boot and/or login sequence. Once I am logged into OPENSTEP, the system usually (but not always) runs for days (or even weeks). Sometimes the system freezes within seconds after I power on (i.e. when doing the first memory count). Other times it freezes after starting to load OPENSTEP, and yet other times it hangs while the login panel is displayed (either before or after I type in my account name and password). A few times it has hung shortly after logging in. WHAT I'VE TRIED: I removed the sound card and the network card early on and I have left them out. I tried various memory combinations, always filling the 4 slots required for interleaving with identical SIMMs. I tried only DEC memory, only memory from the NEXTSTEP integrator, and only memory I bought from TechWorks (aka First Tech). The system failed in all three cases. I swapped out the video card with another identical card. DEC has come out a dozen times and has swapped out the CPU, the daughter card, and the motherboard. I sent the system back to the NEXTSTEP integator, but he said he was unable to replicate my problem. DEC took the system to their shop and WAS able to replicate the problem. DEC is now going to replace the power supply, but the technician did not expect that to help. COMMENTS: I'm not an expert on hardware or software, but the fact that the system sometimes fails almost immediately after powering on suggests to me that the problem does not involve NEXTSTEP. In fact, it often fails before even getting to the SCSI adapter and/or devices. To me, the most likely suspects are the CPU, the daughter card, the motherboard, the RAM, the video card, or the power supply. We have swapped out all but the last item. Actually, we have 5 of these systems, all configured the same, and several others are having the same problem. We are using 2 of them, as they "appear" to work fine after the user successfully logins in. But I'm very worried that if we powered these systems off and on many times, then they would fail as well. I'm afraid to depend on a system that hangs so often for unknown reasons. It's quite plausible to me that there are other problems that are present, but not so apparent. Does anyone else have this same configuration? If so, I'd be interested in whether you have noticed this problem. Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks, Gregg =========================== Gregg Dinse dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov 919-541-4931
From: schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu (Martha W. Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI errors Date: 14 Jan 1997 15:09:55 GMT Organization: Yale University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bg7k3$ei7@news.ycc.yale.edu> I have an HP712 that has always claimed to have SCSI errors. Basically, when doing a boot and looking at the messages, I would get messages of the sort: Jan 14 09:42:11 syrtis mach: SCSI: id: 00715a, lbolt: 0, bp: 37e788, dev: 630, dev_type: (00) Direct Access, ansi: 2, rdf: 2, tag: 7c, Jan 14 09:42:11 syrtis mach: cdb: 28 00 00 07 a6 70 00 00 10 00 Jan 14 09:42:11 syrtis mach: opcode: (28) bcount: 2000, addr: 66c8000, residual: 1, This never seemed to affect anything, and I have never used another HP with Nextstep before, so I assumed that it was either normal, or at least harmless. I believe that these messages occur only with the internal drive - they are vastly more frequent during a fsck of that drive, and almost nonexistent during a fsck of the external drives. But I think they may be occurring more frequently as time goes on, possibly affecting the performance of the machine (I seem to have to reboot a lot these days, and this sort of message is the only suspicious thing on the console) and I would like to fix the problem. My question is this: if I replace the drive, is this likely to fix it? Or is this likely to be a deeper problem with the SCSI bus? Thanks in advance, Martha Schaefer schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu
From: Charles W Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:34:29 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4mqxz5W00iWp07cfk0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> In-Reply-To: <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 3-Jan-97 Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and .. by Holger Hoffstaette@schwa >> There's a similar "crashme" program that generates random executables >> to test a kernel's stability, and Linux can also run this for hours >> at a time on both Intel, SPARC, and Alpha versions. I don't know of >> anybody running "crashme" on NeXTstep. Has anybody tried this? >> [geek curiosity]. Crashme will kill (ie, lock up so that you have to do a hard reset, since even the NMI monitor is wedged) m68k systems. Supposedly this is because there is an m68k opcode that will cause a trap that the system doesn't handle. Crashme seems to run correctly on non-m68k NEXTSTEP systems. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: 13 Jan 1997 19:27:15 GMT Message-ID: <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> References: 82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2 - <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. : I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. : Is there a disktab for the zip drive? Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega makes both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI devices, that since one requires a disktab entry the other would, too. I guess I spoke too soon! Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How#################################################################### From: mingming@mwu.phys.oxy.edu (mingming wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any recommendations for a good tape drive for NEXT 3.2 on pentium? Date: 13 Jan 1997 22:52:06 GMT Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA Message-ID: <5beeam$qam@sophri.cc.oxy.edu> I desperately need a tape drive for a P5-90, with Symbios Logic SCSI card. I use NEXTStep 3.2.. Any suggestions out there? Thanks mingming
From: Charles W Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:48:21 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <EmqyA5_00iWp07chg0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: 123366084d1135d7d130fca20a84295d - <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> In-Reply-To: <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Jan-97 Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail qu.. by Timothy J Luoma@peak.org > /usr/lib/sendmail -q > > to flush the mailq. Actually I've got a script that runs sendmail > -q until the Q is empty (up to 50 times). Drop me a note if you'd > like a copy No need for that. Run the queue once with 'sendmail -q', and then run sendmail as a daemon with whatever retry interval you wish (eq, 'sendmail -bd -q15m') until you bring your dialup line down. Sendmail will do a smarter, better job of flushing the queue running in daemon mode than it would by repeatedly running it until the queue is empty. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Anyone compile Kerberos 5? Message-ID: <cdoutyE40LDy.1qv@netcom.com> Keywords: port security kerberos Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:10:46 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom8.netcom.com Has anyone ported Kerberos 5 (of any beta) to NeXTstep? I started in on Beta 7 on NS3.3p1 but ran into some serious problems. I figured that rather re-invent the wheel, I'd ask the Net. If you've ported Kerberos I would really appreciate a set of patches/diffs to the source tree. Binaries would be OK too, but I'd rather not get you in trouble with the State Department. Plus source is just sorta required for a security product. :-) On a related note, did NeXT ever publish the API for loginwindow? I can't seem to find any reference to it on NextAnswers. Thanks, Chris Douty -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: gperrow@comnetix.com (Graeme Perrow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NS 3.3 on IBM PC-350 P166 Date: 14 Jan 1997 21:06:02 GMT Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5bgsfq$c5t$1@loki.tor.hookup.net> Does anyone know if NeXTStep v3.3 will run on an IBM PC-350 166MHz Pentium? We have been having problems with some P166's (Digital, HP), so I'd like to know if this machine will work before I go and buy it. Thanks --- Graeme Perrow, Software Engineer Comnetix Computer Systems, Inc. 1440 Hurontario St. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5G 3H4 Voice: (905) 274-4060 Fax: (905) 271-7776 Email: gperrow@comnetix.com (NeXTMail or MIME welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Message-ID: <E3yrAB.1MG@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:22:59 GMT Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS I'm using an ethernet based Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS to print from NEXTSTEP. I think I've got everything set up correctly in Netinfo since I can print without any problem and can set the printer options (resolution, paper feed, fine print etc.) as well. I cannot, however, correctly print documents containing non-standard fonts (e.g. Stone Serif Medium). Since the LaserWriter does not know these fonts, they come out as Courier. Is there anything I can do so that the fonts not known by the printer are automatically downloaded to the printer with the PostScript job? Currently I have to resort to the "Save" option in PrintPanel, specifying "Chosen printer, include fonts" and then print the resulting PS file. Surely there must be an easier way (what would all the Mac guys say if this is how they'd have to print in the future ;-). Does anybody have any idea? Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH Piers_Walter@ilink.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus G <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Strange mach message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xvi90ndef.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:40:56 GMT >>>>> "TF" == Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> writes: TF> After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get TF> a lot of messages TF> Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun TF> Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times TF> As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what TF> happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine. I get the same messages and I never discovered the source (mouse movement, a particular app, port speed?). I just ignore it. Markus G
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Changing hostname Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:53 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970114163036.430A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I need to change the hostname of a machine that runs alternately using ethernet and a modem connection. Other than in the HostMananger.app, what else do I have to change? Thanks. Robert
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@xedoc.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Anyone compile Kerberos 5? Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:29:13 +1000 Organization: Xedoc Software Development Australia Pty Ltd Message-ID: <32DC32E9.77EA@xedoc.com.au> References: <cdoutyE40LDy.1qv@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Douty <cdouty@netcom.com> Chris Douty wrote: > > Has anyone ported Kerberos 5 (of any beta) to NeXTstep? I started in on > Beta 7 on NS3.3p1 but ran into some serious problems. I figured that > rather re-invent the wheel, I'd ask the Net. I got it ported, although I had some problems (related to the DBM library, I think) which meant that the server failed to work. Unfortunately, I'm about to go overseas, and I'm not likely to be able to get you any diffs any time soon. :-( > On a related note, did NeXT ever publish the API for loginwindow? I can't > seem to find any reference to it on NextAnswers. No, they didn't. You might want to use class-dump to figure out the API. You can then cut and paste the code from a Kerberised /bin/login into a KerberosAuthenticator delegate. (My idea was to use NT 5.0 as a security server, with a KerberosAuthneticator, and a directrory server, with an LDAP lookupd agent, for OPENSTEP/Mach clients. Unfortunately, with NT 5.0 unreleased, there was a limited amount of work that could be done.) -- Luke
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Toshiba Tecra -- new hard drive Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:57:50 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970115145720.1116B-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a single partition now on my Tecra with NS 3.3 on it. I need to run some Win95 programs and am weighing my options. If I don't want to reinstall NS then I can't use the current internal hard drive, right? Another option is to buy a second internal hard drive, install Win95 on it, and swap when I want to run Win95. Any problems with that? The last option I've thought of is to buy an external hard drive and do the same. First, can I get one for the Tecra and second, can I fairly simply configure the machine to boot off the external hard drive? Any other options? Thanks for any help. Robert
Message-ID: <32DCED3D.432E@lhep.unibe.ch> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:44:13 +0100 From: Juerg Beringer <beringer@lhep.unibe.ch> Organization: Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Access to NS/Intel boot time options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Is it possible to access within the rc startup scripts the options entered at the NeXTStep (V3.3) boot prompt of an Intel machine? I am using e.g. config=SCSI at the boot prompt to load the device drivers according to a table SCSI.table (in /usr/Devices/System.config) instead of the standard Instance0 table. For different reasons I'd like to know in the startup scripts which options (if any) were selected. Thanks for any hints! Juerg. ****************************************************************************** Juerg Beringer Phone: +41 (31) 631 40 62 University of Bern FAX: +41 (31) 631 44 87 Laboratory for High Energy Physics Sidlerstrasse 5 E-mail: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch CH-3012 Bern HEPNET/SPAN: 20579::49202::BERINGER SWITZERLAND DECNET (Switzerland): 49202::BERINGER ******************************************************************************
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cost of a NeXT Web Site? Date: 15 Jan 1997 23:00:32 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <5bjnig$bcr@news.asu.edu> I doubt that many advocates and customers like Chylser, CyberSlice, Nissan, and etc. as the list goes on, will argue about the merits of using NeXT's Web technologies for deploying their Web sites. We have all heard plenty and are proud of what is being accomplished. However, what I haven't heard anything about, something which curiously dawned on me recently and after reviewing what some of these folks are doing, is the cost of implementing and deploying these Web Sites. Can anybody provide approximate costs or actual figures of sites like these? I do respect people's anonymity. Cheers, Sue
From: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@math.enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing hostname Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:32:35 -0700 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970115142921.12070A-100000@beernut> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970114163036.430A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970114163036.430A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Robert G. Jacobs wrote: > I need to change the hostname of a machine that runs alternately using > ethernet and a modem connection. Other than in the HostMananger.app, what > else do I have to change? > If the system looks to a NetInfo server (other than itself) for the info than you need to change it in the servers database. If not then you can change it will SimpleNetworkStarter or by editing /etc/hostconfig. As expected you must be root to do this... Nate --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt "You're not me, therefore you're irrelevant." -- Dogbert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E42Cpo.Kr5@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:58:36 GMT References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu>, Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> wrote: >Java is interpretted p-code There are CPUs that run the Java Virtual Machine in solicon. >It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > There's a lot of this, true. ObNeXTSysadmin: It's not safe to change root's login shell, right? -- 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
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.transputer,comp.sys.unisys,comp.sys.xerox,comp.sys.zenith.z100,comp.terminals,comp.terminals.bitgraph,control From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Message-ID: <cancel.5bkehu$fah@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> Control: cancel <5bkehu$fah@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <5bkehu$fah@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> no reply ignore Organization: Semi-Automatic Chain Letter Remover Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 05:35:38 GMT Sender: martin.boucher@cgocable.ca ($$$ EASY MONEY $$$) 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 J. Porter Clark, d/b/a The Unknown News Administrator
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Scripted access to isql - help me remember the arguments! Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:00:35 GMT Message-ID: <32dfec9a.1794878@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have Quickbase 4.1 and a number of apps on Next that use it. I also need a 'quick and dirty' way to do some queries from Windows 95. A year ago someone told me that there was an argument to isql so I could write a script to process any query, without having to type it in interactively. However, Quickbase isql comes with no documentation on the command line options. Can anyone help me to do this? (ultimately, the idea is to write a DOS batch file that uses telnet and isql to connect to the database, run a query, and close the conection, without knowing the query in advance. Of course Microsoft helped a lot as usual by making telnet graphical....) For the record, we are well withint our number of licences as the next machines are just not getting used at the moment. Many thanks, Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@hc.ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:25:35 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <32DE486F.1BD@hc.ti.com> References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bill Keller wrote: > > I'm not sure if I missed something Java-related. It seems that most > people are awfully gung-ho about Java, and I'm not sure why. My > understanding is: > > Java is a portable language > Java is an open language > Java is object-oriented > Java is interpretted p-code > Java can be embedded into webpages > > Did I miss anything significant? > Other than embedding into webpages, which I doubt is going to be it's > primary use, I'm not sure there is much benefit to the rest. There have > been portable, open languages for decades now. And interpretted p-code is > BAD. > > It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > > Can someone set me straight? (gently) :) Well... netbased interpreted P-code allows me to be truely HW independent. Sarrus Software (the makers of the PencilMeIn, one of the most usefull NS apps IMHO) have a Java version that runs through marimba. I can run it on a PC, my HP Unix workstation at work, Sun, whatever... When it is finally released, I expect to have a calendar manager that operates wherever I go on whatever hardware and it is the EXACT same program, not a port of code to various machines. I'll be able to use the same calendar file so I don't have to worry about synchronization. I think this will be a fantastic application of JAVA to solve a problem many of us face (synchronization). Just my thoughts... - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PopOver + procmail ? Date: 16 Jan 1997 04:16:53 +0900 Organization: 3WEB corp. Message-ID: <x6pvz6g34q.fsf@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Hi. Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or other pop client) to procmail ? -=-=-=-=-=-=-= Toshinao Ishii email: ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (NeXTMAIL/MIME Welcome)
From: Carlene Ewalt <ewalt001@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Nextstation Turbo Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:34:28 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota School of Public Health Message-ID: <32DE66A4.1997@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have inherited an Nextstation Turbo (black box) which has never been turned off until today. Today, we turned it off to move the ethernet jack...keeping the same IP...but moving the computer and jack down the hallway and now when I turn it on. I get almost immediately......... Next Rom Manager 3.3 (v74) Exception #3 (0xc) at pc 0x1000646 sp 0xc03f600 I tried typing in ec and received error code 74. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Carlene -- Carlene Ewalt Telephone: 612-626-5443 University of Minnesota School of Public Health Fax: 612-626-6931 Box 197 Mayo, 420 Delaware St SE Email:ewalt001@maroon.tc.umn.edu Minneapolis MN 55455
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: NS3.3: compile/install Perl5 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:41:25 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32de9ede.6814010@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev. I followed the instructions, and got to: AutoSplitting perl library Making DynaLoader (static) sh: 5303 Memory fault *** Exit 139 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. vm_stat provides: Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 1833. Pages active: 1405. Pages inactive: 297. Pages wired down: 409. "Translation faults": 467758. Pages copy-on-write: 81313. Pages zero filled: 65599. Pages reactivated: 190004. Pageins: 11408. Pageouts: 164. Object cache: 47016 hits of 52878 lookups (88% hit rate) I'd guess it's running out of memory. (the machine has 32 megs ram) Any advice would be appreciated. -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: vgrind help? Date: 16 Jan 1997 18:52:36 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: # vgrind area.cc pscat: trouble reading .ct file lpr: stdin: empty input file # What do I need to do to so that vgrind works? Thanks. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXFax locking modem port? Date: 16 Jan 1997 20:26:28 GMT Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Message-ID: <5bm2tk$cfo@news.jhu.edu> I am trying to get NXFax to work with a MultiTech modem. Everything with faxing is fine; I can send and receive. However, NXFax hangs up on incoming data calls (yes, I've checked the appropriate box in preferences). It gets halfway into the handshaking process, then quits. In trying to explore the problem, I've also found that I cannot use tip to communicate with the modem port; when I try, I get /dev/cub: Device busy link down If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's no problem with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems are related, but if either of them rings any kind of bell with anyone, please let me know. Also, does anyone know if Black and White Software, the makers of NXFax, still exist? (Note that there's another Black and White Software, located in California, which does not make NXFax!) Thanks for your help. Adam -- Adam F. Falk Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218 falk@jhu.edu, (410) 516-7817 (phone), (410) 516-7239 (fax) http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/personnel/falk/falk.html
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org Subject: Re: Help!!! Tcl7.6/Tk4.2 compile errors on Openstep4.0 black (LONG) Message-ID: <E44E15.86p@free.fdn.fr> Sender: news@free.fdn.fr Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant. References: <32dd6305.171085267@ceco> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:22:17 GMT In article <32dd6305.171085267@ceco>, you wrote: > Hi Tcl/Tk & Next community! > > Subject says it all. I am encountering compile errors while trying to > install Tcl7.6 on a NextStation (32Mb) Mono running Openstep 4.0 > developer. > > Here is the output... > [....] > tclUnixFCmd.c: In function `TclpCreateDirectory': > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: `S_IRUSR' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: for each function it appears in.) > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: `S_IWUSR' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: `S_IXUSR' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c: In function `CopyFileAtts': > tclUnixFCmd.c:826: storage size of `tval' isn't known > tclUnixFCmd.c:829: `S_IRWXU' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:829: `S_IRWXG' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:829: `S_IRWXO' undeclared (first use this function) > *** Exit 1 > Stop. Make sure you have the included header <bsd/sys/stat.h> tclUnixFCmd.c #include <bsd/sys/stat.h> > > > Help me please. I am a lowly sysadmin trying to write scripts in > Tcl/Tk, expect, and Perl. All of these have compiled fine at work > under NT3.51 and Solaris2.x (sparc). I'd really like to get to use > this lovely unix environment at home. > > TIA > > eric chu > echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com Hope that helps. Fabien --- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 (0)1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 (0)1 48 55 09 90 GSM: 33 (0)6 60 46 36 83
From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help!! Netinfo Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:17:06 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <5bm9d2$145i@uni.library.ucla.edu> Can someone please help. I have a probelm with my netinfo sever. I get mesages that my printer for example is read only. I can't delete or add any new users. Can some one please help Rick
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax locking modem port? Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:25:20 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5bm9sg$kve@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <5bm2tk$cfo@news.jhu.edu> In article <5bm2tk$cfo@news.jhu.edu> falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) writes: >I am trying to get NXFax to work with a MultiTech modem. Everything with >faxing is fine; I can send and receive. However, NXFax hangs up on incoming >data calls (yes, I've checked the appropriate box in preferences). It gets >halfway into the handshaking process, then quits. In trying to explore the >problem, I've also found that I cannot use tip to communicate with the modem >port; when I try, I get > >/dev/cub: Device busy >link down > Try using a tip host (in /etc/remote) that uses /dev/cufb, tip will then create a UUCP style lock for that port which should be the setting for NXFax in your case. Unfortunately, I don't know whether Black and White is still around or what your other problem might be. >If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's no problem >with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems are related, but if >either of them rings any kind of bell with anyone, please let me know. > >Also, does anyone know if Black and White Software, the makers of NXFax, >still exist? (Note that there's another Black and White Software, located in >California, which does not make NXFax!) > >Thanks for your help. > >Adam > >-- >Adam F. Falk >Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy >The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218 >falk@jhu.edu, (410) 516-7817 (phone), (410) 516-7239 (fax) >http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/personnel/falk/falk.html -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: notmy@address.org (Collin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mac <-> NeXTCube Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:12:51 -0500 Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <notmy-1601972112520001@cu-dialup-1724.cit.cornell.edu> Hi, I need some help connecting my Mac to my NeXTCube via Ethernet. I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.2 and System 7.5.5 w/ OpenTransport. Supposedly there is an AppleTalk Client that came with the NeXT, but I can't find it. It's not in my preferences app where the manuals say it should be. I only have the OS that's installed so I can't reinstall it if it's missing. Soooo.... What does it take to build a TCP/IP network between the Mac and NeXT? How about if I wanted one machine to connect to the internet via modem and have both machines share the connection? Thanks...Collin ------- Sorry, I'm tired of junk email, so my reply address is invalid. clp5@cornell.edu
From: Isaac <isaac@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:30:55 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970115133002.22215A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> <4mqxz5W00iWp07cfk0@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4mqxz5W00iWp07cfk0@andrew.cmu.edu> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Charles W Swiger wrote: > Crashme will kill (ie, lock up so that you have to do a hard reset, > since even the NMI monitor is wedged) m68k systems. Supposedly this is > because there is an m68k opcode that will cause a trap that the system > doesn't handle. Must be the famed HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) opcode. :) -Isaac
From: Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TOP Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:14:57 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970116221404.20650A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know were I can get TOP source code that will run on a NeXT server.
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Thanks for relocating home dirs help. Date: 17 Jan 1997 04:52:23 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5bn0i7$ei@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Thanks for the help with relocating my home dirs. Thanks for the help with the automount stuff, that fixed my problem. Once again, Thanks -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <exel@lag.ensieg.fr> Message-ID: <199701161645.IAA11080@isp.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 17:53:07 +0100 From: exel@lag.ensieg.fr (Matija Exel) Posted-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 17:53:07 +0100 Subject: HELP!!!: booted onto READ-only file system hello, I have a BIG problem with my NS 3.3 Intel station: the normal boot sequence cannot complete - it hangs somewhere trying to connect to my Sun NIS server: messages just before it stalls: ... setting NIS domainname to <NIS servername> ... starting RPC and network services:portmapadd ... netinfo ypbind lookupd >> hangs here! when I try to boot single user, however, I find myself on a READ-ONLY file system (/dev/sd0a on /)!!!??? There seems to be a problem with the rc.boot script which should give me the RW access. I can't see anything wrong otherwise (the NIS server is running and can PING me...). My last changes before this problem was to change the network configuration (ip addr, mask, gate) and it seemed to work -- until the reboot, that is!!! ANY help to get me to boot onto a RW filesystem will be immensely appreciated! M.Exel exel@lag.ensieg.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701162312.PAA18669@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 18:11:57 -0500 Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Original Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:14:04 GMT > I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following > to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". man did that cause a panic fast (on 3.3) and about 12 unreferenced files when 'fsck' ran.... TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Search and Replace ascii text in multiple files from the commandline? Date: 17 Jan 1997 09:46:50 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-11.usc.edu Message-ID: <5bnhqa$pun@usc.edu> Is there a way to replace a character pattern throughout a series of ascii text files from the commandline? When I have to make the same change throughout a series of html docs, it'd be nice if I didn't have to open up multiple edit windows and do multiple search/replace. I'd rather be able to do it in some form of batch mode. Possible? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: MS NT printing to NextStep lpr Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:05:57 GMT Message-ID: <1997Jan17.150557.1293@cyantic.com> We have MS NT/OpenStep Clients and are not able to print reliably to a NeXT print server with NeXT Laser Printer. We can only print one page at a time usually and sometimes the jobs don't print at all. Most of the print jobs are coming from MS-Office. Has anyone gotten this to work? Please reply by email if possible. -- -- Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166 1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212 Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Search and Replace ascii text in multiple files from the commandline? Date: 17 Jan 1997 10:04:51 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5bo7v3$8d7@pesto.cs.utexas.edu> References: <5bnhqa$pun@usc.edu> Ident-User: liuyi [Posted and Mailed] In article <5bnhqa$pun@usc.edu>, Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> wrote: > Is there a way to replace a character pattern throughout a series of > ascii text files from the commandline? > ... > Possible? Certainly! sed -- best bet for your quick & dirty script awk -- if the pattern is not too complicated perl -- swiss army knife liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@anet-dfw.com> | <liuyi@usa.net> Dallas, TX
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:00:04 GMT References: <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <-> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Responding To: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) >Original Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:14:04 GMT > > >> I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following >> to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". > >man did that cause a panic fast (on 3.3) and about 12 unreferenced >files when 'fsck' ran.... > Just as an update (Timothy and I have had email about this too) both he and I have used "Kill" successfully under 3.2. I don't have a 3.3 system to test it on, so I doubt I'll be able to do much fixing of it. I didn't write it anyway. :) -- 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: glenn@nowsoft.com (Tod L. Glenn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NeXTstep 3.3 Intel Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:32:15 -0800 Organization: Europa Communications Inc. [Portland, OR] Message-ID: <glenn-ya02408000R1701971032150001@news.europa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greetings, I recently aquired a copy of NeXTOS 3.3 for NeXT and Intel machines. The set includes a boot disk and CD. The boot disk appears to be for NeXT hardware only, and the CD does not seem to be in any common format (like ISO 9660) that allows it to be mounted on a PC. Is there some trick I'm missing to install, or do I need an Intel boot disk. And if so, where can I get one. -Thanks ---- Tod L. Glenn Internet Services Administrator Now Software ITG webmaster@nowsoft.com ---- http://www.nowsoft.com ftp://ftp.nowsoft.com listserv@nowsoft.com
From: amando@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXT Forum Digest Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:50:17 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <32DFADC9.1659@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anybody please tell me how to get the news mailed daily by email. I think this service is named "digest". TIA Amando Blasco
From: amando@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:53:41 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <32DFAE95.12F4@gcomm.com> References: 82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2 - <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.97Jan13214529@slave.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Hess wrote: > > In article <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com>, > deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) writes: > Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: > > : My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. > > : I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. > > : Is there a disktab for the zip drive? > > Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega > makes both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI > devices, that since one requires a disktab entry the other would, > too. > > It could be some sort of semi-standard implementation of SCSI. I have > an EZFlyer (230M, by Syquest), and it was _completely_ plug&play, but > . well, there are a number of minor nits. It sometimes pauses oddly > during the boot process, where experience with certain other devices > had lead me to believe it wouldn't pause. My suspicion is that it > reports something questionable in response to certain SCSI queries, > and then the system has to timeout before continuing. [For instance, > if it reports something about what type of device it is, but doesn't > correctly handle the requests for that device.] > > I'd bet the drive would have _zero_ nits on a Mac. :-). > > 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> I have instaled a ZIP drive into my black hardware and I haven't got any problems, and I din't change the disktab. Amando Blasco
From: Frank Knobloch <Frank_K@inis.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 20:25:30 +0100 Organization: InIS * Individueller Informatik Service Message-ID: <32DFD22A.9F6@inis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: Frank_K@inis.de Hi there! Are there any known problems with appletalk under Next3.3? Next reads the CD, Next reads the FD formatted by a Mac, but we don't get an Apple as described in the adminbooks. We are using Next 3.3 on Intel Platforms and we woul like to connect ro an ethertalk Server (an original Mac or Windows NT running as Appleshare Server). Does anybody has some experiences?? Frank -- //--------------- InIS * Individueller Informatik Service------------ [ calling ++49-561-93598-0 andFax ++49-561-93598-46]; [ deliver mailto:info@inis.de ]; [ connect http://www.inis.de ];
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vgrind help? Message-ID: <1997Jan17.173654.92166@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 17 Jan 97 17:36:54 MDT References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Cc: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu In <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Randy Jackson wrote: > When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > > # vgrind area.cc > pscat: trouble reading .ct file > lpr: stdin: empty input file In the directory /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font, you will find a "map" file for each of your fonts. You must build corresponding "ct" files by running the shell script addtroff.sh (also found in the troff.font directory) on each of the map files as follows: ./addtroff.sh FONTNAME FONTNAME.map where FONTNAME is replaced by the font that you're building. This creates a directory FONTNAME with the ct file, and other needed files inside it. Now you need to copy the "font.head" file from the Helvetica directory to each of the font directories you just created. Then, vgrind should work. Good luck.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vgrind help? Message-ID: <1997Jan17.174454.92167@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 17 Jan 97 17:44:54 MDT References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Cc: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu In <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Randy Jackson wrote: > When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > > # vgrind area.cc > pscat: trouble reading .ct file > lpr: stdin: empty input file And you'll have to make one change to the config file in /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font BEFORE you run the addtroff.sh script. You need to change this line: usr/lib/transcript to this: PSLIBDIR=/usr/lib/transcript
From: longsine@platinum.com (Gary W. Longsine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TOP Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:33:08 GMT Organization: PLATINUM technology, inc. (though i speak for myself only) Message-ID: <5bp98k$nj1@news.platinum.com> References: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970116221404.20650A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Cc: bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu In <Pine.SGI.3.94.970116221404.20650A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Brian Ward wrote: > Does anyone know were I can get TOP source code that will run on a NeXT > server. > http://www.peak.org/ftp/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/topv0.3.NIHS.bs.tar.gz -- Gary W. Longsine, Systems Engineer | ____/| PLATINUM Technologies, Inc. | \ o.O| "The meek shall longsine@platinum.com (NeXTmail | =(_)= inherit nothin'." (612) 688-3033 x7814 & MIME) |. U - Frank Zappa
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vgrind help? Message-ID: <1997Jan17.180407.92169@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 17 Jan 97 18:04:06 MDT References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1997Jan17.174454.92167@cc.usu.edu> In <1997Jan17.174454.92167@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu wrote: > In <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Randy Jackson wrote: > > When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > > > > # vgrind area.cc > > pscat: trouble reading .ct file > > lpr: stdin: empty input file > > And you'll have to make one change to the config file in > /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font BEFORE you run the addtroff.sh > script. > > You need to change this line: > > > usr/lib/transcript > > to this: > > PSLIBDIR=/usr/lib/transcript Well, my newsreader cut out one of the lines above because apparently because it was too long. You need to change this line: < PSLIBDIR=/Net/delux/BinCache3/transcript/Roots/transcript-14.root~21/RC_m68k/usr/lib/transcript to this: PSLIBDIR=/usr/lib/transcript
From: TheCopyCatShop@noisp.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 03:30:38 +1 Organization: The Copy Cat Shop Message-ID: <cancel.5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> References: <5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "TheCopyCatShop" or "summary of auto-cancels" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: CD Recordable Media.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171430.GAA10274@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f769ba6b795bfbc860252932174bc89c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:29:51 -0500 Subject: Re: PopOver + procmail ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f769ba6b795bfbc860252932174bc89c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Followup-To: : poster Responding To: Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Original Date: 16 Jan 1997 04:16:53 +0900 > Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or other > pop client) to procmail ? [ this is a software question ] yes, if you read the online docs to PopOver, you will see that you can use this dwrite PopOver MailDirectory "|/usr/local/bin/formail -e -s procmail" (you can set "|/usr/local/bin/formail -e -s procmail" as the Mail Directory from the Preferences panel TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171504.HAA14752@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 3edc735d7f57cfbca3c23eccbacf670b - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 10:03:59 -0500 Subject: Re: Search and Replace ascii text in multiple files from the commandline? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 3edc735d7f57cfbca3c23eccbacf670b - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Original Date: 17 Jan 1997 09:46:50 GMT > Is there a way to replace a character pattern throughout a series > of ascii text files from the commandline? I wrote a /bin/sh script to do this, you can use/test at your own risk. (it works for me). It would be good to test it on backups first. I've built some error checking into it, but not much either goto my mailserver web page http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/sra or send me an email message with the SUBJECT send-mime sra (sra, of course, stands for "search/replace all") It is used pretty simply. sra file1 file2 file3 file4 and it will ask you what you want to search for, and what you want to replace, and then it will go through those files and do it. Note: it is a sed script, basically, so if you are replacing HTML tags and whatnot, you might have to escape stuff (&*%*#^#/\) but for just text it works fine, which is why I wrote it (for dealing with plain text) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171433.GAA10631@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 8edc67b0eb1aa88d9f9c4d216649341c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:32:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Nextstation Turbo Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 8edc67b0eb1aa88d9f9c4d216649341c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Carlene Ewalt <ewalt001@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Original Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:34:28 -0600 > Today, we turned it off to move the ethernet jack...keeping the > same IP...but moving the computer and jack down the hallway and now > when I turn it on. I get almost immediately......... > > Next Rom Manager 3.3 (v74) > Exception #3 (0xc) at pc 0x1000646 sp 0xc03f600 > > I tried typing in ec and received error code 74. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. this is a non-fatal error message in my experience My slab does this if it has been off for a long time, and it has always (*knock on head*) come back on. I usually do hard-resets a few times in a row (left-command left-alternate and * from the keypad) or turn it off and back on several times and then it works fine. NOTE: this is also a good reason to get a UPS, so small power outages don't screw with your hardware TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171434.GAA10852@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 051d5d73af82be742a681ed67f4eb0ea - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:34:35 -0500 Subject: Re: help: entering hypertext in newsgroup posting? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 051d5d73af82be742a681ed67f4eb0ea - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "bernieb" <bernieb@ilx.com> Original Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:03:45 GMT > Can someone please let me know how to enter a hypertext link (like > a url address or e-mail address) into a usenet posting? you can't, and if you can, you shouldn't. you can use the ascii test of HTML in your post, but you shouldn't because people reading the post won't like having to read HTML TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171437.GAA11208@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 80c90363775f65728a01dace8f1002ac - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:36:55 -0500 Subject: Re: HELP!!!: booted onto READ-only file system Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 80c90363775f65728a01dace8f1002ac - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: exel@lag.ensieg.fr (Matija Exel) Original Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 17:53:07 +0100 Message-ID: 80c90363775f65728a01dace8f1002ac - > ANY help to get me to boot onto a RW filesystem will be immensely > appreciated! mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171438.GAA11379@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 2d3f6e2fc0700a3349b89420a6f10983 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:38:28 -0500 Subject: Re: NXFax locking modem port? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 2d3f6e2fc0700a3349b89420a6f10983 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) Original Date: 16 Jan 1997 20:26:28 GMT > /dev/cub: Device busy > link down > > If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's > no problem with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems > are related, but if either of them rings any kind of bell with > anyone, please let me know. sounds like you might have a stale lock at /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cub > Also, does anyone know if Black and White Software, the makers of > NXFax, still exist? (Note that there's another Black and White > Software, located in California, which does not make NXFax!) last I knew they were, checkout 'sales@bandw.com' TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E3rxMD.5q0@news.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:56:37 GMT I've been pulling my hair out on this one. Here's the situation: System: NextStep 3.3, 25mhz colorstation Software: Taylor-UUCP, sendmail 8.8.3. Connection: UUCP via TCP/IP on a part-time dialup line. Symptoms: Received mail works fine. That is, I can email from outside and it will make it in on the next dialup. Mail inside the machine works fine. If mail is sent while the SLIP line is up, it makes it out just fine. However, mail to the outside world gets queued up in the /usr/spool/mqueue directory and never sees the light of day if the machine is not connected at the time the mail is sent. For example, my /usr/spool/mqueue directory looks like this: (truncated) -rw------- 1 hocker 298 Jan 9 21:31 dfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 hocker 297 Jan 9 21:32 dfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 296 Jan 9 22:35 dfWAA03913 -rw------- 1 root 593 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 root 592 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 591 Jan 9 22:35 qfWAA03913 -rw-r----- 1 root 35113 Jan 9 22:35 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root 29753 Jan 8 07:01 syslog.old Suspicion: I suspect that sendmail doesn't know how to make rmail work. But I can't figure out why not. Here's my .mc file: define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:egate) divert(0)dnl VERSIONID(`@(#)samizdat.mc 8.6 (Berkeley) 3/23/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(waldo.com)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(uucp)dnl In addition, I believe that even though I say nodns, it is trying to look the address up via NetInfo. So...: How do I resolve this? I have scoured books, made pleas on the Net, and looked everywhere for help that I can. My appreciation would be HUGE for help in this area. PLEASE help! Thanks for any assistance. Honest! Matt -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: rr@xs4all.nl (rr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 2.1 and UUCP/mail Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:55:17 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <rr-1801971155170001@ztm07-28.dial.xs4all.nl> Hi, I'm trying to configure uucp so I can fetch my email I'm having trouble with this. I'm using an ancient version of NS (2.1) I have a, also ancient, HSD InterFax 24/96 NX modem, I could really use some help, Rodney
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E46sxJ.5ns@flop.schwaben.de> References: <199701162312.PAA18669@PEAK.ORG> Cc: luomat@peak.org Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 04:39:19 GMT Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following > > to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". > > man did that cause a panic fast (on 3.3) and about 12 unreferenced > files when 'fsck' ran.... Yow! Same here, and I still wondered what managed to bring my otherwise rock-solid 3.3pl1 x86 system to a freezing halt. Not just your average panic with the NMI window, no - the whole machine just froze dead in its tracks a couple of seconds after I terminated Edit.app for fun. Big fun indeed! Can anybody explain this? The documentation to task_terminate() doesn't indicate any inherent evilness.. Holger -- Object web weaver | @work: hhoff@media-group.de Media group | @home: hhoff@schwaben.de (NeXTmail & PGP ok) Stuttgart, Germany | OPENSTEP. Resistance is futile.
From: Jesse.Tayler@OEinc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help creating router to get to PPP server from client Date: 18 Jan 1997 07:40:07 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5bpuon$ic8@q.seanet.com> Hello, I need some help creating router to get to my PPP server from my client machine. Situation: NEXTSTEP based server connects to internet via PPP. Client NEXTSTEP box works fine, but does not know how to get to outside the LAN. Solution?: Create a route for the client to see through the server? I seem to remember doing this with routing tables, but alas, I don't seem to remember exactly what and I'm tired of NXHosting OmniWeb and stuff. Please send me mail, or post a reply if you have fixed this problem... Thanks all! Jester -- Jesse Tayler Object Enterprises Incorporated 2608 Second Avenue Suite 119 Seattle WA 98121-1276 USA 206-217-0891 - PHONE 206-954-3284 - CELL Jesse.Tayler@OEinc.com http://www.oeinc.com
From: Ronald Pomeroy <rpomeroy@dallas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Image of 4.0 Driver Disk #2 needed Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:10:37 -0600 Organization: D'A Message-ID: <32E1667D.3413@dallas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi NeXTHeads, My second driver disk has spouted legs! Could someone kindly e-mail (MIME format) a copy of the drivers on disk 2 ? I searched NextAnswers for an image to no avail. Compress'ed tar.Z'ed gzip'ed Doesn't matter. Thanks in Advance, Ron (desperate) Pomeroy rpomeroy@dallas.net
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 Supersedes: <475852914532@digifix.com> Date: 19 Jan 1997 04:57:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <413853649874@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. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: MIDI player for NeXTSte/68k ? Message-ID: <E3uLrt.E6H@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5au11f$mtt@news3.texas.net> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 14:33:28 GMT In article <5au11f$mtt@news3.texas.net> Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> writes: > I'm looking for a MIDI file player for black hardware. thanks. > Get the SoundKit from Peak or Peanuts. Then look for Ensemble.app. Or download NoteAbility or Calliope if you want more than just recording and replaying MIDI files. -- 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: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to do the backup with EXABYTE Model 8500 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:24:56 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32d60acb.25319718@netnews.hinet.net> Hi all, We have just find a EXABYTE Model 8500 SCSI Backup device in our office, and would like to use it to backup NeXT Server. I buy a new 2GB 8mm DAT tape which will insert to the EXABYTE backup system, and would like to use it for backup. Can anybody tell me how to write out the "dump" command on the NeXT to do the full backup? In addition, if I would like to continue use the same tape (don't rewind after the full backup) and make another backup just backup users' information, users home directories' data, and directories' sturcture, then how should I write the "dump" command? And how to write the command to restore the data? If there is any good very easily understand refence about how to do the backup, please let me know too. Thank you. Best Regards, sˡ]batmon^ batmon@abico.com.tw Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd. Part of ABiCO Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Kernel panic with PPP on cube Message-ID: <1997Jan11.174217.238@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Organization: Disorganization Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:42:17 GMT I used to run ppp-2.2-0.4.6 under NS3.2 (m68k) successfully for some months. Since I recently changed my Provider, I sometimes have kernel panics when establishing the PPP connection. It happens short after the chatscript has finished. I don't get the panic every time, if I succed I have a stable PPP link running without panics. Any ideas ?
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disappearing disk space Date: 19 Jan 1997 07:30:29 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <5bsiil$gcm@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Summary: After defragging DOS SCSI disk, NSFIP saw 117 MB instead of 650MB Keywords: missing disk space, defragging, NSFIP Wishing to copy a large file from a NeXT formatted SCSI disk to a DOS SCSI disk, while running NSFIP, I decided to go back into DOS, defrag the disk, and then go back into NeXTSTEP and do the transfer. When I did this, the free space had dropped from 650 MB to 117 MB on the DOS disk. DOS was convinced there was still 650 MB on the disk. NSFIP saw the 117 MB and refused to transfer the file. I remember vaguely similar problems being posted a year or more ago. I checked NeXT Answers, but can find no mention of the problem. Anyone out there know of this problem and have a solution. I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. Please send email and I'll summarise for the newsgroups. Many thanks. david -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 19 Jan 1997 07:14:27 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> References: <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <-> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > I didn't write it anyway. :) Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach Tasks. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue General Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014 USA Open/Intelligent Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.7200
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (Coffee) Subject: How to get mail to work? Message-ID: <E3v0vn.3I3@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 19:59:47 GMT Help. DNS on my machine, and NetInfo, for that matter, don't work. I've done everything I've been told to no avail at all. I can live without DNS, however. And certainly without NetInfo, being as I don't even personally know another NeXTStep user. However, I occasionally would like to recieve mail on my machine. Sendmail is actually running and I can send and recieve mail from/to people that have accounts on my machine. But I can't send or recieve mail from/to accounts off my machine. I can telnet to my machine, I can ftp, etc. I can also telnet and ftp out of my machine. Obviously sending mail is more complicated because I would have to send to a host listed in /etc/hosts, but that doesn't matter to me. What matters really is to be able to forward my NeXTmail to my machine from my e-mail account at school. Any ideas or advice? confused and lost, most ignorant me. -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:18:32 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32E38CC8.2307@ibp.de> References: <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Johnson wrote: > > It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in crontab > to automatically turn off the NeXT prn and I thought I saved the info > but can't find it now that I ready to try to do it. > Can anyone refresh my 'database', please? > > Stephen nppower on | off Fun, Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 20 Jan 1997 20:19:59 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5c0k1f$r5t@news.next.com> References: <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> In article <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) writes: > In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, > David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > I didn't write it anyway. :) > > Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach > Tasks. That might be a less than good idea. Those things with PID of -1 named <mach-task> correspond to Mach address spaces and threads within the kernel used for assorted housekeeping purposes. Killing them may result in what we highly technical types refer to as a 'suprise', e.g., kernel panic. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. "May you live in interesting times." - Old Chinese curse
From: nicolev@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au (Nicole Vincent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS4.0, PPP and NetInfo Sleeping problems Date: 19 Jan 1997 12:02:19 GMT Organization: Swinburne University of Technology Message-ID: <5bt2gb$o57$1@lucy.swin.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi I recently upgraded my machine from NS 3.3 to 4.0. Having run Steve Perkins' PPP under 3.3, I just presumed that everything would run as usual,... unfortunately I've experienced some problems with the following message and I'd appreciate some enlightenment on its cause, and hopefully a remedy: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping It seems that whenever I try to bring up the Print panel, or even start up OmniWeb, if my computer is connected to the rest of the network, it will almost certainly go into spinnyland, for at least some time, if not for good. This does not happed when my machine is not connected to the rest of the world, but just when I connect up. I presume that there are problems with the routing, so here's my routing information: number_one:/private/adm # netstat -rn Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 468 lo0 136.186.6.61 136.186.6.62 UH 2 1407 ppp0 136.186.6.221 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 default 136.186.6.61 UG 1 152 ppp0 192.42.172 192.42.172.1 U 2 1721 en0 number_one:/private/adm # netstat -r Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface number_one number_one UH 4 468 lo0 pedder.csse.swin number_one.csse.sw UH 2 1415 ppp0 ivanova 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 default pedder.csse.swin.e UG 1 154 ppp0 next-default 192.42.172.1 U 2 1750 en0 (Please note, ivanova or 136.186.6.221 is just a computer sitting on the local ethernet cable,... I've put in an additional route to make sure that all IP packets are just put onto the local ethernet rather than through the default route) If anyone can help me in any manner then I'd appreciate it very much. And if someone else needs info on a similar problem then I can post a summary if needed. Cheers Nicole -- ---------------------- NeXTmail and MIME Accepted ---------------------- Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIA The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8
From: stuart@redwood.northcoast.com (Stuart Staniford-Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: US Robotics modem and Gatekeeper Date: 20 Jan 1997 19:25:30 GMT Organization: Northcoast Internet Message-ID: <5c0gra$5fc@alder.northcoast.com> I'm trying to set up Gatekeeper (v2.0) /PPP with a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster modem and I'm not getting through to my provider (the modems negotiate but I never get a carrier). I *can* get through to a shell account with kermit. I suspect my problem is with the entry in /etc/remote or with the modem initialization. Can anyone who has done this help me out with their setup? Thanks, Stuart Staniford-Chen Computer Security Group UC Davis.
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one ?? Date: 20 Jan 97 19:56:41 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston Message-ID: <JASON.97Jan20195641@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Hi! I received this message during a system panic the other day. Can anyone clue me in on what my 040 NS3.3 machine is trying to tell me? :-) mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one Jason Asbahr 808 Sul Ross Suite 7 Reactive Systems Houston, Texas 77006 jason@reactive.com (713) 942-7937 voice
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compiling Perl5 - Help! Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 02:04:46 GMT Organization: Ohio State University Message-ID: <32e623b4.39404906@nntp.service.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev, 32 megs ram. I followed the config/install instructions, and got to: AutoSplitting perl library Making DynaLoader (static) sh: 5303 Memory fault *** Exit 139 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. vm_stat provides: Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 1833. Pages active: 1405. Pages inactive: 297. Pages wired down: 409. "Translation faults": 467758. Pages copy-on-write: 81313. Pages zero filled: 65599. Pages reactivated: 190004. Pageins: 11408. Pageouts: 164. Object cache: 47016 hits of 52878 lookups (88% hit rate) I'd guess it's running out of memory. (the machine has 32 megs ram) Any advice would be appreciated. -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: i455@baracke.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Bergmann Winfried) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS4.0, PPP and NetInfo Sleeping problems Date: 21 Jan 1997 08:49:06 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5c1vu2$us0@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <5bt2gb$o57$1@lucy.swin.edu.au> Nicole Vincent (nicolev@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au) wrote: : hi : : I recently upgraded my machine from NS 3.3 to 4.0. Having run Steve Perkins' : PPP under 3.3, I just presumed that everything would run as usual,... : unfortunately I've experienced some problems with the following message and : I'd appreciate some enlightenment on its cause, and hopefully a remedy: : : NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping : : It seems that whenever I try to bring up the Print panel, or even start up : OmniWeb, if my computer is connected to the rest of the network, it will almost : certainly go into spinnyland, for at least some time, if not for good. This : does not happed when my machine is not connected to the rest of the world, : but just when I connect up. : : I presume that there are problems with the routing, so here's my routing : information: : : number_one:/private/adm # netstat -rn : Routing tables : Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface : 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 468 lo0 : 136.186.6.61 136.186.6.62 UH 2 1407 ppp0 : 136.186.6.221 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 : default 136.186.6.61 UG 1 152 ppp0 : 192.42.172 192.42.172.1 U 2 1721 en0 : number_one:/private/adm # netstat -r : Routing tables : Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface : number_one number_one UH 4 468 lo0 : pedder.csse.swin number_one.csse.sw UH 2 1415 ppp0 : ivanova 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 : default pedder.csse.swin.e UG 1 154 ppp0 : next-default 192.42.172.1 U 2 1750 en0 : : (Please note, ivanova or 136.186.6.221 is just a computer sitting on the local : ethernet cable,... I've put in an additional route to make sure that all : IP packets are just put onto the local ethernet rather than through the : default route) : : If anyone can help me in any manner then I'd appreciate it very much. And : if someone else needs info on a similar problem then I can post a summary if : needed. : : Cheers : : Nicole : -- : ---------------------- NeXTmail and MIME Accepted ---------------------- : : Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au : MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIA : : The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. : -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8 Add the following to your /etc/ppp/ip-up: ------------------------------------------------------- # # Add a route to localhost so netinfo won't sleep. # /usr/etc/route add $4 127.0.0.1 0 ------------------------------------------------------- (from ip-up.example of the ppp_2_2.0.4.6-distribution) -- ========================================================================== Winfried Bergmann | Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page ==========================================================================
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: 13 Jan 97 21:45:29 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan13214529@slave.one.net> References: 82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2 - <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> In-reply-to: deniseh@nntp.best.com's message of 13 Jan 1997 19:27:15 GMT In article <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com>, deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) writes: Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. : I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. : Is there a disktab for the zip drive? Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega makes both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI devices, that since one requires a disktab entry the other would, too. It could be some sort of semi-standard implementation of SCSI. I have an EZFlyer (230M, by Syquest), and it was _completely_ plug&play, but . well, there are a number of minor nits. It sometimes pauses oddly during the boot process, where experience with certain other devices had lead me to believe it wouldn't pause. My suspicion is that it reports something questionable in response to certain SCSI queries, and then the system has to timeout before continuing. [For instance, if it reports something about what type of device it is, but doesn't correctly handle the requests for that device.] I'd bet the drive would have _zero_ nits on a Mac. :-). 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: grindrod@NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT equivalent for IPMaskerading Date: 21 Jan 1997 08:27:01 GMT Organization: EMBL Heidelberg Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c1ukl$61q@lion.embl-heidelberg.de> Is there equivalent software for NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP to the linux IPMaskerading. I want to connect local LAN networks to the internet through my NeXTSTEP PC server and a modem. Has anyone started looking into the NAT protocol yet for NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: grindrod@NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multi Processor machines Date: 21 Jan 1997 08:31:36 GMT Organization: EMBL Heidelberg Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c1ut8$61q@lion.embl-heidelberg.de> I am looking to upgrade my home machine (and buy some machines for work) toa multi processor pentium pro processors. I know that NeXT does not support multi processors but does anyone have any suggestions on the best multi processor board to buy which works well with NeXT software. The machine/machines will also run Windows NT or Solaris 2.5. All my components before upgrading are fairly standard - Adaptec SCSI, Matrox millenium graphics cards, Soundblaster sound card. Thanks Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connect up a dumb terminal (or a Psion) to Next serial Port? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:52:18 GMT Message-ID: <32e59139.681904@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to plug in a very stupid PC (or perhaps a moderately intelligent Psion series 3 :-) handheld ) running a terminal package to a serial port on my Next (Color NextStation running NS3.3). This is (a) so I can type from another room sometimes, (b) to let someone else at home do word processing, and (c) to learn a bit more about Unix. All the advice in the manuals is for modems. Can anyone give me a step-by-step description of what to do? I'm quite new to Unix system administration. I've changed /etc/ttys In particular, does it have to be plugged in, switched on and running when the Next wakes up? If not, what is it that tells the Next there is activity on the port? In the long-term I'm also interested in an 'old-fashioned' Unix system at work where we have a number of dumb terminals around the building actually, old PCs I can pick up for next to nothing running comms packages, or handhelds). What options are there for hooking up more than two terminals at once to a Next box? and how did Unix systems do it in the old days? P.S. about a year ago I saw references to a package for connecting Psion Series 3 to a Next. Altavista came up blank. Does anyone know about this? Many thanks, Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
From: Petr Novak <novak@microcomp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo and lookupd problem Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:32:46 +0100 Organization: Microcomp GmbH , Cologne, Germany Message-ID: <32E4B76E.2C3B@microcomp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo, after changing IP adresses in the network (3.2, 3.3) the server is O.K but during boot clients get the right new IPs, names and then client hangs repeating message: lookupd[105] NetInfo connection failed for server ... Netmask on client is 0.0.0.0 (!?) , ping from server works Thanks for any hints. Petr
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Installation FAQ? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:02:05 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware? Thanks, Jason
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NS Install on new HD? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:58:42 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4AC2.6987@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXTstation mono with a 100MB internal hard drive that I would like to replace with a 1GB Seagate ST31230N. The new SCSI hard drive mounts fine but I do not know how to install NeXTSTEP onto it. I have NS 3.0 on cdrom and I have a NEC 6x SCSI cdrom connected to the NeXTstation and it works with the 100MB drive with NS loaded. When I boot with the new hard drive I get to a ROM monitor and I type b to boot. It examines the SCSI devices and then tries to load off of the cdrom and then craps out. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E3zD3G.KLv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:14:04 GMT References: <5b0p9r$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5b0p9r$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>, Art Isbell <aisbell@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > More and more frequently, various processes running under OS/Mach/m68k >4.1 become uninterruptible (their "ps" state is "U"). When this happens, the >processes hang and cannot be killed (at least, kill -9 from root doesn't >work). > I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". #include <stdio.h> #include <mach.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]){ if(argc != 2){ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s pid\n", argv[0]); exit(1); } else { task_t task; task_by_unix_pid(task_self(), atoi(argv[1]), &task); task_terminate(task); exit(0); } } -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E3zD88.AKD@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:16:56 GMT References: <82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2> <-> <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com>, Denise Howard <deniseh@nntp.best.com> wrote: >Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: > >: My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. > >: I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. > >: Is there a disktab for the zip drive? > >Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega makes >both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI devices, that since >one requires a disktab entry the other would, too. > The Jaz drive wants one (disk complains about the front porch being too small), but Zip drives *don't*. Plug in and go. I've also successfully read Mac-formmated Zip and Jaz disks. This is on 3.2 Motorola. I seem to recall that removable DOS filesystems didn't relly work properly until 3.3, so I haven't tried those. And, BTW, in case anyone cares, I finally (after almose four months) got my free goodies from Iomega's Zip promotion. No rebate cheque yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday! -- 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: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) Subject: Re: HP Tape drive woes Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <E408CA.JxJ@bri.hp.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:28:58 GMT References: <5b34ng$9vl@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Chris Saldanha (chris@computerActive.on.ca) wrote: : I've got a P5-133 machine running NeXTSTEP 3.3pl1 and an HP C1533A 8GB DAT drive : (internal, connected to a Symbios Logic SCSI card). : My problem is that none of the command-line tools like mt, tar, gnutar are unable : to write to the tape. mt works for "rewind" and "offline", but not for "eof". : Each time I attempt a write operation I get something in the messages file like: : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write filemarks returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- Which means ... it reckons it's write protected. Sense code 30h, IFF it is the ASC (really it would be nice to have the ASCQ as well) could be: incompatible medium can't read media, unknown format cannot read media, incompatible media cleaning cartridge installed. none of which tie up with the inital sense key. : or : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write data (10 byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- : and all the commands say is "I/O error" on /dev/rst0. Is there a place where I : can find out what the codes mean? ditto as above error. Generally, this is published in the OEM technical ref. set, in the SCSI interface volume. User type manuals don't have this in. : Has anyone seen this problem with this tape drive? I'm also running the same tape : drive (external, on a black turbo slab, NeXTSTEP 3.2) and it works A-OK. Doesn't ring a bell. What have you got the dips on the underneath set to? (nor does it look even vaguely like the write filemarks specific sense data returned on EOP/M encountered/early warning (EW) encountered). cheers, al (not speaking for HP..)
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:45:48 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DB8E0C.4809@ibp.de> References: <E3yrAB.1MG@mediahaus.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Piers Uso Walter wrote: > > Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS > > I'm using an ethernet based Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS to print from > NEXTSTEP. I think I've got everything set up correctly in Netinfo since > I can print without any problem and can set the printer options > (resolution, paper feed, fine print etc.) as well. > > I cannot, however, correctly print documents containing non-standard > fonts (e.g. Stone Serif Medium). Since the LaserWriter does not know > these fonts, they come out as Courier. Is there anything I can do so > that the fonts not known by the printer are automatically downloaded to > the printer with the PostScript job? > > Currently I have to resort to the "Save" option in PrintPanel, > specifying "Chosen printer, include fonts" and then print the resulting > PS file. Surely there must be an easier way (what would all the Mac > guys say if this is how they'd have to print in the future ;-). > > Does anybody have any idea? > > Piers Uso Walter > ilink GmbH > Piers_Walter@ilink.de Maybe fontloader(1) can help you. It's got a man page... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Strange mach message Message-ID: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Organization: Disorganization Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:36:33 GMT After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get a lot of messages Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine.
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:57:55 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DBBB13.658F@ibp.de> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Terry R. McConnell wrote: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me > this should work and would provide all the command line niceties (e.g, > command-completion) that the distribution shell lacks. ( I have replaced > the distribution csh with tcsh with no obvious ill effects.) > > Unfortunately, if I do: [snip] I know you didn't ask, but... Why do you want to replace /bin/sh? If you want to have bash as your default shell, you might simply set it in UserManager.app (after having it added to /etc/shells) I might be missing the point completely - then I'm sorry... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus G <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Strange mach message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xvi90ndef.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:40:56 GMT >>>>> "TF" == Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> writes: TF> After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get TF> a lot of messages TF> Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun TF> Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times TF> As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what TF> happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine. I get the same messages and I never discovered the source (mouse movement, a particular app, port speed?). I just ignore it. Markus G
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: TurboColor slab won't boot Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:55:27 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32E51F2F.3162@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently sold my venerable slab in favor of a TurboColor slab, and the same drive which was in my old machine (known good OS and drive) won't boot in the new machine. It gives me the followin error after telling me that it is attempting to boot sd(0,0,0): Exception #4 (0x10) at pc 0x438001a sp 0xa7ff106. ec reports error code 65. Does anyone know what this might be? I know it isn't anything wrong with the drive. Also, extended SCSI diagnostics check out okay when I boot the machine. Thanks! Karl
From: esteban gutierrez <esteban@CERF.NET> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem booting NetInfo server with a hanging import. Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:46:05 -0800 Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Message-ID: <32E51CFD.58BC@CERF.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings- A client of mine had their Next network setup so taht this problem is occuring: NI server is booted but hangs when it hits an error trying to import a directory to a machine B. Machine B netboots off of the NI server. When I "bsd -s" on the NI server I can't find the file that tells it to do the import to machine B. I can't run the GUI because I am in single user. Can any one lend a hand? -- esteban ___________________________________________________________ esteban@cerf.net ___________________________________________________________
From: bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Creating 2nd Swapfile Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:16:17 GMT Organization: New York University Message-ID: <5c3io1$b7d$1@news.nyu.edu> How does one build a second swapfile? I know that one can add an additional line to /etc/swaptab to specify lowat and hiwat marks, but (I think) that assumes that a swap disk has been appropriately built. The Next sysadmin manual simply describes how BuildDIsk will create an additional swap disk when you add a disk that is too small to be a bootable disk. I want to create an additional swapfile on a 2nd SCSI disk (/dev/sd2a). Only a small portion of this 2 GB disk will be used for a 2nd swapfile. Any thoughts/suggestions? Brian -- Brian McElree Experimental Psychology New York University 6 Washington Place, 8th Floor NY, NY, 10003 <bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu> NeXT Mail <bdm@vayu.psych.nyu.edu>
From: Pohl Longsine <pohl@screaming.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: NS 3.3 on IBM PC-350 P166 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:57:15 -0600 Organization: mementech, inc. Message-ID: <32DC71BB.55A1D8B9@screaming.org> References: <5bgsfq$c5t$1@loki.tor.hookup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Graeme Perrow wrote: > Does anyone know if NeXTStep v3.3 will run on an IBM PC-350 > 166MHz Pentium? We have been having problems with some P166's > (Digital, HP), so I'd like to know if this machine will work > before I go and buy it. Some information about the hardware (other than the CPU) would be helpful. (disk controller, video card, sound card, network card...) -- pohl@screaming.org |"Reality is that which when you stop believing http://screaming.org/ | in it doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick ----------------------+---------------------------------------------- OpenStep Inferno Java | Making the world safe for platform diversity.
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Woes Date: 22 Jan 1997 03:17:52 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5c40t1$nbd@boursy.news.erols.com> I am using nexstep 3.3 on an intel box and was sending mail regularly to the internet world by way of Mail.app. My service provider EROL's cahnged machines on me an my mail does not get sent anymore with the message in /usr/spool/mqueue reading : AA00242: to=vision@1stsight.com, delay=00:00:01, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mailhost I have tried changing IP number in host manager to the new one provided by the ISP, but it still does not work. Any suggestions. Scott Turner FirstSight Inc., www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Woes Date: 22 Jan 1997 04:03:05 GMT Organization: FirstSight Inc. Message-ID: <5c43hp$nbd@boursy.news.erols.com> I have been able to send mail using mail.app till the other day when my ISP changed machine IP addresses on me. They gave me a new number but the system still won't send mail my /usr/spooll/mqueue reads: Jan 21 22:56:47 localhost sendmail[285]: AA00242: to=vision@1stsight.com, delay=00:56:44, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mailhost I have changed the IP number in Host Manager and stiill nothing happens. My ISP say they have rotating servers that handle the mail. But the host name for the mail is smtp.erols.com. Any suggestions? Scott Turner FirstSight Inc. www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SCSITape and NS4.1 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 22 Jan 1997 04:15:32 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5c4494$psd@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hello, for the last 3 days I have been trying to install a driver for my DAT drive on my new 4.1 Intel setup. Rumor has it that the 4.X tape driver is broken, but somehow I hope there is a workaround for such an essential feature. If you have info how to make a tape work on 4.X, please let me know. Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Subject: Suggestions for PPP for NeXT LAN? Message-ID: <E4DIK9.My@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Notre Dame, Department of Psychology Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:38:32 GMT Hi all- I have a small LAN at home where I do consulting (2 cubes, 1 Intel all running 3.3) and I'd like to connect to the internet through the University. They've given me the go-ahead with a small block of fixed IPs to set up a PPP link from my LAN. I'm wondering what sort of suggestions people have for the easiest and most effect way to go about this. I'd like to have a minimum maintenence solution if possible. One possible solution may be a separate box sitting on the LAN doing the routing and taking care of the POTS line. Another possibility may be a software solution sitting in one of the NeXT boxes. Does anyone have suggestions? Recommendations? Warnings? Beer? Steve --- Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 -- Steven M. Boker (219) 631-4941 (office) (219) 631-8883 (fax) boker@virginia.edu http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/ Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: Leon Farfel <Leon.Farfel@ToolCASE.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printing from Windows95 to NeXT. Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:08:39 -0700 Organization: ToolCASE Computing Inc Message-ID: <32E5BCF7.116E@ToolCASE.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I print from Windows95 via Samba to NeXT laser printer? Or how do I set up Windows95 to print via Samba on NeXT laser printer. Thank you. Leon Farfel. Please CC your answer to leon.farfel@toolcase.com
From: sschuang@singapore.sun.com (Shyne-Song Chuang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Security! sendmail upgrade... Date: 22 Jan 1997 07:01:32 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c4e0c$d5j@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> Keywords: sendmail security bug 8.8.4 8.8.5 eric allman Hi folks, Since many NeXT Internet systems use an upgraded sendmail (probably at 8.8.4), this may be quite important (see F=9 delivery agent config below). I've compiled it over lunch but I need to test it tonight... Rgds, Song In article 4vb@mserv1.dl.ac.uk, Eric Allman <eric@Sendmail.ORG> writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > FTP://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.tar.gz > FTP://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/src/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.tar.gz > > This release fixes a nasty security bug that allows an external > attacker to get root privileges. This problem appeared in 8.8.3. > It is essential that you upgrade ASAP if you are running 8.8.3 or > 8.8.4. If you cannot upgrade immediately, turn off the F=9 flag > on the local and prog mailers. You can do this by editing the > /etc/sendmail.cf file and look for the lines beginning Mlocal and > Mprog. Find the field beginning "F=" and delete the digit "9" > from the following string. Then restart the sendmail daemon. > If your configuration file does not include the F=9 flag, then > you are not vulnerable. A CERT Advisory on this vulnerability > will be released soon. > > I believe this to be the problem claimed by bob2@seanet.com in a > posting to comp.security.unix on January 9. However, despite the > claim in the posting that an exploit script was sent to me and to > CERT, neither of us received any such message. The delay between > that posting and this release is a direct cause of time spent trying > to find the problem and verify whether this is the vulnerability > that poster had in mind. Since he declined to answer any e-mail, > we spent a considerable amount of time trying to assure ourselves > that there wasn't another problem. > > I've had people tell me that there is a perception that I don't > care about security. That isn't true -- in fact, security is one > of my top concerns. However, I can't do it alone. Sendmail has > always been a part time project for me, something done in my > so-called free time. I need the help of you out there to improve > the security of sendmail. Finding a hole and then not passing it > on to someone who can fix it doesn't help improve the net. We're > all in this together -- please, let's start working as a team. > > It has been suggested to me that I try to organize "tiger teams" > of hackers to do critical security-related code reviews. I haven't > had time to organize such a thing myself, and I haven't been able > to find someone else who was willing to organize the process. > However, my time commitments have recently changed enough that I > would be willing to attempt this if members of the hacker community > were willing to volunteer their time. Please let me know if you > have energy to help out. > > eric > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBMuUWiyPkYtS/e6QhAQFtLgQAjl2HW4velzs4I5POCZaJY/QbTbYW/fLC > oIxlRRyjeEcfNYCqqSN1kX2QkwNmlDya6uhXdK5DXvysEu5DebPmWniDkeDu+T+y > e3ON0Mmv3cVwccpYoq7bak3+e6EEg9sf586inPbD002OzZDYgKGfs/CUg6k0X+Gi > LfemAMJwHGs= > =EjSW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
From: Charles W Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:48:21 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <EmqyA5_00iWp07chg0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: 123366084d1135d7d130fca20a84295d - <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> In-Reply-To: <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Jan-97 Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail qu.. by Timothy J Luoma@peak.org > /usr/lib/sendmail -q > > to flush the mailq. Actually I've got a script that runs sendmail > -q until the Q is empty (up to 50 times). Drop me a note if you'd > like a copy No need for that. Run the queue once with 'sendmail -q', and then run sendmail as a daemon with whatever retry interval you wish (eq, 'sendmail -bd -q15m') until you bring your dialup line down. Sendmail will do a smarter, better job of flushing the queue running in daemon mode than it would by repeatedly running it until the queue is empty. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to find the right CD for a given package name Date: 15 Jan 1997 12:18:09 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5bihu1$5na@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Hi, several times when I was looking for a package (4Dgifts.src.full e.g.) I have to play disc jockey and scan through the distributions. Is there an elegant way to find the right CD? Thanks in advance, Robert -- ----- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: snyers@yosemite.enst-bretagne.fr (Dominique SNYERS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem installing 4.1 Date: 22 Jan 1997 09:57:53 GMT Organization: ENST de Bretagne, Brest FRANCE Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c4ob1$nu5@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> I tried to install 4.1 from a 3.3 yesterday. I ended up with a corrupted disk. /privite/dev seems to be corrupted and I cannot boot anymore. Any advice to deal with the problem? How could I boot and replace /private/dev without having to reinstall everything by reformatting the disk? There is a few thing on the disk I would like to keep. Thank for any hint Dom Snyers -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle et Sciences Cognitives (LIASC) Telecom Bretagne BP 832 29285 BREST CEDEX FRANCE Tel: (33) 2 98 00 14 31
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: Why is 83Hz refresh the limit for my ELSA WINNER? Message-ID: <E4B5Lr.Hwv@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organisation: AWT Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:03:27 GMT Under Windows NT I can run my screen at 1152*864 @90Hz or even 100Hz (I forget if 100Hz was only for 1024*768). Under NEXTSTEP however, if I hack around to tell the ELSE driver to do 90Hz, the monitor (IIYama Visionmaster Pro-17) starts to complain about too high frequencies. It looks like the driver assumes at 90Hz that also the horizontal refresh rate has to go up and thus gets over the bandwidth the IIYama monitor can handle. Does anybody know the details? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.nospam (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Message-ID: <1997Jan15.093531.744@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu Organization: Disorganization References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:35:31 GMT In <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Terry R. McConnell wrote: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me /bin/sh is one of the hearts of a unix system. Never replace the original one with some "supposed compatible" shell. NEVER !!!! (The same is true - to a smaller degree - with /bin/csh) If you want bash for you login shell, just make a change with usermanager. Add bash to /etc/shells.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Interesting console message Date: 15 Jan 1997 17:33:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5bj4dc$s7a$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> While doing a routine scan of my /usr/adm/messages file I found the following: Jan 14 09:20:28 vader netmsgserver[24]: crypt_decrypt_packet.km_get_dkey fails, host id = cf690602. Can anyone interpret this one? Even speculation would be useful. Also, there doesn't seem to be any other corresponding symptoms. --Ryan
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jetpilot problem, in all apps Date: 13 Jan 1997 21:39:42 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5bea2u$7qu@uruguay.earthlink.net> Hello everyone. I have been using the latest version of Jetpilot to do my printing in NSFIP3.3 for over a year now without any problems. However recently, today, I have been getting the following message... "General License Problem" This happens in any app that can print, regardless if I am logged in as root or user account. Has anyone seen this before and can suggest a fix or workaround? Thank you. Please respond to one of the addresses below. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with Audio CDs and NeXTStep 3.2/Moto Date: 22 Jan 1997 17:11:05 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5c5hn9$ctc@news3.texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Can't get Audio CDs to mount at all on my 3.2/Moto system (Foundation Kit installed). Regular data CDs (the NS3.2 and 3.0 CD-ROMs) work fine; the cd-rom drive is a Toshiba 3301. Whenever I put in an audio disc, it chews on it for a few seconds, then spits it out. According to the console, it has a bad block 0, or whatever. Never tries to mount it as an audio CD. Have tried *all* the various audio CD player programs, none work (because the system wont properly mount the audio disc). It's almost as if the system won't recognize/mount audio CDs.. did I forget to add a filesystem type somewhere?..... Please email responses to mrbill@texas.net if possible; I've got all these nifty CDs here that I want to listen to . . . . -- Bill Bradford (BB2623) Systems Admin, UNIX geek, BOFH mrbill@texas.net * mrbill@mrbill.net Texas Networking, Inc. "Its hard to beleive that the entire fate of 823 Congress, Suite 440 the world lies in the hands of the Phone Austin, TX 78701 Company" - War of the Worlds http://www.texas.net
Message-ID: <32DCED3D.432E@lhep.unibe.ch> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:44:13 +0100 From: Juerg Beringer <beringer@lhep.unibe.ch> Organization: Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Access to NS/Intel boot time options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Is it possible to access within the rc startup scripts the options entered at the NeXTStep (V3.3) boot prompt of an Intel machine? I am using e.g. config=SCSI at the boot prompt to load the device drivers according to a table SCSI.table (in /usr/Devices/System.config) instead of the standard Instance0 table. For different reasons I'd like to know in the startup scripts which options (if any) were selected. Thanks for any hints! Juerg. ****************************************************************************** Juerg Beringer Phone: +41 (31) 631 40 62 University of Bern FAX: +41 (31) 631 44 87 Laboratory for High Energy Physics Sidlerstrasse 5 E-mail: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch CH-3012 Bern HEPNET/SPAN: 20579::49202::BERINGER SWITZERLAND DECNET (Switzerland): 49202::BERINGER ******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (Coffee) Subject: sendmail config mystery Message-ID: <E4FA57.4E9@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:31:55 GMT In my slow but pleasant advancement through the world of configuring my computer, I have decided to see how its e-mail works. And it does send mail to other computers... significant improvement over last time. I'm on ethernet, on a standalone machine that has no NetInfo hosts to which it can connect. I am using the /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf config file as the sendmail config file. I use NS 3.2 on a NextStation mono. I currently pop mail from my other accounts to this machine, but I'd also like to be able to send and recieve mail on this machine independent of the popper. When I first recieved the machine I was able to do this. I replaced /etc/sendmail with /usr/template/client/etc/sendmail, but to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas? what follows is the error message: When I try to send a message to anyone on the machine from any host, I receive the following message: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:23:08 -0600 From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent> Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable To: bryce ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While connected to bj2-88.rh: >>> HELO bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu <<< 553 bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu config error: mail loops back to myself 554 bryce@bj2-88.rh... 554 Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: <bryce> Received: by bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu (NX5.67d/NX3.0S) id AA00290; Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:23:08 -0600 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:23:08 -0600 From: Bryce Sady <bryce> Message-Id: <9701221823.AA00290@bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100.RR) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100.RR) To: bryce@bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu Subject: test Reply-To: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu test -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady NeXT mail Welcome (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Creating 2nd Swapfile Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:49:04 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <AmtZAEu00iV_86I3U=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5c3io1$b7d$1@news.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5c3io1$b7d$1@news.nyu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Jan-97 Creating 2nd Swapfile by bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu > How does one build a second swapfile? I know that one can > add an additional line to /etc/swaptab to specify lowat and > hiwat marks, but (I think) that assumes that a swap disk has > been appropriately built. Use 'mkfile' to create a swap file of size equal to the low water mark. You could just 'touch' the file to create an empty one, but it's better not to fragment the swap file or incrementally increase it's size below the low water mark size. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Chris Raven <craven@planete.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Single user boot Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:16:26 +0100 Organization: Pressicom/Planete.net, France Message-ID: <32E6678A.3387@planete.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------358D33D94B380" ------------358D33D94B380 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello there, I am on charge of a NeXT Cube administration. Halas ! My network configuration is so bad, that I can not boot anymore : my station stops on file system mounting, I believe it is trying to mount some remote fs...well if I depress ctrl/c, I reach the services launch screen, but my poor NeXT keeps waiting...waiting... I believe the best question is : how the hell do I boot in single user mode ???! Thank you !!! ------------358D33D94B380 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Hello there,</DT> <DT>I am on charge of a NeXT Cube administration.</DT> <DT>Halas ! My network configuration is so bad, that I can not boot anymore :</DT> <DT>my station stops on file system mounting, I believe it is trying to mount some</DT> <DT>remote fs...well if I depress ctrl/c, I reach the services launch screen, but</DT> <DT>my poor NeXT keeps waiting...waiting...</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>I believe the best question is : how the hell do I boot in single user mode ???!</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Thank you !!!</DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------358D33D94B380--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E4F1qH.9zs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:30:17 GMT References: <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com>, Ken Lui <klui@cup.hp.com> wrote: >In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, >David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >> I didn't write it anyway. :) > >Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach Tasks. > I have no idea who wrote it. I grabbed it from a posting here years and years ago (and, as I recall, the poster said, "I didn't write this--I grabbed it from a posting a while ago".) -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu (Sharad Shanbhag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to Next Laser Printer from NT 4.0 Date: 22 Jan 1997 19:36:00 GMT Organization: Dept. of Neurosurgery, U of MN Message-ID: <5c5q70$g48@epx.cis.umn.edu> I am able to print to my Nextstation (NS 3.2) from my PC running Windows NT 4.0 using lpr/lpd over my home ethernet network. However, I have two problems: 1) I cannot load the .ppd file for the Next Laser Printer (obtained from Adobe) into Windows NT using the instructions from Microsoft (for NT 3.51). Instead, I am currently using the driver for the Apple Laserwriter NT printer. 2) When printing from Word for Windows 95, only the Times-Roman font works. Other fonts (such as Times-Italic) come out as courier. I know there are people using this setup and was wondering if there others who have experienced and resolved these problems. TIA, Sharad ============================================================== Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215 Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201 Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu University of Minnesota (NeXTmail) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu ==============================================================
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reloacate home directorys? Date: 15 Jan 1997 21:37:31 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5bjimr$ooe@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Problems moving home directories to another drive. Hi, I have been trying to move my home directories from SD0A to SD1A from /home/userx to /apps/home/userx. The problem has been encountered as follows, use user editor to change home dir, move files and reassign ownership to the original owner and test. Shortly after reassigning the ownership the files return to my ownership. Key, I login as myself and su to root to do the moves. I have tried loging in as root, same results. Please help. Thanks -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 22 Jan 1997 22:52:19 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> [Sorry for the English x-posting to a german newsgroup, but maybe this is of some interest] Howdy! I am proud to annouce the public availability of the easy-install binary CAP (Columbia Appletalk Package) for NeXTStep 3.3/OpenStep 4.x on Intel processors. It contains everything to turn your NeXTStep system into a AppleShare (Appletalk native Phase II) file and print server. Additional it enables you to mount remote AppleShare volumes on your NeXTStep machine and to print to remote LaserWriters. It contains an administration program called 'CAPer.app' that does most of the installation work and provides you with an interface to control the CAP processes quite painlessly. The installation was tested by various beta testers and for most of them it seems to work. Some parts still requires some sysadmin knowledge but exporting filesystems, mounting filesystems and providing printer spool services should be quite easy to work with. The distribution contains the full source code for BPF0.25b3 and CAPpl198, so you can rebuild the major parts of the package if you want to include some special features in CAP. At the moment you can fetch the package from http://www.this.net/~frank/CAPer.app.V1.I.b.tar.gz http://www.this.net/~frank/README.rtfd.tar.gz You may want to fetch the readme file before downloading the full 2.5 MByte package. It contains information if CAPer will work on your system, see below. ***** On what systems does the package work: It was tested on NeXTSTEP 3.3/Intel and OpenStep 4.0/Intel where it seems to work quite well. It does not work on NeXTSTEP 3.2/Intel due to some missing features in the kernel. ***** Anything to consider before installing: Appletalk Phase II needs multicasting capabilities. Some ethernet drivers don't support this, so read the CAPer documentation if your driver is supported. The kernel server (BPF) needs a lot of kernel memory, you may want to give your system more buffers. Again look in the CAPer documentation on how to do this. It is not tested in all environments, so bugs may still lurk inside. As usually you are working at your own risk. ***** What's the price of this package Zero. Null. Nichts. Nada. CAPer/CAPpl198/BPF/afpmount are distributed free of charge for any purpose abeit various copyrights apply. Look in the CAPer documentation for more information. You may not sell it, but you can give it away. ***** Shall I put it on the ftp archives Please do not at the moment. As soon I received reports that the package really works in most environments I will do this myself. Conside this release a public beta :-) ***** Will it run on m68k, Sparc, HPPA m68k - yes, definitely. sparc & hppa, most likely - we have to check if the kernel symbols support the BPF but otherwise I see no reason for problems. :-) Please provide feedback, thanks! -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E42Cpo.Kr5@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:58:36 GMT References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu>, Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> wrote: >Java is interpretted p-code There are CPUs that run the Java Virtual Machine in solicon. >It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > There's a lot of this, true. ObNeXTSysadmin: It's not safe to change root's login shell, right? -- 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: glenn@nowsoft.com (Tod L. Glenn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting dns Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:16:43 -0800 Organization: Europa Communications Inc. [Portland, OR] Message-ID: <glenn-ya02408000R2201971616430001@news.europa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greetings, I am trying to determine how to set the dns address on NeXTstep 3.3. I found where to configure IP address and router. Any help is appreciated. This is a lone NeXT box in a mac and PC shop. ---- Tod L. Glenn Internet Services Administrator Now Software ITG webmaster@nowsoft.com ---- http://www.nowsoft.com ftp://ftp.nowsoft.com listserv@nowsoft.com
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:52:25 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c6g8p$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net In <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > [Sorry for the English x-posting to a german newsgroup, but maybe this is of > some interest] > > Howdy! > > I am proud to annouce the public availability of the easy-install binary CAP > (Columbia Appletalk Package) for NeXTStep 3.3/OpenStep 4.x on Intel > processors. It contains everything to turn your NeXTStep system into a > AppleShare (Appletalk native Phase II) file and print server. Additional it > enables you to mount remote AppleShare volumes on your NeXTStep machine and > to print to remote LaserWriters. > Sorry to followup my own posting but due to the overwheming run on the www.this.net site to download this package even in the first few hours I decided to put it up on ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CAPer.app.V1.I.b.tar.gz and ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CAPer_V1_README.rtfd.tar.gz Hopefully it will not contain bugs and will work as advertized :). Please use this site for downloading, thanks! -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mac <-> NeXTCube Date: 22 Jan 97 19:09:32 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF0C167A-2369A4@207.147.50.42> References: <notmy-1601972112520001@cu-dialup-1724.cit.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Jan 16, 1997 9:12 PM, Collin <mailto:notmy@address.org> wrote: > I need some help connecting my Mac to my NeXTCube via Ethernet. I'm > running NEXTSTEP 3.2 and System 7.5.5 w/ OpenTransport. Supposedly > there > is an AppleTalk Client that came with the NeXT, but I can't find it. It's > not in my preferences app where the manuals say it should be. I only have > the OS that's installed so I can't reinstall it if it's missing. > > Soooo.... > > What does it take to build a TCP/IP network between the Mac and NeXT? > How about if I wanted one machine to connect to the internet via modem > and > have both machines share the connection? I'm having the same problem. I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 and System 7.5.5 w/ OT 1.1.1. Did you ever solve this problem? Can the NeXT even be connected to an ethernet network that is not AppleShare but simply system 7 file sharing? Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701221505.KAA04997@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 4c54082fa804878fbe0aaf6a8c58c798 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 10:04:58 -0500 Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? References: 4c54082fa804878fbe0aaf6a8c58c798 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary > It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in > crontab to automatically turn off the NeXT prn and I thought I > saved the info but can't find it now that I ready to try to do > it. Can anyone refresh my 'database', please? you can use 'nppower' of course, but you can also use the 'npoffd' command. You can get it at: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/npoffd.gz http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/npoffd.README if you don't have web access you can get it via email by sending me an email with the SUBJECT send-mime npoffd.gz if you'd like the readme send me a message with the SUBJECT send-ascii npoffd.README (you can use 'send-mime' if you prefer) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701221459.JAA04898@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 272abb50136d3d275445cf01d74a111b - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 09:59:47 -0500 Subject: Re: Creating 2nd Swapfile Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 272abb50136d3d275445cf01d74a111b - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu Original Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:16:17 GMT Short Answer: Simply put, use '/usr/etc/mkfile' More elaborate answer: The best way to do this is to use 'mkfile' to make a "swapfile" that is the size you want the swapfile to be at the LOWAT setting. Simply setting the LOWAT will not create a file that size, but controls only how small the file will be _reduced_ to if it has grown over the LOWAT setting. It should then be a simple matter of adding the appropriate entry to /etc/swaptab (I'd suggest reading 'man swaptab' especially the "prefer" option). Personal Answer: I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Personally I would greatly prefer one large swapfile to two smaller ones. I have an 80 meg swapfile (which is no longer considered large) on the 105 drive in my slab, and it only spills over to /private/vm/swapfile if it completely fills up. PLUS, you can only compress one swapfile at a time. Anyway, see my swapfaq for more info. Send me an email message with the SUBJECT send-mime swapfaq.ps or goto http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/swapfaq.ps (they're the same file) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Scripted access to isql - help me remember the arguments! Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:00:35 GMT Message-ID: <32dfec9a.1794878@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have Quickbase 4.1 and a number of apps on Next that use it. I also need a 'quick and dirty' way to do some queries from Windows 95. A year ago someone told me that there was an argument to isql so I could write a script to process any query, without having to type it in interactively. However, Quickbase isql comes with no documentation on the command line options. Can anyone help me to do this? (ultimately, the idea is to write a DOS batch file that uses telnet and isql to connect to the database, run a query, and close the conection, without knowing the query in advance. Of course Microsoft helped a lot as usual by making telnet graphical....) For the record, we are well withint our number of licences as the next machines are just not getting used at the moment. Many thanks, Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E4Ftzq.GoB@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:40:37 GMT References: <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu>, Stephen Johnson <stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu> wrote: >It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in crontab >to automatically turn off the NeXT prn nppower -off (or maybe just off--check the man page). -- 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: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Re: NS Installation FAQ? Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-2201972250480001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> References: <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> <E49BFw.HCB@nidat.sub.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:50:47 GMT In article <E49BFw.HCB@nidat.sub.org>, Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de wrote: > In article <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> Jason Lincoln > <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> writes: > > Is there a NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware? > > > NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware!? > > That would be the most useless piece of information on the whole Internet, > IMHO! > > For Black hardware that is as simple as inserting the NS User CD, powering > up and let it go! > > And if there are other topics that need an FAQ refer to Peanuts > <peanuts.leo.org> > -- Not at my stage, where I've just bought my first NeXT (A Color Turbo without OS or HD, or CD!) A good faq would be about recommended CD drives, HD's and correct SIMM types to get the machine up to the "Insert User CD" point especially to newtimers who are starting up because of the interest engendered in the NeXT OS by the Apple deal, and all the folks who've raved about this particular UNIX variant over the last ten years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701220000.TAA07176@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 97 19:00:11 -0500 Subject: Important Followup -- Re: NextStation Need Help Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary I wrote this previously as a way to get rid of old users: 1) power it on. 2) hold down BOTH "command" buttons" 3) Right after you see the lights flash on the caps lock, press the ~ key (over the 7 on the keypad) [do this while keeping both "command" keys] 4) that will drop you to the ROM monitor 5) type "bsd -s" a) if it asks you for a password, open the slab and take out the battery for a few moments. [ I originally left out step "5.5" which is ] 5.5) at the # do sh /etc/rc & which will start the NetInfo stuff 6) when you get the "#" prompt, use "nu -m" to modify the password for the "root" account. 7) reboot 8) login as root 9) open /NextAdmin/UserManager.app and delete old users. Drop me a note if you have more questions TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat For info on my email auto-responder and searching the PEAK FTP site via email, send me an email with the SUBJECT "send-help" (without the " marks, of course ;-) ^^^^^^^
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@hc.ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:25:35 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <32DE486F.1BD@hc.ti.com> References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bill Keller wrote: > > I'm not sure if I missed something Java-related. It seems that most > people are awfully gung-ho about Java, and I'm not sure why. My > understanding is: > > Java is a portable language > Java is an open language > Java is object-oriented > Java is interpretted p-code > Java can be embedded into webpages > > Did I miss anything significant? > Other than embedding into webpages, which I doubt is going to be it's > primary use, I'm not sure there is much benefit to the rest. There have > been portable, open languages for decades now. And interpretted p-code is > BAD. > > It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > > Can someone set me straight? (gently) :) Well... netbased interpreted P-code allows me to be truely HW independent. Sarrus Software (the makers of the PencilMeIn, one of the most usefull NS apps IMHO) have a Java version that runs through marimba. I can run it on a PC, my HP Unix workstation at work, Sun, whatever... When it is finally released, I expect to have a calendar manager that operates wherever I go on whatever hardware and it is the EXACT same program, not a port of code to various machines. I'll be able to use the same calendar file so I don't have to worry about synchronization. I think this will be a fantastic application of JAVA to solve a problem many of us face (synchronization). Just my thoughts... - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PopOver + procmail ? Date: 16 Jan 1997 04:16:53 +0900 Organization: 3WEB corp. Message-ID: <x6pvz6g34q.fsf@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Hi. Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or other pop client) to procmail ? -=-=-=-=-=-=-= Toshinao Ishii email: ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (NeXTMAIL/MIME Welcome)
From: Carlene Ewalt <ewalt001@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Nextstation Turbo Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:34:28 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota School of Public Health Message-ID: <32DE66A4.1997@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have inherited an Nextstation Turbo (black box) which has never been turned off until today. Today, we turned it off to move the ethernet jack...keeping the same IP...but moving the computer and jack down the hallway and now when I turn it on. I get almost immediately......... Next Rom Manager 3.3 (v74) Exception #3 (0xc) at pc 0x1000646 sp 0xc03f600 I tried typing in ec and received error code 74. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Carlene -- Carlene Ewalt Telephone: 612-626-5443 University of Minnesota School of Public Health Fax: 612-626-6931 Box 197 Mayo, 420 Delaware St SE Email:ewalt001@maroon.tc.umn.edu Minneapolis MN 55455
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Woes-Danny Stevenson Please Help Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:34:17 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5c80dp$7va@boursy.news.erols.com> I have to post publicly because the mail still won't go out. Can you e-mail me the IP number you have for the Erols Internet smtp.erols.com machine. Also how do i create a fqdn when my machine is named localhost. Also I have an entry name mailhost in the netinfo database that i used to set up the previuos sendmail that came with 3.3. Is there anymore use for this entry. Error from /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: Jan 23 10:35:54 localhost sendmail[245]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry Jan 23 09:42:28 localhost sendmail[258]: JAA00256: to=vision@1stsight.com, ctladdr=bomb (102/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=smtp.erols.com [205.252.116.61], stat=Deferred: Connection refused by smtp.erols.com Thanks. Scott Turner FirstSight Inc. www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@NO.SPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax locking modem port? Date: 23 Jan 1997 16:45:18 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5c84iu$1m6u@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: 2d3f6e2fc0700a3349b89420a6f10983 - <199701171438.GAA11379@PEAK.ORG> (Sorry to follow-up on Tim, the original posting is unavailable for me at this time) Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Responding To: falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) >> /dev/cub: Device busy >> link down >> >> If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's >> no problem with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems >> are related, but if either of them rings any kind of bell with >> anyone, please let me know. My solution is to run the Fax software on port ttyfa, and the terminal program on port cufa, which has precedence over ttyfa. The two coexist nicely! You may have to chmod a+w the device /dev/cufa depending on how you access it. Tim of course is correct in a possible stale lock, but to my knowledge a reboot would have gotten rid of it. Kind regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: NS3.3: compile/install Perl5 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:41:25 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32de9ede.6814010@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev. I followed the instructions, and got to: AutoSplitting perl library Making DynaLoader (static) sh: 5303 Memory fault *** Exit 139 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. vm_stat provides: Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 1833. Pages active: 1405. Pages inactive: 297. Pages wired down: 409. "Translation faults": 467758. Pages copy-on-write: 81313. Pages zero filled: 65599. Pages reactivated: 190004. Pageins: 11408. Pageouts: 164. Object cache: 47016 hits of 52878 lookups (88% hit rate) I'd guess it's running out of memory. (the machine has 32 megs ram) Any advice would be appreciated. -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Update: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 23 Jan 1997 16:39:10 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c847e$j8n@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5c6g8p$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net As usually some little quirks has entered the first public release. 1. If you startup CAP NetInfoManager stops working (it can't be started anymore and hangs). This is caused by the download of the bpf kernel server. Netinfo itself continue to work as far as I can tell and the NetInfo command line tools (nidump, niload, niutil), NFSManager and PrintManager works too. I am about to investigate this strange behaviour. Maybe anyone from NeXT has an idea what could be the problem? As a quick fix you should use the NetInfoManager only when CAP is switched off AND the bpf is unloaded. To unload the bpf manually just issue a /usr/local/etc/bpf_unload in a shell after stopping the cap processes or add the following lines to the /usr/local/cap/kill-cap-server script sleep 5; /usr/local/etc/bpf_unload (the 'sleep 5' is to give the cap processes some time to die gracefully) 2. The documentation how to increase your kernel buffers is in the bpf source package in the app wrapper. 3. The information about the 'cap.printer' file format is in the papif manpage. Sorry for any inconvenience, hopefully the problems are resolved in the next release. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: walton@emc.com (John Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: test Date: 23 Jan 1997 14:23:51 -0500 Organization: EMC Corporation Message-ID: <1997Jan23.142332@emc.com> References: <5c8ag8$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> In article <5c8ag8$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw>, 22 Jan 1997 22:22:36 GMT writes: |> test for immediate delete didn't work well.
From: 22 Jan 1997 22:22:36 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: test Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:26:16 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c8ag8$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> test for immediate delete
From: ericc@metrowerks.com (Eric Cloninger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Can't install OpenStep 4.1 on P6/200 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:21:41 -0500 Organization: Metrowerks, Corp. Message-ID: <ericc-ya023180002201971721410001@news.metrowerks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I can't get OpenStep 4.1 to install on my P6/200 and I've tried various combinations and permutations for 4 hours and my forehead is hurting from me pounding my head on the disk. Could someone give me a pointer or two? Hardware: Premio P6/200 64 MB Ram (60NS) Adaptec 2940 SCSI Card (Nothing attached) IDE Controller 1: Quantum 2GB Hard Drive (Master) Mitsumi 8x CD-ROM (Slave) IDE Controller 2 (Empty) Procedure: Insert boot floppy and follow directions to drivers selection. The HD is the master on IDE Controller 1 and the CD-ROM is the slave. I select EIDE/ATAPI for both the source and destination (I've also selected the 294x SCSI Adapter and the 154x Adapter as the source to no avail). So, it loads the kernel shell, locates both the hard disk AND the CD-ROM and itentifies their contents and geometry correctly. The installer prompts me for the identifier of the drive to use and I type '1', indicating the one and only drive in the machine. Then, the installation goes BOOM! /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 30 Memory fault /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 31 Memory fault And then all the processes are stopped. Solutions: I've tried all of the following... 1. Different install CD-ROM 2. Different install floppies 3. Removed SCSI card 4. Used 154x SCSI driver (per document #1933 from NextAnswers) Others here have been successful getting OpenStep to install on their P5/133 and P5/166 machines. Any ideas? Please, I'll email you a nice cold Sam Adams. -E -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Eric Cloninger, Windows Warrior | ericc@metrowerks.com |
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing 3.3 Intel drivers Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:59:23 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8ceb$2cco@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5bu35b$8d0@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Cc: stanj@cs.stanford.edu In <5bu35b$8d0@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Stan Jirman wrote: > I found these drivers on the 4.0 and 4.1 floppies / CDs. So I went and copied > them on a floppy, which I gave "it" to eat when it asked for them. I get the > OS to install from CD onto the disk, but then when it boots from disk it asks > me for the drivers again, and when I insert the floppy it crashes with either > a "rld()" or "unknown symbol" errors. > From my experience, 4.x drivers from NeXT won't work with the 3.3 kernel, and vice versa. This is a bit strange considering that you have to use 3.3 to develop 4.x drivers, but nonetheless it seems to be true. I've seen exactly what you describe above when I tried to do this. You should instead go to nextanswers and download the appropriate 3.3 drivers you need onto a floppy and try those. That has always worked for me. > Any ideas? I am absolutely new to the NeXT-PC thing, where I come from I > somehow expect things to work... > Those were great days, weren't they? I hope things come full circle with Apple and we have nicely integrated hardware again someday! > Thanks! > - Stan > -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,misc.jobs.offered,us.jobs.offered Subject: AS/400-Perm-N.Car Date: 23 Jan 1997 20:59:26 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <5c8jfe$cqg@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst AS/400 RPG400 2yrs+ commercial experience North Carolina Career Position To Be Considered------Fax or mail a resume. -- ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax] Omni Search (419) 893-6334 [voice] 1310 Craig Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Help! Can't install OpenStep 4.1 on P6/200 Message-ID: <E4HAMz.z8@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: ericc@metrowerks.com Organization: A.L.I. Technologies, Inc. Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:37:47 GMT References: <ericc-ya023180002201971721410001@news.metrowerks.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Eric Cloninger wrote: > I can't get OpenStep 4.1 to install on my P6/200 and I've tried various > combinations and permutations for 4 hours and my forehead is hurting from > me pounding my head on the disk. Could someone give me a pointer or two? > > Hardware: > Premio P6/200 > 64 MB Ram (60NS) > Adaptec 2940 SCSI Card (Nothing attached) > IDE Controller 1: > Quantum 2GB Hard Drive (Master) > Mitsumi 8x CD-ROM (Slave) > IDE Controller 2 (Empty) > > ... > > Then, the installation goes BOOM! > /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 30 Memory fault > /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 31 Memory fault > > And then all the processes are stopped. > > Solutions: > I've tried all of the following... > 1. Different install CD-ROM > 2. Different install floppies > 3. Removed SCSI card > 4. Used 154x SCSI driver (per document #1933 from NextAnswers) > > Others here have been successful getting OpenStep to install on their > P5/133 and P5/166 machines. Since the error is reported as a "Memory Fault" I would try swapping in some known good RAM. There is also the possibility of problems with the addressing lines on th motherboard itself -- most manufacturers only test their boards with a small quantity of RAM (eg. 8 or 16) before declaring them good. To test for this possibility you might want to get a copy of a good hardware diagnostic program which will test for bit errors transfering data into and out of the full range of RAM addresses. Or you could boot into DOS, play Civilization, and see if your phalanxes turn into tanks sometimes :-) That's what tipped me off when this happened to me. > Any ideas? Please, I'll email you a nice cold Sam Adams. Cheers. Good thing the Internet is so fast nowadays, otherwise it might be warm when it got here :-) -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "bernieb" <bernieb@ilx.com> Subject: help: entering hypertext in newsgroup posting? Sender: news@ilx.com (Super Uzi) Organization: ILX Systems Inc. Message-ID: <01bc03e8$9673d1c0$392877c7@bernieb.ILX.COM> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:03:45 GMT Can someone please let me know how to enter a hypertext link (like a url address or e-mail address) into a usenet posting? thanks bernieb@ilx.com
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Update: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 23 Jan 1997 19:09:44 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c8d1o$jks@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5c6g8p$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net I have now resolved the problem of the NetInfoManager start hangs. It looks like NetInfoManager makes a 'gethostbyaddr' on startup to set the hostname in the window title. ('local @ hostname') As soon as the BerkleyPacketFilter LKS is loaded NetInfoManager calls 'gethostbyaddr' not with the real IP address of the host but with the IP 0.0.0.0. This triggers a nameserver lookup and the machine hangs. As a quick fix I am thinking about entering a 'dummy' host with the 0.0.0.0 IP in the local host database using HostManager or nidump/niload. I hope NetInfoManager only needs the hostname for its window title, so it would not matter much if the name comes up wrong (Can someone at NeXT please confirm this?). Can anyone tell me if this workaround may have any negative side effects? As far my debugging shows NetInfo itself is not affected by BPF only NetInfoManager is. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus G <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: PopOver + procmail ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7x4tghtcys.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Toshinao Ishii <ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp> Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <x6pvz6g34q.fsf@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:30:35 GMT >>>>> "TI" == Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> writes: TI> Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or TI> other pop client) to procmail ? PopOver puts mail in your regular mail queue (if I'm not mistaken) that's the same place where "regular" procmail gets its mail. Shouldn't be a problem. General remark: to use procmail with NeXT Mailboxes you need the appnmail utility by Carl Edman and Tom Hageman. Markus G
From: Florence <100124.610@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I need help Date: 23 Jan 1997 21:50:46 GMT Organization: inserm U317 toulouse france Message-ID: <5c8mfm$g5b$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Hello everibody I buy a next "pizza box" with 17" monochrome monitor and a laser printer in a bank for only 1000 F (200 $ aprox.) the material work fine but i have a big big big problem, the system administrator does not remember what the name of the user and the administrator password is, what can i do ?, it's only for fun and my personal museum but i shearch a next computer for a long time and i can't use it My museum is all apple computers before 1977 except the apple 1 all commodores computers except a PET and all sinclair computers (do you know Mazog and scuba dive ?) except ZX 80 and few Oric 1, atmos, amstrad, TI99/4A (Do you know parsec ?) Precision : I am mad and i have a computer shop repair in france Thanks
From: "Ryan Thompson" <rthompson@zenentertainment.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: JOBS FOR NEXT ADMINS IN LA, CA Date: 23 Jan 1997 14:28:01 -0700 Organization: Z Message-ID: <01bc0974$1b3c6350$a13bd4cc@ryserver> ZEN Entertainment of Santa Monica, California is now interviewing for Windows NT and Open Step 4.0 system administrators. All inquiries to: c/o Ryan Thompson, Producer ZEN Entertainment 1620 26th Street Santa Monica, CA 310/315-4166 V 310/315-4171 Fax a resume Thanks, Ryan
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:07:40 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> I am looking for information on how to adapt a NeXT MegaPixel color display to use on PC hardware. I saw mention once of an adapter that will do this but can find zero info on it. I would greatly appreciate information on how to do this. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Second partition with Win95 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 13:01:03 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970123125515.316A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm running NS 3.3 on my pc, but need to run Win95 for a couple of things. Is there anyway I can do this without buying new hardware or reinstalling NeXTStep? In DOS/Win I could use Partition Magic to add a partition, etc. Is there a utility for NS that will allow me to do this? Thanks. Rob
Message-ID: <32E796ED.65CB@lhep.unibe.ch> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:50:53 +0100 From: Juerg Beringer <beringer@lhep.unibe.ch> Organization: Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software CC: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch Subject: Access to NS/Intel boot time options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is it possible to access within the rc startup scripts the options entered at the NeXTStep (V3.3) boot prompt of an Intel machine? I am using e.g. config=SCSI at the boot prompt to load the device drivers according to a table SCSI.table (in /usr/Devices/System.config) instead of the standard Instance0 table. For different reasons I'd like to know in the startup scripts which options (if any) were selected. Thanks for any hints! Juerg Beringer E-mail: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Suggestions for PPP for NeXT LAN? Date: 24 Jan 1997 00:12:17 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8up1$so8@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <E4DIK9.My@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <E4DIK9.My@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> On 01/21/97, Steven M. Boker wrote: >Hi all- > >I have a small LAN at home where I do consulting (2 cubes, 1 Intel >all running 3.3) and I'd like to connect to the internet through >the University. They've given me the go-ahead with a small block >of fixed IPs to set up a PPP link from my LAN. I'm wondering what >sort of suggestions people have for the easiest and most effect >way to go about this. > >I'd like to have a minimum maintenence solution if possible. One >possible solution may be a separate box sitting on the LAN doing >the routing and taking care of the POTS line. Another possibility >may be a software solution sitting in one of the NeXT boxes. > >Does anyone have suggestions? Recommendations? Warnings? Beer? > >Steve >--- > Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) > sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) > http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) > Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 > I would suggest you pick one of the cubes to be a router and on it run SimpleNetworkStarter.app (you may need to restore the default netinfo database if you played with NetInfo). Put the right IP address and select a hostname for the server. You should choose automatic host addition. Then plug all the ethernet cables and start each other machine (while the router is running). If everything goes well you will be asked for a hostname on each host during the boot sequence (I also suppose that the machines have a virgin netinfo database and hostconfig file). Then go into Hostmanager.app on the server to set the right IP addresses for each machine. After that you can create network accounts, setup NFS file sharing, share printers,... everything you need locally. Then install PPP on the server. Don't play with HostManager.app like the instructions tell you to do. You can also set the router property on each client so it points to your server (you do not really need this I think but I did this). Hope this helps, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: printing from Windows95 to NeXT. Date: 24 Jan 1997 00:20:58 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8v9a$svs@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <32E5BCF7.116E@ToolCASE.com> In-Reply-To: <32E5BCF7.116E@ToolCASE.com> On 01/21/97, Leon Farfel wrote: >How do I print from Windows95 via Samba to NeXT laser printer? >Or how do I set up Windows95 to print via Samba on NeXT laser printer. > > >Thank you. > >Leon Farfel. > >Please CC your answer to > >leon.farfel@toolcase.com > You need to install a driver for the NeXTPrinter on the windows side (it's free, you can get it at www.adobe.com). On the NeXT side you put a samba.conf file of the type: [global] printing = bsd printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap load printers = yes guest account = pcguest [printers] print command = lpr -r %s lpq command = lpq lprm command = lprm %j comment = All Printers browseable = yes printable = yes public = yes path= /tmp writable = no create mode = 0700 Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ipforwarding Kernel Flag? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:09:13 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970117130737.6677C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII How do i have to set the Kernel Flags in Configure.app in order to turn ip forwarding on? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 10:38:49 -0500 Subject: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, comp-sys-next-programmer@antigone.com References: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary [ Sorry for the crosspost to csn.programmer, I've set followups to csn.sysadmin, but I think we may need a programmer's input ] Summary of discussion so far: the code (which you will see below) works just fine on a 3.2 machine for killing processes which refuse to die by 'kill -9'. However, on NSFIP and m68k machines running 3.3, it has caused an immediate panic. This is the code: #include <stdio.h> #include <mach.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]){ if(argc != 2){ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s pid\n", argv[0]); exit(1); } else{ task_t task; task_by_unix_pid(task_self(), atoi(argv[1]), &task); task_terminate(task); exit(0); } } Now I don't know about anyone else, but I dislike the idea that someone could panic my machine any time by running a single program. The question is: - why does this panic a 3.3 machine and not a 3.2 machine ? [ Both the m68k machine and the NSFIP machine are running patchlevel 1.] The bonus question is: - is there a safer way to kill processes that won't die? The super-bonus question that was originally asked to start this thread: - why do processes become uniterruptible in the first place? Thanks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: slyang@nnano.ep.nctu.edu.tw (Su-Lin Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help solving CDROM Failure problem Date: 24 Jan 1997 12:20:31 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5ca9ef$oha@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> Hi, My old PC worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with AIC7880 chip on-board, the SCSI CDROM became failure to mount on to the system. By checking with Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/FSChime: (not a valid program). The CDROM model is NEC501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter (v3.37) driver, same with the old config. When system started up, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up to Nextstep, inquired with SCSI_Inspector, the CDROM can be identified for target id-4, but fail to pass diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can any one help to solve this problem? Or should I provide more information about the computer setting or else to figure out the problem resulted from? Thanks in advance. Su-Lin Yang slyang@cc.nctu.edu.tw
From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP Problems after OS upgrade Date: 24 Jan 1997 07:15:33 GMT Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation Message-ID: <5c9nil$8l1@news.jf.intel.com> Hello NeXT Sysadmins, I'm having some trouble re-configuring my uucp after upgrading my '030 cube from 2.1 to 3.2. The mail and network server has a hostname of green, and the domain is supposed to be eggs.com. My uucp connection to my Internet provider appears to mostly work, until it actually starts trying to transfer real data: green:114# /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x0 -suutele root uutele (1/23-22:54-491) DEBUG (Local Enabled) root uutele (1/23-22:54-491) SUCCEEDED (call to uutele ) root uutele (1/23-22:54-491) FAILED HANDSHAKE (You are unknown to me) green:115#: Outgoing mail doesn't even get the modem activated-- Here's an example failed attempt to use sendmail directly to test outgoing mail: green:118# /usr/lib/sendmail -v -t To: homer@simpson.com From: scott Subject: It's about Marge... We need to talk, Homer... Scott <ctrl-D> homer@simpson.com... Connecting to simpson.com (ddn)... homer@simpson.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) Saving message in //dead.letter //dead.letter... Sent green:119# Any ideas why my ddn mailer is barfing on me? Host green works fine as a network server (only one client, easter), but I can't get uucp to work. It used to work fine before I upgraded to 3.2 and networked another Cube to it... And no, I'd rather not run NIS/yp if I can help it (I only have two computers to network!) Scott M. Neal sneal@ichips.intel.com
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] make_services : someone else is making services??? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 15:46:24 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmuFyUu00iV203UvlR@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> In-Reply-To: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jan-97 [Q] make_services : someone.. by Eduardo F. Vieira@laeff. > I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 Intel Version (HP Vectra 486), and every time one > logins in I got the message: > > syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services. > > Is it dangerous?? Could I avoid it in some way ? It's not dangerous. What's happening is the WorkSpace normally rebuilds its database of information like what file extensions correspond to what app, and what services various apps provide, etc when you log in. If, for whatever reason, this process is already going on or if something else tries to rebuild the services while the WorkSpace is already doing so, you'll get that message. Don't worry about it. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Eduardo Fernandes Vieira <efv@laeff.esa.es> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] make_services : someone else is making services??? Date: 24 Jan 1997 17:52:55 +0100 Organization: LAEFF - INTA Message-ID: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> Hi net. I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 Intel Version (HP Vectra 486), and every time one logins in I got the message: syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services. Is it dangerous?? Could I avoid it in some way ? Many thanks for any help, -- Eduardo --- / o o \ ------------------------vvv----v----vvv---------------------------------- Eduardo Fernandes Vieira | FAX : +34 1 813 1160 System Administrator - LAEFF - INTA | Phone : +34 1 813 1263 Lab. de Astrof. Espac. y Fis. Fund. | email : efv@laeff.esa.es (int) VillaFranca del Castillo - Spain | evieira@vilspa (bitnet) http://www.laeff.esa.es/bin/connect/efv/mainpage | vilspa::efv (span) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 24 Jan 97 15:22:07 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan24152207@howard.one.net> References: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> In-reply-to: Timothy J Luoma's message of Thu, 23 Jan 97 10:38:49 -0500 In article <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> writes: The question is: - why does this panic a 3.3 machine and not a 3.2 machine ? [ Both the m68k machine and the NSFIP machine are running patchlevel 1.] The bonus question is: - is there a safer way to kill processes that won't die? The super-bonus question that was originally asked to start this thread: - why do processes become uniterruptible in the first place? These are all pretty much related. Processes get into an uninterruptable state because at the kernel level the process goes through something like interrupt levels. In certain areas, signals are disabled so that the kernel can get something done that can't be interrupted. For the _most_ part, that something gets done, the process goes back to an interruptable state, and all is well. If something wedges things in the middle, though, there's trouble. For instance, NFS problems can put processes into such a state until the NFS server comes back. If the server doesn't come back, it can be timed out - unless you've set things up so it never times out :-). Regarding whether there's a safer way to kill processes that won't die, well, it depends on what the problem is that's hanging things up. Since we already know that there's something wrong (ie, the process got hung up in an uninterruptable state), you have to be optimistic to assume that "normal" operations will be safely applicable anymore. They _might_ work, but they might not. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org._NO_SPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become Message-ID: <1997Jan24.113401.525@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Disorganization References: <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:34:01 GMT In <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Now I don't know about anyone else, but I dislike the idea that > someone could panic my machine any time by running a single program. Check out the unix program 'crashme' which crashes all kinds of NeXTs in a few milliseconds. It is run as a user program. You can kill a NeXt remotely also by pinging with a buffersize of 64K. Not that robust as marketing says .....
From: ericc@metrowerks.com (Eric Cloninger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Can't install OpenStep 4.1 on P6/200 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:54:30 -0500 Organization: Metrowerks, Corp. Message-ID: <ericc-ya023180002401971754300001@news.metrowerks.com> References: <ericc-ya023180002201971721410001@news.metrowerks.com> <E4HAMz.z8@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Then, the installation goes BOOM! > > /private/etc/rc.cdrom: 30 Memory fault > > /private/etc/rc.cdrom: 31 Memory fault > > > Since the error is reported as a "Memory Fault" I would try swapping > in some known good RAM. Unfortunately this didn't help. I tried two other pairs of 16MB SIMMs that work with my NT partition on another machine. Grr. Further, I took the install disks home where I have an IBM machine (P5/133). The same CDs installed on that machine, but they're still flaky. I got it all installed and after setting everything up, now I get panics. I reinstalled twice. This is getting frustrating. Surely OS is not _that_ unstable. > > Any ideas? Please, I'll email you a nice cold Sam Adams. > > Cheers. Good thing the Internet is so fast nowadays, otherwise > it might be warm when it got here :-) OK, maybe I'll send a Newcastle. It's better warm than cold. -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Eric Cloninger, Windows Warrior | ericc@metrowerks.com |
From: "Ryan Thompson" <rthompson@zenentertainment.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Win NT & Open Step Networking Help! Date: 23 Jan 1997 14:25:02 -0700 Organization: Z Message-ID: <01bc0973$9d68a060$a13bd4cc@ryserver> Any reccomendations on how to integrate Open Step boxes into an NT network. So far it's been suggested that we get PC-NFS.... some kind of protocol for sharing. Right now we're just using FTP to transfer files. Any suggestions will help. Thanks, Ryan Thompson Producer ZEN Entertainment
From: gco@cs.stir.ac.uk (Graham Cochrane (CO)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Viglen genie ATX Date: 24 Jan 1997 15:59:14 GMT Organization: Computing Science and Mathematics, Stirling University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5cam8i$305@lorne.stir.ac.uk> Keywords: NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel Viglen Hi Folks, We have just bought a Viglen genie ATX Intel PC and we thought that we'd have a go at trying to get NEXTSTEP 3.3 up and running on it, as an experiment. Unfortunately, we haven't got too far with this as yet! We ordered an Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI adapter for the machine, as this is mentioned on the hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com AND the driver for it is on the Device Drivers Disk that we have. However, we received an Adaptec `AHA2940 Ultra' SCSI adapter instead. This is also on the hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com, but I had to go to NeXTAnswers to get the driver for it. Anyway, when I try to install 3.3 on the PC, I get to the bit where it asks me to select the relevant driver for the CD-ROM and the Hard Disk, then after selecting the correct driver, the machine can't see any SCSI or CD devices, with the message:- . . . Registering: PCIO Adaptec: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING Registering: event0 Registering: kmDevice0 No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found Any ideas? By the way, this is the same symptoms when I install the plain AHA2940 driver from the release floppy. Any suggesttions as to what to do now would be welcomed. I'd appreciate email replies, thanks, as my news reading has been intermittent of late. Thanks in advance of any help, Graham. -- Graham Cochrane, Dept of Comp Science and Maths, Stirling University Stirling FK9 4LA SCOTLAND Tel: +44 1786 467442 Fax: +44 1786 464551 graham.cochrane@cs.stir.ac.uk http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~gco/
From: Ben Konjkav <ben@photonweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 16:24:18 -0800 Organization: PCG Message-ID: <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com> References: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu Michael Giddings wrote: > > I am looking for information on how to adapt a NeXT MegaPixel color display > to use on PC hardware. I saw mention once of an adapter that will do this > but can find zero info on it. > > I would greatly appreciate information on how to do this. > > -- > Michael Giddings > giddings@chem.wisc.edu > giddings@barbarian.com > (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 > http://www.barbarian.com Check out http://www.photonweb.com/next/ for the video card & the cable that are designed to run your monitor on a PC Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701231556.KAA10494@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 2dbdfd4ece75d8890d469f6da8883980 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 10:55:59 -0500 Subject: Re: NS Installation FAQ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 2dbdfd4ece75d8890d469f6da8883980 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Original Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:50:47 GMT > Not at my stage, where I've just bought my first NeXT (A Color > Turbo without OS or HD, or CD!) A good faq would be about > recommended CD drives, HD's and correct SIMM types to get the > machine up to the "Insert User CD" point especially to newtimers > who are starting up because of the interest engendered in the NeXT > OS by the Apple deal, and all the folks who've raved about this > particular UNIX variant over the last ten years. here's the CD-ROM setup I am using. Internal Sony 4x CD-ROM (# CDU76) (pay no more than $100) AND External case for above CD-ROM (#CS-EXTDR1) ($48) Call 1-800-REAL-PCS (ASA Computers). I'm using this CD-ROM and case, and so is someone else I met here, and no problem whatsoever. For hard drives, anyone that can do "asynchronous bus transfers" should be OK with the proper settings. SCSI-1 is what black hardware was designed for. I think you can use SCSI-2 for the most part also, but I'm not sure about that. here are some do's and don't from an old posting: Harddisks NOT compatible with black NeXT hardware ------------------------------------------------ FUJITSU 2684SAU (I have had two and on both the drives displayed media errors immediately after re-sectoring to 1024-byte sectors and performing a BuildDisk) SEAGATE ST51080N (I tried two of them, none could be initialized properly (/etc/disk) in a NeXT cube. The message was that the boot sector couldn't be found. Low level reformatting didn't help (sdformat - see below). Sector size change to 1024 bytes failed (sdformat). Not even a disktab entry helped.) IBM IB06H8891 (Fast SCSI-2, 512 Cache, 10ms, 1GB) (I had a lot of problems with this drive on black hardware. I.e. don't buy it! According to IBM tech support, all new IBM drives only support synchronous bus transfers.) Compatible Harddisks -------------------- (not sure if what works with a cube works also in a slab and vice versa) Cube (040): ----------- FUJITSU M1606SAU Fujitsu part # : CA01310-B161 FUJITSU M1606S-1024 Rev 6234 FUJITSU M2684S-1024 Rev 2039 QUANTUM FIREBALL 1080S NeXT station (040) ------------------ SEAGATE ST32430N-1024 (2.1GB, Hawk 2LP) (NS 3.2 needs a disktab entry - available from blazek@stt.msu.edu) QUANTUM FIREBALL 1080S Unspecified black NeXT hardware ------------------------------- (not sure if cube or station) FUJITSU M1603S-1024 FUJITSU M2624F-1024 FUJITSU M2694ES-1024 FUJITSU M2909S-1024 FUJITSU M2263S-1024 CD-ROM and removable disks compatible with black NeXT HW -------------------------------------------------------- SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S Rev 1.1c IOMEGA ZIP 100 Rev C.19 SYQUEST EZ135 SyQuest's EZFlyer also works, as does the SyJet I believe (1.5gig/cart). The Jaz drive will work but not without a disktab, so that isn't the one you want for installation purposes, besides the SyJet is faster. If you have more questions, drop me a line TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 From: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE Subject: find dead symbolic links ? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Hi, How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. Thanks, - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP *** -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Sten Kvamme <skvamme@capcad.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DNS file missing Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 19:08:58 +0100 Organization: - Message-ID: <32E8FABA.5DDC@capcad.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: s-30650 I am setting up a primary DNS but cannot find a good example of a root.cache file. Someone? /Sten Kvamme Akademiforlaget Publishing Co
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241510.KAA10687@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 10:10:25 -0500 Subject: A New FAQ page for new owners of NeXT hardware Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Greetings all! Just FYI, there's a new FAQ page available to answer all those questions that new owners of NeXT hardware might have, such as How do I get to the ROM monitor ? (for ADB and non ADB systems) How do I boot into Single User mode? How do I get rid of the Hardware Password? How do I boot from a CD-ROM? What do I do with a system with no known password? (I'll gladly take suggestions as to some other topics for brand-newbie information). There's also a hotlink to the official FAQ page at peanuts Frames-enhanced: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html No Frames: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq-noframe.html TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241625.LAA11970@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 75ac92bea5d6b94ec9a45183641d6cb9 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 11:25:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Sendmail Woes-Danny Stevenson Please Help Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 75ac92bea5d6b94ec9a45183641d6cb9 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Original Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:34:17 GMT > I have to post publicly because the mail still won't go out. Can > you e-mail me the IP number you have for the Erols Internet > smtp.erols.com machine. When I checked I got it as "205.252.116.114" It is possible they have several machines under that hostname and they all have the same hostname. > Also how do i create a fqdn when my machine > is named localhost. Don't you have another name for the machine? Ie my machine is "charisma" so my FQDN is "charisma.nerc.com" although that is only useful for config sendmail and it is not a real internet address. You might try "localhost.erols.com" There are sendmail installation instructions linked to my web page. checkout http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next and then goto "other sites" TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@p3.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:23:50 -0500 Organization: Surf Network Message-ID: <32E8E216.1C23@p3.net> References: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J Luoma wrote: [cut] > The question is: > - why does this panic a 3.3 machine and not a 3.2 machine ? > [ Both the m68k machine and the NSFIP machine are running > patchlevel 1.] My guess is because there are specific reasons why a process becomes unkillable (see below) > The bonus question is: > - is there a safer way to kill processes that won't die? Not as far as I know. > The super-bonus question that was originally asked to start this thread: > - why do processes become uniterruptible in the first place? The most common reasons that a process becomes unkillable is because the process is either waiting in an uninterruptible state (waiting for disk I/O, kernel routine completion, etc), or the parent process doing the same and is unable to clear out the child. My guess is that the reason NS 3.3 panics when you kill a process that just won't die is that the kernel or I/O routine is trying to return to a pointer within a process in memory that is no longer available. From the kernels point of view, this is a Bad Thing(tm) since the kernel assumes that this pointer is valid. If the pointer is not valid, it assumes that a major catastrophy had occured and panics. (at least, this is my guess) :) Melody
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS file missing Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:57:13 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gmuWpNe00iV_81IOMJ@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <32E8FABA.5DDC@capcad.se> In-Reply-To: <32E8FABA.5DDC@capcad.se> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jan-97 DNS file missing by Sten Kvamme@capcad.se > I am setting up a primary DNS but cannot find > a good example of a root.cache file. > Someone? You can get one yourself via 'dig . ns', or by ftping to InterNIC. db.cache (or whatever name you like) is thus: ; ; Initial cache data for root domain servers. ; . 331129 NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ; ; Prep the cache (hotwire the addresses). Order does not matter ; A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 198.41.0.4 B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 128.9.0.107 C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.33.4.12 D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 128.8.10.90 E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.203.230.10 F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 39.13.229.241 G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.112.36.4 H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 128.63.2.53 I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.36.148.17 -------------------- -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Message-ID: <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) References: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:38:32 GMT In article <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE writes: > Hi, > > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. If you can use Perl, that's easy. Take a look at the File::Find.pm module. Excerpt: Here's another interesting wanted function. It will find all symlinks that don't resolve: sub wanted { -l && !-e && print "bogus link: $name\n"; } -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I can't understand why Apple wouldn't want to pick up BeOS. Who wouldn't want to watch six movies on a rotating cube, while listening to bad music?" -= Al Franken =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de
From: Brian Sutherland <bcs@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking NeXTs Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:58:45 -0600 Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <32EA3BC5.7858@onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXT Turbo Dimension and NeXT Turbo Color Station. One has a NeXT Color Printer and one has a CDROM drive. I want to be able to share these devices between the two computers. I only have the Academic version of NeXTSTEP 3.3 and no real good manuals. I do not know how to set up a Netinfo or any type of NeXT server. Can anyone help me via email or phone? Or if you have any lead to where I can find NeXT networking information it would be helpful. Please reply to both email and newsgroup so I do not miss your answer. Thanx -Brian bcs@onramp.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Re: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-2501971358220001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> References: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:58:22 GMT In article <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com>, Ben Konjkav <ben@photonweb.com> wrote: > > > Check out http://www.photonweb.com/next/ for the video card & > the cable that are designed to run your monitor on a PC > > Ben The EGS Spectrum graphics card I use with one of my Amigas has settings for using a NeXT monitor. I'm going to have to try it out one of these days. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241503.KAA10609@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 11407f71f5e329368bab773b9ad15129 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 10:03:07 -0500 Subject: Re: I need help Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 11407f71f5e329368bab773b9ad15129 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Florence <100124.610@CompuServe.COM> Original Date: 23 Jan 1997 21:50:46 GMT > I buy a next "pizza box" with 17" monochrome monitor and a laser > printer in a bank for only 1000 F (200 $ aprox.) the material work > fine but i have a big big big problem, the system administrator > does not remember what the name of the user and the administrator > password is, what can i do ?, it's only for fun and my personal > museum but i shearch a next computer for a long time and i can't > use it You need to get to the ROM monitor, boot into single user (bsd -s), start NetInfo, and use 'nu -m' to modify the root password. Then you can logout and log back in as root and set things up the way you would like them. If you have any questions, checkout my FAQ for new owners of NeXT hardware, which can be found at: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html I have designed this page especially for people like yourself who are new owners of NeXT hardware but don't know anything about it. If you don't have a frames-capable browser, use this URL instead: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq-noframe.html TjL PS - if you have any questions that FAQ doesn't answer, email me so I can improve it for the future! -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting dns Date: 23 Jan 1997 17:42:24 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5c87u0$sai$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <glenn-ya02408000R2201971616430001@news.europa.com> glenn@nowsoft.com (Tod L. Glenn) wrote: >Greetings, > >I am trying to determine how to set the dns address on NeXTstep 3.3. I >found where to configure IP address and router. Any help is appreciated. >This is a lone NeXT box in a mac and PC shop. > >---- >Tod L. Glenn >Internet Services Administrator >Now Software ITG >webmaster@nowsoft.com >---- >http://www.nowsoft.com >ftp://ftp.nowsoft.com >listserv@nowsoft.com If, by dns address, you mean what the address of your dns server is, then set up a file called /etc/resolv.conf with the following lines domain domain.name # This is your domain nameserver ip.address # The first dns nameserver nameserver ip.address # Another dns nameserver See man 5 resolver for more info. --Ryan
From: slyang@nnano.ep.nctu.edu.tw (Su-Lin Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! problem with CD-ROM Date: 23 Jan 1997 17:52:34 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c88h2$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> My pc system worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with 7880 on-board chip, I found that the CD-ROM drive could not mount on to the system correctly. By checking Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/FSChime: (not a valid program). The CD-ROM model is NEC-501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter driver. When system started, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up on NS 3.3, by inquiring with SCSI_Inspector, it can be identified for target ID#4 as set. However, it fails to pass the diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can anyone help me to figure out and solve the problem? Or should I provide more informations on the status of this computer? Thanks in advance, Su-Lin Yang slyang@cc.nctu.edu.tw
From: H Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! CDROM failure Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:16:02 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c89t2$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> My old PC worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with AIC7880 chip on-board, the SCSI CDROM became failure to mount on to the system. By checking with Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/FSChime: (not a valid program). The CDROM model is NEC501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter (v3.37) driver, same with the old config. When system started up, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up to Nextstep, inquired with SCSI_Inspector, the CDROM can be identified for target id-4, but fail to pass diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can any one help to solve this problem? Or should I provide more information about the computer setting or else to figure out the problem resulted from? Thanks in advance. Su-Lin Yang slyang@epibm2.ep.nctu.edu.tw
From: 22 Jan 1997 22:22:36 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! CDROM Failure Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:20:32 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c8a5g$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> My old PC worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with AIC7880 chip on-board, the SCSI CDROM became failure to mount on to the system. By checking with Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/F SChime: (not a valid program). The CDROM model is NEC501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter (v3.37) driver, same with the old config. When system started up, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up to Nextstep, inquired with SCSI_Inspector, the CDROM can be identified for target id-4, but fail to pass diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can any one help to solve this problem? Or should I provide more information about the computer setting or else to figure out the problem resulted from? Thanks in advance. Su-Lin Yang slyang@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 7211a814fe4db89191c12be88cbcf642 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 97 09:55:21 -0500 Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 7211a814fe4db89191c12be88cbcf642 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. here's a little script I wrote to do just that. Note: this uses 'find / -type l -print' which will start at the root directory and work its way through your entire filesystem (you may want to change that "/" to something else, or add an -xdev flag or whatever. If it finds a dead link, you will be asked if you want to remove it. To change this to just report the "dead links" comment out the line /bin/rm -i $i note/bug: this doesn't always work right with links which are made like this: ln -s ../../somefile ../a_new_file [save the script as "testlink" and do "chmod 755 testlink" ] #!/bin/sh # # AUTHOR: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> # # VERSION: 1.0.0 # # DATE: 26 April 1996 # # WARNING: USE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK # # PURPOSE: # # TESTED UNDER: NeXTStep 3.2 on my NeXTStation # # USAGE NOTES: name=`basename $0` for i in `find / -type l -print` do if [ -h $i ] then real=`ls -l $i | awk '{print $NF}'` if [ -r $i ] then # uncomment the next line to see # it report each GOOD link # echo "$name[$$]: $real link is real." : else echo "$name[$$]: (Dead link name: $i) \ Reference: $real" /bin/rm -i $i fi fi done exit 0 # that's all folks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: hosed fstab Date: 25 Jan 1997 12:06:18 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5ccsvq$cp@rumah.pc.my> I have been trying, unsuccessfully to connect a 2nd headless slab to my original via ethernet -- the original can't ping, telnet, etc. the 2nd. In the process of investigating, I noticed that the 2nd slab has lots of old network related files left over from the previous owner. So, I decided to make a backup of /etc and replace it all with /usr/templates/etc. Bad move, since the template doesn't have fstab, so now it won't boot up. I don't have a cd drive, so am I screwed? How can I mount the hd as r/w so I can put fstab back where it belongs? 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Date: 26 Jan 1997 10:38:06 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5cfc6e$j73@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Responding To: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE > Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 > > > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. > > here's a little script I wrote to do just that. > This could be a nice addition to the NEXTSTEP GUI : when you move a file or directory, all the symbolic links that point to it get automatically updated. I supposed there would have to be a database of links because the target doesn't tell you what's linked to it. It could get a little involved, because you wouldn't want to muck with the CLI behavior. But then CLI would be different from GUI in handling links. Ah well... -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Message-ID: <E4M8nn.904@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) References: <5cfc6e$j73@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:42:59 GMT In article <5cfc6e$j73@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) writes: > In <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > Responding To: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE > > Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 > > > > > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > > > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. > > > > here's a little script I wrote to do just that. > > > > This could be a nice addition to the NEXTSTEP GUI : when you move > a file or directory, all the symbolic links that point to it get > automatically updated. I supposed there would have to be a database > of links because the target doesn't tell you what's linked to it. > It could get a little involved, because you wouldn't want to muck > with the CLI behavior. But then CLI would be different from GUI > in handling links. Ah well... > It seems to be very very hard to find a general solution to deal with your suggestion. The "obvious" way would be to let the system know about all links and about all file move operations (you might even go so far to add this to the unix tools like "mv" and to the relevant unix system calls). Then the system could use these informations in order to update links accordingly. But if you think about this a little bit longer, a plethora of problems come to mind: - What about file move operations done on a remote system (e.g. on a remote Novell, NFS, AppleShare or other file system)? It is hard to imagine how the local system should be able to find out about the new location of moved files, even if it would detect the fact that the original file is "missing" by periodically checking its link database. - What about file deletions? Should the system automatically remove all links? This would be a very bad idea. Because the file might just have been temporarily deleted and will be recreated shortly afterwards. Or should the system ask the user what to do with every link? *Very* annoying at the very least. Why bother the user if the deleted file will be recreated shortly afterwards. What will happen if the file is deleted by a background process when nobody is logged in? How should user A be able to know what to do with a link that's been created by user B but that becomes invalid while user A is logged in? - What about links to removable media (floppy disks, ZIP drives etc.)? Sometimes the targets are present, sometimes not. - How do you prevent existing unix programs from breaking if they rely on the behavior that moving files invalidates all symbolic links to the file? Having said all this, I want to point out two implementations that address at least some of your ideas: 1. Object links, as introduced by NEXTSTEP 3.0 (/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/ObjectLinks.rtfd). Object links use special database files to store the information about the document a link points to. It seems that not only the pathname is recorded here, but the "inode" (unix directory entry information) as well. If you either rename the original file (inode stays the same) or remove and recreate the file under the same name (name stays the same), the link still will be found. This does not work, however, if you move the file to a different directory (name and inode change) or change name and inode within the original directory (e.g. by copying the file and removing the original one). 2. Hard links (standard unix stuff). Hard links are automagically updated if you rename or move the target file. But: - Hard links do not work across file systems (making them pretty useless for anything in todays world of networked systems). - If you delete the target file, the hard link surprisingly still contains all data. To get rid of it, you'll have to delete the original file and all links to it. This behavior might not be what you'd expect. - If you delete the target file to recreate it shortly afterwards (many programs do this when updating data files), the link is broken. You end up with the target file containing the new data and with the link file containing the old data. -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I can't understand why Apple wouldn't want to pick up BeOS. Who wouldn't want to watch six movies on a rotating cube, while listening to bad music?" -= Al Franken =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: vgrind help? Date: 26 Jan 1997 11:00:27 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5cfv2r$lf6@papoose.quick.com> References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In article <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > ># vgrind area.cc >pscat: trouble reading .ct file >lpr: stdin: empty input file ># > > >What do I need to do to so that vgrind works? Ahah . . . You did not mention what architecture or version you are using but it sounds to me like you are on an intel box. The transcript font files are endian dependant, and I think that they are compiled bigendian on the CD. What you need to do is rebuild these fonts. This is complicated somewhat by the fact that the script used for rebuilding includes a configuration script which hardcodes a path specific to the original source environment, not the installation environment. Try this: cd /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font Modify the script fragment ./config so that: PSLIBDIR=$REALPSLIBDIR Now move the current font directories out of the way since the build script will not build a new font directory if the old one is in place. mkdir old for map in *.map do $dir=`basename $map .map` mv $dir old/ done Now that you have moved the old font directories out of the way, build new ones. for map in *.map do $dir=`basename $map .map` ./addtroff.sh $dir $map done Now if you are satified, you can now delete the old dir. -- ___ ___ | 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. in one of the NeXT boxes. > >Does anyone have suggestions? Recommendations? Warnings? Beer? Use your Intel box as the primary. This is key, because the old moto systems do not have serial port speeds fast enough to keep up with a good modem. Run PPP on this host. Install routes to your two black boxes via your ethernet card. To handle the routing either start routed with no arguments (to enable dynamic RIP) at boot time on all 3 hosts, or, alternatively run routed -q and add entries to the /etc/gateways files on all 3 hosts. In the gateways file for the intel host, add host level routes for each of the black machines, and make sure that the default route is the PPP line. For the black boxes route 255.255.255.0 to the white box ethernet card IP address. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241637.LAA12908@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: afe6c96c26e5d3d935dfb97fe5df6f80 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 11:37:41 -0500 Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: afe6c96c26e5d3d935dfb97fe5df6f80 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak) Original Date: 24 Jan 1997 01:39:08 GMT > Unfortunately, nppower opens /dev/np0 in order to turn it off. > This causes the printer to turn on every time it gets an > "nppower off" command from cron, i.e. every n minutes the printer > turns on in order to turn off. > > As I recall, npoffd just has the same problem. Well, I just run 'npoffd' from /etc/rc.local #begin if [ -x /usr/local/etc/npoffd ]; then (sleep 5; /usr/local/etc/npoffd 900) & (echo -n ' npoffd') >/dev/console else (echo ; echo "ERROR: can't find npoffd!") >/dev/console fi #end (where 900 is the # of seconds). I don't seem to have the source code anywhere (that's seems strange, I thought I had it ) but I think it does the same thing as nppowerd. It doesn't turn the printer on at all, it just turns it off after the inactivity time has passed. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up a OS/Intel as a gateway to the Internet. Date: 27 Jan 1997 03:10:55 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5chnuf$vme@Vir.com> Hello, I'm trying to set up an OS/4.1 Intel box as a gateway to the Internet through PPP. I would like to use just one IP address on the OS/4.1 Intel machine and hide the other machines from the Internet. It is not necessary for the other machines to connect to the Internet. I managed to connect through PPP, to the internet. I can telnet and send mail out, but I cannot recieve mail. What does the following error message mean? This is the error message I get in the mail that is returned. <<< 553 bw config error: mail loops back to myself I've setup PPP and DNS on the OS/4.1 machine. I have not set up NetInfo. But it seems I have made a mistake. (Maybe it's because it is so late at night? Who knows? :) Can anyone give me any hints. Is it better to use NetInfo or not? What files do I have to modify? (Maybe I missed one.) Anyhelp would be appreciated. Thank you, stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Networking NeXTs Message-ID: <E4MEyt.Irr@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <32EA3BC5.7858@onramp.net> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:59:17 GMT In article <32EA3BC5.7858@onramp.net> Brian Sutherland <bcs@onramp.net> writes: > I have a NeXT Turbo Dimension and NeXT Turbo Color Station. One has a > NeXT Color Printer and one has a CDROM drive. I want to be able to share > these devices between the two computers. I only have the Academic > version of NeXTSTEP 3.3 and no real good manuals. That is not true! And I very much appreciate that fact. You might not have a manual in print, but who cares? > I do not know how to set up a Netinfo or any type of NeXT server. > Can anyone help me via email or phone? Or if you have any lead to > where I can find NeXT networking information it would be helpful. > /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf A double click and there you are. All the low brain cookbooks you could ask for ;-) -- 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: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:49:36 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32EBB550.FE3@osu.edu> References: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ben Konjkav wrote: > > Michael Giddings wrote: > > > > I am looking for information on how to adapt a NeXT MegaPixel color display > > to use on PC hardware. I saw mention once of an adapter that will do this > > but can find zero info on it. > > > > I would greatly appreciate information on how to do this. > > > > -- > > Michael Giddings > > giddings@chem.wisc.edu > > giddings@barbarian.com > > (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 > > http://www.barbarian.com > > Check out http://www.photonweb.com/next/ for the video card & > the cable that are designed to run your monitor on a PC > > Ben I do not suggest that anyone does business with these guys. They do not honor their return policy very well, tech support only rarely answers the phone, they do not return phone calls (especially if it is still within the 30 days guaranteed by the return policy), they do not know the details of the monitors they claim to support, and on top of all that, they have the rudest support staff I have ever dealt with. If anyone wants more information about them, please e-mail me, since I don't wish to start a flame-ware. Thanks Karl
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: 26 Jan 1997 13:42:12 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5cg8i4$lt7@papoose.quick.com> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> In article <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu>, Terry R. McConnell <tmc@barnyard.syr.edu> wrote: >If I try to use UserManager to change root's login shell to anything but >the "genuine" /bin/sh, LoginWindow refuses to allow root to login and displays >a message saying that the imposter shell will be run and its output ignored. > >Do init and/or LoginWindow.app do some kind of internal test to detect >the "real" /bin/sh? If so, is there any way around it? Add the full pathname of bash to the file /etc/shells. -- ___ ___ | 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: c.vollmert@moeller.net (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: usr sportster 33.6 and Next ?!? Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 20:29:17 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <5cgf1g$hd7@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> Hi ! I have a Problem with my new modem usr sportster voice 33.6 extern and ns 3.3 intel. under dos and windows and works really fine, but under next the modem hangs after the connect. my old noname 14.4 works under next really fine, but i think i have to change some points in the etc/remote script (or also somewhere else?) so if somebody has the same modem that works fine under ns3.3 could please send me some tips this would be really great. thanx and bye christian c.vollmert@moeller.net (no nextmail - right now)
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swapfile Date: 26 Jan 1997 19:51:07 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <5cgcjb$2e3@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (FinalNews for NeXTstep; experimental 0.02) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, I use NS 3.3 on Intel and have the following problem. When I set my swapfile to 'nocompress' I get system panics very often during 'turn off' or 'reboot' (I mean the system panics while shutting down). This never happens when I use a compressed swapfile. I also think that it is related to the size of the swapfile. The bigger the file the more likely is a panic. Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do against it? --- _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
From: zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: talkd vulnerability in NeXTSTEP? (re: CERT Advisory) Date: 27 Jan 1997 20:07:03 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5cj1t7$61l@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Does anyone know whether the NeXTSTEP talkd is vulnerable, as per the CERT Advisory CA-97.04 of January 27? If so, has anyone compiled the latest secure talkd? Thanks for posting the answer to the newsgroup. Ed --- Edward N. Zalta Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Stanford University Home Page URL = http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! User Acct Will Not Open Date: 27 Jan 1997 05:21:10 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5che06$1vm$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> HELP! please Problem: I cannot login to my user acct [me], although root logs-in OK. After entering user name and passwd as thousands of times in past, machine opens workspace mgr, starts various apps, colour wheel then spins again for few seconds, then logs-out, reverting to login box. Even when a new user acct is created, then I logout, then attempt to login to the new user, same thing happens. Only root acct. works OK. Also I've examined permissions and checking dot-files (with my local Next expert) and we can find nothing out of order. Any helpers on this?. Thanks SD -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: erikw@wri.com (Erik Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disabling remote root logins Date: 27 Jan 1997 01:58:43 GMT Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc. Message-ID: <5ch24j$9mg@dragonfly.wolfram.com> Keywords: root login remote How do I prevent remote root logins (i.e. root can only logon on the console)? Thanks erikw@wolfram.com -- Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701261635.LAA03987@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 699556ef4acbd53d215c5acd4076d758 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 97 11:35:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 699556ef4acbd53d215c5acd4076d758 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@p3.net> Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:23:50 -0500 > My guess is because there are specific reasons why a process > becomes unkillable (see below) The code supplied will panic the machine if it is used to terminate ANY process, regardless of its state of interruptible or not TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: vgrind help? Problem solved! Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:02:05 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5cig1d$bm8@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>?nus` <5cfv2r$lf6@papoose.quick.com> In-Reply-To: <5cfv2r$lf6@papoose.quick.com> Thank you Mr. Quick! Your response solved my vgrind problem. And here I thought big and little endian problems were mostly a thing of the past. Silly me. Randy J On 01/26/97, James E. Quick wrote: >In article <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, >Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >>When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: >> >># vgrind area.cc >>pscat: trouble reading .ct file >>lpr: stdin: empty input file >># >> >> >>What do I need to do to so that vgrind works? > >Ahah . . . You did not mention what architecture or version you >are using but it sounds to me like you are on an intel box. The @?Correct assumption.@ >transcript font files are endian dependant, and I think that they >are compiled bigendian on the CD. What you need to do is rebuild >these fonts. > >This is complicated somewhat by the fact that the script used for >rebuilding includes a configuration script which hardcodes a path >specific to the original source environment, not the installation >environment. > >Try this: >cd /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font > >Modify the script fragment ./config so that: > PSLIBDIR=$REALPSLIBDIR > >Now move the current font directories out of the way since the build >script will not build a new font directory if the old one is in place. > mkdir old > for map in *.map > do $dir=`basename $map .map` > mv $dir old/ > done > >Now that you have moved the old font directories out of the way, >build new ones. > for map in *.map > do $dir=`basename $map .map` > ./addtroff.sh $dir $map > done > >Now if you are satified, you can now delete the old dir. >-- > ___ ___ | 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. > -- 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:35:32 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently installed the AppleTalk software from 3.0 on my 3.3 box and was surprised to find that it does not serve AppleTalk files, it only mounts them. Is this correct? If I just missed something, can someone please let me know where the documentation for those features is? Thanks! Karl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701271610.LAA08254@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f296a78bb485c7968b983a7d7ff2213c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 11:10:26 -0500 Subject: Re: hosed fstab Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f296a78bb485c7968b983a7d7ff2213c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Original Date: 25 Jan 1997 12:06:18 GMT > How can I mount the hd as r/w so I can put fstab > back where it belongs? If you can boot single user (which I would doubt, but it's possible) then you can go in and do mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / and then make /etc/fstab something like this: # # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING # # This file contains information used to mount local hard disks. # Consult your Network and System Administration manual # for information on adding local disks. Information on the format # of entries in this file can also be found in the fstab man page. # /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 Good luck TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: please suggest a web server for black Date: 27 Jan 1997 20:33:56 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc0cd2$3473c8c0$bb8493cf@home-166> References: <m24tg445c6.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hi Nick, Head out to NeXT's web site, and fill out their registration form to download the Apache server for NeXT. While your there, you may also want to download WebObjects. http://wofapps1.next.com/download/ Steve Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> wrote in article <m24tg445c6.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca>... > > thanks > nick >
From: rr@xs4all.nl (rr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 2.1 and UUCP/mail Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:55:17 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <rr-1801971155170001@ztm07-28.dial.xs4all.nl> Hi, I'm trying to configure uucp so I can fetch my email I'm having trouble with this. I'm using an ancient version of NS (2.1) I have a, also ancient, HSD InterFax 24/96 NX modem, I could really use some help, Rodney
From: cpayne@xmission.xmission.com (Carl Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Re: NS3.3: compile/install Perl5 Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:30:33 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5cjaa9$152@xmission.xmission.com> References: <32de9ede.6814010@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In comp.lang.perl.misc Shane <zatezalo.2@osu.edu> wrote: > I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. > I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev. OK, just to answer the obvious first: I built 5.003 on a Station running 4.0 user/dev. ZERO problems whatsoever. Now, this reminds me of something: > I followed the instructions, and got to: > AutoSplitting perl library > Making DynaLoader (static) > sh: 5303 Memory fault > *** Exit 139 > Stop. > *** Exit 1 > Stop. I had a problem like this on a Cube running 3.3 u / 3.2 dev. The memory that was in the Cube was bad. They were 9-chip 4MB SIMMs by maker "Wakamazoo" or somesuch. Putting in 8-chip (nonparity) SIMMs from Micron cured that problem. FTR, the Station has parity RAMM, so I think it's more question of maker than parity or speed. Good luck. Carl
From: cpayne@xmission.xmission.com (Carl Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: please suggest a web server for black Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:36:12 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5cjaks$2qh@xmission.xmission.com> References: <m24tg445c6.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> wrote: > thanks > nick Apache Y'welcome Carl
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Single user boot Date: 23 Jan 1997 00:43:42 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c6c7u$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32E6678A.3387@planete.net> Cc: craven@planete.net In <32E6678A.3387@planete.net> Chris Raven wrote: > > ------------358D33D94B380 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello there, > I am on charge of a NeXT Cube administration. > Halas ! My network configuration is so bad, that I can not boot anymore > : > my station stops on file system mounting, I believe it is trying to > mount some > remote fs...well if I depress ctrl/c, I reach the services launch > screen, but > my poor NeXT keeps waiting...waiting... > > I believe the best question is : how the hell do I boot in single user > mode ???! > > Thank you !!! press Command-Command-~ (the upper left key in the number pad) to stop the boot process, type 'halt' (if you already have started the boot), 'bsd -s' will boot up in single user boot. Type exit here to resume the normal bootup procedure. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Unable to use serial ports (NS3.3p1 Intel) Date: 28 Jan 1997 08:17:02 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5ckclu$pn$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5ckc8p$jtl$1@Venus.mcs.net> font@MCS.COM (Font) wrote: > Drivers: include Serial Port 3.33, PCI Bus 3.30, ISA/EISA Bus 3.31, > Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge 3.31. Hi, the TTY port server driver is not on your list. Maybe this is the problem? This driver is needed to make /dev/tty* work, when you use version 3.33 of the ISASerialDriver. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: Unable to use serial ports (NS3.3p1 Intel) Date: 28 Jan 1997 02:10:01 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5ckc8p$jtl$1@Venus.mcs.net> Scenario: NEXTSTEP 3.3p1 on Intel installed on a drive, which is too small to fit developer. Disk is dumped and restored to a larger disk. Situation: kermit will not speak to either /dev/tty*a or /dev/tty*b. Details: The major and minor numbers on the serial port devices aren't exactly the same as they are on NEXTSTEP 3.3p1 on black. I removed the tty*b devices and ran "MAKEDEV STD" on them and rebooted. The error message changed from a "not a terminal device" error to a "can't open connection" error. Prior to this change, attempts to access tty*a devices resulted in a long pause before the error, while attempts to access tty*b devices returned error conditions immediately. More details: ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 v3.0, AHA2940U, Matrox Millenium 4M, standard serial and parallel ports, Intel EtherExpress Pro/10. Drivers: include Serial Port 3.33, PCI Bus 3.30, ISA/EISA Bus 3.31, Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge 3.31. Questions: How do I get my serial ports to work? Did something go wrong during dump/restore? How can this be avoided in future? Comment: Sometimes I hate computers. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: About to buy CDROM for black. Seek recommendations Date: 27 Jan 1997 21:11:58 -0800 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5ck1qu$ist@slip.net> Hi, I'm about to buy a CDROM for my NeXTSTEP machine and am suggestions on what type to buy. The machine currently has NS2.1 on it, but I expect to upgrade to NS 3.3 or OpenStep 4.0. My first preference would be to buy a NeXT CDROM via a post on c.s.n.m. That way my machine would continue to have all NeXT parts. And hopefully be more reliable because of that. The fact that it might run at 1X doesn't bother me because I expect to run it only to install software. But I'm open to buying a compatible. Either because of great price or quality. (Will any SCSI modem work?) Suggestions? Thanks, Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701271630.LAA08433@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 9d078d320ce2aed34e04f30b39f64c4c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 11:30:15 -0500 Subject: Re: disabling remote root logins Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 9d078d320ce2aed34e04f30b39f64c4c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: erikw@wri.com (Erik Wolf) Original Date: 27 Jan 1997 01:58:43 GMT > How do I prevent remote root logins (i.e. root can only logon on > the console)? It is probably done for you already, unless you have changed /etc/ttys. Well, someone could telnet in and login as someone in the group "wheel" and then "su" to root, but the only thing I know of you can do to defend against that is turn off incoming rlogin/telnet connections TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Unable to use serial ports (NS3.3p1 Intel) Date: 28 Jan 1997 02:31:45 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5ckdhh$k58$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5ckc8p$jtl$1@Venus.mcs.net> font@MCS.COM (Font) writes: >Situation: kermit will not speak to either /dev/tty*a or /dev/tty*b. A perusal of the NeXTanswers driver overview web pages reveals what I should have known: TTY Port Server 3.33 is also required as a driver to get this to work. Hopefully this will fix my addled brains. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: CD-WRITE on NS? Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:16:39 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32EE5EA7.47AD@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone used a CD-Writer on NeXTstep? Does anyone know which drives will work? I attached an HP SureStore to my machine(TurboColor), set all the device addresses properly, and it wouldn't show up. Does anyone know of the JVC drive will work? Can you dd from one CD to another? Anyone who can give me any info is much appreciated. Thanks! Karl
From: svenifer@snet.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Decompressing .zip files? Date: 28 Jan 1997 21:42:21 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5clrrt$iui@goofy.snet.net> Is there program that will decompress PKWARE's dos pkzip/pkunzip? thanks Sven.
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! User Acct Will Not Open Date: 28 Jan 1997 04:04:15 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5cjtrv$pd1$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> HELP! Something's gone awry on my 25 Mhz/040 Cube running NS 3.3; it's been configured for a longtime now as a single user, stand-alone machine, no network: PROBLEM: When I login as user, the usual, expected things happen: dock appears Desktop seems to build, THEN the color wheel (or beach ball, if you prefer) spins for a few seconds and THEN the machine quits, reverting back to the login box-----again and again. However, if I login as root everything is OK. I've created yet another user account, no problems, then logged out and tried logging in as the new user, but to no avail. Same story as the 1st user. Also I've inspected the all of the "dot-files (like .NeXT). Nothing seems to be out of order. Tried changing their names temporarily (to .33Appinfo from .Appinfo, for example), [after making a copy of these, for safety reasons]. Still no dice. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance... answer here or my email: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca Seamus -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Missing 3.3 Intel drivers Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:19:39 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5bu35b$8d0@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Maybe someone knows how to fix this: My PC has 3 drives -- one for 4.1, one for NT (don't comment) and one for 3.3. I just tried to install 3.3 on the one disk (it used to be Motorola) and I don't have many of the drivers needed, such as ELSA, PCIBus, and for teh DPTSCSI adapter. I found these drivers on the 4.0 and 4.1 floppies / CDs. So I went and copied them on a floppy, which I gave "it" to eat when it asked for them. I get the OS to install from CD onto the disk, but then when it boots from disk it asks me for the drivers again, and when I insert the floppy it crashes with either a "rld()" or "unknown symbol" errors. Any ideas? I am absolutely new to the NeXT-PC thing, where I come from I somehow expect things to work... Thanks! - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701281915.OAA05437@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fb3e220f72cfee4a5e2a428a2dbda111 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 97 14:15:21 -0500 Subject: Re: About to buy CDROM for black. Seek recommendations Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fb3e220f72cfee4a5e2a428a2dbda111 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Original Date: 27 Jan 1997 21:11:58 -0800 > But I'm open to buying a compatible. Either > because of great price or quality. (Will any > SCSI modem work?) This is more of a "hardware" question than a "sysadmin" question, but since we're already here.... here's what I've used and recommended in the past Internal Sony 4x CD-ROM (# CDU76) (pay no more than $100) AND External case for above CD-ROM (#CS-EXTDR1) ($48) Call 1-800-REAL-PCS (ASA Computers). I'm using this CD-ROM and case, and so is someone else I met here, and no problem whatsoever. TjL ps -- there are some very good NeXTStep CD-ROMs out there, you might not want to downplay the fact that a faster CD drive might be preferable further down the road. goto http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next and check out the "NeXTStep CD-ROMS" entry. -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: gco@cs.stir.ac.uk (Graham Cochrane (CO)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Viglen genie ATX Date: 28 Jan 1997 14:18:35 GMT Organization: Computing Science and Mathematics, Stirling University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5cl1rr$6j2@lorne.stir.ac.uk> References: <5cam8i$305@lorne.stir.ac.uk> Keywords: NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel Viglen In article <5cam8i$305@lorne.stir.ac.uk>, I wrote:- |> We have just bought a Viglen genie ATX Intel PC and we thought that we'd |> have a go at trying to get NEXTSTEP 3.3 up and running on it, as an |> experiment. |> Unfortunately, we haven't got too far with this as yet! We ordered an |> Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI adapter for the machine, as this is mentioned on |> the hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com AND the driver for it |> is on the Device Drivers Disk that we have. However, we received an |> Adaptec `AHA2940 Ultra' SCSI adapter instead. This is also on the |> hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com, but I had to go to |> NeXTAnswers to get the driver for it. |> Anyway, when I try to install 3.3 on the PC, I get to the bit where it |> asks me to select the relevant driver for the CD-ROM and the Hard Disk, |> then after selecting the correct driver, the machine can't see any SCSI |> or CD devices, with the message:- |> . . . |> Registering: PCIO |> Adaptec: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING |> Registering: event0 |> Registering: kmDevice0 |> No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found |> Any ideas? By the way, this is the same symptoms when I install the |> plain AHA2940 driver from the release floppy. |> Any suggesttions as to what to do now would be welcomed. Just to report that I have succeeded in getting the machine to recognise the SCSI adapter - thanks to suggestions from Paul Lynch and Tim Bissell. The PCI ID for this particular adapter wasn't listed in the `Default.table' file under the `Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config' directory. When the machine tried to boot, there was a line:- Found PCI Device: ID=0x61789004 at Dev=0 Func=0 Bus=0 The above ID (0x61789004) needs to be added to the `Auto Detect IDs' line within the `Default.table' file. Sadly, to do this you require a machine that is already running NEXSTEP, so that you can place the driver on an additional disk. Fortunately, I had a black slab at hand to allow me to do this. NOTE: To get the Intel driver from NeXTAnswers onto a floppy on a black slab, I had to download the compressed package, then after uncompressing, I had to edit the *.info file within the package (*.pkg) to say Relocatable YES so that you can specify the floppy name as the destination for unpacking. Thanks for the help. Graham. -- Graham Cochrane, Dept of Comp Science and Maths, Stirling University Stirling FK9 4LA SCOTLAND Tel: +44 1786 467442 Fax: +44 1786 464551 graham.cochrane@cs.stir.ac.uk http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~gco/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: lost boot loader due to win95... Message-ID: <E4qnxr.IGE@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: taweil@skat.usc.edu Organization: A.L.I. Technologies, Inc. Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:03:27 GMT References: <c4ak9oxcwim.fsf@skat.usc.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin taweil wrote: > I just installed Win95 and the NeXT bootloader disappear. Is there > anyway I can get it back without re-install the whole OS? Relax, this is easy to fix. (Just be glad you didn't install Windows 3.1/DOS, as it would have happily reformatted all attatched non-DOS drives). First, if you are automatically booting into W95 instead of NeXTSTEP, use the DOS fdisk program to swap which partition is active and then reboot into NeXTSTEP. Once booted into NeXTSTEP use the followin instructions rrom "NEXTSTEP Tech Support Frequently Asked Questions" http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1470.htmld/1470.html Q: My NEXTSTEP PC doesn't display the prompt 'Press n for NEXTSTEP, d for DOS' when the system starts up, even though my disk has both DOS and NEXTSTEP partitions. How can I fix the disk so I can boot from either partition? A: Somehow the boot sector for the disk became corrupted or was removed. You need to replace it. Often this is caused by installing DOS 6.x or Windows95. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a If you're using an IDE disk, substitute /dev/rhd0a for /dev/rsd0a. Note: You must execute this command as root. Incorrectly typing this command can have serious repercussions. Use caution when logged in as root. See also: NeXTanswer 1487 "Intel Boot Process" for details on booting. The NEXTSTEP fdisk(8) UNIX manual page and NeXTanswer 1130 "Surviving DOS". -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: biff and 10BaseT vs. thin net on black hardware Date: 27 Jan 1997 22:55:10 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5cjboe$m40@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Hi, A friend of mine encountered the following peculiar problem: After a network upgrade from a thin net (coax) to 10BaseT network, doing 'biff y' in a Terminal.app window causes two sets of alerts to appear each time mail is received. This seems only to be related to which network connector the machine is using. Here is an excerpt from his description of the problem: >sure enough, i pulled the 10baseT out and fed through a 10baseT to >thinwire adapter plugged into usual thinwire port, and a single biff >alert. network is the same, only difference is which network port it >thinks it's using (and if i pull network connection entirely then last >used remains default, hence double biff even after unplugging 10baseT). > >can cycle back and forth (without rebooting, or with rebooting, doesn't >matter), totally reproducible (presumably on all the black slabs): double >biff alert with 10baseT, single with thinwire... He is running NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched I believe) on a 25 MHz mono NeXTstation. netstat and ifconfig show no difference when switching between behaviors. So, has anyone seen anything like this before, or know what may be causing the problem? Cheers, Mark doyle@aps.org
From: "Keith L. Swallow" <swallow@oar.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:27:09 -0500 Organization: OARnet Message-ID: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: swallow@oar.net Hello all, I need to find a copy of tcl or instructions for installing tcl 7.6 on a next with nextmach 1.0 .. I know its old... But it is what I have to work with. SO any assistance would be gratfully appreciated. Please just reply to this by mailing me : swallow@oar.net Also sorry for cross posting... I wanted to hit everybody that might be able to help... thanks again... -Sincerly Keith Lee Swallow Thanks again... --
From: c.vollmert@moeller.net (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: US Robotics modem and Gatekeeper Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:15:49 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <5cn163$lfc@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> References: <5c0gra$5fc@alder.northcoast.com> stuart@redwood.northcoast.com (Stuart Staniford-Chen) wrote: >I'm trying to set up Gatekeeper (v2.0) /PPP with a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster >modem and I'm not getting through to my provider (the modems negotiate but >I never get a carrier). I *can* get through to a shell account with kermit. >I suspect my problem is with the entry in /etc/remote or with the modem >initialization. Can anyone who has done this help me out with their setup? >Thanks, >Stuart Staniford-Chen >Computer Security Group >UC Davis. Hi ! Im having the same problem. So if you recive any help could you please send me an answer too ? Thanx Christian c.vollmert@moeller.net (right now, no nextmail please)
From: markus@isolde.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de (Markus Stoll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: CD-WRITE on NS? Date: 29 Jan 1997 08:53:47 GMT Organization: MPI Stuttgart Message-ID: <5cn36r$pnr@gwdu19.gwdg.de> References: <32EE5EA7.47AD@osu.edu> "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> wrote: >Has anyone used a CD-Writer on NeXTstep? Yes > Does anyone know which drives will work? Depends on the cd writing application >I attached an HP SureStore to my machine(TurboColor), set >all the device addresses properly, and it wouldn't show up. What do you mean? It doesn't show up as cdrom? >Does anyone know of the JVC drive will work? Depends on the cd writing application >Can you dd from one CD to another? No. You definetly need a cd writing application. Our program AerePerennius is in the final testing phase and will support Philips (and compatible as the HP) and Yamaha recorders. If you want to test it, send me a mail. Markus
From: Marty McDade <mmcdade@sprintmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pro Audio Spectrum Plus (Not 16) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:00:18 -0500 Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <32EEBD42.4B0F@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone out there used a Pro Audio Spectrum Plus card under Nextstep? I am trying to use this card on my system running OpenStep 4.1. I am trying to use the driver for the Pro Audio Spectrum 16, but I have only been able to produce an annoying high pitched noise when I try to produce any sound. The card is recognized during the device driver loading phase of the boot up. Thanks for any assistance, hints, etc. Marty
From: "Hkan Jonsson" <hajons@combitech.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q:Info on software versions Date: 28 Jan 1997 08:39:00 GMT Organization: Dell Computer Corporation Message-ID: <01bc0cf7$185af1c0$1f504b92@P080031.software.combitech.se> Hi! Q: How do I get information on which versions of software are available in a certain release of NS? I have tried man pages, release notes,nextanswers etc without luck. What I want to know at the moment is what versions of sendmail and m4 that are shipped with NS 3.3. Can anyone help? /Hakan Jonsson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Message-ID: <9701281436.AA05709@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Karsten Heinze <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 97 22:36:13 +0800 Subject: NeXTSTEP as PPP server problems Hi, I have a Intel NeXTSTEP 3.3 with NeXT-ppp2.3-0.5.0 and try to setup = a PPP server. The problem is : I call with a W95 box to my NeXT, it connects, it comes=20 "login:", i type the login, then comes a lot ot strange characters = but not the "password:" Any hints ? Thanks, - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE=20 Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP ***
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: US Robotics modem and Gatekeeper Date: 29 Jan 1997 12:21:48 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5cnfcs$6l9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <5cn163$lfc@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> I suspect the problem you guys are having is as follows: As mentioned in one of the ppp FAQ's on some modems the DTE speed will remain at the value set when the last AT command was issued. This can be a problem when dialing using comm programs such as tip instead of chat. The Manual Dial mechanism in 2.0 and all prior releases relies on tip and is therefore suceptible to this problem. Its very hardware dependent so many will never see this problem (my Supra is aflicted, my Boca is not). For this reason and to simplify things the Manual Dial in GateKeeper 2.1 was rewritten to eliminate the need for tip. Get GateKeeper 2.1 Beta 5 off of Peak. Set the serial port and DTE speed in GK's preferences->Link panel and everything should just work. In article <5cn163$lfc@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> c.vollmert@moeller.net (Christian Vollmert) writes: >stuart@redwood.northcoast.com (Stuart Staniford-Chen) wrote: > >>I'm trying to set up Gatekeeper (v2.0) /PPP with a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster >>modem and I'm not getting through to my provider (the modems negotiate but >>I never get a carrier). I *can* get through to a shell account with kermit. >>I suspect my problem is with the entry in /etc/remote or with the modem >>initialization. Can anyone who has done this help me out with their setup? > >>Thanks, > >>Stuart Staniford-Chen >>Computer Security Group >>UC Davis. > >Hi ! > >I m having the same problem. So if you recive any help could you >please send me an answer too ? > >Thanx > >Christian > >c.vollmert@moeller.net (right now, no nextmail please) > -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with Audio CDs and NeXTStep 3.2/Moto Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 27 Jan 97 22:30:55 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32ed2c9f.0@192.33.12.30> References: <5c5hn9$ctc@news3.texas.net> <5cd6oe$gco@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> Michael Pieper (michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de) wrote: : >It's almost as if the system won't recognize/mount audio CDs.. did I : >forget to add a filesystem type somewhere?..... : There should be a directory /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs. I have the same problem! Upon inspecting /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs, I have cdaudio.util, but not cdaudio.device. I assume this is important. Moreover, it's not on the NS3.1 CD. Do I have to generate this device myself? If so, how? If not, how do I get it? -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 29 Jan 1997 14:17:32 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> Cc: matthias.3@osu.edu In <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> "Karl N. Matthias" wrote: > I recently installed the AppleTalk software from 3.0 on my 3.3 box and > was surprised to find that it does not serve AppleTalk files, it only > mounts them. Is this correct? If I just missed something, can someone > please let me know where the documentation for those features is? > > Thanks! > > Karl > See my home page for more information about NeXTSTEP Appletalk connectivity: http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 29 Jan 97 09:53:04 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> In-reply-to: "Keith L. Swallow"'s message of Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:27:09 -0500 In article <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net>, "Keith L. Swallow" <swallow@oar.net> writes: I need to find a copy of tcl or instructions for installing tcl 7.6 on a next with nextmach 1.0 .. I know its old... But it is what I have to work with. SO any assistance would be gratfully appreciated. Please just reply to this by mailing me : swallow@oar.net I've posted a copy of tcl7.6 modified to compile under NeXTSTEP3.3 to my home page. Getting it to compile under NS1.0 will likely be a chore, since a lot has happened since then. If you told us what goes wrong when you try to ./configure and compile it, well, then we might be able to help more. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell>
From: yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu (York Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IBM Ultrastar where can I get it??? Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:32:30 -0700 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <yblock-2801971732310001@79.phoenix-001.az.dial-access.att.net> Hi, I need some advise. I am trying to buy the IBM Ultrastar ES 2.1GB FSCSI2 (not the wide version) harddisk. I tried to get it from NECX but they don't have it rigth now. Does anyone know whereelse I can buy it?. Thank you York
From: taweil <taweil@skat.usc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lost boot loader due to win95... Date: 28 Jan 1997 13:36:50 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: taweil@skat.usc.edu Message-ID: <c4ak9oxcwim.fsf@skat.usc.edu> Hi, I just installed Win95 and the NeXT bootloader disappear. Is there anyway I can get it back without re-install the whole OS? -- Ta-Wei Li
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) Subject: NXFax : NO DIALTONE ? Message-ID: <E4sDMn.1Ir@fritz.snafu.de> Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de Organization: Software Engineering Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:15:57 GMT Does anybody know how to operate NXFax if the modem is connected to a PBX ? Apparently NXFax initialises the modem with ATX4. When connected to a PBX the modem returns NO DIALTONE when the dialing command is issued, i.e. sending faxes does not work any longer. If the modem would have been initialised with ATX3, everything would work fine. That's the modem's NVRAM setting, but NXFax issues a ATX4 after the ATZ before sending a fax, apparently. Thanks for any info, Ernst. --- Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
From: rick@axon.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Gray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: rdist: update: mtime not delimited? Date: 29 Jan 1997 17:59:09 GMT Organization: Div. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Message-ID: <5co35d$fof@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> We're using rdist to make a mirror of a laptop home directory onto a lab machine. Everything works fine, but we get a bunch of these errors: rdist: update: mtime not delimited What does this mean, and how can I fix it? NextStep 3.3 on both laptop and cube housing rdist's target disk. thanks, rick -- Rick Gray, Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx 77030 | Internet: rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu | NeXTMail accepted
From: khans@slingshot (Shehryar Khan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 29 Jan 1997 19:21:18 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Message-ID: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> I'm trying to connect a 28.8 Supra Fax Modem (Mac) to a NeXT Turbo Color (68040). In the modem manual it explicitly says that the cable that comes with it has hardware handshaking support. I made the appropriate entry in /etc/remote af28800| ... | dv=/dev/cufa (for flow control). etc.. now when I typed tip af28800 it says connected but then it hangs. It won't let me type anything. It won't even let me quit. so I tried using dv=/dev/cua instead. that works fine. It lets me set modem parameters and dial in. However when it does get a "carrier" it starts spewing out junk. I can see the send data and receive data lights flashing on the modem which leads me to believe that data is being transmitted and received properly. Does this have anything to do with setting the connection "rate." Has anybody experienced any problems like this?? What have I done wrong?? Would really appreciate it if somebody could help me out on this. Thanks! shehryar khans@psca.com OpenStep/NeXTStep Developer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: [Q] make_services : someone else is making services??? Message-ID: <E4puCu.EA@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> <QmuFyUu00iV203UvlR@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:24:29 GMT Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jan-97 [Q] > make_services : someone.. by Eduardo F. Vieira@laeff. > > I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 Intel Version (HP Vectra 486), and every time one > > logins in I got the message: > > > > syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services. > > > > Is it dangerous?? Could I avoid it in some way ? > > It's not dangerous. What's happening is the WorkSpace normally rebuilds > its database of information like what file extensions correspond to what > app, and what services various apps provide, etc when you log in. > > If, for whatever reason, this process is already going on or if > something else tries to rebuild the services while the WorkSpace is > already doing so, you'll get that message. Don't worry about it. > While I have no problems on my home machine we discoverd some pretty strange behavior on a freshly installed OPENSTEP 4.0 PC. When you log in Mail.app failes to launch automatically. I have seen this on my NeXTcube with 4.0 too but a manuall launch of the Mail.app usually fixes this and its not a real pain...while it is strange. But on the "PC" things go further then that. Launching Mail by hand imediatly quites the app...no message on the console or what ever. Same gos for Opener.app and some others. While yet other apps lauch perfectly. If you do an "upate viewers" in Workspace then you will get teh "someone else is already making services" so you can tell that this process is running in the background. On the PC this takes pretty long but there are not that many apps installed and the filesystem is pretty clean and small up to now (much smaller then on my NeXT at home) Now the strange thing is that if you wait long enough you can launch Mail.app or Opener.app without any problem...and it seems that this is related to the finished "make-_services" stuff. But then...it does not happen always !!!?? Some user can log in and have Mail fired up and running. Some users sometimes can launch Mail and sometimes have to suffer from that descirbed mystery ? So is this a 4.0 "bug/feature" and will 4.1 fix that ? I am pretty puzzled. Aloha Tomi
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,su.computers.next Subject: can't find NS partition on 2nd SCSI hard disk Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:29:39 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5coj0j$j53@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I just installed a 2nd SCSI HD into my NS/Intel 3.2 system. I used fdisk to split it into 3 partitions (in order: DOS, NEXTSTEP, Linux). NEXTSTEP doesn't seem to recognize the NS partition of the 2nd disk. My 1st HD has 2 partitions (DOS, NEXTSTEP). NS can see both of these, and the new DOS partition on the new disk, but not the NEXTSTEP partition. NS can see the raw device (/dev/rsd1h), and in fact, I used NS's version of fdisk to do the partitioning. Before partitioning, NS could see the disk and I even formatted it and could read and write on it. But I couldn't leave things like this since I wanted to have it split so I could run Linux. Now, no directory comes up under '/' for the new NS partition, nor do I get a message when I log on saying "SCSI disk unreadable, would you like to format it", as I did before it was partitioned. The Console shows a message that complains that the device is busy and so it gave up trying to mount it. (Full Console output included below.) Can NS handle a 2nd SCSI disk that is partitioned? (Misc: There are no IDE HDs, only 2 SCSI ones. The SCSI IDs are: 1st HD = 0, 2nd HD = 1, CD-ROM = 2, Adaptec 1542cf SCSI controller = 7. The raw devices in NS for the HDs are: 1st = /dev/rsd0h, 2nd = /dev/rsd1h.) -Karl Console output: Software Version 3.2 (Thunder5S) probing for DOS Filesystem name: DOS Jan 29 14:18:33 Workspace: Mounted DOS disk at /dos-win95 probing for CDROM probing for DOS Jan 29 14:18:36 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /dos-win95-2 probing for DOS Filesystem name: DOS mount: /dev/rsd1h on /dos-win95-2_2: Device busy mount: giving up on: /dos-win95-2_2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: liao@il.us.swissbank.com (David Liao) Subject: Sending email attachments from command prompt Message-ID: <1997Jan30.001903.1232@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:19:03 GMT Is there a way to send email attachments from the unix command prompt? I want to send an email with attachment file to users with NEXT Mail reader. When the users receive the mail, the attachment file should appear as an icon. The closest I got was uuencode, but the users need to do an extra step of decoding a foreign attachment from the NEXT Mail menu. Please send your recommendation to my email address: david_liao@il.us.swissbank.com Thanks!
From: stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen) Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ssh on NeXTStep Date: 29 Jan 1997 23:25:59 GMT Organization: Northcoast Internet Message-ID: <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 for Intel system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be possible but it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but "make" hits a wall with: gcc -c -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DC_UNDERSCORE=1 -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O mp_bases.c ../gmp-impl.h:259: syntax error, found `)' ../gmp-impl.h:259: bad attribute specification, expecting constant, found `;' ../gmp-impl.h:298: syntax error, found `32' ../gmp-impl.h:298: bad attribute specification, expecting constant, found `;' ../gmp-impl.h:299: syntax error, found `20' ../gmp-impl.h:299: syntax error, found `;' ../gmp-impl.h:300: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `exp' ../gmp-impl.h:301: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `sig' ../gmp-impl.h:304: illegal external declaration, found `}' *** Exit 1 (Note that gcc is a link to NeXT's /bin/cc on my system, but it doesn't help to take it away) Inspection of the relevant code does not quickly reveal the problem to me (but we're deep in macros inside macros here). The problem compiling this file persists even running the compiler with the -E option (it will not produce any output). The same thing happens with the preceding version of ssh (v1.2.16). Has anyone successfully installed this tool on a Next and can they help me out? Stuart Staniford-Chen Computer Security Group University of California, Davis.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701291707.MAA10593@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 232bb62ba384515e3e6d760cb0f93b51 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 12:07:23 -0500 Subject: Re: Q:Info on software versions Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 232bb62ba384515e3e6d760cb0f93b51 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "Hikan Jonsson" <hajons@combitech.se> Original Date: 28 Jan 1997 08:39:00 GMT > What I want to know at the moment is what versions of sendmail and > m4 that are shipped with NS 3.3. Can anyone help? sendmail: Have you tried "telnet localhost 25"? That should tell you the sendmail version. m4 run /bin/strings on /usr/bin/m4. Looks like version 1.3 to me TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NLP problems persist Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:28:47 -0500 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <32EFC10F.1F54@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope someone can help me. The problems I'm having with my NeXT Laser Printer persist. Basically, the page is printed stretched in the vertical dimension. If I draw a box that's one inch square and print it, the printout shows a box one inch wide but a little more than one inch tall. That's not too much of a problem when printing text, but it makes any kind of graphics very difficult. And plays havoc with mailing labels! This happens from all apps that print. I might add that occasionally, the first print job does come out right, but all subsequent ones do not. Anyone have any suggestions as to a cause/solution? Any help would be very much appreciated. -- Stefano Pagiola 850 N Randolph Str No.817, Arlington VA 22203, USA All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
From: "Bill Keller" <kellerw@okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT boot loader Date: 30 Jan 1997 08:15:50 GMT Organization: Creative Logic Software Message-ID: <01b99229$af4be3a0$06254e8b@carcosa> Has anyone had any success setting up nextstep to launch from the Windows NT boot loader? I've played around with the boot.ini file, but can't seem to get the right settings. I have IDE hard drive with dos SCSI hard drive with nextstep SCSI hard drive with NT These are in the order that they appear in the rdisk portion of the boot.ini file. Any info would be a big help. Thanks! -- Bill Keller (kellerw@okstate.edu) Creative Logic Software
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Date: 30 Jan 1997 08:05:45 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I very much would like to create a serial device which operates at 38,400 baud. Unfortunately, NEXTSTEP seems to think this an odd speed, as whenever I try the port fails to operate correctly. I've followed what I believe are the correct steps to create the port (cufa38400), but using 'tip cufa38400' results in a connection that fails to communicate with the modem. Tip responds with 'connected,' so it appears the setup is correct. I can type whatever I like... but apparently the modem never receives it, or I never receive the modems response. Any suggestions or step-by-step notes on creating and verifying such a connection would be greatly appreciated. Please email me--if anyone is interested, I'll be glad to post a summary. Thanks! --- 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: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 30 Jan 1997 04:01:33 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5cp6et$986@eve.enteract.com> References: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> In-Reply-To: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> The Mac SCC handles hardware handshaking by modulating the signal against an inverted copy of the same signal. It implements RS-422. Bottom line is the cable that came with the modem is not wired to communicate with the RS-232C serial ports on Next hardware. You need to follow the man zs instructions on this one. For a comparison of the two, see the URL in my sig below. -Kevin On 01/29/97, Shehryar Khan wrote: > >I'm trying to connect a 28.8 Supra Fax Modem (Mac) to a NeXT Turbo >Color (68040). > >In the modem manual it explicitly says that the cable that comes with >it has hardware handshaking support. >I made the appropriate entry in /etc/remote > >af28800| ... | dv=/dev/cufa (for flow control). >etc.. > >now when I typed > > tip af28800 > >it says connected but then it hangs. It won't let me type anything. >It won't even let me quit. > >so I tried using dv=/dev/cua instead. >that works fine. It lets me set modem parameters and dial in. However >when it does get a "carrier" it starts spewing out junk. I can see the >send data and receive data lights flashing on the modem which leads me >to believe that data is being transmitted and received properly. > >Does this have anything to do with setting the connection "rate." Has >anybody experienced any problems like this?? What have I done wrong?? > >Would really appreciate it if somebody could help me out on this. > >Thanks! > >shehryar >khans@psca.com >OpenStep/NeXTStep Developer > -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: Marty McDade <mmcdade@sprintmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pro Audio Spectrum Plus Card Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:20:37 -0500 Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <32F02195.103@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: marty_mcdade@fanniemae.com Does anyone know if it is possible to use the 8 Bit Pro Audio Spectrum Plus card with NextStep. I am trying to use the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 Driver with OpenStep 4.1 (Intel). The "Configuring Devices" stage of the boot procedure reports that the card is being recognized. However, the card only produces a high pitched noise when I attempt to play any sound files. I have tried all the interupt and IRQ settings that were available with my system. With OS/2 I was able to use the 16 bit driver after making some changes to a configuration file. I am hoping there is a similar work around for the OpenStep driver. Thanks for any help! Marty McDade
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@crt.com> Message-ID: <9701291656.AA00487@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 10:56:18 -0600 Subject: STB Video support questions Cc: randyn@jorsm.com I am thinking about upgrading my STB S3 PCI card to either STB 128 Lightning PCI or STB Velocity which uses the 3D S3 Virge 3X Is anyone successfully using either one of these cards under NEXTSTEP? Will the S3 PCI or S3 Virge drivers work with either of these cards? (The S3 Virge document doesn't mention the STB). Thanks Randy randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ The Top 50+ Geek T-Shirt Slogans: 28. CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)? tried booting wit -s and then fsck'ing. I then <cntl><d> to enter multi-user mode. When done this way it gets thru all the rc stuff, and tries to bring up the screen. However, all I get is just a black screen. It kind of seems like the video may be having a problem. If I boot with config=Default, it will boot up fine (using the VGA of course). Any ideas what may be happening and how I can fix it? Is an setting on the S3 I should change to prevent it from conflicting with this new memory? Thanks, Randy Nelson randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Employer Talk: MUST HAVE AN EYE FOR DETAIL: We have no quality control.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.1 and Windows NT Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:21:03 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <32F0922F.2781@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have just installed OPENSTEP 4.1 for windows NT and although all the developers stuff seems to work okay, there does not seem to be any applications. What I wondered was if there was any of the NeXT applications included, such as the mail program and the terminal etc. These were not on the distibution I have. Was the port limited just to the developers stuff? Has anyone any experience of porting generally available software to OPENSTEP/Windows NT and is there any archive off application for windows NT available. I could not see anything on the peanuts archive which is fairly extensive here in Germany. Email replies preferred if possible. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.1 and amd Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:31:03 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <32F09487.446B@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have upgraded my Intel machine to OPENSTEP 4.1 and everything went okay apart from a problem with OPENSTEP and the amd automounter. This is the linux automonter. The problem is that sometimes it gives bus error and when starting it by hand immediately after reboot, and if starting it automatically in the boot script it stops the boot and error messages about printer/tcp unknown are given. If I start the deamons later their is no bus error and it seems to work okay. But I need to start it on reboot so that home directies etc etc are mounted for people to login. I have recompiled the original version I used, and also the latest version available and all give the same problem. I did not any problems with OPENSTEP 4.0 or NeXTSTEP 3.3 which all work perfectly. Does anyone have any ideas or suggests on what could be the problem. There is not a lot of documentation on the difference between 4.0 and 4.1 supplied with the documentation. I am trying to search the NeXT server for possible problems that might cause the conflict but boy is it really slow to connect to the NeXT server. Any suggestions welcome. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ssh on NeXTStep Date: 30 Jan 1997 13:48:52 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5cq8s4$inl@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> In article <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen) writes: > I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 for > Intel system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be > possible but it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but > "make" hits a wall with 1. I've built 1.2.16 already. Feel free to use it. Find it at peak. 2. You'll need to specifiy an additional CFLAG: -traditional-cpp if you REALLY want to try to build yourself. -- 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: mwnc@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Niels Coelle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Where can I set the MTU? Date: 30 Jan 1997 13:41:46 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU Clausthal Message-ID: <5cq8eq$ri1$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Hi all! How can I set set MTU for my Ethernet? The ifconfig way does not work. thanks Niels
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:18:32 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32E38CC8.2307@ibp.de> References: <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Johnson wrote: > > It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in crontab > to automatically turn off the NeXT prn and I thought I saved the info > but can't find it now that I ready to try to do it. > Can anyone refresh my 'database', please? > > Stephen nppower on | off Fun, Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Shyne-Song Chuang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ssh on NeXTStep Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:49:29 +0800 Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <csong-3001972249290001@centris.tip.com.sg> References: <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> <5cq8s4$inl@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5cq8s4$inl@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: > In article <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart > Staniford-Chen) writes: > > I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 for > > Intel system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be > > possible but it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but > > "make" hits a wall with > > 1. I've built 1.2.16 already. Feel free to use it. Find it at peak. > 2. You'll need to specifiy an additional CFLAG: -traditional-cpp > if you REALLY want to try to build yourself. > > -- > Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) -traditional-cpp fixes your problem above. However, you'll probably bump into asm problems next. You need to configure with -disable-asm. BTW, 1.2.17 makes out of the box on NextStep 3.3 Intel with gcc as long as you disable asm. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: nurban@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Nathan M. Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Question Date: 30 Jan 1997 16:28:29 -0500 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5cr3pt$3n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <32F109F1.4BB@onramp.net> In article <32F109F1.4BB@onramp.net>, rmaniac@onramp.net wrote: > I found a gif of what was supposed to be NeXTSTEP 4.0 a while back. That was likely a mockup of a 4.0 beta release. > It had a new dock, gradient windows bars and many niceties. I picked up a > copy of openstep 4.1 and it looks just like NS 3.3. Am I missing a > setting or did they scrap all the visual stuff when they moved from > NeXTSTEP to OPENSTEP? They scrapped it. The betas had a new UI, but that didn't make it into 4.0. -- Nathan Urban | nurban@vt.edu | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Message-ID: <9701300101.AA05524@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Karsten Heinze <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 09:01:34 +0800 Subject: Re: ssh on NeXTStep Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com In article <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com>, you wrote: > I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 = for Intel=20 > system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be = possible but=20 > it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but "make" hits = a wall=20 > with: ... > Has anyone successfully installed this tool on a Next and can = they help me=20 > out? Hi, the problem ist the gmp library, use the version for NeXTSTEP from = next-ftp.peak.org or use the compiled ssh-1.2.17 from = next-ftp.peak.org. - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE=20 Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP ***
From: anna@cat.com Organization: Copy.Cat Shop. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> References: <5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:44:38 +1 EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "TheCopyCatShop" or "summary of auto-cancels" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: Complete Canon P133 Computer System.
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help.. [Network Printer] ... Date: 31 Jan 1997 01:12:44 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5crguc$a58$1@news.cc.umr.edu> HI, We have a pentium 133 running NextStep 3.3. I was trying to connect a Network printer (postScript printer) to this machine. What do I need to do for this to work. Thank you very much .. Sanjeev
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help... [CD ROM on next]... Date: 31 Jan 1997 01:17:20 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5crh70$a58$2@news.cc.umr.edu> I had installed a CD ROM driver (6x) on Pentium 133 running NS 3.3. Of late I cannot seem to access the CD ROM driver (for music CDs or otherwise). I was wondering what could have gone wrong. Could it have been some bug in CD Player that comes with the system. What do I need to do to correct this. Thank you .. Sanjeev
From: Brian Sutherland <rmaniac@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:52:01 -0600 Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <32F109F1.4BB@onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found a gif of what was supposed to be NeXTSTEP 4.0 a while back. It had a new dock, gradient windows bars and many niceties. I picked up a copy of openstep 4.1 and it looks just like NS 3.3. Am I missing a setting or did they scrap all the visual stuff when they moved from NeXTSTEP to OPENSTEP? The file I speak of is ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/next/Graphics/From_NeXT/ns40.gif Please write back both E-mail and newsgroup so I will be sure to get it. my email address is in my sig it is not uptop for spam resons. -Brian bcs@onramp.net
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot process fails arter adding more RAM Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:19:20 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5cr6p8$7o9$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <9701291652.AA00393@nx_chi> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> wrote: : I added 2 4x32 16MB SIMMs to increase my RAM from 32 to 64MB. : However now my White NEXT won't complete the boot process. : It is a Gateway P100 with dual boot of 95/NS. It has an STB PCI Powergraph 64 : w/2MB and I am using the S3 Generic PCI Display Driver with settings at 0x3B0 : and 0x3000000 64*1024*1024 = 0x4000000 Set the memory map for the graphics card to something higher than this. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: john@wpa.com (John Bartley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS question Date: 31 Jan 1997 06:40:29 GMT Organization: -=MO.NET=- MVP-Net, Inc's Missouri Operations Message-ID: <5cs44t$pha@twain.mo.net> Anyone have an experience with accessing NeXTs using the Hummingbird Maestro NFS client? I've tried it at the office and tried it at home and have had no luck. It can see my exports, but when I try to connect it simply pops up a tiny little error panel with a little red X on it!! :-( The only word is in the title bar and it says HCLNET. Not exactly a lot of help in figuring out what's wrong. I've tried varying everything I can think of, but to no avail. Does anyone have a clue about what it might be objecting to? This appears to be a problem on the PC side, since I had the same trouble with an HP server running HP UX. My NeXT and the HP mount file systems from each other, so I know that NFS works fine on both of them as clients and servers. The only thing I can think of that is a problem might be the port assignment. Maestro lists port 2049 in the configuration panel, but I don't think NS likes this. I tried setting up an entry in netinfo just in case, but got the same result. So, NFS gurus, do I need better PC software or a better brain? :-) Thanks for any pointers.... John Bartley john@wpa.com
From: randy@randyn2.jorsm.com (Randy Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Date: 31 Jan 1997 07:09:17 GMT Organization: Structured Network Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <5cs5qt$kih$1@news.structured.net> I have a system with an 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and 2.SCSI drive with NS. My system will try to boot the EIDE drive first. I have installed System Commander and would like to be able to boot either NS partition without having to enter sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a when I boot off of the SCSI one. Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? Thanks, Randy -- - Randy Nelson Senior Systems Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) Email: randyn@jorsm.com (NeXTmail accepted) WorkEmail: randyn@crt.com (NeXTmail accepted)
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfoManager problem Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:29:45 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5css49$2e2@eve.enteract.com> "all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the cause of this? I recently installed the 3.1 patch and now wonder if this might be a contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions regarding how to track down/fix this problem. thanks -Kevin -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:32:46 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. "all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the cause of this? I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions regarding how to track down/fix this problem. thanks, again -Kevin -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: i455@baracke.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Bergmann Winfried) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Date: 31 Jan 1997 15:47:13 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5ct461$tr7@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <5cs5qt$kih$1@news.structured.net> Randy Nelson (randy@randyn2.jorsm.com) wrote: : I have a system with an : 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and : 2.SCSI drive with NS. : : My system will try to boot the EIDE drive first. : : I have installed System Commander and would like to be able to boot either : NS partition without having to enter sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a when I : boot off of the SCSI one. : : Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off : of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? I'm not familiar with w95, but the NT4.0 boot loader kann boot an os with it's boot sector (in something like boot.ini). If w95 is similiar, try this. I also have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 distribution, which came with a boot loader (osbs) which can boot from the second drive. (Mail me for further details, cause I'm not at home to check this) : : Thanks, : Randy : -- : : - Randy Nelson : Senior Systems Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) : : Email: randyn@jorsm.com (NeXTmail accepted) : WorkEmail: randyn@crt.com (NeXTmail accepted) -- ========================================================================== Winfried Bergmann | Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page ==========================================================================
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: biff and 10BaseT vs. thin net on black hardware Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Date: 29 Jan 97 08:54:26 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32ef1042.0@192.33.12.30> References: <5cjboe$m40@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Mark Doyle (doyle@aps.org) wrote: : A friend of mine encountered the following peculiar problem: : After a network upgrade from a thin net (coax) to 10BaseT network, doing : 'biff y' in a Terminal.app window causes two sets of alerts to appear each : time mail is received. This seems only to be related to which network : connector the machine is using. Here is an excerpt from his description of : the problem: : He is running NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched I believe) on a 25 MHz mono : NeXTstation. netstat and ifconfig show no difference when switching : between behaviors. : So, has anyone seen anything like this before, or know what may be causing : the problem? Ooh ooh me! I've got the same problem on my color turbo running 3.3. I'm also on a 10bt network, and I've never tried thin at all. I've come to accept this as part of every day life. But get this: I've got a sparc running SunOS sitting right next to me on the network. When I get mail on the NeXT, I get a message on the sparc. At first I assumed this was because they were sharing filesystems and mail spools and something weird was happening. However, a friend is running Linux, and our machines are not related in anyway whatsoever (aside from being on the same network :) no shared filesystems, etc). I do have an account there, and guess what happens when I get new mail for jklein@freon? Anywhere on my subnet, if I get mail here, and there is a jklein on the machine, I get biff'd, but only once. I'm a little confused as to how biff works, then... since if I ifconfig en0 broadcast 0 then I get no biffs. I would expect that I would get 1, and zero on the other machines with this. I'm confused :) anyone? -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 31 Jan 1997 17:52:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. > >"all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the >cause of this? > >I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a >contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions >regarding how to track down/fix this problem. > >thanks, again >-Kevin >-- >Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> >d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n >NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html I haven't heard of any problems with the patch and NetInfoManager.app. Anyone else? Other info would be helpful. Have you installed any new apps? Is netinfo running (use ps -aux)? --Ryan
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 31 Jan 1997 15:27:05 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> In <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > In <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> "Karl N. Matthias" wrote: > > I recently installed the AppleTalk software from 3.0 on my 3.3 box and > > was surprised to find that it does not serve AppleTalk files, it only > > mounts them. Is this correct? If I just missed something, can someone > > please let me know where the documentation for those features is? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Karl > > > > See my home page for more information about NeXTSTEP Appletalk connectivity: > > http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html > Frank references the netatalk pages at umich.edu from his next_cap page, which describe an alternative and IMHO superior implementation of functionality equivalent to CAP: I've used netatalk on Linux boxen, and I think it performs very well indeed. Unfortunately, the netatalk FAQ (http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/faq.html) has this to say about Nextstep, and by implementation, Openstep: Does netatalk work on NeXTs? At one point we were working on a port. It was not going well, and then NeXT decided to become a completely different company. We are no longer working on a port. I've heard that there are people interested in a port. Porting it to NeXT/Openstep would require writing a loadable kernel module (read "AppleTalk driver") that implements the various AppleTalk protocols, plus porting the atalkd daemon. I'd love to see a Next port of this software --- or even better for Next/Apple --- supply it as standard part of the OS. Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS question Date: 31 Jan 1997 20:19:31 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5ctk4j$fdb$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5cs44t$pha@twain.mo.net> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin John Bartley <john@wpa.com> wrote: : Anyone have an experience with accessing NeXTs using the Hummingbird Maestro NFS : client? I've tried it at the office and tried it at home and have had no luck. It : can see my exports, but when I try to connect it simply pops up a tiny little : error panel with a little red X on it!! :-( The only word is in the title bar and : it says HCLNET. Not exactly a lot of help in figuring out what's wrong. Have you started /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd? -- 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: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot process fails arter adding more RAM Date: 31 Jan 1997 08:21:57 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5csa35$86b@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <9701291652.AA00393@nx_chi> Cc: randyn@crt.com In <9701291652.AA00393@nx_chi> Randy Nelson wrote: > I added 2 4x32 16MB SIMMs to increase my RAM from 32 to 64MB. > > However now my White NEXT won't complete the boot process. > > It is a Gateway P100 with dual boot of 95/NS. It has an STB PCI Powergraph 64 > w/2MB and I am using the S3 Generic PCI Display Driver with settings at 0x3B0 > and 0x3000000 > > Any ideas what may be happening and how I can fix it? Is an setting on the S3 > I should change to prevent it from conflicting with this new memory? > > Thanks, > Randy Nelson > randyn@jorsm.com > Sounds like the memory collision bug. Your S3 memory address must fall within the addresses of your new RAM. What you need to do is pick a value outside that range in Configure.app. I've seen the exact answer posted before (which I can't remember), so check the FAQ. Good luck! ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 1 Feb 1997 02:22:47 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5cu9dn$poc@eve.enteract.com> References: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> I belive it is... root 102 0.0 0.7 1.63M 440K ? SW 0:01 /usr/etc/netinfod local -Kevin On 01/31/97, Ryan Scott wrote: >me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >>previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. >> >>"all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the >>cause of this? >> >>I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a >>contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions >>regarding how to track down/fix this problem. >I haven't heard of any problems with the patch and NetInfoManager.app. Anyone >else? Other info would be helpful. > >Have you installed any new apps? Is netinfo running (use ps -aux)? -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 1 Feb 1997 00:07:14 GMT Organization: my own Message-ID: <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) wrote: > Porting it to NeXT/Openstep would require writing a loadable kernel module > (read "AppleTalk driver") that implements the various AppleTalk protocols, > plus > porting the atalkd daemon. I'd love to see a Next port of this software --- > or > even better for Next/Apple --- supply it as standard part of the OS. Even if netatalk is a better (say faster) solution, the CAPpl198/BPF combo works fine on NeXTSTEP. My performance tests show up to 400 kByte/sec AFP transfer rate, read and write. Beside 'afpmount' (which enables to mount remote Macintosh volumes) is based on CAP and would be some work to rewrite. The multicasting problems with certain drivers are no matter of CAP or netatalk but of ethernet card drivers problems. Granted, CAP has some overhead but running the Appletalk protocol stack in user space has advantages too, compatibility and stability wise. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 1 Feb 1997 04:17:18 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5cug4e$i4f@eve.enteract.com> References: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Thanks Ryan, I recently installed the MusicKit.pkg and a copy of ProductionPartner.app, but these should not have gone anywhere near /etc or /usr/bin or any other vital directories. I've since de-installed them both. I also notice that Configure.app has been hosed; "couldn't start this application because it is damaged." I've since copied NetInfoManager.app and Configure.app over from the CD, but still neither will start. I ran fsck -P; no errors reported. When I try to run nidomain -l I'm told Command not found. When I run it from /usr/etc/nidomain -l I get tag=local udp=700 tcp=701. ps -aux returns root 100 0.0 0.7 1.63M 440K ? SW 0:01 /usr/etc/netinfod local This machine is not part of a NetInfo network, but it is configured for PPP. Any pointers as to what files might be munged that would keep NetInfoManger.app and Configure.app from launching? The thought of reinstalling everything from scratch is less than cheerful. thanks. On 01/31/97, Ryan Scott wrote: >me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >>previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. >> >>"all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the >>cause of this? >> >>I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a >>contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions >>regarding how to track down/fix this problem. <snip> >I haven't heard of any problems with the patch and NetInfoManager.app. Anyone >else? Other info would be helpful. > >Have you installed any new apps? Is netinfo running (use ps -aux)? > >--Ryan > -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Decompressing .zip files? Message-ID: <E4vqK8.5qt@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5clrrt$iui@goofy.snet.net> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:48:08 GMT In article <5clrrt$iui@goofy.snet.net> svenifer@snet.net writes: > Is there program that will decompress PKWARE's dos pkzip/pkunzip? > > thanks Sven. Hi Sven, there is an application called Opener.app that is able to open zip and a lot of other formats. It is also able to create archieves. I am not absolutely sure where to get it, but it is on the peanuts cd and web server. -- ========================================================================== == Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ========================================================================== ==
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't talk with OpenStep4.0 Date: 31 Jan 97 14:10:08 EST Organization: Univ of Miami IR Message-ID: <1997Jan31.141008@umiami> I have a fairly new OpenStep 4.0 system in addition to 3.2 and 3.3 Intel systems. To put it simply, I cannot use the talk that came with the system or ytalk, at least "YTalk version 3.0 (2)" which works fine on my 3.2 and 3.3 systems. I get the following error message when attempting to use talk from the 4.0 system (and cannot talk into the 4.0 system from any other computer): [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] I don't know if this problem was from the start of operation of the machine or not. Early on, I used TeXMenu which runs slog. The slog was causing severe problems under 4.0 .. difficult to log off and processes remained. So, I removed slog from the TeXMenu application. I suspected something happened like permissions being changed or a LCK file being generated but I haven't been able to find anything unusual. Any ideas? Having talk or ytalk isn't critical but it sure would be nice. And this is really puzzling me. Is it a bug in OpenStep 4.0 (Intel), some incompatibility with talk, ytalk and 4.0, or something that I did with running the slog? Thanks in advance for any ideas or words of wisdom. Tom Herbert --- THOMAS J. HERBERT therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (VMS) tom@darwin.cox.miami.edu (NeXTMail accepted)
From: info@me.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Dial In and NT Printing Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:48:08 -0500 Organization: ServiceTech, Inc. Message-ID: <32F2BCF8.5B25@me.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have two questions. Firstly, I've just configured an OpenStep 4.1 on Mach machine to dial into our ISP using ppp. This machine is on our network, and I would like to know if there is a way to properly route packets so that other machines on the network can access the internet for web browsing, ftp, telnet, etc? This doesn't seem to be happening automatically, as I had hoped it would. Secondly, I would like to be able to print from an OpenStep on NT box to a black printer hooked up to a slab on our network. I know it can be done, but apparently it's not trivial. Can anyone get me pointed in the right direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply to paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com Regards, Paul --- Paul Summermatter LGS Systems, Inc. 182 Lake Street Hamburg, NY 14075-4826 paulrs@lgs-systems.com www.lgs-systems.com (716) 646-1164
From: info@me.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Kermit Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:51:36 -0500 Organization: ServiceTech, Inc. Message-ID: <32F2BDC8.3922@me.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm using kermit to establish a connection to a remote server. My modem can handle up to 28,800 speeds. However, when I try to set the line speed to 28,800, kermit is not happy. Is there a declarations file for kermit which I need to modify to allow 28,800 connection speeds, or will kermit just not accept 28,8. If so, what sort of modifications must I make? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond to paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com thanks, paul --- Paul Summermatter LGS Systems, Inc. 182 Lake Street Hamburg, NY 14075-4826 (716) 646-1164 paulrs@lgs-systems.com www.lgs-systems.com
From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: amanda and NeXTSTEP 3.3 m68k Message-ID: <1997Feb1.105920.47337@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 1 Feb 97 10:59:20 MET Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland Hello, I'm running a NeXTSTEP 3.3 m68k machine and I'd like to use amanda. Does anybody know, where I can get a precompiled version of it ? If try to compile ist, after I changed config.h, options.h and the file munge I get a lot of error messages and finally make stops. Thank you Markus Wildi
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to un-hose sendmail? Date: 1 Feb 1997 07:01:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> An attempt to upgrade to the latest sendmail totally failed. (This was using the recipe available). After the installation was backed out of, and the backup files restored, sendmail does some very peculiar things: 1. Sending to localhost & some ISP's work fine 2. Sending to other ISP's and telnetting to port result in the following error: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Connected to freenet.carleton.ca: >>> HELO <<< 501 HELO requires domain address 554 SomeUser <SomeUser@freenet.carleton.ca>... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: <rworne> Received: by (NeXT-1.0f2 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NX3.0M) id AA00544; Sat, 1 Feb 97 05:37:44 PST Message-Id: <9702011337.AA00544@> Errors-To: rworne Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <199701220347.WAA02554@freenet6.carleton.ca> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b5) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) Sender: Robert Worne <rworne> From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 97 05:37:42 -0800 To: SomeUser <SomeUser@freenet.carleton.ca> It never exhibited this behavior before, and I do have all the .cf files in the appropriate places for the stock config (in /etc/sendmail). The config files for NetInfo were also restored from the stock copies in the templates directory. For those of you that may ask why I screwed with sendmail: In order to receive confirmation of submitted assignments at my University, the From address *must* be correct, and the newest version of sendmail should have taken care of this. It just broke everything :( -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 1 Feb 97 00:03:01 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert (frank@this.net) wrote: : Even if netatalk is a better (say faster) solution, the CAPpl198/BPF combo works fine on : NeXTSTEP. My performance tests show up to 400 kByte/sec AFP transfer rate, read and : write. Beside 'afpmount' (which enables to mount remote Macintosh volumes) is based on : CAP and would be some work to rewrite. The multicasting problems with certain drivers : are no matter of CAP or netatalk but of ethernet card drivers problems. : Granted, CAP has some overhead but running the Appletalk protocol stack in user space : has advantages too, compatibility and stability wise. I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and painless. I *love* netatalk. When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. I'm giving up on CAP completely this time. NFS exporting to the Sparcs and mounting the filesystem by netatalk works fine and easily. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 1 Feb 1997 20:03:18 GMT Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5d07i6$i7p@scipio.cyberstore.ca> References: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> <5cp6et$986@eve.enteract.com> me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: > >Bottom line is the cable that came with the modem is not wired to >communicate with the RS-232C serial ports on Next hardware. Just a note, the Next Admin manual says the following. The 68030 Nexts have an RS-422 compatible port. The 68040 machines have an RS-423 compatible port. A non Mac cable is needed, as I have done with my SupraFAX modem. The next Admin manual indicates that using a Mac cable is a hit and miss possibilty. Darren http://www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 1 Feb 97 15:39:33 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF191438-10BAF6@207.147.62.179> References: <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, Jan 31, 1997 7:03 PM, jon klein <mailto:jklein@freon.artificial.com> wrote: > I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and > painless. I *love* netatalk. > > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. What were you trying to install this on? I ran Frank's installer on Black Hardware '040 Turbo and had no trouble. My NeXT drive came up on the powermac downstairs right through the chooser. file sharing was a breeze. I still have not cracked the printing nut yet, but all the networked laserwriters come up in the terminal window. As for the interface, it wasn't great and the documentation was sketchy, but Frank acknowledged this. On the other hand, I have very little experience (read "no experience") with UNIX and I was able to figure it out by looking at the example code. By the way, John, I like the web page. Are you a law student or do you do consulting for the Law School? Myself, I'm an attorney, not a programmer. :-) Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: Scott A Douglass <sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: LaserWriter II NTX Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:53:43 -0500 Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4mwvhbm00YUn0W6Wo0@andrew.cmu.edu> I've been looking through FAQs, documentation, etc. and cannot find a reason for my inability to connect and use a NTX. If you have connected a NTX to an 040 slab, please send me email. - I have a NeXT mini-8 -> db25 cable - The printer is known to be fully functional - Serial ports on the slab are known to be fully functional I'm particularly suspicious of the DIP switch setting on the NTX... Scott Douglass _____________________________________________________________________ Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University Office: (412) 268-1414, E-mail: sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu (NeXTMail OK) PGP Public Key: finger email address
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? [LONG] Date: 1 Feb 1997 18:16:34 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5d0md2$s2m@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Ident-User: liuyi Keywords: sendmail8.8.5, config In article <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> wrote: > An attempt to upgrade to the latest sendmail totally failed. (This > was using the recipe available). > > After the installation was backed out of, and the backup files > restored, sendmail does some very peculiar things: (I presume you're using the installation scripts on ftp.peak.org, and you've installed the sendmail8.8.5 package from the same site.) I can't tell exactly where and how your sendmail is hosed from your post, but I've installed the 8.8.5 package and configured it without much trouble on my machine. If you're game, I suggest you try the following configuration files I'm using and give it another chance. It may be a lot easier than trying to track down exactly which part of your old sendmail configurations got hosed in the botched attempt Note: Do _NOT_ use the installation scripts for 8.7.5 on peak, it probably won't work. I recommend you do it by hand. I've modified the 8.7.5 scripts to work with my config for 8.8.5, and I can send you a tar.gz of all my config files if you need them. I also recommend you get a copy of the standard 8.8.5 distribution from ftp.sendmail.org and read the README by Eric Allman, it's the best short intro to sendmail I've ever seen. (As it ought to be.) My Environment: ISP: PPP (dynamic IP), crystalball.com, MAILHOST: mail.crystalball.com Mach: ND Turbo under NS3.3p1, name: caiman, PPP2.2patch0beta3 GateKeeper2.1Beta4. Steps: 1. Get the precompiled package for 'peak' or your favorite NeXT archive: ftp://ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 2. Install the package as root. 3. Make a dir (~/Config/sendmail8.8.5, e.g.) to keep track of your config files and RCS version control is recommended too. 4. Create 4 configuration files: 4.1 <yourmcfile>.mc file that is installed in /etc/sendmail/cf/cf: My file is named caiman-nextstep.mc. You can pick your name but _avoid_ picking any names that's already in /etc/sendmail/cf/cf. Here's my caiman-nextstep.mc file: #Copyright information deleted VERSIONID(`$Id: caiman-nextstep.mc,v 1.8 1997/01/29 06:07:15 liuyi Exp$') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl DOMAIN(crystalball)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(crystalball.com)dnl MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) Note0: OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl --- I'm using the default OSTYPE file that comes with the sendmail8.8.5 package: /etc/sendmail/cf/ostype/nextstep.m4 which sendmail uses to locate important directories like /usr/spool/mqueue for spooling mails. Change it if you _know_ you've configured your system differently. Note1: DOMAIN(crystalball)dnl refers to the crystalball.m4 file that you'll need to create. If you change it to another name, say mydomain.m4, you'll need to change this line to read DOMAIN(mydomain)dnl Note2: Change MASQUERADE_AS(crystalball.com) to your ISP's domain name. 4.2 <yourdomain>.m4 file that goes to /etc/sendmail/cf/domain. My filename is crystalball.m4, you'll need to change it to reflect your domain name. And don't forget to change to two lines in <yourmcfile>.mc as discussed in 4.1. Here's my crystalball.m4 file: #Copyright deleted. VERSIONID(`$Id: crystalball.m4,v 1.7 1997/01/29 06:04:20 liuyi Exp liuyi $') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.crystalball.com)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.crystalball.com)dnl Note: Change "mail.crystalball.com" in the last two defines to the mail host name of your ISP. 4.3 "sendmail.cw" file, it's not really necessary if you're standalone, but it's not really that much extra work either. This file should have "sendmail.cw" as the name and be moved to /etc/sendmail.cw Here's my "sendmail.cw" file: crystalball crystalball.com Note: if your ISP's domain name is something like "my.isp.com", your "sendmail.cw" should have these two lines: my my.isp.com my.isp my.isp.com 4.4 "userdb" file, which needs to be 'compiled' to userdb.db file as /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. This file, like sendmail.cw, isn't terribly information, but nice to have. Here's my "userdb" file root:mailname liuyi@crystalball.com liuyi:mailname liuyi@crystalball.com liuyi:maildrop liuyi@crystalball.com liuyi:fullname Yi Liu Just change "liuyi" to your login name, and "liuyi@cry..." to your email address at your ISP. 5. Install all the configuration files: * Back up all the files that are going to be written over in your * * current sendmail configuration, namely * * /etc/sendmail.cf * * /etc/sendmail.cw * * /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/<yourmcfile>.mc * * /etc/sendmail/cf/domain/<yourdomain>.m4 * * /etc/sendmail/userdb + /etc/sendmail/userdb.db * You need to be "root" to do the following: [From your ~/Config/sendmail8.8.5 directory] 5.1 Install userdb: cp ./userdb /etc/sendmail/userdb /usr/local/bin/makemap btree /etc/sendmail/userdb.db </etc/sendmail/userdb 5.2 Install <yourdomain>.m4 cp ./<yourdomain>.m4 /etc/sendmail/cf/domain/<yourdomain>.m4 5.3 Install <yourmcfile>.mc: cp ./<yourmcfile>.mc /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/<yourmcfile>.mc 5.4 Install sendmail.cw file: cp ./sendmail.cw /etc/sendmail.cw 5.5 Back up /etc/sendmail.cf if you haven't done so. 5.6 Create the new sendmail.cf file: (You'll need the GNU m4 macro package. Get a precompiled one from peak. Mine is in /usr/local/bin) cd /etc/sendmail/cf/cf /usr/local/bin/m4 ../m4/cf.m4 <yourmcfile>.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf *Whew* That's it. Simple, eh? Good luck! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@anet-dfw.com> | <liuyi@usa.net> Dallas, TX
From: frank@miranda (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 2 Feb 1997 00:36:38 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> Cc: jklein@freon.artificial.com In <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and > painless. I *love* netatalk. Ok, I can accept this. > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. Well, let me clarify some points: 1. Read the manual, methinks you are trying to install it on Intel hardware and there are some *known* problems with ethernet drivers which cause exactly the symptomes you have described. You will find a list of tested working/non-working drivers on my home page. 2. Email me and I would have given you help to solve your problem. 3. Since you obviously can't do either 1. or 2. wait until someone find port netatalk for you, put together a package in his spare time and post it on the network. Surely someday another idiot will turn up to do this. For the 'yucky' interface: It was designed to be functional and fast to implement, I am awfully sorry I hadn't neither time nor money to hire Keith Ohlfs for my icon and GUI design. (Who did a great work on http://www.pixelsight.com BTW). > I'm giving up on CAP completely this time. NFS exporting to the Sparcs > and mounting the filesystem by netatalk works fine and easily. > And so shall it be. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? [LONG] Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 00:54:50 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services-Illinois State University Message-ID: <32F43A1B.41F4@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <5d0md2$s2m@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Yi Liu <liuyi@cs.utexas.edu> Yi Liu wrote: > Steps: > > 1. Get the precompiled package for 'peak' or your favorite NeXT > archive: > ftp://ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz > > 2. Install the package as root. > > 3. Make a dir (~/Config/sendmail8.8.5, e.g.) to keep track of your > config files and RCS version control is recommended too. In making the directory in step 3, where does this go, as root? There's no root in the /Users directory- so when you're root, what exactly does the path ~/whatever mean? Thanks in advance -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: "Mark Jenkins" <markj@inwave.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Serial Port Date: 2 Feb 97 02:12:59 -0600 Message-ID: <AF19A8B2-319A7@206.101.238.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ISASerialPort1 is not a registered port. PCPPointer prob: mouseInit failure What the heck happened? I switched my mouse to com2 in the Config.app and it all went to hell real fast! I am essentially locked out of my system as I cannot get the mouse to activate. Intel P90 OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach TIA Mark Jenkins markj@inwave.com
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? [LONG] Date: 2 Feb 1997 02:41:20 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5d1jvg$t6f@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <5d0md2$s2m@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> <32F43A1B.41F4@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Ident-User: liuyi >>>>> "Eric" == Eric A Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: >> ... >> 3. Make a dir (~/Config/sendmail8.8.5, e.g.) to keep track of your >> config files and RCS version control is recommended too. > In making the directory in step 3, where does this go, as root? > There's no root in the /Users directory- so when you're root, what > exactly does the path ~/whatever mean? Eric, "~" is predefined by the shell you're using as the home directory of the user, so if you're "root" it refers to "/" --- just as ~ and ~eadubie both refer to /Users/eadubie when you login as yourself. Sorry for being unclear on step 3, here's what I was really trying to say: 3. Make a dir where you can keep your own configuration files before you start to install them as sendmail system configs in the vital /etc directories. Where you keep them is not really important, as long as you know where they are. For example, I keep them in ~liuyi/Config/sendmail8.8.5 and here're the files I keep in it: caiman> ls -CF RCS/ README.rtfd/ aliases caiman-nextstep.mc crystalball.m4 inst_sendmail* sendmail.cw userdb I hope this clears up the confusion: you only need to be root when you install the sendmail package and the .mc, .m4, .cw, and userdb files and when you need to compile them to /etc/sendmail.cf and /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. Good luck! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPPMonitor help with scripts Date: 2 Feb 1997 08:04:26 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5d1hqa$hpl@uruguay.earthlink.net> Hello, I wanted to use PPPMonitor1.16 to hook up with my ISP earthlink and establish my connection. I am currently using kermit and log in manually by typing my password and login. I then manually type "do pppd" to finish the connection session. Im trying to use PPPMonitor but dont know what to put in the pppd or pppdown preferences. I cant seem to find the examples the author says are available. If someone has these scripts pppd and pppdown... /usr/local/bin/pppup /usr/local/bin/pppdown ...that work, please send me a copy to quinonez@ucla.edu i am running NSFIP 3.3 and USR 33.3 sportster. Thank you very much. -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
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From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 2 Feb 1997 17:42:29 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5d2jm5$nc1@eve.enteract.com> References: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> <5cp6et$986@eve.enteract.com> <5d07i6$i7p@scipio.cyberstore.ca> In-Reply-To: <5d07i6$i7p@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Point of clarification: The serial lines in 68040 Nexts support RS-423 and RS-232, as documented in the man page for zs (zilog serial controller). Many (but not all) modems provide an RS-232 interface via a DB-25 connection on the modem backplane. Macintosh serial communications is RS-422, which is why Mac hardware handshaking modem cables don't work right with 040 Nexts, but the 68030 Next supported RS-422, which is why Mac modem cables should (might) work with those Nexts. Some Mac-compatible modems use an integral cable - which (naturally) will be wired for RS-422 (not RS-232). The pin-outs for a sucessful Next-to-modem cable are documented in man zs. I've also edited my FAQ (see sig) to refelect this clarification... -Kevin On 02/01/97, Darren Reely wrote: >me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >> >>Bottom line is the cable that came with the modem is not wired to >>communicate with the RS-232C serial ports on Next hardware. > >Just a note, the Next Admin manual says the following. The 68030 Nexts have >an RS-422 compatible port. The 68040 machines have an RS-423 compatible >port. > >A non Mac cable is needed, as I have done with my SupraFAX modem. > >The next Admin manual indicates that using a Mac cable is a hit and miss >possibilty. -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: "Kevin P. Hannan" <khannan@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 19:19:08 -0500 Organization: AutoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <32F3DD7C.B84@ibm.net> References: <5cs5qt$kih$1@news.structured.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randy Nelson wrote: > > I have a system with an > 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and > 2.SCSI drive with NS. > > My system will try to boot the EIDE drive first. > > I have installed System Commander and would like to be able to boot either > NS partition without having to enter sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a when I > boot off of the SCSI one. > > Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off > of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? This is a function of the BIOS on White hardware. It will not boot from a SCSI disk if it can find a floppy, or an IDE drive. You must disable the IDE drive in the BIOS in order to use the SCSI device as a boot device. The downside is that the IDE device no longer exists :(. > > Thanks, > Randy > -- > > - Randy Nelson > Senior Systems Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) > > Email: randyn@jorsm.com (NeXTmail accepted) > WorkEmail: randyn@crt.com (NeXTmail accepted) -- Kevin P. Hannan Registered NeXT Developer khannan@ibm.net OS/2 Developer Technical lead - Team Sports (404) 238-7380 (w) Centennial Olympic Games (404) 303-1823 (fax) 6316 Chastain Drive, Atlanta, Ga 30342 USA
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No such device Date: 1 Feb 1997 20:59:11 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: Modem Keywords: Modem Hi I just bought a new modem (E-Tech E288MX) and connected it to my Intel box with OS4.1 on it. I FTPed Kermit and tried to connect to the modem. That's the result: C-Kermit>set modem hayes C-Kermit>set line /dev/cua Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufa Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cufa: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyda Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttyda: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttydfa Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttydfa: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/cub Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cub: No such device Whatever I choose: "No such device". Could this be because I use the cabel that was delivered with the modem? Or what's the reason for this? Regards Phil
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 16:38:03 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000202971638030001@news.tiac.net> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) wrote: (snip of troubles with sendmail 8.X) > For those of you that may ask why I screwed with sendmail: In order to > receive confirmation of submitted assignments at my University, the > From address *must* be correct, and the newest version of sendmail should > have taken care of this. It just broke everything :( Do you mean the From info in the envelop (which I think shows up as a "Received: from" line for the recipient) or the "From:" line that the recipient sees? The standard 3.3 Mail.app can be persuaded to use any "From:" line you like by entering a "From" header (no colon) in the Expert preferences window. (Thanks to Lennart Lovstrand for this info.) Barney Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help on printing over Enet Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 16:58:40 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000202971658400001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I configured a mono slab running 3.3 to allow public access to the attached NeXT laser printer. When I send a print request from a Mac attached to the NeXT via ethernet via the Mac shareware "lpr" tool, the job just dies. Examining the /usr/adm/lpd-errs file, I find a "connection lost" message, so it would seem that the NeXT received and understood the print request. Anyone know what this signifies, and how it might be corrected? Additional info: both the NeXT and the Mac are defined on the / level of a two-level netinfo on the NeXT, and pinging/ftp work fine, so I doubt the Enet is at fault. The print files in question are postscript text, and print properly when transferred to the NeXT on a floppy, or by ftp, and then printed locally. TIA Barney Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: gossett@bethel.edu (Eric Gossett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printer (lpd?) woes Date: 2 Feb 1997 21:58:29 GMT Organization: Bethel College, MN Message-ID: <5d32m5$3br$1@hermes.bethel.edu> Ever since I installed OpenStep 4.1 for Mach on my Pentium machine I have been having random print failures. Most of the time, I boot the machine and documents print with no trouble (from multiple applications). Occasionally, but often enough to be troubling, the printer hangs (from the first document on). The document makes it to the print spool (visible in /usr/spool/appkit, PrintManager.app and lpc both indicate all systems are enabled and the document is printing). However, the only response from the printer (HP laserjet 4P) is that the ready light starts blinking (normal when a print job is coming), but keeps blinking forever with no document produced. If I reboot the machine, everything comes out of the print queue and I have my documents. However, this is not a desirable printing procedure. Does anyone know (A) what is causing the problem (B) how to fix the problem without rebooting? Eric Gossett gossett@bethel.edu
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP Dial In and NT Printing Date: 2 Feb 1997 23:35:00 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5d38b4$85s@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <32F2BCF8.5B25@me.com> In-Reply-To: <32F2BCF8.5B25@me.com> On 01/31/97, info@me.com wrote: >Hello, > > I have two questions. Firstly, I've just configured an OpenStep 4.1 on >Mach machine to dial into our ISP using ppp. This machine is on our >network, and I would like to know if there is a way to properly route >packets so that other machines on the network can access the internet >for web browsing, ftp, telnet, etc? This doesn't seem to be happening >automatically, as I had hoped it would. > > Secondly, I would like to be able to print from an OpenStep on NT box >to a black printer hooked up to a slab on our network. I know it can be >done, but apparently it's not trivial. Can anyone get me pointed in the >right direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply >to paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com > >Regards, >Paul > >--- > >Paul Summermatter >LGS Systems, Inc. >182 Lake Street >Hamburg, NY 14075-4826 >paulrs@lgs-systems.com >www.lgs-systems.com >(716) 646-1164 > For routing packets in the internet: Is your provider routing packets for all the machines IP addresses (in your local network) through your ppp link? If not, you need this or need an artificial workaround. To print on your black printer from an NT box you need to run samba on the NeXT computer and you need to get a postscript driver for the NeXT printer on the NT side. You can get it at: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/26ee.htm http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/326e.htm (you need both). As for samba you should look around for the source or ask someone for a precompiled one. Francois -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Message-ID: <E4zwJz.H4@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:47:58 GMT In article <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> writes: > I very much would like to create a serial device which operates > at 38,400 baud. Unfortunately, NEXTSTEP seems to think this an > odd speed, as whenever I try the port fails to operate correctly. > I've followed what I believe are the correct steps to create the > port (cufa38400), but using 'tip cufa38400' results in a connection > that fails to communicate with the modem. > > Tip responds with 'connected,' so it appears the setup is correct. > I can type whatever I like... but apparently the modem never > receives it, or I never receive the modems response. > All NEXTSTEP binaries for serial lines assume plain ol'e BSD standard speeds, 9.6k is the highest of'em. In addition 'exta' and 'extb' are mapped to 19.2k and 38.4k respectively. Later versions of the header files allow higher speeds (for PC hardware). But only binaries compiled and linked with the according libs can use'em. --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: erikr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Erik Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NetInfo problem - "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain" Date: 3 Feb 1997 01:33:00 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Message-ID: <5d3f8c$h5i@Radon.Stanford.EDU> Hello, I have a mono NeXTstation '040 with 8 mb of RAM, and I've had a mysterious NetInfo problem since I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.3 that I was wondering if anyone else had run into. When I try to open NetInfoManager, it says "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain." At boot time, after everything else has been loaded and it's about to display the login window, it sits there for about 5 minutes doing nothing before showing the login window. nibindd and netinfod are both running: > ps -waux | egrep 'nibindd|netinfo' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 94 0.0 1.3 1.59M 104K ? SW 0:00 /usr/etc/nibindd root 95 0.0 1.5 2.81M 120K ? SW 0:18 /usr/etc/netinfod local and the netinfo utilities (niutil, nidump) work. When I upgraded to 3.3, I copied my old 3.0 netinfo database. I thought this might be a problem, but I tried replacing it with a .nidb from another 3.3 machine and the problem persisted. The machine is on a non-NetInfo ethernet network but it boots locally. Any advice would be appreciated. -Erik Rauch -- .-----------------------------------------------------------------------. |Erik Rauch * URL: http://xenon.stanford.edu/~erikr * rauch@stanford.edu|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help.. [Network Printer] ... Message-ID: <E4zw24.Fq@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5crguc$a58$1@news.cc.umr.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:37:15 GMT In article <5crguc$a58$1@news.cc.umr.edu> sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) writes: > > HI, > We have a pentium 133 running NextStep 3.3. I was trying to connect > a Network printer (postScript printer) to this machine. What do I > need to do for this to work. > Read the chapters on "Mixed Networks" and "Peripherals" in the online sysadmin maual, for instance. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Where can I set the MTU? Message-ID: <E4zx1v.IG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5cq8eq$ri1$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:58:43 GMT In article <5cq8eq$ri1$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> mwnc@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Niels Coelle) writes: > Hi all! > > How can I set set MTU for my Ethernet? The ifconfig way > does not work. > The MTU on Ethernet is a well known value. I wouldn't be too much astonished if they'd hardcoded it in the driver... Why not getting the BSD source code and have a look on it? -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NXFax : NO DIALTONE ? Message-ID: <E4zwuB.Hs@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <E4sDMn.1Ir@fritz.snafu.de> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:54:10 GMT In article <E4sDMn.1Ir@fritz.snafu.de> ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes: > Does anybody know how to operate NXFax if the modem is connected > to a PBX ? > > Apparently NXFax initialises the modem with ATX4. When connected > to a PBX the modem returns NO DIALTONE when the dialing command > is issued, i.e. sending faxes does not work any longer. > > If the modem would have been initialised with ATX3, everything > would work fine. That's the modem's NVRAM setting, but NXFax > issues a ATX4 after the ATZ before sending a fax, apparently. > That greatly depends on the version. Prior to v1.3 you needed to patch a string in the binary. From v1.3 on there is a default entry that can be altered. Best approach would be to use one of the very helpful default editors to browse the many options. But even the command line tools for the defaults database will do. The right option should be easy to find. Drop me a note if you still need some additional help. -- 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: tlm@ameslab.gov (Dr. T. L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sending email attachments from command prompt Date: 3 Feb 1997 04:32:53 GMT Organization: Ames Laboratory Message-ID: <5d3ppl$nto@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <1997Jan30.001903.1232@il.us.swissbank.com> Cc: liao@il.us.swissbank.com David Liao wrote: > Is there a way to send email attachments from the > unix command prompt? > > I want to send an email with attachment file to users > with NEXT Mail reader. When the users receive the > mail, the attachment file should appear as an icon. > > The closest I got was uuencode, but the users need > to do an extra step of decoding a foreign attachment > from the NEXT Mail menu. Instead of sending NeXTmail, send MIME mail using mpack. Works beautifully! FYI: >>>>> borg> man mpack Reformatting page. Wait... done MPACK(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual MPACK(1) NAME mpack - pack a file in MIME format SYNOPSIS mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c content-type ] file address ... mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c content-type ] -o outputfile file mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c content-type ] -n newsgroups file DESCRIPTION The mpack program encodes the the named file in one or more MIME messages. The resulting messages are mailed to one or more recipients, written to a named file or set of files, or posted to a set of newsgroups. >>>>>>> > > Please send your recommendation to my email address: > david_liao@il.us.swissbank.com I'll copy to the that address, but post this for the general interest of all. > Thanks! Your Welcome. Hope this helps! TLM -- ********** NOTICE CHANGE OF ADDRESS *************** _________________________________________________________________ Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Depts. of Chemistry and Physics 206-721-0754 (home/FAX) University of Washington 206-713-0326 (Work) Seattle, WA 98195 tlm@u.washington.edu Project Coordinator: Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences http://uces.ameslab.gov/ _________________________________________________________________
From: pjb@imaginet.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Kermit Date: 3 Feb 1997 02:05:35 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5d3h5f$etc@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <32F2BDC8.3922@me.com> In article <32F2BDC8.3922@me.com> info@me.com writes: > Hello, > > I'm using kermit to establish a connection to a remote server. My > modem can handle up to 28,800 speeds. However, when I try to set the > line speed to 28,800, kermit is not happy. Is there a declarations file > for kermit which I need to modify to allow 28,800 connection speeds, or > will kermit just not accept 28,8. If so, what sort of modifications > must I make? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond to > paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com 28800 is the speed between the modems. Between the computer and the modem, the speed must be either 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400 or even 57600 if your driver and serial chip support it. On black hardware, select 38400. On white hardware, you may select 57600 if the version of kermit you have allows it. __Pascal Bourguignon__
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: LaserWriter II NTX Message-ID: <E4zw8w.GE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4mwvhbm00YUn0W6Wo0@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:41:20 GMT In article <4mwvhbm00YUn0W6Wo0@andrew.cmu.edu> Scott A Douglass <sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > I've been looking through FAQs, documentation, etc. and cannot find > a reason for my inability to connect and use a NTX. If you have > connected a NTX to an 040 slab, please send me email. > > - I have a NeXT mini-8 -> db25 cable > - The printer is known to be fully functional > - Serial ports on the slab are known to be fully functional > > I'm particularly suspicious of the DIP switch setting on the NTX... > PostScript printers speak a "natural language" conversational protocol. Thus any human operator can debug a serial printer connection by means of opening a terminal session to the printer port and see what's up. Use 'tin', or 'kermit', or even 'cat' to do such. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702021739.MAA04930@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f51503aef3a901e5d52804d6df8c731f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 97 12:39:40 -0500 Subject: Re: PPPMonitor help with scripts Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f51503aef3a901e5d52804d6df8c731f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Original Date: 2 Feb 1997 08:04:26 GMT > Im trying to use PPPMonitor but dont know what to put in the pppd > or pppdown preferences. I cant seem to find the examples the author > says are available. If you d/l the PPP package off thoughtport.com there should be a folder "scripts" inside it with examples. My advice is to read the man page for pppd, set up an /etc/ppp/options file, and do something like this: /usr/local/bin/pppd connect /usr/local/bin/chat -v -f \ /usr/local/bin/chatscript where "chatscript" is the appropriate chatscript for your requirements. There's also GateKeeper, which I know people have found helpful. The newest version is at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/ (look for GateKeeper in that directory). That too has example scripts. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device Date: 2 Feb 1997 17:23:07 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5d2ihr$bhl@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> Solved the problem: I hadn't installed the tty-driver. Thanks for any attention Phil
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with PPP client and server Date: 3 Feb 1997 07:08:51 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5d42u3$n5r@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I am somewhat stuck with an installation of PPP on two NeXTs, both client and server side. Here is the general description of the system: Server -- NS3.3 turbo station, connected to a big network of non-NetInfo computers. Name resolution etc. works just fine on this net. Client -- NS4.0 P6, which has three other NeXT and two non-NeXT computers hanging on it. They are connected together without the full use of NetInfo, just registered with HostManager. This network is pretty much static and doesn't change. Goal: connect the clients to the server by PPP 2.2. I got the package, read the instructions, and I come this far: I get the server to pick up the phone, I manually connect in Kermit, then quit and start pppd on the client. The syslog shows all happiness, as can be seen below. However, when I do a "ping [hostname of server]" on the client, nothing happens. a "ping [IP of server]" works just fine. Short of this, no IP or name pings or telnets work, I am stuck connecting to the server, only thru IP and only directly from the primary client, not any of the connected computers. I have resolv.conf set properly. Regardless what I do with the "router" field in the HostManager Local dialog, I can't connect to anything else, from any of the computers. My confusion (other than it simply doesn't work) * The installation guide mentions "standalone client - do this". Well, it's not a standalone client, but it's not a NetInfo client either. (I will turn it into a clean NetInfo net later on). The instructions don't say what to do on a NON-standalone machine. * The server configuration. I don't really get what the section about "ethers" or proxyarp is trying to tell me. Where should I place entries for which computers? The ones on the (sub)net, hanging on the client? I am really confused here. The system works right now just fine with SLIP, routed thru a different server; so naming and such should really be dandy. Any help is greatly appreciated. I can't just go and try things out, any mods require major (actual physical) changes to the network; if you are interested I can send you more specific config info, including all config files, for you to look at. Thanks again! - Stan ppp2.2.log: Feb 2 20:47:09 pizza pppd[242]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Using interface ppp0 Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: local IP address 36.92.0.246 Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: remote IP address 36.92.0.18 Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Setting interface mask to 255.255.0.0 Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Compression enabled [Stanford has a Class-A network, and so netmask is said to be 255.255.0.0] pizza# pppd /dev/cufb defaultroute pizza# /usr/etc/ifconfig ppp0 ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> inet 36.92.0.246 --> 36.92.0.18 netmask ffff0000 pizza# netstat -rn Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 344 lo0 36.92.0.18 36.92.0.246 UH 0 4 ppp0 default 36.92.0.18 UG 1 31 ppp0 36.92 36.92.0.246 U 8 1351 en0 pizza# -- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 01:24:16 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> Anybody manage to use the new resolver routines in BIND 4.9.5 (which compiles just fine) under NS3.3? Since they adhere to RFCs 952 and 1123, according to CERT, using them eliminates the buffer overflow problems such as the recently-discovered "talkd hole" <ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.04.talkd>. Unfortunately, ld complains that there are duplicate symbols between libresolv.a (the new one from BIND 4.9.5) and libsys_s.a (and, I suppose, the shared-library version thereof). I'm not interested in running my own DNS server, but would like to use the new resolver routines for the added security they provide. Jacques Distler
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help with Gatekeeper Date: 3 Feb 1997 07:11:37 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net> Hello, I recently set up Gatekeeper and am able to bring up a ppp connection just fine. However, whenever I do unlink from the menu it takes it down properly, but if I try to reopen GK then my whole system just freezes up. MY mouse and the system becomes unresponsive. I have to reboot. Once I reboot, once again everything works fine. But again if I shut GK down and try to restart it, my system becomes unresponsive. If anyone has this problem please let me know how to fix it. Also for some reason the timer wont tell me how long Ive been connected. Thank you. Please respond to the address below. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 07:51:42 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Feb3.075142.3917@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> In <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch wrote: > I just bought a new modem (E-Tech E288MX) and connected it to my Intel box with OS4.1 on it. > I FTPed Kermit and tried to connect to the modem. > > That's the result: > > C-Kermit>set modem hayes > C-Kermit>set line /dev/cua > Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device Do you have the serial ports installed in Configure.app? You really need a TTYPortServer and two serial ports. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: darwish@diderot.fre.jhu.edu (Miladus Edenensis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help with Gatekeeper Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 08:35:37 -0500 Organization: Pleroma Message-ID: <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> References: <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I Have been running Gatekeeper without any problems whatsoever. In order to get some help, tell us what version of Gatekeeper you are running and what version of NeXTStep as ewll, which platform, etc. Best, In article <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net>, quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) wrote: > Hello, I recently set up Gatekeeper and am able to bring up a ppp connection > just fine. However, whenever I do unlink from the menu it takes it down > properly, but if I try to reopen GK then my whole system just freezes up. MY > mouse and the system becomes unresponsive. I have to reboot. > > Once I reboot, once again everything works fine. But again if I shut GK down > and try to restart it, my system becomes unresponsive. > > If anyone has this problem please let me know how to fix it. Also for some > reason the timer wont tell me how long Ive been connected. > > Thank you. > Please respond to the address below. > > Gerardo > > > -- > _____________________________________________ > G. Quinonez, MD > quinonez@ucla.edu > quinonez@earthlink.net > NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 > NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome > http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/ -- I am the cook. May good teeth, strong stomach with you be! And since you have got down my book, you should get on with me... Nietzsche
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: 3 Feb 1997 15:46:51 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5d519c$qdf@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> In article <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: > Anybody manage to use the new resolver routines in BIND 4.9.5 (which > compiles just fine) under NS3.3? Use v.4.9.4P1, which includes the security update. Teh README for 4.9.5 says to use 4.9.4 unless you're interested in the (possibly non-backward compatible) POSIX entensions to DNS. You can get a prebuilt binary at: http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/OpenStep/Unix/Network Or... build it yourself... it builds clean. -- 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: jim middleton <overland.ppp@199.3.65.1> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Date: 3 Feb 1997 17:39:42 GMT Organization: overland Message-ID: <5d57su$497$1@news.iquest.net> References: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If anyone has an answer to this, I'm needign to do the same thing in aboutt a week, thanks!... - Greg SOrry I couldn't help you out... :<
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? Date: 3 Feb 1997 11:27:03 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5d5aln$8n6@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000202971638030001@news.tiac.net> jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote: >Do you mean the From info in the envelop (which I think shows up as a >"Received: from" line for the recipient) or the "From:" line that the >recipient sees? The standard 3.3 Mail.app can be persuaded to use any >"From:" line you like by entering a "From" header (no colon) in the Expert >preferences window. (Thanks to Lennart Lovstrand for this info.) > I've known about this "trick" for a while now, but it did not work with the brain-dead mail script my university uses... When a From: line is added, somewhere along the line a Sender: field gets added (unless the user is root, then it doesn't care). To this day, I don't know what munged the mail system on my machine. I have two NeXT machines here, and kept backups of all the mail files on the other machine. After fixing the mail package by putting the old files back where they belong, odd behavior stated up: Some sites refuse to accept my mail because there is no domain sent with HELO across port 25. Telnetting to 127.0.0.1 25 will attach me to my sendmail port, but HELO results in: "host name configuration error". Disgusted with all this, I reset the netinfo database, restored the working sendmail files (copied off the other NeXT w/a working configuration), and the bastard still would not work. Finally, I backed up all my local directories and re-installed the OS from scratch. *THAT* fixed it. I my instructor will have to put up with the errors the script generates, I spent 36 hours this weekend trying to make his life more convenient. :-\ -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: asoto@wsc.com (Andre L. Soto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SNMP Date: 3 Feb 1997 22:05:18 GMT Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc. Message-ID: <5d5neu$gp2@cerberus.wsc.com> I am looking for an SNMP agent that I can use with NeXTstep. We also have some workstations that run Solaris 2.5. Is there a SNMP program that I can use on both Solaris and NeXTstep? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Andre L. Soto asoto@wsc.com
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Date: 3 Feb 1997 20:13:57 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-52.usc.edu Message-ID: <5d5gu5$7ak@usc.edu> References: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Cc: piers@ilink.de In <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Piers Uso Walter wrote: > If you can use Perl, that's easy. > Take a look at the File::Find.pm module. Where can one find "Find.pm"? 9-) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: haibach@unm.edu (Fred Haibach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 4.1 sendmail and email headers Date: 3 Feb 1997 00:49:59 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Message-ID: <5d3cnn$blu@lynx.unm.edu> Hi, I have a NeXT running NS 4.1, PPP with multiple users at home. One of my PPP providers is the local university, the other a commercial provider. Because the IP is dynamically assigned to this machine, all mail has to go to POP servers at the university or the commercial provider. This means that the address on email responses must be correct or 1) the mail gets bounced 2) the mail is received by a user intended for smith@foo.com but arrives at smith@bar.edu I realize that the Reply To: should to be set for each user on this NeXT for it to arrive at the proper POP server, but email recipients may use the From: field in the email addresses in their aliases file. I would like to create an obviously false address in the From: field of the header so that the improperly addressed email does bounce. I have modified the sendmail.cf as suggested in the file sendmail.cf. snippit: # major relay host DRsmtp.unm.edu CRsmtp.unm.edu ############################################################ ##### ##### General configuration information ##### # local domain name # # This is now set from the resolver configuration call. If the domain # name you would like to have appear in your mail headers is different # from your Internet domain name, edit and uncomment the following to # be your mail domain name. # DmPodunk.EDU DmYlocal.net which should yield an email with the From: smith@Ylocal.net What am I doing wrong? FgH... P.S. list administrator, if the subject of the email is inappropriate, please tell me so. +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Frederick G. Haibach | | Chemistry Graduate Student | | University of New Mexico | | >>>>> haibach@unm.edu ++++++ http://www.unm.edu/~haibach <<<<< | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@crt.com> Message-ID: <9702031657.AA05250@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 97 10:57:33 -0600 Subject: More on STB Video support questions On 01/29/97 in the group comp.sys.next.sysadmin you wrote: >I am thinking about upgrading my STB S3 PCI card to either > STB 128 Lightning PCI or > STB Velocity which uses the 3D S3 Virge 3X > >Is anyone successfully using either one of these cards under NEXTSTEP? > >Will the S3 PCI or S3 Virge drivers work with either of these cards? (The S3 >Virge document doesn't mention the STB). Well I went ahead and purchased the STB Velocity 4MB PCI 3D Virge card and tried it with the Generic S3Virge driver. Unluckily I was NOT able to get it work with this driver. Has anyone else found a NEXTSTEP driver that works with this card? -Randy randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ The latest computer virus: MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus.
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 23:32:59 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> References: <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> <5d519c$qdf@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5d519c$qdf@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >> Anybody manage to use the new resolver routines in BIND 4.9.5 (which >> compiles just fine) under NS3.3? > >Use v.4.9.4P1, which includes the security update. Teh README for 4.9.5 says >to use 4.9.4 unless you're interested in the (possibly non-backward >compatible) POSIX entensions to DNS. You can get a prebuilt binary at: > >http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/OpenStep/Unix/Network > >Or... build it yourself... it builds clean. Yep, it builds just fine. But I still haven't been able to use the new resolver library to build anything, as the "NeXT" versions of routines in question seem to have been placed in the standard system (shared) library, libsys_s.a . What do I have to do in order to take advantage of the security measures in the modern version of BIND ? Run my own DNS nameserver? Jacques Distler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NetInfo problem - "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain" Message-ID: <E51p3C.rI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5d3f8c$h5i@Radon.Stanford.EDU> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:02:00 GMT In article <5d3f8c$h5i@Radon.Stanford.EDU> erikr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Erik Rauch) writes: > Hello, I have a mono NeXTstation '040 with 8 mb of RAM, and I've > had a mysterious NetInfo problem since I upgraded from 3.0 to > 3.3 that I was wondering if anyone else had run into. > > When I try to open NetInfoManager, it says "Can't contact NetInfo > server for local domain." At boot time, after everything else > has been loaded and it's about to display the login window, it > sits there for about 5 minutes doing nothing before showing the > login window. > > nibindd and netinfod are both running: > > > ps -waux | egrep 'nibindd|netinfo' > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root > 94 0.0 1.3 1.59M 104K ? SW 0:00 /usr/etc/nibindd root > 95 0.0 1.5 2.81M 120K ? SW 0:18 /usr/etc/netinfod local > > and the netinfo utilities (niutil, nidump) work. > > When I upgraded to 3.3, I copied my old 3.0 netinfo database. I > thought this might be a problem, but I tried replacing it with > a .nidb from another 3.3 machine and the problem persisted. The > machine is on a non-NetInfo ethernet network but it boots locally. > The upgrade from NS 3.0 to 3.1 was rather rocky for my system, too. Might be 3.0 to 3.3 is still a problem. Anyway, your NetInfo conf is telling the client that there is a master NI server out where there ain't one. All the symptoms are way too familiar; a real FAQ, indeed. You either start from scratch by copying over /usr/templates/client/etc to /etc and follow the sysadmin manual after reboot. Or you look out for the serves properties in the machines directory of your local NI database. There's a bogus ./network entry, I'm sure! But I'm not so sure whether this is the only misconf... -- 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: "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 21:48:00 -0500 Organization: Yisraelim B'Chul Message-ID: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> Hello There, As a pathetic newbie to networking, I'd greatly appreciate any help in setting up a tiny TCP/IP network between my NeXTStation Color to a PowerMac 7200/75 via thin ethernet. The NeXTStation is running Nextstep 3.3, the PowerMac System 7.5.5 w/open transport, and I've verified that the ethernet connection is working through the Columbia Appletalk package (which works fine). My end goal in this project is to have the Mac serve as a PPP router, but in the meantime I'd be happy just to have the machines talking to each other through TCP/IP. Any IP numbers at this point would be fine (I'll get real numbers provided through my ISP when the PPP router scheme falls into place). Please post and/or mail me any suggestions on how I could get these machines talking to each other! Thanks again, Barry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org._NO_SPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Message-ID: <1997Feb3.095900.413@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org Organization: Disorganization References: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> <E4zwJz.H4@nidat.sub.org> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:59:00 GMT In <E4zwJz.H4@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > All NEXTSTEP binaries for serial lines assume plain ol'e BSD standard > speeds, 9.6k is the highest of'em. In addition 'exta' and 'extb' are > mapped to 19.2k and 38.4k respectively. > > Later versions of the header files allow higher speeds (for PC hardware). > But only binaries compiled and linked with the according libs can use'em. > No, Motorola Nexts (040) can also use speeds of 56k. But overrun errors occur.
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 01:01:07 -0600 From: rberber@spin.com.mx Subject: Re: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <855038396.24672@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Randy Nelson wrote: > > I have a system with an > 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and > 2.SCSI drive with NS. [snip] > Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off > of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? Yes. Just start Configure after booting from the EIDE disk, go to the "Summary of Devices", push Expert... and add sd(0,a)mach_kernel as value to the Kernel setting. You can also edit the Instance0.table inside /usr/Devices/System.config changing the kernel line to "Kernel" = "sd(0,a)mach_kernel"; One thing you should take care is that the "Boot Drivers" listed on that Instance0.table (the one on the EIDE disk) are the ones really loaded at boot up. I think the "Active Drivers" are read from the table on the SCSI disk. Hope this helps, _________________________ Rene Berber rberber@spin.com.mx MIME / NeXT Mail welcomed -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cant install OpenStep 4.1 on a Sun Ultra 1 Date: 4 Feb 1997 07:43:20 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5d6pao$cu4$1@rks1> I want to install OpenStep 4.1 for Mach on a Sun Ultra 1 but the boot - process breaks with the Message "Fast Data Access MMU Miss". Does anybody knows how to solve this problem? Thanks for every help Andreas dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de
From: enigma <llay@ieng9.ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.2 apps incompatible with OS/Mach 4.1?! Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 01:50:25 -0800 Organization: University of California, San Diego Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.94.970204004828.4203A-100000@ieng9.ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I just recently upgraded my computer to OpenStep/Mach 4.1. I installed my old programs that used to run in NeXTSTEP 3.2. However, during execution of those program, strange error messages pops up in the console window: ... localhost netmsgserver [22] srr_process_queued_request.serr_send_packet fails: 51 ... localhost netmsgserver [22] srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 ... localhost netmsgserver [22] netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102 ... localhost netmsgserver [22] netname_main.port_type fails, kr = 4 These messages are caused by launching any one of Lighthouse Design's programs (OpenWrite, Parasheet, Quantrix, etc.) as well as Anderson Financial System's PastUp v2.6. I'm not too sure of the versions for the Lighthouse's programs--is it possible that these aren't the newest versions? Perhaps these problems are solved by updates? Any ideas, suggestions, explanations appreciated. Thanks. Lucas.
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help with Gatekeeper Date: 4 Feb 1997 09:50:03 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5d70ob$2v8@colombia.earthlink.net> References: <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net> <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> Cc: darwish@diderot.fre.jhu.edu In <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> Miladus Edenensis wrote: > I Have been running Gatekeeper without any problems whatsoever. In order > to get some help, tell us what version of Gatekeeper you are running and > what version of NeXTStep as ewll, which platform, etc. Thanks for responding. I am using ppp2.2 on NSFIP 3.3 with a USR sportster 33.3 GK 2.0 beta5 -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SNMP Date: 4 Feb 1997 11:38:20 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5d773c$jl2@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <5d5neu$gp2@cerberus.wsc.com> In SNMP comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x29627c> writes, > I am looking for an SNMP agent that I can use with NeXTstep. We also have > some workstations that run Solaris 2.5. Is there a SNMP program that I can > use on both Solaris and NeXTstep? > > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. You can activate SNMP on your host. Further there's an network administration programm based on SNMP. Look in NeXTanswers. If you don't find it contact me again. Phil
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 21:41:03 -0600 From: russ@odyssey.com Subject: changing IP address of dedicated connection (LAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <855113178.1560@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I have a pure NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP LAN that is connected 24x7. My block of IPaddrs for my subnet had to change recently and it was hell getting all my machines to boot again. I am repeating the process for a friend, same setup, and I'm asking for info on this procedure & my problem. Any replys will be greatly appreciated. I am running 3.3 & 4.1, NetInfo master is a patched 3.3 system. NetInfo master mods went fine (actually started from scratch with nidumps & niloads, see procedure below) . It boots, establishes PPP connection to ISP with new IPaddr, pings, routes, telnets, send & receives mail, etc. Problem is getting the other machines to boot. Bind finds the NImaster. I say this because localhost ROM Monitor shows NIMaster returning all the new values in the usual lines after Setting tape block size: en0: setting netmask to correct-value-supplied-by-ISP-for-my-subnet, received from new-IPaddr-of-NIMaster. en0: address automatically set to correct-new-IPaddr of localhost en0: netmask automatically set to correct-new-value for subnet lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- -------> problem happens here the process never gets the hostname from the NIMaster. I've let it sit there overnight begging, pleading, screaming, but nothing. I've checked NI root /machines and all looks well. ANY SUGGESTIONS ANYONE? ---------------------- BTW: why doesn't NeXTanswers have a subtopic of SYSADMIN? Thanks in advance, Russ Schissler ----------------- Procedure I used to recreate NIMaster: nidump local and root copy netinfo from usr/template/client/etc/netinfo copy hostconfig from usr/templates/client/etc/hostconfig reboot run SNS (it seems to do okay for small LAN) enter hostname and new IPaddr under Network Options set new Netmask & Broadcast Addr values set all checkboxes and press CONFIGURE NILoad local : passwd Modify NIDumps of ROOT to use new IPaddrs for all hosts (bootptab & hosts) NILoad root : hosts, bootptab, fstab, group, passswd, printcap restart NI (cross fingers and toes) quit NI and reboot -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 5 Feb 1997 06:18:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5d98mr$btb@news.digifix.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> On 02/04/97, Art Isbell wrote: >colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) wrote: >> I recently upgraded my cube from 3.0 to 4.0 and since then I have been >> getting periodic "intruder alert" conditions. What happens is that >> attempts to su are met with the response "who are you?" and the >> command whoami returns "intruder alert". No logins are possible and >> other servers (such as httpd) also get shutdown. >> >> I can't find any documentation anywhere on this, so can someone please >> point me in the right direction. Is it a netinfo issue? > > Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash >occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a reboot. The >OS 4.1 lookupd seems more stable, but still crashes occasionally on my old >Cube. I've been experiencing this, but haven't been sure of what is the cause. Every once in a while, sometimes after several days, sometimes immediately after reboot, trying to 'telnet news' causes a bus error. Everything else still works, but I have to reboot to get telnet news to work. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:53:09 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32F76975.7C6@osu.edu> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: frank@this.net Frank, I at least would like to thank you for the work you did on the CAP stuff. The NeXT community is better for the work you have done (are doing). Thanks! Karl Frank M. Siegert wrote: > > In <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > > I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and > > painless. I *love* netatalk. > > Ok, I can accept this. > > > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. > > Well, let me clarify some points: > > 1. Read the manual, methinks you are trying to install it on Intel hardware > and there are some *known* problems with ethernet drivers which cause exactly > the symptomes you have described. You will find a list of tested > working/non-working drivers on my home page. > > 2. Email me and I would have given you help to solve your problem. > > 3. Since you obviously can't do either 1. or 2. wait until someone find port > netatalk for you, put together a package in his spare time and post it on the > network. Surely someday another idiot will turn up to do this. > > For the 'yucky' interface: It was designed to be functional and fast to > implement, I am awfully sorry I hadn't neither time nor money to hire Keith > Ohlfs for my icon and GUI design. (Who did a great work on > http://www.pixelsight.com BTW). > > > I'm giving up on CAP completely this time. NFS exporting to the Sparcs > > and mounting the filesystem by netatalk works fine and easily. > > > > And so shall it be. > > -- > * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net > * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:53:23 -0500 Organization: Yisraelim B'Chul Message-ID: <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac as a PPP router? barry In article <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net>, "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: >Hello There, > As a pathetic newbie to networking, I'd greatly appreciate any help in >setting up a tiny TCP/IP network between > my NeXTStation Color to a PowerMac 7200/75 via thin ethernet. > The NeXTStation is running Nextstep 3.3, the PowerMac System 7.5.5 w/open >transport, and I've verified that >the ethernet connection is working through the Columbia Appletalk package >(which works fine). > My end goal in this project is to have the Mac serve as a PPP router, but >in the meantime I'd be happy just to have >the machines talking to each other through TCP/IP. Any IP numbers at this >point would be fine (I'll get real numbers >provided through my ISP when the PPP router scheme falls into place). > Please post and/or mail me any suggestions on how I could get these >machines talking to each other! > > >Thanks again, > > Barry
From: colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 4 Feb 1997 17:14:06 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> I recently upgraded my cube from 3.0 to 4.0 and since then I have been getting periodic "intruder alert" conditions. What happens is that attempts to su are met with the response "who are you?" and the command whoami returns "intruder alert". No logins are possible and other servers (such as httpd) also get shutdown. I can't find any documentation anywhere on this, so can someone please point me in the right direction. Is it a netinfo issue? Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/
From: Frank Bandle <fbandle@mmc.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: Fax Broadcasting - how ? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 14:48:50 +0000 Organization: More and More Communication GmbH Message-ID: <32F89DD2.7774@mmc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello i have the following problem. We want to do Fax-Broadcasting with NeXT. We are merging adresses with a document, then we want to fax these documents during the night to our clients. Printing is no problem - WriteNow, OpenWrite - is working fine. but faxing (sending later, the document to the correct client) I dont know how ? Does anybody has an idea how we can do this ? Thank you Frank BTW: NX-Fax is running on our System +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ Visit us at CEBIT97 Halle 18 "Internet Park CEBIT 97" Weatherinformation by More and More Communication http://www.mmc.de powered by NeXTStep and WebObjects +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bandle EMail: fbandle@mmc.de More and More Communication GmbH Fon : 089 - 96276 - 0 Po.Box 1333 Fax : 089 - 96276 - 151 85731 Ismaning / Munich W3 : http://www.mmc.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- It never rains in California ! - This is not true ! MMC knows all about weather ! - This is true !
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 4 Feb 97 00:43:20 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32f68628.0@192.33.12.30> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert (frank@miranda) wrote: : Well, let me clarify some points: : 1. Read the manual, methinks you are trying to install it on Intel hardware : and there are some *known* problems with ethernet drivers which cause exactly : the symptomes you have described. You will find a list of tested : working/non-working drivers on my home page. I read the manual carefully, and I'm using black hardware. A NeXT turbo color to be exact. Don't tell me that I'm being ignorant just because the software isn't working. Did it occur to you that maybe I'm using the right machine and it still doesn't work? : 2. Email me and I would have given you help to solve your problem. Well, it says that everything is working fine, but it turns out that it cannot located any other machines on the network, and I can't find it in the chooser. : 3. Since you obviously can't do either 1. or 2. wait until someone find port : netatalk for you, put together a package in his spare time and post it on the : network. Surely someday another idiot will turn up to do this. Gosh you sound bitter. Like I said before, you were wrong about #1, and I saw no reason to do #2. Don't sit here and insult me because I'm fine with the solution I've got. I'm not complaining that netatalk hasn't been ported to the NeXT -- I've got a fine solution to my AppleTalk problems here, namely netatalk on the sparc which NFS from and print to the NeXTs. I wasn't making any kind of attack at you either -- only that I don't like CAP. This was not the first time I tried to install it on the NeXT, and in fact I'd tried to install it on SunOS and Solaris too, only to have similar problems. netatalk on SunOS worked simply and correctly the first time. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: 4 Feb 1997 18:29:41 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5d7v6l$t33@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> In article <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: > Yep, it (v4.9.4P1) builds just fine. > > But I still haven't been able to use the new resolver library to build > anything, as the "NeXT" versions of routines in question seem to have been > placed in the standard system (shared) library, libsys_s.a . Add the -m flag at the linker line. It will use the first instance of a given library function for linking. Naturally, this flag is not-recommended unless you know what you're doing. You DO know what you're doing, right? (-; > What do I have to do in order to take advantage of the security measures > in the modern version of BIND ? Run my own DNS nameserver? Yep. Run a local caching DNS nameserver. -- 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cant install OpenStep 4.1 on a Sun Ultra 1 Date: 4 Feb 1997 18:31:25 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5d7v9u$t34@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5d6pao$cu4$1@rks1> In article <5d6pao$cu4$1@rks1> dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) writes: > I want to install OpenStep 4.1 for Mach on a Sun Ultra 1 but the boot - > process breaks with the Message "Fast Data Access MMU Miss". > Does anybody knows how to solve this problem? Umm... last time I checked, Ultra/Hyper Sparcs were not supported by NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. That's most likely your problem. )-; -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: frank@miranda (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 4 Feb 1997 19:46:57 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5d83nh$ed5@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f68628.0@192.33.12.30> Cc: jklein@freon.artificial.com In <32f68628.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > ... > Gosh you sound bitter. > > Like I said before, you were wrong about #1, and I saw no reason to > do #2. Don't sit here and insult me because I'm fine with the > solution I've got. Read my words carefully again. I am insulting nobody (except myself), not you in particular. > I'm not complaining that netatalk hasn't been ported to the NeXT -- I've > got a fine solution to my AppleTalk problems here, namely netatalk on > the sparc which NFS from and print to the NeXTs. Ok, so this could be the best solution for anyone who has a Sparc running Solaris/SunOS handy. > I wasn't making any kind of attack at you either -- only that I don't like > CAP. This was not the first time I tried to install it on the NeXT, > and in fact I'd tried to install it on SunOS and Solaris too, only > to have similar problems. netatalk on SunOS worked simply and correctly > the first time. > The CAP package was tested on a lot of different configurations with a lot of testers, so far we have resolved all difficulties and problem or found the reason why it did not work on the particular configuration. For most of them it worked right out of the box. It is perfectly possible that it does not run on your system due to some strange setup or configuration I could not have foreseen. I criticize your way of not reporting your problems to me but to publically announce the package is not working. So I have no chance to find out why nor to fix it for others that may run into the same problems. I have put quite a lot of work into CAPer now because I see it as a missing piece of functionallity in the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep system and I want everyone to have this without paying lots of $$ for a commercial solution. As far as I can tell from my mail feedback it works for a lot of people now. Hopefully the complete CAPer package will become obsolete some fine day when the original Appletalk stack will be included into OpenStep. Until this moment I will continue to maintain CAPer. PS. What I am really mad about is your signature, Jon Klein. Anyway, I don't think we should discuss this topic any longer as it certainly don't belong into the c.s.n.sysadmin group. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 5 Feb 1997 15:20:27 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Distribution: world Message-ID: <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash : occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a : reboot. Yep---I do find /core. How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: "Jonathan W. Hendry" <jon@subsequent.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] Black Fileserver for Linux a/o Winblows ... Good Idea? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 12:27:42 -0500 Organization: By Displacement in Metric Tonnes. Message-ID: <32F8C30E.176E@subsequent.com> References: <5dad85$krv$1@news.nac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dmh wrote: > > I've been thinking of buying a black mono NeXTstation and setting it up as a > fileserver for my Linux box (which ocasionally runs windoze :(). But I'm > completely new to NeXT and have a couple of questions. I've got a similar setup: a cube, a p90 running Linux, and a Win95 box. > 1. I understand that the NeXT cube's have built in ethernet, is it 10BT, combo > or what (I'd really like to be able to avoid buying a hub)? The 030 Cubes just had coax. The 040 Cubes have coax and 10BT connectors. (Only one is active at a time.) > 2. What's the performance like on the 040 cubes with, say 16MB, should I buy > more ram? (FWIW the boxes I've seen seem to come w/ OS 3.1 or 3.3 ((I > think))). It's okay, not stellar. More memory might help. I mostly use mine as a print server. NeXT's black-hardware SCSI drivers and hardware have never been as fast as they could be. It's also pretty old SCSI, not FAST/WIDE. For most things, a cube should be fine. > 3. Since the system is Mach based does that mean that sysadmin is like a > typical UN*X installation or are there gooey (GUI) counterparts for > the typical net stuff (adduser, chmod, etc)? There are GUI tools for much of this. It's a little funky since NeXT uses their own 'Netinfo' system instead of NIS. -- jon@steeldriving.com
From: Pohl Longsine <pohl@screaming.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] Black Fileserver for Linux a/o Winblows ... Good Idea? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 13:21:40 -0600 Organization: mementech, inc. Message-ID: <32F8DDC4.67C8F7C7@screaming.org> References: <5dad85$krv$1@news.nac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dmh wrote: > 3. Since the system is Mach based does that mean that sysadmin > is like a typical UN*X installation or are there gooey (GUI) > counterparts for the typical net stuff (adduser, chmod, etc)? All of this stuff is done through the GUI, but you're free to muck-around via a shell in a BSD unix environment -- if you're so inclined. -- pohl@screaming.org |"Reality is that which when you stop believing http://screaming.org/ | in it doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick ----------------------+---------------------------------------------- OpenStep Inferno Java | Making the world safe for platform diversity.
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: NSFIP 3.3 Install probelm Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:52:04 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32F7BD94.4ED1@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have NSFIP 3.3 and have been trying to install it on my machine. I have a generic S3-968 video card (fixed frequency output--I use a Sun Monitor on my PC) with 4 MB RAM, and want to run NSFIP on the machine. I figured out all the stuff about needing the beta drivers to use my ATAPI CD-ROM, and so I can get it to start the install process. But, when it goes to change the video mode so that it can display the ROM Monitor imitation, nothing comes on the screen. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem, or has anyone had a similar problem? I have not experienced this with my video card before... Any input appreciated! Thanks! Karl
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 4 Feb 97 19:38:57 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF1D40D5-21585A@207.147.62.235> References: <32F76975.7C6@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Feb 4, 1997 11:53 AM, Karl N. Matthias <mailto:matthias.3@osu.edu> wrote: > I at least would like to thank you for the work you did on the CAP > stuff. The NeXT community is better for the work you have done (are > doing). Thanks! I want to second that, Karl. I think Frank's package was easy to install and he e-mailed me with a few pointers when I asked him. As I said before,Ii had no trouble getting the Motorola version to install. I didn't have as much luck trying to install the Intel version on my Cube. :-) I am definitely a Unix virgin, but it wasn't that difficult. Thanks again, Frank. Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: 4 Feb 97 19:40:04 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF1D411A-21689B@207.147.62.235> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us. ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Feb 4, 1997 11:53 AM, Barry A Starrfield <mailto:netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: > Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac > as > a PPP router? Wouldn't it be easier to use the Cube as a router? I have no idea how to use the Mac as a router. --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Peter Q. Olsson" <peter.olsson@gi.alaska.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP2.2 with Openstep 4.0 on Intel Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 12:55:02 -0900 Organization: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks Message-ID: <32F7B036.548C@gi.alaska.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey all- Thanx for the many VERY helpful responses re: ftp sites. I am having a problem using ppp on a standalone machine. I seem to manage to make a ppp connection ok: Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 260 lo0 137.229.30.26 137.229.30.184 UH 0 0 ppp0 default 137.229.30.26 UG 0 0 ppp0 137.229 137.229.30.103 U 4 1610 en0 kotzebue:23# /usr/etc/ifconfig ppp0 ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> inet 137.229.30.184 --> 137.229.30.26 netmask ffff0000 But my system does not know how to use this connection, i.e., no network operations (ping,telnet) are possible. This machine has previously been configured to run on a network, though I have made the modifications to /etc/hostconfig recommended in the ppp documentation for a standalone machine. Other suspicious symptoms: on boot-up, the machine takes a long time (essentially times out) on all the network-related items (naming service,etc). It is obviously still looking for a network connection via ethernet card. Also, a similar timeout takes place when running the chat script, i.e. about a 90-120 sec delay before dialing. When connected to the ethernet on bootup, the same machine dials immediately. I am 1) obviously a neophyte in regards to ppp and 2) having some kind of problem outside ppp which is contributing to my woes. It is likely something trivial, but close does not count w/r/t software! Any helpful suggestions? THanx, PQO -- ############################################ # # Dr. Peter Q. Olsson # Geophysical Institute # University of Alaska Fairbanks # Fairbanks, AK 99775 # # voice: (907) 474-6477 # fax: (907) 474 7290 # e-mail: peter.olsson@gi.alaska.edu # #############################################
From: gard@best.com (Ross Gard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:26:07 -0800 Organization: ComputerWare Message-ID: <gard-0402971726070001@NNTP.best.com> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net>, "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: > Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac as > a PPP router? > > barry > > > In article > <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net>, > "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: > > >Hello There, > > As a pathetic newbie to networking, I'd greatly appreciate any help > in > >setting up a tiny TCP/IP network between > > my NeXTStation Color to a PowerMac 7200/75 via thin ethernet. > > The NeXTStation is running Nextstep 3.3, the PowerMac System 7.5.5 w/open > >transport, and I've verified that > >the ethernet connection is working through the Columbia Appletalk package > >(which works fine). > > My end goal in this project is to have the Mac serve as a PPP router, but > >in the meantime I'd be happy just to have > >the machines talking to each other through TCP/IP. Any IP numbers at this > >point would be fine (I'll get real numbers > >provided through my ISP when the PPP router scheme falls into place). > > Please post and/or mail me any suggestions on how I could get these > >machines talking to each other! > > > > > >Thanks again, > > > > Barry Barry, Take a look at Vicom Internet Gateway by Vicom <http://www.vicomtech.com/>. To my knowledge, this is the only Mac-based software IP WAN router available. It will allow your Mac to dial into a standard PPP account and act as a router and proxy server for your local net. It tends to remove concerns about security and the IP addresses of your local network. I run it myself on an old Quadra 800 to provide Internet access to my PowerMac 7500 running Mac OS and BeOS (which doesn't yet support PPP) and my Turbo Color NeXTstation (for which I now do not have to fiddle with PPP settings). Best of all, I can surf from both the Mac and the NeXTstation at the same time on the same PPP account. Regards, Ross _________________________________________________________ Ross Gard gard@best.com Systems Engineer (408) 328-1072 ComputerWare - The MacSource http://www.macsource.com/ 605 West California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5020
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP package Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:46:16 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<32f28835.0@192.33.12.30>) by jon klein: > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. > Very strange indeed! I've installed the nice CAP package from Frank two days ago. And it works perfectly! Very easy to install. I've already used Partner. But CAP looks nicer and easier to install. Only inconvenients: - Since I'm using ppp2.2, I'm using their BPF and it looks like it's interfering! I have to "Unload All" to be able to launch CAP. The problem is that for this reason, it's impossible to launch CAP at startup with the script in rc.local... Frank? =:) - I just can't understand how to use my LaserWriter from my NeXT station (but the other way the NeXT spool works fine for my Mac...) I think the documentation is a bit too short on this... =;) mc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking From: gary@scisysgw.sci.com (Gary Heston) Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Message-ID: <E55sA5.397@scisysgw.sci.com> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 02:01:17 GMT References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama In article <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) writes: > [comp.os.linux.networking included because of relevence] > Hi, I've got an original 030 cube with the laser printer, several >Linux boxes, a Sparc, and a couple of windows boxes here on a 10base2 LAN. >I'm having trouble communicating between the NeXT and Linux boxes right >down to pings, but it's intermittant and only happens with the cube, not >the rest of the network. To make the topology clear, the cube is on one >end of the segment and one of the linux boxes in question is in the >middle. The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the >segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. 99% of the problems I have with networks is in two areas: Cable problems Windoze First, if you're using *any* stubs, get rid of them. I tried those, and had *strange* problems--with a stub in one place, two systems 120' away on the cable wouldn't work, for example. Pulled the stub, those systems started working fine. Next, use an ohmmeter to check the resistance of the cable at each tap. Unless you're running a real long segment, you should see about 26 to 27 ohms at each point. Frequently, a connector gets resistive, throwing the impedance off, and causing the NICs to see collisions. I did this often enough at work that I made up a BNC-to-banana plug cable that I could just stick into the Tee or plugs. Then, check and make sure that all your cable is RG-58/C or real 10Base2 spec 50 ohm cable. RG-59/U is *not* acceptable; it's 75 ohm and should be used for video or cable-TV connections, not networking. For a quick test, you can move the cube over to the other end of the segment and connect with a short (.5m minimum) cable. If it suddenly starts working fine, there's definantly a cable problem. One other thing to check--measure both your terminators, and make certain they're 50 ohm. Someone slipped a 75 ohm terminator onto one of my segments, and it took me *weeks* to track down that intermittant problem. Especially annoying because my Microtest cable scanner wouldn't notice the slightly higher resistance. Gary -- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci.com Departmental net admin The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither. The Sultan of Brunei "has four Gulfstream IVs, three Airbuses, two Boeing 747s and one 767". (Forbes FYI) I'm available for adoption, Sultan.
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 5 Feb 1997 03:24:36 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) wrote: > I recently upgraded my cube from 3.0 to 4.0 and since then I have been > getting periodic "intruder alert" conditions. What happens is that > attempts to su are met with the response "who are you?" and the > command whoami returns "intruder alert". No logins are possible and > other servers (such as httpd) also get shutdown. > > I can't find any documentation anywhere on this, so can someone please > point me in the right direction. Is it a netinfo issue? Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a reboot. The OS 4.1 lookupd seems more stable, but still crashes occasionally on my old Cube. -- 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: maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: 5 Feb 1997 05:12:26 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> [comp.os.linux.networking included because of relevence] Hi, I've got an original 030 cube with the laser printer, several Linux boxes, a Sparc, and a couple of windows boxes here on a 10base2 LAN. I'm having trouble communicating between the NeXT and Linux boxes right down to pings, but it's intermittant and only happens with the cube, not the rest of the network. To make the topology clear, the cube is on one end of the segment and one of the linux boxes in question is in the middle. The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. Other issues: the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. When hooking the unit up to the network I launched the netadmin tool and specified a nonnetinfo network, this was the right thing to do but did I miss something else that's also important? Or is NetInfo broken in such an old NeXTStep? I just wiped SunOS because I was horrified at the libc DNS resolver hack I had to do just for DNS lookups; Solaris *is* much better. The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were they lying? The PC is a SMP dual P-120 with a 16 bit Intel Ether Express board. I've *never* had a problem hooking this box up to *any* network, and I've moved it around into all kinds of mixed enviornments... I don't suspect the machine. Intermittantly, the NeXT box will up and give up on talking to my gateway, a 386 running linux with an IP_Masq enabled kernel functioning as a firewall to the internal network. This *really* suggests to me a cube problem, are they known to have hardware problems with BNC networking? Could it be the OS? Do I need a patch - can I even get it? Can this guy run a more recent copy of NeXTStep? At least the 3.x series? As you can tell, I'm just gaining familiarity with this visually attractive, but pretty damn confusing, enviornment. This really looks like an IP implementation problem on the NeXT end, since I've never had problems with IP under Linux, am I wrong? My roomate and I are itching to get the cube to accept remote print jobs across lpd.... with that nice 400dpi PS laserprinter, is this too much to ask??? TIA, J. Maynard Gelinas
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Fax Broadcasting - how ? Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:31:01 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-40.usc.edu Message-ID: <5dbmq5$i1a@usc.edu> References: <32F89DD2.7774@mmc.de> Cc: fbandle@mmc.de In <32F89DD2.7774@mmc.de> Frank Bandle wrote: > We are merging adresses with a document, then we want to fax these > documents during the night to our clients. I believe there's an option in the fax panel for faxing later at a time you can specify. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: "Andrew Kim" <akim@pop.cogsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Help!!! Anyone? Date: 4 Feb 97 21:52:05 -0800 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <AF1D600C-2BE8A@207.13.170.22> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.hardware, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.misc, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.programmer, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.software, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.sysadmin --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there any one can tell me how to set up PPP for OpenStep 4.0 (040 Black) by step by step instruction? Online help does not gives me a bit helpful. I have Supra Sonic and NeXTstation Color. I am very confused and I have a no idea what to do. Thank you for any suggestion. PS. I tried Gatekeeper, & Kermit. but never worked. What did I do wrong??? --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-0002BCFC" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-0002BCFC Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <X-FONTSIZE><PARAM>12</PARAM><FONTFAMILY><PARAM>Palatino</PARAM>Is there any one can tell me how to set up PPP for OpenStep 4.0 (040 Black) by step by step instruction? Online help does not gives me a bit helpful. I have Supra Sonic and NeXTstation Color. I am very confused and I have a no idea what to do. Thank you for any suggestion. PS. I tried Gatekeeper, & Kermit. but never worked. What did I do wrong???</FONTFAMILY></X-FONTSIZE> --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-0002BCFC-- --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC--
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 01:48:48 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0502970148490001@slip-96-4.ots.utexas.edu> References: <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> <5d7v6l$t33@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5d7v6l$t33@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >Add the -m flag at the linker line. It will use the first instance of a >given library function for linking. Naturally, this flag is not-recommended >unless you know what you're doing. You DO know what you're doing, right? >(-; After a bit more mucking around, I THINK I now know what I'm doing. But, rather than recompiling clients with the new resolver routines (and crossing my fingers while using the -m flag for ld), I decided to follow your advice and . . . >Run a local caching DNS nameserver. which seems to work great. This also, presumably, protects clients (like talkd) for which I don't have the source code to recompile. Thanks, Jacques Distler
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with PPP client and server Date: 5 Feb 1997 23:03:13 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5db3jh$eku@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <5d42u3$n5r@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <5d42u3$n5r@nntp.Stanford.EDU> On 02/02/97, Stan Jirman wrote: >I am somewhat stuck with an installation of PPP on two NeXTs, both >client and server side. Here is the general description of the >system: > >Server -- NS3.3 turbo station, connected to a big network of >non-NetInfo computers. Name resolution etc. works just fine on this >net. > >Client -- NS4.0 P6, which has three other NeXT and two non-NeXT >computers hanging on it. They are connected together without the >full use of NetInfo, just registered with HostManager. This network >is pretty much static and doesn't change. > >Goal: connect the clients to the server by PPP 2.2. > >I got the package, read the instructions, and I come this far: I >get the server to pick up the phone, I manually connect in Kermit, >then quit and start pppd on the client. The syslog shows all >happiness, as can be seen below. > >However, when I do a "ping [hostname of server]" on the client, >nothing happens. a "ping [IP of server]" works just fine. Short of >this, no IP or name pings or telnets work, I am stuck connecting >to the server, only thru IP and only directly from the primary >client, not any of the connected computers. > >I have resolv.conf set properly. Regardless what I do with the >"router" field in the HostManager Local dialog, I can't connect to >anything else, from any of the computers. > >My confusion (other than it simply doesn't work) >* The installation guide mentions "standalone client - do this". >Well, it's not a standalone client, but it's not a NetInfo client >either. (I will turn it into a clean NetInfo net later on). The >instructions don't say what to do on a NON-standalone machine. > >* The server configuration. I don't really get what the section >about "ethers" or proxyarp is trying to tell me. Where should I >place entries for which computers? The ones on the (sub)net, hanging >on the client? I am really confused here. > >The system works right now just fine with SLIP, routed thru a different >server; so naming and such should really be dandy. > >Any help is greatly appreciated. I can't just go and try things out, >any mods require major (actual physical) changes to the network; >if you are interested I can send you more specific config info, >including all config files, for you to look at. > >Thanks again! - Stan > > >ppp2.2.log: > >Feb 2 20:47:09 pizza pppd[242]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 >Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Using interface ppp0 >Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: local IP address 36.92.0.246 >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: remote IP address 36.92.0.18 >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Setting interface mask to 255.255.0.0 >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Compression enabled > >[Stanford has a Class-A network, and so netmask is said to be 255.255.0.0] > > >pizza# pppd /dev/cufb defaultroute >pizza# /usr/etc/ifconfig ppp0 >ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> > inet 36.92.0.246 --> 36.92.0.18 netmask ffff0000 >pizza# netstat -rn >Routing tables >Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface >127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 344 lo0 >36.92.0.18 36.92.0.246 UH 0 4 ppp0 >default 36.92.0.18 UG 1 31 ppp0 >36.92 36.92.0.246 U 8 1351 en0 >pizza# > > >-- > >Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj >NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu > > The server should proxyarp for the IP addresses you gave to the clients. Without this how could the packets come back to the clients? Just add a arp -s an_ip_address_of_a_client pub for each client in the server's /etc/rc.local and reboot. You should maybe try it by hand before modifying the rc.local file. Francois -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702052133.QAA06839@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 16:33:20 -0500 Subject: 'at' jobs Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Is there a way to allow 'at' jobs to survive reboots/panics? It seems that when I set an 'at' job it will work fine as long as I don't reboot the machine before it is run. Is this "correct" or normal or is there a way around it? Thanks TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@crt.com> Message-ID: <9702052339.AA27711@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 17:39:03 -0600 Subject: Stealth 3D 3000 Is anyone successfully using the Stealth 3D 3000 4MB card under NS? If so, which driver are you using? DiamondStealthDisplayDriver (NA #1939) S3ViRGEDisplayDriver (NA #2166) ? Thanks Randy randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Top 17 Programmer's Terminologies: 16. YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT - It finally worked!
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <40945538.17055785@news.zippo.com> Date: 6 Feb 1997 09:31:53 GMT Control: cancel <40945538.17055785@news.zippo.com> Message-ID: <cancel.40945538.17055785@news.zippo.com> Sender: cjtech@inreach.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: getting DNS to work (not hard) Date: 5 Feb 1997 17:34:52 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5dbcfs$ms6@crl.crl.com> Okay, I have asked about this problem about 4 monthes ago. But I hosed my NEXTSTEP partition BIG TIME (don't ask, its embarressing) but I am back trying to get my lookupd working. I am standalone 3.3 Intel running ppp 2.2.?%.@#. I can ping my nameservers and access everything with IP numbers, just no DNS. I also tried: kill -HUP 114 (114 being (lookupd)) adn rebooting. No luck. Any other ideas? yes yes, my resolv.conf has the correct info: domain crl.com nameserver 165.113.1.36 nameserver 165.113.1.37 thanks in advance...HC -- Josh Waltzer and Hans-Christoph Steiner MIME, NeXTMail, SunMail and PlainOldMail accepted
From: lars@andrej.rat.se (Lars Pehrsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dell Optiplex Pro 200... Onboard networkcard Date: 6 Feb 1997 11:02:09 GMT Organization: Research & Trade AB Message-ID: <5dcdnh$fra@baldwin.rat.se> Has anyone succedded in installing nextstep on this machine and got the onboard networkcard going ?? Onboard networkcard is suppose to be 3-Com compatible. Thanks in advance Research & Trade AB Lars Pehrsson lars@rat.se
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:07:22 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) wrote: > Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > : Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash > : occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a > : reboot. > > Yep---I do find /core. > > How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. And even if you are root, other problems may exist. The system is seriously hosed at this point. Fortunately, lookupd hasn't crashed very frequently in my experience - maybe about once per month. NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is understood and should be fixed in a future release. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Files for installing a networked NeXT laser printer under Win95 (Was: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking?) Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:34:24 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-40.usc.edu Message-ID: <5dbn0g$i1a@usc.edu> Cc: rschultz@iquest.net In <32F847F1.9F39E97@iquest.net> Rick Schultz wrote: > OK, here's the real point of my post: I have created a disk (er, set of > files) for installing a networked NeXT laser printer under Win95, > complete with the .inf and .ppd files. It requires running SAMBA on the > next. If anyone has a use for such a thing, let me know. If anyone > knows of a well-suited FTP site for this, let me know. If anyone knows > the legal ramifications of redistributing .DRV files, let me know that > as well... If it does turn out to be okay, the ftp.next.org site would be a good place! And probably quite appreciated. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 5 Feb 97 12:57:00 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32f8839c.0@192.33.12.30> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d83nh$ed5@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert (frank@miranda) wrote: : PS. What I am really mad about is your signature, Jon Klein. Anyway, I don't : think we should discuss this topic any longer as it certainly don't belong : into the c.s.n.sysadmin group. OH DEAR. oh dear... This is a huge misunderstanding. This has been my signature for a long time, and has NOTHING to do with CAP, you, or anything with this newsgroup for that matter. Caper is the name of a project of a friend of mine which is turning out to be quite a swiss-army-knife-type project -- it's turning out to do everything. When we come across a problem, the joke is to say, "Caper will do it for me". If you don't believe me, please feel free to look at dejanews for articles I've posted with this signature BEFORE this issue ever came up. I appologize profusely for this misunderstanding, as it never occured to me that in this context, it might be taken as offensive. At the time I wrote the signature, I had never used or heard of CAPer at all. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: Rick Schultz <rschultz@iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 03:42:25 -0500 Organization: IQuest Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <32F847F1.9F39E97@iquest.net> References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "J. Maynard Gelinas" <maynard@jmg.com> J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: > The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the > segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. Can you ping all the machines using the IP numbers? If not, it's a gateway/routing problem. If you can do that, but not use hostnames, then DNS is the problem. > the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I > force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. Several of the files in /etc/ are not used once YP is up - check the files you're editing to make sure. > The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were > they lying? Bite yer tongue, lad! You probably need to enter the /etc/hosts information into the NIS/YP database. Configure the machine NOT to bind to a YP server (as if it were the server itself), then add all the info into the database with the admin tools. At least, that's how I did it under 3.3. > are they known to have hardware problems with BNC networking? Could it be the OS? I've seen a network of 300 NeXTs running entirely on thinnet. I can't account for the condition of your hardware, but, in general, the machines can handle this sort of thing. You might want to check for packet errors (ifconfig?) if you're worried about the physical connection. > My roomate and I are itching to get the cube to accept remote > print jobs across lpd.... with that nice 400dpi PS laserprinter, is this > too much to ask??? OK, here's the real point of my post: I have created a disk (er, set of files) for installing a networked NeXT laser printer under Win95, complete with the .inf and .ppd files. It requires running SAMBA on the next. If anyone has a use for such a thing, let me know. If anyone knows of a well-suited FTP site for this, let me know. If anyone knows the legal ramifications of redistributing .DRV files, let me know that as well... later, rick
From: Timothy B. Stiles <tbstiles@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Windows 95 Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 05:40:16 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5dbqh3$nmf@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Can someone please answer this question? If I have a program written for Windows 95 that won't allow you to do anything to the window except "restore" or "close" where can I change those properties? IS it in the registry? I'd like to re-enable minimize, maximize, and size functionality. Please respond ASAP and cc: to tstiles@ptp.hp.com. Your help with this is very appreciated! : ) Tim Stiles
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 6 Feb 1997 13:50:10 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5dcnii$nb6@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d83nh$ed5@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f8839c.0@192.33.12.30> Cc: jklein@freon.artificial.com In <32f8839c.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > Frank M. Siegert (frank@miranda) wrote: > > : PS. What I am really mad about is your signature, Jon Klein. Anyway, I don't > : think we should discuss this topic any longer as it certainly don't belong > : into the c.s.n.sysadmin group. > > OH DEAR. oh dear... This is a huge misunderstanding. > > This has been my signature for a long time, and has NOTHING to do > with CAP, you, or anything with this newsgroup for that matter. > > Caper is the name of a project of a friend of mine which is turning > out to be quite a swiss-army-knife-type project -- it's turning out to > do everything. When we come across a problem, the joke is to say, > "Caper will do it for me". > > If you don't believe me, please feel free to look at dejanews for articles > I've posted with this signature BEFORE this issue ever came up. > > I appologize profusely for this misunderstanding, as it never occured to > me that in this context, it might be taken as offensive. At the time I > wrote the signature, I had never used or heard of CAPer at all. > My oh my, guess most wars in history are started out of such bad misunderstandings. I have misinterpreted your words, sorry! -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: cward@adnc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pop mail help. Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:10:16 GMT Organization: adnc.com Message-ID: <cward-0502972010100001@adnline1313.adnc.com> Somebody please send me a sendmail that actually works for sending mail to a pop host. Pop Over will retrieve beautifully. How do I send? I almost give up after a month of all day working on it. CW
From: jbays@gmu.edu (John Bays) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <jbays-0602971212010001@156.80.175.13> Control: cancel <jbays-0602971212010001@156.80.175.13> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 12:14:23 -0500 Organization: George Mason University Message-ID: <jbays-0602971214230001@156.80.175.13> cancel <jbays-0602971212010001@156.80.175.13>
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'at' jobs Date: 6 Feb 1997 17:58:34 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5dd64a$l1v@library.airnews.net> References: <199702052133.QAA06839@nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <199702052133.QAA06839@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Is there a way to allow 'at' jobs to survive reboots/panics? In theory, 'at' jobs should and will survive crashes and reboots, since they are spooled to /usr/spool/at and run by /usr/lib/atrun in the cron. In practice, my'at' jobs have survived reboots and panics, except for the jobs that are scheduled to run during the downtime. After the machine comes back up, I sometimes get messages from 'root' asking "Where are you?" on behalf of the 'at' jobs that didn't get a chance to run. > It seems that when I set an 'at' job it will work fine as long as I > don't reboot the machine before it is run. Since your 'at' runs fine while the machine is up, I don't know what's wrong. Maybe you have a /etc/rc[.local] job that goes out and clean the /usr/spool/at directory? > Is this "correct" or normal or is there a way around it? If it's important and runs all the time, it should be in the crontab in the first place. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: philippe_Provost <phil@cnam.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: looking for net related softwares Date: 6 Feb 1997 19:36:20 GMT Message-ID: <5ddbrk$vgn@pauli.cnam.fr> Greetings, I am looking for different products for the OpenSTEP (MACH) environment-intel based. mailing-list software NEWSGroup server (NNTP) ftp server I currently downloaded a software (NewsTools and NewsAdmin)from the archive which is 2 parts (installer and admin) for the nntp server, but I failed to pass thru the admin pack. I got a number of errors. where can I get useful doc ? which ftp server to install ? which is easy to set up and provided with good doc ? thank for all your reply. please post them to phil@cnam.fr philippe
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't boot after crash...Bad superblock Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:29:03 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8myX3zG00iVGE9RABV@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E56IDJ.GE@shinto.nbg.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <E56IDJ.GE@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 6-Feb-97 Can't boot after crash...Ba.. by Thomas Engel@shinto.nbg. > But a old and propably buggy CD-ROM trashed the SCSI bus after I almost > finished the installation leaving me with the same > > "Bad super block" > > message. Now is there a way to get this drive booted again ? > Can I put the super blocks back on the drive using the CD or boot disk ? Try 'fsck -b 16'. This will use the default alternate superblock, which hopefully will be valid. (There's no way to copy a superblock from some other device since the superblock contains information about the specific geometry of the device, and it's not going to be portable.) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "dgrant" <darren@oxford.i-way.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: 5 Feb 1997 17:57:24 GMT Organization: I-Way Limited, Reading Message-ID: <01bc138d$15ccefc0$6fc081c2@Darren.i-way.co.uk> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net> You need the Vicom internet gateway to use a Mac as a router, www.vicomtech.com This will act as a software router for TCP-IP Barry A Starrfield <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote in article <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net>... > Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac as > a PPP router? >
From: colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 6 Feb 1997 20:55:56 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> I wrote: > How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without : lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. That's what I meant by "circumstances allow"; but your other comments about being hosed make me think that it's not worth trying anyway. : Fortunately, lookupd hasn't crashed very frequently in my experience - : maybe about once per month. Unfortunately, it has happened to me 4 times in 3 days, but I'm hoping that a little change I made in netinfo has fixed the problem -- the machine has been up about 18 hours now. I think my specific problem may have been caused by a slight incompatiblity between host entries in 3.0 netinfo and host entries in 4.0 netinfo. I noticed as soon as I upgraded that other machines that my cube serves netinfo too were not getting recognized properly. I had to resave their host entries in the master netinfo database (after a trivial edit) to get them recognized. I just never went ahead and did the same for my machine's own entry in the database. Having now done that, I'm hoping that it's fixed. If it crashes again today, I'll know that it isn't! : NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty : unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is : understood and should be fixed in a future release. Can't wait ;-) -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 6 Feb 1997 22:32:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> On 02/06/97, Colin F. Allen wrote: > >I wrote: >> How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? > >Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >: Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without >: lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. > >That's what I meant by "circumstances allow"; but your other comments >about being hosed make me think that it's not worth trying anyway. > >: Fortunately, lookupd hasn't crashed very frequently in my experience - >: maybe about once per month. > >Unfortunately, it has happened to me 4 times in 3 days, but I'm hoping >that a little change I made in netinfo has fixed the problem -- the >machine has been up about 18 hours now. I think my specific problem >may have been caused by a slight incompatiblity between host entries >in 3.0 netinfo and host entries in 4.0 netinfo. I noticed as soon as >I upgraded that other machines that my cube serves netinfo too were >not getting recognized properly. I had to resave their host entries >in the master netinfo database (after a trivial edit) to get them >recognized. I just never went ahead and did the same for my machine's >own entry in the database. Having now done that, I'm hoping that it's >fixed. If it crashes again today, I'll know that it isn't! > What did you fix? Its only doing it a single host lookup here (tring to access news) and its driving me batty. >: NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty >: unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is >: understood and should be fixed in a future release. > >Can't wait ;-) Me too... like maybe in 4.2? -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 18:28:04 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32FA6904.4E61@osu.edu> References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> <32F847F1.9F39E97@iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rick Schultz wrote: > > the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I > > force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. > > Several of the files in /etc/ are not used once YP is up - check the > files you're editing to make sure. > > > The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were > > they lying? > > Bite yer tongue, lad! > > You probably need to enter the /etc/hosts information into the NIS/YP > database. Configure the machine NOT to bind to a YP server (as if it > were the server itself), then add all the info into the database with > the admin tools. At least, that's how I did it under 3.3. > If you've already put all the info in the /etc/hosts file, you can easily load it into netinfo with the niload and nidump commands. First do a nidump hosts . >/tmp/nihosts. Then append the /etc/hosts file to the end of that. Then do niload hosts . </tmp/nihosts. Then you can remove /tmp/nihosts. Everything should be cosher then. I don't remember if you actually need to do this appending of the current hosts file, though... I don't think it hurts anything if you do.
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Windows 95 Date: 6 Feb 97 20:44:43 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF1FF345-1D0EAC@207.147.51.218> References: <5dbqh3$nmf@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Feb 6, 1997 12:40 AM, Timothy B. Stiles <mailto:tbstiles@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Can someone please answer this question? > > If I have a program written for Windows 95 that won't allow you to do > anything to the window > except "restore" or "close" where can I change those properties? IS it in the > registry? > I'd like to re-enable minimize, maximize, and size functionality. Please > respond ASAP and cc: to > tstiles@ptp.hp.com. > > > Your help with this is very appreciated! : ) > > > Tim Stiles > Why did you post this to comp.sys.next.sysadmin? Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 07:44:38 -0500 Organization: Yisraelim B'Chul Message-ID: <netanya_bastarrfield-0502970744380001@slip129-37-240-201.nc.us.ibm.net> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us. ibm.net> <AF1D411A-21689B@207.147.62.235> In article <AF1D411A-21689B@207.147.62.235>, "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >Wouldn't it be easier to use the Cube as a router? I have no idea how to >use the Mac as a router. > Good point - I can't seem to find any of these bloody NeXT to Mac serial cables around anywhere, and a software router for the Mac would cost about $300 (nearly the price of a Cube!). I've found, however, information that says that Open Transport 1.5 will allow a Mac to serve as a small scale router (at least for PPP). As this comes from only one site, I have no confirmation on the issue. In the meantime, I'll be using the Columbia Appletalk package and lots of shady file shifting to at least impersonate a full network connect betwen my NeXT, Mac and the Internet. Barry
From: taweil@skat.usc.edu (taweil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lost boot loader due to win95... Message-ID: <c4ak9oxcwim.fsf@skat.usc.edu> Date: 28 Jan 97 21:36:50 GMT Sender: taweil@skat.usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Hi, I just installed Win95 and the NeXT bootloader disappear. Is there anyway I can get it back without re-install the whole OS? -- Ta-Wei Li
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 7 Feb 1997 04:03:17 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> Scott Anguish (sanguish@digifix.com) wrote: : What did you fix? Its only doing it a single host lookup here : (tring to access news) and its driving me batty. Do you have the address of your news server stored in your netinfo database, or are you going out to dns? The reason I ask is if the former, the behavior seems more explicable in light of my experiences here. To fix the problem here, if I have indeed fixed it :-(, I used HostManager to open the machine's entry under the root domain, simply deleted the last character of the hostname, retyped it, and saved. Some background: My upgrade was from 3.0->4.0. The Upgrader.app would not work, so I had to install from scratch. Once 4.0 was up I simply copied my old netinfo databases into /etc/netinfo to replace the default ones provided. Here's where I think I caused the trouble, because it seems that the 3.0 netinfo structure is a bit different from 4.0's, so several things were not quite working properly (printing and serving as the netinfo master for our network, to mention two). I now believe that lookupd was crashing because something in netinfo was in not quite the right format - I noticed, for example, that doing a lot of su changing accounts, or running NetInfoManager seemed to be correlated with the crashes, and both of these are operations that require calls to netinfo. So far so good, but, of course, this is still speculation: however, the machine has not been up for 25 hours without a crash and hope springs eternal! -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 7 Feb 1997 00:49:30 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything installed fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 GB disk. How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. -- John Stanhope jehu@vt.edu
From: Pohl Longsine <pohl@screaming.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP Help!!! Anyone? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 10:19:05 -0600 Organization: mementech, inc. Message-ID: <32F8B2F9.54E682D1@screaming.org> References: <AF1D600C-2BE8A@207.13.170.22> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Kim wrote: > Is there any one can tell me how to set up PPP for OpenStep 4.0 > (040 Black) by step by step instruction? I'd like to point out here that it's really bad form to crosspost support questions to all of the comp.sys.next.* groups. Be more selective, please. -- pohl@screaming.org |"Reality is that which when you stop believing http://screaming.org/ | in it doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick ----------------------+---------------------------------------------- OpenStep Inferno Java | Making the world safe for platform diversity.
From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Amanda backup system and NeXTSTEP 3.3 m68k Message-ID: <1997Feb6.135023.47350@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 6 Feb 97 13:50:23 MET Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland Hello, I'm looking for some who has experience with amanda 2.3.0 and NeXT 3.3 m68k. I tried to compile amanda 2.3.0 but recieved many, many error messages. Is there somebody out who solved this problem and has a running system ? greetings, Markus Wildi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199702061406.JAA12050@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 01a3fe009a4d1858b2f0372e3962c812 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 09:05:55 -0500 Subject: Re: pop mail help. Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 01a3fe009a4d1858b2f0372e3962c812 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: cward@adnc.com Original Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:10:16 GMT > Somebody please send me a sendmail that actually works for sending > mail to a pop host. > > I almost give up after a month of all day working on it. Oh my. This is a relatively simple problem. sendmail 8.8.5 is available for NeXTStep. You can get it from ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/ There are also instructions for how to set it up which are linked to my web page http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ under the "NeXTStep related web pages" site (which I think is http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/other-sites-noframes.html for those who can't do frames) The instructions make setting this up a project that should take less than 30 minutes and a reboot. They were written for 8.7.5 but still work for 8.8.5. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 7 Feb 1997 05:43:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5defd5$2ch@news.digifix.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> On 02/06/97, Colin F. Allen wrote: >Scott Anguish (sanguish@digifix.com) wrote: >: What did you fix? Its only doing it a single host lookup here >: (tring to access news) and its driving me batty. > >Do you have the address of your news server stored in your netinfo >database, or are you going out to dns? The reason I ask is if the >former, the behavior seems more explicable in light of my experiences >here. > Its not listed in netinfo, and I'm not sure that I've got a similar situation... :-( Perhaps I should stick it into the hosts for /... I guess it couldn't hurt. >To fix the problem here, if I have indeed fixed it :-(, I used >HostManager to open the machine's entry under the root domain, simply >deleted the last character of the hostname, retyped it, and saved. > >Some background: My upgrade was from 3.0->4.0. The Upgrader.app would >not work, so I had to install from scratch. Once 4.0 was up I simply >copied my old netinfo databases into /etc/netinfo to replace the >default ones provided. Here's where I think I caused the trouble, >because it seems that the 3.0 netinfo structure is a bit different >from 4.0's, so several things were not quite working properly >(printing and serving as the netinfo master for our network, to >mention two). I now believe that lookupd was crashing because >something in netinfo was in not quite the right format - I noticed, >for example, that doing a lot of su changing accounts, or running >NetInfoManager seemed to be correlated with the crashes, and both of >these are operations that require calls to netinfo. > >So far so good, but, of course, this is still speculation: however, >the machine has not been up for 25 hours without a crash and hope >springs eternal! > >-- >Colin Allen >http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/ > > > -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:10:30 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5dcvpm$l@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <E4F1qH.9zs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> In Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x8ac8c> writes, > In article <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com>, Ken Lui <klui@cup.hp.com> wrote: >>In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, >>David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >>> I didn't write it anyway. :) >> >>Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach Tasks. >> > > I have no idea who wrote it. I grabbed it from a posting here years and > years ago (and, as I recall, the poster said, "I didn't write this--I grabbed > it from a posting a while ago".) At the moment I have to work a lot with tip and modems. tip hangs quiet often and I don't know why. The problem is, I can't kill it aftwards. Nothing works: C, kill, kill -9... So I have to reboot and most of the time make a fsck for my 2.1GB disk. Not very efficient... So if this famous program could kill also this problem, I would appreciate a lot if somebody could send it to me (moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch); preferably fat (for Intel and m68k). Thanks a lot! Phil
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: 5 Feb 1997 14:42:22 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> Cc: mic@micmac.com In <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin > (<32f28835.0@192.33.12.30>) by jon klein: > > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even > with the > > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but > nothing > > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. > > > > Very strange indeed! > I've installed the nice CAP package from Frank two days ago. And it > works perfectly! > Very easy to install. I've already used Partner. But CAP looks nicer > and easier to install. > > Only inconvenients: > - Since I'm using ppp2.2, I'm using their BPF and it looks like it's > interfering! I have to "Unload All" to be able to launch CAP. The > problem is that for this reason, it's impossible to launch CAP at > startup with the script in rc.local... Frank? =:) Yes, I'm here :-). I have heard this now from serveral sources and I am investigating this problem. Looks like both BPF uses the same major device numbers, but I have no solution yet (except not using/unloading the ppp BPF before starting up CAP/BPF). > - I just can't understand how to use my LaserWriter from my NeXT > station (but the other way the NeXT spool works fine for my Mac...) I > think the documentation is a bit too short on this... =;) > Yeah, I second this. To minimize the problems I have put together a step by step documentation and put it on http://www.this.net/~frank/cap_howto.html The setup of a local queue to print to a remote LaserWriter is unfortunately not automated yet, so you have to use the shell / NetInfoMananger (read the notes about a potential problem using it!) to setup. A future release will include an automatic setup mechanism. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Lutz Kwasniok <101667.1750@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp via compuserve Date: 7 Feb 1997 13:49:22 GMT Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736) Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5dfbt2$rjm$2@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> HELP HELP HELP I want a PPP connection via Compusere. My problem is that I can't get a connection. My computer and the Compuserve host try to configure but they didn't get right. My computer sends the configuration requsts 7 times and then the connection got terminated. I use Nextstep 3.3, PPP2.2 and GateKeeper 2.0 (Beta). What's wrong? Any hints are wellcome. Thanks Lutz ----------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Kwasniok Germany email : 101667.1750@compuserve.com (ASCII,MIME) -- Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (sorry no nextmail)
From: "Giraudo1" <giraudos@avon.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: 7 Feb 1997 13:01:32 GMT Organization: iiNet Technologies Message-ID: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> Cache-Post-Path: oak.avon.net.au!unknown@ppp08.avon.net.au The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came with the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. Also when I was going through the online system book something was mentioned about PHONE? Does this also not come come with OPENSTEP 4.0 THANK YOU someone who is trying to show others that there is an easier, independant and more exciting way to computing. Simon Giraudo
From: dmh@cnct.com (dmh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: [Q] Black Fileserver for Linux a/o Winblows ... Good Idea? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 97 16:41:00 GMT Organization: Net Access Corp, Denville NJ (+1-201-983-0725) Message-ID: <5dad85$krv$1@news.nac.net> I've been thinking of buying a black mono NeXTstation and setting it up as a fileserver for my Linux box (which ocasionally runs windoze :(). But I'm completely new to NeXT and have a couple of questions. 1. I understand that the NeXT cube's have built in ethernet, is it 10BT, combo or what (I'd really like to be able to avoid buying a hub)? 2. What's the performance like on the 040 cubes with, say 16MB, should I buy more ram? (FWIW the boxes I've seen seem to come w/ OS 3.1 or 3.3 ((I think))). 3. Since the system is Mach based does that mean that sysadmin is like a typical UN*X installation or are there gooey (GUI) counterparts for the typical net stuff (adduser, chmod, etc)? Thanks for any info you can provide. Dave dmh@cnct.com http://www.cnct.com/home/dmh finger for PGP key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCA/FA d>--- s>+:() !a C$>++++ ULVC(on)>++$ !P>+ L>++$ E>---- W(++)$ N++>++ o K--- w---(---) O()> M() V-->-- PS PE+++(+++)@>+++ Y+(+)>$ PGP+(+) !t !5 !X !R tv++ b+++>$ DI++ D++ G e h r++ y++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
From: jdevlin@umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Standalone to Network -- services and fonts disappeared Date: 5 Feb 1997 16:50:06 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <5dadnu$7m8@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> Hello, I've put a second NeXTstation on a Netinfo network with my original standalone slab. Let's call them "client" and "server". /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary have been exported from server and mounted on client at /Net/client/LocalApps /Net/client/LocalLibrary All users are network users, and they can access those apps and files from either machine. I thought that was it, but I have two problems that I can't solve. Problem #1: The services which these apps provide no longer show up either in the Services menu or in the appropriate Preferences.app panel. Users have this problem whether they are logged in on host or on client. Problem #2: The fonts in /LocalLibrary are only accessible from server. They do not appear in the font panel for apps launched from client. Any ideas? Many thanks! -- John Devlin Department of Philosophy The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - 1003
From: Anton Sieber <anton.sieber@ubs.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CHAP & PPP Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 14:01:16 +0100 Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland Message-ID: <32FB279C.2892@ubs.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi out there Now I poste my first question in a newsgroup because I can't find anything about CHAP ! I hobe it's ok this way... I installed PPP. My pppup -script can connect to my provider. But then communikation stops because my ppp/configuration knows only PAP authentifikation. But authedtification at my provider runs only with CHAP ! Is it possible for me to connect with CHAP ? How ? Thank's a lot for help... Please respond to this address: sieber@netwings.ch //// (. .) +--------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------+ | Anton Sieber, SYNE/SYBS-X9A System Engineer | | Union Bank of Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse 45, Zuerich, Switzerland | | Email: Anton.Sieber@ubs.ch Tel: +41 1 236 7999 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:57:18 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E58pnK.5yu@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> In article <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> "Giraudo1" <giraudos@avon.net.au> writes: > The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came with > the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. No. Part of the great NeXTStep unfeaturing... $an
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 7 Feb 1997 16:51:03 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dfmhn$g81$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> In article <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) writes: -> ->I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything installed ->fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 GB disk. ->How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. -> ->-- -> After a little research I think I have a solution but may need a little guidance. Since the 2GB drive is the boot disk I need to boot off the CDROM and format the disk from there, then somehow, I need to setup a disktab entry for before (?) I install NS. How can I make this happen? After reformatting the disk can I do a half installation, just enough to set up the disktab? -- John Stanhope jehu@vt.edu
From: Bill Mitchell <bill.mitchell@mercyic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT ?s Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 11:14:15 -0600 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <32FB62E7.6470@mercyic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just received my new cube Wednesday night. Couldn't be happier. Have some questions though. Here is the 'all-black' configuration. NeXT cube 68040 processer 8 MB memory magneto-optical drive (No other media drives) 650 MB Fujitsu hard drive NeXT keyboard NeXT mouse NeXT megapixel display The OS is NeXTSTEP 2.0. Questions: (Please excuse the length) 1. Has anybody used SUN externals for media. SUN CD_ROM or SUN Cartridge drives (6525 style)? 2. The gentleman I purchased the Cube from gave me NeXTSTEP 1.0, 2.0, & 3.0 in Magneto-optical. I wanted to get to 3.0, but I have hit a snag. The 3.0 MO has no "Upgrade_3.0.app" like the 2.0 MO has. I can boot to NeXTSTEP 3.0 using the MO but that is very slow once up Want to upgrade, but not sure of the route to take. I have the 2.0 documentation, but the seller sold the 3.0 docs seperately. The 3.0 MO has the following directories and files: bin dev etc lib lost+found mach me NexTadmin NeXTApps NeXTDeveloper NeXTLibrary odmach private sdmach tmp usr .cshrc .hidden .login NeXT .NeXTrash .profile The NextAdmin directory contains the following: BuildDisk.app HostManager.app Installer.app InstallTablet.app NetInfoManager.app NetWareManager.app NFSManager.app PhoneConnector.app PhoneManager.app SampleNetworkStart UserManager.app
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: 7 Feb 1997 17:45:57 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5dfpol$g93$2@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> <E58pnK.5yu@cam-ani.co.uk> Cc: ians@cam-ani.co.uk In <E58pnK.5yu@cam-ani.co.uk> Ian Stephenson wrote: > In article <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> "Giraudo1" > <giraudos@avon.net.au> writes: > > The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came > with > > the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. > > No. > > Part of the great NeXTStep unfeaturing... Actually, the Netware manager app is no longer in /NextAdmin, but I can still get to Netware volumes via /Net/Netware/{SERVER} just like before. So I don't know if that means it's still supported or not :-} -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Smalltalk == Astronaut's tools. Awkward at first, but exceptional design C++ == A hammer. A SLEDGEHAMMER. Not cast metal, a big rock on a stick.
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTstation won't power down Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Feb 97 02:44:50 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32fa9722.0@192.33.12.30> References: <E56K06.HB@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) wrote: : Hi, : since almost 2 month the behavior of one NeXTstation Turbo (NS 3.3/Patched) : is getting stranger. : I know that a system ofter refused to shut down if there are some zombie : processes which can not be killed or refuse to die. (e.g. an ungracefully : interrupted printer driver oft was the cause on my machine) : But on this particular machine the behaviors seem to result from something : different. If you log in as root and play with preferences , there are options 'reboot upon shutdown' and such... I've never gotten them to work (I have a situation where I would like such behaviour), but if they did, the behaviour you describe is what I would expect. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Patched rlogin source? -- Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.06 - Vulnerability in rlogin/term Date: 7 Feb 1997 19:14:08 GMT Organization: data communication and networking services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dfuu0$7mo@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5ddf0h$3nj@news.sei.cmu.edu> Could someone upload source+binary for "rlogin" that fixes the following security bug to FTP sites (and let us know)? For those systems that are running NS/OS versions < 4.1. Thanks! Izumi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In article <5ddf0h$3nj@news.sei.cmu.edu> CERT Advisory <cert-advisory@cert.org> writes: CERT(sm) Advisory CA-97.06 Original issue date: February 6, 1997 Last revised: -- Topic: Vulnerability in rlogin/term Unfortunately, many implementations of the rlogin program contain a defect whereby the value of the TERM environment variable is copied to an internal buffer without due care. The buffer holding the copied value of TERM can be overflowed. In some implementations, the buffer is a local variable, meaning that the subroutine call stack can be overwritten and arbitrary code executed. The executed code is under the control of the user running the rlogin program. In addition, the rlogin program is set-user-id root. .... NeXT Software, Inc. =================== This problem is fixed in OpenStep/Mach release 4.1 and later.
From: jason@pdh.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Support for 3Com 3C905-TX? Date: 7 Feb 1997 19:12:26 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5dfuqq$ocl@news6.noc.netcom.net> Does anyone know if there is a driver in the works for the 3Com 3C905-TX NIC for NS 3.3 or OS 4.1? TIA - Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Can't boot after crash...Bad superblock Message-ID: <E56IDJ.GE@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:24:55 GMT Hi, I just tried to install a couple of Intel boxes with Openstep 4.0 and I am having quite some trouble these days. I suspect that most problems are due to strange SCSI curicumstances which randomly corrupt the data on the disk. On one machine (Adaptec 1542CP...used the new 4.01 driver) the crashes started after 4 hours and after 3 or 5 crashes the system was rendered useless. While the simple crashes could be "ignored" after a manual fsck the final crash usually resultd in a "Bad super block 3" message and that was the time to reinstall from scratch. While on this machine I consider the SCSI card to be resonsible (PnP didn't work and timed out on resetting the bus.e.etc...pp) I have another PCI based system which used to run NeXTSTEP before the upgrade pretty stable. But a old and propably buggy CD-ROM trashed the SCSI bus after I almost finished the installation leaving me with the same "Bad super block" message. Now is there a way to get this drive booted again ? Can I put the super blocks back on the drive using the CD or boot disk ? I have gotten pretty fast at doing installs lately...but I hate the idea of always deleting all the previous work. Thanx for any information. Aloha Tomi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: NeXTstation won't power down Message-ID: <E56K06.HB@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:00:05 GMT Hi, since almost 2 month the behavior of one NeXTstation Turbo (NS 3.3/Patched) is getting stranger. I know that a system ofter refused to shut down if there are some zombie processes which can not be killed or refuse to die. (e.g. an ungracefully interrupted printer driver oft was the cause on my machine) But on this particular machine the behaviors seem to result from something different. When you power off the machine - it refuses to do so - you go into NNI and power it off with "brute" force - the system reboots and does its "fsck" - you power it of from the loginpanel rigth away (without login into the system to launch any other processes). - ...and it will again refuse to power of ??? I just don't understand that. While this usually happened seldomly (and we blamed it on the printer driver)...it now happens more often. Still unpredictable when it will happen, but it happens even when no communication with any serial port has happene (neither modem nor printer) Is this a software issue or a hardware thing (low battery ??) I seriously don't know how to explain this behaviour to my "customer". Any help is appreciated. Aloha Tomi
From: yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu (York Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question about memory configuration Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 14:18:56 -0700 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <yblock-0702971418570001@60.phoenix-001.az.dial-access.att.net> I have a Next Turbo Color computer with 16MB (2 8MB SIMMs) of memory. I want to upgrade it to 64MB. - Should I get 2 32MB SIMMs and take off the 2 8MB SIMMs? or - Do I need to get 4 16MB SIMMS? Carlos.
From: peter@mathworks.com (Peter Greis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Riddle me this... Date: 7 Feb 1997 21:42:18 GMT Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760 Message-ID: <5dg7jq$btk@turing.mathworks.com> I defer to group knowledge... I currently have a SLIP dialup line with an ISP, my cube providing the connection and the routing for my home network. I will be getting a cable modem connection in another week. This promises 1.5MB download and 300K upload. Quite a bit faster than a 28.8, I would say. As part of the trade off, I will be losing my class C address. This is not entirely tragic, as I only had 3 machines connected at any one time. So, my questions are... The connection from the cable modem is twisted pair, will there be any problem switching interfaces from the bnc connector (gotchas)? The IP negoitiation is DHCP; can I even handle this under NeXTSTEP (3.3)? And finally, assuming the first two are solvable, can I set up a proxy (using just the one ethernet port) so that I can get the other machines connected to the net? I have seen this done with two ethernet interfaces, I have not seen it with one. Or, do I go to place D: buy/steal/acquire and old 486, put two ethernet cards in it, install Linux, and go from there? exploring options, -peter -- =================================================================== Peter Greis peter@mathworks.com peter@freethinker.com Toolsmith The MathWorks, Inc. <NeXT & MIME mail accepted> N1YDE Registered Be Developer "To gain knowledge, add something every day. To gain wisdom, remove something every day." ===================================================================
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Sendmail: removing actual host from FROM:? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Feb 1997 23:22:19 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN When I send mail from my machine, it says "stanj@hostname.domain". This then prompts people with some backwards mailers to reply directly to that host, which so happens to be down most of the time. Short of adding a "Reply-To: field, which gets disregarded anyway, how can I remove teh actual hostname from the From: field? I know that one can tweak the sendmail.cf and make the mail appear to come from a given host; the problem is that when several people are using the machine, I still would like to keep the username flexible. Mail should somehow appear to come from user@mailserver.domain or so. Sounds reasonable? Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: gbh@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Blank screen on bootup Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 23:57:13 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32FC07A9.BC0@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am using OPENSTEP 4.0 on an Intel machine. I installed a driver for my display card, S3ViRGE, and set it to 1024x768 at 85MHz. When I reboot the machine I get a blank screen after it finishes the boot process. I don't know why, maybe my monitor does not support that frequency. In any case, first, what command can I give to shutdown the computer? I am literally in the dark because I can't see anything on the screen. And second, how do I boot with the default settings so I can try other display settings with my driver? I am using a boot floppy, at the boot prompt, I have tried 'sd()mach_kernel config=default'. I get some kind of error message and a return to the boot prompt. I have also tried 'sd()mach_kernel display=default'. It continues to boot afterwards, but still comes up with a blank screen. -gh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Blank screen on bootup Message-ID: <E59BuL.Mq@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: gbh@erols.com Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 23:56:44 GMT References: <32FC07A9.BC0@erols.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin gbh@erols.com wrote: > I am using OPENSTEP 4.0 on an Intel machine. > I installed a driver for my display card, S3ViRGE, > and set it to 1024x768 at 85MHz. When I reboot the > machine I get a blank screen after it finishes the > boot process. I don't know why, maybe my monitor > does not support that frequency. > > In any case, first, what command can I give to shutdown > the computer? I am literally in the dark because I can't > see anything on the screen. And second, how do I boot > with the default settings so I can try other display > settings with my driver? I am using a boot floppy, at > the boot prompt, I have tried 'sd()mach_kernel config=default'. > I get some kind of error message and a return to the > boot prompt. I have also tried 'sd()mach_kernel display=default'. > It continues to boot afterwards, but still comes up with a > blank screen. Press the left alt key and the numlock key simultaneously. This brings up a panel (which you won't be able to see, of course) which allows you to do an emergancy halt or restart. Press 'r' for reboot. Wait a moment and your machine will reboot. You don't need the boot floppy. Remove it and just wait for the boot: prompt. At this point type: config=Default and press enter. Your machine should now come up in glorious 640 x 480 monochrome (ie. save default VGA). You should then be able to run Configure.app and change the frequency to something your monitor can handle. Note that if you have done a couple dirty shutdowns (ie. just cut the power) before now, your computer will have to perform a file system check and reboot once again before you can run Configure. In this case remember to type config=Default at the boot prompt again. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail: removing actual host from FROM:? Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 19:40:41 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000702971940410001@news.tiac.net> References: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) wrote: > Short of adding a "Reply-To: > field, which gets disregarded anyway, how can I remove teh actual hostname > from the From: field? > > I know that one can tweak the sendmail.cf and make the mail appear to come > from a given host; the problem is that when several people are using the > machine, I still would like to keep the username flexible. Mail should > somehow appear to come from user@mailserver.domain or so. To repeat last Sunday's post, the standard 3.3 Mail.app can be persuaded to use any "From:" line you like by entering a "From" header (no colon) in the Expert preferences dialog. (Thanks to Lennart Lovstrand for this info.) Each user has his own set of Mail.app preferences, and hence his own choice of a "From:" line. Barney Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Patched rlogin source? -- Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.06 - Vulnerability in rlogin/term Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 21:13:09 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Distribution: world Message-ID: <distler-0702972113100001@slip-63-5.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5ddf0h$3nj@news.sei.cmu.edu> <5dfuu0$7mo@agate.berkeley.edu> In article <5dfuu0$7mo@agate.berkeley.edu>, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu wrote: >Could someone upload source+binary for "rlogin" that fixes the following >security bug to FTP sites (and let us know)? > >For those systems that are running NS/OS versions < 4.1. > The source code for the FreeBSD2.2 version of "rlogin", hacked to compile and run under NS (tested on 3.3 for HPPA) can be found at <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/rlogin.tar.gz> You will find both the original FreeBSD source, and my (very minor) modifications. Just do a "diff" to see what I changed. To build it, you should be able to simply type "make". Note, I did NOT bother to get the Kerberos support, available under the FreeBSD version of "rlogin", to work. I expect it is probably not too hard, should anyone like to try. Note, too, that rlogin must be installed setuid root. Now that you've had fun with "rlogin", anyone care to tackle replacing "rpc.rstatd" (NS <4.0 vulnerable, according to CERT Advisory CA-96.09), or "talkd" (CA-97.04). Jacques Distler
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Uninterruptible processes Date: 8 Feb 1997 01:33:13 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dgl4p$3ua@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> % ps -aucx | grep 'U' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND art 251 0.0 4.1 6.16M 2.61M ? U 2:33 WM art 661 0.0 2.9 5.20M 1.88M ? U 0:49 Edit art 1983 0.0 0.5 2.13M 336K p2 U 0:00 emacs art 2342 0.0 0.9 3.70M 568K p2 U 0:00 open My OS 4.1/Mach/NeXT system is heading south again :-( This seems to be happening more and more frequently. Workspace Manager, Edit, and emacs are hosed - uninterruptible - and apparently unschedulable - spin cursor. I'm in the middle of a 8.2 MB download, so I hope the system stays up until the download completes. I'm beginning to suspect that PPP might somehow be involved with processes becoming uninterruptible. Is anyone else experiencing these problems? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Restoring NS/Intel Partition Date: 8 Feb 1997 03:50:25 GMT Organization: Petroleum and Geosystem Engineering, U of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dgt61$6j7@socony.pe.utexas.edu> Now that the replacement harddisk from Maxtor arrived (the previous one suddenly had many bad blocks in the Win95 partition in just under 3 months, but not on the Linux or NS/intel partition) I need to restore my NS/intel partition. Is there a way to restore the partition and extract from the backup tar file of the files without a clean reinstall ? I am not looking forward to clean install from the CD and then gnutar extract from the backup file to overwrite the new partition. The one that I'm looking for is a sequence similar to this: - boot with only essential files (non GUI) - fdisk and create the NS/i partition - mkfs that NS/i partition - mount the NS partition - gnutar xvf backup.tgz (restore the filesystem) to the mounted partition. Is it possible to do this ? Thanks for the pointers, Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org n5snn@mail.utexas.edu paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail: removing actual host from FROM:? Date: 8 Feb 1997 04:53:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5dh0sv$b5t@news.digifix.com> References: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> On 02/07/97, Stan Jirman wrote: >NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN > >When I send mail from my machine, it says "stanj@hostname.domain". This then >prompts people with some backwards mailers to reply directly to that host, >which so happens to be down most of the time. Short of adding a "Reply-To: >field, which gets disregarded anyway, how can I remove teh actual hostname >from the From: field? > >I know that one can tweak the sendmail.cf and make the mail appear to come >from a given host; the problem is that when several people are using the >machine, I still would like to keep the username flexible. Mail should >somehow appear to come from user@mailserver.domain or so. > What you need to do is set your sendmail to masquerade as the address you want on the right side of the asterisk. This is pretty easy with the current sendmail... -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702071813.NAA17821@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 901cffa767f1de9b11023c3387d4ee53 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 97 13:13:51 -0500 Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 901cffa767f1de9b11023c3387d4ee53 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Original Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:10:30 GMT > At the moment I have to work a lot with tip and modems. tip hangs > quiet often and I don't know why. The problem is, I can't kill it > aftwards. Nothing works: ^C, kill, kill -9... So I have to reboot > and most of the time make a fsck for my 2.1GB disk. Not very > efficient... I'd suggest using 'kermit' rather than tip > So if this famous program could kill also this problem, I would > appreciate a lot if somebody could send it to me > (moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch); preferably fat (for Intel and m68k). If you're running 3.2 it might work. If you're running 3.3 it seems to panic the machine. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702071811.NAA17800@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 7d592ace34e44ddf889aa755c762f02f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 97 13:11:26 -0500 Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 7d592ace34e44ddf889aa755c762f02f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Original Date: 7 Feb 1997 00:49:30 GMT > I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything > installed fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 > GB disk. How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. Oldest trick in the NeXTStep world..... partition it into two 1-gig pieces TjL
From: Lars Immisch <immisch@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 16:38:19 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32F9FAEB.2EA5@pobox.com> References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: > > [comp.os.linux.networking included because of relevence] > > Hi, I've got an original 030 cube with the laser printer, several > Linux boxes, a Sparc, and a couple of windows boxes here on a 10base2 LAN. > I'm having trouble communicating between the NeXT and Linux boxes right > down to pings, but it's intermittant and only happens with the cube, not > the rest of the network. To make the topology clear, the cube is on one > end of the segment and one of the linux boxes in question is in the > middle. The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the > segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. > > Other issues: > > the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I > force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. When > hooking the unit up to the network I launched the netadmin tool and > specified a nonnetinfo network, this was the right thing to do but did I > miss something else that's also important? Or is NetInfo broken in such > an old NeXTStep? I just wiped SunOS because I was horrified at the libc > DNS resolver hack I had to do just for DNS lookups; Solaris *is* much > better. The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were > they lying? /etc/hosts is never read. This information is in NetInfo - even if you (correctly) run a non NetInfo _network_, local information is still in there. Think of NetInfo as the Registry. Gash. Nah. Wrong. Think of the Registry as a NetInfo clone. > The PC is a SMP dual P-120 with a 16 bit Intel Ether Express > board. I've *never* had a problem hooking this box up to *any* network, > and I've moved it around into all kinds of mixed enviornments... I don't > suspect the machine. Intermittantly, the NeXT box will up and give up on > talking to my gateway, a 386 running linux with an IP_Masq enabled kernel > functioning as a firewall to the internal network. This *really* suggests > to me a cube problem, are they known to have hardware problems with BNC > networking? Could it be the OS? Do I need a patch - can I even get it? > Can this guy run a more recent copy of NeXTStep? At least the 3.x series? Hmmm. Hardware problems with Cube's seem to be not very common, cable problems are... I would exchange cables first. Some kind soul from c.s.n.s will certainly answer your question regarding 3.x on '30 hardware. I dunno. Lars -- mailto:immisch@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~immisch Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: kahlern@netdoor.com (NAK) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: 8 Feb 1997 02:30:58 GMT Organization: UcoNects InterNetNews Server Message-ID: <5dgoh2$69f@news.uconect.net> References: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In article <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au>, giraudos@avon.net.au says... > >The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came with >the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. I asked NEXT the same question when I got 4.0 and they responded by saying that NO it does not support Netware as the previous NEXTSTEP did and that they were not planning on adding any support. I might add, that you can find mentions of Netware in the help files, and this is probably due to the use of the same UI as in previous releases and the help files didn't get updated. Wish I could be a bit more positive. Norman Kahler kahlern@netdoor.com
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From: Patrick Gallagher <gallagher@uh.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 9 Feb 1997 00:45:16 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dj6ms$o3o@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> In <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> Colin F. Allen wrote: > machine has been up about 18 hours now. I think my specific problem > may have been caused by a slight incompatiblity between host entries > in 3.0 netinfo and host entries in 4.0 netinfo. I noticed as soon as I think I might be able to corroborate that. I was chasing a slight DNS problem and made a modification to the /locations/resolver entry in netinfo. It had been panicing or locking irregularly prior to that, but after that it took manually copying in a virgin copy of the NetInfo databases from /usr/template to get the machine to run for more than 2 minutes or so. After doing this and recreating what was lost from the old version, I've not had any panics or locks. I believe the initial symptoms stemmed from a configuration problem which was fixed about the same time. This machine was a clean install of 4.1, not an upgrade. Also, a couple of additions to Scott's observation of telnet giving a bus error. I have found that most of the "basic network utilities" (i.e., telnet, rlogin, and finger in particular) will give this behavior. Rebooting does not seem to fix it, but it does come and go seemingly randomly. Here's the interesting bit: It only seems to occur when talking to 3.3 machines and specifically, it only seems to occur when talking to black 3.3 machines. This is not extremely well tested, so I'd like to hear your experiences. Finally, if I give the FQDN for the machine, followed by a period (like telling nslookup not to append the local domain to your request), the program will execute correctly as follows. Also, using the IP address instead of the hostname works. ----- ratbert> telnet somehost.uh.edu Bus error ratbert> telnet somehost.uh.edu. Trying 129.7.xx.xx... Connected to somehost.uh.edu. Escape character is '^]'. NeXT Mach (fisher) (ttyp0) Password: ----- Apparently something is broken in lookupd's DNS lookups? > : NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty > : unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is > : understood and should be fixed in a future release. > > Can't wait ;-) Yes. Will be nice. Any prospective release dates for 4.2? Maybe a patch? PG -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Gallagher <Gallagher@uh.edu> (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is more to life than increasing its speed." -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Wolfgang Hukriede <whukriede@ifm.uni-kiel.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Date: 9 Feb 1997 01:39:22 GMT Organization: IfM Kiel Message-ID: <5dj9sa$act@gutemine.informatik.uni-kiel.de> References: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> <5d5gu5$7ak@usc.edu> In <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Piers Uso Walter wrote: > If you can use Perl, that's easy. > Take a look at the File::Find.pm module. Or use the z-shell. for i in **/*(@); do [[ -a $i ]] || echo $i: dead link; done Where `**/' does recursive directory search, `@' matches symbolic links and "-a" tests for file existence. Greetings, Wolfgang.
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 7 Feb 1997 04:05:51 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5de9mv$m4j@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> Colin F. Allen (colin@scully.tamu.edu) wrote: : So far so good, but, of course, this is still speculation: however, : the machine has not been up for 25 hours without a crash and hope ^ Typo! It has *now* been up for 25 hours... -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702081932.OAA28009@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, 8 Feb 97 14:32:18 -0500 Subject: SUBMISSION: Patched rlogin source? -- Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.06 - Vulnerability in rlogin/term Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Persuant to "distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)"'s post about the rlogin source code, I have compiled the code at <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/rlogin.tar.gz> It has been tested under m68k and HPPA. Use at your own risk. The quadfat version is now at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.NIHS.tar.gz and linked to: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.NIHS.tar.gz TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfo pros and cons if turned off Date: 08 Feb 1997 20:14:02 -0500 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <m2d8ua2339.fsf@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I just got a NeXT slab and installed 3.3 on it but the thing is that it is the only NeXT in the department so it seems to me too much of a trouble to get into the intrinsics of the OS if none of its functionality is actulally used ... many of the man pages have ads stating that file so-and-so is to be ignored if NetInfo is running etc. One that buggs me most is /etc/printcap: i do not have a NeXT printer but a network printer and have been unsuccessful in installing it as a "HP JetDirect" printer. I really want to use this machine as a unix machine, so I would like to hear experiences, good and bad, relating to turning off NetInfo. I do not yet know the power of NeXT OS so feel free to give some advice. Thanks. nick -- B. N. Bondoc pager: 514 - 930 - 1385 ===================================================== office addr: Ernest Rutherford Physics Building Physics Department, McGill University 3600 University Street, Room 223 Montreal, PQ, Canada, H3A 2T8 phone: 514 - 398 - 5938 fax: 514 - 398 - 7022 =====================================================
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 8 Feb 1997 15:18:13 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5di5fl$j5d$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <199702071811.NAA17800@nerc.com> Keywords: 2GB, format, install In article <199702071811.NAA17800@nerc.com> writes: ->Responding To: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) ->Original Date: 7 Feb 1997 00:49:30 GMT -> -> ->> I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything ->> installed fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 ->> GB disk. How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. -> ->Oldest trick in the NeXTStep world..... -> ->partition it into two 1-gig pieces -> I would just like to follow up this my saying that when I installed NS 3.3 on the new disk it had created 2 partitions for me, 1GB, each but never bothered to tell me. Three cheers to Carl Lowenstein who had the solution to merely check for the other partition with df and then add an entry to /etc/fstab so that on the next boot the partition appeared. -- John Stanhope jehu@vt.edu
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 9 Feb 1997 00:50:41 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on my LAN... whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to the innd server port (119) some kind of network activity occurs which causes the router to dial out on the WAN. Any ideas where I can start looking to figure out what innd is looking for on the WAN? Some more configuration details: I'm running OpenStep/Mach 4.1 on the machine running the newsserver. The router managing the WAN connection is an Ascend Pipeline 50. I have a 3 bit subnet assigned for my machines and everything else seems to be configured correctly so that LAN traffic does NOT bring up the WAN connection except in this one case. Telnetting to port 119 on the newsserver machine results in the WAN activity - telnetting to other ports on the newsserver machine does not cause this behavior. I expected this might be some sort of lookupd/DNS problem (the DNS server is on the other side of the WAN connection) but setting ValidateCache NO for lookupd using NetInfo did not have any effect. Any suggestions of solutions or a better forum to ask for advice would be appreciated. - Chris -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 9 Feb 1997 12:54:38 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5dkhee$241@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> Organisation: RRR cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) wrote: > I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on > my LAN... whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to > the innd server port (119) some kind of network activity occurs > which causes the router to dial out on the WAN. Any ideas where > I can start looking to figure out what innd is looking for on > the WAN? INN, or better said innrpd does a gethostbyaddr on the ip-number when a client connects to it. This can be disabled by changing the NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR to DONT in the inn config.data. But you have to recompile. Maybe puting the clients hostname in NetInfo on the INN server host will solve the problem. ciao Bastian -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:39:36 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> In-Reply-To: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Feb-97 PersonalINN/innd - why does.. by Christopher Wolf@wolfwar > I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on my LAN... > whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to the innd server port > (119) some kind of network activity occurs which causes the router to dial > out on the WAN. Any ideas where I can start looking to figure out what > innd is looking for on the WAN? It's doing a DNS lookup, most likely. You can look at 'netstat' to see what's going on, or capture the packets and take a look. > I expected this might be some sort of lookupd/DNS problem (the DNS server > is on the other side of the WAN connection) but setting ValidateCache NO > for lookupd using NetInfo did not have any effect. That probably wouldn't matter, I think. I seem to recall that INN does DNS queries directly and maintains it's own internal cache of DNS information instead of depending on the local resolver routines, so changing lookupd's behvaior won't matter. The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: kpompei@xmission.com (Kevin Pompei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printinf from OS 4.1 to HP 4ML Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:23:52 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <MPG.d680a72422c2266989681@news.xmission.com> I just installed OpenStep/Mach/Intel 4.1 and am having trouble printing to a HP LaserJet 4ML. First of all I know the hardware is setup correctly because everything works fine from Windows. I setup the printer in Print Manager using the provided PPD. When I go to print the light on the printer light up as if it is processing data, but then it just stays in this state indefinitely. Eventually I have to cancel the job in the print que. I used to use this same printer with NS 3.1/Intel and it worked fine. I've also tried using other PPD's including ones for similar but different printers. All of them behaved in the same way. Also, the parallel port appears to be setup with no conflicts (like I said before it works fine with Windows). Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin Pompei
From: EDV@lfa.hal.eunet.de (Thomas Richter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing Problems with HP LaserJet 5MP Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 14:55:29 GMT Organization: Landesamt fuer archaeologische Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt) Message-ID: <5dkrq7$o5s@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Hi, we use tow HP LaserJet 5MP printers in our office with external HP network adaptors. Often the printer "eats" print jobs, the printer gets the job, but doesnt print it. Turning the printer off and on and resend the job prints the job fine. This problem occurs with print jobs from NEXTSTEP and Windows machines. I tested different PPD, but tit doesnt solve the problem. Thanks for any help Thomas Thomas Richter, Landesamt fuer archaeologische Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany EDV@lfa.hal.eunet.de
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 20:26:25 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. I've tried each of the SB drivers and none of them work. Does anyone know how to get this to work. --gh
From: john@getafix.demon.co.uk (John Shirlaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lpr and enscript Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 22:14:12 GMT Message-ID: <855526452.24994.0@getafix.demon.co.uk> Hi, if I use lpr to send a file to a printer it apears to automatically pass the file through enscript. is there a way to stop this happening, and simply send the file directly to the printer. For note the printer is hung off the ethernet port via a JetDirect box. Thanks for the help john.
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Slow NFS transfer between PC and NeXT Date: 10 Feb 1997 07:50:35 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5dmk0b$3ia@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I have my 25MHz NeXTcube and my P6 connected together with Thinnet. With this, I am experiencing really strange phenomena: When I transfer files from one to the other by drag & drop, through the Net folder for instance, the progress pie often stops for a while, or the process even gets aborted. The NeXT prints messages like "server [PC] not responding". During the (rare) time when it's running it's really fast. With the default NFS settings, 8KB buffers etc., I can't transfer a single MB over to my NeXT. One person advised me to lower the buffers to 1KB, and now I can transfer even 7MB files, after maybe 5 minutes or so. NFS timeout 1s, 5 retries. Interestingly, when I create a connection by ftp between the two machines, I get transfer rates around 300KB/s, both ways. When connected to the "outer world", the NeXT has transfer rates of up to 200KB/s, the PC about 50KB/s. The P6 has an Adaptec PCI Ether combo board. The cables are fine, it's cable-independent. The Cube is running 4.0, the PC is running 4.1 and 3.3 -- with same problems. Any ideas? Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 10 Feb 1997 07:00:06 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5dmh1m$1on@vader.WolfWare.com> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> On 02/08/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Feb-97 PersonalINN/innd >- why does.. by Christopher Wolf@wolfwar >> I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on my LAN... >> whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to the innd server port >> (119) some kind of network activity occurs which causes the router to dial >> out on the WAN. Any ideas where I can start looking to figure out what >> innd is looking for on the WAN? > >I seem to recall that INN does >DNS queries directly and maintains it's own internal cache of DNS >information instead of depending on the local resolver routines, so >changing lookupd's behvaior won't matter. > >The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on >the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. Setting up a local nameserver solved the problm. Thanks. - Chris -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 10 Feb 97 08:22:17 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Feb10082217@slave.one.net> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> In-reply-to: dave@prim.demon.co.uk's message of Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:53:07 GMT In article <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk>, dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes: In article <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: >I've posted a copy of tcl7.6 modified to compile under NeXTSTEP3.3 >to my home page. Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? I've had it running under Xnext, but no NeXTSTEP, yet. Last time I looked (tk4.1, I think), it looked like it was just too X11-based. Essentially, you'd have to write an emulator translating X11 calls into NeXTSTEP calls, and I really didn't want to get involved with that. Besides, I'd much rather have native "widgets". I don't want to see 12-pixel borders on my buttons, even if the script author wanted them! That might be a more useful port, but it would probably also take somewhat longer than an X11 emulation. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell>
From: january@december.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-R Media for Sale at Good Prices Date: 10 Feb 1997 14:14:20 GMT Organization: COPYCATSHOP Message-ID: <5dnafs$1eh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> We have the following CD-R media for sale. Brand: Pioneer Type: Printable Media (Surface is blank for printing or labels) Type: Gold on Green Size: 74 min (650 mb) Price: 6.99 Minimum Order: 10 Brand: Maxell Type: Gold on Gold Size: 74 min (650 mb) Price: 6.55 Minimum Order: 10 Brand: TDK Type: Gold on Green Size: 74 min (650 mb) Price: 6.55 Minimum Order: 10 Brand: Hewlett Packard Type Gold on Gold Size: 74 min (650 mb) Price: 7.15 Minimum Order: 10 Lifetime Warranty The Copy Cat Shop has all your CD duplication, replication, recorders, software, and media needs. If you have any questions feel free to call. Cordially, The Copy Cat Shop 213-650-1680 213-650-9110 Fax
From: pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 10 Feb 1997 15:00:42 GMT Organization: MLab,Dep. of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy Message-ID: <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. Now I want to upgrade it to 1.2.17 but when I try to compile it I receive this error: rsa.c: In function `rsa_random_prime': rsa.c:302: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `mpz_mod_inverse': rsa.c:353: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c:363: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `derive_rsa_keys': rsa.c:410: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c:431: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `rsa_generate_key': rsa.c:531: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' *** Exit 1 Stop. Anyone know how to fix it ??? Tnx in advance !!!
From: january@december.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 10 Feb 1997 14:14:20 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.5dnafs$1eh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <5dnafs$1eh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Control: cancel <5dnafs$1eh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Mon Feb 10 17:08:36 1997 Original subject was: CD-R Media for Sale at Good Prices
From: rfu@ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named for nextstep ? Date: 10 Feb 1997 17:39:41 GMT Organization: Butterfly Liberation Front Message-ID: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> Hi ! We need to set up our nextstation/68k running mach 3.3 as nameserver, but there is no named pre-installed. I tried to compile the BSD named source, but I didn't succeed. Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or compilable code ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Fuegenstein rfu@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I got some problems, too, three of 'em. I didn't have 'em, this morning. I guess that's just the way life is, sometimes" (William Gibson, from "Count Zero") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CHAP & PPP Date: 10 Feb 1997 16:37:05 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5dnirh$1tbn@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <32FB279C.2892@ubs.ch> Anton Sieber <anton.sieber@ubs.ch> wrote: >I installed PPP. My pppup -script can connect to my provider. But then >communikation stops because my ppp/configuration knows only PAP >authentifikation. But authedtification at my provider runs only with >CHAP ! >Is it possible for me to connect with CHAP ? How ? Yes, your PPP software supports both PAP and CHAP authentication. Try: "man pppd" :-) As far as I remember, simply have to provide the correct passwd files in /etc/ppp. Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: Bill Mitchell <bill.mitchell@mercyic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT ?s Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:30:51 -0600 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <32FF695B.309D@mercyic.com> References: <32FB62E7.6470@mercyic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all who answered my request for help. What a great group. More responses and helpful hints than any other group from which I read and/or post. I know my NeXT Cube has already been worth the investment:-) Bill Mitchell
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named for nextstep ? Date: 10 Feb 1997 19:27:38 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5dnsrb$70p@news.next.com> References: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> In article <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> rfu@ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) writes: # #We need to set up our nextstation/68k running mach 3.3 as nameserver, #but there is no named pre-installed. I tried to compile the BSD named #source,but I didn't succeed. # #Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or #compilable code ? Huh? What do you call /usr/etc/named? Joe
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named for nextstep ? Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:23:26 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YmzuriO00iV8Q9=XIa@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> In-Reply-To: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Feb-97 named for nextstep ? by Rainer Fuegenstein@ping. > We need to set up our nextstation/68k running mach 3.3 as nameserver, but > there is no named pre-installed. What about /usr/etc/named? It should be version 4.8.3, which is a very stable although slightly outdated version. > I tried to compile the BSD named source, but I didn't succeed. Hmm. BIND-4.9.x should compile pretty much as-is if you simply follow the directions. > Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or > compilable code ? You can check the standard NeXT FTP sites. RTFAQ. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: .netrc & crontab Date: 10 Feb 1997 23:43:31 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5dobr3$kf7@library.airnews.net> References: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Cc: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu [Posted and Mailed] In <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, wrote: > I'm having a bit of trouble setting up > * cron jobs > * ftp permissions via .netrc > ... > 1. After a thorough reading of the man pages for cron/crontab, it appears > that there is a master file that contains all cron job entries. I would > prefer to have a cronjob file that is user specific. Is this possible? You can get Paul Vixie's Cron from peak or peanuts, it gives you the SYSV crontab features you're looking for. You might want to search other archives for the latest versions though, the one on peak is compiled for NS2.1. (Caveat: I've never used it.) > 2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I > have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, > usernames, and passwords, > > machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD I just checked, ftp works fine with .netrc on my NS3.3. Where exactly did your ftp session with .netrc fail? liuyi
From: adt@dsi.bc.ca (Andrew Tuline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Boot problem, how to interrupt & fix my mistake Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 21:16:15 GMT Organization: Dynapro Message-ID: <5do3bs$3k5@wolfe.wimsey.com> In the file /etc/hostconfig, I modified the YPDOMAIN entry to 'NO' instead of '-NO-' in our NeXT workstation and can't boot the workstation. Since we don't have docs, and the NeXT experts have all left our company, I ask the question: How to interrupt the boot process and modify the /etc/hostconfig file.
From: Stephen Peters <speters@cygnus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 10 Feb 1997 11:51:07 -0800 Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <qd914wigno.fsf@blues.cygnus.com> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> <SHESS.97Feb10082217@slave.one.net> shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: > Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? > > I've had it running under Xnext, but no NeXTSTEP, yet. Last time I > looked (tk4.1, I think), it looked like it was just too X11-based. > Essentially, you'd have to write an emulator translating X11 calls > into NeXTSTEP calls, and I really didn't want to get involved with > that. > > Besides, I'd much rather have native "widgets". I don't want to see > 12-pixel borders on my buttons, even if the script author wanted them! > That might be a more useful port, but it would probably also take > somewhat longer than an X11 emulation. The Tk8.0 release seems to be focusing a bit more on providing the ability to use native buttons, menus, scrollbars, and font designations. I've been toying with the idea of trying to do a NeXTSTEP/OpenStep port, but it's still kind of low on my to-do list :-) -- Stephen L. Peters speters@cygnus.com PGP fingerprint: BFA4 D0CF 8925 08AE 0CA5 CCDD 343D 6AC6 "What, do you think soup is a biped?" -- Crow, MST3K
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: .netrc & crontab Date: 10 Feb 1997 19:31:51 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL Message-ID: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> I'm having a bit of trouble setting up * cron jobs * ftp permissions via .netrc My knowledge of these subjects is based on use of SunOS and HP-UX. That information does not seem to apply in the same way with NS 3.3. Questions: 1. After a thorough reading of the man pages for cron/crontab, it appears that there is a master file that contains all cron job entries. I would prefer to have a cronjob file that is user specific. Is this possible? 2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, usernames, and passwords, machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD It appears that this file does not send the login and password tokens to the remote machine. In fact, I'm not sure it is even being used. What is the correct procedure for this task? Thanks, -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ncar.ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: joel mayes <jmayes@peop.tdsnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syquest drives on black Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:28:22 -0600 Organization: TDS Telecom - Madison, WI Message-ID: <32FFA106.76BC@peop.tdsnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have read where the syquest ez135 and flyer230 disk drives work plug and play on next black systems. But can these drives on black systems read files from cartridges written on a windows 95 system? Also can windows 95 systems read files written on the next ?
From: leivian@axon.sps.mot.com (Bob Leivian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pop mail help. Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:23:13 GMT Organization: Semiconductor Products Sector Message-ID: <5do74h$12g2@newsgate.sps.mot.com> References: <cward-0502972010100001@adnline1313.adnc.com> cward@adnc.com wrote: >Pop Over will retrieve beautifully. >How do I send? add a host with HostManager called 'mailhost' with the ip address of whatever machine on the dialed in net can handle mail the 'out of the box' sendmail will then send the mail along its way -Bob -- Bob Leivian leivian@axon.sps.mot.com Data Extraction Systems Lab (602) 413-5117 2100 E. Elliot MD EL508 Tempe, AZ 85284
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Opener v3.3(Mac Files) Date: 11 Feb 1997 05:11:21 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5dov1p$c67@boursy.news.erols.com> Is there any way to get opener.app to open the macintosh bin.hex compression format while leaving the file as a single binary, instead of three files : xxxx.sea.data xxxx.sea.info xxxx.sea.rsrc I 've seen a post on this before, but can't remember the solution. Scott Turner FirstSight Inc. http://www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT in heterogeneous net Date: 10 Feb 1997 16:22:19 -0800 Organization: Miskatonic University Department of Classics Message-ID: <5doe3r$nng@crl.crl.com> I've got a new Intel NeXT box that I need to plug into the rest of the network. Everything else is using NIS and the automounter, so I need to conform to that. 1. How do I get the bloody thing to use NIS for passwds instead of netinfo? It seems to be recognizing hosts OK, but not the passwd map. I dumped the yp passwd map and loaded it into netinfo, but that doesn't seem like a very good solution. 2. We've got home directories set up to automount, eg, /home/foo/blogs, /home/bar/schmo. How do I do the same thing here? -- Don McGregor | Mistakes were made. mcgredo@crl.com |
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.python Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 11 Feb 97 06:52:15 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston Message-ID: <JASON.97Feb11065215@fisher.psych.uh.edu> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> <SHESS.97Feb10082217@slave.one.net> <qd914wigno.fsf@blues.cygnus.com> In-reply-to: Stephen Peters's message of 10 Feb 1997 11:51:07 -0800 Greetings! shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: > Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? > > I've had it running under Xnext, but no NeXTSTEP, yet. Last time I > looked (tk4.1, I think), it looked like it was just too X11-based. > Essentially, you'd have to write an emulator translating X11 calls > into NeXTSTEP calls, and I really didn't want to get involved with > that. > > Besides, I'd much rather have native "widgets". I don't want to see > 12-pixel borders on my buttons, even if the script author wanted them! > That might be a more useful port, but it would probably also take > somewhat longer than an X11 emulation. The Tk8.0 release seems to be focusing a bit more on providing the ability to use native buttons, menus, scrollbars, and font designations. I've been toying with the idea of trying to do a NeXTSTEP/OpenStep port, but it's still kind of low on my to-do list :-) That sounds very cool -- would allow for Python-based GUI development on the NeXT! Keeping in mind I haven't delved into Tk much beyond Python's tkinter, how difficult would it be to emulate Tk's worldview in native NeXTSTEP? I don't mean at the X11 call level necessarily, but just below the Tk interface, with definiting buttons, packing them, etc... Hmm... Michael B. Johnson did some excellent work with Tcl/NeXTSTEP integration at the Media Lab, I guess I should look at that again. :-) (For the curious, it also involved RenderMan-Tcl bindings, URL: http://wave.www.media.mit.edu/people/wave/ ) More later, Jason Asbahr 808 Sul Ross Suite 7 Reactive Systems Houston, Texas 77006 jason@reactive.com (713) 942-7937 voice
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TFTPD question, can I have tftp access logged to the console? Date: 10 Feb 1997 23:06:33 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5do9lp$g0l@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: TFTPD: Can I have realtime access logged to the console window? Keywords: tftpd I am running tftpd on a black box with 3.3 and I would like to see realtime accesses occur, is that possible? Maybe even have them appear on the console window. Thanks -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
From: svenifer@snet.net(Sven Crouse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mounting partitions Date: 11 Feb 1997 00:30:19 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5doeir$ekp@goofy.snet.net> References: <32FE7FDD.68D8@smart.net> In-Reply-To: <32FE7FDD.68D8@smart.net> On 02/09/97, gh@smart.net wrote: >I have created 4 partitions with the following on each: >1. OPENSTEP 4.0 >2. Linux swap partition >3. Red Hat Linux 4.0 >4. A directory I need to access from both Linux and OPENSTEP. > >The fourth partition is currently a Linux file system, >however OPENSTEP does not recognize it. I have downloaded >the utility 'vmount', but there are no instructions on >what to do with it. I have placed it in the /usr/bin >directory and executed the command vmount, but that does >not seem to be the solution. So, here are my questions; > >How do I set up vmount correctly? >Which file system should be placed on the 4th partition? >Would simply labelling the second partition 'swapdisk' >allow OPENSTEP to use it as a swap disk? If so, where >should it be mounted? >And, how do I get the OS to mount a Win95 disk as vfat >instead of DOS? > >--gh > The following is Christian Starkjohann's (creator of vmount) response to a question much like yours: <Christian speaks> You don't need to do something with NFS yourself. You don't even need to know that NFS is involved with vmount, it's just how it works internally. If you have the ext2 partition on your root drive, which (I assume) should be /dev/rsd0h, you can try the command vmount -m /mount-point -p2 -t ext2 -w /dev/rsd0h The option -p2 means that vmount should look at the second primary partition for the ext2 filesystem. If it is an other partition, change the option appropriately. The option -w means that you allow vmount to write to your disk. If you don't trust it enough, just omit the -w option. If you want to find out the name of your root device, type 'mount' in a terminal window. On my machine I get among others the line: /dev/sd0a on / type 4.3 (rw,noquota,noauto) which means that /dev/sd0a is mounted as root directory. vmount uses the associated raw device for the disk and that is /dev/rsd0h. For /dev/hd0a it would be /dev/rhd0h, I think. <Christian stops speaking> Hope that helps. Sven
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Boot problem: missing EISA kernel bus class Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:49:21 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <330086F1.1577@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am using OPENSTEP 4.0. I get the following error message when I boot: System panic Missing EISA kernel bus class (Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor) The screen then freezes. To give some background, I use a boot floppy since the OS is on a SCSI drive and Win95 is on an IDE drive. I did not have my 4.0 installation floppy around, so I used an old 3.2 installation to boot. It did not work, so I hunted down the 4.0 floppy and rebooted the system. I then encountered the above problem. I was able to reboot the system by setting config=Default. I resaved the configuration and tried rebooting but got the same result. Any help would be appreciated. --Greg
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 11 Feb 1997 14:41:45 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5dq0f9$e8s@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) writes: > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > Now I want to upgrade it to 1.2.17 but when I try to compile it > I receive this error: Not too long ago, I built v 1.2.16 and uploaded to ftp.next.peak.org. You're welcome to use IT, unless there is some important feature in v.17 that's not in v.16. -- 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: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: .netrc & crontab Date: 11 Feb 1997 00:05:11 GMT Organization: NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5dod3n$ck$1@newncar.ucar.edu> References: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> In article <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu>, David Blanchard <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu> wrote: (I wrote....) >2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I >have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, >usernames, and passwords, > > machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD > >It appears that this file does not send the login and password tokens >to the remote machine. In fact, I'm not sure it is even being used. >What is the correct procedure for this task? Problem solved. The problem is that I defined the remote host as A.B.C.D, but I referred to it simply as "A" because it is within the local domain. Using the fully qualified domain name makes everything work correctly. -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 11 Feb 1997 03:56:02 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Distribution: world Message-ID: <5doqki$pu8@kanga.accessone.com> References: <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <5dfmhn$g81$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Cc: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu In <5dfmhn$g81$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> john stanhope wrote: > After a little research I think I have a solution but may need a little > guidance. Since the 2GB drive is the boot disk I need to boot off the CDROM > and format the disk from there, then somehow, I need to setup a disktab > entry for before (?) I install NS. How can I make this happen? After > reformatting the disk can I do a half installation, just enough to set up > the disktab? If you install from CDROM, it will do all of that for you; it even handles additional drives for mounting. The installation process allows you to specify how much of the disk want for the boot partition. If "all of the disk" is seen as only 1GB, then you may need to make sure that your motherboard is configured to work with >1GB partitions. On my old 486 EISA, I had to specifically set this. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syquest drives on black Date: 11 Feb 1997 14:43:15 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5dq0i3$e91@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <32FFA106.76BC@peop.tdsnet.com> In article <32FFA106.76BC@peop.tdsnet.com> joel mayes <jmayes@peop.tdsnet.com> writes: > I have read where the syquest ez135 and flyer230 disk drives > work plug and play on next black systems. But can these drives > on black systems read files from cartridges written on a windows 95 > system? Also can windows 95 systems read files written on the next ? Yes. Same drive, same data, same result. PnP. They are pretty nice. -- 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named for nextstep ? Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:42:48 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5do898$crs@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> In article <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> rfu@ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) writes: > Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or > compilable code ? Find v4.9.4P1 at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/ Somewhere. -- 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: asmash@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (Adam Smash) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Corrupted Netinfo Database Date: 11 Feb 1997 17:19:18 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5dq9mm$kak@netnews.upenn.edu> One of my users apparently corrupted his Netinfo database with SimpleNetworkStarter.app. The results being that the machine hangs at the login panel after something is typed in. I plan to rebuild his netinfo database from scratch by copying from /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo. I would like to attempt to extract the passwd table and various others from the corrupted netinfo database. The problem is that I can't nidump from the corrupted database because it is not running a netinfod, etc..., and these utilities won't attach. I thought I saw something awhile back that NetInfoManager now allowed you to specify the filesystem directory of a netinfo database, and you could view this database without it actually running a netinfod, being bound, etc.... This would solve my problem nicely except NetInfoManager 3.3 does not seem to have this feature. Any other possible solutions? BTW, is there still a next-managers mailing list? I tried mailing to next-managers@stolaf.edu but got bounced. -adam
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 11 Feb 1997 08:39:21 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (FinalNews for NeXTstep; experimental 0.02) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Charles William Swiger wrote in <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> on 1997-02-09 16:39:36 +0100: > The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on > the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. Yes, but the nameserver will check regularly with another nameserver and so a connecting will be made. Isn't there another way to solve this problem? I exchange my news via uucp with a certain server. Why is it necessary for inn to contact a DNS every time I post news? Can't I tell inn just to forget about calling a DNS? Right now I deaktivated my nameserver entry in resolv.conf and inn works just fine. So the DNS lookup isn't really needed. But this solution is a bad one. So I hope someone has a better one. --- _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Message-ID: <1997Feb11.142706.47358@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 11 Feb 97 14:27:06 MET References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) wrote: > In article <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: > > > >I've posted a copy of tcl7.6 modified to compile under NeXTSTEP3.3 to > >my home page. > > Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? > > Dave > If I properly recall, yes. Some company (of which I of course don't have the name anymore) once did something like TK (ObjectTK?) and sold it commercially. Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: need PPD file for HP LaserJet 5M Date: 11 Feb 1997 21:41:01 GMT Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Message-ID: <5dqp1d$gn7@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: PPD, HP, LJ5M Hi, I am running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on black hardware and I have an HP LaserJet 5M printer connected via 10baseT to our network. I have a PPD file for the 5MP, which seems to work for some things, but I am having a few problems and I thought that perhaps using the correct PPD would clear these up. I went to the Adobe site, but I could not find the UNIX PPD file for the LaserJet 5M (only the Mac and Windows versions). Can I use either of these? The problem I'm having is that when I bring up the print panel and ask for 2 copies of a document, I only get one copy. Also, if I submit 2 print jobs, one immediately after the other, only one prints. Have others had these problems? Do you think the correct PPD file will solve these problems? Thanks in advance for any help. Bye, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT Boot Loader loading NS3.3 ? Date: 12 Feb 1997 01:17:25 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5dr5n5$8i1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Anyone manage to load NS3.3 on different partition using NT Boot Loader? If yes, please give me pointer how to do it. Thanks!! kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: "Mark Jenkins" <markj@inwave.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot problem: missing EISA kernel bus class Date: 11 Feb 97 22:57:10 -0600 Message-ID: <AF26A9CF-48D7E@206.101.238.13> References: <330086F1.1577@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Feb 11, 1997 8:49 AM, gh@smart.net <mailto:gh@smart.net> wrote: >I am using OPENSTEP 4.0. I get the following error >message when I boot: > >System panic >Missing EISA kernel bus class >(Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor) I had the same problem after a "clean" install. Apparently I had selected the wrong option for the SCSI controller by mistake during the install process. After the initial "text based" install procedure the second half of the install would not come up due to this error. Nothing I did would correct the problem. config=Default would not even work! :-( It would not even let me type the 'r' to reboot or the 'm' for monitor. Now, this does not mean that someone else might might not have a solution as I am am complete newbie to OPENSTEP and UNIX. I re-installed, this time being very careful to select the correct options and everything is fine. Mark markj@inwave.com
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:56:24 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> In-Reply-To: <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Feb-97 Re: PersonalINN/innd - why .. by Juergen Grieb@eskimo.bb. >> The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on >> the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. > > Yes, but the nameserver will check regularly with another nameserver > and so a connecting will be made. That depends. For example, you can set up the local nameserver to be authoritative for the DNS information it uses most if that infomation is in your zones (which is likely to be the case for a newsserver on a LAN without a permenent link to the Internet). Furthermore, if you can control your link so that it's not brought up for DNS traffic, the local nameserver will return previously cached information for what is normally a fairly long time [the expiration TTL is controlled in the SOA record, just like the other TTLs]. > Isn't there another way to solve this problem? You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Newbie NeXT Admin:The NeXT Chapter. Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-1202970004250001@host034.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 05:04:25 GMT Hi there remmber me? When we last left our hopeful hero.... OH, never mind that. :) I've got got my Turbo Color Slab up and running and being more brave than sensible went ahead and plugged it into Ethernet LAN (mostly Mac-based 10basedT) I even got the Novell client (novell queue printing as well). working although I am a bit annoyed to see that the NeXT is seeing the files through the DOS namespace. (The server has DOS, MAC, and OS2 namespaces and I think NFS is also avvailable.) I'd like to see full names but that's relatively trivial compared to my main needs.) So far my total experience with the NeXT OS is measured in hours, but I seem to have a full 3.3 install up and running. The machine is configured with 80 megs of RAM and a 2 gig Seagate. (another strange item there. The installer recognised that I was only taking up 300 megs of a 2010 megabute drive, but the browser only reports about 745 megs free. does it only recognise 1 gig? It was originally formatted Mac and I simply went along with the defaults during the installation. Also I have to set up mailservice for a few macs and 1 SCO Unix station that has about 12 users on it that will be depending on the NeXT for mail service. I also need to know what kind of security I should enable for this beast. I do need/want to be able to telnet to it from home so I can do some administration stuff offsite. Back to that SCO station, right now the sales folks are gritting their teetch with those amber character-based terminals. My boss is thinking about picking up some mono slabs to replace them. I'd need to find wordprocessing software. (we currently use WordPerfect on the SCO and I'd like to get the NeXT incarnation of that if possible, or just a good wordprocessor.) Has always, your input is greatly appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Printing from NT to NeXTprinter? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 12 Feb 1997 06:30:51 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5dro2r$fcq@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hi, I have a PC running NT4.0 and OpenStep connected to my good old cube, and would like to use this old buddy as a print server. This works so far that I get the test page to print, as well as any one-page documents (I chose one of the Canon printers). The problem is that if I am printing any >1 page docs, only the last page (i.e., only the 1st printed page) comes out -- then, game over, NeXT stops due to a no further specified PS error. Someone got it working? Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo Timeouts Date: 12 Feb 1997 06:43:15 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <5droq3$p0q@hermes.is.co.za> We have recently trying to switch our 10MB network over to a 100MB network. We are using the SMC9332 Cards and we are using the DEC Chip 21140 Drivers for these cards. When we used these cards as 10MB cards everything on the network was fine. We then changed the network to be 100MB by replacing our cables and HUB. On our Intel boxes we merely changed the driver for the card from the SMC9332 10MB Driver to the SMC9332 100MB Drivers. When we now start up any client machine, the machine consistantly times out on netinfo. We even connected the master machine directly to the client machine with a null cable and the same problem continued to exist. An Ftp of 200K from the client to the Master machine takes about 10 Minutes to get through. What did we do wrong? Is there any pointers that might help us in determining the problem? Should NetInfo be setup differently for 100MB versus 10MB networks? Any help will be appreciated. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: Blank screen on bootup Message-ID: <E5HKsv.D4@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <32FC07A9.BC0@erols.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:50:54 GMT gbh@erols.com wrote: > I am using OPENSTEP 4.0 on an Intel machine. > I installed a driver for my display card, S3ViRGE, > and set it to 1024x768 at 85MHz. When I reboot the > machine I get a blank screen after it finishes the > boot process. I don't know why, maybe my monitor > does not support that frequency. > > In any case, first, what command can I give to shutdown > the computer? I am literally in the dark because I can't > see anything on the screen. And second, how do I boot > with the default settings so I can try other display > settings with my driver? I am using a boot floppy, at > the boot prompt, I have tried 'sd()mach_kernel config=default'. > I get some kind of error message and a return to the > boot prompt. I have also tried 'sd()mach_kernel display=default'. > It continues to boot afterwards, but still comes up with a > blank screen. > While someone suggested that it the window driver try to following: If you do the suggested "Press the left alt key and the numlock key simultaneously" and are actually able to see(!) the NMI Monitor then you have one of these strange situations I was not really able to understand myself. In this case it usually did happen that your machine could not connect to the window server ! For me this was a problem with certain drivers or a messed up installation. A reinstall often solved this problem. But if for some strange reasons your "network" configuration is messed up (like localhost not defined or that like) then it migh cause this problem too. It seems like the Mach ports to the Window Server fail ue to the confused network/naming infos. I sorry that this is not very specific....but maybe i will help you. Aloha Tomi
From: Gaston Groisman <gaston@rionet.rionegro.com.ar> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System crash Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:34:06 -0300 Organization: Wandel & Goltermann Technologies Message-ID: <3301C6CE.1AFB@rionet.rionegro.com.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry to intrude but I need help. My NextStatio crashed and now it reports problems with the OS. I can boot but the accounts are broken, printing doesn't work, etc. I am willing to trash the stuff on the disk and start anew but don't know how. I have the OS on CD. Can someone tell me how to proceed? Thank you, Gaston Groisman gaston@rionet.rionegro.com.ar
From: markfr@markfr (Mark Frank) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for Lexmark printer? Date: 12 Feb 1997 17:30:15 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR, USA Message-ID: <5dsun7$mmo@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> I can't find a PPD for a Lexmark Optra Lxi printer at the Adobe site. Does anyone know what other ppd I can use? - Thanks, Mark
From: "Ben" <benjamin@p3.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp NS 3.0... Date: 12 Feb 1997 17:50:06 GMT Organization: Surf Network Message-ID: <01bc1915$c012dac0$5f0c43ce@ben.p3.net> Does anyone know of ppp software for NS 3.0? I have found it for the newer operating systems, but seem to run out of options in finding it for 3.0. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Benjamin Folk Jr. benjamin@p3.net
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SUMMARY: .netrc & crontab Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:55:32 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5dt3n4$5ra@ncar.ucar.edu> References: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Here is a quick summary of the answers to the questions that I posed a few days ago. Thanks to all those who responded with FollowUps and by email. -db- -------- I wrote: >1. After a thorough reading of the man pages for cron/crontab, it appears >that there is a master file that contains all cron job entries. I would >prefer to have a cronjob file that is user specific. Is this possible? The answer is yes. Paul Vixie's "cron-vixie" application allows each user to have a personal crontab file. Available at most download sites. >2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I >have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, >usernames, and passwords, > > machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD > >It appears that this file does not send the login and password tokens >to the remote machine. In fact, I'm not sure it is even being used. >What is the correct procedure for this task? The problem lies with how the host name is used. A fully-qualified name (A.B.C.D) produces the correct results. A partial name (A) will not. Using the fully-qualified name solves the problem. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:15:37 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dt1c9$opc@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> In article <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) writes: > > How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? > > Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without > lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. And even if you are root, > other problems may exist. The system is seriously hosed at this point. When lookupd disappears, all authentication reverts back to the old /etc/passwd, /etc/group flatfiles. You can avoid being seriously hosed by having the /etc/passwd file contain a valid root account with password as well as another user with a password. Make sure that user is in group wheel (and listed in /etc/group). When lookupd dies, you can still login as that user, su root, and restart lookupd. This also plugs a nasty security hole, since, as NeXT ships it, the /etc/passwd flat file contains a root account with no passwd and a 'me' account with no passwd. Fortunately (unfortunately?), 'me' is not in group 'wheel'. I recommend using a different password in the flat file than what is in NetInfo, so that the flatfile doesn't unduly compromise the security of the properly running system. You can do this by temporarily changing the passwords of both accounts and doing nidump passwd . > /etc/passwd; nidump group . > /etc/passwd and editing those files to remove all other entries. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: PPD for Lexmark printer? Message-ID: <E5I4sv.3I4@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: markfr@tek.com Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:02:54 GMT References: <5dsun7$mmo@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Mark Frank wrote: > I can't find a PPD for a Lexmark Optra Lxi > printer at the Adobe site. Does anyone know > what other ppd I can use? We use the one on the floppy which came with the printer. If you can't find it, I can e-mail the file to you. PS: The e-mail address (markfr@markfr) attached to your post is mangled. You should check your news software configuration. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT in heterogeneous net Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:29:08 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5dt25k$n68@news.next.com> References: <5doe3r$nng@crl.crl.com> In article <5doe3r$nng@crl.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) writes: > > I've got a new Intel NeXT box that I need to plug into the > rest of the network. Everything else is using NIS and the > automounter, so I need to conform to that. > > 1. How do I get the bloody thing to use NIS for passwds > instead of netinfo? It seems to be recognizing hosts OK, > but not the passwd map. I dumped the yp passwd map and > loaded it into netinfo, but that doesn't seem like a very > good solution. > > 2. We've got home directories set up to automount, eg, > /home/foo/blogs, /home/bar/schmo. How do I do the same > thing here? /NextLibrary/NextAdmin/SysAdminManual/11_MixedNet.rtfd -- Jim Sowers NeXT Technical Support
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting partitions Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 20:54:37 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32FE7FDD.68D8@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have created 4 partitions with the following on each: 1. OPENSTEP 4.0 2. Linux swap partition 3. Red Hat Linux 4.0 4. A directory I need to access from both Linux and OPENSTEP. The fourth partition is currently a Linux file system, however OPENSTEP does not recognize it. I have downloaded the utility 'vmount', but there are no instructions on what to do with it. I have placed it in the /usr/bin directory and executed the command vmount, but that does not seem to be the solution. So, here are my questions; How do I set up vmount correctly? Which file system should be placed on the 4th partition? Would simply labelling the second partition 'swapdisk' allow OPENSTEP to use it as a swap disk? If so, where should it be mounted? And, how do I get the OS to mount a Win95 disk as vfat instead of DOS? --gh
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep (Mach) to NT Printing Date: 9 Feb 1997 20:49:21 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5dld8h$oes$1@shadow.skypoint.net> I am looking to add a laser printer to my NT Workstation 4.0. The NT is connected TCP/IP to the OpenStep 4.1 (Mach cube) NeXT. I am looking for suggestions of a printer for NT (preferably HP) that will serve the NeXT with a quick and easy set up. All comments welcome. -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NS3.3/i386 bootfloppy shot -- someone send me a dd image, please Date: 12 Feb 1997 20:32:31 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5dt9cv$5m9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Hi there: I just attempted to install an Intel box with our i386 CD set, and the floppy is shot. It hangs during the initial boot process after the command prompt. Can someone please create a dd image of the bootfloppy for N3.3 and mail it to me? Thanks a bunch! -- Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) ".com is a mistake."
From: kwong@comnetix.com (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sol'n: Booting NS from NT Multi-boot loader Date: 12 Feb 1997 22:48:39 GMT Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA Message-ID: <5dthc7$brc$1@loki.tor.hookup.net> Cc: kwong@comnetix.com Below is the procedure for booting NS from NT Multi-boot loader: 1) First of all, grep a tool for NT/DOS from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm 2) Change the attrib of the boot.ini in you NT boot partition to writable (not necessary). 3) Run bootpart to list your partition table on your disk. 4) Run bootpart <your_NeXT_or_Linux_partition # from 3> <Bootsect.nxt or Bootsect.lnx> [<String to be shown on your NT boot menu>] [ ] mean optional email me if you need help! kai -- email: kwong@comnetix.com url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pop Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:37:49 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <3302463D.5789@stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whats a good pop server for NeXT?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702121621.LAA14011@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fc1955303edeec9dcd0686affb3016a4 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 97 11:21:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Boot problem, how to interrupt & fix my mistake Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fc1955303edeec9dcd0686affb3016a4 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: adt@dsi.bc.ca (Andrew Tuline) Original Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 21:16:15 GMT > Since we don't have docs, and the NeXT experts have all left our > company, I ask the question: > > How to interrupt the boot process and modify the /etc/hostconfig > file. I don't know if anyone has answered this yet. All you need to do is get to the ROM monitor, boot into single user mode, and edit the file. The steps are outlined on the faq page at my NeXT page http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ TjL ps -- drop me a note if you have more problems...
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Backup question Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 05:30:58 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5J0nM.29q@xombi.wizard.net> I'd like to backup my NeXT Cube running NS3.2 and am having one heck of a time figuring out how to backup to Zip disks. I thought "dump" would do it...but I can't figure out how to get it to span multiple disks. I've heard that gnutar can span multiple disks...there isn't a man page for it but the man page in NetBSD/FreeBSD doesn't seem to mention anything about this. I'm also worried that gnutar might have a path length limit like vanillia tar does. SafetyNet isn't a good solution for Zip media. Suggestions? Thanks :-) --- Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 12 Feb 1997 20:11:44 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <5dt860$2pe@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (FinalNews for NeXTstep; Version 0.04 / Feb 10, 1997) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Charles William Swiger wrote in <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> on 1997-02-12 04:56:24 +0100: > You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd > have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... I just did, but I couldn't find anything to set about DNS. Do you have any idea how it could be done? --- _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
From: jstella@okeefe.com (Seraphim J. Stella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot problem, how to interrupt & fix my mistake Date: 11 Feb 1997 17:02:29 GMT Organization: digitalNATION high speed internet Message-ID: <5dq8n5$chg$1@news1.dn.net> References: <5do3bs$3k5@wolfe.wimsey.com> Cc: adt@dsi.bc.ca In <5do3bs$3k5@wolfe.wimsey.com> Andrew Tuline wrote: ..... > How to interrupt the boot process and modify the /etc/hostconfig file. On the next boot, hold down "Command "Command" (both Command keys) and tap the top left key on the numeric keypad (the "`" key). This will bring up the ROM prompt. Type "bsd -s" at the prompt to enter single-user mode. Then use vi to edit the file. Be careful because the ROM prompt terminal does not have access to the arrow jeys for editing purposes, so you will have to use j - k -l, etc. Also, the screen updates aren't very accurate, so be sure to cat the file after your edits to make sure you did what you thought you did... Type "reboot" and use the box. Josh Stella
From: edx@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Message-ID: <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> Date: 13 Feb 97 09:07:58 MDT References: <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> Organization: Utah State University In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it>, pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) writes: > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > Now I want to upgrade it to 1.2.17 but when I try to compile it > I receive this error: > > rsa.c: In function `rsa_random_prime': > rsa.c:302: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c: In function `mpz_mod_inverse': > rsa.c:353: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c:363: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c: In function `derive_rsa_keys': > rsa.c:410: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c:431: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c: In function `rsa_generate_key': > rsa.c:531: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > *** Exit 1 > Stop. > > > Anyone know how to fix it ??? > > Tnx in advance !!! The docs mention that the NS3.3 compiler is too mangled (their words) to handle this code. They suggest installing gcc 2.7.2. I tried installing with 2.7.2.1, and it does compile. However, when I try running sshd, it craps out with a bus error. I haven't had time to track it down any further than that. So, for now I make do with ssh 1.2.13. > >
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: NS3.3/i386 bootfloppy shot -- someone send me a dd image, please Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:15:46 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <330305F2.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5dt9cv$5m9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > Hi there: > > I just attempted to install an Intel box with our i386 CD set, and the floppy > is shot. It hangs during the initial boot process after the command prompt. > > Can someone please create a dd image of the bootfloppy for N3.3 and mail it > to me? Thanks a bunch! > > -- > Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) <ckuhtz@paranet.com> > (work) > ".com is a mistake." The disk images are available from next and some ftp sites. For example: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/NeXTanswers/CompressedFiles/NEXTSTEP/Floppy_Images/00-index.html stef -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: 13 Feb 1997 13:57:53 GMT Organization: We all live in a yellow submarine... Message-ID: <5dv6l1$ql9@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com> Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> wrote: > But other problem occurred: > - now I can't copy Mac files to the exported volumes! The Mac is > confused and says: "The file "" couldn't be written because it's > locked". (It's not!) I can't copy from either! > For the same reason I can't create documents from applications! The > only thing it accepts is new folders... [and, yes, I've put the > necessary .dot files...] Has anyone this problem too? If so please contact me immediately. I tried to reproduce it here on my local system but it can access the exported volumes read/write without any glitch. (...V4 does not use file locking at all) --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:53:05 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5JICH.3pw@micmac.com> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com> Cc: frank@this.net Cache-Post-Path: adria.isdnet.net!unknown@ppp60.mon.hol.fr This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com>) by Michel Coste: > > But other problem occurred: > > - now I can't copy Mac files to the exported volumes! The Mac is > confused and says: "The file "" couldn't be written because it's > locked". (It's not!) I can't copy from either! > For the same reason I can't create documents from applications! The > only thing it accepts is new folders... [and, yes, I've put the > necessary .dot files...] I reverted back to the binaries included in V2 (/usr/local/cap). And everything works OK now! I just have to remember to delete the files on the Mac side with some utility, not with the Finder trash... > > - And also top level icons stay generic ("u" gothic!) even with > afpfile configured. It works though in the other directories (with > the exception of WriteNow files - maybe for mapping reasons that I > haven't investigated yet...) Still the same. I'm sure it's a translation problem for WriteNow (the Creator contents a and I guess it's what causes the problem)) > > - Exported directories from the root level can't remember their > windows position either though I've made their .dot files universally > readable etc... Still the same... The root level .finderinfo folder and related content are _sometimes_ modified BUT when remounted I still get the default window. I guess I the quick fix is not to use a root level directory! (I don't have to anyway...) mc
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:07:22 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4n0msee00iWk027a80@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dt860$2pe@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> In-Reply-To: <5dt860$2pe@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Feb-97 Re: PersonalINN/innd - why .. by Juergen Grieb@eskimo.bb. >> You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd >> have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... > > I just did, but I couldn't find anything to set about DNS. Do you > have any idea how it could be done? Check out the NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR option in config/config.dist. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: joel@quicklink.com (Joel Kelmenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: POP3 mail question. Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 16:42:56 GMT Organization: Internet QuickLink, Corp. (212) 307-1669 Message-ID: <5dvgco$55l@news.quicklink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How can I get a POP3 email client, like Eudora, to get mail from my NeXTstation? I was searching for the answers but had no luck finding the answer. Ant help would be nice. Thank you for you time. joel@quicklink.com
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Going slow with 4.0---Help! Date: 13 Feb 1997 18:19:52 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5dvm08$9of@news.tamu.edu> Cc: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu Since upgrading to 4.0 on my cube I am getting horrendously slow delivery of files to tty devices. For example, here is the output of "time cat foo" where foo is a 32K file: 0.0u 0.2s 4:40 0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w Note the 4 minutes 40 seconds real time to output the file on the terminal. Delivering the same file over a web server is likewise awfully slow. At first I thought this might be some kind of scsi disk access issue, but "emacs foo" loads up the entire file in less than a second, so it does not seem like a disk access problem. Suggestions? Thanks, -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem Configuring GateKeeper-v2.1b4 for Multiple Users Date: 13 Feb 1997 22:18:27 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5e03vj$6pu@library.airnews.net> I'm having a hard time trying to configure GKv2.1b4 w/ ppp2.2.0.4.6 for more than one user account. My wife is fed up with using my account and defaults and wants her own. I thought it was easy, so I copied my ~Library/GateKeeper/*.Gate files to her account, and clicked on the ">" in the GK tool bar, here's what I got: *) Popup window saying "Unable to access the" mailqueue directory, I can't remember the exact words. I know GK will try to send the unsent mails in /usr/spool/mqueue, so I chmod'ed the dir wide open. I don't get this messages anymore. *) Then GK will light up the modem, and dial, but then it hangs waiting for something. And I get "Can't restart syslogd, not owner" and "/dev/log" already in use kind of messages in the "Console" window. I checked her configuration and the permission bits of GateKeeper in /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app (suid), nothing is out of the ordinary. This is where I'm stuck right now. I can't see if there's anything I can run that she doesn't already have permission to do since we're in the same groups. Note: I can use /etc/ppp/pppd to get a ppp link fine in her account, and as long as I avoid using GK in her account, everything works fine. And after she logs out, I can use GK in my account without a problem. Here's my environment: HW: ND Turbo Cube; Mono Turbo Slab SW: NS3.3p1 GateKeeper.v2.1b4, PPP2.2.4.6, sendmail8.8.5 GK in /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app Gate docs in ~/Library/GateKeeper/*.Gate (2 ISP's) And I did remember to configure her GK to point to her config files. Is this a known bug? Thanks, liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail propogation question Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:27:38 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5KEI3.E1@xombi.wizard.net> I'm able to mail people without trouble for the most part. My computer has the static IP at xombi.wizard.net and also has this name, If I try to mail to anyone else at wizard.net I can't because sendmail acts like I'm trying to mail someone on my local machine. If I mail "someone@someplace.com" it goes through great. If I mail myself "recurve@wizard.net" the mail goes ok...but it never leaves my machine. If I mail "fella@wizard.net" I get the response "Error, user fella does not exist" because it's trying to send to my local machine. Any ideas how to correct this? Could it be the following lines of sendmail.mailhost.cf? # If you want to pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder # to our forwarder then uncomment the following line. R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain # and comment out this one. #R$*<@$+.$->$* $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain Thanks :-) Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:56:44 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>) by Frank M. Siegert: > In <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > > - I just can't understand how to use my LaserWriter from my NeXT > > station (but the other way the NeXT spool works fine for my Mac...) I > > think the documentation is a bit too short on this... =;) > > > > Yeah, I second this. To minimize the problems I have put together a step by > step documentation and put it on > > http://www.this.net/~frank/cap_howto.html > > The setup of a local queue to print to a remote LaserWriter is unfortunately > not automated yet, so you have to use the shell / NetInfoMananger (read the > notes about a potential problem using it!) to setup. A future release will > include an automatic setup mechanism. > I've read your doc and it's perfectly clear and much better to understand than the original man pages you put in CAPer. You should include it in next release! In fact the man is completely buggy here when it talks about printing to a Mac connected LaserWriter, using the NeXT spooler!!! I was even more confused because I had two zones and the LaserWriter was not appearing from the NeXT... Now it prints perfectly from all my computers. I even use the NeXT spooler from the Mac! But other problem occurred: - now I can't copy Mac files to the exported volumes! The Mac is confused and says: "The file "" couldn't be written because it's locked". (It's not!) I can't copy from either! For the same reason I can't create documents from applications! The only thing it accepts is new folders... [and, yes, I've put the necessary .dot files...] - And also top level icons stay generic ("u" gothic!) even with afpfile configured. It works though in the other directories (with the exception of WriteNow files - maybe for mapping reasons that I haven't investigated yet...) - Exported directories from the root level can't remember their windows position either though I've made their .dot files universally readable etc... Except this I'm happy with CAPer! I mean when it will work for file sharing too! I just don't understand what happened... Thanks anyway for you important contribution to the NeXT community! (I'm clearly understand that CAPer is not responsible for my problems...) mc
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: wrong #9 Imagine 128 setting Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:14:46 -0500 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg32513.thr-1e673a.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg32513.thr-1e673a.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> We're admittedly ignorant in the original sense of the word... Running OS 4.1 on a Dell intel box, 17" Dell monitor, #9 Imagine 128 series 2 video card, and the 3.3 beta of the driver at: ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/Files/NEXTSTEP/Intel_Configuration_In formation/Drivers/3.3_Drivers/Beta/2488_Number9Imagine128S2DisplayDriver
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702131453.JAA14151@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: d35e1611927dd02d76556b145a6abf0f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 09:53:17 -0500 Subject: Re: pop Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: d35e1611927dd02d76556b145a6abf0f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> Original Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:37:49 -0500 > Whats a good pop server for NeXT? PopOver. Available at PEAK. Send me a message with the SUBJECT search-peak popover for the URLs I believe the package has the software both to d/l mail from a POP server as well as the software to make your NeXT a popserver TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu> Message-ID: <9702131524.AA17762@mail.valverde.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Mac Patel <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 07:23:56 -0800 Subject: Boot Problem.. Hello... Recently I installed 3.3 onto a Dell Optiplex GXi. Installation went fine, but I get the following error when the system restarts, right after the boot: statement... Can't Find $LBL Has anybody run into similar problem? I would like to thank everyone in advance and you could reply directly at mpatel@valverde.edu if you so desire. Mac Patel Val Verde USD
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 14 Feb 1997 09:40:21 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5e1bu5$t70@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <199702071813.NAA17821@nerc.com> In Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0xd8d60> writes, > Responding To: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch > Original Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:10:30 GMT > >> At the moment I have to work a lot with tip and modems. tip hangs >> quiet often and I don't know why. The problem is, I can't kill it >> aftwards. Nothing works: ^C, kill, kill -9... So I have to reboot >> and most of the time make a fsck for my 2.1GB disk. Not very >> efficient... > > I'd suggest using 'kermit' rather than tip kermit is also weird sometimes... And when kermit doesnt work, I use tip. >> So if this famous program could kill also this problem, I would >> appreciate a lot if somebody could send it to me >> (moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch); preferably fat (for Intel and m68k). > > If you're running 3.2 it might work. > > If you're running 3.3 it seems to panic the machine. Thanks, I received and it does work under my OS4.1 machines (Intel & m68k). Phil
From: overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstep Firewall ? Date: 14 Feb 1997 10:38:31 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e1fb7$rop@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Hello. Perhaps someone has done something like I am trying to do. I have a NeXT box connected to the 'net via PPP and a modem. I also have a pentium connected via ethernet. I would like to use the 'net from the pentium but simply configuring the next box as the "gateway" does not do it. Is there a way to tell the next that I want to use it as such? Dave (overeem.1@osu.edu)
From: overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstep Firewall ? Date: 14 Feb 1997 10:40:28 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e1fes$rou@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> Hello. Perhaps someone has done something like I am trying to do. I have a NeXT box connected to the 'net via PPP and a modem. I also have a pentium connected via ethernet. I would like to use the 'net from the pentium but simply configuring the next box as the "gateway" does not do it. Is there a way to tell the next that I want to use it as such? Dave (overeem.1@osu.edu)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 14 Feb 1997 14:19:16 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> In article <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu writes: > In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it>, pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) writes: > > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > The docs mention that the NS3.3 compiler is too mangled > (their words) to handle this code. They suggest installing > gcc 2.7.2. 9 times out of 10, it means you must specify in CFLAGS: -traditional-cpp when using NeXT's supplied cc C compiler. -- 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: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:08:57 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5e2679$g0@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes: > In article <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu writes: > > In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it>, pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it > (Stefano Pisati) writes: > > > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > > The docs mention that the NS3.3 compiler is too mangled > > (their words) to handle this code. They suggest installing > > gcc 2.7.2. > > 9 times out of 10, it means you must specify in CFLAGS: > -traditional-cpp > when using NeXT's supplied cc C compiler. From the looks of the errors, it seems the problem is vararg macros which NeXT's GCC doesn't support (grrrr). The only workaround would be to convert all variable argument macros to fixed arg macros. Ugh. Install gcc-2.7.2. FYI, ssh 1.2.16 is on next-ftp.peak.org and it works fine. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT '040 cube & DAT drives Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:31:25 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5e27hd$emb@hpax.cup.hp.com> For those who have '040 non-turbo NeXTs and backup your systems to DAT drives: when backing up, does your DAT drive stream or does it write, stop, write, stop, etc? I've found that when I'm backing up my drive, it doesn't stream as much as I would like. Every 5-10 seconds, the drive hesitates and it's not good for its longevity. During backup, the system is in single user mode, I run mtset -i prior to using dump with the following options: 0ufs /dev/rst0 75000 /, using a 60m tape. Throughput speed is roughly 25MB/minute, and I know the drive is capable of much faster operation--on my Mac, its throughput is around 35MB/minute. My drive on my NeXT hovers at around 800K/sec but the 25MB/minute equates to 420K/sec. I tried using the default 1600bpi and 6250bpi option, both giving me the same results. The DAT drive is a Sony SDT-7000. Cube has 28MB RAM. Haven't tried tar. When untarring stuff form a DAT tape I write in the office, it streams fine, which leads me to believe I'm doing something wrong on the NeXT end when I backup. Oh yeah, my HD is formatted at 512bytes/sector, and it's approximately half full; running 3.2. Any ideas? Thanks, Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue General Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open/Intelligent Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.7200
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From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTstep Firewall ? Date: 14 Feb 1997 21:02:30 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5e2jt6$a7i@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> <5e1fes$rou@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Operator) wrote: >Hello. Perhaps someone has done something like I am trying to do. I have >a NeXT box connected to the 'net via PPP and a modem. I also have a >pentium connected via ethernet. I would like to use the 'net from the >pentium but simply configuring the next box as the "gateway" does not do >it. Is there a way to tell the next that I want to use it as such? Actually, it does do it ;-). Your setup is very much like what mine looks like at home (for my PPP backup link). Your problem is that the network between your PC and the NeXT is not publically routed, so that even if you had setup your routes properly, the packets simply wouldn't go anywhere beyond the point of your PPP server. What you need to do is to install a proxy server on your NeXT. That can either be a application specific proxy or a generic proxy (like SOCKS, which is what I'd recommend). The only things that is left is to point your apps on your PC to your proxy running on the NeXT, and.. voila, things will start working. You don't need a firewall setup. However, it might be advisable for you to study up on how to implement UNIX host security with regards to rejecting unauthorized access, for instance via TCP wrappers. I am not aware of a firewall product for NeXT, although, the PPP code probably could be modified to provide hooks for that, concerning traffic through the PPP interface. Suggested reading would be O'Reilly & Associates books, such as "TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig Hunt, and "Practical UNIX Security". Best regards, -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work), <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "A German who speaks for himself."
From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gcc 2.7.2.1 (Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ???) Date: 14 Feb 1997 21:05:09 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5e2k25$a7i@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> <5e2679$g0@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) wrote: >From the looks of the errors, it seems the problem is vararg macros which >NeXT's GCC doesn't support (grrrr). The only workaround would be to convert >all variable argument macros to fixed arg macros. Ugh. Install gcc-2.7.2. > >FYI, ssh 1.2.16 is on next-ftp.peak.org and it works fine. What's the proper way to build GCC for the NeXT btw? If I just run configure and the usual shebang for GCC, it seems like I need to specifiy /usr/include/bsd explicitly for includes, cause it doesn't look there by default. Am I doing something wrong? ;-).. 2.7.2.1 works fine otherwise, aside from barfing on various includes. -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work), <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "A German who speaks for himself."
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:31:59 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Howdy! - I have put the patch for CAPer V4 m68k on www.this.net that will hopefully solve the dreaded locked files problem for some people. The problem does not seem to happen for the Intel releases, so V4 remains the last i486 version, whereas V4update1 will be the current m68k release. Please fetch the update from http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html, replace your cap_basedist_1.tar.gz file in the CAPer.app wrapper and reinstall CAP. Again: This is not needed for the i486 versions! - In case you experienced problems installing CAP on your machine: I found out that in any non-trivial network your have to enter your zone by name, using the default '*' does not cause the aarpd daemon to attach to the first zone it encounters, it wants the full name. If you do not supply the correct name, the NeXT CAP server will be invisible to the network (and vice versa). Sorry for any inconvenience. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
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From: Christian Valor <valor@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Second Annual Hackers, Crackers & Sniffers Conference Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:15:09 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 Message-ID: <5e2v6d$jc3@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Second Annual Hackers, Crackers & Sniffer Symposium "Perils of the Internet and Practical Solutions" The Ashford Club Atlanta, GA - April 22-24, 1997 [Please visit our web site for similar conferences scheduled this year in San Diego, Boston, Biloxi, Norfolk, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Melbourne, and others.] Co-Sponsored by: Information Systems Audit & Control Association National Computer Security Association Internet Security Systems Delta Airlines and Transquest Security First Technologies HomeCom and a Community of Interests Featuring EMERGING INITIATIVES IN COMPUTER SECURITY Dr. Peter Tippett - President, National Computer Security Association INFORMATION WARFARE - CYBERTERRORISM Winn Schwartau - Noted Author and International Authority IMPROVING SECURITY BY VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS Tom Noonan - President, Internet Security Systems INTRUDER IMPACT AND EMERGING SECURITY DIRECTIONS Dr. John Alger, Dean, Information Warfare Institute, National Defense University Scott Charney, Chief of Computer Crimes Unit, U.S. Department of Justice Brent Mead, Network and Computer Security Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Workshops presented by leading Expert Practitioners Special Presentation by Christopher Klaus, Founder, ISS Fee $495.00 Symposium Coordinator NEW DIMENSIONS INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 897 Cardiff, CA 92007 T - (619) 436-5618 F - (619) 436-2475 E-mail <ndi@aol.com> http://www.newdimensions.net ATLANTA WORKSHOPS 0800-0930 & 1000-1130 W1 - Cybercrime This presentation is a revealing discussion of the nature of the criminal element and intrusions into computer systems. Presentation describes statistics and modus operandi. Key cases are addresses: Mitnick, Russian Citibank Hacker, Masters of Deception, and others. W2 - Computer and Network Security A technical manager's description of incident details and assessment of the impact by intruders on project development and support activities. Guidelines and management details are discussed that require responses to incidents and an investigative protocol. W3 - The Hacker Underground Understand the Hacker Underground and meet those who are a part of it. 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From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep PPP Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:25:29 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <3304BC29.4E6D@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just got OpenStep 4.1 Mach and see that it has pppd and chat. I need to set this up and would like to know if there is guide I can use. Thanks, Jason
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD for Lexmark printer? Date: 15 Feb 1997 05:20:04 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5e3h24$huq@news2.cais.com> References: <5dsun7$mmo@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> <E5I4sv.3I4@gateway.ali.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <E5I4sv.3I4@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Anyone who wants the PPD for the Lexmark Optra should e-mail me. I will e-mail you the file. -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help installing 3.3 on PPro200 from gateway Date: 15 Feb 1997 17:31:57 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e4rud$k52@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Please help! I have just purchased a Pentium Pro 200 Intel box from Gateway, which has an AHA Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide scsi controller, (scsi ID 7). When I try to install NS3.3 from the floppy, I get the usual installation messages, choose english, select scsi adapter driver, where I respond with the adaptec 294x number (4) for the driver. When I get the following physical memory = 96.0 megabytes using (usual line here ...) Plug and Play support enabled Plug and Play card 0x0e8c0026:CTL0026 s/n 0x3e280710 ISA/EISA bus support enabled ISA bus PCI version 2.10 Buscount=1 Features=[BIOS16CM1] Found PCI Device: ID=0x12378086 at Dev=0 Func=0 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x70008086 at Dev=7 Func=0 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x70108086 at Dev 7 Func=1 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x81789004 at Dev=11 Func=0 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x883d5333 at Dev=15 Func=0 Bus=0 PCI Bus DriverKit version 330 Registering: PS2Controller Registering PCKeyboard0 Registering EISA0 PCI Bus support enabled Registering: PCIO Adaptec 2940: Can't get CONFIGSPACE; ABORTING Registering: event0 Registering: KmDevice0 No SCSI controller or CD-ROM Drive Found followed by a boot info request and a panic. Guidance please? Thanks. Randy Jackson -- 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
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From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help installing 3.3 on PPro200 from gateway Date: 15 Feb 1997 18:20:51 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e4uq3$kj5@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5e4rud$k52@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5e4rud$k52@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Additional info, the CD-ROM drive is a Matshita 8X scsi drive at scsi id 1. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 15 Feb 1997 19:03:24 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5e519s$7qg@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > Isn't there another way to solve this problem? > > You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd > have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... Sorry for being late on this thread, but I've been quite busy lately. Since I don't use Dial on Demand here I haven't been plagued by this kind of problem. It is correct that PersonalINN is compiled with NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR DO. Right now, I see no reason for not changing this to DONT which should solve the problems. The next update of PersonalINN due sometime this summer will incorporate this change. However, if somebody needs this change urgently, I *might* be able to help him before that (can't promise, though) - just contact me. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Need Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config v 3.37 Date: 15 Feb 1997 20:05:13 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e54tp$lm2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I believe I need a newer version of the Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config than the one on the 3.3 installation disks. If anyone hase v 3.37 or later, could you please NeXTMail me a copy? Thank you. Randy Jackson -- 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 18:46:29 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net Cache-Post-Path: news2.isdnet.net!unknown@ppp13.mon.hol.fr This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>) by Frank M. Siegert: > Howdy! > > - I have put the patch for CAPer V4 m68k on www.this.net that will hopefully > solve the dreaded locked files problem for some people. > Sure. It works. Thanks! (I'm doing the upgrades manually since I don't want to squash my configuration files - not a big deal! but... =:=@) ) > - In case you experienced problems installing CAP on your machine: I found > out that in any non-trivial network your have to enter your zone by name, > using the default '*' does not cause the aarpd daemon to attach to the first > zone it encounters, it wants the full name. If you do not supply the correct > name, the NeXT CAP server will be invisible to the network (and vice versa). > I sure have to enter the zone name... But what I find strange is that CAP works perfectly WHEN the Mac and its router are already running. Using the configured Mac router values... Though when I start the NeXT first, CAP always default to values that are not compatible with the Mac router! Since the NeXT is THE server, that's very inconvenient! When I start the Mac nothing works... i.e. in my case: # interface "en0" netRangeStart 0.00 netRangeEnd 255.254 thisNet 255.00 thisNode 56 thisZone "my_zone" bridgeNet 0.00 bridgeNode 0 bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 nisNet 255.00 nisNode 56 asyncNet 0.00 asyncZone "" # Why? Where are stored these values? I found nothing nowhere about that. When I start the Mac first, I have this (and everything is working!): # interface "en0" netRangeStart 0.01 netRangeEnd 254.254 thisNet 0.01 thisNode 56 thisZone "my_zone" bridgeNet 245.235 bridgeNode 177 bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 nisNet 0.01 nisNode 56 asyncNet 0.00 asyncZone "" # Do I really have to install UAR in this case? It's a real pain since UAR is not available for NeXT... mc
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:31:16 -0600 From: john@nextdoor.com Subject: Re: Printing from NT to NeXTprinter? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <856045067.25358@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: Eric_Noyau@next.com References: <5dro2r$fcq@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM> In article <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM>, Eric_Noyau@next.com (Eric Noyau) wrote: > > (Munch...) > > You have to check the 'page independence' switch somewhere in one of the > NT configuration panel. Right click on your printer, and click on > 'document defaults'/Advanced/'Postscript options'/'Page independence'. > > That should do the trick. IT WORKS!!! Well, for the most part anyway. I still get an occasional PostScript error when printing a subset of the pages in an MS Word document, and I got a "WindowServer[202]: nxpd_PageProc: can't print page: invalid port" error in the middle of a multi-page document once, but compared to being able to print only one page at a time, I can live with errors like these occasionally. Eric, THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU! I was wrestling with this problem for weeks, and was just getting ready to go out and buy a new laser printer for the PC. You saved me 700 bucks! John john@nextdoor.com -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 16 Feb 1997 01:27:00 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> Cc: mic@micmac.com In <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > Sure. It works. Thanks! (I'm doing the upgrades manually since I > don't want to squash my configuration files - not a big deal! but... > =:=@) ) > Hopefully this means your happy factor has increased :) > > I sure have to enter the zone name... > > But what I find strange is that CAP works perfectly WHEN the Mac and > its router are already running. Using the configured Mac router > values... > Though when I start the NeXT first, CAP always default to values that > are not compatible with the Mac router! Since the NeXT is THE server, > that's very inconvenient! When I start the Mac nothing works... > i.e. in my case: > # > interface "en0" > netRangeStart 0.00 > netRangeEnd 255.254 > thisNet 255.00 > thisNode 56 > thisZone "my_zone" > bridgeNet 0.00 > bridgeNode 0 > bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 > nisNet 255.00 > nisNode 56 > asyncNet 0.00 > asyncZone "" > # > Why? Where are stored these values? I found nothing nowhere about > that. > When I start the Mac first, I have this (and everything is working!): > # > interface "en0" > netRangeStart 0.01 > netRangeEnd 254.254 > thisNet 0.01 > thisNode 56 > thisZone "my_zone" > bridgeNet 245.235 > bridgeNode 177 > bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 > nisNet 0.01 > nisNode 56 > asyncNet 0.00 > asyncZone "" > # > > Do I really have to install UAR in this case? It's a real pain since > UAR is not available for NeXT... > You may try to 'feed' in your values to aarpd and atis by maintaining a '/etc/atalk.local' file: # This is a sample atalk.local file. Comment lines start with #. # mynet, mynode, myzone refer to network values for the CAP host. # bridgenet, bridgenode, bridgeIP refer to the hardware gateway. # NB: bridgenode has to be the lower 8 bits of the IP address. # nisnet, nisnode point to the host running atis. Normally these # are the same as mynet and mynode. This line is semi optional. # asyncnet and asynczone apply to Asynchronous AppleTalk on the # CAP host. This line is also optional but, if included, *must* be # the fourth active line (ie: nisnet and nisnode must be present). # Zone names containing spaces must be quoted with " or ' quotes. # Zone names containing " or ' can use \" or \' as escapes. # # mynet mynode myzone 0.01 56 my_zone # bridgenet bridgenode bridgeIP 245.235 177 127.0.0.1 # nisnet nisnode 0.01 56 # asyncnet asynczone #0.00 "my_zone Async" -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
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From: chris@homer.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ghostscript and bubblejet Date: 16 Feb 1997 11:14:14 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <5e6q66$oh2@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> hi i need some help with my canon bj240 i got the gs-filter package 1.1 and it s allready installed running it from the shell there is no problem and it works but i can't get it working as a next-printer over the printermanager. so if anybody use an canon bubblejet (bj10, bj200, bj210 or bj240) please send me the settings for how i can get this thing working see ya christian c.vollmert@moeller.net
From: kazdan@hans.math.upenn.edu (Jerry L. Kazdan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem making perl5.003 Date: 16 Feb 1997 22:16:36 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5e8104$p1d@netnews.upenn.edu> I am attempting to make perl 5.003 on NeXT (black) running NeXTSTEP 3.2 (Developer). I ran "Configure" using only the default values. Then I ran "make". After a while I got a "Segmentation fault". Here is the last part of the log from running "make": .....(snip)..... `sh cflags libperl.a globals.o` globals.c CCCMD = cc -c -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -O rm -f libperl.a ar rcu libperl.a perl.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o \ mg.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.odoop.o \ doio.o regexec.o taint.o deb.o globals.o cc -u libsys_s -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/gnu/lib -o miniperl miniperlmain.o libperl.a -ldbm ./miniperl configpm tmp sh mv-if-diff tmp lib/Config.pm ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2html.PL Extracting pod2html (with variable substitutions) *** Segmentation fault *** `pod/pod2html' removed Stop. Any hints on how I can fix this? -- Jerry
From: jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: Sun, 16 Feb 97 22:37:16 GMT Organization: UUNet PIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet PIPEX) Message-ID: <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> Hi folks. I have a problem with DNS resolution .. I have 3 DNS servers defined in /etc/resolv.conf. The first is to my local DNS, the second to one ISPs DNS and the third to another ISPs DNS. If I connect to either ISP, DNS lookups don't work. But, if I go into nslookup and point it directly at one of my ISPs DNS servers, it resolves it. So, depending on which ISP I connect to, I change my /etc/resolv.conf to have only that ISPs DNS server in it. Then, by sending a HUP to the nibindd, it should restart and reload info from /etc/resolv.conf, no? Why doesn't this seem to work? Any thoughts? Thanks, Jeff Richmond
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4.0/4.1 drivers on 3.3? Date: 16 Feb 1997 22:40:35 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e82d3$89v@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Do the 4.0/4.1 OS drivers work for NS3.3? Thanks. Randy Jackson -- 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: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAPer on Canon object.station 41 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:26:24 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! I'm trying CAPer on a Canon object.station 41 on NS 3.3, and supposedly BPF isn't compatible with the AMD PCnet32, which is what's in the object.station AFAIK. So, I'm wondering if there's a workaround aside from buying another ethernet card? Is there any hope? In the install readme, it mentions that this card doesn't have support for multicast, yet on the same computer in Win95, I can browse the AppleTalk network with a product called COPStalk- http://www.copstalk.com Perhaps they use different implementation methods for Atalk...any ideas? Thanks! -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:59:48 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5e871k$5u5@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> References: <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> In article <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) writes: >Hi folks. I have a problem with DNS resolution .. I have 3 DNS servers >defined in /etc/resolv.conf. The first is to my local DNS, the second to one >ISPs DNS and the third to another ISPs DNS. If I connect to either ISP, DNS >lookups don't work. But, if I go into nslookup and point it directly at one >of my ISPs DNS servers, it resolves it. > >So, depending on which ISP I connect to, I change my /etc/resolv.conf to >have only that ISPs DNS server in it. Then, by sending a HUP to the nibindd, >it should restart and reload info from /etc/resolv.conf, no? Why doesn't this >seem to work? Any thoughts? > >Thanks, > >Jeff Richmond nibindd is not a BIND daemon. From the NS Sys Adm manual: nibindd Starts NetInfo service; spawns netinfod processes The BIND daemon is named. Btw, the setup you describe in your first paragraph should work if you configure it proplerly. In particular you should probably configure the local nameserver as a "caching only" DNS server. Should you have further questions you might want to check out the NeXT Network and System Administration (search for DNS) manual and also the BIND docs for help. The O'Reilly and Associates book "DNS and Bind" is also a good source of information. -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer on Canon object.station 41 Date: 17 Feb 1997 00:20:02 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5e887i$bi7@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Cc: eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu In <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Hi! > I'm trying CAPer on a Canon object.station 41 on NS 3.3, and supposedly > BPF isn't compatible with the AMD PCnet32, which is what's in the > object.station AFAIK. > > So, I'm wondering if there's a workaround aside from buying another > ethernet card? Is there any hope? In the install readme, it mentions > that this card doesn't have support for multicast, yet on the same > computer in Win95, I can browse the AppleTalk network with a product > called COPStalk- http://www.copstalk.com > > Perhaps they use different implementation methods for Atalk...any > ideas? Thanks! > It is usually not a problem with the hardware but with the drivers, e.g. the DEC Chip 21040 (Cogent EM960) drivers prior to 3.37 were 'bad' but the 3.37 release seems to run fine. So a driver update can do the trick, however I cannot provide your with such an update... sorry. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer on Canon object.station 41 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:27:25 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <3307A57E.171E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit BTW: I suppose Frank, you could add the AMD PCNet32 driver for NS 3.3 version 3.0 as a driver that's known not to work... Anyone know if there's a patched driver that does work? I just installed version 3.2 of that driver, but that's also known not to work, as is version 3.3. Perhaps version 4 works??? Can OPENSTEP/MACH 4.x drivers (ie PCnet32) work on NS 3.3? Thanks -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: talk/ytalk problem Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:26:21 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5q17y.1GG@xombi.wizard.net> talk and ytalk don't seem to work for me accross the internet. For people logged into my Cube it works fine, they can talk to each other but if I try someone at another address this is what I get: xombi.wizard.net> talk login@glue.umd.edu talk: xombi.wizard.net: Can't figure out network address. xombi.wizard.net> ytalk login@glue.umd.edu new_user: bad host: 'xombi.wizard.net': (no system error) I don't know why I'm getting these errors because other operations work fine like telnet, etc. And people can telnet to xombi.wizard.net (when I'm dialed in). --- Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@netventures.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail & ppp Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:41:21 +0000 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <33079B21.39D3@netventures.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi - I've got outgoing mail failing on ppp links after complaining that ether isn't working as the relay mailer. Is "DMether" the culprit in /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf? TIA, C.
From: rmunoz@eos.ncsu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: f2c or g77 for OpenStep 4.1 Date: 17 Feb 1997 04:55:42 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Message-ID: <5e8oce$guf@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Hello all, I am trying to get a fortran compiler for my new OpenStep 4.1 for Intel system. The new release of g77 +gcc in the archives fail to render usable code in my OS4.1. I have also tried to compile the "f2c" sources in the archive sites but they fail to compile in my system. Has anybody got any of them to work?. Would you be so kind as to share it with me or tell me what I need to do to make it work?. I am in desperate need of a fortran compiler (in fact, the main reason why I moved from my beloved NeXTStation Turbo to my new Intel system is the expected increase in speed.... ) Thank you very much for your help. Rafa -------------------------- R. Munoz-Carpena, Ph.D. e-mail:rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu Visiting Scholar fax:(919)515-6732 BAE Dept. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7625
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 17 Feb 1997 07:36:59 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) and EIDE CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've been trying to get it to play audio CDs, but it refuses to cooperate. I cannot get it to work with CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a similar configuration and has been able to make this work. When I put in an audio CD, it will auto-launch OmniCd.app, but the app is incapable of locating the drive. (Cmd-O/cmd-o displays an empty list, so it obviously can't see the drive for some reason.) I guess I'd have been better off with a SCSI drive, but it is too late for that now. I've got what I've got...and I would like to get it working if possible. :-) -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: f2c or g77 for OpenStep 4.1 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:41:47 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <33087C3A.167E@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <5e8oce$guf@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu It is possible to compile g77 for OPENSTEP. You have to make some changes to reflect the fact that sys_s is a shared library. I do not have the changes with me as I did this at home, but I will try and repost later today or tomorrow with the changes I made to the nexststep.h. It gives many warning messages when linking but the executables are fine. I have compiled a number of molecular biology programs with g77 under NeXTSTEP. For those interested I may later this week try and get the pgcc/pg77 the pentium optimised compiler to run under OPENSTEP. This should give binaries which are optimised for pentum machines. This is available for linux and solaris x86 altready I have heard and I will take a look and see how much work it is to get it to compiled for OPENSTEP. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: f2c or g77 for OpenStep 4.1 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:54:29 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <33089B54.2781@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <5e8oce$guf@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------446B794B15FB" To: rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------446B794B15FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have attached the nextstep.h file for compiling gcc and g77 under OPENSTEP. Overwrite the file in the config directory of the gcc distribution. Type ./configure --with-gnu-as make bootstrap make install Should see you through. You have to install g77 correctly and apply the necessary patches for the gcc version you are using. I have compiled this with gcc 2.7.2.1 and gcc 0.5.19 and it works fine. When linking with g77 (and gcc) there are a lot of warning messages but the executable created seems to be okay. The warning messages are created from the next ld command. The attached nextstep.h is only a temporary fix and hopefully a full OPENSTEP port will be done. If people cannot read the attachment let me know and I will put it on an ftp site. Alternatively to overwriting the nextstep.h just put the stuff relating to LIBGCC (from my changed nextstep.h) into config.h after doing the ./configure --with-gnu-as. I hope this helps. The g77 compiler created is really useful and hopefully eventually will be included into OPENSTEP as it would be nice to create multiple binary versions. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/ --------------446B794B15FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="nextstep.h" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="nextstep.h" /* nextstep.h -- operating system specific defines to be used when targeting GCC for NeXTSTEP. Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU CC. GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU CC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* Use new NeXT include file search path. In a cross compiler with NeXT as target, don't expect the host to use Next's directory scheme. */ #ifndef CROSS_COMPILE #undef INCLUDE_DEFAULTS #define INCLUDE_DEFAULTS \ { \ { GPLUSPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR, 1, 1 }, \ { LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 1 }, \ { TOOL_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 1 }, \ { GCC_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 0 }, \ /* These are for fixincludes-fixed ansi/bsd headers \ which wouldn't be found otherwise. \ (The use of string catenation here is OK since \ NeXT's native compiler is derived from GCC.) */ \ { GCC_INCLUDE_DIR "/ansi", 0, 0 }, \ { GCC_INCLUDE_DIR "/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/Headers", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { "/LocalDeveloper/Headers", 0, 0 }, \ { "/LocalDeveloper/Headers/ansi", 0, 0 }, \ { "/LocalDeveloper/Headers/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/2.0CompatibleHeaders", 0, 0 }, \ { STANDARD_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 0 }, \ { "/usr/include/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { 0, 0, 0 } \ } #endif /* CROSS_COMPILE */ #undef EXTRA_FORMAT_FUNCTIONS #define EXTRA_FORMAT_FUNCTIONS \ "NXPrintf", FALSE, 2, FALSE, \ "NXScanf", TRUE, 2, FALSE, \ "NXVPrintf", FALSE, 2, TRUE, \ "NXVScanf", TRUE, 2, TRUE, \ "DPSPrintf", FALSE, 2, FALSE, \ "bsd_sprintf", FALSE, 2, FALSE, \ "bsd_vsprintf", FALSE, 2, TRUE, /* Make -fnext-runtime the default. */ #define NEXT_OBJC_RUNTIME /* We have atexit. */ #define HAVE_ATEXIT /* Enable recent gcc to compile under the old gcc in Next release 1.0. */ #define __inline inline /* wchar_t is unsigned short */ #undef WCHAR_TYPE #define WCHAR_TYPE "short unsigned int" #undef WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE #define WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE (BITS_PER_WORD / 2) /* Don't default to pcc-struct-return, because gcc is the only compiler, and we want to retain compatibility with older gcc versions. */ #undef DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN #define DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN 0 /* These compiler options take n arguments. */ #undef WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG #define WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG(STR) \ (DEFAULT_WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG (STR) ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segalign") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "seg1addr") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segaddr") ? 2 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectobjectsymbols") ? 2 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segprot") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectcreate") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectalign") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segcreate") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectorder") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "siff-mask") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "siff-filter") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "siff-warning") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "arch") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "pagezero_size") ? 1 : \ 0) #undef WORD_SWITCH #define WORD_SWITCH(STR) \ (WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG (STR) \ || !strcmp (STR, "bsd") \ || !strcmp (STR, "object") \ || !strcmp (STR, "ObjC") \ || !strcmp (STR, "all_load")) /* Machine dependent ccp options. */ #undef CPP_SPEC #define CPP_SPEC "%{!traditional: -D__STDC__} \ %{posixstrict:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} \ %{!posixstrict:%{bsd:-D__STRICT_BSD__} \ %{posix:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} \ %{!ansi:-D_NEXT_SOURCE}} \ %{MD:-MD %M} %{MMD:-MMD %M}" /* Machine dependent ld options. */ #undef LINK_SPEC #define LINK_SPEC "%{Z} %{M} \ %{execute*} %{preload*} %{fvmlib*} \ %{segalign*} %{seg1addr*} %{segaddr*} %{segprot*} \ %{pagezero_size*} \ %{seglinkedit*} %{noseglinkedit*} \ %{sectcreate*} %{sectalign*} %{sectobjectsymbols}\ %{segcreate*} %{Mach*} %{whyload} %{w} \ %{sectorder*} %{whatsloaded} %{ObjC} %{all_load} %{object}" /* Machine dependent libraries. */ #undef LIBGCC_SPEC #ifndef LIBGCC_SPEC #define LIBGCC_SPEC "" #endif #undef LIB_SPEC #ifndef LIB_SPEC #define LIB_SPEC "%{!shared:-lgcc} %{!shared:-lsys_s}" #endif #undef STARTFILE_SPEC #ifndef STARTFILE_SPEC /* config.h can define STARTFILE_SPEC to override the default crt0 files. */ #define STARTFILE_SPEC \ "-dynamic %{!shared:-lcrt1.o}" #endif /* Why not? */ #undef DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS #define DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS 2 /* Allow #sscs (but don't do anything). */ #define SCCS_DIRECTIVE /* We use Dbx symbol format. */ #undef SDB_DEBUGGING_INFO #undef XCOFF_DEBUGGING_INFO #define DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO /* This saves a fair amount of space. */ #undef DBX_CONTIN_LENGTH #define DBX_CONTIN_LENGTH 0 /* These screw up NeXT's gdb at the moment, so don't use them. */ #undef DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_DIRECTORY #define DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_DIRECTORY(FILE, FILENAME) /* These come from bsd386.h, but are specific to sequent, so make sure they don't bite us. */ #undef DBX_NO_XREFS #undef DBX_CONTIN_LENGTH /* gdb needs a null N_SO at the end of each file for scattered loading. */ #undef DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_FILE_END #define DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_FILE_END(FILE, FILENAME) \ fprintf (FILE, \ "\t.text\n\t.stabs \"%s\",%d,0,0,Letext\nLetext:\n", \ "" , N_SO) /* Don't use .gcc_compiled symbols to communicate with GDB; They interfere with numerically sorted symbol lists. */ #undef ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC #define ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC(asm_out_file) #undef INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP #define INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP #undef INVOKE__main #undef ASM_OUTPUT_CONSTRUCTOR #define ASM_OUTPUT_CONSTRUCTOR(FILE,NAME) \ do { constructor_section (); \ ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (FILE, 1); \ fprintf (FILE, "\t.long "); \ assemble_name (FILE, NAME); \ fprintf (FILE, "\n"); \ fprintf (FILE, ".reference .constructors_used\n"); \ } while (0) #undef ASM_OUTPUT_DESTRUCTOR #define ASM_OUTPUT_DESTRUCTOR(FILE,NAME) \ do { destructor_section (); \ ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (FILE, 1); \ fprintf (FILE, "\t.long "); \ assemble_name (FILE, NAME); \ fprintf (FILE, "\n"); \ fprintf (FILE, ".reference .destructors_used\n"); \ } while (0) /* Don't output a .file directive. That is only used by the assembler for error reporting. */ #undef ASM_FILE_START #define ASM_FILE_START(FILE) #undef ASM_FILE_END #define ASM_FILE_END(FILE) \ do { \ extern char *language_string; \ if (strcmp (language_string, "GNU C++") == 0) \ { \ constructor_section (); \ destructor_section (); \ ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (FILE, 1); \ } \ } while (0) /* How to parse #pragma's */ #undef HANDLE_PRAGMA #define HANDLE_PRAGMA(finput) handle_pragma (finput, &get_directive_line) /* Give methods pretty symbol names on NeXT. */ #undef OBJC_GEN_METHOD_LABEL #define OBJC_GEN_METHOD_LABEL(BUF,IS_INST,CLASS_NAME,CAT_NAME,SEL_NAME,NUM) \ do { if (CAT_NAME) \ sprintf (BUF, "%c[%s(%s) %s]", (IS_INST) ? '-' : '+', \ (CLASS_NAME), (CAT_NAME), (SEL_NAME)); \ else \ sprintf (BUF, "%c[%s %s]", (IS_INST) ? '-' : '+', \ (CLASS_NAME), (SEL_NAME)); \ } while (0) /* Wrap new method names in quotes so the assembler doesn't gag. Make Objective-C internal symbols local. */ #undef ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF #define ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF(FILE,NAME) \ do { if (NAME[0] == '+' || NAME[0] == '-') fprintf (FILE, "\"%s\"", NAME); \ else if (!strncmp (NAME, "_OBJC_", 6)) fprintf (FILE, "L%s", NAME); \ else if (!strncmp (NAME, ".objc_class_name_", 17)) \ fprintf (FILE, "%s", NAME); \ else fprintf (FILE, "_%s", NAME); } while (0) #undef ALIGN_ASM_OP #define ALIGN_ASM_OP ".align" #undef ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN #define ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN(FILE,LOG) \ if ((LOG) != 0) \ fprintf (FILE, "\t%s %d\n", ALIGN_ASM_OP, (LOG)) /* Ensure correct alignment of bss data. */ #undef ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL #define ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL(FILE, NAME, SIZE, ALIGN) \ ( fputs (".lcomm ", (FILE)), \ assemble_name ((FILE), (NAME)), \ fprintf ((FILE), ",%u,%u\n", (SIZE), floor_log2 ((ALIGN) / BITS_PER_UNIT))) /* Output #ident as a .ident. */ #undef ASM_OUTPUT_IDENT #define ASM_OUTPUT_IDENT(FILE, NAME) fprintf (FILE, "\t.ident \"%s\"\n", NAME); /* The maximum alignment which the object file format can support. For NeXT's Mach-O format, this is 2^15. */ #undef MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT #define MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT 0x8000 /* Create new Mach-O sections. */ #undef SECTION_FUNCTION #define SECTION_FUNCTION(FUNCTION, SECTION, DIRECTIVE, WAS_TEXT, OBJC) \ void \ FUNCTION () \ { \ extern void text_section (); \ extern void objc_section_init (); \ extern int flag_no_mach_text_sections; \ \ if (WAS_TEXT && flag_no_mach_text_sections) \ text_section (); \ else if (in_section != SECTION) \ { \ if (OBJC) \ objc_section_init (); \ fprintf (asm_out_file, "%s\n", DIRECTIVE); \ in_section = SECTION; \ } \ } \ #undef EXTRA_SECTIONS #define EXTRA_SECTIONS \ in_const, in_cstring, in_literal4, in_literal8, \ in_constructor, in_destructor, \ in_objc_class, in_objc_meta_class, in_objc_category, \ in_objc_class_vars, in_objc_instance_vars, \ in_objc_cls_meth, in_objc_inst_meth, \ in_objc_cat_cls_meth, in_objc_cat_inst_meth, \ in_objc_selector_refs, \ in_objc_symbols, in_objc_module_info, \ in_objc_protocol, in_objc_string_object, \ in_objc_class_names, in_objc_meth_var_names, \ in_objc_meth_var_types, in_objc_cls_refs #undef EXTRA_SECTION_FUNCTIONS #define EXTRA_SECTION_FUNCTIONS \ SECTION_FUNCTION (const_section, \ in_const, \ ".const", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (cstring_section, \ in_cstring, \ ".cstring", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (literal4_section, \ in_literal4, \ ".literal4", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (literal8_section, \ in_literal8, \ ".literal8", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (constructor_section, \ in_constructor, \ ".constructor", 0, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (destructor_section, \ in_destructor, \ ".destructor", 0, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_class_section, \ in_objc_class, \ ".objc_class", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_meta_class_section, \ in_objc_meta_class, \ ".objc_meta_class", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_category_section, \ in_objc_category, \ ".objc_category", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_class_vars_section, \ in_objc_class_vars, \ ".objc_class_vars", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_instance_vars_section, \ in_objc_instance_vars, \ ".objc_instance_vars", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cls_meth_section, \ in_objc_cls_meth, \ ".objc_cls_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_inst_meth_section, \ in_objc_inst_meth, \ ".objc_inst_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cat_cls_meth_section, \ in_objc_cat_cls_meth, \ ".objc_cat_cls_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cat_inst_meth_section, \ in_objc_cat_inst_meth, \ ".objc_cat_inst_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_selector_refs_section, \ in_objc_selector_refs, \ ".objc_message_refs", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_symbols_section, \ in_objc_symbols, \ ".objc_symbols", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_module_info_section, \ in_objc_module_info, \ ".objc_module_info", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_protocol_section, \ in_objc_protocol, \ ".objc_protocol", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_string_object_section, \ in_objc_string_object, \ ".objc_string_object", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_class_names_section, \ in_objc_class_names, \ ".objc_class_names", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_meth_var_names_section, \ in_objc_meth_var_names, \ ".objc_meth_var_names", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_meth_var_types_section, \ in_objc_meth_var_types, \ ".objc_meth_var_types", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cls_refs_section, \ in_objc_cls_refs, \ ".objc_cls_refs", 0, 1) \ \ void \ objc_section_init () \ { \ static int been_here = 0; \ \ if (been_here == 0) \ { \ been_here = 1; \ objc_class_section (); \ objc_meta_class_section (); \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ objc_cat_inst_meth_section (); \ objc_cls_meth_section (); \ objc_inst_meth_section (); \ objc_selector_refs_section (); \ objc_symbols_section (); \ objc_category_section (); \ objc_protocol_section (); \ objc_class_vars_section (); \ objc_instance_vars_section (); \ objc_module_info_section (); \ objc_string_object_section (); \ objc_class_names_section (); \ objc_meth_var_names_section (); \ objc_meth_var_types_section (); \ objc_cls_refs_section (); \ } \ } #undef READONLY_DATA_SECTION #define READONLY_DATA_SECTION const_section #undef SELECT_SECTION #define SELECT_SECTION(exp,reloc) \ do \ { \ if (TREE_CODE (exp) == STRING_CST) \ { \ if (flag_writable_strings) \ data_section (); \ else if (TREE_STRING_LENGTH (exp) != \ strlen (TREE_STRING_POINTER (exp)) + 1) \ readonly_data_section (); \ else \ cstring_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == INTEGER_CST \ || TREE_CODE (exp) == REAL_CST) \ { \ tree size = TYPE_SIZE (TREE_TYPE (exp)); \ \ if (TREE_CODE (size) == INTEGER_CST && \ TREE_INT_CST_LOW (size) == 4 && \ TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (size) == 0) \ literal4_section (); \ else if (TREE_CODE (size) == INTEGER_CST && \ TREE_INT_CST_LOW (size) == 8 && \ TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (size) == 0) \ literal8_section (); \ else \ readonly_data_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == CONSTRUCTOR \ && TREE_TYPE (exp) \ && TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (exp)) == RECORD_TYPE \ && TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp)) \ && TREE_CODE (TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp))) == IDENTIFIER_NODE \ && IDENTIFIER_POINTER (TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp)))) \ { \ if (!strcmp (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp))), \ "NXConstantString")) \ objc_string_object_section (); \ else if ((TREE_READONLY (exp) || TREE_CONSTANT (exp)) \ && !TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (exp)) \ readonly_data_section (); \ else \ data_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == VAR_DECL && \ DECL_NAME (exp) && \ TREE_CODE (DECL_NAME (exp)) == IDENTIFIER_NODE && \ IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_NAME (exp)) && \ !strncmp (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_NAME (exp)), "_OBJC_", 6)) \ { \ const char *name = IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_NAME (exp)); \ \ if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_METHODS_", 20)) \ objc_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_INSTANCE_METHODS_", 23)) \ objc_inst_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CATEGORY_CLASS_METHODS_", 20)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CATEGORY_INSTANCE_METHODS_", 23)) \ objc_cat_inst_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_VARIABLES_", 22)) \ objc_class_vars_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_INSTANCE_VARIABLES_", 25)) \ objc_instance_vars_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_PROTOCOLS_", 22)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_NAME_", 17)) \ objc_class_names_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_METH_VAR_NAME_", 20)) \ objc_meth_var_names_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_METH_VAR_TYPE_", 20)) \ objc_meth_var_types_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_REFERENCES", 22)) \ objc_cls_refs_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_", 12)) \ objc_class_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_METACLASS_", 16)) \ objc_meta_class_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CATEGORY_", 15)) \ objc_category_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_SELECTOR_REFERENCES", 25)) \ objc_selector_refs_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_SYMBOLS", 13)) \ objc_symbols_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_MODULES", 13)) \ objc_module_info_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_INSTANCE_METHODS_", 32)) \ objc_cat_inst_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_CLASS_METHODS_", 29)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_REFS_", 20)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_", 15)) \ objc_protocol_section (); \ else if ((TREE_READONLY (exp) || TREE_CONSTANT (exp)) \ && !TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (exp)) \ readonly_data_section (); \ else \ data_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == VAR_DECL) \ { \ if ((flag_pic && reloc) \ || !TREE_READONLY (exp) || TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (exp) \ || !DECL_INITIAL (exp) \ || (DECL_INITIAL (exp) != error_mark_node \ && !TREE_CONSTANT (DECL_INITIAL (exp)))) \ data_section (); \ else \ readonly_data_section (); \ } \ else \ readonly_data_section (); \ } \ while (0) #undef SELECT_RTX_SECTION #define SELECT_RTX_SECTION(mode, rtx) \ do \ { \ if (GET_MODE_SIZE(mode) == 8) \ literal8_section(); \ else if (GET_MODE_SIZE(mode) == 4) \ literal4_section(); \ else \ const_section (); \ } \ while (0) --------------446B794B15FB--
From: tyf@primenet.com (Tin-Yau Fung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help!] : Triple boot on 2 disk Date: 17 Feb 1997 11:25:05 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5ea7q1$6qn@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Hi, I have placed an order for an Intel system to run NS 3.3 I am going to have a new 2.1 gig hard disk , but I also want to use my old 500 MB hard disk. I am thinking of partitioning the 2.1 gig drive to run NeXTSTEP and Linux, and the second drive with NT. My question is whether it's possible to install a bootable OS on a non-primary disk? The 2.1G disk I am going to have would be SCSI=0 disk. Is it possible to boot an OS from a SCSI=1 disk? Pointers appreciated. Thanks a lot. -- --------------------------- Tin-Yau Fung @ UC Berkeley : tyf@ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu. MIME / NeXT mail welcome! http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tyf
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:05:26 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net Cache-Post-Path: news2.isdnet.net!unknown@ppp43.mon.hol.fr This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>) by Frank M. Siegert: > In <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > > Sure. It works. Thanks! (I'm doing the upgrades manually since I > > don't want to squash my configuration files - not a big deal! but... > > =:=@) ) > > > > Hopefully this means your happy factor has increased :) Yes but still puzzled! (For the ones not using CAP, this "smilie" comes from: << # Showing Network entities... Looking for =:=@ >> > > You may try to 'feed' in your values to aarpd and atis by maintaining > a '/etc/atalk.local' file: > Sure, I've seen it in Man pages. I've already tried it. And even retried it after reading your post but it just doesn't work. From what I understand, CAP is configured to work with a seeding Apple router. It can not seed by itself. More if I wanted to configure the Apple router (in my case the software "Apple Internet Router") with the same strange values that UAR choose , it's not possible since they are out of the configurable range! (according "uar.cookbook": 5. Decide on whether or not you are going to run UAR as a "seed router". That is, if UAR is to be configured with details of your local AppleTalk network or is to determine information empirically from the network. For UAR to function as a "seed router", you must create a uar.conf file that contains network number(s) and zone name(s) for each of the participating ethernet interfaces on your UAR host (see the sample uar.conf provided). The information in uar.conf *must* be identical to the configuration in any other AppleTalk routers on the local networks, this is not optional! Normally your campus/institution network manager is the best source of such information. 6. If you are absolutely certain that there are no other local AppleTalk routers then you may choose numbers for the "network", "networklo" and "networkhi" entries. A "node" entry is optional. Network numbers are 16-bit quantities and can range from 1 to 65534 (the values 65280 to 65534 are reserved as the "startup range" on Phase 2 networks, don't assign a network number in this range). These 16-bit numbers can also be represented as two decimal numbers separated by a dot. In this notation, 56284 is represented as 219.220 (ie: 219 x 256 + 220). The node number is an 8-bit number, the valid range is 1 - 254 on Phase 1 AppleTalk networks and 1 - 253 on Phase 2 AppleTalk networks (assume Phase 2 for recent Macintoshes unless you know otherwise). Node numbers specified for UAR should be towards the high end of the range, ie: 253. You must also choose a zone name or list of zone names for your network, in the latter case specify one of them as the "default" zone name. The interface names are the device names for your ethernet interfaces and can be listed using the command 'netstat -i'. Under AIX, use "ent0", "ent1" rather than the listed "en0", "en1".) For me it looks like that if I want to use the NeXT network as primary network (able to seed the Apple network), I have to use UAR... The problem is that I can not compile it!!! Or else find ***where in the hell*** CAP is looking for the exotic values ("(the values 65280 to 65534 are reserved as the "startup range" on Phase 2 networks, don't assign a network number in this range)") of: netRangeStart 0.00 netRangeEnd 255.254 thisNet 255.00 bridgeNet 0.00 bridgeNode 0 mc
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 17 Feb 1997 19:39:57 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5eac6d$fp6@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> Cc: mic@micmac.com In <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > For me it looks like that if I want to use the NeXT network as > primary network (able to seed the Apple network), I have to use > UAR... > The problem is that I can not compile it!!! You can get a patched version of the UAR source from the ftp site of Satoshi Adachi (who did the BPF port) ftp://ftp.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp/pub/adachi/bpf_NeXT/ If you cannot compile it yourself will set it up and upload it to my page in the next days for you... just tell me. > Or else find ***where in the hell*** CAP is looking for the exotic > values > ("(the values 65280 to 65534 are reserved as the > "startup range" on Phase 2 networks, don't > assign a network number in this range)") of: > netRangeStart 0.00 > netRangeEnd 255.254 > thisNet 255.00 > bridgeNet 0.00 > bridgeNode 0 > This is set to the default values in support/ethertalk/aarpd.c (around line124), it will probe for the current values in init_enet() (also in aarpd.c). -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 17 Feb 1997 20:10:01 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5eadup$ftc@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> <5eac6d$fp6@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Now I got my hands on the UAR 1.0 source I stumbled upon its licence which clearly states that it may not be redistributed (that's the reason it is unbundled from CAP methinks). I have asked for permission, but without I cannot put a binary UAR on my site... Let's wait and see. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NT Boot Loader loading NS3.3 ? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:19:33 -0600 Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK Message-ID: <330949F5.E3F@okstate.edu> References: <5dr5n5$8i1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kai S. Wong wrote: > > Anyone manage to load NS3.3 on different partition using NT Boot Loader? > If yes, please give me pointer how to do it. http://genesis.rz.uni-hildesheim.de/~ttoe0057/nextsdwx.html -- Bill Keller (kellerw@okstate.edu) ---------------------------------
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 4.0/4.1 drivers on 3.3? Date: 17 Feb 1997 14:06:05 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5e9okd$dbi@news.next.com> References: <5e82d3$89v@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In article <5e82d3$89v@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) writes: #Do the 4.0/4.1 OS drivers work for NS3.3? Generally, NO. joe
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: 17 Feb 1997 14:11:33 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5e9oul$dcr@news.next.com> References: <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> In article <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) writes: #Hi folks. I have a problem with DNS resolution .. I have 3 DNS #servers defined in /etc/resolv.conf. The first is to my local DNS, #the second to one ISPs DNS and the third to another ISPs DNS. If I #connect to either ISP, DNS lookups don't work. But, if I go into #nslookup and point it directly at one of my ISPs DNS servers, it #resolves it. That's your first problems. The list if servers in /etc/resolv.conf is not search order, but a list of (ordered) alternative servers. If the resolver library can talk to the first server on the list, it won't try any of the others. It only attempts to contact the [second,third] server on the list if it can't reach the first one. #So, depending on which ISP I connect to, I change my /etc/resolv.conf #to have only that ISPs DNS server in it. Then, by sending a HUP to #the nibindd, it should restart and reload info from /etc/resolv.conf, #no? Why doesn't this seem to work? Any thoughts? Wrong daemon. nibindd is the NetInfo binder daemon. You want to restart lookupd. joe
From: "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring the sendmail Date: 17 Feb 1997 16:07:38 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5e9voa$ctj@concorde.ctp.com> Hey Folks! Currently my From: field has the following format username@hostname.domainname I would like to have it in the following format: username@domainname What should I do? Thanks -- georg -- -- ------- /\/\ Georg Tuparev <georg_tuparev@ctp.com> / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners \ / / Apollo House, Apollolaan 15 \/\/ 1077 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31(20)575-0492 Fax: +31(20)575-0500 WWW: http://www.ctp.com
From: Peter Cushing <vkoser@biggun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:04:52 -0800 Organization: None Message-ID: <3308F224.7DB3@biggun.com> References: <5eabjl$s4f@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jon Haveman wrote: > A friend of mine is in the process of setting up my NeXT to be a name > server for a couple of domain names. He has done this with a couple of > SGI computers and says he had no problem. He is struggling a little bit > with my NeXT. Says he read the man page and did the stuff he knows to > do, but that it isn't working. > I know that that isn't very much information, but does anybody know if > there is anything non-standard, or tricky with respect to setting this up > on a NeXT. I'm currently using NS3.3 if that matters. > Thanks in advance. > Cheers - jon ok, here is some more info on where I (the friend) am at with the setup. I have created the named.boot file and setup the db file for the domain that jon wishes to be the authoratative name server for. I then start named as I would normally and it shows up in the process table but returns this error when I query his machine for the new domain. xx are real numbers I'm just paranoid so I replaced them. [root]:/Users/vince > nslookup foo.org 128.210.xx.xx *** Can't find server name for address 128.210.xx.xx: Server failed *** Default servers are not available [root]:/Users/vince > so, it looks as though named is not even running. it is running though. does anyone know if there is a special way of running named that just running it as root won't work? thanks for any help. vince
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:37:55 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 17-Feb-97 samba functionality on next? by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > disk and printer sharing) from the host. NeXT's ship with NFS and lpd. Look up those topics in the man pages, Librarian.app and NeXT's Sysadmin docs, and/or your favorite O'Reilly reference manuals. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT '040 cube & DAT drives Message-ID: <E5qDMK.2L4@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5e27hd$emb@hpax.cup.hp.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 04:54:19 GMT In article <5e27hd$emb@hpax.cup.hp.com> klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) writes: > For those who have '040 non-turbo NeXTs and backup your systems > to DAT drives: when backing up, does your DAT drive stream or > does it write, stop, write, stop, etc? > > I've found that when I'm backing up my drive, it doesn't stream > as much as I would like. Every 5-10 seconds, the drive hesitates > and it's not good for its longevity. During backup, the system > is in single user mode, I run mtset -i prior to using dump with > the following options: 0ufs /dev/rst0 75000 /, using a 60m tape. > Throughput speed is roughly 25MB/minute, and I know the drive is > capable of much faster operation--on my Mac, its throughput is > around 35MB/minute. My drive on my NeXT hovers at around 800K/sec > but the 25MB/minute equates to 420K/sec. I tried using the default > 1600bpi and 6250bpi option, both giving me the same results. > > The DAT drive is a Sony SDT-7000. Cube has 28MB RAM. Haven't tried > tar. When untarring stuff form a DAT tape I write in the office, > it streams fine, which leads me to believe I'm doing something > wrong on the NeXT end when I backup. Oh yeah, my HD is formatted > at 512bytes/sector, and it's approximately half full; running 3.2. > > Any ideas? > Possibly not an idea but another observation. Mine (25MHz slab with HP-DAT) went the like until I began using SafetyNet, a hellufan app! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: 17 Feb 1997 19:29:57 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5eabjl$s4f@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> A friend of mine is in the process of setting up my NeXT to be a name server for a couple of domain names. He has done this with a couple of SGI computers and says he had no problem. He is struggling a little bit with my NeXT. Says he read the man page and did the stuff he knows to do, but that it isn't working. I know that that isn't very much information, but does anybody know if there is anything non-standard, or tricky with respect to setting this up on a NeXT. I'm currently using NS3.3 if that matters. Thanks in advance. Cheers - jon -- Jon Haveman http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@mgmt.purdue.edu Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disk mounting (or not) question Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:43:25 -0600 Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK Message-ID: <3309336D.23D2@okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have two SCSI disks, one formatted for Nextstep, the other for NT using NTFS. Everytime I boot Nextstep, I get the "SCSI disk is unreadable, do you want to initialize?" panel. Is there anyway to force Nextstep to stop looking at this disk on startup? -- Bill Keller (kellerw@okstate.edu) ---------------------------------
From: carlisle@juncol.juniata.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking Error Message-ID: <1997Feb17.223536.2312@juncol.juniata.edu> Date: 17 Feb 97 22:35:36 -0500 Organization: Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA -- USA I am having problems getting my machine back from networking errors. I gave my NeXT a faulty network setting, and now it is hanging on retrying the communications with the network. The manual states to hit Command-~(tilda) to interrupt the boot in the ROM Monitor stage and boot single user, but the Command-tilda key combination doesn't work. I've used Command-Alternate before, but now that doesn't work either. Any ideas? Please e-mail. -Bill Carlisle carlisle@juniata.edu
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 18 Feb 1997 06:47:03 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5ebj97$p5a@gaea.titan.org> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> In article <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com>, Don Yacktman wrote: > > I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) and EIDE > CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've been trying to get it > to play audio CDs, but it refuses to cooperate. I cannot get it to work with > CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a > similar configuration and has been able to make this work. (I sent this to Don via email, but I thought it might be of more general interest, and actually, I'm hoping that someone who knows more about SCSI/ATAPI programming might be able to help me.) You might try removing OmniCD (or moving it to some place where the system won't try to autolaunch it), then pop in your audio cd. (You'll generally need to log out and log back in to get the system to stop trying to launch OmniCD.) If all goes well, CDPlayer will autolaunch and open the cd normally. (I've not experimented with this very much.) OmniCD has two (known) problems with ATAPI cdrom drives: The first is that OmniCD currently scans the SCSI bus looking for cdrom devices, and at the same time builds a map between physical SCSI ids and logical ids. I'm checking whether or not there's a device at a given ID by opening the generic SCSI device, setting the appropriate target id (I always use LUN 0 here, which is why OmniCD doesn't work on other LUNs), and then clearing unit attention (via a Request Sense). That Request Sense fails on ATAPI devices (not sure why - I thought that one would work), so I go back thinking there's no device on that ID. (If I ignore failure on the Request Sense, I go back thinking there's a device on _every_ ID.) I don't know much about SCSI/ATAPI programming, so if anyone tells me the correct way to do this, I'll fix it. Rakesh Dubey could probably help me here, but I've been unable to contact him. The second problem is that the commands for changing volume are different on EIDE devices, so even when I set it up so I can address an ATAPI device, I can't change the volume. I expect I could Again, any clues here would be appreciated. I imagine that the reason CDPlayer can work with ATAPI drives is that it doesn't scan the bus - it just tries to open whatever device the system tells it to when an audio cd is mounted. I haven't tested whether or not CDPlayer can change the audio volume for ATAPI cdrom drives, but I suspect it can or I would have probably heard otherwise. Note that even CDPlayer will require an ATAPI drive - not just any EIDE cdrom drive will work. -andrew -- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: UK NeXTSTEP-user group meeting: 20 February 1997 Date: 18 Feb 1997 11:15:08 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5ec2vs$18d@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Sorry about short notice, and for brevity of this message: Luke Howard of Xedoc is currently in the UK, and has kindly consented to give a talk about NetInfo (which will then lead to a discussion about other aspects of "recent events" :-) at 6:00pm on Thursday 20 February at Complete Works 399 Strand, London. (Just above Stanley Gibbons) 0171 836 0808 Many thanks to Jackie Mackay of Complete Works for agreeing to host this at short notice. Could you please let me know if you're likely to attend. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INETD or XINETD source? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:25:40 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <3308A2A4.1294@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Anyone know where I can find source code for INETD or XINETD that will compile under NS 3.3. ?? I need to up the nunber of allowed connections per minute. I'm running into the 40 connection "looping" limit once in a while. Email would be best, thanks in advance! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- James R. Pooton <james@digisys.net> President/Technical Director DigiSys Incorporated
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail 8.8.5 dbopen problem Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 03:44:02 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When I try to send mail (I recently upgraded to sendmail 8.8.5), I get the message in my console: sendmail[5047]:dbopen(/etc/sendmail/userdb.db): Invalid argument any ideas? I'm on NS 3.3 Intel, and am not using the sendmail.cw file. Thanks in advance. -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University Time keeps slipping into the future... ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: samba functionality on next? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:52:06 +0100 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello All, Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie disk and printer sharing) from the host. Is there a package out there to help? Please CC my private mail address on replies. Thanks a lot, Paul Doornbusch
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q. How copy boot disk to new disk, including DOS partition? Date: 18 Feb 1997 09:49:33 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5ebtve$5a0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I plan to get a new 2 GB hard disk, and I want to simply copy to the new disk my existing 1 GB boot disk in its entirety, which includes a DOS partition and the boot block. In reading the NeXT documentation and FAQs, it is not clear to me whether (or how) ditto, dump, or BuildDisk will do this. Any definitive answers on how this is done will be greatly appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Standalone POP3 server anyone? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:22:32 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <3309E558.3364@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anyone using a standalone POP3 server under NeXTStep? (*NOT through inetd) Anyone gotten "cucipop" to compile successfully? Any thoughts would be appreciated, email if poosible. Thanks! -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- James R. Pooton <james@digisys.net>
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:17:56 +0100 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> NFS is not what I wanted, an SMB server is really the answer. I think the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. Paul On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 17-Feb-97 samba > functionality on next? by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > > disk and printer sharing) from the host. > > NeXT's ship with NFS and lpd. Look up those topics in the man pages, > Librarian.app and NeXT's Sysadmin docs, and/or your favorite O'Reilly > reference manuals. > > -Chuck > > > Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- > I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist. > > > Paul Doornbusch Sonology Dept. Royal Conservatory Den Haag The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: file ownership Message-ID: <E5t9Lq.E7A@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:20:14 GMT References: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: > I'm having a problem with file ownership. > My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. > However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep changing > ownership to my account . > ... > So my questions are: Why does it keep changing ownership? > How can I make the ownership sticky (remain root)? > What caused this problem, so I can prevent it in the future. Typically this is caused by not having an entry for the disk in your /etc/fstab file. If Workspace notices a SCSI disk which isn't specifically mentioned in your fstab, it assumes that it is a temporary disk which you want mounted in the same manner as a floppy. The disk is mounted using the permissions of the current user logged in. If this is the cause of your problem, you can simply add a line like the following to /etc/fstab, so that the disk will be a permanent part of your machine's set of file systems: /dev/sd1a /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 assuming you want the disk mounted as /LocalApps. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fdisk broken in 4.0 installation? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:57:49 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <330A09BD.46F1@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've installed OPENSTEP 4.0 about six times and seem to come accross the following problem. If I partition the disk at the beginning of the installation proceedure (I created a 150MB DOS partition), all goes fine until the very end of the installation. I get the error messages posted below. However if I use the entire disk for OPENSTEP, or if I use Linux to partition the disk first, then install OPENSTEP on an unused partition, all goes fine. I get these error messages when I use OPENSTEP's installation diskette to partition the disk: Installing /usr/bin/fgrepsd1: No error to report; Retrying target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4>..... sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 IO error on pagein (breadDirect) /usr/bin/fgrep: Bad address sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:228 blockCount:1 completed The hard disk is ready to use as the startup disk to complete installing OPENSTEP. Remove the disk from the floppy disk drive and then press return. (At this point I removed the floppy, hit Return, and got this message when it restarted) Error 1 reading bitmap from /usr/standalone/i386/Panel.image' Could not load all bitmaps; using test mode. Loading OPENSTEP Can't find mach_kernel Error 1 reading bitmap from /usr/standalone/i386/Panel.image' Could not load all bitmaps; using test mode. Loading OPENSTEP Can't find mach_kernel boot: I reinstalled several times before using Linux to partition the disk first. Then the installation went fine. --Greg
From: 6jim@acb2.cgs.edu (Jim Kieley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UNIX "cut"command Date: 18 Feb 1997 18:35:11 GMT Organization: The Claremont Colleges Message-ID: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> I'm trying to use a front end to the SWISH indexing engine called WWWWais. The indexing script calls the "cut" command which I find on our Solaris boxes but not as part of NeXT/Openstep. > foreach pathname (`du $rootdir | cut -f2 | tail -r`) Is there an alternative I can easily use or has someone compiled "cut" for Motorla hardware? Thanks! Jim Kieley jim@cgs.edu
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rumba and NT4.0 workstation question. Date: 18 Feb 97 16:45:27 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.97Feb18164527@howard.one.net> Why ask this question on a NeXT group? I figure I'm more likely to understand the responses. OK, so I'm not an NT guru. Got samba. Compiled it. Works fine. Can mount my NeXT files onto the NT system. Got rumba, compiled it. Now I can mount my samba-exported home directory from my ISP. I _can't_ mount shared files from the NT system, though. Not sure why. I can "mount" the shared files from the NT system onto itself just fine, though I doubt that's a valid test of any sort (everything seems to work fine, I just don't necessarily believe it's working :-). Only have the one NT machine here, so I can't test whether it can export to another successfully. After asking for my password, rumba says: Kernel: smb_receive_raw: Invalid packet 0x83 Kernel: smb_receive: receive error: -5 Kernel: smb_proc_connect: Failed to send SESSION REQUEST. error connecting to server: [5] I/O error Anyone have any clues? Makes no difference if I use my compiled binary or the pre-compiled m68k binary off the net. Unfortunately, I can't test whether it works for Intel, because the Intel machine is also the NT machine :-). [But, hey, it works for the ISP's samba ...] Thanks for any help, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: marsu@hh.home.netcs.com (Henrik Hempelmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX "cut"command Date: 18 Feb 1997 23:07:13 +0100 Organization: Palumbian Networks Message-ID: <5ed96h$f8u$1@hh.home.netcs.com> References: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jim Kieley writes: >I'm trying to use a front end to the SWISH indexing engine called WWWWais. >The indexing script calls the "cut" command which I find on our Solaris boxes >but not as part of NeXT/Openstep. >> foreach pathname (`du $rootdir | cut -f2 | tail -r`) > Is there an alternative I can easily use or has someone compiled "cut" for >Motorla hardware? Thanks! "cut" is part of the "GNU textutils" - compiles on NeXT right out of the box. henrik -- Henrik Hempelmann marsu@in-berlin.de (NeXT/MIME/PGP-Mail) http://home.pages.de/~marsu/ individual network berlin - internet von privat fuer privat
From: Buddy Cox <buddyc@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Color Printer Msg Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 11:49:58 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <32FA19C6.B7C@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to configure a newly acquired NeXT Color Printer and really need some good advice! I have installed the printer (running Openstep 4.1 on a turbo color), cabled it up and have run a test page (through the selection panel on the printer) which seems to work okay. However, when I boot up and attempt to print a test page from printmanager or from an application I get the message "printer is offline/unavailable." I have switched out SCSI cables, etc. on the hardware side. Was wondering if I have overlooked anything? It is a non-networked (at this point) printer. And I have attached it to several other standalone machines running 3.2, 3.3 and 4.1 with no luck. Any feedback would be GREATLY appreciated! Buddy
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:47:13 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kn2Xy1y00iWSMDUcE8@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 18-Feb-97 Re: samba functionality on .. by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > NFS is not what I wanted, an SMB server is really the answer. I think > the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank > Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under > /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. If you're motivated, you could always configure the software as you see fit and release it to the Internet at large. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Message-ID: <E5sy3E.2K9@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:11:37 GMT In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> writes: > Hello All, > > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > disk and printer sharing) from the host. > > Is there a package out there to help? > > Please CC my private mail address on replies. > Thanks a lot, > > Paul Doornbusch > Hi Paul, You are right, Samba does provide file and printer sharing functionality. So your Windows PCs (except Windows 3.1-PCs, there are, as far as I know, some problems) will be able to access your Nextstep PC's hard drives and printers. As far as I know, there isn't any precompiled samba-package for NS 3.3, but it is (after a little source modification) no problem to compile at least Samba v1.9.16p9 for NS 3.3 quad-fat. This is the version I have already compiled at our company and it is working fine since set-up. You can get the sources for example at http://lake.canberra.edu.au/samba or /pub/samba, I don't quite remember. If you would like me to email you the samba package I have already compiled, please drop me a note (Installer package size is about 2.5MB). Robert. ========================================================================= Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany =========================================================================
From: maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP + SAMBA '030 cube binaries? Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:28:57 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5edl0p$ekg$1@cheyenne.iac.net> Looking for CAP and SAMBA binaries for a '030 cube running NS 2.2. Unfortunately I lack the original media distribution, and also lack a development c compiler.... Anyone able to help with this? We have a printer just waiting to be shared with some Win95 and mac boxes... TIA! J. Maynard Gelinas
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX "cut"command Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:19:43 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gn2ZIji00iWp0GT8E0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Feb-97 UNIX "cut"command by Jim Kieley) > > foreach pathname (`du $rootdir | cut -f2 | tail -r`) > > Is there an alternative I can easily use or has someone compiled "cut" for > Motorla hardware? Thanks! You can build the GNU version off of ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/textutils-1.21.tar.gz (or a later version). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: allman@pat.mdc.com (Mark Allman ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem making perl5.003 Date: 18 Feb 1997 23:12:26 GMT Organization: McDonnell Douglas, Houston Division Message-ID: <5edd0q$9qe@cisu2.jsc.nasa.gov> References: <5e8104$p1d@netnews.upenn.edu> In article <5e8104$p1d@netnews.upenn.edu>, kazdan@hans.math.upenn.edu (Jerry L. Kazdan) writes: |> I am attempting to make perl 5.003 on NeXT (black) running NeXTSTEP 3.2 |> (Developer). |> |> I ran "Configure" using only the default values. Then I ran |> "make". After a while I got a "Segmentation fault". |> Here is the last part of the log from running "make": |> |> .....(snip)..... |> `sh cflags libperl.a globals.o` globals.c |> CCCMD = cc -c -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -O |> rm -f libperl.a |> ar rcu libperl.a perl.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o \ |> mg.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.odoop.o \ |> doio.o regexec.o taint.o deb.o globals.o |> cc -u libsys_s -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/gnu/lib -o miniperl |> miniperlmain.o libperl.a -ldbm |> ./miniperl configpm tmp |> sh mv-if-diff tmp lib/Config.pm |> ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2html.PL |> Extracting pod2html (with variable substitutions) |> *** Segmentation fault |> *** `pod/pod2html' removed |> Stop. |> |> |> Any hints on how I can fix this? |> |> -- Jerry Execute ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2html.PL at the command line. I believe that'll work. Then just type "make" to continue the build. I ran into the same thing (I think). I'm trying to build on OpenStep 4.1 and am running into even worse problems. -- Mark Allman -- Sr. Engineer, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, allman@pat.mdc.com -- Software consulting (Perl, C, Python, ...), ghost@ghost.neosoft.com -- (see: http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/5857.html)
From: jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 18 Feb 1997 22:26:15 -0800 Organization: Blarg! Online Services - 206/441-9109 Message-ID: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> Keywords: stumped I have an OPENSTEP 4.1 question. How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? I know how to use the Tools Inspector to show which apps OPENSTEP thinks can open the particular file type and to set the default application for that file type, but what if an application doesn't show up in the list the Tools Inspector displays? Is there any way to force the application to be "discovered" by the Tools Inspector? Specifically, I am running some FAX software that generates TIFF files. However, it calls them <blahblahblah>.tif. The only apps that the Tools Inspector claims can open a .tif file are IconBuilder, Edit, and WM. If I rename the file to be <blahblahblah>.tiff, then Preview shows up in the list of applications. I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set Preview as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? Thank you for any help, Jon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Wright jwright@blarg.net voice 206-635-0338 fax 206-635-0339 I'm a potato and I'm so hip http://www.blarg.net/~jwright
From: "Trey McClendon" <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from NT to NeXTprinter? Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:47:09 GMT Organization: Ongoing Message-ID: <01bc1e06$d0951700$699193d0@tgm.hiwaay.net> References: <5dro2r$fcq@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM> <856045067.25358@dejanews.com> I've had some excellent success with the Adobe Postscript driver in conjunction with the NeXT Laserprinter PPD file also available at Adobe. I don't know if it runs on NT, though. It might be worth checking out. See the www.adobe.com site for more details. trey john@nextdoor.com wrote in article <856045067.25358@dejanews.com>... > In article <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM>, > Eric_Noyau@next.com (Eric Noyau) wrote: > > > > (Munch...) > > > > You have to check the 'page independence' switch somewhere in one of the > > NT configuration panel. Right click on your printer, and click on > > 'document defaults'/Advanced/'Postscript options'/'Page independence'. > > > > That should do the trick. > > > IT WORKS!!! > > Well, for the most part anyway. I still get an occasional PostScript > error when printing a subset of the pages in an MS Word document, and I > got a "WindowServer[202]: nxpd_PageProc: can't print page: invalid port" > error in the middle of a multi-page document once, but compared to being > able to print only one page at a time, I can live with errors like these > occasionally. > > Eric, THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU! I was wrestling with this problem > for weeks, and was just getting ready to go out and buy a new laser > printer for the PC. You saved me 700 bucks! > > John > john@nextdoor.com > > -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet >
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.8.5 dbopen problem Date: 19 Feb 1997 03:55:21 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5edtj9$6vu@news2.cais.com> References: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> sendmail is expecting a user database. The sendmail doc in /etc/sendmail/doc discusses the format. You basically create a text file with the following info: # cat /etc/sendmail/userdb eadubie:mailname Eric_Dubiel Eric_Dubiel:maildrop eadubie then run "makemap" on it to create /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. Restart sendmail and all will work fine. -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: root@h0010112.smith.ilstu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.8.5 dbopen problem Date: 19 Feb 1997 07:08:06 GMT Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <5ee8sm$ct4@thor.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <5edtj9$6vu@news2.cais.com> Keywords: sendmail, dbopen, error, bug Cc: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In <5edtj9$6vu@news2.cais.com> Robert La Ferla expressed: > sendmail is expecting a user database. The sendmail doc in > /etc/sendmail/doc discusses the format. You basically create a text > file with the following info: > > # cat /etc/sendmail/userdb > eadubie:mailname Eric_Dubiel > Eric_Dubiel:maildrop eadubie > > then run "makemap" on it to create /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. Restart > sendmail and all will work fine. Hmm, currently I have: #[many comment lines deleted] root:mailname eadubie@ilstu.edu eadubie:mailname eadubie@ilstu.edu eadubie:maildrop eadubie@ilstu.edu eadubie:fullname Eric A. Dubiel Can you see any problems here? I want the setup to be where I get my mail at my RS6000 account- eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu and so I can send mail from my NS 3.3 Intel box. Could those comment lines be fudging things up? Thx! -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702181628.LAA11746@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: bf0391bca8f0170f270742e305f583ff - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 97 11:28:34 -0500 Subject: Re: Configuring the sendmail Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: bf0391bca8f0170f270742e305f583ff - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> Original Date: 17 Feb 1997 16:07:38 GMT > Currently my From: field has the following format > username@hostname.domainname > > I would like to have it in the following format: > username@domainname > > What should I do? If using 3.3 you can use the Expert preferences and add your own header. From username@domainname (no ":" in there) Or you can use the new sendmail and the instructions (which are linked to http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/) for setting it up that way. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702181640.LAA11956@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 898ac1f003be7f8e61765076415cfa25 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 97 11:40:00 -0500 Subject: Re: disk mounting (or not) question Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 898ac1f003be7f8e61765076415cfa25 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> Original Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:43:25 -0600 > Is there anyway to force Nextstep to stop looking at this disk on > startup? Under NS 3.3 there is an entry for 'ignore' in 'man fstab' which some have reported does not work for them and others have said does. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: Lars Immisch <immisch@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:13:06 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <3309AAE2.7BBA@pobox.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Paul Doornbusch wrote: > > Hello All, > > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > disk and printer sharing) from the host. Samba - ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba - compiles on NS 3.3 without problems. You have to edit the Makefile, but there is a section explaining what you have to do for NS 3.x. If you follow them, it should compile fine. > Is there a package out there to help? Not as a package... But it's easy to build. > Please CC my private mail address on replies. > Thanks a lot, > > Paul Doornbusch Lars -- mailto:immisch@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~immisch Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: Sharad Shanbhag <shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing PPD file for NeXT Laser Printer in NT 4.0 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:21:15 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <330A9BDB.26AB@neuro.med.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------1513FF33836" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1513FF33836 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was finally able to install a PPD file for my unsupported printer on my NT 4.0 system. Since this is poorly documented (at least on the Microsoft web site), I thought I'd summarize what I did. The idea for this came from a posting to comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware by Gerald Gordon. My configuration: NT 4.0 printing via lpr/lpd over ethernet to a NeXT Laser Printer on a NeXTstation (UNIX box for those unfamiliar with NeXT systems) 1) Obtain an NT 4.0 Postscript printer driver from somewhere (I got mine from www.codonics.com as per Mr. Gordon's post) 2) Unzip the downloaded driver package into a directory. The directory should contain the following files (these are form the Codonics driver package: layout.xxx np1600.inf np1600.ppd pscript.dll pscript.hlp pscriptui.dll If another Postscript printer is installed on your system, the files pscript.dll, pscript.hlp, pscript.dll may also be copied from %systemroot%\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 It is CRITICAL that layout.xxx and the .inf file be present. If the layout.xxx file is missing, the print driver installer barfs and gives you the message "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." 3) Delete the np1600.ppd file and replace it with the ppd file you want to install (in my case, nxnlp2_1.ppd downloaded from www.adobe.com). 4) Edit the .inf file, correcting the manufacturer name for your printer, and substitute the name of you ppd file where necessary. Save your changes and enter the print manager. 5) In the add printer wizard, click "have disk" and point the wizard to the directory with your new driver and supporting files. Hopefully, your printer driver is now installed. Getting things to actually _print_ is another matter entirely :) Below, I have included uuencoded copies of the layout.xxx and my nextlp.inf files. Good luck. ================================================================ Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215 Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201 Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu University of Minnesota (NeXT & MIME) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu ================================================================ --------------1513FF33836 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Layout.xxx" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Layout.xxx" [Version] signature="$Windows NT$" ClassGUID={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} ; ; diskid = description,tagfile,unused,subdir ; ;[SourceDisksNames] ;_x = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" ;_1 = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" ;_2 = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" ;_3 = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" [SourceDisksNames.x86] 1 = %wkscd%,,,\i386 ; ; filename_on_source = diskid,subdir,size,checksum,spare,spare ; extra fields are nt-specific ; bootmediaord,targetdirectory,upgradedisposition,textmodedisposition,targetname ; [SourceDisksFiles] pscript.dll = 1,,225792,,,,,11,3 pscript.hlp = 1,,14336,,,,,18,1 pscrptui.dll = 1,,179712,,,,,11,3 [Strings] wkscd = "Windows NT Workstation CD-ROM" --------------1513FF33836 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Nextlp.inf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Nextlp.inf" ; NTPRINT.INF (for SUR) ; ; List of supported printers, manufacturers ; [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" Provider="Microsoft" LayoutFile=layout.xxx ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Class=Printer ; ; Manufacturer section. ; ; This section lists all of the manufacturers ; that we will display in the Dialog box ; [Manufacturer] "NeXT" ; ; Model sections. ; ; Each section here corresponds with an entry listed in the ; [Manufacturer] section, above. The models will be displayed in the order ; that they appear in the INF file. ; [NeXT] "NeXT Laser Printer" = NXNLP2_1.PPD ; ; Installer Sections ; ; These sections control file installation, and reference all files that ; need to be copied. The section name will be assumed to be the driver ; file, unless there is an explicit DriverFile section listed. ; [NXNLP2_1.PPD] CopyFiles=@NXNLP2_1.PPD,PSCRIPT DataSection=PSCRIPT_DATA ; Copy Sections ; ; Lists of files that are actually copied. These sections are referenced ; from the installer sections, above. Only create a section if it contains ; two or more files (if we only copy a single file, identify it in the ; installer section, using the @filename notation) or if it's a color ; profile (since the DestinationDirs can only handle sections, and not ; individual files). ; [PSCRIPT] PSCRIPT.DLL PSCRPTUI.DLL PSCRIPT.HLP ; ; Data Sections ; ; These sections contain data that is shared between devices. ; [PSCRIPT_DATA] DriverFile=PSCRIPT.DLL ConfigFile=PSCRPTUI.DLL HelpFIle=PSCRIPT.HLP ; ; Call SetupSetDirectoryId with 66000 to set the target directory at runtime ; (depending on which environment drivers are getting installed) ; [DestinationDirs] DefaultDestDir=66000 [SourceDisksNames.x86] 1 = "NEXT DISK",,, [SourceDiskFiles] NXNLP2_1.PPD=1 --------------1513FF33836--
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: EOF 1.1 with sybase, what to put in /usr/sybase/interfaces Date: 19 Feb 1997 10:35:24 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Message-ID: <5eel1c$iv@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> Hi, I wanted to demo EOF 1.1 on NS 3.3 with our sybase server on a Solaris machine , but unfortunatly I wasn't able to figure out what to put exactly in /usr/sybase/interfaces? Could some kind soul guide to some docu for this fileor give me some hints? Thank a lot in advance, Wolfgang -- Dipl.-Wirtsch.Inf. Voice: +49 941 943 3205 Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 941 943 3211 Uni Regensburg E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de Universitaetsstr. 31 Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de D-93053 Regensburg (MIME and NeXTmail ok) Germany WWW: http://www-wi.uni-regensburg.de/~row01458/
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:13:30 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5edk3q$ljg@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> <kn2Xy1y00iWSMDUcE8@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <kn2Xy1y00iWSMDUcE8@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 18-Feb-97 Re: samba > functionality on .. by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > > NFS is not what I wanted, an SMB server is really the answer. I think > > the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank > > Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under > > /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. > > If you're motivated, you could always configure the software as you see > fit and release it to the Internet at large. > Will happen hopefully soon. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo pros and cons if turned off Date: 18 Feb 1997 19:21:37 -0800 Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Message-ID: <2rlo8ljxa6.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> References: <m2d8ua2339.fsf@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> writes: > I really want to use this machine as a unix machine, so I would like > to hear experiences, good and bad, relating to turning off NetInfo. I > do not yet know the power of NeXT OS so feel free to give some advice. Our approach has been to work with NetInfo rather than trying to remove it. For example, to accomplish what you want for printcap, prepare printcap the way you're used to. Then (as root) niload -d printcap / < /etc/printcap The same (or similar) can be done for most of the flat Unix files. Try "man" on niload and nidump . Or, look them up in Librarian in the SysAdmin bookshelf. -- 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: whataguy@epix.net (Ben Schaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Book for NeXT networking? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:30:42 -0500 Organization: Metropotamia Inc. Message-ID: <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> Where can one read about all the intricacies of networking one's NeXTs into an enterprise-wide Ethernet? Thanks in advance. Ben Schaffer For Himself
From: ploeger@pedcard.uni-kiel.de (Andreas Ploeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: group id of newly created files on a NFS volume Date: 19 Feb 1997 15:55:03 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Kiel, Germany Message-ID: <5ef7on$12h@infosrv.rz.uni-kiel.de> Usually newly created files inherit the group id of the directory they are created in. For NFS mounted volumes they get the id of the user's default group. Did anybody else observe this? Is this a bug or a feature? Thanks, A. Ploeger -- Dr. Andreas Ploeger Kiel University Phone: +49 431 597 1757 Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology FAX: +49 431 597 1745 or 1831 Schwanenweg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
From: IT Connections <mail@it-connect.com> Newsgroups: uk.jobs.offered,uk.jobs.contract,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT's Web Objects/Enterprise Objects Job - London based. Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:55:00 +0000 Organization: IT Connections Distribution: world Message-ID: <$DHk4GAUJyCzEwjn@it-connect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 NeXT's Web Objects/Enterprise Objects Job - London based. Anyone out there like a job? This is an excellent opportunity to work for one of the coolest companies in the Universe. A developer is required to spearhead the commercialisation of their Web site. This will involve creation of both backend objects via data from an Oracle database and creation of front end dynamic pages using NeXT's Web Objects and Enterprise Objects and HTML. Contractors maybe considered for this role. Salary top pay Contact Andrew Akhurst for an informal discussion or mail CV to him. IT Connections Tel: 01525 840123 98-100 Dunstable Street Fax: 01525 840899 Ampthill Email: mail@it-connect.com Bedfordshire URL: http://www.it-connect.com MK45 2JP
From: amxd@aol.com (Amxd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tcpdump type program for NeXTSTEP? Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:38:22 GMT Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk Message-ID: <19970219203800.PAA04974@ladder02.news.aol.com> Hi, Does anyone have a network program for NS 3.3 which supports tcp packet dumping. I can't compile tcpdump and have not seen any other programs around that can do this kind of stuff? I have used snoop on Solaris which would be great to have on NeXTSTEP. If anyone has an executable they can mail me, that would be great. Please use MIME format as sadly I have to access the net via AOL with Win95. Thanks, Amxd@aol.com
From: jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net (The Rev. James David Meacham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why won't my Color Turbo Station power down Date: 18 Feb 1997 20:42:17 GMT Organization: JLC-net, Milford NH Message-ID: <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> I really do love my color turbo. Problem is, whenever I try to reboot it or shut it down, it hangs, necessitating a break to the ROM monitor, and a 'bsd' from there. I'd like to skip this,. Does any know why it might do this? Thanks in advance. Peace, James -- The Rev. James David Meacham First Unitarian Congregational Society of Wilton Center, NH e-mail:jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net 603-654-9518 (Church) 603-654-9590(Home) 603-654-2248(fax) Church Home Page: http://www.jlc.net/~jmeacham/index.html Personal Home Page: http://www.jlc.net/~jmeacham/jameshome.html
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Book for NeXT networking? Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:44:29 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5efond$i2p@news.next.com> References: <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> In article <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> whataguy@epix.net (Ben Schaffer) writes: > Where can one read about all the intricacies of networking one's NeXTs > into an enterprise-wide Ethernet? > NeXTanswers 2173 NEXTSTEP Networking References <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers> -- Jim Sowers - NeXT Technical Support
From: swill@asic.sc.ti.com (Scott Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Video drivers for TGUI 9440 wanted Date: 18 Feb 1997 15:04:31 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <5ed5gv$avk@concho.asic.sc.ti.com> Does anyone have or know where i can get video drivers for an STB sprintVL board. This board uses the trident TGUI 9440 chipset. The drivers for STB pegasus board is available from next answers, but this does not work with my board. I would like to avoid having to buy another video card if i can help it. Regards, Scott -- ____________________________________________________________________________ \ Scott T. Williams \ P.O. Box 660199 \ e-mail:swill@asic.sc.ti.com / \ Texas Instruments, INC. \ M/S 8664 \ Phone:(972)480-4427 / \ ASIC Test Development \ Dallas, TX 75266 \ Fax:(972)480-4406 /
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: file ownership Date: 18 Feb 1997 17:48:03 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> I'm having a problem with file ownership. My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep changing ownership to my account . Example: /dev/sd1a is mounted as /LocalApps and contains all of my Local Applications (logically). This disk and its contents should be owned by the system - root. However when I do: ls -la / |grep LocalApps I get drwxrwxrwt 50 dave 2048 Feb 17 15:45 LocalApps/ Similarly if I do: ls -la /LocalApps |grep SoftPC I get drwxr-xr-x 18 dave 1024 Jan 19 1996 SoftPC.app/ Now what is confusing me is that these files were initially installed by root and if I change ownership of them by doing: chown -R root /LocalApps chown -R root /LocalApps/SoftPC.app and chown root /LocalApps/* chown root /LocalApps/*/* etc.... eventually the damn files return to my ownership. So my questions are: Why does it keep changing ownership? How can I make the ownership sticky (remain root)? What caused this problem, so I can prevent it in the future.
From: Hergen Eilers <qvi@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Replacement hard drive problems Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:10:42 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5ed61s$be5@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> First, the easier question. What is ment by SCSI Linking be supported or not. SCSI Linking is listed when I look at a SCSI device using AutoSCSI. I have an Adaptec Buslogic BT445C (VL-bus ISA to SCSI bus) host adapter. The computer is a Canon ObjectStation 41. The reason I want to know what SCSI Linking means is that the original hard disk in my computer supported it, the one I am tying to replace it with does not. We have a few other similarly configured computers and I have replaced the drives in some. All of the current drives that work are from the Quantum Fireball series and support SCSI Linking. The new drive that doesn't work is a Seagate ST31051N. These are all Pentium or 486 computers running the NeXTStep 3.3 with the patch. How long should a hard disk last if it is running continually? I have had four that have failed within a year and a half. Three started making a high pitch whining noise. They all had trouble spinning on a restart (especially if I turned the computer off for a while) and eventually won't spin at all. My computer boots fine from the Seagate hard disk when the computer is not connected to the network and has an external Iomega Zip drive attached. It also boots fine when connected to the network without the Zip drive attached. The problem is when it is connected to the network and the Zip drive. The boot process times out while starting up network services. This error has occurred in the past when I have not told the system to mount additional hard drives that are connected. I have tried other Zip drives, external and internal hard disks. I have tried turning the adapter SCSI termination off and on using AutoSCSI. Nothing works. (The other computers work fine with external disks and the adapter termination on or off.) Nothing else in the system has changed other than replacing the hard disk. The external drive worked with the old hard disk. I have even swapped the Seagate hard disk with a hard disk from another computer that has a Zip drive attached. When I put the second computer's drive into the computer that has been giving me trouble it worked fine. When I tried the Seagate hard disk in the second computer I had the same problem. Therefore, I belive the problem is the Seagate hard disk. Unfortunately, I spent a few hours loading software on to this disk. So hopely all I have to do is change something in its configuration. Any suggestions are appreciated. Could you please send a copy of your responce to qvi@netcom.com. Thanks. Brian Olmsted Quantum Vision, Inc. 3180 B Porter Drive Menlo Park, CA 94304 Phone: (415) 842-6844 Fax: (415) 842-6845
From: kevin@vulcansthrone.az.stratus.com (Kevin Dorer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Black box on 3.3 will not power off Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:54:34 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> Black NeXT hardware, pizza box running NeXTStep 3.3 powers on automatically after power off. Neither the 'After power off/failure' nor the 'At specified time' buttons are checked under preferences for root or other 2 users. Buttons may have been checked at some time in the past for one of the users. Also tried enabling/disabling power off (problem with this mentioned 3.1 release notes). Ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin C. Dorer VOS Mail: Kevin_Dorer@vos.stratus.com Software Systems Engineer NeXT Mail: kevin@az.stratus.com Customer Assistance Center Customer Service: (800) 828-8513 Stratus Computer, Inc., 4455 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix AZ 85018
From: lebmjb@juno.com (lebmjb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Network NeXT to a Dell Pentium PC Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:40:37 GMT Organization: LEBMJB Message-ID: <5egh3l$jg8@composer.inav.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII If this has been asked before (and I'm sure it has), I appoligize. I am new to these NeXT newsgroups. How can we network a NeXT computer to a Dell Pentium computer. I need to know the actual physical hook-up, ie; network cards, cables, etc. Thanks -- Larry
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 20 Feb 1997 05:27:08 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5egnbc$gi@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> <5efp3c$i42@news.next.com> jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) wrote: > In article <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon > Wright) writes: > > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set > Preview > > as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? > > > > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application does > not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot change it, > since it is the app that sets which extension it will support. You may > want to see if your fax software will generate the .tiff extension instead > of the .tif extension. Or you can change it yourself (or write a shell > script). Or you can complain to the app's creator(s). Hmmm, seems like segedit allows the Mach-O section that specifies the file extensions, associated icons, etc. to be extracted from the executable to produce a file that's identical to the *.iconheader file that's part of the source. Then edit the file to add a new file extension and associated icon. segedit then allows this modified iconheader file to be loaded back into the executable. But maybe I'm just dreaming about being able to do this... :-) -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INN 1.5.1 and OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 19 Feb 1997 22:47:00 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5egogk$2rr@xmission.xmission.com> Has anyone compiled INN 1.5.1 on OPENSTEP 4.0? I'm after a config.data file. I wouldn't turn down a config.data file for 1.5.1 on NEXTSTEP 3.3, either. ................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: arno <arno@lysis.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: printing problem on OpenStep 4.x under Windows NT 3.51 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:37:47 +0000 Organization: Planet Communications Sarl Message-ID: <330C378B.76A1@lysis.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi gurus, I have aproblem to print, from a next application (like TextEdit), on a HP laserjet 5MP. When i try to print a receive the following error messages: <printer> is not supported please select a Poscript printer Any clue what i can do ? -- Arno Streuli Network Administrator arno@lysis.ch
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Black box on 3.3 will not power off Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:28:16 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un37iUe00iWm02vLA0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> In-Reply-To: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 20-Feb-97 Black box on 3.3 will not p.. by Kevin Dorer@vulcansthron > Black NeXT hardware, pizza box running NeXTStep 3.3 powers on > automatically after power off. Neither the 'After power off/failure' > nor the 'At specified time' buttons are checked under preferences > for root or other 2 users. Buttons may have been checked at some > time in the past for one of the users. Also tried enabling/disabling > power off (problem with this mentioned 3.1 release notes). Ideas > or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Maybe the battery which maintains that configuration information is dying and needs to be replaced. I think the battery type used to be called a "BR/23A" or some such, but check the FAQ for the name which it is now known by. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 17 Feb 1997 13:26:26 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5e9ma2$4lr@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: > > I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) > and EIDE CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've > been trying to get it to play audio CDs, but it refuses to > cooperate. I cannot get it to work with CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app > and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a similar > configuration and has been able to make this work. All the CD-playing applications for NeXTSTEP that I know about are using SCSI commands to run the CD. If the cd-rom is not on the scsi chain, then the applications are not going to be able to drive it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) Subject: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Message-ID: <E5wt63.22y@fritz.snafu.de> Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de Organization: Software Engineering Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:15:36 GMT Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? I thought it would be pretty easy : First I moved /etc/halt to /etc/halt.orig and replaced /etc/halt with a shell script which calls /etc/halt.orig with all the parameters at its end. At the start of the new /etc/halt I inserted the following line : echo ATZ > /dev/cufb (ATZ turns off auto-answer on my modem) The new /etc/halt shuts down my Cube o.k., but the ATZ never gets through to the modem. Then I tried issuing "echo ATZ > /dev/cufb" as root in a terminal window, also with no immediate effect. After a few seconds though, the modem's lights flash briefly. I guess the fax system (NXFax) noticed that some process fiddled with the serial line and resets the modem to auto-answer. Does anybody know how I can send commands to the modem without having NXFax changing the modem's settings shortly afterwards ? Cheers, Ernst. --- Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 20 Feb 1997 21:10:19 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5eiejr$gqq@news.xmission.com> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> <5e9ma2$4lr@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: > don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: > > > > I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) > > and EIDE CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've > > been trying to get it to play audio CDs, but it refuses to > > cooperate. I cannot get it to work with CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app > > and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a similar > > configuration and has been able to make this work. > > All the CD-playing applications for NeXTSTEP that I know about are > using SCSI commands to run the CD. If the cd-rom is not on the > scsi chain, then the applications are not going to be able to drive > it. The APAPI drive makes the drive masquerade as a SCSI device, so it does work. I've managed to get CDPlayer.app to work, sort of, by removing OmniCD from the system (it does not yet work, though I think Andrew knows how to get it to at least work as well as CDPlayer.app now, so perhaps a new version will be forthcoming). I can play audio via the headphone jack, but not through the sound card, since the volume control in CDPlayer.app doesn't work at all and leaves the volume at zero. Accoring to an engineer at NeXT I spoke with, this is a known bug in the ATAPI driver. Just thought you'd want to know about the above... -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: file ownership Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:12:33 GMT Organization: data communication and networking services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: : I'm having a problem with file ownership. : My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. : However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep changing ownership to my account . : This is because the file system on the second and third drives are mounted at the time you logged in. The WorkspaceManager sets the owner to the user logged in at the time. To solve your problem, you need to set the file systems to be mounted at the time of booting up. This can be done by adding entries in the file /etc/fstab like /dev/sd2a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota noauto 0 1 (this is my fstab entry, my /Users directory is on a seprate disk) where the /dev/sdXa and /"MountPoint" should be changed to match your configuration. Look at "fstab" man page for more helps. !!Caution!! A mistake can cause the machine to be unbootable! Edit /etc/fstab file carefully! Enjoy! -- Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: no.spam@no.where (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EOF 1.1 with sybase, what to put in /usr/sybase/interfaces Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:34:39 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5eggof$ofj@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <5eel1c$iv@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> In article <5eel1c$iv@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes: > Hi, > > I wanted to demo EOF 1.1 on NS 3.3 with our sybase server on a Solaris > machine , but unfortunatly I wasn't able to figure out what to put exactly > in /usr/sybase/interfaces? > > Could some kind soul guide to some docu for this fileor give me some > hints? > > Thank a lot in advance, > Wolfgang Here is my /usr/sybase/interfaces to address my Sybase server running on my same NeXTstation: --------------------------------------------- DSLISTEN master tcp next-ether localhost 3696 DSQUERY query tcp next-ether localhost 3696 DSCONSOLE console tcp next-ether localhost 4696 SYBASE master tcp next-ether localhost 3696 query tcp next-ether localhost 3696 console tcp next-ether localhost 4696 debug tcp next-ether localhost 5696 trace tcp next-ether localhost 6696 localhost master tcp next-ether localhost 3696 query tcp next-ether localhost 3696 console tcp next-ether localhost 4696 debug tcp next-ether localhost 5696 trace tcp next-ether localhost 6696 --------------------------------------------- So basically, you would need to replace each occurance of localhost by the name of your Solaris machine, and check that the port number correspond to those used by the Sybase server. __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fstab question Date: 20 Feb 1997 22:44:50 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5eik52$pec@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have a 2.8 GB partition that I used to install NS 3.3. NS split this into /dev/sd0a, /dev/sd0b and /dev/sd0c (why three partitions instead of two?). The first is the root drive, so it obviously is mounted. I would like to automount the second two at mountpoint /. I have seen the SysAdmin notes on automounting second *disks*, but I wanted to be sure of the proper fstab entries for automounting second and third partitions. Also, I will have a second disk, say sd2a. Would my fstab file be: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd0c / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 And what is the meaning of the trailing two integers? Thank you. Randy Jackson -- 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: "Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Loading from Network? Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:22:41 -0500 Organization: Student Message-ID: <330D06F1.7074@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When I start my Color NeXT station it says loading from network. My machine is not on a network. I have the OS software and can reload, but can anyone tell me how to get past this loading from network screen? I need help! steve
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: quick SendMail propogation question (repost) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 01:04:58 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5xHoB.1Er@xombi.wizard.net> My Cube has the address xombi.wizard.net Mail travels fine in almost all instances save when I try to mail other people at wizard.net Why? because the mail never leaves my machine, I get an error message that login@xombi.wizard.net does not exist. To get around this I put the following band-aid fix into my /etc/resolv.conf: domain xombi.wizard.net right above my nameserver declarations. So far everything seems to be working but does anyone have other suggestions? Thanks :-) --- Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OpenStep 4.1 onto a Sparc 4gig drive. Date: 21 Feb 1997 02:34:19 GMT Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5ej1jb$cmp$1@Nntp1.mcs.net> I can't install OpenStep4.1 on my Sparc with a 4gig drive. The 4gig drive seems to be the problem. After trying a simple install... Under NEXTSTEP3.3 on SPARC, I created an appropriate disktab entry, and successfully initialized the 4gig drive into two partitions of 2gig each. I then tried to to reinstall OpenStep4.1 SPARC. I'm successful up until the point where it asks you what optional software I want to install. I'm not allowed to make any choices, probably because at the bottom of the window, it reports that my disk drive is 54 meg in size, and that I need another 7 meg. I can't finish the install. Reboot NS3.3. I see that OpenStep4.1 Sparc tried to install into the first partition of the 4gig drive. Yet it continued to believe that the drive was 54meg instead of looking at the size of the partition it was installing into, which was 2gig (1.7gig actually). The scsimodes command under NEXTSTEP3.3 seems to work correctly. SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a Drive type: SEAGATE ST34371N 0338JD 512 bytes per sector 165 sectors per track 10 tracks per cylinder 5168 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) 80 spare sectors per cylinder 0 alternate tracks per volume 8496959 usable sectors on volume The sdform command under NS3.3 thinks the drive is 54 meg. My drive is EXACTLY 4gig + 54meg. Interesting. So how do I convince OpenStep 4.1 Sparc to install on my 4gig drive? Lowell Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:36:17 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5ejc8h$18a@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <E5wt63.22y@fritz.snafu.de> ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) wrote: > Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer during > shutdown ? > > I thought it would be pretty easy : No, it's a bit more tricky, but it's doable. It's described in detail in NEXTTOYOU 3/96, page 11ff. (should be no language problem involved for you ;-)) ) Basically, you'll have to use Kermit instead of just an echo command. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:50:52 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5efp3c$i42@news.next.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> In article <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon Wright) writes: > I have an OPENSTEP 4.1 question. > > How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? > I know how to use the Tools Inspector to show which apps OPENSTEP thinks > can open the particular file type and to set the default application for > that file type, but what if an application doesn't show up in the list the > Tools Inspector displays? Is there any way to force the application to be > "discovered" by the Tools Inspector? > > Specifically, I am running some FAX software that generates TIFF files. > However, it calls them <blahblahblah>.tif. The only apps that the Tools > Inspector claims can open a .tif file are IconBuilder, Edit, and WM. > If I rename the file to be <blahblahblah>.tiff, then Preview shows up > in the list of applications. > > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set Preview > as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application does not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot change it, since it is the app that sets which extension it will support. You may want to see if your fax software will generate the .tiff extension instead of the .tif extension. Or you can change it yourself (or write a shell script). Or you can complain to the app's creator(s). -- Jim Sowers - NeXT Technical Support
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help with stale lock Date: 21 Feb 1997 09:45:53 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5ejqsh$l62@bolivia.earthlink.net> Hello, Im getting this message after I uninstalled the AMolaf software. The reason I uninstalled it was because after I installed it, I wasnt able to connect to my ISP with kermit and got this stale lock message below.... typhus> kermit ppp/earth Removing stale lock /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufb (pid 171454514 terminated) Number: 1 213 620 8910 Device: /dev/cufb, modem-dialer: courier, speed: 38400 Dial timeout: 30 seconds To cancel: type your interrupt character (normally Ctrl-C). Speed changed to 28800 I used the rm -f in a root shell to remove the stale lock, without success. So I had to uninstall the software manually and finally the dialup goes through. However, the message still comes up. Does anyone know how to remove this thing? Of course I tried the removal from a root shell. I am using NSFIP3.3 wiht USR 33.6 modem Thank you very much. Please respond with suggestions to my email address directly. -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: "Nicole Williams Robertson" <resadv@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS machine ? Date: 21 Feb 1997 16:41:51 GMT Organization: Resource Advisory Message-ID: <01bc203f$d76043d0$c69b45cf@resadvnt> Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS Intel machine. We have tried using the ppd that Lexamrk ships and they do not work. We have asked NeXT and they didn't have much feed back either. The lpd seems to send jobs to the printer, but the printer says its busy and never completes the job. We tried a couple of other ppd like Unknown, HP Laser Jet with no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for taking the time to read this. - Nicole resadv@mindspring.com
From: amxd@aol.com (Amxd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tcpdump type program for NeXTSTEP? Date: 19 Feb 1997 21:58:28 GMT Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk Message-ID: <19970219215800.QAA19353@ladder02.news.aol.com> Hi, Does anyone have a network program for NS 3.3 which supports tcp packet dumping. I can't compile tcpdump and have not seen any other programs around that can do this kind of stuff? I have used snoop on Solaris which would be great to have on NeXTSTEP. If anyone has an executable they can mail me, that would be great. Please use MIME format as sadly I have to access the net via AOL with Win95. Thanks, Amxd@aol.com
From: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@p3.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:53:28 -0500 Organization: Surf Network Message-ID: <330DD308.3D01@p3.net> References: <5eabjl$s4f@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <3308F224.7DB3@biggun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter Cushing wrote: [cut] > xx are real numbers I'm just paranoid so I replaced them. > > [root]:/Users/vince > nslookup foo.org 128.210.xx.xx > *** Can't find server name for address 128.210.xx.xx: Server failed > *** Default servers are not available > [root]:/Users/vince > > [cut] > vince What is in your resolv.conf file? The contents of that file determine the server that nslookup queries. Melody
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Configuring modem under NS 3.3 Message-ID: <E5yrD4.B40@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:31:51 GMT References: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sharad J Shanbhag wrote: I> 've been messing around with installing an internal modem with > NS 3.3. ... > I can access the modem and dial into my university modem pool at 9600 > baud using the command > > tip a9600 > > with no problem. (I'm reading news and email now via this modem). > However, I cannot seem to make things work at 14,400 baud. I have > created an entry in /etc/remote: > > a14400|cua14400|telepath 14,400 attrib:\ > :dv=/dev/cua:br#14400:tc-BASIC: > > but tip a14400 returns "bad baud setting". This is a bit non-intuitive, but you need to change the line to: a14400|cua14400|telepath 14,400 attrib:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#19200:tc-BASIC: Even though your modem will produce an average of only 14,400, it will produce bursts of higher transmission rates due to runs of data which compresses/decompresses better than average. Thus you want to run at a higher baud than 14.4, which isn't supported by tip anyhow. > The whole point of this is that I'd like to get PPP working under > NS. I would recommend getting a copy of GateKeeper.app, as this will ease configuration and will provide a guide to modifying the other non-intuitive communication config files. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Is disk striping possible? Message-ID: <ukvzpwy6j1p.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:44:18 GMT Is it possible to stripe disks under 3.2? If so, is it possible to stripe swap? Thanks, Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: "Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson" <ken@acni-2.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Date: 21 Feb 1997 02:45:25 GMT Organization: Gleason Consulting Message-ID: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and then copy the files back, and reboot. The machine is the authoritative source for NetInfo for the domain. Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? thanks, in advance, Ken Gleason ken@mpimedia.com
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Parallel Port Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 08:21:40 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Has anybody else problems in activating the parallel port with an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 MB? The driver don't recognize the parallel port at 0x378. (_IOProbe... can't find a parallel port blabla blabla... failed; or somthing like that) No problems with an old MB (...TP4XE). Version is NS3.3 (white one, what else with a par. port at 0x378). Anyone find a solution? MB-BIOS is the latest from 29. January 97. Henry
From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring modem under NS 3.3 Date: 21 Feb 1997 00:30:44 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Sender: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu Message-ID: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> I've been messing around with installing an internal modem with NS 3.3. The modem is a Gateway Telepath II (which is really a USR Sportster 14,400 I believe). Works fine for PPP under WinNT 4.0 I have the serial ports driver and the tty port server installed and working (v 3.33 on both). I can access the modem and dial into my university modem pool at 9600 baud using the command tip a9600 with no problem. (I'm reading news and email now via this modem). However, I cannot seem to make things work at 14,400 baud. I have created an entry in /etc/remote: a14400|cua14400|telepath 14,400 attrib:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#14400:tc-BASIC: but tip a14400 returns "bad baud setting". The whole point of this is that I'd like to get PPP working under NS. Any help will be most appreciated. TIA, Sharad ---- Sharad Shanbhag Department of Neurosurgery University of Minnesota shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu (NeXTmail/MIME)
From: wdeng@arc.unm.edu (Ward Deng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: need recommandations on NeXTStep sysadmin books Date: 21 Feb 1997 23:52:18 -0700 Organization: Albuquerque Resource Center, HPCERC Message-ID: <5em532$ol8@laguna.arc.unm.edu> Keywords: nextstep system administration I need your recommandations on NeXTSTEP system administration books because I have had a lot of problems with system recovery when kernel crashes when a wrong Ethernet driver is selected or a wrong serial port driver is loaded. Thanks, -ward (wdeng@arc.unm.edu)
From: trail@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Trestrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: fstab question Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 01:34:11 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5eitna$odc@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> References: <5eik52$pec@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In article <5eik52$pec@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) wrote: >I have a 2.8 GB partition that I used to install NS 3.3. NS split this into >/dev/sd0a, /dev/sd0b and /dev/sd0c (why three partitions instead of two?). >The first is the root drive, so it obviously is mounted. I would like to >automount the second two at mountpoint /. I have seen the SysAdmin notes on >automounting second *disks*, but I wanted to be sure of the proper fstab >entries for automounting second and third partitions. Also, I will have a >second disk, say sd2a. Would my fstab file be: > >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 >/dev/sd0c / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 >/dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 > Each partition requires its own mount point. In your example above, all 4 partitions would be mounted on top of one another at "/". What you want to do is create an empty directory on the root file system for each new partition, and use that directory as a mount point in your fstab. Using your above partitions as an example: >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd0b /foo 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 >/dev/sd0c /bar 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 >/dev/sd1a /baz 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 > >And what is the meaning of the trailing two integers? > The second number tells fsck on which pass to check a particular partition. The root partition should be 1. Each partition on a single physical disk should have a different pass number to speed fsck up. Jeff trail@ix.netcom.com
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2 manpage/ptroff questions Date: 22 Feb 1997 10:21:22 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5emhb2$3ds@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Hi, I have two questions concerning the formatting of manpages: 1. If I try to print out manpages, no matter if I use ptroff or try to do it step by step using pscat I always get the error: pscat: trouble reading .ct file Is this just broken in my machine (NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel), or a known bug? What can I do? 2. When writing manpages, is ther a way to automatically format them or do I have to do it manually. I couldn't find anything about writing manpages in the documentation. Any hints appreciated! Thank you! Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: error: Invalid login given by getlogin?? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:58:55 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <330ed3f0.3158227@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just created two new accounts. Both do not use csh as their shells, so I editted /etc/shells and put theirs in there. Now, if I try to su to their account to test it, after entering the correct login/password I get: Invalid login given by getlogin It's a NS3.3 black '040 box. Please help!! -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: fucuco@hamlet.net (Good Friend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:30:20 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.330d7938.6008657@news.uoknor.edu> Subject: cmsg cancel <330d7938.6008657@news.uoknor.edu> Control: cancel <330d7938.6008657@news.uoknor.edu> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Fri Feb 21 15:14:42 1997 Original subject was: Learn to Make $$$FAST CASH$$$ With Honest Work
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702210349.WAA07514@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 77a457575098b97e23a66e03d0bf39b5 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 22:49:48 -0500 Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, jwright@animal.blarg.net, aisbell@ix.netcom.com References: 77a457575098b97e23a66e03d0bf39b5 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Original Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:50:52 GMT > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application > does not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot > change it, since it is the app that sets which extension it will > support. No no no! That's entirely not true. In fact, I made a version of Preview.app that opens .tif files in 5 minutes. Use SegHoarker ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/SegHoarker.1.0.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz Make a copy of Preview.app. Open ("Hoark") the _COPY_ of Preview within Preview.app and open __ICON and then __header. You will get a file opened in Edit.app that looks like this: F Preview.app Preview app F Preview Preview app S ps Preview ps S tiff Preview S eps Preview Copy the "S tiff Preview" line and change it to: S tif Preview Save the Edit.app file. Goto SegHoarker and click on "Replace" (while still selected on __ICON and __header). Save the new copy as "Preview". Move the file "Preview" inside the COPY of "Preview.app" that you started from. Then you need to move the new Preview.app to somewhere like /LocalApps and then renamed the original Preview.app to something like Preview.app.offline (which will take it off the registered list of apps). Lastly, run "Update Viewers" from Workspace manager, which will update the app registry list so your version of Preview.app will come up for files which end in "tif". This may not work for all apps, but it certainly works for Preview.app. It's one of the reasons I love NeXTStep, this type of customization. Garrick Toubassi (formerly of NeXT) made the source code for SegHoarker available to us. If I haven't made this process clear, please let me know. It's really easy to do but harder to describe. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS machine ? Date: 21 Feb 1997 17:30:23 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5ekm3f$a91@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <01bc203f$d76043d0$c69b45cf@resadvnt> Cc: resadv@mindspring.com In <01bc203f$d76043d0$c69b45cf@resadvnt> "Nicole Williams Robertson" wrote: > Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS Intel machine. We > have tried using the ppd that Lexamrk ships and they do not work. We have > asked NeXT and they didn't have much feed back either. The lpd seems to > send jobs to the printer, but the printer says its busy and never completes > the job. We tried a couple of other ppd like Unknown, HP Laser Jet with no > luck. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks for taking the time to read this. > Most likely your error is not connected to the ppd but the connection host - printer. Do you have attached it by serial, paralell or network? -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: C.S.N.sysadmin archives and FAQ? Date: 22 Feb 1997 10:18:23 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5end9f$anf@crl10.crl.com> There are a few problems that I am having that I remember being covered in the past. I don't want to ask avout them again so I would like to know where an archive of this stuff is. TIA...HC -- Josh Waltzer and Hans-Christoph Steiner MIME, NeXTMail, SunMail and PlainOldMail accepted
From: stop@spam.com (see sig for my real address) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Parallel Port Date: 22 Feb 1997 23:11:49 GMT Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd. (WAVE) Message-ID: <5enufl$hvj3@crash.videotron.ab.ca> On 02/19/97, Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: >Has anybody else problems in activating the parallel port with an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 MB? >The driver don't recognize the parallel port at 0x378. (_IOProbe... can't find a parallel port Yes, I had exactly this problem. There's a PD parallel port driver on the Peak archive (Par.config) that solved the problem for me. Just run Config.app, delete the NS 3.3 parallel port driver, and add Par instead. -- -------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept. Network manager, Web manager, postmaster gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld ocal) to shut off answering by my office modem during the daytime. To use it yourself, substitute your fax's name for "chrome_fax": /usr/local/etc > cat FAX_dont_answer #!/bin/sh # Set NXFax ring count to zero (don't answer) for daytime hours. /usr/bin/niutil -destroyprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer /usr/bin/niutil -createprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer 0 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes And here's the script that makes the modem answer on ring one for evening and weekend hours when I use my slip line (also run from /etc/crontab.local): /usr/local/etc > cat FAX_ring_1 #!/bin/sh # Set NXFax ring count to one. /usr/bin/niutil -destroyprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer /usr/bin/niutil -createprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer 1 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes -- -------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept. Network manager, Web manager, postmaster gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld
From: stop@spam.com (see sig for my real address) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: 22 Feb 1997 23:17:12 GMT Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd. (WAVE) Message-ID: <5enupo$hvj4@crash.videotron.ab.ca> On 02/17/97, Joe Keenan wrote: >In article <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff >Richmond) writes: > >The list if servers in /etc/resolv.conf is >not search order, but a list of (ordered) alternative servers. If the >resolver library can talk to the first server on the list, it won't try >any of the others. It only attempts to contact the [second,third] >server on the list if it can't reach the first one. This is the theory, but it doesn't seem to work for me on my NS 3.2 mailhost. I list the 3 DNS servers on my campus in resolv.conf, but if the first one goes down, nibindd doesn't check the others. Would this be fixed if I upgraded the machine to 3.3? -- -------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept. Network manager, Web manager, postmaster gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configuring modem under NS 3.3 Date: 22 Feb 1997 00:24:58 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5elecq$5h4@news2.cais.com> References: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> 14,400 is the DCE (modem to modem) speed. You need to set the DTE (modem to computer and vice versa) speed. Set it to 38,400 or 57,600 and it will work fine. Also, use /dev/cufa since it uses hardware flow control. /dev/cua doesn't. -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Date: 23 Feb 1997 02:50:33 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <5eob9p$1rd@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5enu94$hvj2@crash.videotron.ab.ca> In article <5enu94$hvj2@crash.videotron.ab.ca> stop@spam.com (see sig for my real address) writes: >On 02/20/97, Ernst Kloecker wrote: >>Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer during >>shutdown ....At the start of the new /etc/halt I inserted the following line : >>echo ATZ > /dev/cufb... >>I guess the fax system (NXFax) noticed that some process fiddled with the >>serial line and resets the modem to auto-answer. >> >>Does anybody know how I can send commands to the modem without having NXFax >>changing the modem's settings shortly afterwards ? > > >Yes, NXFax puts things back the way it wants them. The solution is to change >the NXFax "rings_to_answer" property in Netinfo. Here's another, which I feel more comfortable than tamparing with NetInfo all the time. I had a similar problem, and did it with a more permanent solution by patching /usr/lib/NextPrinter/NXFax_Fax_Modem_Driver We use NXFax Driver Version 1.04.1. The file NXFax_Fax_Modem_Driver contains a string "ats0=%d". This string has been changed to "ats0=50" using emacs. This sets the modem to autoanswer on ring 50. (To me, autoanswering on ring 50 is the same as autoanswering turned off, assuming no one or no fax machine will let it ring 50 times.) %d is probably at offset 53526 according to cmp for m68k hardware. (On other NXFax versions, the offset will be different.) Make sure you retain a back up copy, and exactly replace "%d" with "50". Otherwise, offset for the rest of the binary will change and things will stop working. NXFax appears to set # of rings for autoanswer (ATS0) to N+3 where N is the number specified in "rings_to_answer" in the configuration in NetInfo. However, NXFax does NOT use the autoanswer mode. It counts the rings itself and actively answers. Thus, "rings_to_answer" is always set to 1 in NetInfo in my case, but if the machine crashes, the modem will not autoanswer until ring 50. Meanwhile, an old backup fax machine (set to answer on ring 6) will answer if and only if the fax modem is not answering. This way, I won't ever have to worry about losing any fax even if there is a remote chance of crashed machine hosting the fax modem. I have found no ill effects of this patch for more than a year.
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: file ownership Date: 22 Feb 1997 01:16:14 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5elhcu$d3@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> Cc: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu In <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> Satoru Uzawa wrote: | dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: | : I'm having a problem with file ownership. | : My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. | : However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep | : changing ownership to my account . | : | This is because the file system on the second and third drives are mounted | at the time you logged in. The WorkspaceManager sets the owner to the user | logged in at the time. OK so far. You have identified the real problem. | To solve your problem, you need to set the file systems to be mounted | at the time of booting up. This can be done by adding entries in the | file /etc/fstab like | | /dev/sd2a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota noauto 0 1 No. You have found one of the errors in the NeXT SysAdmin Manual, and believed it. Only the root file system should have an entry "noauto". All other file systems to be mounted at boot time should not have this, since it is really a signal to the "mount -a" command to ignore that line. | (this is my fstab entry, my /Users directory is on a separate disk) where | the /dev/sdXa and /"MountPoint" should be changed to match your | configuration. Look at "fstab" man page for more helps. If you have a NS3.3 system that was built from scratch, rather than being upgraded from NS3.2, you will not have an "fstab" man page. It can be found hidden under the name "mntent". | !!Caution!! A mistake can cause the | machine to be unbootable! Edit /etc/fstab file carefully! If necessary, you can boot the system single user (bsd -s) and repair the /etc/fstab entry. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Date: 22 Feb 1997 20:29:01 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5enkud$pg4@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - <199702211841.NAA09650@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer > > > during shutdown ? > > > > > > I thought it would be pretty easy : > > > > No, it's a bit more tricky, but it's doable. It's described in > > detail in NEXTTOYOU 3/96, page 11ff. (should be no language problem > > involved for you > > Would you care to share the info with those of us not fortunate > enough to speak German? I append the source below. As I said, basically it comes down to using Kermit. The program issues an "atz2" command to the ZyXEL. It was written to enable the standalone fax mode of the ZyXEL when turning off the computer, but of course you could store any other kind of profile in profile 2, or else could replace the "atz2" by something else as long as it is ONLY ONE command (more won't work!) Place the program in /usr/local/bin, link it two times to /usr/etc, one time rename it halt, the second reboot. Rename the original progs to halt.ORIGINAL and reboot.ORIGINAL. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________ #!/bin/sh # Dieses Skript dient zum automatischen Aktivieren der Standalone-Fax-Funktion # der ZyXEL-Elite-Modems und -ISDN-Adapter durch den Befehl atz2 beim # Ausschalten des Computers. Es ist nach /usr/local/bin zu kopieren und von # dort zweimal ein Verweis nach /usr/etc zu erstellen; der erste Verweis ist in # halt, der zweite in reboot umzubenennen. halt und reboot selbst sind in # halt.ORIGINAL und reboot.ORIGINAL umzubenennen. Die genaue # Installationsanleitung findet sich in NEXTTOYOU 3/96. # Nutzer-Konfiguration
## # Setze serielle Schnittstelle, an der das Modem / der ISDN-Adapter # angeschlossen ist (a, b, c, d, ...) CUF=c # Skript
## # Prfe auf Nothalt-Optionen case $* in *-n* | *-q* ) STOP=1 ;; esac # Falls kein Nothalt, stoppe FaxDaemon und sende "atz2" an das Modem if [ ! "$STOP" ]; then kill `ps -ax | egrep "FaxDaemon" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/` /usr/local/bin/kermit -C "set line /dev/cuf$CUF, set speed 19200, msleep 300, o atz2\13, exit" fi # rufe das eigentliche Programm (halt bzw. reboot) auf /usr$0.ORIGINAL $*
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail configuration partially working... Date: 21 Feb 1997 19:38:02 -0700 Organization: I'm not organized! Message-ID: <5elm6a$a5m@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> I have a sendmail updated to 8.8.5, and after much difficulty, I have it running finally. But there are a few nagging problems: 1. E-mail sent locally works fine, yet when mix sends mail, it gets delayed: Over internet from a machine on the network (and sending through the machine hooked up as a mail host): Feb 21 14:10:55 chaos sendmail[7227]: OAA07227: from=<hbbus802>, size=2469, class=0, pri=32469, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199702212210.OAA07227@chaos.primenet.com>, proto=SMTP, relay=borg [198.68.36.199] Feb 21 14:11:26 chaos sendmail[7229]: OAA07227: to=<someone@somedomain.edu>, ctladdr=<hbbus802> (101/20), delay=00:00:32, xdelay=00:00:31, mailer=relay, relay=mailhost.primenet.com [206.165.5.52], stat=Sent (PAA27433 Message accepted for delivery) Here is e-mail sent locally, with the PPP connection down: Feb 21 15:03:19 chaos sendmail[7250]: PAA07250: from=rworne, size=145294, class=0, pri=175294, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199702212303.PAA07250@chaos.primenet.com>, relay=root@localhost Feb 21 17:54:53 chaos sendmail[7252]: PAA07250: to=hbbus802, ctladdr=rworne (100/20), delay=02:51:36, xdelay=00:00:07, mailer=local, stat=Sent Why the nearly 3-hour delay? Telling the networked machine to check for mail did not do it, telling the mailhost to check for mail *did* get the mail to go over to it. Here's where I send a message to the networked machine via NeXTMail.app: Feb 21 17:57:45 chaos sendmail[7293]: RAA07293: from=rworne, size=733, class=0, pri=30733, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199702220157.RAA07293@chaos.primenet.com>, relay=rworne@localhost Feb 21 17:57:46 chaos sendmail[7295]: RAA07293: to=hbbus802, ctladdr=rworne (100/20), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, stat=Sent No delay here... Here's what happens when mail gets sent to another domain (with the PPP down) or a read-receipt is encountered when the machine has the PPP connection down. It *used* to spool mail, now it just bombs : Feb 20 16:13:24 chaos sendmail[290]: QAA00288: to=hbcsc595@csun.edu, ctladdr=rworne (100/20), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=mailhost.primenet.com [198.68.36.156], stat=Local configuration error Feb 20 16:13:25 chaos sendmail[290]: QAA00288: QAA00290: DSN: Local configuration error Feb 20 16:13:26 chaos sendmail[290]: QAA00290: to=rworne,root, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, stat=Sent This has me stumped. No matter what I try, or whatever config I use, there has to be *something* busted in the configuration. If that gets fixed, then a problem will crop up elsewhere. my setup: My mail server, netinfo host (and PPP machine): chaos My other next machine: borg My internet domain: primenet.com My internet mail host: mailhost.primenet.com How I want my mail to look like: rworne@primenet.com /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/nextstandalone.mc divert(0)dnl # comments and copyright removed for brevity divert(-1) VERSIONID(`@(#)nextstandalone.mc 8.4 (Montreal) 25/2/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl DOMAIN(primenet)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl FEATURE(stickyhost)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(primenet.com)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl /etc/sendmail/cf/domain/primenet.m4 divert(0) VERSIONID(`$Id: primenet.m4,v 1.0 1997/02/06 1:08:00 rworne Exp rworne $') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mailhost.primenet.com)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:localhost)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl /etc/sendmail/userdb root:mailname root@rworne.lax.primenet.com rworne:mailname rworne@primenet.com rworne:maildrop rworne@chaos.primenet.com rworne:fullname Robert Worne hbbus802:mailname hbbus802@csun.edu hbbus802:maildrop hbbus802@chaos.primenet.com -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS 26-52-78-CV-O2-Vec-MV-TI-C64-TG16-SMS-Jag //------------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" //------------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702211841.NAA09650@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 13:40:58 -0500 Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Original Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:36:17 GMT Message-ID: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - > > Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer > > during shutdown ? > > > > I thought it would be pretty easy : > > No, it's a bit more tricky, but it's doable. It's described in > detail in NEXTTOYOU 3/96, page 11ff. (should be no language problem > involved for you Would you care to share the info with those of us not fortunate enough to speak German? TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: sugawara@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why won't my Color Turbo Station power down Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 22 Feb 1997 08:20:42 GMT Organization: Edmonton FreeNet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Message-ID: <5ema8q$5e8$1@news.sas.ab.ca> References: <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> The Rev. James David Meacham (jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net) wrote: : I really do love my color turbo. Problem is, whenever I try to reboot : it or shut it down, it hangs, necessitating a break to the ROM : monitor, and a 'bsd' from there. I'd like to skip this,. Does any : know why it might do this? Thanks in advance. Peace, : James There may be a process which is refusing to die. You may try to find out if that is the case by verifying if it's a daemon process (system programs that waits for a specific event to occur on the NeXT) by powering up the machine, and trying to shut it down once the login box appears. If it does power down ok, you are probably using a program as a user which refuses to die. Otherwise, try powering up in single user mode, and then try to power down. It's been a while since I've done this, but I believe it's "bsd -s" off the ROM monitor. If you are able to power down at this point, there is a program being launched from an rc file (/etc/rc, /etc/rc.boot, /etc/rc.local) which is hanging. Try to log in remotely into your machine as root, and kill each root process except your login shell, from the largest PID to the smallest (because killing pid 1, which is the init process is a fast way of getting unix to reboot). Standard disclaimers apply. -- /**************************************************************************/ Masahiko (Sam) Sugawara email: sugawara@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Message-ID: <E5yrwr.18E@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <5eiejr$gqq@news.xmission.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:43:39 GMT Don Yacktman writes ... > The APAPI drive makes the drive masquerade as a SCSI device, so it does work. > I've managed to get CDPlayer.app to work, sort of, by removing OmniCD from > the system (it does not yet work, though I think Andrew knows how to get it > to at least work as well as CDPlayer.app now, so perhaps a new version will > be forthcoming). I can play audio via the headphone jack, but not through > the sound card, since the volume control in CDPlayer.app doesn't work at all > and leaves the volume at zero. Accoring to an engineer at NeXT I spoke with, > this is a known bug in the ATAPI driver. > > Just thought you'd want to know about the above... Masquerading as SCSI ... HM.. does this mean you could use the scsi devices interface to access that drive? Then you might try playcd to get the audio data directly via the data-connection without any loss of information. Carl Edman started that thing quite some time ago. Works like a charm on all drives which support audio access commands. It is not an app though, just a cli program - plain and simple. Juergen --- AnsweringMachine +49 511 92455-50 Fon -51 Fax -52 NeXTMail welcome = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Domain defined -> Boot process stops! Why??? Date: 21 Feb 1997 03:23:55 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ej4gb$qp6@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: Boot process stops Keywords: Boot process Hi all! We have here a domain of our own. When I now define this domain name in HostManager, the boot process stops after the message "Starting File Service Deamons:". With "C" I can continue the boot process and everything seems to be ok. Could somebody tell me why? And what could I do against it ? Has it something to do with NIS? ypserv? I know, something is wrong. But where? Any help appreciated! Thanks! Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Subject: Re: Configuring the sendmail In-Reply-To: "Georg Tuparev"'s message of 18 Feb 1997 01:07:38 JST Message-ID: <FUKASE.97Feb19214451@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> Sender: news@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp Organization: College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Japan References: <5e9voa$ctj@concorde.ctp.com> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:44:50 GMT In article <5e9voa$ctj@concorde.ctp.com> "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> writes: ... > Currently my From: field has the following format > username@hostname.domainname > > I would like to have it in the following format: > username@domainname > > What should I do? If you use a template file on NeXTstep as sendmail configuration file you will attain your purpose provided you rewrite it as follows; *** /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf Wed Sep 1 17:31:17 1993 --- sendmail.mailhost.cf Wed Feb 19 17:29:43 1997 *************** *** 234,240 **** Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h S11 R$*<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2>$3 already ok ! R$+ $@$1<@$w> tack on our hostname S21 # None needed. --- 234,240 ---- Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h S11 R$*<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2>$3 already ok ! R$+ $@$1<@$m> tack on our hostname S21 # None needed. *************** *** 289,295 **** R$-<@$-> $:$>3${Z$1@$2$} invert aliases R$*<@$+.$*>$* $@$1<@$2.$3>$4 already ok R$+<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2.$m>$3 tack on our domain ! R$+ $@$1<@$j> tack on our hostname ############################################################ --- 289,295 ---- R$-<@$-> $:$>3${Z$1@$2$} invert aliases R$*<@$+.$*>$* $@$1<@$2.$3>$4 already ok R$+<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2.$m>$3 tack on our domain ! R$+ $@$1<@$m> tack on our hostname ############################################################ Check: your machine name: xxx.ctp.com new sendmail configuration file: sendmail.mailhost.cf % /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.4 -C./sendmail.mailhost.cf Version NX5.67f2 canonical name: xxx.ctp.com a.k.a.: xxx using configuration file ./sendmail.mailhost.cf ADDRESS TEST MODE Enter <ruleset> <address> [Note: No automatic ruleset 3 call] > 3,1,22,4 georg <--DDN Mailer rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 22 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 22 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: "georg" "@" "ctp" "." "com" > 3,1,11,4 georg <--Ethernet Mailer rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 11 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 11 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: "georg" "@" "ctp" "." "com" > 3,0 georg@ctp.com rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" "@" "ctp" "." "com" rewrite: ruleset 6 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "LOCAL" ">" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "LOCAL" ">" rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "georg" "<" "@" "LOCAL" ">" rewrite: ruleset 30 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "local" $: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 30 returns: $# "local" $: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "local" $: "georg" > If you want to use sendmail 8.8.5 on your NeXTstep machine I can recommend to use CF(WIDE Sendmail.cf Generation Package). (Note: Its documents are in Japanese.) URL: ftp://ftp.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/mail/CF/CF-3.5Wpl4.tar.gz (1) % gnutar zxvf CF-3.5Wpl4.tar.gz (2) % cd CF-3.5Wpl4 % make cleantools % make tools % make samples % mkdir DESC (<-work directory) % cp Samples/Makefile DESC/Makefile % cp Standards/sendmail-v7.def DESC/sendmail-v7.def (3) % cd DESC % cp sendmail-v7.def myhosts.def % vi myhost.def <-or edited by Edit.app point: OS_TYPE=nextstep ALIAS_FILE_PATH='/etc/sendmail/aliases,netinfo:/aliases' DAEMON_OPTIONS='Port=25' ---- FROM_ADDRESS='$m' <--your purpose '$m': From: user@domainname ACCEPT_ADDRS='$m' <--your purpose? This address is received by local mailer. (except canonical name) RECIPIENT_GENERIC=yes <--your purpose? additional address yes: To: user ==> To: user@FROM_ADDRESS (To: user@domainname) no(default): To: user ==> To: user@OFFICIAL_NAME (To: user@hostname.domainname) (4) % make myhost.cf (5) check: % /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.4 -C./myhost.cf Version 8.8.5 ... canonical name: xxx.ctp.com a.k.a.: xxx a.k.a.: xxx.ctp UUCP nodename: xxx.ctp.com a.k.a.: xxx a.k.a.: [<your IP address>] a.k.a.: [127.0.0.1] ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============ (short domain name) $w = xxx (canonical domain name) $j = xxx.ctp.com (subdomain name) $m = ctp.com (node name) $k = xxx.ctp.com ======================================================== ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter <ruleset> <address> > 3,1,11,4 georg rewrite: ruleset 3 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: georg rewrite: ruleset 1 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 1 returns: georg rewrite: ruleset 11 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 11 returns: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 4 input: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: georg @ ctp . com > 3,0 georg@ctp.com rewrite: ruleset 3 input: georg @ ctp . com rewrite: ruleset 96 input: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 96 returns: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 0 input: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 97 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 3 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: georg rewrite: ruleset 0 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: georg rewrite: ruleset 97 returns: $# local $: georg rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: georg --- FUKASE, Mikio
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:23:34 -0500 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <330DBDF6.7A4B@worldbank.org> References: 77a457575098b97e23a66e03d0bf39b5 - <199702210349.WAA07514@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application > > does not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot > > change it, since it is the app that sets which extension it will > > support. > > No no no! That's entirely not true. In fact, I made a version of > Preview.app that opens .tif files in 5 minutes. > > [instructions deleted] > > This may not work for all apps, but it certainly works for > Preview.app. It's one of the reasons I love NeXTStep, this type of > customization. Yes, it can be done, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a generalized, GUI way to do this? Something you could manipulate through a workspace inspector, for example? It seems to me that this should be easy to implement. --- Stefano Pagiola 850 N Randolph Str No.817, Arlington VA 22203, USA All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Message-ID: <E60wv7.3z6@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 21:25:55 GMT In article <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> "Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson" <ken@acni-2.com> writes: > I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. > Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another > machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and > then copy the files back, and reboot. The machine is the > authoritative source for NetInfo for the domain. > > Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? > Will work that way if you know what to copy back over. Otherwise you'd have overwrite the pretty nice brandnew NEXTSTEP you installed just before. And you'd miss the NetInfo server. No easy NFS mounts. You'd have to redo most of the NetInfo config before you get a connection. Why not attach the drive to the external SCSI port temporarily (don't tell me you have no enclosure and power supply :-( Then get it partitioned and a filesystem made by 'disk' or BuildDisk.app and copy the whole disk. Swap the drives and everything works again as before... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Why won't my Color Turbo Station power down Message-ID: <E60r52.3wy@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 19:22:13 GMT In article <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net (The Rev. James David Meacham) writes: > > > I really do love my color turbo. Problem is, whenever I try to reboot > it or shut it down, it hangs, necessitating a break to the ROM > monitor, and a 'bsd' from there. I'd like to skip this,. Does any > know why it might do this? Thanks in advance. Peace, > FAQ There is at least one process in an uninteruptible state. Most likely from a hung serial line, i.e. someone switched the device on the serial off while still in use by a process. Use 'ps -ax' to get a listing of processes while manually shutting down apps. You might find the hung process by gradually following this routine 'til it shuts down cleanly. -- 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: rfu@gromit.ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named....is it tricky under NS? Message-ID: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 19:29:46 Hallo ! Jon Haveman wrote in a message to All: JH> A friend of mine is in the process of setting up my NeXT to JH> be a name server for a couple of domain names. He has [...] I currently try to set up a nameserver by myself (nextstation running NS 3.3), but I didn't succeed in compiling the BIND package from vix.com. which named are you using ? JH> I know that that isn't very much information, but does JH> anybody know if there is anything non-standard, or tricky JH> with respect to setting this up on a NeXT. I'm currently JH> using NS3.3 if that matters. As far as I figured out, there is no named included in our version of NS 3.3 .... mfg Rainer http://iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at/~rfu
From: maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP + SAMBA '030 cube binaries? Date: 18 Feb 1997 05:08:54 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5ebdh6$833$1@cheyenne.iac.net> Because of the current lack of development software (or original distribution media) for a particular black cube, I have need for CAP and SAMBA *binaries* to complete turning this beast into a print server. Can anyone out there help me? For those folks who helped with my network problems, thank you! It turned out that I needed to modify a simple line in the rc script which was calling ypserv.... this enabled DNS, and then the rest was pretty straightforward berkeley print daemon configuration. Sooooo, can anyone out there offer me an ftp solution to this? Don't mail the binaries to me... I *don't* have enough disk space on my mail server for that! If you won't open your box to me, I'll open up mine to you for an arranged upload. TIA! J. Maynard Gelinas
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help:Installing second harddrive to NeXT system Date: 23 Feb 1997 19:06:23 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5eq4ff$ckh@nicaragua.earthlink.net> Hello everyone. I am currently running NSFIP 3.3(800MB) and Doze NT(200MB) on a 1GB SCSI HD. I wanted to reinstall the system by adding another 500MB hard drive. I wanted some advice in terms of installing NS on the full 1GB harddrive and the other drive for Doze NT. Is this possible with NS? If so, what is the procedure for doing the install? What are the pitfalls, what is the bootable drive, etc? The system is SCSI using ADAPTEC 2940. Any suggestions or comments welcomed. Thank you. Please respond to... quinonez@ucla.edu -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: quick SendMail propogation question (repost) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:53:46 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <330D629A.2781@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <E5xHoB.1Er@xombi.wizard.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit recurve@resourceful.com wrote: > > My Cube has the address xombi.wizard.net > > Mail travels fine in almost all instances save when I try to mail other > people at wizard.net Why? because the mail never leaves my machine, I get > an error message that login@xombi.wizard.net does not exist. > > To get around this I put the following band-aid fix into my /etc/resolv.conf: > domain xombi.wizard.net > > right above my nameserver declarations. So far everything seems to be > working but does anyone have other suggestions? > > Thanks :-) > --- Are you usind sendmail.mailhost.cf. So your machine can deliver mail by itself without using the mailhost at you domaen. But in the other way it things all users at the domaen are to known at you local machine. We had the same problem and worked around by commenting out the last rule below. ############################################################# ##### ##### Rewriting rules ##### # special local conversions S6 R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname #R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain This prevent the sendmail to look for a user that is on the mailhost at you domaen. stef ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.portables Subject: What notebook will you recommend? Date: 21 Feb 1997 12:12:00 GMT Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research - Georgia Tech Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ek3eg$mnt@smash.gatech.edu> I am about to buy a notebook computer. Having only used the cubes from the beginning (of NeXT), and continuing to use them along with NEXTSTEP on Sparcs, I am not too knowledgeable about Intel. I have been seriously looking into the Toshiba Tecra 730, from Bifrost Works, since I can buy it with openstep pre-installed. I have been corresponding with Jason and I really like his responsiveness and helpful attitude. There are a couple of problems. First I will have to get a special dispensation from the state to buy computers that are either not on the approved list or from vendors who are not approved. This could be a major hurdle. I know Gateway is on the approved list, but I don't know how difficult it would be to install openstep on a Gateway notebook. I am likely to hear objections (and possibly denial to buy) since the Toshiba is more expensive than a "comparable" (i.e., processor speed etc.) machine from Gateway or some other company. If you have recently bought a Gateway or other fast notebook (not less than 12.1 active matrix screen), I would appreciate your advice and suggestions. Openstep will be my primary operating system, with space allocated for Linux, and windoze NT. Thank you very much. govind Even the new Apple PowerBooks look attractive, and I could consider buying one instead, hoping that I will get Rhapsody as soon as it becomes available. T. Govindaraj, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205. http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty/T_Govindaraj, +1 404 894 3873
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702232004.PAA14159@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f958b860288ea78e9a8c9f5f62c3d3c2 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 97 15:04:02 -0500 Subject: Re: C.S.N.sysadmin archives and FAQ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f958b860288ea78e9a8c9f5f62c3d3c2 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Original Date: 22 Feb 1997 10:18:23 -0800 > There are a few problems that I am having that I remember being > covered in the past. I don't want to ask avout them again so I > would like to know where an archive of this stuff is. Depends on how far back you want to go. The PEANUTS site has the the archives of all the USENET NeXT groups under ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Usenet/news/YEAR where YEAR is the 4 digit year you are looking for. There's also the CD-ROM collections, such as the Big Green CD set which has USENET archives (through Oct 96 I believe) all set and ready to go with DL. (You can find more about BGCD and the other CD sets at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/) If you can't find what you're looking for, let me know. I've got the archive of this newsgroup in Mail.app since Oct 96. (and the other newsgroups as well, except programmer and advocasy). TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: C.S.N.sysadmin archives and FAQ? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:18:18 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un46r_G00iV_M1jg5a@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5end9f$anf@crl10.crl.com> In-Reply-To: <5end9f$anf@crl10.crl.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 22-Feb-97 C.S.N.sysadmin archives and.. by Christoph Steiner@crl.co > There are a few problems that I am having that I remember being covered > in the past. I don't want to ask avout them again so I would like to > know where an archive of this stuff is. Try <URL=http://www.dejanews.com> for archived news articles. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:21:39 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Mn46uHW00iV_E1jjZm@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> In-Reply-To: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 22-Feb-97 named....is it tricky under.. by Rainer Fuegenstein@gromi > JH> I know that that isn't very much information, but does > JH> anybody know if there is anything non-standard, or tricky > JH> with respect to setting this up on a NeXT. I'm currently > JH> using NS3.3 if that matters. > > As far as I figured out, there is no named included in our version > of NS 3.3 .... /usr/etc/named. And 'man named' works too. Look again. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Domain defined -> Boot process stops! Why??? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:25:24 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <En46xoK00iV_41jU5l@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ej4gb$qp6@uni2f.unige.ch> In-Reply-To: <5ej4gb$qp6@uni2f.unige.ch> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Feb-97 Domain defined -> Boot proc.. by phm@eqt.ch > We have here a domain of our own. When I now define this domain name in > HostManager, the boot process stops after the message "Starting File > Service Deamons:". With "C" I can continue the boot process and > everything seems to be ok. Could somebody tell me why? And what could I do > against it ? Has it something to do with NIS? ypserv? Setting a domain in HostManager refers to an YP/NIS domain; your machine pauses because it's trying to get in contact with a local NIS server. If you don't have a local NIS server, don't set the domain field in HostManager and /etc/hostconfig. If you want to you can explicitly set your machine's Internet/DNS hostname via adding a "hostname my_machine.do.main" to the /etc/rc.local file. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem starting OpenStep for Solaris Date: 24 Feb 1997 07:21:53 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5erfih$asi$2@rks1> I try to install the Solaris OpenStep on an Ultra 1 running on SunOS Release 5.5.1 and OpenWindows 3.5.1. The installation is finished successfully. I made the changes to the .login file and started OpenWindows with the openwin -dpi 72 commandline. When I now try to start OpenStep the following Message appears in the shell window: %% DPS Client Library Warning: % Value '0.5' is invalid for dpsColorCube.PseudoColor.8.gamma resource %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: 1,000000 ]%% Feb 24 10:05:10 Workspace[1061] An uncaught exception was raised Feb 24 10:05:10 Workspace[1061] DPS error code 1000 (%[ DPS error name: undefined error: 1,000000 ]%) After 45 seconds the process ends without starting the OpenStep environment. Does anybody knows causes this error and how I can handle it? Thank You for helping me Andreas dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de
From: gloger@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Jochen Gloger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Parallel Port Date: 24 Feb 1997 11:37:40 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5erui4$qsk@news.sns-felb.debis.de> References: <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Cc: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com In <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: > Has anybody else problems in activating the parallel port with an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 MB? > The driver don't recognize the parallel port at 0x378. (_IOProbe... can't find a parallel port > blabla blabla... failed; or somthing like that) No problems with an old MB (...TP4XE). Version > is NS3.3 (white one, what else with a par. port at 0x378). Anyone find a solution? MB-BIOS > is the latest from 29. January 97. > Henry > Hi, there are two possibiblities 1. You use a new parallel port driver which is available on the net. I tried this, but my system reacts with system panic, so I had to look for another possibiblity 2. In the BIOS you can select several modes for the parallel port. When I switched from the "normal" mode to "EPP" I had no longer problems. Hope that helps regards, Jochen -- ===================================================================== Jochen Gloger, Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm, Institute of Information Technology, Department of Text Understanding Phone: +49 731 505 2353, Fax: +49 731 505 4113 Address: Wilhelm-Runge-Str.11, P.O. Box 23 60, 89013 Ulm, Germany Email: gloger@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM =====================================================================
From: "I.U.T." <istechun@dci.iran.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: debugging core file Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 07:02:30 -0500 Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970224070107.28503A-100000@dci> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hi, how i can debug a core file on sunos 4.1.2 solaris 1.1.1? thankx, another email address: masroor@cc.iut.ac.ir
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sending the font by default when printing? Date: 24 Feb 1997 09:52:07 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5eroc7$6f0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I am printing over a network to an HP LaserJet 4si MX. When I print any non-standard font (e.g. Aachen, Sonata, Calliope), the printer prints junk, because the PostScript sent to it refers to a font it knows of not. So, I have to go through Print->Save... Chosen Printer / Include Fonts every time I print. Is there a way that the font can be sent along with the spooled PostScript as a default when I just say "Print" ? The NeXT FAQ said nothing on this. Also, it seems that the *.ppd files are not utilized when printing over the network. I.e. there is no place in the /etc/printcap entries for the appropriate *.ppd file. So are the *.ppd files needed only when setting up a printer connected by the serial port to the NEXTSTEP computer? -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: One time password for NeXTStep 3.3 ??? Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:27:04 GMT Organization: MLab,Dep. of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy Message-ID: <5esc08$q2p@oracle.csi.unimi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I want to know if there is a soft like Skey o OPIE that implement one time password on NeXTStep 3.3 Tnx in advance !!!
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Where is comp.sys.next.sysadmin Archive? Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:57:52 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5eskr0$sg5$1@shadow.skypoint.net> Is there an arcive for this group? Is there a FAQ Thank you -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: Lutz Kwasniok <101667.1750@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP!!!! Mail.app and CServe-Mail Date: 24 Feb 1997 19:00:47 GMT Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736) Message-ID: <5esogv$fg5$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! Does anybody know if I could use Mail.app with the mailserver of Compuserve, because they didn't have a pop/smtp mailserver. Does anybody know if there is a way to make use of the CompuServemailserver and how to configure my system to send mail to server and to get my mail from it ??? Any hints are wellcome. Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (MIME, ASCII) -- Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (sorry no nextmail)
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Parallel Port Date: Mon, 24 Feb 97 13:22:58 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5es17l$kg0@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Thank's to the guys who gave me a response. One suggested to use the par.port. driver you will find at ftp.peak.org. I will test this too. Last weekend I found a different solution, namely first to "boot" the printer and than NS. Now the driver is satisfied and works in the wellknown manner. Seems that ASUS will check on the very first boot procedure if any printer is connected and working and than enabling or disabling the parallel chip set. Strange... Henry
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 97 13:14:27 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5es0nl$kg0@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> <Mn46uHW00iV_E1jjZm@andrew.cmu.edu> ...named Nevertheless, if you will install Gatekepper and you want dial on demand, you have to install a named package. The latest version I installed was BIND4.9.3. I run into some problems configuring a primary "root" domain (which are not solved). Henry
From: markfr@markfr .cse.tek.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Receiving mail in a unix network Date: 24 Feb 1997 19:12:56 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR, USA Message-ID: <5esp7o$am0@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> I am trying to receive mail on my Next in a Sun network. I have mailhost aliased to the Sun mail host, and I am able to send mail OK. When I try to send mail to my Next, the mail gets bounced. I looked in the Network and System Administration book, and they say I need to mount /usr/spool/mail from the Sun network. However, I have been able to receive mail on other Sun networks without using this mount. Thanks for any help. - Mark Please reply to: markfr@mdhost.cse.tek.com or Post your response.
From: matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: next and linux partitions Date: 24 Feb 1997 19:30:59 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Message-ID: <5esq9j$arc@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: next linux disk partitions I've got a dual boot next/linux system. Can I mount my linux partition under nextstep and vice versa? Thanks Geof -- Geoffrey Matthews matthews@cs.wwu.edu voice:360-650-3797 fax:360-650-7788
From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Shutdown/halt/reboot fails on NS 3.3 Intel Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:40:43 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Sender: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu Message-ID: <5et1sr$3cv@gold.tc.umn.edu> Whenever I attempt to halt my system, I get the following messages: unmounting Dos... Done unmounting Netware... Done unmounting /Net.... Done unmounting swapfile.front....Done unmounting disk2....Done Root unmount FAILED 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3It's safe to power off computer. Sometimes I get 1s instead of the 3s. Since the system doesn't go down clean, I wind up having to fsck the drive after every reboot. Normally this isn't a problem, (why ever boot into DOS ;) but I will have to use a couple of programs under WinNT and this could get kinda annoying. My config: NS 3.3 (user+dev, patched) SuperMicro PCI Mainboard, Intel P150 CPU 32 MB EDO RAM Diamond Stealth 64 2MB Intel EtherExpress Logitech Bus Mouse NCR PCI SCSI adapter 500MB Seagate ST5660N (root/boot partition) 1.2 MB Fujitsu M1606S (mounted at /disk2) Iomega Zip Drive (external) Thanks for any help. ---- Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215 Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201 Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu University of Minnesota (NeXT & MIME) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu
From: Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rebuild kernel Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:39:51 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know how to rebuild the mach kernel for a next server?
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Loading from Network? Date: 21 Feb 1997 06:40:25 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5ejg0p$oij@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <330D06F1.7074@ix.netcom.com> "Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > When I start my Color NeXT station it says loading from network. > My machine is not on a network. I have the OS software and can > reload, but can anyone tell me how to get past this loading from > network screen? If I remember right, reloading the software wouldn't solve the problem anyway. You have to get into the ROM monitor, and change the default bootup command. If you have the documentation handy, read up on the ROM monitor. If you don't have it handy, mention it here and someone (perhaps even me!) will dig up the steps you need to do to reset the boot command. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sending the font by default when printing? Date: 25 Feb 1997 01:03:19 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5etdon$cos@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5eroc7$6f0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Cc: altenber@acpub.duke.edu A kind Netizen replied that one needs to add the property _nxfinalform= to the NetInfo entry for the printer. I did it, rebooted, and it worked. In <5eroc7$6f0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Lee Altenberg wrote: > I am printing over a network to an HP LaserJet 4si MX. When I print any > non-standard font (e.g. Aachen, Sonata, Calliope), the printer prints junk, > because the PostScript sent to it refers to a font it knows of not. So, I have > to go through Print->Save... Chosen Printer / Include Fonts every time I print. > Is there a way that the font can be sent along with the spooled PostScript as a > default when I just say "Print" ? The NeXT FAQ said nothing on this. > > Also, it seems that the *.ppd files are not utilized when printing over the > network. I.e. there is no place in the /etc/printcap entries for the > appropriate *.ppd file. So are the *.ppd files needed only when setting up a > printer connected by the serial port to the NEXTSTEP computer? > -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 21 Feb 1997 06:37:35 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5ejfrf$oij@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon Wright) wrote: > Specifically, I am running some FAX software that generates TIFF > files. However, it calls them <blahblahblah>.tif. The only apps > that the Tools Inspector claims can open a .tif file are IconBuilder, > Edit, and WM. If I rename the file to be <blahblahblah>.tiff, > then Preview shows up in the list of applications. > > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to > set Preview as the default application for .tif files. Any > suggestions? Hmm. You might be able to get Opener.app to do this, except that I think you'd have to compile Opener.app to do that. My guess is that the current version of Opener is based on the older version of NeXTSTEP, and it would require some work to compile it (at all) under OpenStep 4.x. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Where is comp.sys.next.sysadmin Archive? Date: 25 Feb 1997 09:29:42 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5eube6$nh5@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <5eskr0$sg5$1@shadow.skypoint.net> jalegre@andante-systems.com writes > Is there an arcive for this group? > Is there a FAQ > To browse all posted articles use DejaNews: http://www.dejanews.com To filter out 'comp.sys.next.sysadmin' start with defining a search filter: http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnsetfilter.html Good Luck, Robert -- ----- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Socks for NeXTSTEP? Date: 25 Feb 1997 08:19:18 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5eu7a6$3c5@vader.WolfWare.com> Has anyone already done the work of building a Socks 4 or Socks 5 server for NeXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach for black? - Chris -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:03:02 GMT Organization: R&A Sender: news@RnA.NL Message-ID: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Subject line says it all. Oh, and I don't mind a command line based newsreader that can just decode the contents of a MIME message like the use of uudecode from within nn. -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rebuild kernel Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:34:18 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0n4idOe00iWQQ1B1VD@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> In-Reply-To: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Feb-97 Rebuild kernel by Brian Ward@stevens-tech. > Does anyone know how to rebuild the mach kernel for a next server? Apple's new employees who were formerly NeXT system engineers do. However, NeXT has never released any facilities for users to rebuild the kernel as in SunOS 4. What did you want to do, anyway? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Rebuild kernel Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E660vD.DwK@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:40:25 GMT References: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu>, Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> wrote: >Does anyone know how to rebuild the mach kernel for a next server? You can't re-build NeXT kernel. You can, however, set some operational parameters from the boot prompt/ROM monitor/whatever your machine has. -- 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: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NoteBook.app, how can I get a license? Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:50:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ev8ou$e93@news.acns.nwu.edu> I tried NoteBook.app and I like it. I'd like to purchase a license but I haven't been able to contact the authors. Here is what I know (from there info panel), it is written by Millennium Software Labs, Inc. 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300 Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA (415) 321-3720 (415) 321-3650 Fax info@millennium.com Call (415) 321-3720 to order products But there phone is disconnected and has no forwarding information. Can anyone tell me now to contact them? Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What is a process true memory consuption? Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:10:23 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5ev6dv$sr3@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> I was playing a bit with OmniWeb to see when it is allocation large amounts of memory and fiddled with some tools. 1. "ps -agvx" which gives me PID TT STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSIZE RSIZE LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND 419 ? SW 1:11 0 0 0 26.6M 0K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.0 OmniWeb2 2. "pmem 419" (as root) pid private aliased unshared shared total nobjects command 419 3688 2480 6168 6480 12648 122 OmniWeb2 How do the 12648 (guess thats pages, there is no man page for pmem) correspond to the 26.6 M? -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: symptoms: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:43:08 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5evbrt$964@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <5evajo$8lt@morrow.stanford.edu> I forgot to describe the symptoms of problem 2: When I try to login at the server console (as root or as any user), the login goes OK and the login window goes away, the cursor spins a moment and becomes an arrow, and the screen stays blank; my familiar Workspace layout never shows up. I have to NMI and reboot to get the login screen back. When I rlogin or telnet to the server, my login goes OK, but when I try to su, it takes my password and replies "su: setgid: Not owner", and I remain a lowly user. -- Eric Minch Stanford Genetics Department http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:21:44 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5evajo$8lt@morrow.stanford.edu> Hi Folx-- One of our machines (a Sparc 20) mysteriously went down last Friday and wouldn't reboot. I reinstalled NS3.3 [first mistake] and its NSF exports showed up everywhere they should, but it wasn't importing as it should. That's the first problem, and in the course of trying to solve it I tried to copy /usr/bin/* from its identical twin machine but instead copied them to our server, a black cube [second mistake]. Naturally the cube server wouldn't execute /usr/bin/* anymore, so I copied /usr/bin/* from another cube [third mistake]. Now I can't login at the server console, but I can login remotely, but I can't su. In other words, no root access is possible to our server, so my so-called sysadmin duties are at an end unless I can solve the second problem (no root access to server), and then finally solve the first problem (client exports but doesn't import). Anyone care to lend a hand? -- Eric Minch Stanford Genetics Department http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E669Dp.29K@flop.schwaben.de> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:44:13 GMT Jon Wright wrote: > How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? You can't - not without pulling a hack, that is. See below. > I know how to use the Tools Inspector to show which apps OPENSTEP thinks > can open the particular file type and to set the default application for > that file type, but what if an application doesn't show up in the list the > Tools Inspector displays? Is there any way to force the application to be > "discovered" by the Tools Inspector? Yes. The application in question has to register itself for the partiular file type; if it doesn't do that, WM won't allow you to select it. > (snip) > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set Preview > as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? --snip-- >From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software >Subject: Re: Preview as default opener for .tif files? In article <1994Oct12.230604.1945@nbivax.nbi.dk> sams@nbivax.nbi.dk writes: >Preview is the default opener for .ps and .tiff files. Is it possible >to make it the default opener for .tif tiles too? (I'm creating the >files under msdos and would like to keep the same names.) Edit __header section of __ICON Mach-O segment in executable /NextApps/Preview.app/Preview. Extract __header using segedit, edit it to add a line for "tif" and put it back using segedit again. See "man segedit" or just type the command without args. It should be obvious what to do from the following. % segedit Preview -extract __ICON __header ~/header % cat ~/header F Preview.app Preview app F Preview Preview app S ps Preview ps S tiff Preview S eps Preview @ -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome) --snip-- This also works fine for any other file type, for example JPEGs or GIFs if you have an appropriate filter installed. No more n+1 custom picture viewers for different file types.. Holger -- hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM LOAD "MACH_KERNEL",8,1
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can OpenStep be configured to serve PPP? Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:42:40 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5evis0$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a OpenStep 4.1/Intel machine on my desk at my University. We have a T3 Network connection, so to say the least it is very fast. Unfortunately, the University has implemented a 90 minute time limit for their dialup IP service. So to get around it I am looking into establishing my own dialin service. Can anyone tell me if I can configure OpenStep to act as a PPP or Slip server for dialup? What tools/packages would I need? Is there any documentation on this? Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:56:58 GMT Message-ID: <5evjmq$mvb$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> <5ejfrf$oij@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote: : Hmm. You might be able to get Opener.app to do this, except : that I think you'd have to compile Opener.app to do that. Correct on both counts. Opener has already been modified to do something very similar--it takes care of .TIFF and .EPS files (note the capitalization). All it does is change the suffixes to .tiff/.eps and message Preview to take the files from there. : My guess is that the current version of Opener is based on the : older version of NeXTSTEP, and it would require some work to : compile it (at all) under OpenStep 4.x. Correct again. The current version was built quad-fat under NS 3.3. In my spare time here and there I am working on completely rewriting Opener so that it can be more easily OpenStep-ified. But don't look for the announcement anytime soon, since my real job is keeping me plenty busy.... Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: file ownership Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:45:34 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5evj1e$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <5elhcu$d3@news1.ucsd.edu> <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> > > No. You have found one of the errors in the NeXT SysAdmin Manual, and > believed it. Only the root file system should have an entry "noauto". All > other file systems to be mounted at boot time should not have this, since it Yep that did it! the problem was the noauto!!!! Thank's for the help!
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Solution: Help: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Date: 25 Feb 1997 21:27:18 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5evlfm$hph@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <5evajo$8lt@morrow.stanford.edu> Hi folx-- Thanks and a tip o' the hat to Magnus Nordberg and Ken Lui. The uid and gid bits were wrong after I copied /usr/bin/*. A single-user reboot and a few chmods fixed them. As for problem #1, I'll just re-re-install 3.3 with the client not connected to the net this time (though this isn't supposed to be a problem for the Sparcs). Eric Minch Stanford Genetics Department http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
From: rob@blackhole.ix.netcom.com (Rob Blessin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disney buys stake in Pixar! Stock soars! Date: 25 Feb 1997 21:29:37 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5evlk1$qnh@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Hello NeXT/Apple community: Wow ! Disney buys stake in Pixar all I can say is looks like it was a good investment... Renderman in Rhapsody would be nice. Way to go Steve! Best regards Rob Blessin President Black Hole, Incorporated bhi1@ix.netcom.com
From: Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pine Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:48:50 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970225164429.27695A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know a way to use pine with NeXXT's? How to set it up. NeXT pull the mail from the incoming folder then puts it into the folders it sets up with mailboxes (Active) but then you can't really get the two to work together. Anyone been able to set this up to work between the two mail handlers? Is there a mail handler that can be used from the NeXT Mach kernel that will work with the desk to GUI mail app? Is there a way to chage what the GUI Next mail app does? Thanks
From: kevin@vulcansthrone.az.stratus.com (Kevin Dorer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Black box on 3.3 will not power off Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:41:34 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5evpqu$as4@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> In article <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> kevin@vulcansthrone.az.stratus.com (Kevin Dorer) writes: > > Black NeXT hardware, pizza box running NeXTStep 3.3 powers on > automatically after power off. Neither the 'After power off/failure' > nor the 'At specified time' buttons are checked under preferences > for root or other 2 users. Buttons may have been checked at some > time in the past for one of the users. Also tried enabling/disabling > power off (problem with this mentioned 3.1 release notes). Ideas > or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks to Chuck (Charles Swiger) who suggested replacing the 3v battery. Put in a new battery and no more problem! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin C. Dorer VOS Mail: Kevin_Dorer@vos.stratus.com Software Systems Engineer NeXT Mail: kevin@az.stratus.com Customer Assistance Center Customer Service: (800) 828-8513 Stratus Computer, Inc., 4455 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix AZ 85018
From: Bill Mitchell <bill.mitchell@mercyic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cube to MAC ?s Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:58:16 -0600 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At home: The "new" cube, about 2 weeks old, has the following config... NeXTStep 3.0, 040, 8MB RAM, 650 MB HD Cube sits next, no pun intended, to my MAC Performa 6400/180. 1. What/how is best method of connecting/sharing the 2? 2. Can I "share" the Performa's modem with the Cube? 3. Can I print from Cube to attached Apple inkjet 1500 printer? 4. Will the EXECUTOR emulater assist in these quests? Thanks in advance. All responses are greatly appreciated. Bill Mitchell
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OmniWeb and Re: What is a process true memory consuption? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:11:25 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <sn4r6Ri00iWl0ENO80@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ev6dv$sr3@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: <5ev6dv$sr3@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 25-Feb-97 What is a process true memo.. by Frank M. Siegert@this.NO > PID TT STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSIZE RSIZE LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND > 419 ? SW 1:11 0 0 0 26.6M 0K 0 0K > 0 0.0 0.0 OmniWeb2 > > 2. "pmem 419" (as root) > > pid private aliased unshared shared total nobjects command > 419 3688 2480 6168 6480 12648 122 OmniWeb2 > > How do the 12648 (guess thats pages, there is no man page for pmem) > correspond to the 26.6 M? Number of private pages * 8K per page / (1024 K per MB): 3688 * 8 / 1024 ~= 28 MB. Close enough.... Private + aliased = unshared. Unshared + shared = total. I believe the shared category refers to pages mapped in from the shared libraries. ------------------------------- Speaking of OmniWeb's memory usage, I made the change that Ken suggested-- turning all of the cache times to 0 except Omni/DocView. I've been running OmniWeb 2.5b2 for a week or so with about 4 document windows open all of the time. % ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND chuck 10624 0.0 29.7 241M 23.8M ? SW 18:52 /LocalApps/OmniWeb.app/Omni OmniWeb still shows the ever-increasing VM size.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 24 Feb 1997 05:36:36 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5er9d4$m2@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> <5e9ma2$4lr@usenet.rpi.edu> <5eiejr$gqq@news.xmission.com> don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: > The APAPI drive makes the drive masquerade as a SCSI device, so > it does work. I've managed to get CDPlayer.app to work, sort > of, by removing OmniCD from the system (it does not yet work, > though I think Andrew knows how to get it to at least work as > well as CDPlayer.app now, so perhaps a new version will be > forthcoming). I can play audio via the headphone jack, but not > through the sound card, since the volume control in CDPlayer.app > doesn't work at all and leaves the volume at zero. According to > an engineer at NeXT I spoke with, this is a known bug in the > ATAPI driver. > > Just thought you'd want to know about the above... Hmm. Does the drive actually show up as a SCSI device, at a specific SCSI ID? If so, I wonder if mCD.app would work with it. Presumably it should (though of course it would have the same problem with the volume, if that's a but in the driver). Thanks for the info. I can't test mCD on this (as my NS/Intel machine has a SCSI CD-ROM drive), but I'd be interested in what happens if anyone else tests tries mCD with it. (note to onlookers: I'm the author of mCD.app, such as it is...) (which has not been OpenStep-ified yet, so you probably can't compile it under NS-4.x). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Date: 24 Feb 1997 05:54:08 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5erae0$m2@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> "Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson" <ken@acni-2.com> wrote: > I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. > Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another > machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and > then copy the files back, and reboot. The machine is the > authoritative source for NetInfo for the domain. > > Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? I wouldn't do it that way. The root partition includes like /private/dev, and those device-definitions probably won't copy well across an NFS connection... I have replaced the root hard disk on more than one NeXTstation (but never on any other NeXTSTEP platform). What I do is attach the new hard disk in some temporary setup (borrowing some external case to hold the new drive). I get it all formatted and partitioned the way I want. I then boot off the NeXTSTEP 3.3 CD-ROM, and if you answer the questions correctly you end up in a unix command shell. I then mount both the old and new hard disks (using the -n option), and then use the "ditto" command to copy the old hard disk to the new one. Luckily the ditto command doesn't even require a working /tmp, so this works well. Note that I have not yet tried this with the CD for NS-4.0 or NS-4.1 , but hopefully both of them should work the same. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IMAP4 mail client? Date: 25 Feb 1997 23:37:25 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5f0ln5$ph3$1@xmission.xmission.com> I've successfully compiled IMAP4 for OPENSTEP 4.1 on the suggestion of Mark Crispin that I ditch imap2bis. (Mark was *extraordinarily* helpful. Thanks, Mark.) Now the next step is to get an IMAP4-compatible graphical mail client for OPENSTEP 4.1. Anyone have any suggestions? ......................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: timothy@sirius.com (Timothy Stonis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Routing question... Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:24:12 -0800 Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <timothy-2602970024120001@ppp146-sf1.sirius.com> Hi, I have (what I think is) a tough problem. I want to use my cube to route internet traffic from my local ethernet network (two macs and the cube) through the cube's PPP connection. I'm just using bogus IP numbers for the two macs and the cube (ie 192.0.0.x ). Any ideas? Thanks in advance... _Tim
From: root@localhost (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 09:53:19 GMT Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> I've installed a new root drive in my NeXTstation with a 128Mb swapdisk partition. However, it wasn't until after I installed everything on the new hard drive that I discovered the swapdisk partition was not EXACTLY 128Mb. Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition sizes without having to reinstall everything? Regards, -- # mark miller # markm@kaiwan.com (NeXTmail ok)
From: root@localhost (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 09:59:36 GMT Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <5f11i8$ra@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> I've installed a new root drive in my NeXTstation with a 128Mb swapdisk partition. However, it wasn't until after I installed everything on the new hard drive that I discovered the swapdisk partition was not EXACTLY 128Mb. Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition sizes without having to reinstall everything? Regards, -- # mark miller # markm@kaiwan.com (NeXTmail ok)
From: root@localhost (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 10:03:00 GMT Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <5f11ok$sv@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> I've installed a new root drive in my NeXTstation with a 128Mb swapdisk partition. However, it wasn't until after I installed everything on the new hard drive that I discovered the swapdisk partition was not EXACTLY 128Mb. Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition sizes without having to reinstall everything? Regards, -- # mark miller # markm@kaiwan.com (NeXTmail ok)
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: One time password for NeXTStep 3.3 ??? Date: 26 Feb 1997 10:05:38 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5f11ti$e7i@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <5esc08$q2p@oracle.csi.unimi.it> In-Reply-To: <5esc08$q2p@oracle.csi.unimi.it> On 02/24/97, Stefano Pisati wrote: > Hi, I want to know if there is a soft like Skey o OPIE that implement > one time password on NeXTStep 3.3 > Yes, skey... We certainly have the "client" here -- I'm not sure if it's been ported to the "server", however I'd guess so. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 02:47:51 -0800 Organization: Egg Head Billy Productions Message-ID: <331414D7.488@ix.netcom.com> References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote: > > Subject line says it all. > > Oh, and I don't mind a command line based newsreader that can just decode the > contents of a MIME message like the use of uudecode from within nn. > The next beta version of RadicalNews (due out in March) will support internal MIME messages. It is *by far* the best newsreader I have ever used on ANY platform and strongly incourage others to try it out! - Mark Trombino (not affiliated in any way to Radical Software. Just a fan!)
From: mark zajac <mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: internal HD for slab ? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:18:52 -0500 Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <3314383C.689F@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Is this really a sys-admin question? I'm not sure. If not, then sorry for posting the wrong group. Can somebody recomend a good generic hard drive for mounting inside a NeXT Color Turbo? What specs must I look for if I try to find one from a catalog? I'll try to wactch for a post but mail (mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu) will reach me sooner. Keep a song in your heart [:-)] Mark
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pfnfsd for NSFIP 3.3 Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:51:30 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5f1ili$7qg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, does anyone know where to get a pcnfsd for NS3.3 FIP? ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: "B. Alexander King III" <aking@uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can't format optical disk Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:44:09 -0600 Organization: Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago Message-ID: <33145A49.4113@uic.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: aking@uic.edu I have a NeXT cube with a 25MHz 68040 running NeXTStep 3.0. I also have two blank 256Mb optical disks. Unfortunately, I am unable to initialize them from the Workspace Manager's Disk menu. The optical drive won't even recognize them (it just spits them back out). What could be wrong? Thanks in advance. bak
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:36:15 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5f1vqv$nkc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <5edk3q$ljg@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> > > > the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank > > > Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under > > > /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. If you want the samba.pkg to allow you to install the package in a particular place, you can edit the samba.info # These fields determine where the installed package will go. DefaultLocation / Relocatable YES I do not know if the package was compiled to look in specific places (eg /samba/blah....) However, you could make a symbolic link at that point. In our case, we do store things on shared network drives... pasc
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 26 Feb 97 14:13:02 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF39F574-114A06@207.147.51.249> References: <331414D7.488@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp.sys.next.software, nntp://netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp.sys.next.sysadmin On Wed, Feb 26, 1997 5:47 AM, Mark Trombino <mailto:mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > The next beta version of RadicalNews (due out in March) will support > internal MIME messages. It is *by far* the best newsreader I have ever > used on ANY platform and strongly incourage others to try it out! The UI is great on RadicalNews, but the performance on my Turbo Cube is slow as molasses even with a 28.8 connection. That Kiwi Newsreader is much faster, but I don't know if it supports MIME. Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can OpenStep be configured to serve PPP? Message-ID: <1997Feb26.104636.26294@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 26 Feb 97 10:46:36 MST References: <5evis0$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> Distribution: world Cc: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu In <5evis0$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: > Can anyone tell me if I can configure OpenStep to act as a PPP or Slip server for dialup? > What tools/packages would I need? Is there any documentation on this? > The PPP package that ships with Openstep 4.1 works just fine... -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:46:30 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5f23um$ttj@library.airnews.net> References: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> <E680Dr.4sL@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: > Not that I know of. I think once it's there you're stuck with it. Even > the exotica of AIX's storage system can't reduce the size of filesystems. Apologies for being off topic in csns, but on AIX3.2.5/4.1.4 there is a sneaky way to reduce the sizes of JFS partitions on rootvg and non. I don't remember how off the top of my head, but it's detailed in an article from 800.IBM4FAX. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E680Dr.4sL@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:25:02 GMT References: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>, Charlie Root <root@localhost> wrote: >Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition >sizes without having to reinstall everything? > Not that I know of. I think once it's there you're stuck with it. Even the exotica of AIX's storage system can't reduce the size of filesystems. -- 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: Richard Rostad <rrostad@norgit.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Windows NT filesystem and ZIP disks. Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:06:20 +0100 Organization: NORGIT Senteret AS Message-ID: <3314A5CC.5F4C@norgit.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: a.ncg.net! I need to exchange data between Windows NT and NextStep Workstations using iomega ZIP drives. This works ok until someone formats a ZIP disk using the NTFS file system. Is there a way to make the NEXT read these disks? If possible, will it be possible to read compressed directories also? Could NEXT be able to compress directories on NTFS disks? I would suppose the two last would be asking too much, but NTFS as an installable file system seems possible. I see the NEXT already handles both NEXT, FAT and Macintosh file systems, so one more should be possible? Thanks Richard.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pfnfsd for NSFIP 3.3 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:23:15 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un58qXK00iVCI8QK9G@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5f1ili$7qg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> In-Reply-To: <5f1ili$7qg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Feb-97 pfnfsd for NSFIP 3.3 by Ralf Specht@dbag.ulm.Dai > does anyone know where to get a pcnfsd for NS3.3 FIP? How about '/usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd'? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jorice@cs.tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Two NS 3.3 Partitions on Same Disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 21:50:10 GMT Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Sender: isgnntp@vangogh.cs.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5f2b6i$kc4$1@synge.maths.tcd.ie> Hi. I've got an NS/I 3.3 system which was originally configured to be multi-OS - NS, Windows and Linux. I'm now running low on disk space and want to convert the Windows and Linux partitions to being NEXTSTEP. However, fdisk won't allow two NS partitions on the same disk! Is there any way of getting this to work, without reinitialising everything? (I kind of doubt it, from scanning similar postings in this group over the last few months). -- Jonathan Rice -- Jonathan Rice, Dept. Comp. Sci., Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/jorice/jorice.html Jonathan.Rice@tcd.ie
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Windows NT filesystem and ZIP disks. Date: 26 Feb 1997 22:19:27 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5f2ctf$19j@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <3314A5CC.5F4C@norgit.no> Cc: rrostad@norgit.no In <3314A5CC.5F4C@norgit.no> Richard Rostad wrote: > I need to exchange data between Windows NT and NextStep Workstations > using iomega ZIP drives. This works ok until someone formats a ZIP disk > using the NTFS file system. Is there a way to make the NEXT read these > disks? If possible, will it be possible to read compressed directories > also? Could NEXT be able to compress directories on NTFS disks? > > I would suppose the two last would be asking too much, but NTFS as an > installable file system seems possible. I see the NEXT already handles > both NEXT, FAT and Macintosh file systems, so one more should be > possible? > > Thanks > Richard. > Try 'vmount' (available on the public archives, e.g. http://peanuts.leo.org/). Guess it does not read compressed ntfs... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: crump@world.std.com (David Crump) Subject: /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames...help! Message-ID: <E688Ay.283@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 20:16:10 GMT I am having trouble with my NeXT box resolving hostnames. In my local configuration, I have the correct IP number, router number, netmask and hostname. I have tried both NetInfo Network and NON-NetInfo Network, but to no avail. My /etc/hosts file has all my names and numbers in it, but it says to NOT use NetInfo if I want this file to be read. How exactly do I do this? Thanks for the help via e-mail... David Crump crump@world.std.com ===================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Subject: login window screen saver timing? Message-ID: <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:06:53 GMT Hi all. Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... Thanks in advance, bryce
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: 26 Feb 1997 21:48:34 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> Summary: SoundBlaster on board Keywords: SoundBlaster In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, > My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. > OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. > I've tried each of the SB drivers and none > of them work. Does anyone know how to get > this to work. I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). Re Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E68pJu.GBG@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 02:28:42 GMT References: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> <E680Dr.4sL@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5f23um$ttj@library.airnews.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5f23um$ttj@library.airnews.net>, Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> wrote: >dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: >> Not that I know of. I think once it's there you're stuck with it. Even >> the exotica of AIX's storage system can't reduce the size of filesystems. > >Apologies for being off topic in csns, but on AIX3.2.5/4.1.4 there is a >sneaky way to reduce the sizes of JFS partitions on rootvg and non. Well, yeah, but it's basically "make a backup, shrink the partitions, do a restore." I mentioned AIX because someone may bitch about NeXTSTEP not being able to do this. AIX's disk handling is very good, but even it can't do it without going through this big annoying kludge. -- 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: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Accessing a serial port Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 23:52:23 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33151307.DA5@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have connected an Ascend P25 terminal adapter to my computer. It is connected by ethernet for the network connection and to the 1st serial port for terminal access. Now I need to access it with VT100 terminal emulation in order to configure it. The manual gives directions for only Win95, which says to use HyperTerminal. Will I be able to use NeXT's terminal app for this? What command should I give to access the 1st serial port? Or should I use a different app altogether? Thanks, Greg
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 27 Feb 1997 03:21:15 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm132-28.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5f2ujb$j3m$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> <7xg1yjry8m.fsf@burrow.muc.de> Cc: markusg@burrow.muc.de In <7xg1yjry8m.fsf@burrow.muc.de> Markus Gloede wrote: > >>>>> "GW" == Gerben Wierda <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl> writes: > > GW> Subject line says it all. > > Everytime somebody askes for a good newsreader my voice can be heard > shouting: Emacs + Gnus! It does everything you want and more. > > Markus G > It doesn't sound to me like what he meant. He's most likely looking for a newsreader extension for the 'vi' editor? No full screen, line by line mode. Sorry, I couldn't help myself, just a friendly joke. :-))) Good luck. Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xg1yjry8m.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:36:25 GMT >>>>> "GW" == Gerben Wierda <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl> writes: GW> Subject line says it all. Everytime somebody askes for a good newsreader my voice can be heard shouting: Emacs + Gnus! It does everything you want and more. Markus G
From: younghoon KIL <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 15:25:53 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <331528E4.466E@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b-sady@uchicago.edu Bryce Sady wrote: > > Hi all. > > Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen saver? > It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it more like > around 5min., since when I put it on the login window screen, I'm > going to leave the computer anyways... Yes, you can adjust the timing. Double click the Preferences on the Dock and move to Login Window Preferences. Now you can find Automatic Screen Saver adjust slider. younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP Q&A & Info Board written in Korean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: How to change PS font encoding? Message-ID: <E68Gu7.Avn@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 23:20:31 GMT I just got a Mac PostScript font (MetaPlus) which I've converted using Frank Siegert's FontConvert.app. Unfortunately this font's encoding seems to be very strange, so that eight bit characters are not displayed correctly. Specifically, if I have an accented character in Helvetica and change its font to MetaPlus, it becomes something like a Yen sign for example. Does anybody know how to fix this? I really need this font, so I'm willing to resort to even the most tedious manual solution (e.g. hand-editing the font and afm files) in order to get the font to work. I tried changing the values in the PostScript Encoding array, but this did not seem to have any effect. Piers -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I think people are happy using Windows, and that's an extremely depressing thought." -= Steve Jobs, 1/96 =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@iqweb.de -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:49:34 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am experiencing problems mounting NeXT disks on IRIX 6.2 machines. The error messages given below are seen on the NeXT machine. I have tried mounting with rsize and wrsize set to 1k but this does not help and no files are shown with ls. With the default rsize and wrsize ls hangs the machine. Has anyone seen this problem and does anyone know the solution. I have tried various mount options to fix this but with no success at the moment. I seem to remember a thread about this before but cannot remember what the solution was if any? Is there any searchable archive of NeXT postings? Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Date: 27 Feb 1997 07:37:18 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5f3v5u$o0o@papoose.quick.com> References: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> In article <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear>, Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson <ken@acni-2.com> wrote: >I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. >Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another >machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and then copy the >files back, and reboot. The machine is the authoritative source for >NetInfo for the domain. > >Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? Is there any way you can temporarily use an external case for this. This will simplify matter quite a bit. Just add the drive externally with an ID 2 or higher. Do a BuildDisk to get a boot track, and formatting done, and to install a minimal boot set. Then mount the drive as root : mount /dev/sd1a /tmp/mnt. Do a full backup and restore to the new drive (in bourne compatible shell) dump 0f - / | (cd /tmp/mnt; restore xf -) Power off, and change the external scsi ID to 0 for testing. Now reboot and you will be booting from the new drive, and can test it out. This will save a lot of time, and is safer. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Engineering Group (617) 895-3343 ) | The best wetware is often in beta.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to change PS font encoding? Date: 27 Feb 1997 14:03:41 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5f447t$up@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <E68Gu7.Avn@mediahaus.de> piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) wrote: > I just got a Mac PostScript font (MetaPlus) which I've converted using > Frank Siegert's FontConvert.app. > Unfortunately this font's encoding seems to be very strange, so that > eight bit characters are not displayed correctly. Specifically, if I > have an accented character in Helvetica and change its font to > MetaPlus, it becomes something like a Yen sign for example. > Does anybody know how to fix this? I really need this font, so I'm > willing to resort to even the most tedious manual solution (e.g. > hand-editing the font and afm files) in order to get the font to work. > I tried changing the values in the PostScript Encoding array, but this > did not seem to have any effect. 1. Open the convertered PS font wrapper, open the PS file (not the afm) using Edit.app 2. Search /Encoding 256 array dup 0/NUL put dup 1/Eth put dup 2/eth put dup 3/Lslash put dup 4/lslash put dup 5/Scaron put dup 6/scaron put ... dup 254/ogonek put dup 255/caron put readonly def it may look different in yours, but it goes from '/Encoding' to the 'def'. 3. Change this to /Encoding StandardEncoding def 4. Save the file as /tmp/FooBar (or the name of your font) 5. rerun FontConvert over /tmp/FooBar (to generate a fresh afm) 6. replace your original font. 7. Your mileage may vary. This seems to work for most Fontographer generated fonts, if however your font defines strange glyphs it won't work. Then you have to hand edit the encoding vector. Do not forget to regenerate the afm file! Hope this helps Frank --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:39:16 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <An5NmIO00iV0Q1_nFQ@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> In-Reply-To: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Feb-97 NFS problems between NeXT a.. by David Grindrod@mailhost. > Is there any searchable archive of NeXT postings? http://www.dejanews.com -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:23:51 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5f48u7$qqo@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> References: <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> Hi, Try these dfaults settings as root: dwrite loginwindow ScreenSaverEnabled Yes dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim 120 The TimeToDim value is in seconds. In article <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) writes: > Hi all. > > Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen saver? > It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it more like > around 5min., since when I put it on the login window screen, I'm > going to leave the computer anyways... > > Thanks in advance, > bryce -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology, Operations and Networking University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: next and linux partitions Date: 27 Feb 1997 18:29:58 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <5f4jr6$1fl@news-central.tiac.net> References: <5esq9j$arc@ra.cc.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5esq9j$arc@ra.cc.wwu.edu> On 02/24/97, Geoffrey Matthews wrote: >I've got a dual boot next/linux system. >Can I mount my linux partition under nextstep and vice versa? You might want to have a look at vmount available at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/disk/vmount Hope that would help, Aleksey
From: Keith Gillette <gillette@arch.housing.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Remote Application Execution on OPENSTEP for Solaris / NEXTSTEP 3.0 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:52:47 -0600 Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970227121427.12797A-100000@arch.housing.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know if it's possible to have an old NeXTstation (running NextStep 3.0) act as a window server for an OPENSTEP application running on Solaris OPENSTEP 1.0 under Solaris 2.5.1? If not, would it work if the NeXTstation were upgraded to OPENSTEP 4.1? We have a number of old NeXTstations and a couple of Sparcstation servers and it would be nice to use the NeXTstations as clients for the Sparcstations. Thanks! Keith ___________________________________________________________________________ Keith A. Gillette -- <http://arch.housing.wisc.edu/gillette/>
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Switching Computer hostnames Date: 27 Feb 1997 20:50:06 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <5f4s1u$653@nuke.csu.net> I have changed the hostname of my computer. And am finding that there are many people that are still sending to my old hostname. I have asked that our site create a hostname alias for my computer via IP address aliases.. But people are still having trouble getting email to me. Is there a way to ( I think it is in the sendmail.cf file) that I can identify my computer to recieve email with different hostnames... ( ie... wilma.calstatela.edu and fred.calstatela.edu.. ) Both would have the same IP addressing.. Can someone let me know how this could be done. -- Victor R. Quevedo vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu NeXTMail Welcome
From: andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk (Andy Warne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 05:19:10 GMT Organization: Unisys Corporation Message-ID: <5f4tik$qfb$1@mail.pl.unisys.com> Hi all you Next experts out there! My recent introduction into the world of NEXT has not been a happy one! I am trying to install Openstep 4.1 onto a Pentium Pro 200 with two Quantum Fireball 3200 3.2 gig SCSI disks. The first attempt was to let the installation do its own thing. When prompted I let Next create a 100 meg DOS partition and let it use the rest of the disk for itself. I assumed that because of the 2 Gig limit it would split the rest of the disk into two 1.5 approx gig partitions. Wrong. It split it into two 820 Meg partitions and I'm not sure what it did with the other 1.5 gig if anything (how do I tell?) Not what I want at all! Furthermore it went on to split the second disk into two 1.2 gig partitions, again with 800 meg unaccounted for. I never tried mounting any more than 2 partitions so I suppose the extra space could have been partitioned in some way. The next try was to force it to split the disks into 2 by telling nextstep to use 2 gig at installation. So I ended up with a 2 gig next partition running just fine. But what about the other 1.2 gig? Thought no problem, just run Fdisk from within Next and set up another 1.2 gig partition. Wrong again. Fdisk says "only one Next partition allowed" so I now have 1.2 gig of unusable (by Next) space! and also crazily partitioned second drive. I tried several other variations such as using DOS Fdisk to set up 2 equal partitions before installing Next over one of them but after installing theres no way to reallocate the other partition to Next. In fact I have now done at least 10 complete Next installations with various attempts at partitioning! Glad I installed a 16 speed CD-ROM drive! I would be very happy if I could get Next just to do the logical thing and split each disk in half or to have a 2 gig first partition and a 1.2 gig second partition on each disk. I dont need any other operating system on this machine as its for a specific Next application (Animo). Has anyone any ideas? Please? Thanks in advance! Andy.
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 27 Feb 1997 21:41:29 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5f4v29$emo$3@news.xmission.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> <5efp3c$i42@news.next.com> jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) wrote: > In article <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon > Wright) writes: > > I have an OPENSTEP 4.1 question. > > > > How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? > > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application does > not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot change it, > since it is the app that sets which extension it will support. You may > want to see if your fax software will generate the .tiff extension instead > of the .tif extension. Or you can change it yourself (or write a shell > script). Or you can complain to the app's creator(s). That's not quite right, at least on Mach. The app's executable under Mach is a Mach-O file. You can use otool to extract the file which contains info about supported file types (<appname>.iconheader), modify it, and then use otool to reassemble the binary with the new iconheader. But you pretty much need to be an "expert" to do this without screwing up the app, so be careful! This won't change the extensions used to write the file, however. It only changes what extensions the WorkSpace thinks the app will open up (and the icon to go with it). And again, it is not for the faint of heart... -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: jth9904@mail.tamu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange Messages Date: 28 Feb 1997 15:59:12 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5f6vcg$spi@news.tamu.edu> Does anyone know why I would get the following messages in the boot up sequence Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ssn/tcp: unknown service Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ns/udp: unknown service Thanks, Jeromy --
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NO CD-ROM DRIVE FOUND Date: 28 Feb 1997 15:37:57 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5f6u4l$qbr$1@lynet.de> Hello, I'm trying to install Mach 4.1 on an Intel PC (Pentium) Adaptec 2940UW CD-ROM Drive (NEC 3xi) He resets successfully the SCSI-Bus, but then he says "NO CD-ROM FOUND" and then installation stops. The CD-ROM Drive is accessible from other OS's (OS/2, MS-DOS,...) Can anyone help with that problem? Thank you in advance! Andreas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Message-ID: <1997Feb28.093029.26302@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 28 Feb 97 09:30:29 MST References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> Distribution: world Cc: roland@onevision.de In <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> Roland Schwingel wrote: ... > So I tried to contact systemix (vendor of Safetynet) in order > to ask whether there is a new version. But I didn't got > any response right now. Are they still alive ? My Emails > didn't bounce. Their web page seems to be very old, too. ... I think they rae still alive. I have been using their backup software for over a year and it is just great! Anyway, they posted version 2.51 on ftp-peak and announced a special pricing policy for the next few weeks. I therefore think that they are still around... -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: kc@criamon.omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: 28 Feb 1997 02:01:21 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> References: <5f4tkq$qfb$2@mail.pl.unisys.com> Andy Warne (andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk) wrote: : My recent introduction into the world of NEXT has not been a happy : one! : I am trying to install Openstep 4.1 onto a Pentium Pro 200 with two : Quantum Fireball 3200 3.2 gig SCSI disks. : : [...] : : I would be very happy if I could get Next just to do the logical thing : and split each disk in half or to have a 2 gig first partition and a : 1.2 gig second partition on each disk. I dont need any other operating : system on this machine as its for a specific Next application (Animo). : Has anyone any ideas? Please? Try this: Install OpenStep on Disk A (sd0). (I assume this is already done.) Run fdisk on Disk B (sd1), first deleting all partitions then creating a single NeXT partition which fills the disk. Run "disk -i -p 4000000 /dev/rsd1h" to initialize Disk B with the first partition size set to 4000000 blocks (2GB) and the second holding any remaining space. (Watch the diagnostic output. If the size it's using for the first partition is wrong, abort with Control-C and retry the command, adjusting the block count appropriately. I think 4000000 might overflow, so you might try 3800000 or something.) Mount Disk B's first partition: "mount -v /dev/sd1a /DiskB". Copy the first partition of Disk A to Disk B with the command: dump 0f - / | (cd /DiskB; restore rf -) Shut down your machine, renumber your SCSI disks so Disk B is sd0 and Disk A is sd1 (so you can boot off Disk B and play with Disk A), and repeat the above procedure to set up Disk A as desired. Hope this helps! -- Ken Case kc@omnigroup.com Omni Development, Inc. http://www.omnigroup.com
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Changing user id number Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:05:18 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5f738e$bpu$1@newncar.ucar.edu> I would like to change the user id number for one of my users. What problems or dangers might I encounter? Thanks, -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: jes@rednsi.com (Josep Egea i Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CRITICAL. Sybase crash. Can I recover? Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:30:49 GMT Organization: Unisource Espana NEWS SERVER Message-ID: <5f74o9$k39$1@diana.ibernet.es> Hello all, I'm in a HUGE problem. Last night, we had a power failure. Among other things, it affected to a NeXTstation running Sybase (ver. 4.0, shipped with old cubes). When restarting the server, we got the following error: > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Recovering database 'Nexus' > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Error: 624, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Attempt to retrieve row from page via RID failed > because the requested RID has a higher number than the last RID on the page. > Rid pageid is 0x350f and row num is 0x10 .Page pointer = 0x712000, pageno > = 13583, status = 0x105, objectid = 8, indexid = 0 . > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Error: 3414, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Database 'Nexus' (dbid 4): Recovery failed. > Please contact Technical Support for further instructions. > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Recovery complete. There are backup copies, but these are images of the entire device where the database resides and attempts to restore it have failed. One of the copies fail with the very same error when launching the server. Another one (one day older), gives the following error: > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Recovering database 'Nexus' > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Error: 3425, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Transaction (13583, 4) not found in transaction > table. > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Error: 3414, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Database 'Nexus' (dbid 4): Recovery failed. > Please contact Technical Support for further instructions. > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Recovery complete. This is probably because the separate log device (file) is not in synch with this snapshot of the database. I've tried to launch it with no log device (temporary renaming the log device file) but another error occurs: > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: initializing virtual device 5, >"/SybaseLogs/nexus_log" > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: dopen: open "/SybaseLogs/nexus_log", No such file > or directory > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: dinit: failed to open primary device >/Net/nserver/General2/SybaseLogs/nexus_log for vdn 5 > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Recovering database 'model' > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Clearing temp db > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Recovering database 'Nexus' > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: udstartio: vdn 5 has not been set up > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Error: 822, Severity: 20, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Could not start I/O for request BLKIO pointer = > 0x664b3c, flags = 0x2001, size = 2048, errcode = 0x0 BUF pointer = 0x6f0782, > page ptr = 0x713000, virtpage = 377, dbid = 1, status = 0x1000 . > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Error: 3414, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Database 'Nexus' (dbid 4): Recovery failed. > Please contact Technical Support for further instructions. > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Buffer 6f072a from database 'Nexus' has page > number 0 in the page header and page number 13583 in the buffer header. > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Recovery complete. Is there any chance or getting the data back? Can I launch this last copy of the database with no logs and recover the data from there? I've checked all "dbcc" commands with no luck. Any help would be VERY appreciated! Thanks and best regards. Josep Egea (jes@rednsi.com) -- Josep Egea - jes@rednsi.com - NeXTMail & MIME OK Nexus Servicios de Informacion - Barcelona (Spain) Telf: + 34 3 285 00 70 - Fax: + 34 3 285 00 70
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Date: 28 Feb 97 12:24:17 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Feb28122417@slave.one.net> References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> In-reply-to: roland@onevision.de's message of Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:59:26 GMT In article <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de>, roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) writes: So I tried to contact systemix (vendor of Safetynet) in order to ask whether there is a new version. But I didn't got any response right now. Are they still alive ? My Emails didn't bounce. Their web page seems to be very old, too. Keep trying. I talked, via email, with Brian not too long ago (month, two months?), and systemix recently posted on csn.announce. More than likely, he's just like me - I have a "real" job, which often takes precedence over secondary (and low-money) pursuits. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Info wanted: NeXT hardware password reset Message-ID: <E6BzK4.DDH@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:57:40 GMT This topics was discussed a while ago, but I did not catch it before it is too late now. I keep a copy of the NeXT hardware password reset program written by Louis A. Mamakos (then at University of Maryland), but I can not find the header files in order to compile his program. I also tried to take out the battery, but this did not work. Do I need to take out the ROM? What else can I do? Thanks for any info.
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:47:50 GMT Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc. Message-ID: <5f7nam$5s2@dropit.pgh.net> References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> <1997Feb28.093029.26302@roper.uwyo.edu> > I think they are still alive. I have been using their backup software for > over a year and it is just great! > Anyway, they posted version 2.51 on ftp-peak and announced a special pricing > policy for the next few weeks. I therefore think that they are still > around... Is that 2.51 or 2.5r1? I have the latter, but I don't want to spend a lot of tme downloading something I already have.. ----- Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883 me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
From: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Info wanted: NeXT hardware password reset Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 28 Feb 1997 23:40:26 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5f7qda$bqc@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <E6BzK4.DDH@midway.uchicago.edu> Andrew Chang (tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu) wrote: : : This topics was discussed a while ago, but I did not catch it before it : is too late now. : : I keep a copy of the NeXT hardware password reset program written by : Louis A. Mamakos (then at University of Maryland), but I can not find : the header files in order to compile his program. I also tried to take : out the battery, but this did not work. Do I need to take out the ROM? : What else can I do? Thanks for any info. Take out the battery. Short across the locatation where the battery was with a paperclip. Go away for a cup of coffee. I should have forgotten it's passwd.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install a printer? Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:48:52 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5f7nck$jat$3@lynet.de> Hello, I've been using OS/2 for the last 3 years, wich was fine. But I all the time thought about a change to a MultiUser-OS and when Apple made the deal with Next, I decided that OpenStep is the system for me. So I purchased a User + Dev. Version 4.1 and succeeded to install it on my PC (Intel Pentium). But what to do now. There's nearly no printed documentation, and I do not know how to print something. - How do I install a printer? I would like to connect to the Internet and get a driver for my ELSA 2000 AVI. - Is there a driver for that adapter out there? - What about an WWW-Browser and dialer to establish a PPP-Connection to my Provider. I would really appreciate, if someone could help me with that. The questions may sound stupid, so you see, I'm really a newcomer to OpenStep. Thanks in advance Andreas
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ? in /dev directory Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:12:54 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33178296.2A14@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All of the files in my /dev directory have a ? in the icon. Is this the way it is supposed to be? If not, how should I correct this? --Greg
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ? in /dev directory Date: 1 Mar 1997 04:07:08 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5f8a1c$7ao@news.next.com> References: <33178296.2A14@smart.net> In article <33178296.2A14@smart.net> gh@smart.net writes: > All of the files in my /dev directory have > a ? in the icon. Is this the way it is supposed > to be? If not, how should I correct this? That's normal. joe
From: gary-nospam-@screaming.org (Gary W. Longsine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 1 Mar 1997 05:38:38 GMT Organization: Save the Skeet Foundation Message-ID: <5f8fcu$qop@news.platinum.com> References: <331414D7.488@ix.netcom.com> <AF39F574-114A06@207.147.51.249> Cc: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net In <AF39F574-114A06@207.147.51.249> it appeared that "Mitchell Allen" wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 1997 5:47 AM, Mark Trombino <mailto:mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> > wrote: > > The next beta version of RadicalNews (due out in March) will support > > internal MIME messages. It is *by far* the best newsreader I have ever > > used on ANY platform and strongly incourage others to try it out! > > The UI is great on RadicalNews, but the performance on my Turbo Cube is > slow as molasses even with a 28.8 connection. That Kiwi Newsreader is much > faster, but I don't know if it supports MIME. Hmm... I'm running RadicalNews on a TurboSlab, and it performs pretty well. (I do have a T1 to the net, but it's high-traffic most of the time.) I do have the slow link box checked in the preferences-NewsSources panel. /gary -- Gary W. Longsine, Systems Engineer | ____/| OpenStep, MachOS, PLATINUM Technologies, Inc. | \ o.O| Objective-C: l_o_n_gsine@platinum.com (NeXTmail | =(_)= (Can i have his spam?) & MIME) |. U Elegance is Relevant.
From: Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 09:13:56 GMT Message-ID: <3317f28b.1845385@news.demon.co.uk> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit phm@eqt.ch wrote: >In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, > >> My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. >> OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. >> I've tried each of the SB drivers and none >> of them work. Does anyone know how to get >> this to work. > >I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). > > >Re >Phil > Is it a PnP soundblaster (yes an on-board one can be PnP) If so it will return a PnP ID which can be seen during a verbose boot. A line will appear saying "Plug and Play compatibility enabled" followed by any PnP IDs found. This value must be edited into the sound setup in Configure.App using "Expert" and changing the value "Detected IDs". I did all this and now my card is recognised but |I still dont have sound! Andy
From: Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 09:21:50 GMT Message-ID: <331cf4e7.2448942@news.demon.co.uk> References: <5f4tkq$qfb$2@mail.pl.unisys.com> <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit kc@criamon.omnigroup.com (Ken Case) wrote: >Andy Warne (andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk) wrote: >: My recent introduction into the world of NEXT has not been a happy >: one! >: I am trying to install Openstep 4.1 onto a Pentium Pro 200 with two >: Quantum Fireball 3200 3.2 gig SCSI disks. >: >: [...] >: >: I would be very happy if I could get Next just to do the logical thing >: and split each disk in half or to have a 2 gig first partition and a >: 1.2 gig second partition on each disk. I dont need any other operating >: system on this machine as its for a specific Next application (Animo). >: Has anyone any ideas? Please? > >Try this: > >Install OpenStep on Disk A (sd0). (I assume this is already done.) > >Run fdisk on Disk B (sd1), first deleting all partitions then creating >a single NeXT partition which fills the disk. > >Run "disk -i -p 4000000 /dev/rsd1h" to initialize Disk B with the >first partition size set to 4000000 blocks (2GB) and the second >holding any remaining space. (Watch the diagnostic output. If the >size it's using for the first partition is wrong, abort with Control-C >and retry the command, adjusting the block count appropriately. I >think 4000000 might overflow, so you might try 3800000 or something.) > >Mount Disk B's first partition: "mount -v /dev/sd1a /DiskB". > >Copy the first partition of Disk A to Disk B with the command: > > dump 0f - / | (cd /DiskB; restore rf -) > >Shut down your machine, renumber your SCSI disks so Disk B is sd0 and >Disk A is sd1 (so you can boot off Disk B and play with Disk A), and >repeat the above procedure to set up Disk A as desired. > >Hope this helps! >-- >Ken Case kc@omnigroup.com >Omni Development, Inc. http://www.omnigroup.com This nearly worked but /etc/disk split the remaining disk space into 2 again resulting in 3 partitions! I wrote a disktab entry in the end. Andy.
From: cchris@chum.hooked.net (Chris Christensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI drive problem Date: 1 Mar 1997 02:08:00 GMT Organization: Hooked Online Services Message-ID: <5f8320$9si$1@its.hooked.net> Greetings, I am trying to connect a SCSI drive ( Seagate ST4376N). During the boot process I get dumped to the monitor with the message: erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U # What does this mean?? Thanks for any help, Chris <cchris@hooked.net>
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: 1 Mar 1997 13:23:46 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> On 02/28/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Feb-97 Help: Old 400dpi > Next Laser.. by root@dev103.uafdcc.alask > > I am intersted in hooking it up to another computer and if I can > > understand what that printer is looking for I can look into writting a > > driver to talk to it. Thanks. Robert > > The general consensus is that it would require too much effort to design > an interface card to be worth the while. Don't let practicality stop > you if you want to play around with it, tho'.... :-) > This makes me wonder if at some point in the not-too-distant future AppLE's product line could include a reworking of the NeXT Laser Printer (to work with Rhapsody)...? All the benefits of the original still seem valid, however maybe technology has moved on such that it's no longer a *big* win to do the PostScript rendering on the main CPU? Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ELSA 1000 PRO / ELSA 2000 AVI under OpenStep 4.1 Date: 1 Mar 1997 12:03:33 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5f95ul$kcp$2@lynet.de> Hello, is anybody out there running a ELSA 10000 PRO or ELSA 2000 AVI under OpenStep 4.1? If yes, where do I get the drivers. I found a driver for the ELSA 1000 Pro on the ELSA-CD Version 1.2A, but this driver was not working (black or flimmering screen). Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sorting Incoming E-mail Date: 1 Mar 1997 14:56:20 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5f9g2k$p73@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Ok, so I've seen reference here to the possibility of sorting incoming e-mails into mailboxes other than Active. I've gotten mailapp-utilities, but don't really have the vaguest idea about how to set this up. I've checked the FAQs, but there is no mention of it. Does anybody have the patience to sit down and tell me how to do this? I would really find it helpful. Thanks in advance. Cheers - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@mgmt.purdue.edu Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Gatekeeper from Station Message-ID: <1997Mar1.093309.95088@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 1 Mar 97 09:33:09 MDT References: <3316A71A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Distribution: world In <3316A71A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod wrote: > When trying to use Gatekkep (both 2.0 > and 2.1b5) nothng seems to work. Nothing is started, nothing tries to > talk to the modem and no diagnostics are written to any of the system > or gatekeeper files. I recommend using PPPMeter instead. It's much more straightforward to setup, and causes fewer headaches.
From: Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 20:47:11 GMT Message-ID: <3318951c.457062@news.demon.co.uk> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> <3317f28b.1845385@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk wrote: >phm@eqt.ch wrote: > >>In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, >> >>> My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. >>> OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. >>> I've tried each of the SB drivers and none >>> of them work. Does anyone know how to get >>> this to work. >> >>I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). >> >> >>Re >>Phil >> >Is it a PnP soundblaster (yes an on-board one can be PnP) If so it >will return a PnP ID which can be seen during a verbose boot. A line >will appear saying "Plug and Play compatibility enabled" followed by >any PnP IDs found. This value must be edited into the sound setup in >Configure.App using "Expert" and changing the value "Detected IDs". I >did all this and now my card is recognised but |I still dont have >sound! > >Andy Update: The soundblaster drivers on the 4.1 cd DONT WORK. I downloaded the latest driver from Nextanswers and all is OK. Also there's a trap which I fell into. When editing the detected ID field, unless you press return after editing, the original value gets loaded back in when saving! Andy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Message-ID: <E6D3Mv.592@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:23:19 GMT In article <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) writes: > Hello, > > We are using SafetyNet 2.5r1 for quite a while now. It works > without problems, but our backuping demands are increasing. > > And this version of SafetyNet seems not to support 2 streamers > at the same time, so that I can backup certain files to streamer#1 > and another files on streamer#2. > > So I tried to contact systemix (vendor of Safetynet) in order > to ask whether there is a new version. But I didn't got > any response right now. Are they still alive ? My Emails > didn't bounce. Their web page seems to be very old, too. > There used to be a beta version of SN 2.6 on Peanuts. It works for me (with the same license key as SN 2.5). The autodiscover has a panel for two drives both for Exabytes and "normal" devices. But I doubt it's dual threaded. The hardware is insufficient to keep two drives streaming, IMHO. You could put a second DAT drive on a second machine and run a seperate instance of SafetyNet for different filesystems to improve throughput. I had an Email conversation with Brian some months ago about improvements to SN 2.6b. He (kind of) told me that he has carloads of ideas for extensions but can't afford to spend his time on a product that doesn't even pay for the electricity he burns on his computer system :-( -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Message-ID: <E6D5Mq.59x@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:06:26 GMT In article <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> root@dev103.uafdcc.alaska.edu (root) writes: > We have some old vintage 400dpi Next laser printers. I wanted to know > more about the printer. What protocol it talks. I know the postscript > stuff is done at the computer side. But what does the computer send the > output as. Raster? Bitmap? I am intersted in hooking it up to another > computer and if I can understand what that printer is looking for I can > look into writting a driver to talk to it. Thanks. Robert > The printer uses a high speed synchronous serial connection to download raster data which directly drive the illumination system. No other computer but a NeXT is capable to do so without asking for a considerable amount of rocket sience. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Routing question... Message-ID: <E6D77x.5Aq@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <timothy-2602970024120001@ppp146-sf1.sirius.com> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:40:45 GMT In article <timothy-2602970024120001@ppp146-sf1.sirius.com> timothy@sirius.com (Timothy Stonis) writes: > Hi, > > I have (what I think is) a tough problem. I want to use my cube > to route > internet traffic from my local ethernet network (two macs and > the cube) through the cube's PPP connection. I'm just using bogus > IP numbers for the two macs and the cube (ie 192.0.0.x ). Any > ideas? Thanks in advance... > Can be done. Everything is there. Instructions on the online sysadmin manual and the man-pages. But you'll need a registered class C (sub)network first. And then you'll need a provider who'd be willing to service you (most just want to support client only PC connections or ask for real money to do so). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Strange Messages Message-ID: <E6D7FD.5BG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5f6vcg$spi@news.tamu.edu> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:45:13 GMT In article <5f6vcg$spi@news.tamu.edu> jth9904@mail.tamu.edu writes: > Does anyone know why I would get the following messages in the boot up > sequence > > Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ssn/tcp: unknown service > Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ns/udp: unknown service > NetBIOS support has been entered into the control table (/etc/inetd.conf) of the 'inetd' network deamon but no software seems to be there to provide these services. -- 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: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Urgent Help Needed: ppp/GateKeeper Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 12:49:11 GMT Message-ID: <3319772d.1019408@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am desperately trying to get my ppp connections sorted out on a Nextstep 3.3 machine. I got ppp and GateKeeper installed and running last night I can only ping my ISP's gateway machine, and nothing else, whether by IP address or name! I can dial demon (my internet provider) and log in, and can ping 158.152.1.222 (the one that answers the phone) successfully with visible traffic over the modem. I can also ping 'gate' by name, which is a named machine in HostManager. However I cannot ping anything else 'out there' - I've tried lots of machines. Specifically, Demon's current FAQs put their nameservers at 158.152.1.43 and 158.152.1.58, but I cannot ping them by IP address from the Next. I can reach them fine with my other machine. Any suggestions? One obvious query: nowhere in my setup have I told my machine that its demon-assigned IP address is 158.152.71.205. On Win95, I specify this in the dial-up TCPIP propoerties, as well as a netmask of 255.255.0.0. Do I need to put this somewhere? Notes: 1. It is networked to a Win95 machine and they can ping, ftp, www (is that last one considered a verb yet?) each other with no trouble - always have done. 2. /etc/resolv.conf looks like this ---------------------------------- nameserver 158.152.1.43 nameserver 158.152.1.65 ------------------------------------- although I have also tried adding in their gate IP address and a domain with no benefits. 3. HostManager includes the following in the root domain: - gogarth (my server's name): 192.42.172.1, aliases 'mailhost', 'hps1','hps1.demon.co.uk'. - gate.demon.co.uk: 158.152.1.65, aliases 'gate', 'mailhost' - Various other local machines not currently connected, plus yosemite 3. /etc/hostconfig looks like: ---------------------------------- HOSTNAME=gogarth INETADDR=192.42.172.1 ROUTER= IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPBROADCAST=192.42.172.255 NETMASTER=-YES- YPDOMAIN=-NO- TIME=-AUTOMATIC- --------------------------------------- ============================= I haven't tried this yet, but I presume GateKeeper also handles incoming ppp connections if the modem is configured properly? I have a laptop arriving on monday, and a dedicated line as soon as BT and my freeholders stop wrangling over digging up the road, and will want to dial in regularly, as well as letting others do so. Many thanks for any advice. Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed: ppp/GateKeeper Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:11:11 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un6OOTa00iWm03O9I0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3319772d.1019408@news.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3319772d.1019408@news.demon.co.uk> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 2-Mar-97 Urgent Help Needed: ppp/Gat.. by Andrew Robinson@hps1.dem > I can only ping my ISP's gateway machine, and nothing else, whether > by IP address or name! > > I can dial demon (my internet provider) and log in, and can ping > 158.152.1.222 (the one that answers the phone) successfully with > visible traffic over the modem. I can also ping 'gate' by name, which > is a named machine in HostManager. However I cannot ping anything > else 'out there' - I've tried lots of machines. Sounds like routing isn't working right. Check 'netstat -r' and verify whether you have a default route set going through your ISP's machine as a gateway. Take a look at 'man route' and the docs for your PPP software. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702261951.OAA11463@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fc621da54660680ce960959b9d1a16eb - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 14:51:31 -0500 Subject: Re: pine Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fc621da54660680ce960959b9d1a16eb - Responding To: Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Original Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:48:50 -0500 > Does anyone know a way to use pine with NeXXT's? How to set it up. > NeXT pull the mail from the incoming folder then puts it into the > folders it sets up with mailboxes (Active) but then you can't > really get the two to work together. Anyone been able to set this > up to work between the two mail handlers? Is there a mail handler > that can be used from the NeXT Mach kernel that will work with the > desk to GUI mail app? Is there a way to chage what the GUI Next > mail app does? NeXT's Mail.app uses directories (such as Active.mbox) and two files within that folder (table_of_contents and mbox). PINE uses a single file which is comparable (exactly!) with the "mbox" file. So what you need to do is link the /Users/bward/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox to /Users/bward/mail/active (change the paths as needed). The problem is that sometimes PINE will make the "table_of_contents" out of sync, which isn't really a problem (it will automatically regenerate) but does take some time if you have a large file. There's also the problem of locking. You wouldn't want to have Active.mbox open in Mail.app and pine at the same time. However, you can avoid this. What I'm saying is that this can be done if you observe a few careful rules and set things up. To help set them up you can use my little script which will setup the PINE links for you pretty much automatically after you configure the script. If you want my script, send me an email message with the SUBJECT send-mime mbox2pine.sh or goto http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/mbox2pine.sh let me know if you need more help, I do this all the time (use PINE and Mail.app) with no fuss at all, I'd be happy to help you set things up. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 16:57:18 -0500 Subject: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to some) Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a single reference to how it can be done. Thanks TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702261938.OAA11349@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: bc086225d0c4364d6c7f01c8d910a224 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 14:38:22 -0500 Subject: Re: symptoms: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: bc086225d0c4364d6c7f01c8d910a224 - Responding To: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Original Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:43:08 GMT > When I rlogin or telnet to the server, my login goes OK, but when I > try to su, it takes my password and replies "su: setgid: Not > owner", and I remain a lowly user. have you tried logging in a 'console' with no password? have you tried booting into single user mode and seeing what you can do there? TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702271436.JAA07831@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 21673db3c69fff107d9416e0252fd791 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 97 09:35:56 -0500 Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 21673db3c69fff107d9416e0252fd791 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Original Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:06:53 GMT > Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen > saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it > more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window > screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... I can't remember it exactly, but I think these two dwrites control it (as root!) loginwindow TimeToDim 180 loginwindow TimeToMove 40 TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP NeXTStepping since '91 Use `luomat@peak.org' for any email-contact Remove `luomat@nerc.com' from any trace of your memory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702271429.JAA07748@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 6adb90044db67c804c0f0a50c155c6da - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 97 09:28:58 -0500 Subject: Re: HELP: internal HD for slab ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 6adb90044db67c804c0f0a50c155c6da - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: mark zajac <mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> Original Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:18:52 -0500 > Is this really a sys-admin question? I'm not sure. I'd guess it's more of a hardware question > Can somebody recomend a good generic hard drive for mounting inside > a NeXT Color Turbo? What specs must I look for if I try to find one > from a catalog? "cool" would be the thing I would look for. There isn't a lot of space in that slab, and you'd really hate to melt your nice Turbo Color. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702282030.PAA11194@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 49ceabd68b482938e3693b6631db4496 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 15:30:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Lost/Forgotten root password. Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 49ceabd68b482938e3693b6631db4496 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "Daniel B. Bezilla" <zilla@abci.net> Original Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:50:55 GMT Message-ID: 49ceabd68b482938e3693b6631db4496 - > I have NS 3.3 on Black box....Have lost (actually forgotten) the > root password. Any suggestions on how to recover? There is some > data on the drive I would like to keep so a complete reload is out. boot into single user mode, start NetInfo and run 'nu -m' to modify the root password TjL ps -- if you don't know how to do the above, checkout http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251607.LAA19832@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 86dc4c73101d264d1d29fedb8af3f038 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:07:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Where is comp.sys.next.sysadmin Archive? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 86dc4c73101d264d1d29fedb8af3f038 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jalegre@andante-systems.com Original Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:57:52 GMT > Is there an arcive for this group? you can use www.dejanews.com to lookup old posts > Is there a FAQ yes, I can't remember the exact URL but it is linked to http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251605.LAA19812@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: b128b49e1ade13a1f9ec455a5ee1ae16 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:05:39 -0500 Subject: Re: One time password for NeXTStep 3.3 ??? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: b128b49e1ade13a1f9ec455a5ee1ae16 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) Original Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:27:04 GMT Message-ID: b128b49e1ade13a1f9ec455a5ee1ae16 - > Hi, I want to know if there is a soft like Skey o OPIE that > implement one time password on NeXTStep 3.3 ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/skey.NIHS.bs.tar.gz TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251612.LAA19893@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:12:17 -0500 Subject: Re: Socks for NeXTSTEP? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Original Date: 25 Feb 1997 08:19:18 GMT Message-ID: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - > Has anyone already done the work of building a Socks 4 or Socks 5 > server for NeXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach for black? I think this is what you want, although I have not used it myself ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/www/omniweb2bundles/socks4.NIHS.b.tar.gz TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251611.LAA19873@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: a2b1a2d1526e600a9081df3b62230ac8 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:10:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Loading from Network? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, smd3@ix.netcom.com References: a2b1a2d1526e600a9081df3b62230ac8 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Original Date: 21 Feb 1997 06:40:25 GMT Message-ID: a2b1a2d1526e600a9081df3b62230ac8 - > "Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > When I start my Color NeXT station it says loading from network. > > My machine is not on a network. I have the OS software and can > > reload, but can anyone tell me how to get past this loading from > > network screen? > > If I remember right, reloading the software wouldn't solve the > problem anyway. You have to get into the ROM monitor, and change > the default bootup command. If you have the documentation handy, > read up on the ROM monitor. If you don't have it handy, mention > it here and someone (perhaps even me!) will dig up the steps you > need to do to reset the boot command. the info on getting into the ROM monitor is online at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html and resetting the boot command is as easy as entering 'p' at the ROM monitor prompt and the first thing you are asked for us the boot prompt. My guess is you'll want to set it to 'sd' TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Message-ID: <9702250411.AA14604@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: Karsten Heinze <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> From: Karsten Heinze <Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 12:10:57 +0800 Subject: How to format with a Fujitsu MOD M2513A6 ? Hi, My new Fujitsu MOD M2513A6 can't format/init any MO under OPENSTEP = 4.1/Mach/Intel : /usr/etc/disk -i -h hemlock -l "UntitledDisk" -d 635586560 = /dev/rsd1a NOTE: This device's block size (2048) is too big to coerce to = DEV_BSIZE (1024). You won't be able to use it with software versions earlier than = Release 3.0. disk name: FUJITSU M2513A 1300=14=08=08=11 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 310272 1939 2 8192 2048 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: insufficient space in super block for rotational layout tables with nsect 1939 and ntrak 2. File system performance may be impaired. cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 14 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) What must I do to use the MOD with OPENSTEP 4.1/Mach/Intel or = NeXTSTEP 3.3/Intel ? Thanks, - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE=20 Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP ***
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:05:48 -0500 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg39688.857358512@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: 21673db3c69fff107d9416e0252fd791 - <199702271436.JAA07831@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg39688.857358512.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> >> Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen >> saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it >> more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window >> screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... >I can't remember it exactly, but I think these two dwrites control >it (as root!) >loginwindow TimeToDim 180 >loginwindow TimeToMove 40 Geez, you unix guys like to do it the hard way... ;-) Log in as root. Go to the preferences panel, click on the screen with the log in panel on it and change the time there. -- David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.middlebury.edu
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 1997 00:03:41 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? .....................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703021941.OAA11323@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 97 14:41:18 -0500 Subject: sendmail and NetInfo help needed Cc: magnan@MATHCN.UMontreal.CA, Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary I have tried this at least 25 different ways, and have been unable to figure out the problem, and now I have a fix, but not a good fix. This is all use sendmail 8.8.5 under NS 3.3/m68k. Following the sendmail instructions put together by Francois Magnan I tried to use this: define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`peak.org')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',kira.peak.org)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:kira.peak.org)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl However, all mail gets bounced back to me with this error: 553 peak.org config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Someone suggested this define(`DS', DSkira.peak.org)dnl but that caused really weird problems ("Host kira.peak.orgkira.peak.org not found") I've defined the following hosts in NetInfo: nidump hosts .|sort 127.0.0.1 charisma charisma.peak.org 127.0.0.1 charisma.peak.org 127.0.0.1 localhost 129.187.214.142 peanuts.leo.org 198.68.22.17 kira.peak.org 198.68.22.3 troi.peak.org 205.247.120.1 nerc1.nerc.com 205.247.120.7 nerc3.nerc.com 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost (note: I get my PPP connection from 'nerc.com' but want to masquerade_as peak.org) Can anyone see what might be wrong? If I use 'kira.peak.org' it doesn't work for the reasons above, but if I use 'troi.peak.org' then it does, but this has its own undesirable effects for some 'peak.org' users. Any help appreciated. I can't tell you how long I've been fiddling with this... TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [NeXT Mach 4.1] Pb using NIS groups Map Date: 3 Mar 1997 09:34:45 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5fe5vl$3d9@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5f6mb2$io7@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> Claude LE BERRE (claude.leberre@enst-bretagne.fr) wrote: : Configuration : : - Solaris2 NIS (Yellow Pages) server : - and want to integrate a NeXT Mach as NIS client and no Netinfo : domain (just "local") : I had two problems : [...] : 2) I can't see NIS groups : so I do the same replacing "users" with "groups" : ==> No result !! : What did I do wrong ?? Nothing!!! : "/bin/domainame" shows the right NIS Domain and "ypcat group" works : but : [...] You need a new lookupd (even for OS 4.1), for which M. Majica said, it wouldn't be in the NeXTanswers soon (that was while 4.0 was the actual version) and he seems to be right. Stefan Ried was so nice to a) get it from NeXT and b) email me a copy - so you can ask him (I hope :-)) or me to send you a copy if you can receive NeXT- or MIME-E-Mail. Or you can contact NeXT yourself - maybe they have a newer version (feedback about this would be welcome). I have a far worse problem concerning rsh and (by that) rcp- commands under OPENSTEP 4.1 (mach Intel). It worked/works perfectly under NS3.3 (and before). Am I alone there or is there someone else having a problem like me. I'll post the details somewhere this week. There also seems to be a problem of identifying and using the symbolic names of network-services (like in /etc/services or their NIS and NI counterparts). Almost no service is recognmized by name (netstat -f inet), e.g. ntp or smtp or telnet or rlogin or the like. Just shell (for rsh) is being made symbolic directly and rsh doesn't work properly after an initial successful usage after a little while. Coincidence? I think NeXT/Apple has to work a little bit on these problems as they might get serious. Not being able to use rcp properly ruins my whole administration. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Extraneous entry in Netinfo Date: 3 Mar 1997 11:57:27 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <5feeb7$ku0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> I had a disk problem and after reformatting, and restoring from my JaZ, found that I have an "extra" printer in my Netinfo configuration that I can't delete. I has the same name as my NXFax. I've tried several ways to delete it, but it continues to say that "Netinfo write failed!, Object is not the child of the parent object. Cannot delete!". I've renamed it to BadFaxModem, but other than that can't get rid of it. Any suggestions? -- 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
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 97 08:26:44 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar3082644@howard.one.net> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> In-reply-to: planet@xmission.xmission.com's message of 3 Mar 1997 00:03:41 -0700 In article <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com>, planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) writes: I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? I'll assume that by this you mean that you want to overwrite /bin/csh with tcsh, as opposed to adding /usr/local/bin/tcsh to /etc/shells and making tcsh a user's login shell? Don't do it. It would _probably_ work, but NeXT has csh shell scripts in there which may (or may not) rely on various and subtle behaviours of csh. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: root@dev103.uafdcc.alaska.edu (root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: 27 Feb 1997 20:14:50 GMT Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network Message-ID: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> Keywords: laser printer We have some old vintage 400dpi Next laser printers. I wanted to know more about the printer. What protocol it talks. I know the postscript stuff is done at the computer side. But what does the computer send the output as. Raster? Bitmap? I am intersted in hooking it up to another computer and if I can understand what that printer is looking for I can look into writting a driver to talk to it. Thanks. Robert roberth@muskox.alaska.edu
From: "Daniel B. Bezilla" <zilla@abci.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost/Forgotten root password. Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:50:55 GMT Organization: NCI Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc253b$486359a0$0bc471ce@pluto.abci.net> I have NS 3.3 on Black box....Have lost (actually forgotten) the root password. Any suggestions on how to recover? There is some data on the drive I would like to keep so a complete reload is out. TIA
From: kellerw@okstate.edu (Bill Keller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Console Question Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:34:26 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK Message-ID: <5f5qp2$gk3@news.cis.okstate.edu> Hello. I get the following in the console whenever I connected to the internet via PPP: PPP Reinitializing nmserver's network portion Feb 27 23:27:53 carcosa netmsgserver[22]: network_init Feb 27 23:27:53 carcosa netmsgserver[22]: Cannot get the socket broadcast address for interface ppp0: m Feb 27 23:27:53 carcosa netmsgserver[22]: Warning: could not find a useful broadcast address, using 255.255.255.255 Doesn't look very nice, but everything seems to work. I'm just afraid something might be lurking somewhere, just waiting to break. Thanks! -Bill
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:46:26 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> In-Reply-To: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Feb-97 Help: Old 400dpi Next Laser.. by root@dev103.uafdcc.alask > We have some old vintage 400dpi Next laser printers. I wanted to know > more about the printer. What protocol it talks. I know the postscript > stuff is done at the computer side. But what does the computer send the > output as. Raster? Bitmap? It's a rasterized bitmap of the image, with a little control information. > I am intersted in hooking it up to another computer and if I can understand > what that printer is looking for I can look into writting a driver to > talk to it. Thanks. Robert The general consensus is that it would require too much effort to design an interface card to be worth the while. Don't let practicality stop you if you want to play around with it, tho'.... :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: mikel@velocity.com (Michael Lemire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Next software donation Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 17:27:15 GMT Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <331b09e4.12221269@news.mr.net> I have a ton of Next Intel 3.2 and 3.3 Plus Developer, also many versions of software that I would like to donate to a local school (MN). I you are interested please email me at root@velocity.com. Thanks
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 1997 11:19:08 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5ff4ms$ajt$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <SHESS.97Mar3082644@howard.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Scott Hess <shess@one.net> wrote: : In article <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com>, : planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) writes: : I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if : anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? : I'll assume that by this you mean that you want to overwrite /bin/csh : with tcsh, as opposed to adding /usr/local/bin/tcsh to /etc/shells and : making tcsh a user's login shell? Yes. : Don't do it. It would _probably_ work, but NeXT has csh shell scripts : in there which may (or may not) rely on various and subtle behaviours : of csh. Gracias! ........................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS issue Date: 3 Mar 1997 18:03:09 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5ff3ot$bv8$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> Greetings ethereal composite mind, I'm NFS mounting my home directory onto my 3.3 NeXTStep machine from a Solaris 2.5 box. The NetInfo based Automounter config doesn't seem to want to let me import onto /Net in an arbitrary way, i.e.: /Net/oberon instead of /Net/oberon/export/share/home Is there a way to get the Automounter to behave the way I want it to? Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: accessing remote printer - help Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:45:38 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5ffgq2$osj$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I run NSFIP3.3 on a mixed network. We have an HP4SiMX Post Script printer that is connected directly to the tcip network. It is not driven by a print server, it has its own ip address. Now the sysadmin pages say to set up a printcap file for a remote printer, but I don't think the instructions there apply to this kind of setup (I tried it, leaving the remoteprinter field blank and using the ip for remotehost, but the print jobs just disappear into the bit-bucket). the printcap file looks like this: PrinterName|alias:\ :lp=:rm=remotehost:rp=remoteprinter:\ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/PrinterName:\ :ty=printertype: With appropriate names substituted for remotehost, remoteprinter, PrinterName (twice), alias, and printertype. Can anyone guide me on this configuration? Thanks. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Curious console mesages Date: 3 Mar 1997 20:59:02 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Hi, Running NS 3.3 on intel and saw this on the console of a busy machine: Mar 3 09:20:12 host mach: Expanding zone pmap Mar 3 09:20:53 host lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone threads Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone pcb Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone uthreads What does this mean and should I be concerned? -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology, Operations and Networking University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: vova@rtr.transit.ru (Vladimir Pilipyuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [HELP] syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Date: 3 Mar 1997 13:56:31 GMT Organization: Transit Newsgate Message-ID: <5felaf$9ll@fido.transit.ru> Hi All, I have got a trouble with NetInfo. My NeXT is in Unix network, and it has not NetInfo parent domain. I set in HostManager.app - o Use local domain only v Readable only by local net That runs proper for a month but now I have at console - Mar 3 16:08:56 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:13:02 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:17:08 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:21:17 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:25:28 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:29:34 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:33:43 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:37:49 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain nidomain -l prints - tag=network udp=712 tcp=713 tag=local udp=710 tcp=711 What is the network tag? Is it to be? How to protect NetInfo from looking for parent domain? Thank you, Vladimir -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!+3TDX+51E<FUI;F%L.UQF M,5QF;6]D97)N($-O=7)I97([?0I<;6%R9VPQ,C`*7&UA<F=R,3(P"EQP87)D M7'1X,3(T-UQT>#(T.35<='@S-S0S7'1X-#DY,5QT>#8R-#!<='@W-#@W7'1X M.#<S-5QT>#DY.#-<='@Q,3(S,5QT>#$R-#@P7&8P7&(P7&DP7'5L;F]N95QF M<S(T7&9C,%QC9C`@2&D@06QL+%P*7`I)(&AA=F4@9V]T(&$@=')O=6)L92!W M:71H($YE=$EN9F\N($UY($YE6%0@:7,@:6X@56YI>"!N971W;W)K+"!A;F0@ M:70@7`IH87,@;F]T($YE=$EN9F\@<&%R96YT(&1O;6%I;BX@22!S970@:6X@ M2&]S=$UA;F%G97(N87!P("U<"EP*;R!5<V4@;&]C86P@9&]M86EN(&]N;'E< M"G8@4F5A9&%B;&4@;VYL>2!B>2!L;V-A;"!N971<"EP*5&AA="!R=6YS('!R M;W!E<B!F;W(@82!M;VYT:"!B=70@;F]W($D@:&%V92!A="!C;VYS;VQE("U< M"EP*"EQF,2!-87(@(#,@,38Z,#@Z-38@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P M96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,3,Z,#(@;F5X M="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I- M87(@(#,@,38Z,3<Z,#@@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF M;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,C$Z,3<@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z M(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z M,C4Z,C@@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@ M9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,CDZ,S0@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P M96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,S,Z-#,@;F5X M="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I- M87(@(#,@,38Z,S<Z-#D@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF M;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`H*7&8P(%P*;FED;VUA:6X@+6P@<')I;G1S("U< M"G1A9SUN971W;W)K('5D<#TW,3(@=&-P/3<Q,UP*=&%G/6QO8V%L('5D<#TW M,3`@=&-P/3<Q,5P*7`I7:&%T(&ES('1H92!N971W;W)K('1A9S\@27,@:70@ M=&\@8F4_7`I(;W<@=&\@<')O=&5C="!.971);F9O(&9R;VT@;&]O:VEN9R!F L;W(@<&%R96YT(&1O;6%I;C]<"EP*5&AA;FL@>6]U+%P*5FQA9&EM:7(*?0IF `
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 1997 15:57:01 -0700 Organization: I'm not organized! Message-ID: <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) wrote: >I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if >anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? > Although I did not overwrite my csh, I *did* put tcsh in /usr/local/bin, and it works wonderfully. All of the users on my machine (all 3 of them, including root) use it as the default shell set via user manager. This is the only configuration I dare try. -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS 26-52-78-CV-O2-Vec-MV-TI-C64-TG16-SMS-Jag //------------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" //------------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help] Diagnose Frequent Kernel Panic in NS3.3p1 on Turbo Cube Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:27:16 GMT Organization: 9H, Inc. Message-ID: <5fffnk$7od@library.airnews.net> Folks, Recently I've been experiencing frequent kernel panics on my Turbo (ROM v74) running NS3.3p1. This happens intermittently during cold or warm boots. But getting a dropped line while running PPP (at 38400) with GateKeeper2.1Beta4 and PPP2.2-0.4.6 will always cause such a disaster to happen shortly. I don't have a clue what the ROM MONITER messages mean, so any help parsing the following excerpt will be deeply appreciated: > unexpected kernel page fault failure > trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultaddr 0x42 > trap: pc 0x4034b34 sp 0x0 sr 0x2300 > trap: cpu 0 th 0x0 proc 0xffffffff pid -1 pcb 0x0 > traceback: fp 0x4000fd8 > called from .... > ... > last fp 0x0 > panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk > NeXT ROM Monitor 3.3 v74 Misc info: * I have a Turbo slab with exactly the same setup running ppp/GK at 57600. But it's so far been immune to such panics. * I take the machine down everyday, after work. Cold boots next morning will run into the panic half of the time. * 'reboot' issued in the ROM monitor will boot the machine fine everytime. * I haven't changed the battery, but /usr/adm/messages reported losing 2 days during a successful boot on Mar. 1st. Could a failing battery cause this? * I did have buffer overrun on serial port A when I was running ppp at 57600, and it paniced. I've since backed it down to 38400, no more overruns, but panics seem to persist. * 'fsck' run, no problems with drive. Much obliged! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:14:13 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3316CC15.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Grindrod wrote: > > I am experiencing problems mounting NeXT disks on IRIX 6.2 machines. The > error messages given below are seen on the NeXT machine. I have tried > mounting with rsize and wrsize set to 1k but this does not help and no > files are shown with ls. With the default rsize and wrsize ls hangs the > machine. Has anyone seen this problem and does anyone know the solution. > I have tried various mount options to fix this but with no success at > the moment. I seem to remember a thread about this before but cannot > remember what the solution was if any? > We have a mixed network with irix6.2, dec unix, NeXT3.3 and OpenStep 4.0 and 4.1 machines. They all exchange the users home directory with auto(nfs)mounts. And we had never problems with NeXTs NFS to any other system. May be the autonfsmount is more intelligent than the simple mount, but I don't belive that. Are you sure that you are using the right network card in the NeXT box. There are some cards producing strange errors due to to small buffers (some 3COM Cards). They are working just fine with telnet and ftp but fail with nfs. I recommend the Intel-Etherexpress. 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: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP and vi Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:19:27 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <3316CD4F.167E@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When editing on a NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP machine using vi then sometimes with files such as large Makefiles then a segmentation eror occurs and the terminal is lost. I have heard other people mention this before is there a fix for this. It happens on OPENSTEP and NeXTSTEP. I have tried many definitions for termcap entries so I do not think it is the terminal emulation that is the problem. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: claude.leberre@enst-bretagne.fr (Claude LE BERRE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [NeXT Mach 4.1] Pb using NIS groups Map Date: 28 Feb 1997 13:24:50 GMT Organization: ENST de Bretagne - France Sender: leberre@univers.enst-bretagne.fr (Claude LE BERRE) Message-ID: <5f6mb2$io7@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> Configuration : - Solaris2 NIS (Yellow Pages) server - and want to integrate a NeXT Mach as NIS client and no Netinfo domain (just "local") I had two problems : 1) I can't see NIS users ==>resolved with question/answer 4.34 "NIS and OpenStep" of NEXT Faq niutil -create . /locations/lookupd niutil -create . /locations/lookupd/users niutil -createprop . /locations/lookupd/users LookupOrder \ CacheAgent NIAgent FFAgent YPAgent 2) I can't see NIS groups so I do the same replacing "users" with "groups" ==> No result !! What did I do wrong ?? "/bin/domainame" shows the right NIS Domain and "ypcat group" works but : [5]>/bin/ls -alg total 3888 drwxr-xr-x 17 leberre 15 2560 Feb 28 09:49 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root daemon 512 Oct 16 08:57 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 leberre 15 512 Feb 18 17:32 .NeXT srwsrwxrwx 1 leberre 15 0 Feb 18 17:26 .TeXview_Pipe -rw------- 1 leberre 15 1051 Feb 27 13:57 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 leberre 15 1023 Feb 11 15:49 .Xdefaults -rw-r--r-- 1 leberre 15 1023 Feb 11 15:49 .Xdefaults.AVSETUP -rw-r--r-- 1 leberre 15 518 Feb 11 18:22 .ab_library [The reference file is /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf"] -- ======================================================================== Tel.(Int'l +33; F +0)298001259 | Telecopie/Fax(Int'l +33; F +0)298455133 Claude.LeBerre@enst-bretagne.fr http://www.enst-bretagne.fr/ TELECOM Bretagne, Technopole Brest-Iroise, B.P. 832, F-29285 BREST Cedex
From: mfuortes@med.cornell.edu (Michele Fuortes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 21:10:04 -0500 Organization: Leuca Software Message-ID: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Hi everybody, I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. So I was thinking about the idea of getting a cheap DOS card for my Macintosh here at home (9150), install OpenSTEP in there and REALLY have the Best of Both World ;-) Is it feasible? Does anybody have any experience with it? I don't see intrinsic limitations. I REALLY don't want to buy a Pentium box just for it (with memory, HD, monitor etc.etc) I don't care if it would be a little slow on a 486 card and I don't want to wait for Rhapsody DR. Any ideas? Thanks a lot
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:21:39 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970303055821.5135C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: d79ef917a288b94ad4637f97651cd62e - > I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if > anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? Nothing. I did this a few years ago when I was using csh and I think it did "just work". 'tcsh' is a 'tolerable csh' and does add some nice features while maintaining the same .cshrc (or .tcshrc) file. Some day when you have more time, checkout 'zsh' which is a lot nicer (and has a script with it that converts t/csh stuff to zsh) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:21:17 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970303054241.5135A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: David Herren <herren@flannet.middlebury.edu> In-Reply-To: ce45b0094aef50064c6e2fd6266926fc - On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, David Herren wrote: > >> Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen > >> saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it > >> more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window > >> screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... > > >I can't remember it exactly, but I think these two dwrites control > >it (as root!) > > >loginwindow TimeToDim 180 > >loginwindow TimeToMove 40 > > Geez, you unix guys like to do it the hard way... ;-) > > Log in as root. Go to the preferences panel, click on the screen with > the log in panel on it and change the time there. Ok, get a watch with a second hand, and tell me how long it takes you to logout and login as root, unhide Preferences.app, and set this preference. now time how long it takes to type this: asroot dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim 180 asroot dwrite loginwindow TimeToMove 40 Or you could use OpenSesame I guess, or asroot again: asroot /NextApps/Preferences.app/Preferences & Either way has gotta be faster than logging in as root ;-) *and* if you are on NeXTStep < 3.3 I don't think that preference module exists, but the dwrite does! Tj "I live at the commandline" Luoma -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703030243.VAA15377@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 97 21:43:50 -0500 Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming E-mail Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 9dafdca4e42681bb88a2f0ec61cfb8e1 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Original Date: 1 Mar 1997 14:56:20 GMT > Ok, so I've seen reference here to the possibility of sorting > incoming e-mails into mailboxes other than Active. I've gotten > mailapp-utilities, but don't really have the vaguest idea about how > to set this up. I've checked the FAQs, but there is no mention of > it. > > Does anybody have the patience to sit down and tell me how to do > this? I would really find it helpful. I'd be happy to help you. I've been using procmail for about a year and a half to sort my mail and do all sorts of neat things. I'm so procmail-happy that I wrote up a web-page about it. You can find it at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ (look under "Mail programs" for a "sorting" entry). There's everything you need to get started, including an example .forward and .procmailrc, the but they will need to be configured somewhat. If you need any help just let me know. There are also two procmail mailing lists: <procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> for subscription requests. <procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> for submitting questions/answers. These are incredibly helpful people TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: 4 Mar 1997 03:26:42 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5fg4pi$7f@news.next.com> References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Michele Fuortes writes > I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package > is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that > would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. It will run it, just not very swiftly. Certainly not a RECOMMENDED system for running 4.x. > So I was thinking about the idea of getting a cheap DOS card for my > Macintosh here at home (9150), install OpenSTEP in there and REALLY have > the Best of Both World ;-) It probably won't work. The problem is that many (all?) DOS cards for the Mac use a custom BIOS to talk to the Mac hardware for disk, mouse, and keyboard I/O. Someone would have to write custom drivers for OPENSTEP to run on the compatibility card... -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Book for NeXT networking? Date: 4 Mar 1997 05:02:57 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5fgae1$hdd$1@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> Cc: whataguy@epix.net In <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> Ben Schaffer wrote: >Where can one read about all the intricacies of networking one's NeXTs >into an enterprise-wide Ethernet? The NEXTSTEP System Administration Manual. If you have an NS machine, you should have an online copy in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/. If you don't, try to find a copy. It's the definitive (and pretty much the only) source of NS networking information. ____________________________________________________________________ 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!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E6I5oz.LAF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 04:55:46 GMT References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71>, Michele Fuortes <mfuortes@med.cornell.edu> wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package >is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that >would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. > Your cube *will* run OPENSTEP for Mach 4.x. However, unless you have it stuffed full of RAM it will be slow. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Message-ID: <cdoutyE6Hv4J.JA4@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:07:31 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom19.netcom.com In article <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> wrote: >This makes me wonder if at some point in the not-too-distant future AppLE's >product line could include a reworking of the NeXT Laser Printer (to work >with Rhapsody)...? > >All the benefits of the original still seem valid, however maybe technology >has moved on such that it's no longer a *big* win to do the PostScript >rendering on the main CPU? I'll give you one very big win over the average PS laserprinter. I've got 128MB + VM on my cube. As I understand it (mostly from failing to print some very large PS files) a "normal" printer has to load the whole PS file into memory and rasterize it, again into memory. If you have a document with large scanned images, eg. previewing a magazine layout, you can easily run out of printer memory. Caveat: I have used anything but a NeXT laser for several years, but I had some real problems with big PS files cicra 1994. -Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Socks for NeXTSTEP? Date: 4 Mar 1997 07:25:24 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5fgip4$gpc@vader.WolfWare.com> References: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - <199702251612.LAA19893@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <199702251612.LAA19893@peak.org> On 02/25/97, Timothy J Luoma wrote: >Responding To: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) >Original Date: 25 Feb 1997 08:19:18 GMT >Message-ID: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - > >> Has anyone already done the work of building a Socks 4 or Socks 5 >> server for NeXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach for black? > >I think this is what you want, although I have not used it myself > >ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/www/omniweb2bundles/socks4.NIHS.b.tar.gz Thanks for the response. What you list above is a bundle which allows OmniWeb to work through a socks server and is not quite what I was looking for - I was looking for an actual socks server and the socks client link libraries. I must've been fairly braindead when I posted the original query. The server and libraries from the latest Socks5 beta package from the net compile cleanly under both NeXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.1/Mach. The socksified telnet client included with the package fails to build but I didn't need a telnet client anyways. :-) >TjL > >-- >Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) >If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! > >EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one > -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5fghig$bn4@ecuador.earthlink.net> Date: 4 Mar 1997 08:15:05 GMT Control: cancel <5fghig$bn4@ecuador.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5fghig$bn4@ecuador.earthlink.net> Sender: shannon@wstarztv.net Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: NUDECELEBS Original Subject: Salma Hayek, Jenny McCarthy & more..!
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 2 Mar 1997 21:46:09 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5fcsf1$je0@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote: > Subject line says it all. In the next NEXTTOYOU (due March 21st) there will be a solution for any newsreader via a services module that converts any MIME text that you've marked as a block. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: 4 Mar 1997 09:15:54 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5fgp8a$6lo@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> phm@eqt.ch wrote: : In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, : > My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. : > OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. : > I've tried each of the SB drivers and none : > of them work. Does anyone know how to get : > this to work. : I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). PnP??? If yes, to be able to use the latest SB16-driver version, which you'll need, you must install the latest EISABus-driver (for your OS-Version, i.e. NS3.3 and OS4.x are different!!!), then the latest SB16-driver (again, for your OS-Version) and see if that's it already. If not, try to identify the PnP-Id of your Sound-System-Part of the 'builtin SB16 System' and compare it to the PnP-Id in directory '/private/Drivers/i386/SoundBlaster16.config' in the File Default.table or Instance0.table. If it matches - you are out of luck as far as I can tell. If it doesn't, add it to one of the tables - Instance0.table if you don't want to change the system permanently, Default.table if you want the system to remember; in the latter case you have to delete and (re-)install the the SB16-driver afterwards with Configure.app for the change to happen - boot away and 'good luck'. If you are out of luck or your system isn't PnP and the necessary resources (memory/ports, irqs, and dmas) aren't occupied by some other card/board-components, chances are, that your 'builtin' SB16 card isn't so much compatible after all - because the driver tries to locate the sound-system part and (obviously) fails to do so. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Two NS 3.3 Partitions on Same Disk? Date: 4 Mar 1997 09:33:07 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5fgq8j$6lo@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5f2b6i$kc4$1@synge.maths.tcd.ie> Jonathan Rice (jorice@cs.tcd.ie) wrote: : Hi. I've got an NS/I 3.3 system which was originally configured to : be multi-OS - NS, Windows and Linux. I'm now running low on disk space : and want to convert the Windows and Linux partitions to being NEXTSTEP. : However, fdisk won't allow two NS partitions on the same disk! : Is there any way of getting this to work, without reinitialising : everything? (I kind of doubt it, from scanning similar postings in this : group over the last few months). 'Til now, it's a 'no no'. Just one FDISK-partition for NS/OS per drive (up to OS 4.1). In fact the message seems to be "just one partition of any recognized operating system per FDISK-partition on one disk" for NS/OS to recognize and mount it. I don't like this either. Hampers readjustments. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OS 4.1 on partition 'b' on a NeXTstation Date: 4 Mar 1997 11:48:43 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5fh26r$gmg$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Keywords: OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, install, parition, NeXTstation Hi, Can anyone tell me how to install OS 4.1 onto the second (`b') parition of a 2G disk in a NeXTstation Color machine? It seems that the NeXT installer wants to install the OS onto the `a' partition but I do not want this. I thought I try installing OS 4.1 using `ditto'. What I did was partially based on NeXTanswer #1986 (DITTO: A USEFUL NEW UPGRADING TOOL): 1. Logged in as root 2. Inserted the OPENSTEP_4.1 CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 3. Copied the system files: ditto -v -arch m68k -bom /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom /OPENSTEP_4.1 /PARTITION_B 4. Made a new boot block: /usr/etc/disk -B /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/standalone/boot /dev/rsd0b 5. Edited fstab to reflect changes: /dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd0a /NS_3.2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 Now when I reboot using `bsd(0,0,1)- rootdev=sd0b' everything goes fine until the point where LoginWindow.app should fire up. Instead of the login panel I get a window which says that it wants to install "NeXTSTEP Essentials (192 MB)". The window has two buttons Quit and Install. Why does this panel come up? And what if I hit "Install", where would it install the essentials; sd0a or sd0b? It seems that this window is part of BuildDisk.app (according to /private/adm/messages) Mar 2 10:13:55 localhost loginwindow[177]: netname look up success: NeXT 4.0 Pasteboard Server (0) Mar 2 10:13:56 localhost loginwindow[177]: running /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk I would highly appreciate any help or answer to my questions. Thanx, Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 08:08:50 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am curious on how to CD-ROM burn some NeXT media, and am wondering if in the software that RockRidge Extensions are Necessary in addition to ISO 9660? Take the NEXTSTEP 3.3 disc, what exactly is required of the burning software to do this successfully. A Mac solution would be prefered... Is there Mac OS software that can do this? Anyone know the names? How about Windoze? Thanks in advance -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: krgue@nps.navy.mil (Kevin R Gue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep for Solaris newbie Date: 4 Mar 1997 00:56:22 GMT Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA Message-ID: <5ffrvm$7il@nps.navy.mil> I've recently installed Openstep for Solaris, but can't seem to get it up and running. When logging in, I select "Openstep Desktop" from the session menu, and the session starts up as a dressed up Open Windows (ugh) session. The windows have Openstep frames, etc, but I can't start Workspace or Edit or any such applications. Perhaps I am running "Openstep under Open Windows", as the online documentation says. How do I get to *real* Openstep?? Many thanks, --Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin R. Gue, Ph.D. | krgue@nps.navy.mil Department of Systems Management | Tel: (408) 656-4299 Naval Postgraduate School | Fax: (408) 656-3407 Monterey, CA 93943 | http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~krgue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5fhaat$9g0@bolivia.earthlink.net> Date: 4 Mar 1997 15:44:11 GMT Control: cancel <5fhaat$9g0@bolivia.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5fhaat$9g0@bolivia.earthlink.net> Sender: allsub@ififinet.net Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: NUDECELEBS Original Subject: This is great. Like iced tea!
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dots3.6 & Jetdirect Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 16:53:05 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970304165043.2723C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I try to use a Laserjet Printer connected via Jetdirect with Dots 3.6 but have no success so far, nothing happens if i make a print job. Does anybody use Dots on a Jetdirect connected Printer? --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de
From: DAVID HOUTS <dhouts@haywire.csuhayward.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 19:00:25 -0800 Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970227185938.4066C-100000@haywire> References: <5f4tkq$qfb$2@mail.pl.unisys.com> <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Ken Case <kc@criamon.omnigroup.com> In-Reply-To: <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> Hello, I am a NS newbie-sort-of, but wish to share something you might wish to consider as you configure your machine. SoftPC permits you to run DOS/WIN apps under NEXTSTEP. If your DOS partition is the FIRST partition of the HD, SoftPC apps can use the same files available to the apps on your DOS/WIN partition. And welcome to the elegant, "literate" world of NS.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Gatekeeper from Station Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:36:27 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <3316A71A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to setup a ppp connection using OPENSTEP 4.0 on a Black hardware. I have PPP setup connection and when using a script to connect then everythnig works. When trying to use Gatekkep (both 2.0 and 2.1b5) nothng seems to work. Nothing is started, nothing tries to talk to the modem and no diagnostics are written to any of the system or gatekeeper files. Even with diagnostics turned on. It seems that nothing is started when making the link. Has anyone observed this and is there an obvious fixed. I thought about using the Mu1.7 device drivers but this does not compile for OPENSTEP. Also ppp works without these drivers so it must be something within Gatekeeper. I have the same settings as for my PC which works fine! Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming E-mail Date: 4 Mar 1997 14:20:34 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5fhb3i$14d@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <199703030243.VAA15377@peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma writes > Responding To: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) > Original Date: 1 Mar 1997 14:56:20 GMT > > > > Ok, so I've seen reference here to the possibility of sorting > > incoming e-mails into mailboxes other than Active. I've gotten > > mailapp-utilities, but don't really have the vaguest idea about how > > to set this up. I've checked the FAQs, but there is no mention of > > it. > > > > Does anybody have the patience to sit down and tell me how to do > > this? I would really find it helpful. > > I'd be happy to help you. I've been using procmail for about a > year and a half to sort my mail and do all sorts of neat things. I went out, picked up procmail, picked up mailapp-utilities, and was totally clueless.....then, I got this message from TjL and there was light! Anybody wanting to sort mail....GO DIRECTLY TO http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ do not pass go, do not collect $200! Everything you need is there. It took an incredible neophyte like me only about a half hour to set it up...and that only because of a stupid typo! Thanks Timothy! -- Jon Haveman http://www.haveman.org/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@haveman.org Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: kykim@access1.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NSi 3.3 and laptops Date: 4 Mar 1997 13:12:50 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Message-ID: <5fhon2$8hq@access1.digex.net> Summary: what PCMCIA SCSI controllers work Hi all, I want to install NeXTStep 3.3 on my toshiba laptop. Looking around on the NeXT web site, I found that the only PCMCIA SCSI card supported it the Adaptec. I was wondering if anyone out ther has (1) tried this (2) found another PCMCIA SCSI card to work. Thanks, -kevin kykim@access.digex.net
From: graeme@cam-ani.co.uk (Graeme Barnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:44:24 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6B9y1.9rx@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> wrote: >I am experiencing problems mounting NeXT disks on IRIX 6.2 machines. One of the latest SGI patches stops NFS working between NeXT servers and SGI clients. The problem is basically down to NeXT having a really old NFS implementation but SGI made the changes that broke it, to be consistent with the latest NFS standard. You need to set rsize to 5120. If you want an explanation why, email me. Graeme -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Graeme Barnes : Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd : Tel: +44 1223 578100 Systems and Network : 20 Cambridge Place, Cambridge : Fax: +44 1223 578101 Administrator : Cambs CB2 1NR, UK : graeme@cam-ani.co.uk
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 12:47:56 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn761Ae00WBO02zV88@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 1-Mar-97 Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next L.. by mmalcolm crawford@shef.a >> The general consensus is that it would require too much effort to design >> an interface card to be worth the while. Don't let practicality stop >> you if you want to play around with it, tho'.... :-) > > This makes me wonder if at some point in the not-too-distant future AppLE's > product line could include a reworking of the NeXT Laser Printer (to work > with Rhapsody)...? > > All the benefits of the original still seem valid, however maybe technology > has moved on such that it's no longer a *big* win to do the PostScript > rendering on the main CPU? What's changed since then? Well, memory has gotten cheaper and lots of computers now have reasonable amounts of RAM, and CPU's have gotten a lot faster. I think the design decision to have the main computer do all of the work and have the printer be a dumb device makes as much or even more sense today than it used to. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Message-ID: <cdoutyE6J9Et.Frr@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:13:41 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom10.netcom.com In article <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> wrote: >Although I did not overwrite my csh, I *did* put tcsh in /usr/local/bin, >and it works wonderfully. All of the users on my machine (all 3 of them, >including root) use it as the default shell set via user manager. > >This is the only configuration I dare try. I highly recommend that you change root back to /bin/csh or /bin/sh, especially if /usr/local/* is on a second partition or is network mounted. You can use the preferences in Terminal.app or Stuart.app to open any shell, like tcsh, instead of the one listed in /etc/passwd. My rationale is that /bin/sh and /bin/csh are included on the NeXT CDROM and are definitely on the root partition. If you should have a failure such that /usr/local/bin/tcsh is not available, then there is the chance you can't login via loginwindow. You certainly won't be able to telnet or console login. Besides tcsh is a great interactive shell, but it doesn't lend itself to scripts. Just a thought, Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
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From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 5 Mar 1997 02:25:01 -0700 Organization: I'm not organized! Message-ID: <5fje5d$6mp@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <cdoutyE6J9Et.Frr@netcom.com> cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) wrote: >I highly recommend that you change root back to /bin/csh or /bin/sh, >especially if /usr/local/* is on a second partition or is network >mounted. You can use the preferences in Terminal.app or Stuart.app to >open any shell, like tcsh, instead of the one listed in /etc/passwd. > It is currently set at csh, I don't do much fiddling with root except to install apps, and after playing with OpenSesame (I was too lazy to look at it before). -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS 26-52-78-CV-O2-Vec-MV-TI-C64-TG16-SMS-Jag //------------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" //------------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: notmy@address.org (Collin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP & CAP Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 04:57:09 -0500 Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> Hi All, I've had my NextCube talking to my Mac for about a month using Frank Siegert's CAP package for the NeXT. (Which BTW I highly recommend and thank Mr. Siegert for) My problem is that I've recently decided to put my cube on the net using the freeware NeXT PPP package and it seems that PPP and CAP don't like each other. I can get on the net if PPP loads first, but no AppleTalk connections or I can get AppleTalk connections, if CAP loads first, but no PPP connections. Has anyone encountered this? Are there any work arounds to get both running at simultaneously. I'm running NS 3.2. Thanks in advance...Collin ------- Sorry, I'm tired of junk email, so my reply address is invalid. clp5@cornell.edu
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP & CAP Date: 5 Mar 1997 12:30:04 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5fjp0c$4q6$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> Cc: notmy@address.org In <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> Collin wrote: > Hi All, > I've had my NextCube talking to my Mac for about a month using Frank > Siegert's CAP package for the NeXT. (Which BTW I highly recommend and > thank Mr. Siegert for) My problem is that I've recently decided to put my > cube on the net using the freeware NeXT PPP package and it seems that PPP > and CAP don't like each other. I can get on the net if PPP loads first, > but no AppleTalk connections or I can get AppleTalk connections, if CAP > loads first, but no PPP connections. Has anyone encountered this? Are > there any work arounds to get both running at simultaneously. I'm running > NS 3.2. > > Thanks in advance...Collin > I have not tried this setup myself, but I have some theories: - The PPP interface and the BPF uses the same major number, then a recompile of BPF could help. A link to the BPF sources are on my site. - The PPP package installs its own BPF (look in /etc/rc.local or whereever the PPP LKS is loaded, which 'disables' the later use of the ethernet BPF in CAP. I do not know if PPP really needs the BPF, my guess it is only in there because of the possibility of running tcpdump on the PPP line) -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Does the /dev directory need to be configured? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 10:11:59 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <331D8D3F.5109@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to reach my serial port with C-Kermit. When I enter SET LINE /dev/cua, I get the response; Can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device Is there something I need to do to configure the devices to make them accessable? --gh
From: "Michael Barber" <michaelb@euler.nmclites.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT B&W Printer Date: 5 Mar 1997 15:03:55 GMT Organization: MSU - Northern Message-ID: <01bc2976$8971fd40$c65896c0@euler> I have a black box turbo which I have been using for years. The printer has also been used for years. All of a sudden (I know it didn't just happen) the printer has started printing approximately 1/2 inch to the right and up 1/2 inch. Print manager does not have any options so I don't know where to start looking. By the way, this happens while printing on the NeXT and if I print to it over the network from another machine. Michael B.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: Re: [Help] Diagnose Frequent Kernel Panic in NS3.3p1 on Turbo Cube Message-ID: <E6Krv2.ML@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organisation: AWT Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <5fffnk$7od@library.airnews.net> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:49:50 GMT You are probably victim of the very elusive serial driver problem on black hardware. I have spent much time (in the past) in trying to find out what is wrong, but haven't found a definite clue. My current guess is that there might be a hardware problem (maybe some DMA fault) which occurs only on some black machines in combination with a software error in the kernel that doesn't handle serial hardware perfectly. (I happen to know there were some hardware problems with the black hardware which were very elusive. I also know that you could get problems with your serial hardware e.g. that after dialing out, the port would seem to be free but it still behaved as blocked for dialing in, etc. There were some very deep unresolved kernel/hardware problems in NeXT machines/NEXTSTEP). One solution I know is running NEXTSTEP 3.2. While these problems occurred under NEXTSTEP 3.3, they never occurred under NEXTSTEP 3.2. NEXTSTEP 3.2 was the most stable NEXTSTEP so far. Another solution is switching machines. When we checked this problem in the past (especially Taylor UUCP was a program that gave the problem) and 25MHz cubes had the problem more often than 33MHz systems, though even these were not always immune. So, I would try to run NEXTSTEP 3.2 (if that is an option). -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Robert F Tobler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ELSA 1000 PRO / ELSA 2000 AVI under OpenStep 4.1 Date: 5 Mar 1997 16:04:30 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5fk5ie$10t@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <5f95ul$kcp$2@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5f95ul$kcp$2@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > is anybody out there running a > > ELSA 10000 PRO or ELSA 2000 AVI > > under OpenStep 4.1? If yes, where do I get the drivers. > I found a driver for the ELSA 1000 Pro on the ELSA-CD > Version 1.2A, but this driver was not working (black or > flimmering screen). > Can anybody help me? > Thanks in advance! I am running the ELSA 2000 Pro X 8 unde NextStep Openstep. The Version 1.3A of their driver (which should be available from http://www.elsa.de/, in their FTP area, under WINNER, 2000, DOS section) says it supports the following cards: ELSA 1000 1/2 ELSA 1000 AVI 1/2 ELSA 1000 ISA 1/2 ELSA 1000 PRO 1/2 ELSA 2000 2/4 ELSA 2000 PRO 2/4/H/X2/X4/X8 ELSA 2000 VL 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: What does VSIZE and RSIZE in ps output really mean? Message-ID: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organisation: AWT Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:22:14 GMT The man page says: VSIZE virtual size of the process (in bytes) RSIZE real memory (resident set) size of the process (in bytes) Buth especially VSIZE is confusing, because: PID TT STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSIZE RSIZE LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND 0 ? R N 104:12 0 0 0 53.7M 8.38M 0 0K 0 0.0 26.2 kernel idle -1 ? U 0:45 0 0 0 53.7M 8.38M 0 0K 0 0.3 26.2 <mach-task> -1 ? S < 0:00 0 0 0 53.7M 8.38M 0 0K 0 0.0 26.2 <mach-task> 945 ? RW 0:05 0 0 0 47.2M 7.30M 0 0K 0 3.5 22.8 SoftPC 257 ? SW 6:30 0 0 0 14.2M 6.72M 0 0K 0 4.0 21.0 WindowServer 314 p0 SW 0:22 0 0 0 5.51M 1.28M 0 0K 0 0.5 4.0 Stuart 288 ? S 0:01 0 0 0 5.02M 1.05M 0 0K 0 0.0 3.3 Workspace 947 p2 R 0:00 0 0 0 2.26M 792K 0 0K 0 0.0 2.4 ps 290 ? SW 0:01 0 0 0 6.23M 776K 0 0K 0 0.0 2.4 Preferences 345 p2 SWN 0:04 0 0 0 3.52M 536K 0 0K 0 0.0 1.6 squid 289 ? SW 0:05 0 0 0 5.95M 504K 0 0K 0 0.0 1.5 WM 317 p2 SW 0:01 0 0 0 5.95M 464K 0 0K 0 0.4 1.4 tcsh 117 ? SW 0:02 0 0 0 1.69M 272K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.8 netinfod 121 ? SW 0:01 0 0 0 1.75M 232K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.7 lookupd 22 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 6.79M 216K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.7 nmserver 53.7MB for the kernel? 47MB for SoftPC?? 6MB for tcsh? No way, my VM is at: gerben@NeXT 113) ll /private/vm total 51424 -rw------t 1 root 16777216 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile -rw------t 1 root 35872768 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile.front 35MB (compressed), and that is the max, probably not everything is at this moment actually in use. So, what does VSIZE exactly mean? (and RSIZE)? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Robert F Tobler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install a printer? Date: 5 Mar 1997 16:09:00 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5fk5qs$10t@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <5f7nck$jat$3@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5f7nck$jat$3@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > > I would like to connect to the Internet and get a driver > for my ELSA 2000 AVI. > > - Is there a driver for that adapter out there? > The Version 1.3A of ELSAs driver (which should be available from http://www.elsa.de/, in their FTP area, under WINNER, 2000, DOS section) says it supports the following cards: ELSA 1000 1/2 ELSA 1000 AVI 1/2 ELSA 1000 ISA 1/2 ELSA 1000 PRO 1/2 ELSA 2000 2/4 ELSA 2000 PRO 2/4/H/X2/X4/X8 ELSA 2000 VL 2 Maybe you could try one of the ELSA 2000 settings of the driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 5 Mar 1997 09:17:15 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> I'm having problems posting using PersonalINN. Here's the post-news.log information: --------- BEGIN ---------- Mar 5 08:22:36 post-news[7106]: START Mar 5 08:22:37 post-news[7106]: flush outgoing spoolfile: Ok /usr/spool/news/articles/Bytes: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Xref: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Path: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/From: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Newsgroups: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Subject: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Date: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Organization: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Lines: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Message-ID: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/References: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/NNTP-Posting-Host: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/In-Reply-To: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/X-Newsreader: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/ does not exist Mar 5 08:22:37 rpost [7117]: START Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Official host name: news.xmission.com Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Address: 198.60.22.3 Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Connected to news.xmission.com 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.5.1 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Sending "Mode Reader" command 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.5.1 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Closing connection to news.xmission.com Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: STOP Mar 5 08:22:40 post-news[7106]: STOP: Remote posting successful ------- END ------- Although it claims that remote posting was successful, no posts propagate. I don't trust the log anyway, since something in the posting mechanism seems to be choking on garbage. What do I need to do to fix this? .............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: Petr Novak <novak@microcomp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Launching Perl script ? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 17:56:56 +0100 Organization: Impact GmbH,Cologne, Germany Message-ID: <331DA5D8.354C@microcomp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo ! How can be an Perl script executed from Openstep on NT ? I made some trials with NSTask, but without success. Petr Novak
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking OpenStep PC's Date: 5 Mar 1997 16:14:13 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5fk64l$kpm$1@lynet4.lynet.de> Hello, I've some trouble networking two OpenStep PC's and hope you can help me. I installed OpenStep (MachOS) Version 4.1 on both machines, then startet on one of both the Tool "SimpleNetworkStarter", marked all CheckBoxes, because I wanted it to be the server for my little network, and pressed the button "Configure". After successfully rebooting the server, I rebooted the client. During bootup of the client, I had the following dialog with him! network doesn't recognize computer Enter hostname: venus Add computer to network (Y/n) : y EnterPassword : ****** Then he was busy for about 6 seconds. After that I got the following message! No response from networkconfiguration server Type Control-C to startup the computer without network configuration While that happened at the client, I got a Kernel Trap at the server. Kernel Trap Failed instruction exception Press r to reboot! NetworkAdapter: 3Com Etherlink III Cabling: Thin EtherNet This procedure is repeatable. (Every time the same result.) I suppose the adapters are correctly configured (Interrupts a.s.o) because I succeeded to configure an OS/2-PeerNet on the same hardware. I would really be very happy, if someone could get me out of that mess. Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP & CAP Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:26:13 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <331DACB5.19A0@ti.com> References: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> <5fjp0c$4q6$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Frank M. Siegert wrote: > - The PPP package installs its own BPF (look in /etc/rc.local or whereever > the PPP LKS is loaded, which 'disables' the later use of the ethernet BPF in > CAP. I do not know if PPP really needs the BPF, my guess it is only in there > because of the possibility of running tcpdump on the PPP line) Yep...you are correct. PPP does not need BPF unless one wants to run tcpdump. One can safely remove the statement that loads the PPP version of the BPF kernel server. - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What does VSIZE and RSIZE in ps output really mean? Date: 5 Mar 97 12:34:50 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar5123450@howard.one.net> References: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> In-reply-to: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl's message of Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:22:14 GMT In article <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL>, G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) writes: 53.7MB for the kernel? 47MB for SoftPC?? 6MB for tcsh? No way, my VM is at: Why not? So, what does VSIZE exactly mean? (and RSIZE)? VSIZE is the number of virtual memory pages the process has. Perhaps you're assuming that this has some relationship to the number of _actual_ pages, real or swap, that the program has. Don't assume that! For instance, if you use vm_copy() to dupe a range of pages, all of the original pages _and_ all of the copies are counted by VSIZE. And anything which is memory mapped (data files, executables, shared libraries) also gets counted, even though shared libs and executables are shared between programs. Add in a couple meg for libsys_s and libNeXT_s, and the tcsh executable, and pretty soon it's real numbers! You might try using pmem (which is undocumented), and focus on the number of unshared pages. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Medows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pine Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 18:31:43 GMT Organization: Applied Chaos Laboratory Message-ID: <5fkebb$8km@smash.gatech.edu> References: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970225164429.27695A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> wrote: >Does anyone know a way to use pine with NeXXT's? How to set it up. NeXT >pull the mail from the incoming folder then puts it into the folders it >sets up with mailboxes (Active) but then you can't really get the two to >work together. Anyone been able to set this up to work between the two >mail handlers? Is there a mail handler that can be used from the NeXT Mach >kernel that will work with the desk to GUI mail app? Is there a way to >chage what the GUI Next mail app does? Our lab uses a version of pine complied for the Next/OpenStep running on Intel hardware. In addition you will need an editor such as pico or vi. If you are in single use mode just put these programs into your /Apps folder, otherwise place them in /bin. Now edit the .cshrc file to reflect the correct path and be sure to set a terminal type (e.g. set term=vt100). While pine is not as capable as Nextmail, it has the advantage of allowing you to get your mail from almost any type of computer that has telnet. Brian K. Meadows _____________________________________ Brian K. Meadows Applied Chaos Laboratory School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 phone: (404) 894-1448 fax: (404) 894-9958 email: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu WWW: http://acl.gatech.edu ______________________________________
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Curious console mesages Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:25:31 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <on7QWfe00iVCQ7WMEi@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> In-Reply-To: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 3-Mar-97 Curious console mesages by Milo Velimirovic@uwlax.e > Mar 3 09:20:12 host mach: Expanding zone pmap > Mar 3 09:20:53 host lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out > Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone threads > Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone pcb > Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone uthreads > > What does this mean and should I be concerned? I'll make a (somewhat) educated guess that your machine was busy enough that the kernel had to expand internal kernel data structures which are grouped together into memory zones which contain data related to each other. 'threads' presumably refers to kernel threads; 'uthreads' presumably refers to user threads. I can only guess that 'pmap' refers to the translation tables used to map physical memory frames onto virtual memory pages, and I don't know what pcb means aside from the obviously unrelated acronym for "printed circuit board". None of these should concern you. However, the NetInfo connection timeout is a little worrisome and you should verify that you've got good network connectivity between your NetInfo master server and the rest of the machines. Maybe you've got a minor problem in the cabling or some such that's causing excessive collisions and dropped packets. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: graeme@cam-ani.co.uk (Graeme Barnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Networking OpenStep PC's Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 19:31:24 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6L4wE.CtG@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <5fk64l$kpm$1@lynet4.lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: >I've some trouble networking two OpenStep PC's and hope you can help me. We've had the same problem setting up 4.1 networks for our customers. I haven't had time to look into the problem but it appears that either bootp isn't running on the server or isn't responding to bootp requests. Our quick workaround is to set the IP address explicitly in /etc/hostconfig on each client machine. You don't need to set the host name for the client as bootparamd does appear to work OK. I can't remember if the server actually adds the client info to the netinfo database so you may need to add the clients using HostManager.app by hand. Hope this helps, Graeme -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Graeme Barnes : Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd : Tel: +44 1223 578100 Systems and Network : 20 Cambridge Place, Cambridge : Fax: +44 1223 578101 Administrator : Cambs CB2 1NR, UK : graeme@cam-ani.co.uk
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with WangDat 3400DX (4/8GB) on Turbo Cube Date: 5 Mar 1997 20:42:00 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5fklqp$ruv@library.airnews.net> I'm running into problems trying to use a borrowed WangDat 3400DX (4GB native) drive on my Turbo Cube (NS3.3, ROMv74). The drive works fine on a PC. After I hooked it up to my Cube, it's recognized during boot: > WangDAT Model 3400DX Rev 1.4a as st0 at sc0 target 5 lun 0 I put in a 120m DDS2 tape, and tried to kick out the tape by # mt -f /dev/rst0 offline (rewind, etc. doesn't work either) Nothing happens with the drive but the console gives me: > st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = 2H > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 and when I tried to tar something to the drive # tar -cf /dev/rst0 /tmp I get > Tape error, I/O error. (something like that) and this blurb on the console: > st: cmd = 0xa sr_io_status = 2H > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 I double checked my SCSI id, everything is fine (hd at 1, tape at 5). I've also tried /dev/rxt0, which I guess is for the 8mm Exabyte, but I tried it anyway. Didn't do anything for me. Anybody using similar tape drives? All ideas and suggestions are welcome! Much obliged! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:57:35 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: michelt@sqliaison.com Bonjour, I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard with an Award BIOS and with 120 MHz Intel Pentium. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive inside. I solely have a PCI/Scsi Adaptec 2940 uw with a 664 N1H IBM drive. I'm trying to install NSFIP 3.3 with the default drivers supplied with NS 3.3 without success. Once loading NeXT Mach 3.3, Physical Memory... Driverkit version 330, Registering: PS2 Controller... I get: Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING Registering: event0 ... Bottom line, it cannot detect my brand new Adaptec 2940 uw controller. At the Adaptec bios level, I was able to format the drive and detect all the peripherals attached to it. Meaning: it works. But once Next Mach 3.3 is running, it does not detect the controller. Any idea why? Could it be the Award bios? If so, should I look for another bios i.e. AMI... What are my options. Thanks.
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Date: 5 Mar 97 05:48:31 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one : line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as : "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" : I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under : NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a : single reference to how it can be done. Most of the sites that are doing this with tcp wrappers, which you can find at coast.cs.purdue.edu in pub/tools/unix. tcp wrappers is just about an essential security tool in my opinion, and plus you get features like the welcome message thrown in for free. It's all in the tcp wrappers docs. -- -jon klein, jklein@freon.artificial.com NeXTmail welcome
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: michelt,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Adaptec 2940 uw + NSFIP 3.3 Problem Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 16:09:29 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.857597440.28475.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour, I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard equiped with an Award bios. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive connected. I solely have an PCI/SCSI Adaptec 2940 uw controller with a IBM 664 N1H 2GB drive attached to it. At the Adaptec level, I'm able to see every devices attached to it. I was even able to format the drive at the Adaptec BIOS level. So I should be able to install NSFIP 3.3 on it right? Wrong! When I do a brand new NS installation with the Adaptec 2940 driver selected and that NeXT Mach 3.3 loads I get these few messages: NeXT Mach 3.3 ... Physical Memory (40MB) .. Driverkit version 330 Registering: PS2Controller .. Adapetec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING Registering:event0 Registering:kmD .. It acts as it could not detect the PCI/SCSI Adaptec controller. I cannot see why since I'm able to format it using the Adaptec bios utility. I cannot download the most recent version of the Adaptec driver since I have no access to NS platform to install on a diskette. Do you think my problem is at the motherboard bios level? Do you think I should use an AMI bios or another instead? What am I doing wrong? Ciao. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: 5 Mar 1997 22:13:10 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5fkr5m$po3$1@darla.visi.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> wrote: : Any idea why? Could it be the Award bios? If so, should I look for : another bios i.e. AMI... What are my options. Did you load the one from the Additional Drivers disk marked Dev:16 (or something like that)? There's one for 2940 and one for 2940uw, and you have to pick the right one. -- # david young: oo developer, think new ideas east/onramp # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com (MIME ok, NeXTmail better)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What does VSIZE and RSIZE in ps output really mean? Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:42:05 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <on7SWhS00iV2I5Zvx=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> In-Reply-To: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 What does VSIZE and RSIZE i.. by Drs G. C. Th. Wierda@AWT > VSIZE virtual size of the process (in bytes) > RSIZE real memory (resident set) size of the process (in > bytes) > > Buth especially VSIZE is confusing, because: [ ... ] > 53.7MB for the kernel? 47MB for SoftPC?? 6MB for tcsh? No way, my VM is at: > > gerben@NeXT 113) ll /private/vm > total 51424 > -rw------t 1 root 16777216 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile > -rw------t 1 root 35872768 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile.front > > 35MB (compressed), and that is the max, probably not everything is at this > moment actually in use. > > So, what does VSIZE exactly mean? (and RSIZE)? VSIZE counts the number of virtual memory pages which are mapped into the processes address space. This may include pages which have not been used or written to (and thus consume no swap space), and it includes pages mapped from various sources like files on the disk drive, physical devices like the video framebuffer in the case of the kernel, etc. VSIZE is useful primarily to get an idea of how big a process is, and often a very large VSIZE indicates a process which is leaking memory somehow. RSIZE refers to the number of virtual pages actually residing in physical memory frames, and does not appear to include pages mapped in from external sources. RSIZE tells you how much memory a process needs to have around while running. Furthermore, ps operates over a finite period of time and thus is only an approximate (but close) picture of what the machine is doing. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:15:54 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 PersonalINN posting problems by planetary@xmission.xmiss > Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Official host name: news.xmission.com > Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Address: 198.60.22.3 > Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Connected to news.xmission.com > 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN > 1.5.1 > 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). > Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Sending "Mode Reader" command > 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN > 1.5.1 > 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). [ ... ] > > Although it claims that remote posting was successful, no posts propagate. > I don't trust the log anyway, since something in the posting mechanism > seems to be choking on garbage. I wouldn't believe it either. Are you trying to feed articles back to your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is actually happening), or did you talk to your ISP and ask for them and you to exchange articles via IHAVE/SENDME? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail problem Date: 5 Mar 1997 23:43:37 GMT Organization: ServNet Internet Services Message-ID: <5fl0f9$2t1@brockman.serv.net> I just ran into a problem recieving mail through NeXTMail. I run POP from an ISP and Mail.app is set to grab new mail every few minutes, but when it does I get the following in console: MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile. MailFetch: No such file or directory MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile. MailFetch: No such file or directory Then I get a pop-up window saying Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error. No such file or directory. It all worked a few hours ago and there is nothing wrong with the permissions or the actual file of Active.mbox. Other users are able to get mail without any problems. Does anyone know what MailFetch does or why it can't copy what spool file? In general any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks, dean johnson
From: Lutz Kwasniok <101667.1750@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.app and CompuServe-Mailserver Date: 5 Mar 1997 17:36:48 GMT Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736) Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5fkavg$fuh$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! Does anybody know if I could use Mail.app with the mailserver of Compuserve, because they didn't have a pop/smtp mailserver. Did anybody know if there is a way to make use of the CompuServe- mailserver and how to configure my system to send mail to server and to get my mail from it ??? Any hints are wellcome. Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (MIME, ASCII) -- Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (MIME, ASCII)
From: Mike Segel <mikey@segel.NOSPAM-.KING.OF.MYDOMAIN.-NOSPAM.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: internal HD for slab ? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:45:23 -0600 Organization: Home for the retired Caffiene Junkie Hackers Message-ID: <331CFA63.60DA@segel.NOSPAM-.KING.OF.MYDOMAIN.-NOSPAM.com> References: 6adb90044db67c804c0f0a50c155c6da - <199702271429.JAA07748@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > Responding To: mark zajac <mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> > Original Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:18:52 -0500 > > > Is this really a sys-admin question? I'm not sure. > > I'd guess it's more of a hardware question > > > Can somebody recomend a good generic hard drive for mounting inside > > a NeXT Color Turbo? What specs must I look for if I try to find one > > from a catalog? > > "cool" would be the thing I would look for. There isn't a lot of > space in that slab, and you'd really hate to melt your nice Turbo > Color. > > TjL Seagate Barracuda 2 Gig drives work ok. You have to remember that you need to set up 2 partitions though. Works great in my mono slab (TURBO!). -Mike -- #include <std_disclaimer.h> /* Mike Segel (MS385) */ #include <No_Spam.h> #ifdef OFFENDED_BY_CONTENT The author takes no responsibility for this post. Any resemblence to a coherent rational thought is purely coincidence. -The Management. #endif
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Curious console mesages Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:57:02 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <8n7UVCy00iWW0Ef4oX@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> <on7QWfe00iVCQ7WMEi@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <on7QWfe00iVCQ7WMEi@andrew.cmu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 Re: Curious console mesages by Charles W. Swiger@andrew > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 3-Mar-97 Curious console > mesages by Milo Velimirovic@uwlax.e >> Mar 3 09:20:12 host mach: Expanding zone pmap >> Mar 3 09:20:53 host lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: >> Timed out >> Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone threads >> Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone pcb >> Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone uthreads [ ... ] > 'threads' presumably refers to kernel threads; 'uthreads' presumably > refers to user threads. I can only guess that 'pmap' refers to the > translation tables used to map physical memory frames onto virtual > memory pages, and I don't know what pcb means aside from the obviously > unrelated acronym for "printed circuit board". Come to think of it, 'pcb' might mean "process control blocks". -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Tools for doing backup on NS Cube w/ NS3.0 ?? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 20:11:35 -0500 Organization: USN-CDNSWC Message-ID: <331E19C7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Have a Next Cube running NS3.0 and I'm looking for the best way to do a full backup to a DAT drive before moving the system to NS3.3 - I've looked at both enTAR and SafetyNet but both seem to be only operational under NS3.1 or later - any info or insight on this would be much appreciated :) Bob Kurhajetz PS - I've got DAT's available to me running under SGI / IRIX systems and was wondering if anyone might be aware of how to run a remote tape copy to one of those guys ?-:| Thanks in advance
From: abc@rex.precipice.com (Alex Cone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using DLT (Digital Linear Tape) drives from Mach Date: 6 Mar 1997 03:28:37 GMT Message-ID: <5fldl5$re@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Keywords: DLT Tape Backup Mach Hi All - We've recently outstripped even our DAT drives for backups. DLT drives offer 20-40GB of backup capacity and are very fast to boot. I've seen these run using Legato on Suns but I was wondering if something simple (and free) like dump and mt work with DLTs. Best of all would be if my network backup scripts running on the old DAT drive just continue to work. Has anyone had experience using DLT drives connected to a machine running Mach (intel or moto)? (email me as I don't always watch this list...) Alex Cone Objective Technologies, Inc. Thoughtport Software & Consulting abc@thoughtport.net
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 5 Mar 1997 21:50:19 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: : Are you trying to feed articles back to : your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is : actually happening), or did you talk to your ISP and ask for them and : you to exchange articles via IHAVE/SENDME? Thank you for responding, Chuck. I am using post-news, which is based on the get.news.innxmit script of the suck-2.5.1 distribution. post-news is included with PersonalINN. I included the man page for clarity. Reading the log file indicates that it was choking on a bunch of headers very important to a post, such as "Subject." I can't imagine my news server would feel like "Subject" is incompatible. I suppose I could have my news feeder use IHAVE/SENDME, but for various reasons I'm trying to configure my INN installation with as few dependencies as possible on a particular feeder. BTW, I have successfully built INN 1.5.1, but for various reasons I want to stick with PersonalINN. If someone wants to help me debug the configuration files to make sure this puppy was built correctly, I'd be happy to share. ..........................kris POST-NEWS(8) UNIX Programmer's Manual POST-NEWS(8) NAME post-news - send Usenet articles to an NNTP news server SYNOPSIS post-news [ sitename fqdn ] post.filter [ infile outfile ] DESCRIPTION Post-news is a front-end that invokes rpost(1) to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP site no matter if it is in READER or FEEDER mode. The site to be fed must be specified by giving the sitename fqdn pair on the command line. The sitename should be the name of the site as specified in the newsfeeds(5) file. The fqdn should be the hostname or IP address of the remote site. Post-news expects that the batchfile for a site is named /usr/spool/news/outgoing/sitename. When in READER mode, most remote NNTP sites will be dis- turbed by certain header lines of the posted messages. Therefore post-news invokes the -f option of rpost to remove these lines from the header. The filter script it uses for this purpose is /usr/local/inn/bin/post.filter which reads the file infile, strips off the "NNTP-Posting-Host" and "Xref" header lines and writes the result to outfile. If even more header lines are to be removed, this script can be edited accordingly. See the instructions given in the script. LOGGING post-news reports its state to the file /usr/spool/news/log/post-news.log. HISTORY Written by Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> for PersonalINN based on the get.news.innxmit script of the suck-2.5.1 distribution. This is revision 1.0, dated 1996/04/22. SEE ALSO rpost(1), newsfeeds(5). -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: clp5@cornell.edu (Collin Pieper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP & CAP Date: 6 Mar 1997 08:40:47 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <5flvuf$epe@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> References: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> <5fjp0c$4q6$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <331DACB5.19A0@ti.com> Cc: perkins@ti.com Yup, the problem seems to be a BPF conflict. I just disabled PPP's BPF and all works fine. To clarify, I was mistaken in the fact that PPP would not run when installed after CAP, it actually works presumably because PPP is unable to load it's BPF because CAP's is already loaded, but CAP will not work if loaded after PPP w/ BPF. Thanks for the help (and the software)...Collin In <331DACB5.19A0@ti.com> "Stephen J. Perkins" wrote: > Frank M. Siegert wrote: > > > > - The PPP package installs its own BPF (look in /etc/rc.local or whereever > > the PPP LKS is loaded, which 'disables' the later use of the ethernet BPF in > > CAP. I do not know if PPP really needs the BPF, my guess it is only in there > > because of the possibility of running tcpdump on the PPP line) > > Yep...you are correct. PPP does not need BPF unless one wants to run > tcpdump. One can safely remove the statement that loads the PPP > version of the BPF kernel server. > > - Steve > > -- > Stephen J. Perkins > Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com > Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265 > --
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 6 Mar 1997 05:23:33 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> Cc: planet@xmission.xmission.com In <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary wrote: > I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if > anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? I haven't done this, but I suspect that you would be okay. Well written scripts reference the proper interpreter as the first line of source code. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: Axel.Rau@fr.bosch.de (Axel Rau - QI/RZS2 - Bosch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mime Mail to Netscape looses Linefeeds Date: 6 Mar 1997 11:34:05 GMT Organization: Robert Bosch GmbH Message-ID: <5fma3d$spg@sioux.fr.internet.bosch.de> Keywords: Mime I compose a mime mail in Mail.app (3.3 or 4.1) with following contents: > Hi > > example11 example12 example13 > example21 example22 example23 > example31 example32 example33 > Reading that in Netscape Navigator 2.x ...4.0 Prerelease, I see the following: > Hi > example11 example12 example13 > example21 example22 example23 > example31 example32 example33 There is no wrapping of the resulting long line in the Netscape window. If I hit <CR> twice at the end of a line, my Netscape window shows up one. Any ideas folks ? -- Gruesse / regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------- Axel Rau - Bosch - QI/RZS31 - Internetdienste Boschweit - Germany Bosch Telecom QI/RZS31; P.O.Box; D-60277 Frankfurt Street: Kleyerstrasse 94; D-60326 Frankfurt Phone: +49-69-7505-6069; Fax: -2169;
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@nx_chi> Message-ID: <9703052239.AA19166@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@nx_chi> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 16:39:24 -0600 Subject: CDROM brings machine to halt I have a Gateway P100 with the EIDE hard drive and CDROM. I am using the EIDE with atapi driver. (Same prob with 3.32 and 3.35) I am running NS 3.3 If I leave a CDROM in my CDROM drive, my Next machine will get slower and slower over time. Within 2 to 8 hours it comes almost to a halt. It is not dead, but for example, I once tried to reboot when it was having this problem with <cmd><~> r. After about 20-30 minutes, the machine finally responded and rebooted. It happens with either DOS or NS cdroms, and no one needs to be logged in. Any idea what I can do (other then don't leave CDROM in) to prevent this? Thanks Randy Nelson randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Employer Talk: NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED LEADER: Inc. Magazine wrote us up a few years ago, but we haven't done anything innovative since.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: Bootpd with DHCP Message-ID: <E6M7C3.7Mn@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:21:39 GMT Hi, I know, that there was a thread quite a while ago, but I didn't have it. I know that there is a patched version of bootpd with DHCP. Does anyone know, where I can get it ? Thanks, Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH Developer Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:53:42 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by planetary@xmission.xmiss >: Are you trying to feed articles back to >: your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is >: actually happening), or did you talk to your ISP and ask for them and >: you to exchange articles via IHAVE/SENDME? > > Thank you for responding, Chuck. > You're welcome. > I am using post-news, which is based on the get.news.innxmit script of the > suck-2.5.1 distribution. post-news is included with PersonalINN. I > included the man page for clarity. Okay, I wanted to see how you were trying to talk with the news server. You're running entirely in reader mode using a 'suck' feed and using POST to send articles. > Reading the log file indicates that it was choking on a bunch of headers > very important to a post, such as "Subject." I can't imagine my news > server would feel like "Subject" is incompatible. Yes, I noticed that too. What's in /usr/spool/news/articles? Is it setting up the hierarchy of newsgroups correctly, and is incoming news working okay? Secondly, are you spooling outgoing articles correctly? They should be put in something like $SPOOL/Out.going-- note that the period makes the name impossible to be a newsgroup, since something like this newsgroup would put articles into $SPOOL/comp/sys/next/sysadmin. Is logging set up correctly? You'll have to edit /etc/syslog.conf. You should be logging a ton of information that will get summarized into a daily news report which should be mailed to the news admin (ie, you!). This report will note anything unusual and report errors in the configuration. BTW, have you run 'inncheck -v'? It's a great way of checking your overall configuration. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: 6 Mar 1997 15:18:26 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5fmn82$dtk$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> In-Reply-To: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> On 03/05/97, Pierre-Michel Tremblay wrote: > Bonjour, > Use version 3.37 of the adaptec scsi driver. I do, with the 2940 uw, and it works just great. >I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard with an Award BIOS and with >120 MHz Intel Pentium. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive inside. I solely >have a PCI/Scsi Adaptec 2940 uw with a 664 N1H IBM drive. I'm trying to >install NSFIP 3.3 with the default drivers supplied with NS 3.3 without >success. > >Once loading NeXT Mach 3.3, Physical Memory... Driverkit version 330, >Registering: PS2 Controller... >I get: >Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING >Registering: event0 >.... > >Bottom line, it cannot detect my brand new Adaptec 2940 uw controller. >At the Adaptec bios level, I was able to format the drive and detect all >the peripherals attached to it. Meaning: it works. But once Next Mach >3.3 is running, it does not detect the controller. > >Any idea why? Could it be the Award bios? If so, should I look for >another bios i.e. AMI... What are my options. > >Thanks. > > -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Date: 6 Mar 1997 15:24:17 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5fmnj1$e03$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org>? <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> In-Reply-To: <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> On 03/04/97, jon klein wrote: >Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: > >: When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one >: line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as > >: "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" > >: I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under >: NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a >: single reference to how it can be done. > >Most of the sites that are doing this with tcp wrappers, which you >can find at coast.cs.purdue.edu in pub/tools/unix. tcp wrappers is >just about an essential security tool in my opinion, and plus you >get features like the welcome message thrown in for free. It's >all in the tcp wrappers docs. > no such directory. other pointers? Randy >-- >-jon klein, >jklein@freon.artificial.com >NeXTmail welcome > -- 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: "Admin" <admin@sirius.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 6 Mar 97 18:44:03 GMT Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <01bc2a5e$6c04d640$43e286cd@compaq> After every login to the workspace, the workspace manager goes out and scans (all ?) disks for Apps (to register known file-extensions [?] in case your friendly sysadmin has installed new things since last login). In an nfs environment this puts too much load onto the nfs-server when frequent logins occur. I remember a magic "dwrite Workspace don't-do-that" existed but can't find it anymore, please post it if you can locate that it in your tool-chest. Wasn't there even a little program which peeks into an executable to see what dwrites a given App cares about? Thanks for any hints! Peter.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703052249.RAA13887@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 17:49:49 -0500 Subject: purging mail in the mailq [there was some conversation about this in csn.sysadmin in Jan] I don't know if this is a feature, oddity, or what, but sending kill -1 <sendmail's pid> when my PPP connection comes up was able to tell sendmail to purge the mailq (almost instantly) FYI FWIW TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@nx_chi> Message-ID: <9703052249.AA19302@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@nx_chi> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 16:48:59 -0600 Subject: Q:Problems with Serial port using ISASerialPort v3.33 I just installed the ISASerialPort 3.33 and the PortServer 3.33 drivers. (The new ppp2.3 requires them.) After installing (and removing the on-board-serial) and rebooting things come up fine. However, if I try to use kermit, it now seg faults. Also, if I try to run the new pppd v2.3b3, it gets the following errors and never starts up. ===== Mar 4 23:40:48 randyn pppd[244]: tcgetattr: No such device or address Mar 4 23:52:00 randyn pppd[308]: ioctl: TIOCMBIS/BIC: Inappropriate ioctl for d evice Mar 4 23:52:00 randyn mach: ppp0: setting mru 1500 Mar 4 23:52:11 randyn pppd[308]: read: Bad file number Mar 4 23:52:11 randyn pppd[308]: ioctl(TIOCSETD): Bad file number Mar 4 23:52:51 randyn pppd[320]: tcgetattr: No such device or address ===== The ppp3.2 kernel loaded without any errors. The mem and IRQ appear to be set correctly. Q: Any idea what I may have done wrong? PS. I restore the old on-board-serial drivers and removed the new ones, and things work fine again (with ppp2.2) Thanks, Randy Nelson randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Top 17 Programmer's Terminologies: 2. EXTENSIVE REPORT IS BEING PREPARED ON A FRESH APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM - We just hired three kids fresh out of college.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep 4.1 on GA-586DX (GigaByteBoard) Date: 6 Mar 1997 18:27:59 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5fn2bf$bva$1@lynet.de> Hello, I've just tried to install OPENSTEP 4.1 on a new purchased Motherboard GA-586DX from GigaByte, wich has a 2940 UW on board (AdaptecBIOS Version 1.41S2). Installing OS/2 on the machine is Ok, but installing OpenStep fails, because he neither finds the CD-ROM (NEC 3xi) nor the second HardDisk (Maverick 540 MByte). After installing an old Adaptec 2940 UW (BiosVersion 1.21), it works. Does anyone know, how that comes and how I get the OnBoardAdapter working with OpenStep (BiosDownDate?). Andreas
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 Supersedes: <22496856059808@digifix.com> Date: 6 Mar 1997 20:42:14 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5437857680935@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT printing Message-ID: <1997Mar6.162601.28048@indyvax.iupui.edu> From: dalaw@austerlitz.iupui.edu (Dale Law) Date: 6 Mar 97 16:26:01 -0500 Has anyone succeeded in getting a NeXTstation to print to an Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS? The printer has its own ip address and I have entered everything on the NeXT for doing lpd printing, but nothing ever emerges. I would prefer to go the TCP/IP route rather than trying to use AppleTalk since that is currently so unwieldy. Please send responses directly to me. -- Dale K. Law Technical Assistant IU School of Journalism at Indianapolis (317) 274-2976 dalaw@gutenberg.iupui.edu CompuServe: 74776,2016
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 6 Mar 1997 05:37:28 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've needed to know: What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same subnet? advTHANKSance, -jcr
From: fxrsg@shadowtalon (Richard S. Guse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using UserManager without the root password Date: 6 Mar 1997 22:20:42 GMT Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network Message-ID: <5fnfvq$3vm@news.alaska.edu> Summary: usermanager no root password dissemination Keywords: usermanager root sudo ns3.2 consultants We're running a lab with NS3.2 on our server. There are many people working here, and we've decided that it's a bad idea to have all these people have the root password. I've looked at installing sudo, which would work great if we created accounts using 'nu', but we don't (can't add other groups to a users' listing as far as I've seen...). We use UserManager.app Is there a way to get UserManager to accept a 'different' password? say, instead of set-uid root, it would be 'accountman', who could modify the user database. This way, we could limit the dissemination of the root password to the consultants. I 'suppose' one could login to sudo and load usermanager from the shell using nx, but I'm not sure that would inherit the properties from sudo, or from its own startup (and hence ask for the *real* root password). (?) -- Physicist by Choice, #define SYSOP GOD Power corrupts. Absolute Mathematician by Accident, #define REALITY NULL power is kind of neat. CS student by Mistake, #include "universe.h" Brilliant by act of God, e-mail: fxrsg@Camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu Poor by act of Congress... or fxrsg@Aurora.alaska.edu
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: date command Date: 6 Mar 1997 22:25:42 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> I'm a bit frustrated with the 'date' command built into NS 3.3. I want something more like the S5R4 date command that supports command-line formatting options, i.e., setenv DATE `date +%y%m%d` returns 970306 Is there a patch to the system level date command? Or should I just find a simple app that does the job? Thanks, -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: date command Date: 6 Mar 1997 23:18:09 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5fnjbh$19h$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu> wrote: : Is there a patch to the system level date command? Or should I just : find a simple app that does the job? system level date command? what is this, NT? compile GNU date. it's part of sh-utils (i think). the first thing i do on any NeXT boxes i acquire is compile a full set of GNU tools. there's a few things to watch out for (like GNU su), but other than that, it's a generally good policy. -- # david young: oo developer, think new ideas east/onramp # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com (MIME ok, NeXTmail better)
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 6 Mar 1997 17:05:31 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.857696640@shellx> References: <01bc2a5e$6c04d640$43e286cd@compaq> "Admin" <admin@sirius.com> writes: >After every login to the workspace, the workspace manager goes out and >scans (all ?) disks for Apps (to register known file-extensions [?] in case >your friendly sysadmin has installed new things since last login). In an >nfs environment this puts too much load onto the nfs-server when frequent >logins occur. I'm not sure, but try this: dwrite WM AutoFindApps No -sam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Subject: Re: sendmail and NetInfo help needed In-Reply-To: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of 03 Mar 1997 04:41:18 JST Message-ID: <FUKASE.97Mar5041409@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> Sender: news@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp Organization: College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Japan References: <199703021941.OAA11323@peak.org> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:14:08 GMT In article <199703021941.OAA11323@peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: ... > This is all use sendmail 8.8.5 under NS 3.3/m68k. > > Following the sendmail instructions put together by Francois Magnan > I tried to use this: If it's all right with you please show me your .mc file and show me the result of sendmail test with debug flag as follows; % /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.4 -C./xxx.cf ^^^^^^^^file path .... ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============ (short domain name) $w = xxx (canonical domain name) $j = xxx.your.domain.name (subdomain name) $m = your.domain.name (node name) $k = xxx.your.domain.name ======================================================== > 3,0 user@domai.name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^to check mail routing > 3,1,11,4 your_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^to check rewriting rule for the envelope sender address (local user doesn't add the `@domain.name') (in case of using sendmail-8.8.5/cf/cf/*.mc file) > 3,1,31,4 your_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^to check rewriting rule for the header sender address (local user doesn't add the `@domain.name') (in case of using sendmail-8.8.5/cf/cf/*.mc file) > However, all mail gets bounced back to me with this error: > > 553 peak.org config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Please show me what you want. Q.1 What style do you want sender's address from your host local? For example; From: USER@peak.org From: root@kira.peak.org ^^^^the accounts is used by system (root daemon news usenet postmaster..et al.) Q.2 What address do you want to receive for your local? For example; kira.peak.org <= hostname peak.org <= generic domainname in your domain > I've defined the following hosts in NetInfo: > > nidump hosts .|sort > > 127.0.0.1 charisma charisma.peak.org (?_?) o I think that the 127.0.0.1 value is for loopback interface. (127.0.0.1 localhost) o I think that the canonical name is FQDN style (host.domainname) in the Internet. If it's all right with you please show me your network style. For example; (host name for ppp interface) +----------+ +--------+ |your host +------ppp------| | +---+------+ +--------+ host name (for ethernet interface) ^^^^^^^^^ % hostname xxx <--`HOSTNAME='data in /etc/hostconfig (under NeXTstep) `xxx.domain.name' is host name for your ethernet interface. (Its mapping is in netinfo hosts database under NeXTstep.) > 198.68.22.17 kira.peak.org Is its mapping your host information? (under NeXTstep; Do you use a NetInfo Network? Can your sendmail look for the hosts information in netinfo database? (<=compile with original resolver) === p.s. > set type=mx > peak.org. ... peak.org preference = 5, mail exchanger = mail.peak.org ... > set type=any > mail.peak.org. .... mail.peak.org canonical name = PEAK.ORG > server ns.peak.org. ... > ls -t any peak.org. [ns.peak.org] ... PEAK.ORG. A 198.68.22.17 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (?_?) `PEAK.ORG' is a domainname. I think ...^_^;;; as follows; peak.org. IN MX 5 mail.peak.org kira.peak.org. IN A 198.68.22.17 IN MX 5 kira.peak.org. mail.peak.org. IN CNAME kira.peak.org. -- FUKASE, Mikio
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: unter@mecati.mecasoft.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Subject: Re: Changing user id number Message-ID: <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> Sender: Stefano Unternaehrer Reference: <5f738e$bpu$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 13:30:16 GMT Newsreader: (motif-based News Reader & Mailer) gazette (Version 2.1D) by BlackSheep References: 5f738e@newncar.ucar.edu Organization: Mecasoft s.a. Muralto, Switzerland AFAIK you only have to reassign all his files to the new owner (chown). <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,)> writes: > > I would like to change the user id number for one of my users. > What problems or dangers might I encounter? > > Thanks, > > -db- > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | > | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- ____________________________ ______________________| Stefano Unternaehrer |__________________________ \ Mecasoft SA | Oracle DBA | fax: +41 91 743 5507 / \ 6600 Muralto | and PL/SQL, Pro*C | voice: +41 91 743 7444 / \ | C, XWindow & Motif | / / | Software Developer | email: \ / Switzerland Europe |____________________________| dba,unter@mecasoft.ch \ /________________________) (____________________________\ "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history" George Bernard Shaw
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 03:45:41 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Message-ID: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> I am posting this message because I am quite upset about the way the ask_next people handled my question and maybe somebody out there will give me a hand on this. The message is a little bit long (sorry!), but I didn't want to take anything away that would rest meaning to the question. There are 3 parts to this posting. The first one is the original letter I sent to ask_next@next.com after one of their technicians advised me to do so over the phone. The second one is the Chris Hapka (NeXT) reply, and finally my last message to him. Thank you for your patience!. RMC ----------- 1. Original letter to ask_next ------------------------- Dear Sirs, I called NeXT Technical Support, spoke to one of your technicians and he indicated that this should be something you could be interested on. Here is the problem. I have been a NeXTStep user for 7 years since I got my beloved NeXTStation Turbo Mono. Since then I have upgraded my operating system several times but the time has come to get a new faster system (Pentium Pro 200). I work on the enviromental modeling field, namely developing FORTRAN finite elements models for surface runoff. I bought OpenStep 4.1 Academic User/Dev for Intel 20 days ago, installed it and tested on the new system and so far works great!. I checked for a FORTRAN compiler (comercial or not) for the operating system and was quite depressed to find that both Absoft and NAG have discontinued support for OS4.1. It seems the the only available choices are the new GNU g77 or the f2c script. g77 seems to be quite interesting since GNU claims that you can do gdb debugging and some optimization. I downloaded gcc-2.7.2.2 and g77-0.5.19 from the archives a month ago and tried to install it into the new OpenStep 4.1 (with the devoloper package) system. When trying to compile it it went OK through the configure step but then it stopped at the make bootstrap process. I posted a message to the next.comp.sys.software and next.comp.sys.software newsgroups to see if somebody had encountered this problem and had found a work-around. A fellow (thank you Dave!) answered explaining that the new OpenStep libraries are dynamic and that a new nextstep.h (in the config subdirectory of the GNU distribution) needed to be used in place of the one included (I am including the file below). I tried this and it compiled (with lots of warnings during linking time). Finally, I compiled and run a model written in FORTRAN77 and after similar linking warnings from g77 I obtained an executable and run it. The program run OK but the results are quite different to those obtained with any other compiler I have used up to now (f77 DEC, f77 sun, MS-FORTRAN Power station for NT or even f2c). I am certain by exchanging messages over the net that the NeXT OpenStep community will apreciate very much your efforts since as I said before, we, FORTRAN Users don't seem to have any other choices at this time. Please let me know if you need any further info. RMC -------------- 2. Chris Hapka (NeXT) reply --------------------- From: Christopher Hapka <Christopher_Hapka@next.com> Subject: [107567] Problem with g77 on OpenStep 4.1 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:39:15 -0800 Dear Dr. Munoz-Carpena, Ask_Next@next.com is provided as a communication mechanism for information about NeXT Software, Inc. products. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide support for third-party development tools or other third-party products. Please contact the vendor of your FORTRAN compiler for assistance. Thank you, Chris Hapka Objectline Engineer Apple Computer, Inc. - NeXT Software ---------------------- 3. My reply to him ------------------------- Dear Chris, Thanks for your VERY STUPID reply... As you probably are aware of, g77 is a freeware (no vendor here Chris) GNU (Free Software Foundation) fortran 77 compiler, developed by a number of volunteers around the net. As I understand it, NeXT cc compiler was developed originally from the GNU source code. When I sent you my message, the intention was to let you know that you guys changed something fundamental between NeXTStep and OpenStep, so that the GNU cc and g77, that used to compile just fine under NS3.x, does not compile anymore in OS 4.x. So I was asking for a hint to what had changed and how I could get around it to get the software to compile (in my original message (see below) I said that somebody mentioned something about the dynamic libraries). If NeXT is to make it on the long run it will have to help users like me that are willing to move along the upgrade line and make things work. Visit the news and you will see questions about: does it work under 4.x?, is it better or worse?. I am sorry to find out that in the end you guys don't care about it, just give the easy answer and forget about it. I am still stuck with no FORTRAN compiler because you guys did not get along with Absoft so that they can develop the new version of their Fortran compiler or because the NAG people don't feel they can invest any resources to support a dead operating system. Chris, you just proved them right. RMC -- R. Munoz-Carpena, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar e-mail:rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu BAE Dept. Box 7625 Fax: (919)515-7760 North Carolina State University Phone:(919)515-6732 Raleigh, NC 27695-2625
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 05:27:27 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5fo8vv$4o8@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) wrote: > I am posting this message because I am quite upset about the way > the ask_next people handled my question and maybe somebody out > there will give me a hand on this. [...] The first one is the > original letter I sent to ask_next@next.com after one of their > technicians advised me to do so over the phone. The second one > is the Chris Hapka (NeXT) reply, and finally my last message to > him. Thank you for your patience!. While I can understand your frustration, the reply from ask_next is perfectly understandable to me. The fact that the thing you want to use comes from GNU does not mean that NeXT has to support it when you want to use it. Support costs time and money. NeXT (really Apple now) has a few other important issues they have to address, issues that *only* they can address. No matter how you phrase your reply to that observation, the fact remains that you are asking them to support free software. If they have the right answer for your problem, then obviously they should provide it. However, if they do not *already* have the answer for the problem you see, then it is quite reasonable for them to say "We did not write this, we do not have the time to look into it". The problem is not that Apple is too busy to provide you with support for free software, the problem is that you have no other good options for fortran on OpenStep. If Apple does a good job getting Rhapsody together, then it is much more likely that writers of fortran compilers will support both Rhapsody and NeXTSTEP. The best thing for Apple and OpenStep users right now is for Apple to get the Rhapsody project working. I understand that this reply (my reply) is not very helpful either, and I'm sympathetic to that. I recently had some people ask me about NeXTSTEP, who ended up going somewhere else due to the lack of a good fortran compiler. I agree completely with the idea that availability of a fortran compiler would be an advantage for the OpenStep platform, but it is not Apple's business to write fortran compilers. Their business is to get the operating system together, and to make sure the transition from MacOS to Rhapsody is successful. If they do *that* job, then other companies will handle the issue of fortran compilers. If Apple does not succeed at that job, then it won't really make any difference if there's a fortran compiler available for a platform which (by then) will be dead. In your reply to the comments from ask_next, you said: > Thanks for your VERY STUPID reply... As you probably are aware > of, g77 is a freeware (no vendor here Chris) GNU (Free Software > Foundation) fortran 77 compiler, developed by a number of > volunteers around the net. I imagine that ask_next probably understands that quite well. I'd say your reply is much more stupid and obnoxious than theirs, because you are lecturing them on something that *you* do not seem to understand. If g77 is supported by volunteers, then you have to go to *those* people for questions. It is not the responsibility of Apple/NeXT to support everything which has been written by volunteers outside the of company, particular for things made available to you for free and which Apple had nothing to do with. This is particularly true for a large and complex program such as a compiler, where it really could take them a fair amount of time to investigate what is going on. Now, there are many helpful people in the GNU area, and I do sincerely hope that someone in that group knows the answer to the situation you are facing. I do think that the reply you got from ask_next was perfectly reasonable, that your reply to them was not, and I felt I should say so. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q:Problems with Serial port using ISASerialPort v3.33 Date: 7 Mar 1997 08:48:07 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5foko7$hua@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <9703052249.AA19302@nx_chi> Randy Nelson (randyn@nx_chi) wrote: : I just installed the ISASerialPort 3.33 and the PortServer 3.33 drivers. : (The new ppp2.3 requires them.) : After installing (and removing the on-board-serial) and rebooting things : come up fine. However, if I try to use kermit, it now seg faults. : Also, if I try to run the new pppd v2.3b3, it gets the following errors : and never starts up. : [...] Hello, this seems to happen more often now, either after OS upgrade (-> 4.x) or after installing the (new for 3.3) portserver drivers. Most often the cause is to forget to select the TTY portserver (in Configure(.app) under 'miscellaneous', where the (base) serial port drivers live), too. As long as this driver isn't configured too, the "/dev"'s cu[f]a, cu[f]b as well as the tty[df]a, tty[df]b aren't 'visible' to the programs. Try again, making sure that the TTY portserver is selected, too. If that's not it, I don't know, but kermit's problems to open the device are a good hint, that this is the problem. Kermit (up to now) never has failed me, except for my own mistakes - a very good program. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: vta@ludens.elte.hu (DMON) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can OpenStep switch off an Intel machine through APM? Message-ID: <1997Mar7.101834.37926@ludens> Date: 7 Mar 97 10:18:34 +0100 Organization: Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Dear all, I'm a hungarian student. I have an intel machine which can be switched off programatically through an appropriate APM BIOS call. What do you think, how can I manage OpenStep to switch off the machine instead of saying "Now it's safe to turn off the computer."? Thanks for any comments, advices. Best wishes, Tibor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.1 on GA-586DX (GigaByteBoard) Message-ID: <E6nypE.AHt@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5fn2bf$bva$1@lynet.de> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 08:10:26 GMT In article <5fn2bf$bva$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: > Hello, > > I've just tried to install OPENSTEP 4.1 on a new > purchased Motherboard GA-586DX from GigaByte, > wich has a 2940 UW on board (AdaptecBIOS Version 1.41S2). > Installing OS/2 on the machine is Ok, but installing OpenStep > fails, because he neither finds the CD-ROM (NEC 3xi) nor the > second HardDisk (Maverick 540 MByte). > After installing an old Adaptec 2940 UW (BiosVersion 1.21), > it works. > > Does anyone know, how that comes and how I get the OnBoardAdapter > working with OpenStep (BiosDownDate?). > Hi Andreas! worked for me. Your problem might be related to the CD-ROM (NEC are known to cause problems!) and/or a wrong Adaptec configuration! Hans -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Control: cancel <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Date: 7 Mar 1997 03:45:41 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Sender: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Message-ID: <cancel.5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Please cancel this article
From: breiter@mathematik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Bernhard Reiter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 12:52:19 GMT Organization: RRZN - Newsserver Message-ID: <5fp323$adl$2@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> References: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In article <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu>, carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) writes: > I am posting this message because I am quite upset about the way the ask_next > people handled my question and maybe somebody out there will give me a hand > on this. There are a plenty other place you could ask. Maybe you should write an angry letter to NAG and Absoft. Maybe i can give you some additional hints. :-) [OpenStep 4.1] > ago, installed it and tested on the new system and so far works great!. I > checked for a FORTRAN compiler (comercial or not) for the operating system > and was quite depressed to find that both Absoft and NAG have discontinued > support for OS4.1. It seems the the only available choices are the new GNU > g77 or the f2c script. g77 seems to be quite interesting since GNU claims > that you can do gdb debugging and some optimization. > I downloaded gcc-2.7.2.2 and g77-0.5.19 from the archives a month ago and > tried to install it into the new OpenStep 4.1 (with the devoloper package) > system. There is a new version for g77 0.5.20 and there was a 0.5.19.1 The annoucements (on gnu.announce) stated that there were many serious long term bug fixed. You might want to try again. From what i heard it is possible to compile the new gcc on OpenStep so the g77 should be possible ,too . If you really need Fortran, you could spend money on free development for g77. A lot of Gnu developers are really interested to get there programs fine ang bug free. If you can provode good bug reports, they probably will help you. If you can provide a machine or similiar, they probably will solve your problem. If you spend money, you also might get firms, which provide support for g77. Even the FSF/GNU has a gold service and will compile their program for your favorite system, (to raise funds for their free projects) ;-> Regards Bernhard Reiter
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:25:49 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5fp50t$drq$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> Cc: jcr@idiom.com In <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> John C. Randolph wrote: > > I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've > needed to know: > > What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same > subnet? > > advTHANKSance, > > -jcr > CAP will do the trick, more info on http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Does the /dev directory need to be configured? Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:33:54 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5fp5g2$hkd@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <331D8D3F.5109@smart.net> gh@smart.net wrote: >I am trying to reach my serial port with C-Kermit. >When I enter SET LINE /dev/cua, I get the response; > Can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device > >Is there something I need to do to configure the >devices to make them accessable? Yes.. if you intend to use cua/cufa with kermit under a non root userid (not a bad idea, because you then can run NXFax or other fax software on the same port using /dev/ttyfa) you run into difficulties with the permissions. Under OS4.1, the default permissions are: crw------- 1 uucp 11,224 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cufa crw------- 1 uucp 11,192 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cua Since local security was no issue for my machine at home, I simple used chmod a+rw /dev/ttycufa and am a happy camper ever since. Please note that you should use cufa rather then cua, since it gives you hardware flow control, assuming you are not using an older 68030 machine. Hope this helps, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: What is Cube NIBC? Message-ID: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:30:10 GMT When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. Thanks.
From: Thomas.Tschannen@ivi.admin.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing from a NT system to black printers Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:17:24 GMT Organization: BFI, Bern (Switzerland) Message-ID: <5fpf2k$mfl@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> Keywords: driver, printing, NT Hi, I'm setting up a NT Server (4.0) from which I would like to print to a black printer via TCP/IP. Since there aren't any drivers for NeXTprinters I gave it a try with a QMS PS drive. It works as long as there is only one single page per document. As soon as I send a multipage document I get postscript errors on the printer. Is there anybody, who has done an installation like that ? What printerdriver is likely to produce meaningfull (in the sense of NeXT printers) postscript ? Thanks for your help. --- Thomas Tschannen, Systemsmanagement Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis, Switzerland email Thomas.Tschannen@ivi.admin.ch (NeXTmail welcome) Ph. ++41 31 84 89 256, FAX ++41 31 84 89 222
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:21:57 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6or0M.Mtv@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) writes: > > When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me > what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. > Thanks. NeXT (aka fast Nu) Bus Interface Chip? $
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E6oM7D.8GF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:38:01 GMT References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu>, Andrew Chang <tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me >what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. >Thanks. > The NBIC is the NeXTbus Interface Chip, and must be installed on each board that wishes to communicate with other boards on the NeXTbus. -- 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: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Apache SSL on nextstep 3.3 Date: 7 Mar 1997 15:01:23 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5fpak3$30u@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Has anyone gone through the process of building apache with SSL? If so, any good advice for getting the Makefiles set up to build SSLeay correctly? pasc
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 12:41:54 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kn85BWq00iWRA61tFx@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 7-Mar-97 What is Cube NIBC? by Andrew Chang@gsbux1.uchi > When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me > what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. It's the Next Bus Interface Controller chip, which is required to arbitrate the NuBus slots inside the cube. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: date command Date: 7 Mar 1997 19:54:37 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5fprpt$vva@library.airnews.net> References: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Cc: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu In <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, wrote: > > I'm a bit frustrated with the 'date' command built into NS 3.3. > I want something more like the S5R4 date command that supports > command-line formatting options, i.e., > > setenv DATE `date +%y%m%d` Get GNU's sh-utils-1.16.tar.gz from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu, it's got the "DATE" you're looking for and much more. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 20:35:50 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Message-ID: <5fpu76$ro6@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> References: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> <5fo8vv$4o8@usenet.rpi.edu> Cc: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Garance, In <5fo8vv$4o8@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn wrote: > >[...] The problem is not that Apple is too busy to provide you with > support for free software, the problem is that you have no other > good options for fortran on OpenStep. > > I understand that this reply (my reply) is not very helpful either, > and I'm sympathetic to that. I recently had some people ask me > about NeXTSTEP, who ended up going somewhere else due to the lack > of a good fortran compiler... I am glad to see that my message got through and my point is made. > I imagine that ask_next probably understands that quite well. I'd > say your reply is much more stupid and obnoxious than theirs, > because you are lecturing them on something that *you* do not seem > to understand. Thanks for the lecture ; - ) >[...] I do think that the reply you got from > ask_next was perfectly reasonable, that your reply to them was not, > and I felt I should say so. Good for you! : - ) Now, I apologize for what you found not reasonable, but again sometimes you need to resort to some noise to be heard. I hope NeXT (Apple) got the message!. Best regards, Rafa -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Researcher, Soil & Water Department | | INSTITUTO CANARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS - ICIA | | Apdo. 60 - Laguna, 38200 Tenerife (Spain) | |Tno:+34-22-476343;Fax:+34-22-476303;e-mail:carpena@icia.rcanaria.es| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing user id number Date: 7 Mar 1997 20:52:23 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5fpv67$g6n@usenet.rpi.edu> References: 5f738e@newncar.ucar.edu <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,)> writes: > I would like to change the user id number for one of my > users. What problems or dangers might I encounter? unter@mecati.mecasoft.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) replied: > AFAIK you only have to reassign all his files to the new > owner (chown). I like to create a new account with the old user id number, and make it so that new account can't signon. This just leaves a marker in case anything has saved away that UID value, so you remember where it came from. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing user id number Date: 7 Mar 1997 23:58:11 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5fqa2j$opa@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> In article <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> unter@mecati.mecasoft.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) writes: > > AFAIK you only have to reassign all his files to the new owner (chown). You have to be a little clever to find 'em all. For example, don't forget /usr/spool/mail/username and all of the .filenames in the user's home directory. -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
From: francis@az.stratus.com (Francis Hartojo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.1 and NetInfo. Followup-To: poster Date: 8 Mar 1997 00:18:20 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <5fqb8c$kfk@transfer.stratus.com> Hi, I'm wondering if there's something I can do to turn NetInfo completely off (i.e., make it to not be started up at all) on OS 4.1? Commenting it (and lookupd) out from the rc file doesn't do it 'cause it seems like everybody else still expect it to run. For now I've configured it to just serve the local machine (i.e., don't go looking for a parent server) since it's the only NeXT box in the LAN. But I much prefer if I could not use it at all and go back to the flat files. Thank you in advance, and please send your responses directly to: francis@az.stratus.com. P.S.: I just remembered, on one of the docs under /NextLibrary there's an explanation on how to configure the resolver where to look for information (e.g., flat files, YP, DNS, NetInfo, etc.). Kind of like the /etc/nsswitch.conf on Solaris. Would setting this to the flat files only and commenting out the NetInfo from the rc file work? I'd rather not experiment at this point. To put it simply, I need the NeXT box operational for work. (c: Thanks again. -- +------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Francis Hartojo | Ph.: 602-852-3195 [Speaking for myself, | | Stratus Computer, Inc. | 800-294-1344 x3195 nobody else.] | | francis@az.stratus.com | Fax: 602-852-3099 |
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: date command Date: 7 Mar 1997 21:18:41 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5fq0nh$9om$1@newncar.ucar.edu> References: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> <5fprpt$vva@library.airnews.net> In article <5fprpt$vva@library.airnews.net>, Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> wrote: >In <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, wrote: >> I'm a bit frustrated with the 'date' command built into NS 3.3. >> I want something more like the S5R4 date command that supports >> command-line formatting options, i.e., >> >> setenv DATE `date +%y%m%d` >Get GNU's sh-utils-1.16.tar.gz from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu, it's got the >"DATE" you're looking for and much more. I got it and it does exactly what I want. Thanks to all who pointed this out. -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703071941.OAA05959@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 50a7ce1c3d8c924db61a8f04e76eb1a2 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 14:41:04 -0500 Subject: Re: sendmail and NetInfo help needed Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 50a7ce1c3d8c924db61a8f04e76eb1a2 - Responding To: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Original Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:14:08 GMT Message-ID: 50a7ce1c3d8c924db61a8f04e76eb1a2 - > If it's all right with you please show me your .mc file and > show me the result of sendmail test with debug flag as > follows; I have it running actually, but thanks for the offer TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* I will be away from the evening of Mar 7 (Friday) until Mar 12 (Wed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> References: <01bc2a5e$6c04d640$43e286cd@compaq> <sams.857696640@shellx> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:06:50 GMT Samuel G. Streeper wrote: > "Admin" <admin@sirius.com> writes: > >After every login to the workspace, the workspace manager goes out and > >scans (all ?) disks for Apps (to register known file-extensions [?] in case > >your friendly sysadmin has installed new things since last login). In an > >nfs environment this puts too much load onto the nfs-server when frequent > >logins occur. > > I'm not sure, but try this: > > dwrite WM AutoFindApps No Close: it's dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO Holger -- hhoff@schwaben.de LOAD "MACH_KERNEL",8,1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Message-ID: <E6oHnw.BuH@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:59:56 GMT In article <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> writes: > Bonjour, > > I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard with an Award BIOS and with > 120 MHz Intel Pentium. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive inside. I solely > have a PCI/Scsi Adaptec 2940 uw with a 664 N1H IBM drive. I'm trying to > install NSFIP 3.3 with the default drivers supplied with NS 3.3 without > success. > > Once loading NeXT Mach 3.3, Physical Memory... Driverkit version 330, > Registering: PS2 Controller... > I get: > Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING > Registering: event0 > ... You need the new V3.37 Adaptec Driver from NeXTanswers ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: edwinl1@ix.netcom.com(MO & Associates) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sugestion Box/New Ideas Administrator Program Date: 8 Mar 1997 06:52:31 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5fr2bf$pkg@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> THE NEW IDEAS ADMINISTRATOR Version 2.01 The best "NEW IDEAS ADMINISTRATOR" in the market. Use e-Mail (optional). Intuitive way for employees to have access to a tool in order to make suggestions to Supervisors. Can be done using computer or filling the new idea form. Can be e-mailed (optional) to his/her supervisor, director, vice-president, etc. The supervisor evaluates the idea and sends back the evaluation, asking for more info or with the final evaluation. Awards might be implemented depending the amount saved by the company. Also has different level of access, employee, supervisor, director, administrator, etc. Your Company can save millions. It can be customized for your needs. Also Help screens available. All kind of reports. Upgrades twice a year. Also help available through Internet. I'ts support all mayor databases as: Oracle, Sybase, Access, Paradox, etc. It's a simple but Powerful Tool for just: $139.99 MONEY BACK WARRANTY Send Check or Money Order - $139.99 to: MO & Associates 666 W 81 St. 117 Hialeah, FL 33014 (NY-Florida) Satisfaction Guaranteed - MONEY BACK WARRANTY More info: edwinL1@ix.netcom.com
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:57:47 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970304175508.19876A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu><5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <Qn761Ae00WBO02zV88@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Qn761Ae00WBO02zV88@andrew.cmu.edu> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Charles William Swiger wrote: > What's changed since then? Well, memory has gotten cheaper and lots of > computers now have reasonable amounts of RAM, and CPU's have gotten a > lot faster. > > I think the design decision to have the main computer do all of the work > and have the printer be a dumb device makes as much or even more sense > today than it used to. There are already a lot of cheap "Windows-only" laser printers out there that use the same principle as the NeXT laser printer. Of course, none of them use Postscript - but why would a Windoze user care? :P -Isaac
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703071939.OAA05925@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 199e700f4b278952bdf40a93b2191344 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 14:39:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Using UserManager without the root password Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 199e700f4b278952bdf40a93b2191344 - Responding To: fxrsg@shadowtalon (Richard S. Guse) Original Date: 6 Mar 1997 22:20:42 GMT Message-ID: 199e700f4b278952bdf40a93b2191344 - > Is there a way to get UserManager to accept a 'different' password? > say, instead of set-uid root, it would be 'accountman', who could > modify the user database. This way, we could limit the > dissemination of the root password to the consultants. Well, you could install the program 'asroot' (setuid root) and create a new user (in the group "wheel") and give him the login shell /usr/local/bin/acctman.sh (add this to /etc/shells!) then create the 'acctman.sh' program to be something like this: #!/bin/sh trap true 1 2 13 15 exec /usr/local/bin/asroot /NextAdmin/UserManager.app/UserManager # end WARNING: there may be holes in this. 1 is that 'asroot' allows any member of the group 'wheel' to run programs as root, so you might not want to put it in a place where there are a lot of 'wheel' members. What this will allow is someone to 'su' to 'acctman' or whatever you call the user, run UserManager.app, and then logout when UserManager exits. The 'trap' calls should prevent people from being able to dump into a regular /bin/sh as this user. Others may have other/better ideas.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* I will be away from the evening of Mar 7 (Friday) until Mar 12 (Wed)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 8 Mar 1997 17:10:56 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> In article <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) writes: > dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. I have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? -- 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: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 8 Mar 1997 12:28:44 -0000 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Is it possible to NXHost an application or message distributed objects between NEXTSTEP machines through any kind of firewall? (The firewall machine is not NEXTSTEP, by the way.) For the former, I tried putting up a simple proxy that would pass requests on port 178 on to the remote machine, but I think the remote WindowServer wants call back the originating machine on a private port or something, because it doesn't work. (Says "cannot connect to WindowServer on remote host" or something like that, after a timeout period.) Or is it trying to do something via Mach ports? Why can't I find any technical documentation on how this works?? Would NXHost.app help in any way? I don't know how it works. For distributed objects, I'm thinking that the TCPTransport example might be helpful. Has anyone fleshed that example out more? It looks like it does a rendezvous on a public port, which I can proxy easily enough, but then moves conversation over to a private port, so it looks like I'll have to hack that part. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Urban | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech nurban@vt.edu | {NeXT,MIME} mail welcome | http://nurban.campus.vt.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Installing OS 4.1 on partition 'b' on a NeXTstation Message-ID: <E6q16u.7t1@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5fh26r$gmg$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 10:59:17 GMT In article <5fh26r$gmg$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) writes: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how to install OS 4.1 onto the second (`b') > parition of a 2G disk in a NeXTstation Color machine? > > It seems that the NeXT installer wants to install the OS onto the > `a' partition but I do not want this. > ...munch... In case the second partition is of adequate size I'd do the following: Copy the NS from partition a to b (by means of 'ditto' or BuildDisk.app) and make sure it boots correctly. Upgrade partition b by means of Upgrader.app from the OS4.1-CD. Only the installation procedure doesn't know how to handle different partitions. If the old NS is not upgradable (too old or too much fumbled around with) use the installation procedure to partition a. P.S.: There are many ways to make partition a fit onto partition b: 1. Compress user filesystems 2. Unload unused (by the upgrade) components like /LocalApps etc. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 15:34:19 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <sn8Qp=200iWZI4nnhH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Mar-97 Re: dwrite "prevent WM to s.. by Rex Dieter@math.unl.edu >> dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO > > This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. > I have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is > enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? Automatically? It doesn't. However, you should be able to run make_services every time you wanted to find a new application. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jchan@apk.net (Jerome Chan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [newbie question] ftp, telnet and new users Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 17:50:25 -0500 Organization: TofuSoft Message-ID: <jchan-0803971750260001@as4-34.apk.net> I've just got OS4.1/Mach for Sparc and I've been playing around a bit with it. I've added in a new user but I can't use that account to telnet or ftp to the Sparc. I don't see the account listed in /etc/passwd. Is there a script I need to run after using the user manager? --- The Evil Tofu (Only Human)
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 8 Mar 1997 19:25:56 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5fseg4$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 PersonalINN > posting problems by planetary@xmission.xmiss > > Although it claims that remote posting was successful, no posts propagate. > > I don't trust the log anyway, since something in the posting mechanism > > seems to be choking on garbage. > > I wouldn't believe it either. Rightly so. :-) The point is that (probably because of a corrupted outfile, I'll check this with Kris) all outfile messages appear to be empty and therefore won't need to be posted. The "posting successful" message is to be read relative to the fact that there seems to be nothing to post... :-/ > Are you trying to feed articles back to > your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is > actually happening), Yes, that's the way rpost works. Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 8 Mar 1997 19:56:11 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5fsg8r$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) wrote: > Reading the log file indicates that it was choking on a bunch of headers > very important to a post, such as "Subject." I can't imagine my news > server would feel like "Subject" is incompatible. No no, that's not the point, of course. Hm, looks like a corrupted outfile to me. The outfile is supposed to include relative pathnames to the articles to be sent; rpost will add /usr/spool/news/articles to it. In your logfile, paths are generated with /usr/spool/news/articles and then the header names of a posting which suggests to me that your outfile includes the postings itself instead of just the pathnames. This, in turn, would be because of a misconfigured newsfeeds file. Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________ Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E6qMnz.sC@flop.schwaben.de> References: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 18:43:11 GMT Rex Dieter wrote: > > dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO > > This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. I > have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is > enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? Just press CMD-u after installation of a new app, and wait until the update finished. Works great! For services, logging out and back in might be required. Holger -- hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM LOAD "MACH_KERNEL",8,1
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 8 Mar 1997 16:29:30 -0800 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ft09a$c7@mpaque.mpaque> References: <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes: > > dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO > > This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. I > have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is > enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? In the Workspace menu, click on 'View >'. In the submenu that pops up, click on 'Update Viewers'. This will start the AppFinder processes. The Command Key shortcut for this is 'CMD-u'. -- I don't speak for my employer, whoever it is, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@next.com Official business only NeXT Mail OK mpaque@wco.com Non-business or personal mail NeXT mail OK
From: Huiyang Yang <yang@focus.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: about read mail in Chinese and Japanese Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 10:21:30 -0800 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <3321AE2A.41C6@focus.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am using NeXT Electronic Mail Reader to read e-mail. Is it possible to read the mails in Chinese (GB or Big5) or Japanese? and how? Thanks Huiyang
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:54:48 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un >> Secondly, are you spooling outgoing articles correctly? They should be >> put in something like $SPOOL/Out.going-- note that the period makes the >> name impossible to be a newsgroup, since something like this newsgroup >> would put articles into $SPOOL/comp/sys/next/sysadmin. > > Please note that PersonalINN is NOT a vanilla INN installation; some things > are different for easier handling. Okay. > So, there is no need for a period in "outgoing" since newsgroups are stored > in a different subdirectory called "articles" which is on the same hierarchy > as "outgoing". Even if that is the case, why change the convention? It's easier to understand what's going on if your system is set up similarly to the way the documentation recommends. >> Is logging set up correctly? You'll have to edit /etc/syslog.conf. > > Well, logging obviously works. syslogd will do what /etc/syslog.conf says to do-- in that sense, logging "works". Whether the logging of INN's behavior works correctly is a different question. What facilities and levels does PersonalINN log to? >> You should be logging a ton of information that will get summarized into a >> daily news report which should be mailed to the news admin (ie, you!). > > This feature is turned OFF in PersonalINN's default setting. That strikes me as a bad idea. Maybe it would be okay to turn the daily news summary off when things have been working correctly for a while, but when someone first starts using INN, it's crucial to have the system monitor what's going on so that any problems can be detected and corrected. >> BTW, have you run 'inncheck -v'? It's a great way of checking your >> overall configuration. > > True, but it will not realize if the newsfeeds file is set to generate the > correct outfile format - which is probably the problem here (i.e. W*H* > instead of Wnm). Probably-- it does look like something was spraying article header information into what was supposed to be the list of outgoing articles for nntpsend (or rpost, or whatever). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:24:03 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970306101913.20654A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Michele Fuortes wrote: > I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package > is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that > would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. As I'm sure someone's told you, the cube (provided it's an 040) will run Openstep, albeit slowly. > So I was thinking about the idea of getting a cheap DOS card for my > Macintosh here at home (9150), install OpenSTEP in there and REALLY have > the Best of Both World ;-) Apple's DOS cards are exactly that - DOS cards. They only work with DOS-based operating systems (which includes Windows95, but not NT). Neither NEXTSTEP or Openstep will run on Apple's cards... HOWEVER: Orange Micro sells PC-compatibility cards that they advertise as NT-compatible. It may be possible to install NEXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach on one of those cards. Even if it isn't, OpenStep/NT may run if you have NT running on the card. -Isaac
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 9 Mar 1997 05:04:30 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com> References: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> On 03/08/97, Nathan Urban wrote: >Is it possible to NXHost an application or message distributed objects >between NEXTSTEP machines through any kind of firewall? (The firewall >machine is not NEXTSTEP, by the way.) For the former, I tried putting >up a simple proxy that would pass requests on port 178 on to the >remote machine, but I think the remote WindowServer wants call back >the originating machine on a private port or something, because it >doesn't work. (Says "cannot connect to WindowServer on remote host" >or something like that, after a timeout period.) Or is it trying to do >something via Mach ports? Why can't I find any technical documentation >on how this works?? Would NXHost.app help in any way? I don't know >how it works. > By the same token... anyone able to tell me what ports/ packet types need to be blocked at my firewall to prevent off-site NXHost snooping? >For distributed objects, I'm thinking that the TCPTransport example might >be helpful. Has anyone fleshed that example out more? It looks like >it does a rendezvous on a public port, which I can proxy easily enough, >but then moves conversation over to a private port, so it looks like >I'll have to hack that part. >-- -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: 9 Mar 1997 05:27:39 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm247-19.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5fthob$ir$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970306101913.20654A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Cc: isaac@pobox.com In <Pine.LNX.3.95.970306101913.20654A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Isaac wrote: > HOWEVER: > > Orange Micro sells PC-compatibility cards that they advertise as > NT-compatible. It may be possible to install NEXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach on > one of those cards. Even if it isn't, OpenStep/NT may run if you have > NT running on the card. > > -Isaac > > Do you know more about the company? Thanks Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
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From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 9 Mar 1997 00:44:56 -0000 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5ft168$pbc@sps1.phys.vt.edu> References: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com> In article <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com>, sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > By the same token... anyone able to tell me what ports/ packet types > need to be blocked at my firewall to prevent off-site NXHost snooping? Somebody told me port 2453, TCP. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Urban | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech nurban@vt.edu | {NeXT,MIME} mail welcome | http://nurban.campus.vt.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: root@ariel.infodesign.ch (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with WangDat 3400DX (4/8GB) on Turbo Cube Date: 8 Mar 1997 15:01:50 GMT Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <5frv0u$kls@news.eunet.ch> References: <5fklqp$ruv@library.airnews.net> In article <5fklqp$ruv@library.airnews.net> liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) writes: > I'm running into problems trying to use a borrowed WangDat 3400DX (4GB > native) drive on my Turbo Cube (NS3.3, ROMv74). The drive works fine on a > PC. After I hooked it up to my Cube, it's recognized during boot: > > > WangDAT Model 3400DX Rev 1.4a as st0 at sc0 target 5 lun 0 > > I put in a 120m DDS2 tape, and tried to kick out the tape by > > # mt -f /dev/rst0 offline (rewind, etc. doesn't work either) > > Nothing happens with the drive but the console gives me: > > > st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = 2H > > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 > > and when I tried to tar something to the drive > > # tar -cf /dev/rst0 /tmp > > I get > > > Tape error, I/O error. (something like that) > > and this blurb on the console: > > > st: cmd = 0xa sr_io_status = 2H > > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 > > > I double checked my SCSI id, everything is fine (hd at 1, tape at 5). I've > also tried /dev/rxt0, which I guess is for the 8mm Exabyte, but I tried it > anyway. Didn't do anything for me. > > Anybody using similar tape drives? > > All ideas and suggestions are welcome! > > Much obliged! > liuyi > -- > Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII} You have discovered probably the proprietary format of the WangDat. Check the manual as to how to set the block sizes to a fixed length format, such as 1024 bytes per block. We had to open the cover and change a jumper to get a fixed block size! then use the program dd to pipe your data... Below is what we found works for us to move our tar files to NeXTSTEP3.3... # always use the tmp directory as this gets flushed automatically if you run out of # target disk space cd tmp #skip the first tar file on this particular tape... your mileage may vary mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1 #read from the tape device at a fixed block size of 1024 bytes per block #pipe the output stream to the tar program and extract the file from standard output #stream dd if=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024|tar xvf - For dump tapes such as... Dump date: Sat May 25 16:00:17 1996 do the following: mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1 restore -ivf /dev/rst0 the /dev/nrst0 device does not seem to work appropriately... Best regards, Gerold Rupprecht Geneva, Switzerland
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 9 Mar 1997 09:07:42 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > So, there is no need for a period in "outgoing" since newsgroups > > are stored in a different subdirectory called "articles" which > > is on the same hierarchy as "outgoing". > > Even if that is the case, why change the convention? It's easier to > understand what's going on if your system is set up similarly to the way > the documentation recommends. I don't think so. It sure is easier for people who already know INN and UNIX in general, but PersonalINN was configured with those in mind who DO NOT belong to exactly this group of people (who, by their knowledge, should be able to survive these changes, anyhow ;-) ). For those, given the generally overwhelming complexity of INN, anything a bit more intuitive is a gain, as are clearly to understand names and paths. So in PersonalINN e.g. all binaries are in /usr/local/inn (which also has a .dir.tiff and therefore looks a bit like an app wrapper), instead of spreading them across different directories. Don't forget that for German people (PersonalINN was created in connection with an internet article series for NEXTTOYOU), there's also the language barrier adding. For them, it is hard enough to read "outgoing" instead of "Ausgehende", you don't want to have even more irritation by "out.going". Besides, I really think it's a bad idea (now matter how traditional) to hide the outgoing directory amongst maybe hundreds of article directories, and I see no point in keeping a stupid convention. Generally speaking, the "philosophy" of PersonalINN has been to carefully lead pure users to UNIX configuration, i.e. don't hide the thing totally so that nobody understands what's going on behind the scenes, but make the UNIX side easy to comprehend for a novice. Of course, for you English speaking people, the 30 pages article is missing which illustrates all this with lots of graphics etc. :-( > syslogd will do what /etc/syslog.conf says to do-- in that sense, > logging "works". Whether the logging of INN's behavior works correctly > is a different question. What facilities and levels does PersonalINN > log to? This IS quite conventional; local0 & local1, notice - error (though maybe I'll change local0 since some people needed exactly this facility for something else). However, my point was that Kris' problem obviously has nothing to do wiht logging problems, nor were important logging informations missing. > > This feature is turned OFF in PersonalINN's default setting. > > That strikes me as a bad idea. > > Maybe it would be okay to turn the daily news summary off when things > have been working correctly for a while, but when someone first starts > using INN, it's crucial to have the system monitor what's going on so > that any problems can be detected and corrected. PersonalINN should be plug&play and seems to have been in more than 99% of the installations (except slurp, maybe, which isn't included in the mailing, anyway). Personally, I don't see any advantages in getting a daily report via mail vs. looking at the log files (which users are encouraged to do). Of course, actual error conditions ARE reported via mail. > Probably-- it does look like something was spraying article header > information into what was supposed to be the list of outgoing articles > for nntpsend (or rpost, or whatever). Meanwhile, Kris has sent me his newsfeeds file, and it was as I had supposed: for some reason I don't know yet he had added an "H" to "Wnm". So this was the mistake. Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:54:30 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970307115030.7171B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andrew Chang <tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Andrew Chang wrote: > When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me > what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. NBIC = NeXTBus Interface Chip It's the controller that lets the CPU board access other devices (like NeXTDimension boards) across the NeXTbus. On the flip side, pulling that chip from the board allows the board to boot without seeing or being seen by other NeXTbus devices (like other CPU boards.) so you can run up to 4 independent CPU modules in one cube case. :) It's not multi-processing, tho. -Isaac
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:21:01 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un >> Even if that is the case, why change the convention? It's easier to >> understand what's going on if your system is set up similarly to the way >> the documentation recommends. > > I don't think so. You don't agree that it's easier to understand a complex system like INN if it's generally set up the way the documention suggests? I don't want to argue with you, but it seems self-evident that this would be true. > It sure is easier for people who already know INN and UNIX > in general, but PersonalINN was configured with those in mind who DO NOT > belong to exactly this group of people (who, by their knowledge, should be > able to survive these changes, anyhow ;-) ). For those, given the generally > overwhelming complexity of INN, anything a bit more intuitive is a gain, How much more intuitive is it to call something "outgoing" instead of "out.going"? > as are clearly to understand names and paths. So in PersonalINN e.g. all > binaries are in /usr/local/inn (which also has a .dir.tiff and therefore > looks a bit like an app wrapper), instead of spreading them across different > directories. I have no problems with doing that-- having the INN directory look like a wrapper is a good idea. > Don't forget that for German people (PersonalINN was created in connection > with an internet article series for NEXTTOYOU), there's also the language > barrier adding. For them, it is hard enough to read "outgoing" instead of > "Ausgehende", you don't want to have even more irritation by "out.going". Again, I don't want to get into a debate over language issues. If you wanted to translate INN into German, that would have been very nice for German-speaking people. So, if you decided to call it "Ausgehende" instead of "Ausge.hende" (or whatever), that would have been your choice. However, I don't believe the assertion that a German speaking person is going to have more difficulty and irritation with "out.going" than they would with "outgoing"-- and it's not worth changing when it breaks the convention that is expected by people familiar with INN. > Besides, I really think it's a bad idea (now matter how traditional) to hide > the outgoing directory amongst maybe hundreds of article directories, and I > see no point in keeping a stupid convention. Where are you getting the "hundreds of article directories" from? There are the big-8 top-level newsgroup hierarchies (comp, talk, news, alt, and so forth), plus one for each foreign language ("de" for German , "fr" for French, etc), possibly plus any local groups. [ ... ] > Of course, for you English speaking people, the 30 pages article is missing > which illustrates all this with lots of graphics etc. :-( But that's okay-- we've got all of INN's documentation to work with, plus a lot of news admins around who are very familiar with the default installation. In large part, that's why I'm concerned about making what appears to me to be gratuitous changes to the conventions. >> syslogd will do what /etc/syslog.conf says to do-- in that sense, >> logging "works". Whether the logging of INN's behavior works correctly >> is a different question. What facilities and levels does PersonalINN >> log to? > > This IS quite conventional; local0 & local1, notice - error (though maybe > I'll change local0 since some people needed exactly this facility for > something else). Okay; thanks for the info. > However, my point was that Kris' problem obviously has nothing to do wiht > logging problems, nor were important logging informations missing. I didn't want to make that assumption-- I prefer to systematically check what's going on with a non-functioning system and verify the basics are working okay before looking into more specific potential problem areas. (Otherwise known as a "sanity check". There's no point to spending time solving a specific problem when it turns out that something more basic was wrong and the specific problem was a result of that more basic problem.) >> Maybe it would be okay to turn the daily news summary off when things >> have been working correctly for a while, but when someone first starts >> using INN, it's crucial to have the system monitor what's going on so >> that any problems can be detected and corrected. > > PersonalINN should be plug&play and seems to have been in more than 99% of > the installations (except slurp, maybe, which isn't included in the mailing, > anyway). Personally, I don't see any advantages in getting a daily report > via mail vs. looking at the log files (which users are encouraged to do). The whole purpose of the daily report is to _summarize_ those log files in an intelligent fashion, and display them in a format that easier to read and understand. For example, you can't see the number of incoming articles, how much disk space is being used, or how the expiry is doing by looking at the log files. You also don't get statistics on reader behaviors, or even whether local postings have successfully been propogated off-site. > Of course, actual error conditions ARE reported via mail. Some are-- but what happens if the expiry gets bogged down and fails to complete within a 24-hour period? You're gonna run out of disk space on the drive with the spool sooner rather than later, and you're not going to get much warning about it until it happens, either. Getting the daily report lets you monitor what's going on and fix any problems before they get completely out of hand. Well, I hope you'll take this as some constructive criticism, and not as an argument.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Subject: talk/ntalk/ytalk anyone? Message-ID: <E6tIIq.Duo@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:06:26 GMT hello- although my machine appears to have the standard setup in services for talk and ntalk, no talk daemon seems present? has anyone else had this problem? i talk on a semiregular basis with another server, but i wanted to try and use my own talk daemon. any help always appreciated. thanks in advance, bryce the just now getting a clue
From: Charles Wiles <get_lost@all.spammers> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to some) Date: 7 Mar 1997 14:13:40 GMT Organization: Physics Teaching Course, Oxford Message-ID: <5fp7qk$gcr@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one > line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as > > "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" > > I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under > NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a > single reference to how it can be done. Timothy, it's defined in /etc/gettytab by the `im' property. The format of gettytab is a little horrible (another one in the termcap/printcap family) but is described by the man page. Edit the "default" entry. You will need to use things like '\n' and '\r' to get newlines, etc and there are some magic tokens like "%h" for hostname and "%t" for the tty name. Here's an example: default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\n(%h) ****PUT YOUR LOGIN MESSAGE HERE**** \r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: cheers, charles _______________________________________________________________________ Charles Wiles, NeXT/Unix Systems Manager, Physics Practical Course Dept of Physics NAPL, University of Oxford UK charles@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk
From: Thomas.Tschannen@ivi.admin.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from a NT system to black printers Date: 10 Mar 1997 10:26:33 GMT Organization: BFI, Bern (Switzerland) Message-ID: <5g0nkp$613@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> References: <5fpf2k$mfl@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> In article <5fpf2k$mfl@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> I wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a NT Server (4.0) from which I would like to print to a > black printer via TCP/IP. > > Since there aren't any drivers for NeXTprinters I gave it a try with a > QMS PS drive. It works as long as there is only one single page per > document. > As soon as I send a multipage document I get postscript errors on the > printer. The 'printing-multipage-document-problem' is solved by setting 'page independence' to yes in the document defaults. A next specific .ppd can be found at http://www.adobe.com/ or in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/NeXT_400_dpi_Level_II_Printer.ppd on NeXTs. Should you have problems installing the .ppd, please get in touch with me. Thanks to Dave Johnson <ddj@gradient.com> Timm Wetzel <me@baloo.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Jeremy Bettis" <bettis@inetnebr.com> for their grate help. With kind regards, Thomas
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Does the /dev directory need to be configured? Date: 10 Mar 1997 11:38:45 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5g0rs5$3d0$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <331D8D3F.5109@smart.net> <5fp5g2$hkd@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> In comp.sys.next.misc Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> wrote: : gh@smart.net wrote: : >I am trying to reach my serial port with C-Kermit. : >When I enter SET LINE /dev/cua, I get the response; : > Can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device : > : >Is there something I need to do to configure the : >devices to make them accessable? : Yes.. if you intend to use cua/cufa with kermit under : a non root userid (not a bad idea, because you then : can run NXFax or other fax software on the same port : using /dev/ttyfa) you run into difficulties with the : permissions. Under OS4.1, the default permissions are: : crw------- 1 uucp 11,224 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cufa : crw------- 1 uucp 11,192 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cua I don't think the permissions are the problem he has. Note that the error message was 'no such device' which leads to the conclusion that he did not install the PortServer (When using the new serial drivers, which I would strongly recommend, you have to install a driver named PortServer or TTY Port Server or somesuch, else the devices won't be there). -- 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: csrfb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Adding SCSI datadisk accessable by multiple OSes Date: 10 Mar 1997 11:28:27 GMT Organization: RIVM Bilthoven, Netherlands Message-ID: <5g0r8r$fg8@mississippi.rivm.nl> I have a problem configuring a second (2 GB) SCSI disk in my NS 3.3 on Intel machine. It has already an 1 GB SCSI disk with multiple partitions and OS's on it. I want my computer to be able to run NS3.3, DOS and NT (and maybe a fourth later on) and therefor I tried to initialize the second disk as a datadisk, accessable by al these OSes. First I created 4 partitions on the disk with DOS fdisk (and later on with NEXTSTEP fdisk too). After that I wrote a label to the disk with the 'disk' utility because newfs wouldn't make a filesystem. Eventually I made the filesystem with newfs (default parameters). Eventually I was able to mount the filesystem, but after entering an entry in /etc/fstab and rebooting the boottime mount failed AND the label was gone. Only after this, I read the NextAnswers doc# 1533 "Initializing and Partitioning Big Disks". This doc stated that there is a bug in the 3.2 (and 3.3 ?) version of /usr/etc/disk and that one should make an entry in the /etc/disktab. So I followed the recipe in NA doc#1533: 1. low level format (did this with Adaptec SCSI utilities because sdform didn't work; something like REQUEST SENSE failed). This worked. 2. Run /usr/etc/scsimodes to obtain the actual disk parameters. This worked: 512 bytes/sector, IBM DORS-32160 WA6A5U5Z disk, etc. 3. Create an entry in /etc/disktab. I defined 4 partitions with sizes of 800, 500, 500 and 200 MB respectively. Only the first partition with the i-flag (i.e. 'run newsfs on this partition'). I carefully made sure that the sum of the 4 partitions and the frontporch was equal to the number of sectors reported by scsimodes. When running newfs it still reports that about 350 sectors in the last cylinder are unallocated. 4. Write a label to the disk and initialize the disk. Worked well 5. Make an extra entry in /etc/fstab (in my case with /dev/sd2a). Worked well, that is: at boottime NEXTSTEP registers sd2a, sd2b, sd2c and sd2d and mounts sd2a. But when I want to access the disk from DOS (fdisk) it tells me that there are no partitions. So I suspect that the partitions in /etc/distab are something completely different from the fdisk partitions (?). Questions: - Is it possible to configure a disk as datadisk with multiple partitions (different OSses) where each partition is accessable by its own OS ? - Should I use fdisk for this datadisk or for bootable disks only ? On one NS machine I could create partitions on the second disk, but on another NS machine it says 'Bogus information in BIOS' when running fdisk as 'fdisk /dev/rsd1h'. - If I should use fdisk, how can I garantee that the sizes of the fdisk-partitions correspond to the sizes specified in disktab. - How do the partitions mentioned in the /dev/sd... manual page relate to DOS-style partitions of fdisk? - I alwalys thought that the DOS-style partitiontable was in the first sector of the disk. How does this relate to the 'front-porch' of 320 sectors that NA doc#1533 is talking about ? I have tried to understand all the partition related stuff from several doc's in the NEXT website. Maybe you have the idea that I still don't have a good idea of it. Then you are probably right. Who can help! Not only with recipes, but above all to make me understand it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Francois Bourgeois, postbak 1 | F.Bourgeois@rivm.nl Centre for Substances and Risk assessment (CSR) | MIME is OK Risk Assessment Division | voice ++31 30 2742962 P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA BILTHOVEN, the Netherlands | fax ++31 30 2744401 RIVM - National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 10 Mar 97 08:31:26 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar10083126@howard.one.net> References: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com> <5ft168$pbc@sps1.phys.vt.edu> In-reply-to: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu's message of 9 Mar 1997 00:44:56 -0000 In article <5ft168$pbc@sps1.phys.vt.edu>, nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) writes: In article <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com>, sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > By the same token... anyone able to tell me what ports/ packet > types need to be blocked at my firewall to prevent off-site > NXHost snooping? Somebody told me port 2453, TCP. I'd guess that's correct: howard:/Users/scott> lsof -p 21 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE/NAME nmserver 21 root cwd VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 0r VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 1r VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 2r VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 3u unix 0x1071be8c 0x0 ->(none) nmserver 21 root 4u inet 0x1012c0c0 0x0 TCP *:2453 ^^^^ nmserver 21 root 5u inet 0x101408cc 0x0 TCP 192.42.172.1:2453->192.42.172.2:2768 Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Martin Oettle Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wanted: Disktab - entry Date: 10 Mar 1997 14:06:03 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: <5g14gb$36h@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Hi, I'm looking for a Disktab-entry for an IBM DCAS 34300 Ultra SCSI - 3 HardDisk. Can somebody help me? Thanx in advance Ciao Martin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wiedner@nxcb01.cern.ch (Ulrich Wiedner) Subject: Black Color Monitor Replacement Message-ID: <E6u61o.818@news.cern.ch> Keywords: monitor Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:34:35 GMT Hi everybody, My black FIMI Monitor for my Color NeXTstation just died and I want to replace it with another (non-NeXT) monitor. Now I was just reading in a Sony manual that e.g. the Sony 17SE2T monitor goes into power-saving mode if it receives no signals on the vertical and horizontal synchronization. But with the NeXTstation there are no extra synchronisation signals, just RGB. Does this mean I cannot use one of these modern monitors, because they will automatically go into power-saving mode? Does anyone have experience with this or see a solution? I'd also be grateful for any recommendations of specific model/brand names of 17" monitors that work well with a color NeXTstation. Thanks...Ulrich
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 10 Mar 1997 15:57:29 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > You don't agree that it's easier to understand a complex system like INN > if it's generally set up the way the documention suggests? That's true. I don't agree with that as long as the original documentation is as twisted as is the case with INN. To me, surviving this "documentation" and its concepts seemed a bit like a initiation rite ;-) Note that "out.going" is a proposal from the FAQ and NOT an "official" setting. On some issues, the FAQ breaks explicitly with the ways the INN docs suggest: so it's recommended that all overview files are stored in directories separated from the article directories whereas the original docs intend to put them into the article directories. OTOH, if you put them into different directories, then there is no need to have a dot at the beginning of the name; but that wasn't changed by the FAQ's proposal. What I want to point out is that the INN documentation stems from various sources and is quite inconsistent. This inconsistency is confusing IMHO, and I tried to change that a bit. So there are a lot of paths in PersonalINN which are NOT the "standard" paths of INN, and the overview files for instance are called "overview" and NOT ".overview". > How much more intuitive is it to call something "outgoing" instead of > "out.going"? To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" > I have no problems with doing that-- having the INN directory look like > a wrapper is a good idea. My point was more that I've changed some pathname conventions with this. > Again, I don't want to get into a debate over language issues. If you > wanted to translate INN into German, that would have been very nice for > German-speaking people. Well, this would have been too much work, as I also wanted the English speaking community to be able to use PersonalINN, so it would have meant two versions (this is always a problem with projects that arise from NEXTTOYOU but shall be donated to the international public). As a matter of fact, with smaller projects (like an upcoming MailTIFF solution), I have begun to completely localize the UNIX programs involved. Concerning documentation, English speaking people have the manpage then, German speaking people have NEXTTOYOU. > Where are you getting the "hundreds of article directories" from? > > There are the big-8 top-level newsgroup hierarchies (comp, talk, news, > alt, and so forth), plus one for each foreign language ("de" for German > , "fr" for French, etc), possibly plus any local groups. Ahem, I've overdone that a bit ;-) However, in Germany we have a LOT more German top level hierarchies than just ".de" (about 10, I think) In my PersonalINN articles directory, I have 17 top level domains, and that's just a selection of what could be... > The whole purpose of the daily report is to _summarize_ those log files > in an intelligent fashion, and display them in a format that easier to > read and understand. Well, all that people have to do would be to delete the "nomail" entry in crontab. It's mentioned in the installation instructions you could do that if you wanted to receive the report. It's just that I think that casual users will only be disturbed by getting e-mail every night because of one more program they installed. > Some are-- but what happens if the expiry gets bogged down and fails to > complete within a 24-hour period? > > You're gonna run out of disk space on the drive with the spool sooner > rather than later, and you're not going to get much warning about it > until it happens Not true. You get an e-mail if only 50 MB (or something like this) are left on your disk > Well, I hope you'll take this as some constructive criticism, and not as > an argument.... That's fine with me. I'll read your posting again when it comes to PersonalINN 2.0. It's just that I love to break conventions if I don't regard them as rational. Otherwise I would use Windows :-) Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: Dana Shadrick <dana@sgsnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Zip Boot Disk Date: 10 Mar 1997 17:55:09 GMT Organization: SGS Net Inc. Message-ID: <5g1htt$45m@chinx10.tpa.net> I'm currently using Safety Net to backup to tape. I recently tried to upgrade from NextStep 3.3 to 4.1 and it failed. In order to return to NS 3.3 I had to remove my disk with the root partition and place it in another computer running NextStep and then restore the old 3.3 system from tape. This worked but was a real hassle. I would like to be able to boot from a 100 meg Zip disk with Safety Net installed on it. I've got it to the point where I can boot to single user mode, but it won't come up in multi-user GUI mode. It seems to get hung up on driver configuration. I've tried to boot with config=Default and it can't find the Default configuration. The boot process gets further if I don't specify config=Default. I've copied all the required driver files to the Zip disk including the System.config file. If anyone has any insight on this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dana -- ================================================= Dana A.Shadrick http://www.sgsnet.com/ dana@sgsnet.com Phone: 847-733-9607 SGS Net Inc. Fax: 847-733-8973 =================================================
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 18:04:37 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> Hallo, when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. Andreas
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TerminalProgram for initializing the Modem Date: 10 Mar 1997 18:07:07 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5g1ikb$hrl$2@lynet.de> Hello, I'm searching for a simple TerminalProgramm that just sends the entered characters to a serial port and shows incoming characters at the screen. I need something like that to set my modem to AutoAnswerMode. Does something like that exists and if yes, where do I find it? Thank you in advance! Andreas
From: fxrsg@arrakis (Richard S. Guse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Black Color Monitor Replacement Date: 10 Mar 1997 20:10:07 GMT Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network Message-ID: <5g1pqv$715@news.alaska.edu> References: <E6u61o.818@news.cern.ch> Ulrich Wiedner (wiedner@nxcb01.cern.ch) wrote: : My black FIMI Monitor for my Color NeXTstation just died and I want to : replace it with another (non-NeXT) monitor. Now I was just reading in a : Sony manual that e.g. the Sony 17SE2T monitor goes into power-saving mode : if it receives no signals on the vertical and horizontal synchronization. : But with the NeXTstation there are no extra synchronisation signals, just : RGB. Does this mean I cannot use one of these modern monitors, because : they will automatically go into power-saving mode? Does anyone have : experience with this or see a solution? I'd also be grateful for any : recommendations of specific model/brand names of 17" monitors that work : well with a color NeXTstation. We have a NeXT lab here in Fairbanks, Ak. We bought 5 new Ibm's to hook-up to our system, but the monitors for our slabs started going bad on us. So, we hooked up the monitors, and they work fine! (the monitors are 17" SyncMaster 17GLsi)'s. The screen size is smaller than on the 17" black next color monitors(~1 cm) (something we haven't figured out yet), but they work fine. To hook them up, we had to buy a special cable that hooked into the regular monitor port on the nexts, but hooked into the rgb jacks on the monitors. (the monitor hook-ups are: R,G,B,H/V). There is nothing written on the connector cables except an inset diamond, so I can't give you any help there. We haven't hooked them up to our two cubes, but our only NeXTDimension board died on us anyway. We've never had a problem with power saving mode, the new monitors seem to work just as the black NeXT monitors do (standard NeXT screen saving). Hope this helps! ->r ps. Just looked on the back, and it's a Samsung. (why don't they write those on the front? *smile* -- Physicist by Choice, #define SYSOP GOD Power corrupts. Absolute Mathematician by Accident, #define REALITY NULL power is kind of neat. CS student by Mistake, #include "universe.h" Brilliant by act of God, Poor by act of Congress... e-mail: fxrsg@Camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu
From: Charles Wiles <get_lost@all.spammers> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help] Installing/Booting DOS not on the first partition? Date: 10 Mar 1997 20:41:21 GMT Organization: Physics Teaching Course, Oxford Message-ID: <5g1rlh$n7m@news.ox.ac.uk> We have a Tecra 720 notebook, with a 2GB EIDE hard drive which is currently divided into four partitions: Partition Type (ID) Size (MB) Operating System 1 NeXT (a7) 975 NEXTSTEP 2 Linux (83) 717 Linux 3 Linux swap (82) 100 [Linux swap] 4 DOS 16bit (06) 322 [Unformatted] We used the Linux fdisk to set up the above. We have Lilo working happily booting both OS's. Here's the catch: someone now wants me to install DOS (any DOS) on the machine. DOS fdisk sees the fourth partition but will only let me initialise it as an "Extended" (ie not bootable) DOS partition. I have been told by some people that DOS can only be booted from the first partition of a disk; others have told me it could work with Lilo. So, can I (and if so how do I) safely initialise the 4th partition, install and then boot DOS from it? I'd be most grateful for any help or advice, especially from someone who's already done something similar. (Could you please use email, as I can't read news on a regular basis?). I really don't want to have to blow away and reinstall our NEXTSTEP and Linux set-ups on this machine if I can avoid it! :-) Thanks, charles _______________________________________________________________________ Charles Wiles, NeXT/Unix Systems Manager, Physics Practical Course Dept of Physics NAPL, University of Oxford UK charles@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk
From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: determining processor Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:10:42 +0500 Organization: Merriam-Webster Inc. Message-ID: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway of determining what kind of processor is in it without operating on it? ---Amy West
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:46:26 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5g2302$nb9$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there >something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line >appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this >under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. This is a function of your shell. If you're using NeXT csh, you can get emacs or vi-style command history editing with something like set editmode = vi (or set editmode = emacs) I like zsh, and to get a vi-style history editing (something like ksh's), one would use a command more like this bindkey -v Similar commands are available for ksh, bash (set -o vi), tcsh, etc. If you don't need visual-style editing, you can use the "!" history mechanism in csh. See the man page for details. For instance, to replace "abc" with "def" in the second to last command, one might type something like !-2:s/abc/def although that might seem a lot of trouble for short command lines... -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: francis@az.stratus.com (Francis Hartojo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 22:44:33 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <5g22sh$3ah@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> In article <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de>, <andreas@lynet.de> wrote: >Hallo, > >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there >something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line >appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this >under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. Hi, I think that depends on what shell you're running. If you're using csh, then there're a bunch of shell edit commands you can use (e.g., ^, !!, etc.). If you're using tcsh, then normally the up-arrow key gives you the previous command. The same if you're using bash. For ksh, you can use either vi or emacs key bindings to access the commands history. In other words, it depends on what shell you're using. (c: Hope that helps a bit. -- +------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Francis Hartojo | Ph.: 602-852-3195 [Speaking for myself, | | Stratus Computer, Inc. | 800-294-1344 x3195 nobody else.] | | francis@az.stratus.com | Fax: 602-852-3099 |
From: John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:01:02 -0500 Organization: Alverno Administrative Services Message-ID: <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) Thanks, John Haver
From: John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I HATE NS Installs Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:20:42 -0500 Organization: Alverno Administrative Services Message-ID: <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My Adaptec 1542 SCSI Card finally died and that was what I used to install Nextstep 3.3 for Intel. I have an Adaptec 2940U SCSI card that we had just recently purchased so I decided to give that a try. It bombed with the driver on the CD ROM so I downloaded the 3.37 version. That got me past phase 1 of the install. Now when NS reboots to continue the installation, it asks me for a floppy disk with the driver on it. I insert the exact same diskette that got me past the initial problem and start getting BIOS READ errors from the floppy drive. I'm convinced you can't win with NS... it's so nice after it is installed, but you can't get it installed. Any suggestions (I already tried copying the drivers to the hard disk as mentioned in NextAnswer 2107 -- that bombed on a different error) would be greatly, extremely appreciated. Worst case, can anyone recommend a currently available SCSI card that works with the 3.3 NSFIP CD that works without all the extra work required? Thanks, John
From: GehleSoftware@t-online.de (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: 5 Mar 1997 19:01:15 GMT Organization: Gehle Software Message-ID: <5fkftr$dvt@news00.btx.dtag.de> References: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Hi, CDDesigner is a software that allows to write CDRs with NeXTstep. It is easy to use and you can build the CDs via drag n drop. CDDesigner is running on NeXT and Intel and supports writers by Yamaha, HP, Phillips, Kodak and Grundig. For more information meet: http://www.ip.cubenet.de/gehle A free beta is available at: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/cdrom/ Carsten Gehle
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: determining processor Date: 11 Mar 1997 00:03:29 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g27gh$ke8@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Cc: awest@m-w.com In <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Amy West wrote: > We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. > It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway > of determining what kind of processor is in it without > operating on it? > > ---Amy West > that's made easy by the fact that NeXT was only shipping motorola 68040 processors on the NeXTstation line. NS2.2 puts it at a manufacture date of around 1992, so most likely that '040 was runing at 25MHz. My early 1991 NeXTstation had NS2.0 and my late 1991 NeXTstation ran NS2.1. NS3.0 came out, I think december 1992, or january 1993. remember? we all had to run out and buy CD-ROM drives. I don't remember exactly when 33MHz came in, but the box would say turbo on it somewhere, one would guess. It could be a turbo. check the top corner of the case above the floppy drive where it says NeXTstation. see if it says turbo. if so than you have 33MHz. If you are planning to remain at NS2.2 for the OS, and want a set of printed docs, I have a spare set, like new, I might be willing to sell. I would suggest upgrading to at least 3.2 however, but you will need a CD-ROM drive. 2.2 was the last OS version on floppies. many many floppies... If you have specific questions though, feel free to ask. -rick
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: determining processor Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:50:27 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gn99t3O00iWm0EC9U0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> In-Reply-To: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Mar-97 determining processor by Amy West@m-w.com > We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. > It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway > of determining what kind of processor is in it without > operating on it? It's going to have a Motorola 68040 processor running at either 25 or 33 MHz, depending on whether the machine is a Turbo or not. The 'hostinfo' command can provide more detailed information (as can 'netstat' and 'vm_stat', depending on what you're interested in).... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jchan@apk.net (Jerome Chan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:47:46 -0500 Organization: TofuSoft Message-ID: <jchan-1003971847470001@as4-1.apk.net> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> In article <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de>, andreas@lynet.de wrote: >Hallo, > >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there >something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line >appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this >under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. > >Andreas You need to configure your shell to do this. I'm not sure if csh does this. --- The Evil Tofu (Only Human)
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TerminalProgram for initializing the Modem Date: 11 Mar 1997 00:09:59 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g27sn$ke8@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5g1ikb$hrl$2@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5g1ikb$hrl$2@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > I'm searching for a simple TerminalProgramm that > just sends the entered characters to a serial port > and shows incoming characters at the screen. I need > something like that to set my modem to AutoAnswerMode. > Does something like that exists and if yes, where do I find it? > Thank you in advance! > > Andreas > unless I'm missing something, I would use the program "tip", as included in NeXTSTEP and as explained in the man pages. Run from Terminal.app -rick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: determining processor Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E6uw5M.6u4@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:58:34 GMT References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com>, Amy West <awest@m-w.com> wrote: >We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. >It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway >of determining what kind of processor is in it without >operating on it? > If it's a slab then it has a 68040. If the slab is a "Turbo", then it's running at 33MHz. If not then it's at 25MHz. -- 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: kristopher jon magnusson <kris@planetary.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: testing Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:58:15 -0700 Organization: the planetary network Message-ID: <3324D857.443B@planetary.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a test
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 22:10:27 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.858060278@shellx> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there (...) In the csh for NextStep 3.3 (and some other versions) you can do this: set editmode emacs to get some editing and recall abilities, but in this case it uses control keys rather than the arrow keys. Other shells like zsh, tcsh, bash, emacs etc have similar abilities; perhaps it's time to try a new shell? cheers, -sam
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 07:05:21 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g2sna$pg6@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Did You took the V3.37 driver in the second path too? You must have a disk with /private/Drivers/i386/Adaptec2940.configure (something like that) and the link. Someone stated that the path of the link is enough where the configure files should stay. Henry
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I HATE NS Installs Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:16:08 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5g3pf8$dbc$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> References: <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> Cc: jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org In <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> John Haver wrote: > My Adaptec 1542 SCSI Card finally died and that was what I used to > install Nextstep 3.3 for Intel. I have an Adaptec 2940U SCSI card that > we had just recently purchased so I decided to give that a try. > <snip> > Now when NS reboots to continue the installation, it asks me for a > floppy disk with the driver on it. I insert the exact same diskette > that got me past the initial problem and start getting BIOS READ errors > from the floppy drive. I'm having a similar problem: I've got an Adaptec 2940W... after the drivers are loaded (I've downloaded the version 3.37 Adaptec driver) I get: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make sure the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information. (above message duplicated) /private/etc/rc.cdrom: test: argument expected CDROM boot procedure complete Please wait until its safe to turn off computer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've got a Pentium 133, Triton chipset MB, AMIBIOS 10/10/94 PSI437 V1.7 1996-02-08. I'm using a venerable Seagate ST1480N on SCSI ID #1, a Matshita CD on SCSI ID#4. Previously I had a Conner drive on SCSI ID #0, with the same results. I really, really want to get NEXTSTEP loaded, but I've hit the wall here. I just don't know what else to try. I have no problem loading and running MS-Windows on the same hardware. Any help is vastly appreciated. Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /.OpenStep/.mailalias Date: 11 Mar 1997 15:33:36 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5g3u0g$fpv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Where does user 'root' store its .mailalias-- under 'me' that is in /me/.OpenStep/? It won't accept a .mailalias file therein either! Thanks a lot! Thomas --- 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. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:11:37 -0500 Organization: University d'/of Ottawa Message-ID: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. What I would like to know is: Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the regular Users/Developers Package? Since there is no reference to "Academic Bundle" in what we received, I am wondering whether the Academic Bundle is simply an "Academic price" for the usual developer's bundle. Is this true? Thanks, -Alan : Alan Kelm kelm@aix1.uottawa.ca : : Unix system technical support (613) 562-5800 ext 3527 : : Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Canada. :
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Help] Diagnose Frequent Kernel Panic in NS3.3p1 on Turbo Cube Date: 9 Mar 1997 20:48:18 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <5fv7mi$cq@unity.westfalen.de> References: <5fffnk$7od@library.airnews.net> Hi, it looks like a memory failure. May be you changed them or the slots are dirty or something what could cause a connection problem for the memory. I have had the same on a TurboColor and I cleaned the slots. Since then the machine is running fine. peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail, MIME and SUN Solaris welcome Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: connecting CDROM to NeXT (OpenStep) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:00:24 -0500 Organization: University d'/of Ottawa Message-ID: <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm starting to work with a NeXT Cube that has recently been upgraded to OpenStep 4.1. I have a CDROM drive which I would like to use (to install software). I connect the drive to the Cube and reboot. When I login I get the message: "The SCSI disk is unreadable" (This happens with the OpenStep distribution CD's as well as with the Mathematica 3.0 CD) Is there something I have to do on the software side to get the drive to be recognized properly? The Manuals say that the NeXT hardware automatically detects the drive. The same SCSI drive works fine when connected to a SGI Indy Unix system. I'd appreciate any suggestions of where I could look for more help. -Alan -- : Alan Kelm kelm@aix1.uottawa.ca : : Unix system technical support (613) 562-5800 ext 3527 : : Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Canada. :
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: 3.3/intel install problem Date: 11 Mar 1997 17:38:16 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5g45a8$nf8$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> greetings etherial composite mind, I've got an Adaptec 2940W... after the drivers are loaded (I've downloaded the version 3.37 Adaptec driver) I get: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make sure the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information. (above message duplicated) /private/etc/rc.cdrom: test: argument expected CDROM boot procedure complete Please wait until its safe to turn off computer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've got a Pentium 133, Triton chipset MB, AMIBIOS 10/10/94 PSI437 V1.7 1996-02-08. I'm using a venerable Seagate ST1480N on SCSI ID #1, a Matshita CD on SCSI ID#4. Previously I had a Conner drive on SCSI ID #0, with the same results. I really, really want to get NEXTSTEP loaded, but I've hit the wall here. I just don't know what else to try. I have no problem loading and running MS-Windows on the same hardware. Any help is vastly appreciated; please cc: email. Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: bisk@4dcomm.com (Stephen D. Biskis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing legal size on HP4+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 17:32:26 GMT Organization: 4D Global Internet Services Message-ID: <5g44vb$5q@news.4dcomm.com> Having trouble getting legal sized docs to print on an Intel box running NS3.3 connected to an HP 4 Plus w/6MB. The users (they're remote so I can't know for sure) have changed the HP's config to "Legal Size". I changed the default paper size to "Legal" in Preferences and can see that Apps now generate legal sized pages (via Preview). But every job that goes to the printer causes: ERROR: Configuration Error Offending Command: SetPageDevice STACK: The HP won't print a thing. It will print a legal-sized test page if asked via config menu, though. What bone-headed oversight have I made ??? Thanks, da bisk
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:58:03 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> In article <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> writes: > We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT > hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. > What I would like to know is: > Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the > regular Users/Developers Package? No. You basically get both bits in one package. There is no "developer bundle" - the real world buys both bits seperatly - the result being that they get two boxes, and maybe the odd extra manual, but nothing you're going to miss. Academic Bundle is (and has been) one of the greatest bargins going. $an
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:11:48 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un > Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >> You don't agree that it's easier to understand a complex system like INN >> if it's generally set up the way the documention suggests? > > That's true. I don't agree with that as long as the original documentation > is as twisted as is the case with INN. To me, surviving this "documentation" > and its concepts seemed a bit like a initiation rite ;-) That's somewhat true, but INN is one of the larger and more complex systems around-- it's not like installing a new version of gawk or some such. > Note that "out.going" is a proposal from the FAQ and NOT an "official" > setting. INN 1.5.x refers to "out.going" in the manpages for archive, buffchan, filechan, innxbatch, innxmit, newsfeeds, and nntpsend. > On some issues, the FAQ breaks explicitly with the ways the INN docs > suggest: > so it's recommended that all overview files are stored in directories > separated from the article directories whereas the original docs intend to > put them into the article directories. Having the overview files be in a seperate tree is a performance optimization that was discovered only after the INN 1.4.x docs were written. In general, the INN FAQ should be considered to override the documentation which was shipped with INN itself. [ ... ] >> How much more intuitive is it to call something "outgoing" instead of >> "out.going"? > > To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". And you'd have > immidiately the questions of those who are trying to understand and not only > accept things: "Why is it this way?" Well, I was happy with the explanation given, but it's clear that your preferences are otherwise. Shrug.... [ ... ] >> The whole purpose of the daily report is to _summarize_ those log files >> in an intelligent fashion, and display them in a format that easier to >> read and understand. > > Well, all that people have to do would be to delete the "nomail" entry in > crontab. It's mentioned in the installation instructions you could do that > if you wanted to receive the report. It's just that I think that casual > users will only be disturbed by getting e-mail every night because of one > more program they installed. Maybe. My point was more that the daily report is easier to read and see what's going on than it is to peruse the logfiles. >> Some are-- but what happens if the expiry gets bogged down and fails to >> complete within a 24-hour period? >> >> You're gonna run out of disk space on the drive with the spool sooner >> rather than later, and you're not going to get much warning about it >> until it happens > > Not true. You get an e-mail if only 50 MB (or something like this) are left > on your disk That's what I'm referring to. You'll fill up your drive until it gets full enough for innwatch to throttle the innd. Consider someone using PersonalINN for a (relatively) few newsgroups and is getting a very small feed-- for the sake of example, around 5 MB of news per day. And they've got the news spool on a 1 GB drive which was roughly half-full. If the expiry fails for some reason (maybe the active file got hosed, or whatever), you're going to gradually fill that disk up with 450 - 500 MB worth of articles over the next two months or so before you get an explicit warning that a problem happened. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Message-ID: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:54:55 GMT I've got a Seagate Barracuda 4LP ST34371W drive that has had it's block size changed to 2048. When I change it back to 512, it still leaves the sector count at only 2million. How can I convince it that it's not a 1gig drive, but that it's actually a 4gig drive and should have over 8million sectors? -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: jei2@aol.com (JEI2) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Business survey information needed Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:48:08 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970311194800.OAA10157@ladder01.news.aol.com> I am looking for business informational surveys that provide information about a company's computer database, o/s, servers, and if the company has plans to switch databases. Forward any information to jei2@aol.com
From: sanguish@digifix.digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: determining processor Date: 11 Mar 1997 20:28:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5g4f8q$d63@news.digifix.com> References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> <gn99t3O00iWm0EC9U0@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <gn99t3O00iWm0EC9U0@andrew.cmu.edu> On 03/10/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Mar-97 determining >processor by Amy West@m-w.com >> We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. >> It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway >> of determining what kind of processor is in it without >> operating on it? > >It's going to have a Motorola 68040 processor running at either 25 or 33 >MHz, depending on whether the machine is a Turbo or not. > >The 'hostinfo' command can provide more detailed information (as can >'netstat' and 'vm_stat', depending on what you're interested in).... > You could also just log in and do a Workspace->Info -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:16:55 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va. Sender: tfs----@gravity.science.gmu.edu (remove dashes to reply) Message-ID: <5fpf1n$d5n@portal.gmu.edu> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> <?> <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> <5fmnj1$e03$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Summary: /etc/motd In article <5fmnj1$e03$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Randall W. Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >On 03/04/97, jon klein wrote: >>Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: >> >>: When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one >>: line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as >> >>: "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" >> >>: I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under >>: NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a >>: single reference to how it can be done. >> >>Most of the sites that are doing this with tcp wrappers, which you >>can find at coast.cs.purdue.edu in pub/tools/unix. tcp wrappers is >>just about an essential security tool in my opinion, and plus you >>get features like the welcome message thrown in for free. It's >>all in the tcp wrappers docs. >> Tcp Wrappers do "banners" for messages for services that are denied not for stuff that is supposed to work. The file you want is a simple ascii text file called "/etc/motd". Put whatever you want in it, and if you don't want to see the contents, put a file called ".hushlogin" (that's empty basicly, it just has to exist.) in your home directory. Tim -- ________________________________________________________________ tfs@vampire.science.gmu.edu (NeXTmail, MIME) Tim Scanlon tfs@epic.org (PGP key aval.) crypto is good Play Mystic: adsl-122.cais.com 3000
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: 11 Mar 1997 21:43:57 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g4jmt$f57@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <5fkftr$dvt@news00.btx.dtag.de> Cc: GehleSoftware@t-online.de In <5fkftr$dvt@news00.btx.dtag.de> Carsten Gehle wrote: > CDDesigner is running on NeXT and Intel and supports writers by > Yamaha, HP, Phillips, Kodak and Grundig. > > Carsten Gehle > the docs for CDDesigner say that only the adaptec SCSI boards (if I remember right) are supported on intel, any plans for supporting the buslogic board in my object.station? -Rick
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:28:50 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I configuered an x86 OS4.1 system as 2 layer Master Netinfo Server. A Win NT Host in the same class c subnet is connected to the ethernet. DNS is not running and the NT Host is not included in Netinfo or etc/hosts. If i use ping with ip name i get a bus error. If i use ping with ip number and then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i cause a kernel trap. I also cause a kernel trap if i try to ftp or telnet to the OpenStep Host from the NT machine. Everything works fine if i enter the NT machine into Netinfo. I also installed Samba/Rumba and exported a few services. I can access the vie smbclient but the NT Host does not recognise the Openstep host. I can access NT shares from the Openstep Host via Rumba or Samba. What is wrong here? --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Shadowed passwords and NIS Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:20:47 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g4lrv$lot@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> We run SunOS on our NIS server, and it shadows passwords (the real ones are in passwd.adjunct). Can I convince a NEXTSTEP 3.3 client to get passwords from passwd.adjunct instead of passwd without exposing them to the world? ab
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:47:45 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <En9SwVm00iWY4DniY2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> In-Reply-To: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 what is "Academic Bundle"? .. by "Dr. Alan Kelm"@cms.math > We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT > hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. > What I would like to know is: > Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the > regular Users/Developers Package? The software you get is exactly the same, but you get the paper manuals when you pay full price instead of getting the Academic version. Also, the Academic Bundle has a different license which forbids its use for the development of commercial software-- you need to purchase NS/Developer for that.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:50:43 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kn9Vc3i00iWp0I8Jk0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un >> INN 1.5.x refers to "out.going" in the manpages for archive, buffchan, >> filechan, innxbatch, innxmit, newsfeeds, and nntpsend. > > It does so only if that's how you configured it. Nope-- that's how the package ships before doing any configuration. Try looking at a clean install from the .tar.gz file. > Note that as soon as you enter FOO.GOING as your outgoing directory in the > configure file, all the manpages you mention will refer to FOO.GOING as > well. While this is true, the default configuration uses "out.going" and you have to explicitly change it to something else. >>> To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". >>> And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying >>> to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" >> >> Well, I was happy with the explanation given, > > You were??? More or less. I remember reading about the way the news spool is set up from $SPOOL, and I thought it was mildly clever to put one or two special directories there which were known to not be newsgroups because they had a "." in their name. There's ample convention in the past for files with a "." to be treated specially-- consider the whole concept of file extensions, or the convention under Unix that files starting with a "." are hidden files. Until you changed the default and gave your reasons why, I would never have thought about it further. >> but it's clear that your preferences are otherwise. > > What do you refer to? The "natural" part or the "questions" part? That you don't find "out.going" natural-- I regard configuring INN in some other way to reflect a personal preference of yours. But maybe it's just that I have a higher tolerance for minor inconsistancies when I'm dealing with a somewhat complex and arcane software package like INN. > Concerning the latter, it is something you surely will consider when > publishing a program you'll have to support... Tell me about it. :-) I stopped maintaining Angband more than a year ago, and I still get email from people using older versions. "One mistake, and you get to support it for a lifetime..." -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:59:35 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn9VkLK00iWp0I8MI0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 Bug in TCPIP stack? by Konstantin Wiesel@pollux > I configuered an x86 OS4.1 system as 2 layer Master Netinfo Server. A Win > NT Host in the same class c subnet is connected to the ethernet. DNS is > not running and the NT Host is not included in Netinfo or /etc/hosts. Well, if your network has got an Internet IP address assigned to it, you should get DNS working. Even if you don't, it's still a good idea to at least get a hosts table going. However, that doesn't mean the system should fail without them-- you might want to give a slightly more detailed report to bug_next@next.com (or use /NextDeveloper/Demos/BugNeXT.app). > If i use ping with ip name i get a bus error. Ping itself bus errors, right? Hmm. That may just be a bug with ping and/or the resolver libraries. > If i use ping with ip number and then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i cause > a kernel trap. I also cause a kernel trap if i try to ftp or telnet to the > OpenStep Host from the NT machine. That's no good-- definitely report this to NeXT. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Shadowed passwords and NIS Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:02:56 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4n9VnUS00iWp0I8Mo0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5g4lrv$lot@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <5g4lrv$lot@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 Shadowed passwords and NIS by Allen Braunsdorf@purdue. > We run SunOS on our NIS server, and it shadows passwords > (the real ones are in passwd.adjunct). Can I convince a > NEXTSTEP 3.3 client to get passwords from passwd.adjunct > instead of passwd without exposing them to the world? I think so, yes. With a little text massaging, you could combine the /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd.adjunct into the standard format to some filename and have it visible only by root, and then niload this file into NetInfo without having the encrypted passwords be world visible. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: spamblock.jimmilz@worldnet.att.net (Jim Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 05:44:29 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <332641a1.4099545@netnews.worldnet.att.net> References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) wrote: > >I've got a Seagate Barracuda 4LP ST34371W drive that has had it's >block size changed to 2048. When I change it back to 512, it still >leaves the sector count at only 2million. How can I convince it that >it's not a 1gig drive, but that it's actually a 4gig drive and should >have over 8million sectors? > >-- >Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College >707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. >707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 ><fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx> After issuing the command to set the blocksize to 512 (mode page 03h bytes 12 and 13), are you sending the FORMAT UNIT command to the drive? Regards, Jim Miller Chicagoland
From: sanguish@digifix.digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: 12 Mar 1997 06:31:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5g5ijr$hmk@news.digifix.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <En9SwVm00iWY4DniY2@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <En9SwVm00iWY4DniY2@andrew.cmu.edu> On 03/11/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 what is >"Academic Bundle"? .. by "Dr. Alan Kelm"@cms.math >> We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT >> hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. >> What I would like to know is: >> Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the >> regular Users/Developers Package? > >The software you get is exactly the same, but you get the paper >manuals when you pay full price instead of getting the Academic >version. Although currently it appears there are not paper references available for OpenStep classes.... I REALLY wish there was.. >Also, the Academic Bundle has a different license which >forbids its use for the development of commercial software-- you >need to purchase NS/Developer for that.... > Thats probably the biggest difference that people need to note. If you qualify and accept those terms, the paper documentation that is available (see.. http://www.next.com/Pubs/PubsCatalog.html) can be bought much cheaper than the full version.. I'm really hoping that Apple/NeXT is going to have a big pricing announcement at InternetWorld.... this in an attempt to thwart the bad PR this week (black Friday). -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: liao@il.us.swissbank.com (David Liao) Subject: remote login Message-ID: <1997Mar12.001834.16547@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:18:34 GMT hi, I am looking for a way to login into a machine remotely for a user after the machine is rebooted. I am not talking about "rsh" or "rlogin", but the graphic login display... Is there a system script that allows you to type through the graphic login display as if the user is in front of his machine? Please send your recommendation to my address: david_liao@il.us.swissbank.com Thanks David
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 12 Mar 1997 09:09:41 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5g5rsl$138@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <kn9Vc3i00iWp0I8Jk0@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > It does so only if that's how you configured it. > > Nope-- that's how the package ships before doing any configuration. Try > looking at a clean install from the .tar.gz file. OK. What I meant was, it's in the config file. You may, of course, leave the default value unchanged. But I'd still call this a configuration (i.e. a conscious decision, in this case to NOT change the value) > >>> To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". > >>> And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying > >>> to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" > >> > >> Well, I was happy with the explanation given, > > > > You were??? Ooops, misunderstanding! :-) I thought you meant MY explanations and was wondering... ;-) Of course, the explanation you mention is sufficient. My point was, German readers of NEXTTOYOU won't read that but ask ME to explain... > That you don't find "out.going" natural-- I regard configuring INN in > some other way to reflect a personal preference of yours. I can't argue with that. Then again, is there any action in the world that doesn't reflect the overall preferences of the actor? ;-) Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I HATE NS Installs Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:20:31 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g63hv$9nu@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> <5g3pf8$dbc$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> alanf@izzy.net wrote: : In <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> John Haver wrote: : I'm having a similar problem: : I've got an Adaptec 2940W... after the drivers are loaded (I've downloaded : the version 3.37 Adaptec driver) I get: : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI : or IDE card setup to make sure the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, : NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information. : (above message duplicated) Hello, as the reason for your problem isn't quite clear, first check your Adaptec card settings by pressing Ctrl-A on (BIOS-)boot up when the message tells you to do so. Then check in the Adaptec options if the BIOS support is (properly) enabled. Assuming that it is and there are not (e.g.) two (E)IDE disks 'before' the SCSI-drive, fdisk should work. If you can, also have a look into the driver .config directory to see, if your cards PCI-ID is in the list of the drivers autoconfig id's. Add it to Default.table and/or Instance0.table, if it's not there. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: jork@dvs-hannover.de (Ralf Jork) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Date: 12 Mar 1997 10:50:40 GMT Organization: DVS GmbH Hannover Message-ID: <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> Chris Osborn (fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us) wrote: : I've got a Seagate Barracuda 4LP ST34371W drive that has had it's : block size changed to 2048. When I change it back to 512, it still : leaves the sector count at only 2million. How can I convince it that : it's not a 1gig drive, but that it's actually a 4gig drive and should : have over 8million sectors? Set the appropriate number of blocks in the block descriptor for a Mode Select command (all 0 or 0xFF might work as well - depending from manufacturer and model). See the Seagate "Disc Drive ... Product Manual, Volume 2" for more info. -- Ralf.
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 08:23:35 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> And don't forget. You *must* have the developer kit because NS will not be supported in the near future, so You are on your own and in need for the develooper kit! Henry
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:44:14 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g64ue$9nu@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel (kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de) wrote: : I configuered an x86 OS4.1 system as 2 layer Master Netinfo Server. A Win : NT Host in the same class c subnet is connected to the ethernet. DNS is : not running and the NT Host is not included in Netinfo or etc/hosts. If i : use ping with ip name i get a bus error. If i use ping with ip number and : then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i cause a kernel trap. I also cause a : kernel trap if i try to ftp or telnet to the OpenStep Host from the NT : machine. Everything works fine if i enter the NT machine into Netinfo. : I also installed Samba/Rumba and exported a few services. I can access the : vie smbclient but the NT Host does not recognise the Openstep host. I can : access NT shares from the Openstep Host via Rumba or Samba. What is wrong : here? I can confirm this observation. If there is no way to ask some nameservice for an IP-translation, there are core-dumps. It (usually) vanishes if it can ask a service (e.g. DNS), even if it doesn't get a name from it. Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Don McKinnon <Don.McKinnon@mail.house.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I need software support in DC Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:38:05 -0500 Organization: U.S. House of Representatives Message-ID: <3326B1BD.B36@mail.house.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have no NeXT skills. I have a slab I've been using since 1990 and I need to hire someone to fix a few bugs that have accumulated: I can connect to Novell server, but I can't get printer connectivity. My memory seems to run out and crash everything. I need to have someone help me set up my modem. If its possible, I'd like to be able to connect to an NT server and to determine if I could run NeXT and Windows 95 from the same machine. If you or someone you know could help, please let me know what your hourly rate would be. Thanks and regards, Don McKinnon 202 225 2770
From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: 12 Mar 1997 09:05:24 -0000 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5g5rkk$d0o@sps1.phys.vt.edu> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> In article <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>, Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: > And don't forget. You *must* have the developer kit because NS will not be > supported in the near future, so You are on your own and in need for the > develooper kit! What gave you that idea?? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Urban | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech nurban@vt.edu | {NeXT,MIME} mail welcome | http://nurban.campus.vt.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:41:41 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <En9gupa00iWUQ3m3so@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Mar-97 Re: what is "Academic Bundl.. by Koplien@vnet.IBM.com > And don't forget. You *must* have the developer kit because NS will not be > supported in the near future, so You are on your own and in need for the > develooper kit! References, please.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 12 Mar 1997 10:24:25 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5g6hr9$sjf@Vir.com> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> <sams.858060278@shellx> For csh, there is a description of how to do this in the NeXT FAQ. stef
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Our own sendmail is mailbombing us Date: 12 Mar 1997 15:53:48 GMT Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> We are running the stock sendmail in 3.3 on our Net-connected machine. Recently, there are several "problem" MTAs that don't like something about the way a delivery finishes, because they keep resending a message over and over and over and over, even though it was successfully received here the first time. The effect is like mailbombing. Culprits include relay-7.demo.co.uk, mailhost.worldnet.att.net, and some machine at InterNex.net. Has anyone else seen this, and if so, what is the solution? It's starting to drive us crazy, especially since mail from these locations tends to be unsolicited junk mail in the first place. -- Gregory H. Anderson | "I wander'd off by myself, In the Crystal Ball/Star Gazer | mystical moist night-air, and from Anderson Financial Systems | time to time, Look'd up in perfect greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | silence at the stars." Walt Whitman
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From: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Our own sendmail is mailbombing us Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:30:39 +0100 Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <we6ohcpm5sg.fsf@Cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> References: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> Hi, [virtual mailbombing] does this occur when the envelope headers include too many recipients? I heard, the elm filters had a bug to return a non-zero exit status when receiving such a mail, so the mail duplicated itself over and over again. here, a user sent email to 5000 users at a time, that caused this kind of problem here. sorry, I don't know a fix other than to disable the prog mailer (not an option, I think?), to wrap the filter in a script always returning 0, or really patch the filter, if you happen to have sources. ciao, stephan -- Task: System Administration Unix (HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD) Email: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Mail: Abt. 081, MPI bpC, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 201 1 454
From: Darin Smith <darin@aero.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:50:44 -0600 Organization: Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering Message-ID: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:42:23 GMT Please help me...you're my only hope. I have recently been asked to move a NeXT pizza-box from a net that it was working on to a net where we run SGIs, Suns, and IBMs (AIX), i.e., "real Unices." I soon figured out that NeXT, while it has UNIX admin files, prefers not to look at them. Oh well...a Mac-ified UNIX... What I was trying to do was relatively simple, get the NeXT to use NIS, which we use on our other machines. Well, after much hassle and inaccurate information in the NeXT admin manual, I finally got it to confirm logins. However, after that it just has a blank gray screen and does nothing. Remote logins work fine. I figure this happened when I followed the instructions in the NeXT admin manual for setting up NetInfo to be the secondary service. It said to copy the passwd files and all (so I did groups and hosts(remembering to take out localhost and broadcasthost) as well) over to the NeXT and do something like: niload passwd / < masterpasswd So I figure that niload blasted something in the netinfo database that was critical. Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated, but please don't get into a NeXT advocacy discussion, this happened before on another NeXT group. I really don't care, and my position will likely be that "UNIX, while it has problems, is fine and NeXT should've left it alone." TIA, Darin W. Smith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Message-ID: <E6xz85.CDK@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:57:41 GMT In article <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de>, Ralf Jork <jork@dvs-hannover.de> wrote: >Set the appropriate number of blocks in the block descriptor for a >Mode Select command (all 0 or 0xFF might work as well - depending >from manufacturer and model). >See the Seagate "Disc Drive ... Product Manual, Volume 2" for more info. It has been getting set to all 0, but the drive doesn't want to change the sector count. In fact, after formatting, when you do a MODE SENSE, the drive returns the number of blocks as 0. How do I know what the appropriate number of blocks *should* be? I can guess, but I don't know it precisely. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Message-ID: <E6xz26.CCx@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> <332641a1.4099545@netnews.worldnet.att.net> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:54:05 GMT In article <332641a1.4099545@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, Jim Miller <spamblock.jimmilz@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >After issuing the command to set the blocksize to 512 (mode page 03h >bytes 12 and 13), are you sending the FORMAT UNIT command to the >drive? Yes, that's what I've been doing. Unfortunately the drive doesn't want to change its sector count from what it was when the block size was at 2048. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Our own sendmail is mailbombing us Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:13:32 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Yn9j9Au00iWY47Arpb@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> In-Reply-To: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Mar-97 Our own sendmail is mailbom.. by Gregory H. Anderson@afs. > We are running the stock sendmail in 3.3 on our Net-connected machine. > Recently, there are several "problem" MTAs that don't like something > about the way a delivery finishes, because they keep resending a message > over and over and over and over, even though it was successfully received > here the first time. The effect is like mailbombing. Culprits include > relay-7.demo.co.uk, mailhost.worldnet.att.net, and some machine at > InterNex.net. Hmm. Do your local logs indicate the message was received correctly (the "stat" entry)? It would also be useful to correlate message-ids so that the remote sites could examine their mail spool logs and see what _their_ mailer thought happened. That's assuming the problem sites are willing to cooperate with you. Otherwise, you might want to upgrade to a newer version of sendmail and use something like the integrated TCP_wrapper support to reject connections from the offending hosts. (Which might be a little drastic.... :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Duplicating BootDisks Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:17:51 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> Hello, I'm very new to OpenStep, so please don't blame me, if this is a stupid question, but I really don't know, how to duplicate the OpenStep-Bootdisk. I succeeded to install OpenStep 4.1 on my PC (Intel), so now I want to make a security-copy of the BootDisk, for avoiding the risk to loose the capabilty of reinstalling the system, when the disk gets damage somehow. Can anyone tell me, how to do this? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:07:56 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5g6uuc$116m@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> Darin Smith <darin@aero.tamu.edu> wrote: >I have recently been asked to move a NeXT pizza-box from a net that it >was working on to a net where we run SGIs, Suns, and IBMs (AIX), i.e., >"real Unices." Ouch! > I figure this happened when I followed the instructions in the NeXT > admin manual for setting up NetInfo to be the secondary service. > It said to copy the passwd files and all... Wrong. >Any help would be appreciated, but please don't get into a >NeXT advocacy discussion, this happened before on another NeXT group. Notice a pattern? :-) >I really don't care, and my position will likely be that "UNIX, while it >has problems, is fine and NeXT should've left it alone." Perhaps if you have a problem its not wise to start with "this is a piece of shit but I want you to help me". Back to your problem. NeXT and NIS work together quite well thank you. What version of NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP are you using? NEXTSTEP first checks its NetInfo database for usernames and passwords. If it is not found there it then checks NIS (if enabled), if not there then its local /etc/passwd and /etc/group, if they are not there then the login fails. You do not need to manually load the NIS passwords into NetInfo - it will find them eventually anyway if NIS has been enabled (by default NIS is not because NEXTSTEP needs to know the name of your NIS domain). Have you set your NIS domain name by running HostManager? Do /etc/hosts and /etc/group have the requisite NIS magic cookie (+:) at the end of them? That's all that it takes and its very well documented in the online System Administration Manual ("NEXTSTEP as NIS Clients"). I'm sorry but I have no idea what damage you have done which caused your blank screen. I assume you're tried logging in as the root user and get the same blank screen? Try remote logging in a dumping the various NetInfo databases to see if something go screwed up (man nidump). Good luck. - Gareth
From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:04:07 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <5g6un7$iis@BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <Qn9VkLK00iWp0I8MI0@andrew.cmu.edu> >> If i use ping with ip number and then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i >> cause a kernel trap. I also cause a kernel trap if i try to ftp or >> telnet to the OpenStep Host from the NT machine. We were getting this problem when we had two _different_ ethernet cards installed in one OS 4.1 machine. We had to hack around this problem; we couldn't find an elegant solution. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXT/MIME) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <3326b817.1@news1.betacom.net> Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:01:05 GMT Control: cancel <3326b817.1@news1.betacom.net> Message-ID: <cancel.3326b817.1@news1.betacom.net> Sender: goextreme@hotmail.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHost problem Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:06:00 GMT Organization: R&A Sender: news@RnA.NL Message-ID: <E6xG61.Dxr@RnA.NL> I am trying to use NXHost to get the output of one system on another system but I am running in to problems. gerben@NeXT [~/tmp] 51) /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail -NXHost domain1 DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host domain1 Where it reads 'domain1' the actual host is mentioned, I just edited it out. Anyway, how do I find what is going wrong? Note: both systems are not aware of each other in their netinfo's, they are standalone NEXTSTEP systems (one m68k one i486) connected through a simple TCP/IP-link. Telnet to and from both systems works fine. The filters between the systems do not tell me they are blocking anything. I can fire up 'telnet domain1 178' on the system where the program is supposed to run. This gives me in syslog: Mar 11 21:29:03 Spike NSWSd[14284]: refused connect from unknown Mar 11 21:29:09 Spike NSWSd[14285]: warning: can't get client address: Socket is not connected Mar 11 21:29:09 Spike NSWSd[14285]: refused connect from unknown Mar 11 21:29:15 Spike NSWSd[14286]: warning: can't get client address: Socket is not connected over and over again. But it does teach me that a tcp connection to NSWS (port 178) works. However, both systems seem not to connect properly. On the system where the program should be displayed, the private windows server settings are off (so it is a public windows server). So, what kind of connections are needed to get NXHost running? -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 18:34:51 -0500 Organization: Alverno Administrative Services Message-ID: <33273D9B.9EB@alverno.ssfhs.org> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> <5g2sna$pg6@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Henry... I'm not sure what you mean about the link (I know what a link is, just not where it should be). I just created the /private/Drivers/i386/ directory and copied the Adaptec2940SCSIDisk.config file to it. Thanks in advance for your help... John
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Duplicating BootDisks Date: 13 Mar 1997 00:04:55 GMT Organization: The University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <5g7gb7$etf@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > I'm very new to OpenStep, so please don't blame me, > if this is a stupid question, but I really don't know, > how to duplicate the OpenStep-Bootdisk. > I succeeded to install OpenStep 4.1 on my PC (Intel), so > now I want to make a security-copy of the BootDisk, for > avoiding the risk to loose the capabilty of reinstalling the > system, when the disk gets damage somehow. > Can anyone tell me, how to do this? > Thanks in advance! Somewhere there's a GUI floppy-duplication app, but it's a terminal command one-liner: % dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/wherever/you/want/disk_image bs=18k To reverse this and create another copy: % dd if=/wherever/you/want/disk_image of=/dev/rfd0b bs=18k Oh, yes, the GUI app is called DiskCopyII.app, but I don't know if it works for anything except Black NeXT. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 13 Mar 1997 00:47:51 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5g7irn$rjq$1@darla.visi.com> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> <5g6uuc$116m@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: : Perhaps if you have a problem its not wise to start with : "this is a piece of shit but I want you to help me". Yeah, I've got to agree. :) BTW, if you need to start fresh: "Testing system" command-~ NeXT> bsd -s # cd /etc # rm -rf netinfo # rm -f hostconfig # cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo . # cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig . -- # david young: oo developer, think new ideas east/onramp # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com (MIME ok, NeXTmail better)
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:16:37 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this a threat worth worrying about? -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:02:28 -0600 From: rberber@spin.com.mx Subject: Re: Zip Boot Disk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <858199987.7254@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Dana Shadrick wrote: > I would like to be able to boot from a 100 meg Zip disk ... > > If anyone has any insight on this it would be greatly appreciated. Did you change /etc/fstab on your zip disk? I commented out the boot disk and added the zip disk, which in my machine is the next disk (in SCSI order), it looks like this: #/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 Also, at the boot promt I add the root device string, something like: boot: sd(1,a)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a If you installed NeXTStep on the zip disk using BuildDisk you better check that the drivers are in /usr/Devices which is a link to /private/Devices which also is a link, this time to Drivers/i386. BuildDisk doesn't create the links; this is for version 3.3, maybe it was fixed later. Hope this helps, ___________________ Rene Berber rberber@spin.com.mx MIME / NeXT Mail welcomed -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please Help! Openstep 4.1 and ppp... Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 05:43:22 -0800 Organization: Egg Head Billy Productions Message-ID: <3327B794.2604@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Please, someone, I'm begging you. I'm on my knees here... I've read through USENET archives, I've searched NEXTAnswers, I've sent questions to next-ppp listserv, I've read man pages... But I still can't figure this out... I had ppp working fine on my turbo slab with NS 3.3. I installed 4.1 on this machine, then recongigured ppp. However, I can't get ppp to work. It loads properly, but when I try and bring up a ppp connection, it the server sends a terminate message or something and the line is dropped. Can someone please look at my ppp log, and maybe tell me where I should be looking for errors? Just point me in the right direction. Is it in the installation of ppp (hostconfig, iftab, rc.local) or in my scripts? Part of my ppp log (didn't want to send all of it): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu chat[533]: netcom login: -- got it Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu pppd[453]: Serial connection established. Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Using interface ppp0 Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp> <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 05> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap 05>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:49 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 35 fb 63 f9] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: LCP terminated at peer's request Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:53 jehu pppd[453]: Connection terminated. Mar 10 00:33:54 jehu pppd[453]: Exit.
From: icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian Patrick Cardenas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 08:31:42 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: >As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't >this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all >network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this >a threat worth worrying about? > I usually change the ni* utilities to 700. No reason any normal user should need to poke around in netinfo and it doesn't break anything. -- Ian P. Cardenas (icardena@uiuc.edu) CCSO Sites Technical Support "I am of the opinion that pizza and beer together are far superior to either in isolation." -James E. Quick on the Apple/NeXT merger
From: Dan Bikle <dbikle@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need model# for 400dpi toner cartridge Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 13 Mar 1997 08:56:30 GMT Organization: Bikle Software Distribution: world Message-ID: <5g8ffu$6m5@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-User: dbikle Keywords: NeXT horizontal streaks Hi NeXT fans, This post is coming from a NeXT I *JUST* dredged out of my closet. It's running "3.0". The chip is a 68040 and it resides on a card in one of those boat-anchor-magnesium-cubes (not the pizza box style). I think it was manufactured about 1991 or 2. After I dusted him off and connected the periphs.... I pressed that magic button on the keyboard. It ... booted HURRAY!!!! Next, I tried out the 400dpi printer. I encountered a small problem. Portrait oriented printouts have horizontal streaks running across the page. I think maybe a new toner cartridge might solve this. If memory serves me right, the toner cartridge for the 400dpi printer is identical as the toner cartridge for some kind of Apple laser printer. So, that is my long winded way of asking: Where do I get a toner cartridge for a: "NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer" ?? Or... Whats the model # of that identical Apple laser printer cartridge? Thanks so much... -Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel B. Bikle/Independent Oracle Consultant dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu | 415/941-6276 | P.O. BOX 1401 LOS ALTOS CA 94023 http://www.rahul.net/dbikle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: texinfo Date: 13 Mar 1997 11:13:39 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5g8nh3$99u@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Has anybody else had difficulties in running ./configure for texinfo-3.9 ... checking whether setvbuf arguments are reversed... configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling or is aware of NeXT binaries to run info (forget about Emacs)? Thanks, Thomas --- 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. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703120036.TAA10789@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 19:35:56 -0500 Subject: Re: TerminalProgram for initializing the Modem Responding To: andreas@lynet.de Original Date: 10 Mar 1997 18:07:07 GMT Message-ID: 861794d70d9dc4cb6b46ce1860c48040 - > I'm searching for a simple TerminalProgramm that > just sends the entered characters to a serial port > and shows incoming characters at the screen. I need > something like that to set my modem to AutoAnswerMode. > Does something like that exists and if yes, where do I find it? > Thank you in advance! My favorite tool for this is 'kermit' which you can find at www.columbia.edu/kermit unless my mind is going, in which case checkout the 'misc internet' page at my home page: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* We are working on the FTP problems at PEAK, thanks for your patience.
From: vova@rtr.transit.ru (Vladimir Pilipyuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] Console to Sun by tip from NeXT, is it possible? Date: 13 Mar 1997 12:02:56 GMT Organization: On-line Research Community Message-ID: <5g8qdg$6it@jupiter.orc.ru> Keywords: tip sun next Hi All, Could you help me with the following trouble? I tried to make console for Sun running Solaris 2.5.1 by typing tip ttya9600 in the Terminal window on NexStep 3.3. The tip was connected and I saw data received from Sun but all what I typed was transfered to Sun incorectly. The /etc/remote file was original and I tried to exclude the tc=BASIC field from the ttya9600 definition. Do you have an idea? Regards, Vladimir e-mail: vova@rtr.transit.ru (NeXT & MIME accepted) -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!+3TDX+51E<FUI;F%L.WT* M7&UA<F=L,3(P"EQM87)G<C$R,`I<<&%R9%QT>#$R-#=<='@R-#DU7'1X,S<T M,UQT>#0Y.3%<='@V,C0P7'1X-S0X-UQT>#@W,S5<='@Y.3@S7'1X,3$R,S%< M='@Q,C0X,%QF,%QB,%QI,%QU;&YO;F5<9G,R-%QF8S!<8V8P($AI($%L;"Q< M"EP*0V]U;&0@>6]U(&AE;'`@;64@=VET:"!T:&4@9F]L;&]W:6YG('1R;W5B M;&4_7`I<"DD@=')I960@=&\@;6%K92!C;VYS;VQE(&9O<B!3=6X@<G5N;FEN M9R!3;VQA<FES(#(N-2XQ(&)Y('1Y<&EN9UP*7`IT:7`@='1Y83DV,#!<"EP* M:6X@=&AE(%1E<FUI;F%L('=I;F1O=R!O;B!.97A3=&5P(#,N,RX@5&AE('1I M<"!W87,@8V]N;F5C=&5D(&%N9"!)('-A=UP*9&%T82!R96-E:79E9"!F<F]M M(%-U;B!B=70@86QL('=H870@22!T>7!E9"!W87,@=')A;G-F97)E9"!T;R!3 M=6X@7`II;F-O<F5C=&QY+B!4:&4@+V5T8R]R96UO=&4@9FEL92!W87,@;W)I M9VEN86P@86YD($D@=')I960@=&\@97AC;'5D95P*=&AE('1C/4)!4TE#(&9I M96QD(&9R;VT@=&AE('1T>6$Y-C`P(&1E9FEN:71I;VXN7`I<"D1O('EO=2!H M879E(&%N(&ED96$_7`I<"E)E9V%R9',L7`I6;&%D:6UI<EP*7`IE+6UA:6PZ M('9O=F%`<G1R+G1R86YS:70N<G4@("A.95A4("8@34E-12!A8V-E<'1E9"D* "?0IO `
From: "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXFax Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:18:10 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> Anyone knows where are the publishers of NXFax? Were they gone or something? How do I contact them. I am an old user. Michael Chan
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: item stuck in recycler Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:20:56 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5g8uvo$bhs@eve.enteract.com> I was deleting some files and somehow the <root> directory from one of my .NextTrash directories got stuck in the recycler (e.g. /HD-3/.NextTrash/root ). I don't know how it ended up in there, but now I'm stuck because it can't be deleted and cannot be moved out of the recycler. And of course now I get an alert every time I empty the recycler telling me that this item cannot be read... I tried su root, but no go. Any explanations and/or suggestions would be appreciated. thanks. please cc <kpc@enteract.com> -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:27:48 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g8vck$14j@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> Darin Smith (darin@aero.tamu.edu) wrote: : Please help me...you're my only hope. Let's see: a 'little' bit of work to do, but it should be easy for an experienced UNIX admin :-). If you use niload/dump to modify the database, it should be modified(!) only, not replaced (in most of the cases). So you should have extracted the original netinfo contents to flat files, merge 'your additional' information into them and then put them back/replace them. Probably to late for that. My proposition is to start 'all over' again and leave netinfo on its own and add the 'additional' information via NIS directly. You (should) have a virgin copy of 'netinfo' and if necessary of hostconfig (look into the /etc - version, it's a flat file and if everything is ok in there, leave it alone, otherwise copy the original version and edit it manually or by SNS (simple network starter) or by Hostconfig(.app)) in the '/usr/template/client/etc'-directory, where netinfo is a directory of its own. Copy it over to /etc, handle hostconfig as written above (hostconfig must contain you NIS-domain name). Now as you have a virgin copy, run SNS again and answer the questions. It will fill netinfo with name and address of your station, which is sometimes very nice if NIS/DNS isn't working. Of course, you can do all this 'manually' with NetInfoManager(.app), too, but ... Make /etc/resolv.conf containing the proper contents for DNS, either running named locally (don't forget to start it somewhere, e.g. in /etc/rc.local) or makeing the station just a client for the moment, what I would suggest. Now nameresolution should no longer be a problem (after reboot). Add the '+'-magic to /etc/passwd and /etc/group to enable NIS users and hosts. (Don't forget to have their HOME-directories ready :-)). If you are using an unusual shell, make an entry in /etc/shells. That should be it. Of course you have to reconfigure printers, timemanagement (ntp or timed), snmp and whatever else used to be configured via netinfo beforehand - this information is gone, sorry. And finally: NetManager is gone. It has replaced by Hostmanager (mainly) and augmented by SNS (SimpleNetworkStarter) to give unexperienced 'users' a chance to start the network. NetInfoManager is the tool which can alter any netinfo-information (graphically); you can also render the station unusable by doing bad things, of course :-). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost problem Date: 13 Mar 1997 14:00:41 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5g91a9$b4o@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <E6xG61.Dxr@RnA.NL> In article <E6xG61.Dxr@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl writes: > I am trying to use NXHost to get the output of one system on another system > but I am running in to problems. > > gerben@NeXT [~/tmp] 51) /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail -NXHost domain1 > DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host domain1 You DID set the option: PublicWindowServer to yes (in NS3.2) or PrivateWindowServer to no (in NS3.3) in the Unix section of Preferences.app, right? -- 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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:00:48 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <sn_0WEi00iWS421etj@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Mar-97 nidump a security problem ? by Terry R. McConnell@barny > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't > this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all > network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Yes. > Is this a threat worth worrying about? That depends on what level of security you wish to enforce. It's a really good idea to install TCP_wrappers to prevent remote logins except from machines that you trust. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703120306.WAA13539@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 22:05:59 -0500 Subject: where did this come from (/Net) Ok, now I know that /Net is usually where NFS mounted directories are put, however, I have none of those. So imagine my surprise when I saw this in /etc/mtab: charisma:(autonfsmount[158]) "/Net" nfs ro,intr,port=757 0 0 (charisma is the name of my machine, and yes 158 is the PID for the automounter). Any ideas why this is there (I don't remember asking for it) and/or how to get rid of it? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* We are working on the FTP problems at PEAK, thanks for your patience.
From: "Darin W. Smith" <darin@aero.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:59:50 -0600 Organization: Texas A & M University Message-ID: <33281666.3B67@aero.tamu.edu> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> <5g8vck$14j@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 1997 14:58:18 GMT To: "H.-R. Oberhage" <phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de> Thank you for your kind reply. This makes a bit more sense now. -- Darin W. Smith Systems and Network Administrator Texas A & M University, Aerospace Engineering Department (409) 845-0821 darin@aero.tamu.edu -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GAT/E d s:+>: a? C++$ UL++++A++++$I++++$S++++$X++++$ P+ L++(++++) E W+++ N+ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V PS-- PE Y+ PGP- t 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D+ G+ e++>+++ h* r* y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Ethernet card problems Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:57:30 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5g985a$4h0@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Briefly, here is the problem that I am having. (1) An Ethernet card on one of our systems failed. The systems have been functioning for months. I am certain it was the card because when I used the same card on another machine, that machine gave the same message --- "Still searching for parent network ...etc. press 'c' to continue without network user accounts....." (2) Replaced the card with a new one - it worked for about a week. Now, the Ethernet card is not functioning again. Intel Pentium 100 MHz DECchip21040 Based Adapter Ethernet card (v3.36) My question: could there possibly be something on the motherboard that is causing the Ethernet card to fail repeatedly? Or, is that a dumb question? What should I check? Thanks for any help. Also, I tried to post this before but I notice that it never appeared on any of the newsgroups. So, please excuse the bandwidth if it should reappear at some later time. Vicki Bragin -- ********************************************************** Victoria M. Bragin Physical Sciences Division, Pasadena City College 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106-2003 Phone: (818) 585-7147 Fax: (818) 585-7919 E-mail: (NeXTmail and MIME mail welcome) vbragin@nextlab.calstatela.edu vbragin@ix.netcom.com vbragin@paccd.cc.ca.us vbragin@pslc.ucla.edu **********************************************************
From: ajk@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu (Andrew J. Korty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:46:03 GMT Organization: Physics Department, Purdue University Message-ID: <5g97fr$ml8@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Ian Patrick Cardenas <icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote: >tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: >>As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't >>this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all >>network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this >>a threat worth worrying about? >> > I usually change the ni* utilities to 700. No reason any normal >user should need to poke around in netinfo and it doesn't break >anything. Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* library functions to do essentially the same thing? ajk
From: t58@nikhef.nl (Bert Schellekens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with booting. Message-ID: <4229@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Date: 13 Mar 97 17:13:41 GMT Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Help! I have mistakenly (how else) moved my EISABus.config directory on my portable (from /private/Drivers/i386 to another directory) and now my portable won't boot. During the booting it asks for a floppy with the driver and when I put a floppy containing the driver in various directories it keeps complaining that there are not suitable drivers on the floppy. I have tried the original NeXT driver floppy as well as floopies copied from a similar machine with the driver inside one of the directories private/Drivers/i386/ private/Drivers/ private/ and many more but nothing works. There is more floppy activity when there are more directories on the floppy but the result is always the same. What is happening here? What should I do? (the machine does not have a CD-ROM) and reloading is one royal pain in the neck and will destroy all the information on the disk. What is it looking for on the floppy? Any help would be most welcome. Bert Schellekens
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.1 and NetInfo. Date: 13 Mar 1997 17:08:12 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g9c9s$1op@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5fqb8c$kfk@transfer.stratus.com> Hello, I don't think OPENSTEP/mach can live without lookupd. But lookupd is not netinfo!!! See the different netinfod running. And I think the netinfod for 'local' is always necessary, as e.g. the command to tell lookupd to look 'only' at flat files (FF(Agent)) would be an entry into the netinfo database (catch 22). But what worries you about netinfo (local-only). It's just a way for this 'UNIX' to get some 'local' info. Everything used from the outside can be configured or prevented - if the programs/daemons work properly; and all 'outside' information can be per flat-file (only) or NIS (only) or netinfo (only) or DNS (for hosts, only) or any combination of this. So choose flat file for your 'outside'-info and you have basically a 'normal' UNIX. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Philip Guenther <guenther@lunen.gac.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 11:46:04 -0600 Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN USA Message-ID: <e69sp1zn0rn.fsf@lunen.gac.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't > this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all > network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this > a threat worth worrying about? You can't hide them. If you chmod the ni* utilities, what's to stop a user from simply compiling their own, or copying one from another machine? As far as I can tell, you can't do shadow passwords on a machine running NeXTstep, period. Philip Guenther ---------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Guenther UNIX Systems and Network Administrator Internet: guenther@gac.edu Voicenet: (507) 933-7596 Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082-1498
From: jork@dvs-hannover.de (Ralf Jork) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Date: 13 Mar 1997 17:19:22 GMT Organization: DVS GmbH Hannover Message-ID: <5g9cuq$245@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> <E6xz85.CDK@nvc.cc.ca.us> Chris Osborn (fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us) wrote: [...] : It has been getting set to all 0, but the drive doesn't want to change : the sector count. In fact, after formatting, when you do a MODE SENSE, : the drive returns the number of blocks as 0. : : How do I know what the appropriate number of blocks *should* be? I can : guess, but I don't know it precisely. See the Seagate "Barracuda 4LP ... Product Manual, Volume 1" for more info. BTW: the ST34371N I tested has 8,496,960 (0x81A740) blocks (512 byte sectors). Oh, and Mode Sense indeed reports "0" for this drive. According to the Seagate manual this translates to "all logical blocks". -- Ralf.
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:11:14 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Message-ID: <5g9n12$1i4@news1.voicenet.com> References: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> Get Frank Siegert's CAPer application off of PEAK>..... -Darren John C. Randolph (jcr@idiom.com) wrote: : I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've : needed to know: : What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same : subnet? : advTHANKSance, : -jcr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703130244.VAA04674@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 42a7a00dbc87de9046b037b7a2eec823 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 21:44:10 -0500 Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 42a7a00dbc87de9046b037b7a2eec823 - Responding To: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim) Original Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:16:55 GMT Message-ID: 42a7a00dbc87de9046b037b7a2eec823 - > Tcp Wrappers do "banners" for messages for services that are denied > not for stuff that is supposed to work. They probably could be tweaked to do both.... > The file you want is a simple ascii text file called "/etc/motd". Not really, that's the file which appears once you are logged in What I want is a message which appears before the login prompt > Put whatever you want in it, and if you don't want to see the > contents, put a file called ".hushlogin" (that's empty basicly, it > just has to exist.) in your home directory. To do what I wanted, I had to edit the 'im' entry in /etc/gettytab. Pretty obvious once you look at it... I just didn't know where to look TjL
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:08:13 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g85kp$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <En9gupa00iWUQ3m3so@andrew.cmu.edu> Steve Jobs migrated to Apple. He struggled with the NeXT hardware, lost and joined Apple with his OS (In my eyes the last action to avoid the total crash, for both!). Apple was the one who took him back in the boat, but don't want to use his OS as is. What do You expect from a new OS? (New hardware too!). I love to see Your optimism but under a realistic point of view the future is passed. (What about the rumor with Lighthouse and SW for OS? Did You ever hold something in Your hands? What about the good idea supporting different hardware?) Henry
From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mounting NT on NeXT? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:25:52 +0500 Organization: Merriam-Webster Inc. Message-ID: <33278FE0.FF4@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I may not have phrased the subject line correctly, so please bear with me while I describe the situation: We have the NeXT. We have an NT file server. The NT file server has a DAT drive. Is there a way for me to get either machine to recognize the other so that I can back up the NeXT on to the NT's DAT directly? ---Amy West
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:19:44 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g9ui0$573@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> <e69sp1zn0rn.fsf@lunen.gac.edu> Philip Guenther <guenther@lunen.gac.edu> wrote: >You can't hide them. If you chmod the ni* utilities, what's to stop a >user from simply compiling their own, or copying one from another machine? >As far as I can tell, you can't do shadow passwords on a machine running >NeXTstep, period. I agree with you for NetInfo, certainly. What several other people don't seem to understand (I've gotten email like some of these postings too) is that NetInfo works very well- too well! It's transparent to the rest of the system, so all the library functions that get passwords give them out freely. On a system with shadowed passwords, all the usual routes to getting an encrypted password don't work for non-root users (or only work on their own passwords). This is a pretty easy fix if you have source to the libraries, but in the case of NetInfo, you could use the naked NetInfo functions (which the usual UNIX functions use) to do it anyway. There is a fix, but we can't do it. NetInfo has "writers" tags in it that control who can write to a directory (or entry in a directory). Take a look at your account's info, for instance and see that "_writers_passwd" is set to you. That means only you (and root) can write to passwd in that directory. Other directories will have _writers=* so people can write to them (printers and fax_modems used to be that way by default). If there were a "readers" tag, and it were enforced at a low level, shadowed passwords would be easy to do. If I could add one thing to NetInfo, that'd be it. Send me the source and I'll do it. :-) My question, which is in another thread ("Shadowed passwords and NIS"), is whether a NeXT can be taught to do shadowed passwords via yp. I've got my NIS server giving out bogus passwords in passwd and good ones (only to root) in passwd.adjunct. And it works, but I can't convince the NeXT to use the ones in passwd.adjunct, though it'll happily list them for root if I ask explicitly. Our non-NeXT clients do the right thing. Anybody know a way to make this work? ab
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Duplicating BootDisks Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:41:33 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g9vqt$573@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> <5g7gb7$etf@news1.ucsd.edu> cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote: >Somewhere there's a GUI floppy-duplication app, but it's a terminal command >one-liner: > > % dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/wherever/you/want/disk_image bs=18k > >To reverse this and create another copy: > > % dd if=/wherever/you/want/disk_image of=/dev/rfd0b bs=18k I use a shell script on my SPARC with some more stuff in it to make up for the lack of a detect/eject floppy drive. It goes like this: ------ #!/bin/sh echo "Insert source disk" echo "Reading..." /bin/dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/tmp/FLOP /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b echo "Remove source disk." echo "Insert destination disk and press ^D" cat - echo "Formatting..." /usr/etc/disk -i -h `hostname` -l "Copy" -d 1440 /dev/rfd0a /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b echo "Writing..." /bin/dd if=/tmp/FLOP of=/dev/rfd0b /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b echo "Remove copy" ----- The "disk -e"s "eject" the disk, which makes sure it's safe to remove it, but doesn't actually kick it out on my SPARC (or on most PCs). The "disk -i" initializes the disk because I've had trouble writing to unformatted disks. Also serves as a media check. Adding the bs to the dd is a good idea. And you need to be root. I don't use it much, so take it with a hunk of salt. ab
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Telnet to NS from Terminalserver? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 23:24:50 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970313231921.1357D-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I try to telnet from a terminalserver to a NS 3.3 or OS4.1 machine. I connect and get the login string displayed but after entering the account name the NS/OS Host does not recognise the return key. Telnetting to a Linux Host is no problem at all. I tried different terminal emulations in my Com programm but without success, sometimes i achieve it to press return by pressing (ctrl+return,ctrl+m) and if i have logged in everything works fine even the return key. Now what is causing the problems during the logon procedure? --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:25:06 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g86ke$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <5g5rkk$d0o@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Let us see, I wish I could change my opinion in the near future. But I believe in two years no one would ever talk about NeXT as an existing OS. I own a TI-99/4A too. I remember those talkings 15 years ago. It's ringing a lot of bells in my mind... BTW, it is impossible to get any new driver for NS3.3 from NeXT. So if I don't want to spend a lot of money for a new OS every quater of a year, I am on my own! Nevertheless I have to buy a new computer for the next OS comming from Apple. -Uhhaha, I tell You, If I feel uncomfortable with the way things evolve I put Linux on my machine. It is by far not so good as NeXT, but supported and for free. I am very interested if NeXT will give any solution to the problem with the new SCSI controller 2940 from Adaptec. V3.37 seems not to work. Henry
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:39:51 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g87g5$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> <5g2sna$pg6@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <33273D9B.9EB@alverno.ssfhs.org> I don't know exactly the path because I am sitting for a OS/2 and not for a NeXT. There exists a shorter path not including the "i386". Ok, I just rlogined... There is a link /private/Devices pointing to /private/Drivers/i386. As I wrote before someone stated that it is suffcient to only have this directory with the drivers. I don't know. One clear thing is to build the file tree like NeXT. Having /private/Drivers/i386/....configs and a link in /private. Just cd to /private and make cd /DISKETTE/private (Wheresoever You mounted your diskette...) ln -s Drivers/i386 Devices Hope that helps. Henry
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.1 and NetInfo. Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:31:10 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g9v7e$573@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5fqb8c$kfk@transfer.stratus.com> <5g9c9s$1op@sun3.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: >I don't think OPENSTEP/mach can live without lookupd. But lookupd >is not netinfo!!! See the different netinfod running. And I think >the netinfod for 'local' is always necessary, as e.g. the command >to tell lookupd to look 'only' at flat files (FF(Agent)) would be >an entry into the netinfo database (catch 22). (Mostly of historical interet, probably...) The last time I tried it was NS2.1(? I think- before the big speedup, I'm sure), but at that time, NeXTs without NeXTprinters attached could live just fine without NetInfo by just using the usual UNIX files. I couldn't make npd and friends cooperate though. I called up NeXT to see if they could tell me how to make it work and they said that the machine wouldn't work at all without NetInfo. I told them I had a whole roomful and they worked fine. I asked them what specifically would break and the guy said "Lots of things." He could've at least admitted he didn't know. :-) I switched NetInfo back on so my printer would work, and I've used it ever since (it's a lot faster and nicer than it used to be, and I've learned a lot more about it), but it's possible you might be able to run without it still. I haven't a 4.x machine to try it on, but I'd be willing to hose one of my 3.3 machines if anyone cares. ab
From: pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEC CD-ROM Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:57:20 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ga490$viu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> -- =============================================================================== Peter Damiano Phone: (403)-492-2526 Department of Physics FAX: (403)-492-0714 The University of Alberta email: pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2J1 "Modern Man is the missing link between apes and human beings" ===============================================================================
From: Dana Shadrick <dana@sgsnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 14 Mar 1997 00:16:34 GMT Organization: SGS Net Inc. Message-ID: <5ga5d2$cnm@chinx10.tpa.net> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) wrote: >In <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary wrote: >> I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if >> anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? > >I haven't done this, but I suspect that you would be okay. Well written >scripts reference the proper interpreter as the first line of source code. >-- >>< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >>< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted >< > I've been using tcsh since NextStep version 3.0 on Intel and I haven't had any problems. -- ================================================= Dana A.Shadrick http://www.sgsnet.com/ dana@sgsnet.com Phone: 847-733-9607 SGS Net Inc. Fax: 847-733-8973 =================================================
From: publicist@meetmeonline.com (MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 2940AU <-- Note the "A" :) Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:39:56 GMT Organization: MeetMeOnline <a zerologic company> Message-ID: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> url: http://www.meetmeonline.com/ I found the Adaptec 2940U drivers at the NeXTansers site but found, much to my dismay, that it doesn't support the AU. Does anyone know of a workaround for this? TIA, Michael. -- Meet a friend, Meet a lover, Meet another... MeetMe at http://www.meetmeonline.com/
From: pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: 14 Mar 1997 00:20:44 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Hi. I screwed up on the first trial and so I hope that this works... I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader will work with black hardware Thanks in advance Peter Damiano (pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Message-ID: <E6zME9.AKE@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:15:45 GMT In article <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> writes: > Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U > in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that > got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into > phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. > > When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. > > If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue > through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) > That is probably a REAL disk problem, we do is daily with no problems! -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 14 Mar 1997 01:45:39 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5gaak3$l3$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> <5g9n12$1i4@news1.voicenet.com> Cc: dwright1@voicenet.com In <5g9n12$1i4@news1.voicenet.com> Darren Wright wrote: > > Get Frank Siegert's CAPer application off of PEAK>..... > > -Darren > > John C. Randolph (jcr@idiom.com) wrote: > > : I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've > : needed to know: > > : What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same > : subnet? > > : advTHANKSance, > > : -jcr > > Better the the CAPer.V4 from peanuts, the V2 on Peak is a bit outdated. And be sure to get the updated CAP binaries from my web page as this will solve some quirks on m68k (not related to printing). A new release is in the works... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:00:34 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> Cc: Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg In <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> "Michael Chan" wrote: > Anyone knows where are the publishers of NXFax? Were they gone or > something? How do I contact them. I am an old user. > > Michael Chan > > the most recent contact info I have is: Black & White Software, Inc. Bridge Street Marketplace Waitsfield VT 05673-1210 802-496-8500 (voice) 802-496-5112 (fax) sales@bandw.com this from an announcement to users circa 1 year ago. a lot can happen in a year, I hope they are still around... -rick
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax Date: 14 Mar 1997 05:04:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gam8p$92a@news.digifix.com> References: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> In-Reply-To: <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> On 03/13/97, Rick Sanford wrote: >In <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> "Michael Chan" >wrote: >> Anyone knows where are the publishers of NXFax? Were they gone or >> something? How do I contact them. I am an old user. >> >> Michael Chan <snip >sales@bandw.com > >this from an announcement to users circa 1 year ago. a lot can happen in a >year, I hope they are still around... > They are, and you can reach them at that email. They're not actively developing NXFax, but the current version does work on OS 4.1 (according to the email I got a week ago).. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703132339.SAA02082@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: c02ccb2b797ab2aa41f74db8fb466b82 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 18:39:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Duplicating BootDisks Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, andreas@lynet.de References: c02ccb2b797ab2aa41f74db8fb466b82 - Responding To: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Original Date: 13 Mar 1997 00:04:55 GMT Message-ID: c02ccb2b797ab2aa41f74db8fb466b82 - > Oh, yes, the GUI app is called DiskCopyII.app, but I don't know if > it works for anything except Black NeXT. there's a dual-fat version at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/DiskCopyII.NI.b.tar.gz TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 18:40:04 -0500 Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - Responding To: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Original Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:16:37 GMT Message-ID: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. > Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a > copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her > leisure ? yup. I think this is just one of the security holes in a standard NeXTStep installation. > Is this a threat worth worrying about? Only if you have a weak account and haven't changed the permissions! TjL ps -- anyone interested in starting that list of security holes?
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 14 Mar 1997 08:58:49 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5gb409$i9p$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> <5g6uuc$116m@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5g7irn$rjq$1@darla.visi.com> Cc: dwy@ace.net In <5g7irn$rjq$1@darla.visi.com> David Young wrote: > bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > : Perhaps if you have a problem its not wise to start with > : "this is a piece of shit but I want you to help me". > > Yeah, I've got to agree. :) > > BTW, if you need to start fresh: > > "Testing system" > command-~ > NeXT> bsd -s > # cd /etc > # rm -rf netinfo > # rm -f hostconfig > # cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo . > # cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig . > > Nicely done. You know I've often wondered why people wouldn't just backup their /etc/netinfo hostconfig like so #cd /etc #tar -cvf netinfo.backup.97.03.14.tar netinfo hostconfig that way if you ever screw up netinfo you can boot single user mode and #cd /etc #rm -rf netinfo hostconfig #tar -xvf netinfo.yourfavoritebackup.tar #reboot and go.. ;) I thought this would be a cool way to test different network configs. Randy rencsok at channelu dot com OR at argus dot cem dot msu dot edu -- Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining, Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.) Note: My reply to header is invalid because parsing spammers are abusing any use of dead@eatthis.spammers.channelu.com type labels in public posts. First it was the easy Reply-To: fields we all know & love. Now it's text itself. I'd love to see a parser that can discern the intended meaning of the word at and the name rencsok (etc) and equate it to channelu dot com to reconstruct my address.. :} But then a parser still has a lot of header fields to play with :(
From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing OS 4.1 on partition 'b' on a NeXTstation Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:03:24 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5gbeqc$dl4$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Keywords: OpenStep, NeXTstation, partition, install I wrote: > I have problem (installing and) booting OS 4.1 from the second ('b') > partition of my disk. [munch] > Here's how I installed 4.1: > > 1. Logged in as root > > 2. Copied the system files: > ditto -v -arch m68k -bom /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom > /OPENSTEP_4.1 /MySecondPartition > > 3. Made a new boot block: > /usr/etc/disk -B /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/standalone/boot /dev/rsd0b > > 4. Edited fstab to reflect changes: > /dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd0a /NS_3.2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 > > Now when I reboot using `bsd(0,0,1)- rootdev=sd0b' everything goes fine > until the point where LoginWindow.app should fire up. Instead of the login > panel I get a window which says that it wants to install "NeXTSTEP > Essentials (192 MB)". I figured out (from the scripts of the 4.1 Upgrader.app) that I need a 5. step that is: 5. Create /MySecondPartition/private/adm/BuildDisk.custom touch /MySecondPartition/private/adm/BuildDisk.custom And voila, the boot goes fine... Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------ Ps.: thanks for the relpy I got from Peter Nitezki <Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org>
From: "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Home Directory Icons Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:57:43 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <01bc3075$b2bd7980$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> I encountered this problem that some directories in my filesystem are being displayed as a normal folder instead of a directory. How do I revert them back to the home directory icons? I am using NS 3.3. Michael Chan
From: "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:58:56 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <01bc3075$debd8340$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> References: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5gam8p$92a@news.digifix.com> Yeah, I got them through e-mail! Thanks guys! Seems like they do not have a homepage. Michael Chan
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:47:52 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.858358475.11076.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour John, Yes, I was successful. I've used my old Adaptec 1542cf and copied the new 3.37 driver on a copy of my NS 3.3 drivers disquette. I've then replaced the old Adaptec with the new one. I loaded NS with the newest Adaptec driver. Here's one answer I've received that might help you: On 03/05/97 in the group comp.sys.next.sysadmin you wrote: >Bonjour, ... I remember spending almost a week on this problem about a year ago when I installed 3.3 on our PPro machines. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec driver supplied on the boot floppy doesn't properly recognize the 2940UW. You need to get the newer 2940 driver, v3.37, from NeXTanswers: <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1760.htmld/1760.html To install, you can either try the procedure outlined for another Adatec driver under NeXTSTEP 3.2 in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1541.htmld/1541.html or, you can do as I did and make a new copy of the boot floppy, as described in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1824.htmld/1824.html and <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1561.htmld/1561.html but replace the original Adaptec driver with the newer version. That's all I know. Good luck, TH Tom Holton <th@piglet.sfsu.edu> In Article Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. , John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> wrote: Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) Thanks, John Haver Ciao. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michel.tremblay@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem Installing NS3.3 FIP on a Jaz Disk. Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:55:59 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.858360099.16379.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour, Could you assist me installing NS 3.3 FIP? I have successfully format and initialized the Jaz disk on which I'm trying to install NS 3.3 FIP on. When installing NS 3.3 FIP from the boot diskette, I get up to where NS is about to write the files on to the Jaz disk and then I get a FATAL ERROR message as soon as NS is about to write to the disk. I do not have enough time to read the precise message. Sorry! I have installed the package from NextAnswers (Iomega Jaz Drive Package Overview Entry Number: 2155) but I'm not sure about the ordering of the steps I should follow when I read the Readme.rtf file provided with the package. When I manually fire up BuildDisk using the Jaz disk as my target drive, it looks like the BuildDisk application is freezing the system as soon as it tries to write to the disk. Is it that I need to somehow be able to configure the Jaz disk using the utility so that I could disable the eject disk option? I'm not a Bills Of Material expert. Is there a way to install NS from the NS CD-ROM using BOM without the GUI? Thanks. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michel.tremblay@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Your opinions and suggestion for improving CAPer/Ethertalk Date: 11 Mar 1997 21:17:56 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5g4i64$7qq$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Howdy! I'd like to ask everyone using CAPer about her/his suggestions (Columbia Appletalk Package for NeXT). I am in the process of improving this package and like to know about your problems. So please take 5 minutes of your time and help me a bit... - Does it work for you? - What must be improved to make installation easier? - What must be improved to make daily work/administration easier? - What functionality is missing? - Is the performance sufficent? - Did you experienced any crashes or data corruption? If so when and how? - Does the file export work for you? (AUFS server) - Does the file import (afpmount) work for you? - Does the print server (using UNIX printers from the Mac-side) work? - Does printing (to Appletalk printers) using 'papif' or 'lwpr' work? If not please describe the network environment. - Anything else? Thank you very much, please send this to frank@this.net. ---------- Some known problems in CAPer/CAPpl198 Release 8 (V4) are - when printing to a NT Server 'papif' does not work but 'lwpr' does. - when printing to a Novell Server neither 'papif' nor 'lwpr' works, the job is sent ok but the programs never finish since the server never sents an acknowledge packet. - afpmount'ed volumes from a NT server seems to cause problems, since the server terminate the connection on large file transfers. - Despite the message: 'Current zone is "*", using default zone "foobar"' from aarpd, it does not use the zone. It has to provided in the perferences. - Some zone names cannot be handled by the startup script, you have to set the name in the script itself, not in the default file. I am about to inverstigate these problems, and most are successful resolved. However I'd like to hear if you experienced one of these bugs too (maybe in a different context and environment...). -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Security (was: nidump a security problem ?) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:26:51 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1403971126510001@slip-92-14.ots.utexas.edu> References: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> In article <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org>, luomat@peak.org wrote: >> As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. >> Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a >> copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her >> leisure ? > >yup. I think this is just one of the security holes in a standard >NeXTStep installation. Aw c'mon. This is the *least* of your security worries under NS. Run Crack to make sure that there are no accounts with weak passwords (remember, on most systems the pasword file is world-readable anyway), and then start worrying about the real damage an attacker could with . . . * The Syslog(3) hole (CERT Advisory CA-95.13) (Don't be deceived by the emphasis on Sendmail. Any program running with a privileged UID which uses syslog(3) is vulnerable.) * The Rpc.statd hole (CERT Advisory CA-96.09) * The Rpc.ypupdated hole (CERT Advisory CA-95.17) none of which has a satisfactory patch available, and any of which can be coaxed into giving an attacker root access. Or, if you haven't taken appropriate action, you can worry about * Sendmail (So many holes, so little time . . .) (upgrade to 8.8.5) * The Talkd hole (CERT Advisory CA-97.06) (Misnamed. Really a "gethostbyname" hole. Install BIND 4.95, and run a caching-only nameserver) * The Rlogin hole (CERT Advisory CA-97.06) (replace rlogin) * The Rdist hole (CERT Advisory CA-96.14) (upgrade to 6.13) * The Lpr hole (AUSCERT Advisory AA-96.12) (install the lpr wrapper) or . . . the list just goes on and on. And this is *assuming* you've already configured your system in some reasonably safe fashion (are you still offering Rexec in your inetd.conf file ?). Under the circumstances, frankly, Nidump just doesn't rate worrying about. Jacques
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:32:26 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > To me, surviving this "documentation" > > and its concepts seemed a bit like a initiation rite ;-) > > That's somewhat true, but INN is one of the larger and more complex > systems around-- it's not like installing a new version of gawk or some > such. Right. But PersonalINN, in contrast, should be even easier to install than gawk - that's why I tried to do it in a slightly modified way. > INN 1.5.x refers to "out.going" in the manpages for archive, buffchan, > filechan, innxbatch, innxmit, newsfeeds, and nntpsend. It does so only if that's how you configured it. Note that as soon as you enter FOO.GOING as your outgoing directory in the configure file, all the manpages you mention will refer to FOO.GOING as well. Of course, all manpages in PersonalINN reflect the actual paths of the installation... > > To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". > > And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying > > to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" > > Well, I was happy with the explanation given, You were??? > but it's clear that your preferences are otherwise. What do you refer to? The "natural" part or the "questions" part? Concerning the latter, it is something you surely will consider when publishing a program you'll have to support... > Shrug.... Don't be afraid :-) I'm with you voting for UNIX and file extensions in Rhapsody... ;-) > Consider someone using PersonalINN for a (relatively) few newsgroups and > is getting a very small feed-- for the sake of example, around 5 MB of > news per day. And they've got the news spool on a 1 GB drive which was > roughly half-full. > > If the expiry fails for some reason (maybe the active file got hosed, or > whatever), you're going to gradually fill that disk up with 450 - 500 MB > worth of articles over the next two months or so before you get an > explicit warning that a problem happened. You have a good point here. Bye Uli PS: I'll be gone for CeBIT the next week. ______________________________________________________________________ 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: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:42:48 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <332971F8.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5g97fr$ml8@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew J. Korty wrote: > > > > I usually change the ni* utilities to 700. No reason any > > > Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* library > functions to do essentially the same thing? a normal user could even insert a floppydisk with the nidump binary on it. The chmod to ni* utilities is just a handicap for newbies. Not a serious protection ! If you want to make the netinfo accessable to privileged users only the lookupd should be modified for example to give only information to processes owning root privileges. The netinfo (password) access could then be restricted by sticky bits which are hard to get. This is quite not trivial as the lookupd must be able to tell trivial information to any user. For example the "ls" command wants to convert uids to user names ... As the source of lookupd is not available just forget about it ! By the way I don't see really a need to restrict the access. Remember networks with NIS are even worst. Most NIS Servers deliver all information to the world, not even to users on the system ... stef ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP and Openstep... Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:46:44 -0800 Organization: Egg Head Billy Productions Message-ID: <33299D0A.5328@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, its me again. The guy who keeps posting questions about ppp and openstep. Still haven't figured out what's going on. I've reinstalled ppp twice now (once with having the LKS loaded in the rc.local script, and once in the kern_loader.conf script). Neither had any effect. From looking at the log below, I see that my machine rejects two AUTHTYPE messages. Could this have something to do with my connection not coming up? I've specified -pap and -chap in my options file. I've read about "secrets" files, but I really don't understand what they are and what they're used for at all. Can someone, PLEEEEEZE, help me? mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Exerpt from my ppp log follows: Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu chat[533]: netcom login: -- got it Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu pppd[453]: Serial connection established. Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Using interface ppp0 Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp> <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 05> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap 05>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:49 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 35 fb 63 f9] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: LCP terminated at peer's request Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:53 jehu pppd[453]: Connection terminated. Mar 10 00:33:54 jehu pppd[453]: Exit.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Home Directory Icons Date: 14 Mar 1997 19:04:21 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5gc7fl$r50$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <01bc3075$b2bd7980$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> wrote: >I encountered this problem that some directories in my filesystem are being >displayed as a normal folder instead of a directory. How do I revert them >back to the home directory icons? I am using NS 3.3. > >Michael Chan > This can happen if you have checked the "Large File System" option in the expert preferences in Preferences.app. --Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Message-ID: <E71s63.5p8@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:15:39 GMT P Damiano writes > I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader > will work with black hardware Yes, mine (nec multispin 3X) does. CDPlayer.app works with it. As does Carl Edman's freely available playcd. 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: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dialin to NS3.3 or OS4.x Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:48:56 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5gcdjo$l8u@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> hello, Anyone sucessed to dial back to NS3.3 or OS4.x (Intel). Do I need to change the getty to mgetty or gettyPS? Help needed. Thanks! kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
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From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.App oddity Date: 14 Mar 1997 22:08:42 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5gci9a$8oi$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have an NSFIP at OSU using a direct TCP/IP connection. I recently upgraded my hardware, and reinstalled NS3.3 (I have ordered 4.0, but it has yet to arrive!). We have a "fuzzy mailer" on campus, so that if someone sends email to an address close to someone's username or real name, the fuzzy mailer tries to make a match and forward the mail to the right place. My entry there is jackson.21@osu.edu. I use the same old IP and hostname, which is lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu as I had before the reinstall, and the resolv.conf file is the same as before. The mailhost is the university's central mailhost, in the ACS.ohio-state.edu domain. Now here is the oddity: If from a terminal window I mail to jackson.21@osu.edu, I get the mail a few minutes later with randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu in the From field. But if I mail to that address from Mail.app, the From field contains randyj@lubra.ACS.ohio-state.edu which incorrectly identifies my ip as a node in the ACS subdomain. When people receive my mail, and try to REPLY, their mail bounces, since lubra in ACS doesn't exist. The implication is that Mail.app is somehow not attaching the rest of my hostname to <lubra>, and is making the mail legal by extending it to lubra.ACS.ohio-state.edu. What can I do to eliminate this condition, which obviously is unacceptable! Help will be greatly appreciated! Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:59:35 -0600 Organization: Chapman and Cutler Message-ID: <geordie-ya02408000R1403971459350001@kyrie> References: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) wrote: :Hi. I screwed up on the first trial and so I hope that this works... : :I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader :will work with black hardware : My Multispin 4x works on my turbo. -- Geordie Korper geordie@chapman.com ********************************************************************* * The text above should in no way be construed to represent the * * opinions of my employer, even if specifically stated to do so. * *********************************************************************
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ATI video cards no longer supported ? Date: 14 Mar 1997 23:17:55 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5gcmb3$g8o$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> I just spoke to a NeXT tech support rep about problems I'm having with ATI's new Mach64 cards using the 264VT or Rage chipsets. That BIOS revision isn't supported by the current ATI driver, and he does not anticipate that any updates will be forthcoming since the driver engineers have been relocated to the Rhapsody group. Since it looks like the new ATI cards are all using those chipsets, this means that ATI is not an option any more? I'd like to hear otherwise... -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting an anonymous ftp session greeting Date: 15 Mar 1997 00:08:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5gcpap$r50$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, How would I go about getting ftpd to give a welcome message to anonymous (only) ftp logins? (NS3.3 on black) Thanks, Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703141623.LAA08627@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:22:42 -0500 Subject: I can 'su' to root but I'm still me This is really strange. I am a member of the group 'wheel' and when I try to 'su' to root it lets me, but when I do 'whoami' it still lists me as 'luomat': su - root Password: charisma% whoami luomat charisma% touch /tmp/file charisma% ls -l /tmp/file -rw-r--r-- 1 luomat 0 Mar 14 11:22 /tmp/file charisma% Here's 'ls -l /bin/su*' lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 10 Feb 6 22:34 /bin/su -> su.nowheel* -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* Anyone got a clue as to why? TjL
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP: Procmail - forward to user? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 15 Mar 1997 08:53:37 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5gdo2h$563@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hello, I was just trying to install "procmail" on my system, for this special purpose: I want it to take each incoming mail and if teh subject line matches, teh mail should go to me AND someone else (alternatively, only someone else). However, I don't seem to find any provisions for that... the ebst I got is that the mail went to the proper mailbox in the spool directory, but owned by me so that the other user didn't get at it... Is there any way, procmail or not, that would selectively forward my email to someone else? Please Cc: me when you reply to the newsgroup, our news server is lagging by ~4 days... Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: (Driver Kit...) Date: 15 Mar 1997 10:47:18 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5gdunm$6f1$4@news.cc.umr.edu> Hi, I was trying to write a Device Driver for EPIX frame grabber card under NextStep 3.2. My problem is that when ever I try to open the port, and if the video signal is not present at the port (camera is not powered on) the system hangs. Is there any way I could time this out. I mean if the port is not available (not powered) just don't open it!! Any pointer on this will be helpful. Thank you very much for your time ... Sanjeev
From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cyrillic in OPENSTEP/Mach Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:08:35 -0500 Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Message-ID: <5gcsqj$d0n@lynx.dac.neu.edu> Content-Type: text/html Have anyone managed to display Cyrillic text in KOI-8 encoding under NeXT OS ? I installed russian fonts from peanuts, but switching them on does not result in correct text display. I guess, it is mapping problem. Can one convert X fonts into NeXT fonts ? Thanks, Michael -- ABILITY,n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703150445.XAA03592@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 9bb8cdfb55ea311ca599f293fd75fa1b - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 23:45:00 -0500 Subject: Re: Please Help! Openstep 4.1 and ppp... Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 9bb8cdfb55ea311ca599f293fd75fa1b - Responding To: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Original Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 05:43:22 -0800 Message-ID: 9bb8cdfb55ea311ca599f293fd75fa1b - > Can someone please look at my ppp log, and maybe tell me where I > should be looking for errors? Just point me in the right direction. > Is it in the installation of ppp (hostconfig, iftab, rc.local) or > in my scripts? It looks like either: a) there's a problem with your ISP b) they want 'chap': Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap 05>] contact your ISP and see if they want 'chap' authentication. They might have switched this around the same time. Don't know if that's it, but that's what it looks like to me TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703150448.XAA03614@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 18889950a8810f6b7e33ac627c5b0336 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 23:48:32 -0500 Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 18889950a8810f6b7e33ac627c5b0336 - Responding To: ajk@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu (Andrew J. Korty) Original Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:46:03 GMT Message-ID: 18889950a8810f6b7e33ac627c5b0336 - > Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* > library functions to do essentially the same thing? Only if they know it exists.... and of course there's no reason not to plug one hole just because another similar one exists... and the ni* stuff is a lot easier for a casual hacker to use... TjL
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade results in SendMail meltdown Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 23:09:51 GMT Organization: Applied Chaos Lab Message-ID: <332b2c09.322898914@news.gatech.edu> During the last upgrade to OpenStep 4.1 for Intel hardware, our mail service begin to fail. The installation went fine, but in no time we begin to see a number anomalies in the transmission and reception of email. Incoming messages were either bounced back, delayed days before being received, or worse the message would be lost at our server. It appeared to the outside that mail was being received but in reality we never got the message from the spool file. We spent a good bit of time checking the external network (router, switch, nameserver, gatewayyou get the idea). Finally, I had to punt and reinstall OpenStep 4.0. Things are back to normal so it must be the upgrade. I've looked over the news groups for awhile and haven't spotted anyone with a similar problem. I hoped my post might generate some ideas. Thanks for any and all help, Brian Meadows P.S. As a personal note, I am disappointed in Next for not supporting the upgrade. I was informed that Next charges 150 $/hr to debug sendmail problems. Even Microsoft supports their OS upgrades for 30 days. ______________________________________ Brian K. Meadows Applied Chaos Laboratory School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 phone: (404) 894-1448 fax: (404) 894-9958 email: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu WWW: http://acl.gatech.edu ______________________________________
From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tftpboot directory? Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:44:28 +0500 Organization: Merriam-Webster Inc. Message-ID: <332A535C.1B95@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The NeXT I'm working on was set-up originally by someone else. Why is there a /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot directory that has subdirectories that duplicate the entire drive structure? ---Amy West
From: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pentium v. Pentium Pro Date: 15 Mar 1997 21:17:01 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Hi... Any comparisons between a Pentium 200 versus a Pentium Pro 200 for NS? Any advantages one way or the other? TIA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: [Q] Console to Sun by tip from NeXT, is it possible? Message-ID: <E72zxK.9t8@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5g8qdg$6it@jupiter.orc.ru> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 11:00:56 GMT In article <5g8qdg$6it@jupiter.orc.ru> vova@rtr.transit.ru (Vladimir Pilipyuk) writes: > > Hi All, > > Could you help me with the following trouble? > > I tried to make console for Sun running Solaris 2.5.1 by typing > > tip ttya9600 > > in the Terminal window on NexStep 3.3. The tip was connected and I saw > data received from Sun but all what I typed was transfered to Sun > incorectly. The /etc/remote file was original and I tried to exclude > the tc=BASIC field from the ttya9600 definition. > > Do you have an idea? > That's trivial. The serial line protocol (character size, stopbits) doesn't match. -- 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 up to GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: connecting CDROM to NeXT (OpenStep) Message-ID: <E730to.9ty@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 11:20:11 GMT In article <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> writes: > I'm starting to work with a NeXT Cube that has recently been > upgraded to OpenStep 4.1. I have a CDROM drive which I would > like to use (to install software). I connect the drive to the > Cube and reboot. When I login I get the message: > "The SCSI disk is unreadable" > (This happens with the OpenStep distribution CD's as well as with > the Mathematica 3.0 CD) > > Is there something I have to do on the software side to get the > drive to be recognized properly? The Manuals say that the NeXT > hardware automatically detects the drive. The same SCSI drive > works fine when connected to a SGI Indy Unix system. > The answer might not be better than the problem statement, but anyway... Trivial sources of trouble (though they might not be applicable here): - The SCSI-Ids are garbled (DC/ROMs should have an Id higher than the hard drives to avoid boot time trouble and need to be unique) - The block device mapped to the CD/ROM should not match an entry in /etc/fstab (mount/umount-trouble in conjunction with ejection of disks) - You're not supposed to have a disk in the drive during bootup since this will cause trouble with the automounter (might be your case). Any CD/ROM drive is supposed to work as long as the parameter ROM has not been altered (that's why Apple CD/ROMs don't work). There are some drives (older ones) that, in conjunction with damaged disks, cause the disk driver to post errors or even the generic SCSI driver to hang the system. Refer to the console log for any error messages. -- 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: joabj@charm.net (Joab Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question about commercial Internet monitoring software Date: Sat, 15 Mar 97 21:55:01 GMT Organization: Charm.Net Baltimore Internet Access, Hon (410) 558-3900 Message-ID: <5gf60c$m6n$4@news2.charm.net> Hello! I am writing a story for the Baltimore City Paper on software that monitors corporate Internet usage, programs like "Little Brother" (Yes that's the real name) and Sequel's "Net Access Manager." Basically these programs track where each individual at a corporate workplace is going to on the Internet, if they have Internet access. I'm wondering if, by chance, anyone reading this uses this software or knows anybody who uses this software? What do sysadmins think of such an idea? One of the selling points is that it allows you to monitor the flow of Internet traffic. But another one of its selling points is to find out which workers are playing all-day multiplayer sessions of Quake or something.This brings up some interesting issue sabout privacy, etc. In particular, I'm interested in finding someone who has installed this program, at the behest of management, but unbeknownst to the employees themselves. Maybe this goes on or maybe I'm just paranoid I don't know. If anyone is interested in discussing their experience of this sort on record, I'd keep their identity completely anonymous in the story. Any thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "History shows us again and again, how nature points out the follies of men" "Go, Go Godzilla!" joabj@charm.net joabj@delphi.com http://www.charm.net/~joabj/ 410.356.6274 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzJFsfEAAAEDAOtSe/7TU8y0ZYBFXp8c6hxwzDIdbIsDtT svKx2Xv5S65Mdc3vCEFhMuwxceatO4T5IKgBFWJ2r7s9fFKtsA IS4vKCESi+wY7j5rEZ6oYbaeWlj1yfwjAjg8SUxCjuji1QAFEbQeS m9hYiBKYWNrc29uIDxqb2FiakBjaGFybS5uZXQ+ =ttEP -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
From: stinsley@mindspring.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ? NETWORKING - appletalk/NFS ?? Date: 16 Mar 1997 03:32:06 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <stinsley-1503972231430001@user-168-121-72-201.dialup.mindspring.com> I do web development on Macs and would like to install Apache on my black 040 NeXT cube to create a mirror, but need to network everything, QUESTIONS: 1. does next support Appletalk? apparently it did in 3.0 then it was removed in 3.3, any work-arounds, should i update the OS to 3.0 or 3.3? 2. should i use NFSshare on the macs to create an NFS net? i would rather not do this, probably more work and maintenance. 3. Other than ethernet cards for my macs & a hub is there any other hardware i will need? Any FAQs or "do this" would be great. thanx in advance!!!! chris snider cjs@mindspring.com
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 Supersedes: <7353857885137@digifix.com> Date: 16 Mar 1997 05:00:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <608858488427@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. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <ajk@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Message-ID: <199703160040.TAA19315@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? From: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Id: <19310.858472855.1@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 19:40:56 -0500 Sender: ajk@physics.purdue.edu In message <199703150448.XAA03614@kira.peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* > > library functions to do essentially the same thing? > > Only if they know it exists.... and of course there's no reason not > to plug one hole just because another similar one exists... and the > ni* stuff is a lot easier for a casual hacker to use... That's true, but I'd hate for anyone to think that by making these utilities unavailable they have completely hidden the information. After all, it only takes a tiny Perl script to reveal the encrypted passwords. We've been trying to figure out a way to get shadowing working on our NeXT stations. We want them to be NIS clients to a Sun server which shadows passwords. Of course, we could write some scripts to import the maps (passwd.adjunct.byname for the encrypted passwords, and passwd.byname for the rest of the /etc/passwd information) into NetInfo, but it would be easy enough for people to use nidump or getpwent() to read them, rendering vain our efforts at shadowing. Course, if we could get all our users to choose intelligent passwords we wouldn't have this problem ... :-) ajk
From: publicist@meetmeonline.com (MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: white box Apache 1.2b? Date: 16 Mar 1997 08:22:48 GMT Organization: MeetMeOnline <a zerologic company> Message-ID: <publicist-1603970225350001@thebook.on-demand.com> url: http://www.meetmeonline.com/ Hello, Where might I be able to acquire a binary or .pkg for Apache 1.2b7? I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 for Intel. TIA! Michael. -- Meet a friend, Meet a lover, Meet another... MeetMe at http://www.meetmeonline.com/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703150837.DAA05791@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 97 03:37:40 -0500 Subject: help needed: re: NeXTStep/OpenStep security holes There has been significant response to an off-the-cuff remark I made a few days ago. I asked if anyone was interested in starting a list of security holes in NeXTStep. I've gotten quite a few people saying "Please tell me whatever you find out". So I've decided to start a new web page devoted to the subject. However, I do not have many "known holes", so I am asking that you out there who know what the holes are, please share that knowledge with me and others. You can email me at this address. Please include as much relevant information as possible, including what version this effects, how to solve the problem, etc. The new page will be found at: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/security/ Thanks again TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Today's Pet-Peeve: .sig files should not be longer than 4 lines.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703160645.BAA08734@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 370719eab60e8042e7c48b3f6a00af13 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 97 01:45:36 -0500 Subject: Re: PPP and Openstep... Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 370719eab60e8042e7c48b3f6a00af13 - Responding To: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Original Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:46:44 -0800 > Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap > 05>] I don't know for sure, but this looks like someone is asking for 'chap' authentication TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Today's Pet-Peeve: .sig files should not be longer than 4 lines.
From: Christian Hahn <1919-484@online.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 4.1 can't boot anymore Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:52:19 +0100 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <332BC2D3.4861@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please help, i got stuck in a boot problem: I installed OpenStep 4.1 properly, i configured everything i need and i was booting several times without any problems. But since i configured the GSPrinter-Filter (although i don't believe that this would be the reason for my problem), the startup comments (after having detected all devices correctly) just display "boot_rc" every two seconds without going on (no more harddisk activity). Any ideas? Thanks in advance
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba ports for NS 3.3? Date: 16 Mar 1997 19:01:56 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute Message-ID: <5ghg35$hki@news.sei.cmu.edu> Sorry if this is a FAQ. Thought I'd just check before looking at the current Samba distribution. Any porting experiences welcome. Thanks. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
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From: pdamiano@gpu4.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 16 Mar 1997 22:13:31 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ghrab$ona@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> <5ga5d2$cnm@chinx10.tpa.net> I've been using tcsh as the principle shell on NeXTstations and NeXTstation Turbo's for more than a year without any complications as of yet. Peter Damiano -- Peter Damiano Phone: (403)-492-2526 Department of Physics FAX: (403)-492-0714 The University of Alberta email: pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2J1
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: connecting CDROM to NeXT (OpenStep) Date: 16 Mar 1997 19:49:36 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5ghisg$7s1$1@hpax.cup.hp.com> References: <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> <E730to.9ty@nidat.sub.org> In article <E730to.9ty@nidat.sub.org>, Peter Nitezki <Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de> wrote: >Any CD/ROM drive is supposed to work as long as the parameter ROM has not >been altered (that's why Apple CD/ROMs don't work). My Apple CD-ROM drive works on my cube. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue General Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open/Intelligent Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.7200
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703162022.PAA04657@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: e202d869784bec337028b83816a8ce63 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 97 15:22:02 -0500 Subject: Re: Mail.App oddity Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: e202d869784bec337028b83816a8ce63 - Responding To: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Original Date: 14 Mar 1997 22:08:42 GMT Message-ID: e202d869784bec337028b83816a8ce63 - > The implication is that Mail.app is somehow not attaching the rest > of my hostname to <lubra>, and is making the mail legal by > extending it to lubra.ACS.ohio-state.edu. > > What can I do to eliminate this condition, which obviously is > unacceptable! 1) set a 'reply-to' line but not all mailreaders can use that and you might prefer a correct 2) use one of the KEY and VALUE settings under EXPERT preferences to be: From Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> NOTE: don't put a colon in the expert preferences between the "From" and the address, it will be added automagically if you are really gung-ho you can 3) get sendmail.8.8.5 and configure it to masquerade_as the host you want or if you are really gungho you can probably edit the rulesets in your existing sendmail config, but I wouldn't know what to change... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Today's Pet-Peeve: .sig files should not be longer than 4 lines.
From: chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-ROM questions Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 07:30:14 GMT Organization: Netcom Sender: news@cmich.slip.netcom.com Message-ID: <1997Mar17.073014.2005@cmich.slip.netcom.com> Keywords: CD-ROM NeXT Originator: news@cmich.slip.netcom.com Originator: news@cmich.slip.netcom.com Hi there: I've noticed some strange behaviour when I use mac/PC disks in my CD-ROM. I've got the old single speed NeXT CD-ROM drive. When I put in some "hybrid" (i.e. pc and mac format) disks, the directory entries sometimes show up as double. Every file will appear twice. This happens mainly (exclusively?) with quicktime .mov files that I view with NeXTTIME. What's even more odd is that, NeXTTIME won't play them and if I try to copy them to the hard disk, the files never copy completely the first time. After several attempts, however, the file will copy completely and then NeXTTIME can run the movie from the hard drive. Is there some problem with the file reader or perhaps cd.util? Any suggestions? Is there a patch for this? I've looked at the files on both a mac and a pc, and the disks seem fine. Also, is there a driver for a CD-ROM burner for NeXT? Thanks in advance for your help! -- Chuck -------------------------------------------------------------- chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com NeXT Mail and MIME Mail gladly accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------- chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com NeXT Mail and MIME Mail gladly accepted --------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: luomat@peak.org Organization: Disorganization References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:14:02 GMT In <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. > > Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a > > copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her > > leisure ? > > yup. I think this is just one of the security holes in a standard > NeXTStep installation. > > > > Is this a threat worth worrying about? > > Only if you have a weak account and haven't changed the permissions! > > TjL > > ps -- anyone interested in starting that list of security holes? Well, nidump is actually not a security hole. The big hole, actually a crater, is the lack of shadow passwords. Nowadays, almost all Unix boxes support shadow passwords. This is not a question of "weak" passwords alone. Passwords are weak per definition if their encryption is world readable.
From: Tommy Hwang <me@mysolution.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DialIP,PPP, bad serial port? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 05:15:14 -0500 Organization: Internet Solutions Incorporated of Fort Wayne, IN Message-ID: <332D19B2.735C@mysolution.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I check if the serial port for my NeXTStation is bad? I have tried to check my modem by typing: tip fa9600 The system will return "connected", but then nothing happens... I am using a Macintosh Serial cable with a U.S.Robotics Courier V.Everything with X2 upgrade. I just want a response from my modem that I can see. Help??
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Console is gone Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 17 Mar 1997 12:32:06 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5gjdk6$hub@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I just logged in into my NS4.1 PC, and TickleServices said something about While loading `!Initialization!' for `/LocalLibrary/TickleServices/Mail.ts', TCL error, couldn't create error file for command: I/O error. Check console for more information. So I checked the console and oh surprise, nothing opens. There is also no console file in the /tmp directory. So I rebooted, for no avail. I don't remember doing anything spectacular recently, other than replacing my Ethernet board... Any insight as how to get my console back is really greatly appreciated. Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:48:52 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <332D3DB4.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> <5ga5d2$cnm@chinx10.tpa.net> <5ghrab$ona@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit P Damiano wrote: > .. Don't forget to add tcsh in /etc/shells and add it again after an upgarde of the system. ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: Darin Smith <darin@aero.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Admin question (NIS) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:47:14 -0600 Organization: Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering Message-ID: <332D6782.2230@aero.tamu.edu> References: <33244F74.1CC0@aero.tamu.edu> <5g26o8$ke8@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <3326E745.562B@aero.tamu.edu> <5g9la7$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Mar 1997 15:34:33 GMT Followup: I got it all back. I just had to kill the netinfo database and start with a "virgin" copy. Once I had done that, it was like setting up a new machine and only took a few minutes using "HostManager" and "SimpleNetworkStarter". I haven't explained myself fully I guess...my big objection to using NetInfo over UNIX flat files is that it is kind of like the registry in NT or Win95 (I'm pretty sure NeXT is where MS got their idea for this). It may keep everything in a nice database (which is probably faster than flat files) but it's easy to screw yourself if you don't know what you are doing. On Windows, one can keep the OS from even coming up...on NeXT I was able to make it dump core whenever it tried to start the Display PostScript window manager. Now I know of ways to keep the right info backed up so that you can get everything back through a boot to single user mode (just like UNIX), but I'm still not sure I like it. Whatever floats your boat though... --Darin PS. Thanks to everyone who helped me out.
From: ibh@stibo.dk (Ib Hojme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting serial speed > 9600 Date: 17 Mar 1997 14:29:52 GMT Organization: Stibo Datagrafik, Development Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gjkh0$e6i@zeus.stibo.dk> Hi, Could anyone tell me what I have to do to set the port speed to more than 9600. I can't seem to get it higher than 9600 and I have a 28800 modem :-( I have a UUCP connection between two PC's, both running Next 3.3 and using the On-Board Serial Ports 3.30 serial driver. I have tried changing gettytab, remote, ttys in /etc, and 9600 is the most I can get. Setup in gettytab: std.19200|19200-baud:\ :sp#19200:p8:ap: std.38400|38400-baud:\ :sp#38400:p8:ap: Setup in remote : a19200|cua19200|Dial-out on cua at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#19200:tc=BASIC: b19200|cub19200|Dial-out on cub at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cub:br#19200:tc=BASIC: fa19200|cufa19200|Dial-out on cufa at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#19200:tc=BASIC: fb19200|cufb19200|Dial-out on cufb at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:br#19200:tc=BASIC: a38400|cua38400|Dial-out on cua at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#38400:tc=BASIC: b38400|cub38400|Dial-out on cub at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cub:br#38400:tc=BASIC: fa38400|cufa38400|Dial-out on cufa at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#38400:tc=BASIC: fb38400|cufb38400|Dial-out on cufb at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:br#38400:tc=BASIC: Setup in ttys : ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.38400" dialup on Thanks in advance. Ib / ibh@stibo.dk
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:03:34 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> In-Reply-To: <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Mar-97 Re: nidump a security probl.. by Thomas Funke@gamelan.shn > Well, nidump is actually not a security hole. The big hole, actually a > crater, is the lack of shadow passwords. Nowadays, almost all Unix boxes > support shadow passwords. I tend to agree. > This is not a question of "weak" passwords alone. Passwords are weak per > definition if their encryption is world readable. But this is wrong. Passwords are encrypted using what was intended to be a one-way function-- a function which requires so much computational effort to compute the inverse that it's not feasible to do so in a reasonable time. However, computer technology and encryption software (in the form of the UFC algorithm-- "Ultra Fast Crypt()") have improved to the point where a heuristic attack on the encrypted passwords is feasible if poor passwords were chosen. The scenario is similiar to messages encrypted using a public key system, except that /etc/passwd used a 56-bit DES algorithm, whereas more modern encryption systems like PGP use keys of 128-bits or more. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba and Rumba and CAPer...Oh My! Date: 17 Mar 1997 18:02:06 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute Message-ID: <5gk0uu$g1c@news.sei.cmu.edu> My home desktop LAN has three boxes: a NeXTstation running NS3.3 a PowerMac running MacOS 7.5.5 a Pentium laptop running Windows 95 (w/PC Card Ethernet Adapter) (I also have a 68030 Mac running MacOS 7.5.5 and Vicom Internet Gateway providing routing services to the Internet via a PPP dialup into work...but that's another story.) My mission was for every box to be able to natively browse the files on every other box for NO money and a MODEST investment of time. Mac to NeXT was made easy thanks to Frank Siegert, et al., porting the Columbia Appletalk Package (CAP) to NS. Cheers to him, and I'll plug his site (www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html). After many travails in keeping NeXT's Appletalk Pkg functioning through 3.3, I kiss it goodbye. PC to NeXT was more challenging, but I kept hearing from Linux-folk about Samba (http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/). Got the latest version, hacked it, phutzed with it...it works. So this go me most of the way there. The PC was able to browse the NeXT's file system, but the NeXT had to use a terminal-based, ftp-like program "smbclient". Not good enough. Fortunately, Christian Starkjohann had posted the availability of a Lanmanager client for NS called Rumba, based on smbfs 0.8. Got it... it works fine. Rumba can be obtained from the Peanuts archive. (peanuts.leo.org) So mission accomplished. The Next provides a "nexus" ;') for the file sharing, such that the PC sees the Mac's files mounted remotely on, and exported by, the NeXT, and the Mac sees the PC's files the same way. Before anyone asks, printing services on my LAN are supported by an HP JetDirect ethernet print server, so printing wasn't an issue for me in the use of this software, although printer sharing is addressed by both Samba and CAP. Let's hear it for PD software and NeXT's bundling of NFS with NS, without which none of this would have been possible. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: gball@fg2.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Document Management Video Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 20:50:32 GMT Organization: Adhesive Media, Inc. Message-ID: <5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Thought you might like to know there is excellent document management video available at website: www.claritydmi.com Greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Pentium v. Pentium Pro Message-ID: <E76I5z.HrH@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 08:27:35 GMT In article <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) writes: > Hi... > > Any comparisons between a Pentium 200 versus a Pentium Pro 200 for NS? > Any advantages one way or the other? > The Pentium Pro is about 50% faster -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:21:59 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E779oq.45F@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <E71s63.5p8@euler.han.de> In article <E71s63.5p8@euler.han.de> js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) writes: > P Damiano writes > > I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader > > will work with black hardware > > Yes, mine (nec multispin 3X) does. Mine doesn't! More informativly, an ORIGINAL multispin, which is implicitly x2 will not work. Nor will it work with NT, or any number of other systems - they're just broken drives (works on my Mac though, so thats OK). the later ones work fine, as do just about every other drive. I had an nec multispin 4X once which was fine. $an
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From: Dan Bikle <dbikle@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 68040 cube needs disk space; any recommendations? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 17 Mar 1997 06:02:53 GMT Organization: Bikle Software Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gimqd$bqq@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-User: dbikle Keywords: quantum VP32170 quantum prodrive NeXT 68040 cc: dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu NeXT owners, I'm impressed with the advice I received here on my NeXT 400 dpi printer. Now.... I need to expand the diskspace of my 040 cube. The cube is running NS 3.0. I bought a 2gb quantum VP32170 and tried using it to replace an ancient 40mb quantum "prodrive". My NeXT would not recognize the VP32170. I experimented with various scsi address settings and scsi bus termination methods. Do any of you have a good experience with any 3.5" drives? -Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel B. Bikle/Independent Oracle Consultant dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu | 415/941-6276 | P.O. BOX 1401 LOS ALTOS CA 94023 http://www.rahul.net/dbikle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message-ID: <332DEA09.6918@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:04:09 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: NS harddrive crash recovery help requrested Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am running NS3.3 on an intel box with two harddrives. My secondary drive is fine and has NS3.3 on it. My primary drive is partitioned and has win95 on half and NS3.3 on the other half. I recently lost the NS side of the bootable drive and could not fsck it, so I re-initialized it. Then I copied *all* my NS3.3 stuff from my secondary drive to my primary drive (did have some trouble copying the /etc/dev stuff). Unfortunately, I still cannot boot on the NS side of the partitioned drive: I get the error, ERRNO 2; /etc/mach_init trying /etc/_init ERRNO 2: Then it hangs. Surely there are only a few files which I need to get in place... Any ideas? ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
Message-ID: <332DEA9A.691E@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:06:34 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Copying to a win95 partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am copying files from NS3.3 to a win95 partition, but there is a problem with the files which have too long a name. Is there an easier solution than writing a script which shortens every file name to < 8 characters and every extension to 3 chars? Ted Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
Message-ID: <332DEB6F.792D@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:10:07 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: NS3.3, PPP, and Mail Host Unknown Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am running NS3.3 on black hardware. Recently installed PPP using Gateway.app. Great way to do things. I use OminiWebb and Mail.app regularly. Omniweb works fine, but I cannot mail outside of my local domain. The mail gets returned with the statements: Host unknown (Authoritative answer from nameserver). I have set up the file resolv.conf with three nameservers and have the same three listed under NetInfoManager's local - locations - resolver - nameserver stuff. What to I need to get mail outside of the local network which I connect to? Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Date: 18 Mar 1997 03:13:58 GMT Control: cancel <5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Sender: gball@fg2.com Spam cancelled. Notice ID: 19970318.30. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce or http://spam.ohww.norman.ok.us/spam_notices/19970318.30.html for complete report. Original Subject: Document Management Video
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:50:53 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All drives are on the A2940 chain. All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. Upon restarting, a fschk is done with another reboot. The ONLY way I have found is to specify "config=Default" at the boot: prompt, but then I can't get any of the color settings, etc. Also I have never seen the login panel... Any suggestions?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Samba ports for NS 3.3? Message-ID: <E7714F.J1K@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5ghg35$hki@news.sei.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:17:03 GMT In article <5ghg35$hki@news.sei.cmu.edu> lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) writes: > Sorry if this is a FAQ. Thought I'd just check before looking > at the current Samba distribution. Any porting experiences > welcome. > > Thanks. > > -- > Larry Howard > Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University > lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397 Hi Larry, I have compiled Samba v1.9.16p9 (not the very latest version, but quite up to date) without many problems on NS 3.3 quad-fat. The only necessary changes (besides the makefile modifications) to the source were the following: open source/chgpasswd.c and search for the line if ((wpid = waitpid(pid, &wstat, 0)) < 0) and change it to if ((wpid = sys_waitpid(pid, &wstat, 0)) < 0) { Then open source/system.c and search for the line return waitpid(pid,status,options); change it to return wait4(pid, status, options, NULL); Save both files and recompile. This is not really "porting" and I guess you won't encounter big problems either. Good luck, Robert. ========================================================================= Robert Wunderer OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany =========================================================================
From: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pentium v. Pentium Pro Date: 18 Mar 1997 05:38:51 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5gl9pb$s2$1@kronos.crosslink.net> References: <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> <E76I5z.HrH@onevision.de> Hans Stoeger (hans@onevision.de) wrote: : The Pentium Pro is about 50% faster Yes, thanks... I'm sticking with the Pro!
From: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Controlling growth of swapfiles? Date: 18 Mar 1997 05:44:24 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5gla3o$s2$2@kronos.crosslink.net> Hello! A recent performance issue came up with us... We noticed that the longer our NS/Intel machine stayed up longer, the larger the swapfile got and the slower the swaps became over time... enough that after a couple of months, we had to reboot (still 9000% better than M$ machines)... We read the NeXTAnswers regarding creating a secondary swapfile on another disk and that has alleviated some of the swap performance... Is there a preferred way to limit the growth of swapfiles, to keep them trim enough to not cause the disk to thrash about after a couple months in action? TIA!
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS Security Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:40:22 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1803970040220001@slip-102-30.ots.utexas.edu> References: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <distler-1403971126510001@slip-92-14.ots.utexas.edu> In article <distler-1403971126510001@slip-92-14.ots.utexas.edu>, distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote: Since there seems to be some interest in the community, I've decided to make available security patchs for some known holes in NeXTStep, specifically, there are drop-in replacements for rlogin(1), talkd(8) and syslog(3), each of which has been the subject of a recent CERT Advisory. All the patches are compiled quad-fat, and all include source-code, because you shouldn't be trusting me to compile your security patches for you :-). I STRONGLY recommend that you look over the source-code (and, if you are really conscientious, compare them with the FreeBSD originals) and compile them yourself. They are available at: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/index.html Cheers, Jacques Distler
From: Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help] MEdai errors Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:01:09 +1000 Organization: AUSNet Services Message-ID: <332DE955.60C3@FreeFall.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi; Istarted to get media errors on a hard disk which has been working non-stop for several months, as below. What can be done to fix this? Is there any way of marking the failing blocks as unusable? ------------ fsck output ---- /usr/etc/fsck /dev/rsd1a Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1f7d89H retry 1 [...] Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1f7d89H retry 9 sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11 SCSI Block in error = 2063753; Partition a F.S. sector 1031716 /dev/rsd1a: CANNOT READ: BLK 1031712 ---- end ---- Thanks, Piotr Palacz piotr@FreeFall.com.au
From: "Joseph K. Vossen" <jkv@issl.atl.hp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! SimpleNetStarter has got me down! Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 05:28:23 -0500 Organization: Internet and Systems Security Lab Distribution: world Message-ID: <332E6E47.F9F@issl.atl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I picked up a Turbo color station and a cube, both running 3.3. These machines run fine standalone, ie w/o being hooked up to a net. I would like to hook these machines to my home net, which runs os/2, win95, and linux. I thought it would be neat if the station would run as the netinfo server for the net and provide passwords and such for the cube and the linux box. So without the station hooked to the net, I started SimpleNetworkStarter (SNS). It ran for awhile and rebooted the machine. During reboot, I noticed that the IP address was incorrect. After the machine came up, I started SNS again and tried to change the IP address to what I needed. SNS came back and said I couldn't do that and would have to go back to a backup copy of netinfo and reboot. During reboot, "Starting Network Services" hung up, I entered 'c' and the boot continued. It hung up for a LONG time on mounting file systems. I entered "^c" and the boot completed, but instead of a login panel, I was created with the BuildDisk utility which wanted to rebuild my external SCSI disk. I quit this and rebooted in single user mode. /etc/fstab was missing a newline, fixed that, and rebooted. The machine again hung up during the start of network services and mounting the file systems, but instead of getting the BuildDisk app, the NeXTStep installer started and wanted to continue to install the system. I again rebooted in single user mode. I replaced /etc/netinfo/local.nidb (?) with the backup that was in /etc/netinfo but that didn't work. I replaced /etc/netinfo with /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo, but that didn't work either. Running nidump in single user mode gives me the error "cannot connect to netinfo server: communication failure". Every time I try to go multi-user, I get the installer app. Oh, and I noticed on the console that inetd is complaining that none of the services (tcp, udp, etc) are available. Of course, I didn't make a copy of /etc/netinfo before I started this exercise. Does anyone have any idea on how I can get back to where I started from? Both disks look fine; they don't appear to be trashed. It is obvious that the netinfo data base is hosed, but I would like to be able to get to a point where I can go multi-user again. any hints would be great thanks and sorry for the long post; I thought the more detail, the better.
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@ncs-ssc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 can't boot anymore Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:44:19 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc.; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332EAA43.474C@ncs-ssc.com> References: <332BC2D3.4861@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haChristian Hahn wrote: > > Please help, > i got stuck in a boot problem: > I installed OpenStep 4.1 properly, i configured everything i need and i > was booting several times without any problems. > Any ideas? > Thanks in advance I have had similiar problems with installation of OS4.1. After the initial install reboot, I get a blank screen of death. If you get any e-mail answers, let me know. I am installing OS4.1 on a PPro 200, AHA2940, Diamond Stealth 64. -- ============================================================================ Kurt E. Huhner, Software Consultant MailTo:khuhner@ncs-ssc.com Nation Computer Services, Inc. http://www.ncs-ssc.com Bldg. 9110, MSAAP Voice: (601)689-8100 Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 Fax: (601)689-8130 ============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Message-ID: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:08:30 GMT I'd like to use -NXHost between two systems. But so far I can't. Part of the problem seems to be my Ip-setup. System 1: PC, Runs NEXTSTEP 3.3. Runs a BIND named. On the ethernet it has an internal domain 192.168.1.x. It runs Morningstar PPP. On the PPP link it has external IP address 194.183.97.59. System 2: NeXT turbo cube, Runs NEXTSTEP 3.3. Runs a BIND named. On the ethernet it has domain 194.183.97.84/255.255.255.248. There is a router on the ethernet. System 1 connects to system 2 with dial on demand. That is, if I start a telnet session from system 1 to system 2, my pppd log says: 3/18-16:21:52-234 tcp 194.183.97.59/4065 -> 194.183.97.85/telnet 44 syn bringup and the link gets created and telnet works. But if I try to do something with -NXHost, my log says: 3/18-16:50:39-234 udp 192.168.1.1/7657 -> 194.183.97.85/7657 156 bringup Note the difference. When telnet makes ppp initiate a connection, it says 194.183.97.59 -> 194.183.97.85. But when NXHosts makes ppp to initiate a connection it is 192.168.1.1 -> 194.183.97.85. That at least is wrong, because 194.183.97.85 won't know the way back to 192.168.1.x. So, I am desperately looking for people who know their way around this. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: Bob Kurhajetz <bob@monet.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: question : NS3.0 and an Archive Python DAT drive ?? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:37:00 -0500 Organization: USN-CDNSWC Bethesda,MD Message-ID: <332EE0CC.446B@monet.dt.navy.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, We have a cube server that is running NS 3.0 and an Archive Python 28388-xxx DAT drive - at the present time its the only external SCSI device on the bus ( its at address #4 ) - I have it terminated and the message window indicates that when I try to dump a directory tree to it I get the following; mach: st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a mach: st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a any clues? - I've used the same unit on a NS 3.3 NS slab with no problem - anything real unique about 3.0 and DAT drives? All I'm trying to do presently is backup the server so I can load 3.3 - thanks for any and all help - advice - inspired knowledge - insight Bob Kurhajetz
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: texinfo Date: 18 Mar 1997 20:39:08 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5gmuhc$f3v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Do not manage to compile texinfo-3.9 with cc 2.5.8 for OpenStep 4.0 / Intel. Could anybody send me one? Many thanks, Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703181557.KAA08113@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 1db724fa0be929efa4c7a0933d92e1c5 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 10:57:28 -0500 Subject: Re: Samba and Rumba and CAPer...Oh My! Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 1db724fa0be929efa4c7a0933d92e1c5 - Responding To: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Original Date: 17 Mar 1997 18:02:06 GMT Message-ID: 1db724fa0be929efa4c7a0933d92e1c5 - > Let's hear it for PD software and NeXT's bundling of NFS with NS, > without which none of this would have been possible. a great success story! I'll have a mini-lan (2 machines) come NeXT month and I hope to have as much luck as you did! Of course, if I don't, know I know who to ask for pointers ;-) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: cc-2.5.8 (OpenStep4.0) and gcc-2.7.2.2 Date: 18 Mar 1997 21:35:28 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5gn1r0$f3v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hello gurus, 'make CC=cc bootstrap' results in a bus error when I try and compile gcc-2.7.2.2 under OpenStep4.0 / Intel with cc-2.5.8. Any hints are most appreciated. Thanks! Thomas --- 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. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU <-- Note the "A" :) Date: 18 Mar 1997 21:36:23 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5gn1sn$nso@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> In-Reply-To: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> On 03/13/97, MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson wrote: > I found the Adaptec 2940U drivers at the NeXTansers site but found, much > to my dismay, that it doesn't support the AU. Does anyone know of a > workaround for this? > Yes, I got my machine working thanks to a useful pointer from Paul Lynch... The Adaptec2940AU is not officially supported by the current NEXTSTEP drivers: the driver information table, however, includes the "Auto Detect IDs" for the PCI devices. The ID for the AU is missing: I simply added 0x61789004 to the list and it seems to work fine. However, note that you have to follow the instructions given in NeXTAnswers for installing an updated driver, but with the Floppy driver to be loaded from the Core Drivers disk (image downloadable from ftp.next.com) rather than from the Devices directory (a difference apparently between 3.2 and 3.3). Once it boots you have to patch the driver that has been installed. I hope this gives enough for you to get going? Sorry it's not more clear on this occasion. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I can 'su' to root but I'm still me Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:14:39 -0800 Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Message-ID: <2ru3m8j19s.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> References: <199703141623.LAA08627@kira.peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: > This is really strange. I am a member of the group 'wheel' and > when I try to 'su' to root it lets me, but when I do 'whoami' it > still lists me as 'luomat': > > su - root > > Password: > charisma% whoami > luomat > charisma% touch /tmp/file > charisma% ls -l /tmp/file > -rw-r--r-- 1 luomat 0 Mar 14 11:22 /tmp/file root and luomat have the same user number, and luomat comes first when netinfo looks up that number in the "passwd" file? -- 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: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@math.enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mounting NT on NeXT? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:31:15 -0700 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970318112959.27308A-100000@beernut> References: <33278FE0.FF4@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> In-Reply-To: <33278FE0.FF4@m-w.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Amy West wrote: > I may not have phrased the subject line correctly, so please bear > with me while I describe the situation: > > We have the NeXT. We have an NT file server. The NT file server > has a DAT drive. Is there a way for me to get either machine to > recognize the other so that I can back up the NeXT on to the > NT's DAT directly? > If you're willing to purchase the NFS client drivers for NT (I believe NFS is an add-on to NT) you can export the NeXT's filesystem to the NT box and then back up the mounted filesystem to the tape. Nate - --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt "Noooooooooooooo.........." -- Luke Skywalker -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMy7feT2UcPIj3Y3tAQFknwP+I3cJXoylqoH4uuD8gVtNcMRq+IcSvPXK plTbyr9maYe70+s0157iVUBflHBjNHgoWF79MQiHmQccM8nEAOef4SRhmRuMOBjk QVM96yts5M6xXpWDvgvgxNHQidHk93/NOXNp/Nz52fe5at+20Jh2veAe/vxUYi15 5P4BOeYeo9A= =vedt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca (Bill Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help! optical drive doen't mount Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:32:12 -0500 Organization: McGill Message-ID: <bill-1803971932120001@b52-32.das.mcgill.ca> The hard disk on my NeXT Cube crashed today, the third time since I got the machine in 1991. My cd-rom copy of NeXTStep 3.1 (or 3.0, I don't remember) being lost, I initialized my drive and installed NeXTStep 3.2. I have the browser up and running again, but when I tried to restore files (e.g, network config files, etc) from an optical disk, I found that it would not mount. Is it possible that NS 3.2 does not support the optical disk drive, that I wiped out support when I initialized the disk? Does anyone have any advice on how to mount the OD? Please respond on this newsgroup, since I suddenly have no e-mail due to the crash. Thanks, Bill Anderson
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trying NXHost Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:20:10 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <332F3F48.6A02@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I'm extremely interested in trying the NXHost feature over the internet, due to lack of people running NS/OSMach... Please email if interested in a bidirectional trial. Thanks in advance! :) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:42:54 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL>, G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) wrote: > I'd like to use -NXHost between two systems. But so far I can't. Part of the > problem seems to be my Ip-setup. snip the details of setup and logs > But if I try to do something with -NXHost, my log says: > 3/18-16:50:39-234 udp 192.168.1.1/7657 -> 194.183.97.85/7657 156 bringup > Note the difference. When telnet makes ppp initiate a connection, it says > 194.183.97.59 -> 194.183.97.85. But when NXHosts makes ppp to initiate a > connection it is 192.168.1.1 -> 194.183.97.85. That at least is wrong, because > 194.183.97.85 won't know the way back to 192.168.1.x. I have had the same problem when attempting to NXHost between two machines running ppp (but not dial on demand). I asked the net for help, but got no useful information. Perhaps the fact that you are demand dialing and have a log file to capture the request will provide a clue. If you get a resolution of the question, please email me, since I will be missing about a week's worth of postings due to a trip. (Note the antispam feature on the posting address.) Thanks Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 4.1 Display Install Problems Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 02:50:25 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332FA8D1.2E4@communique.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have recently installed OS4.1 for Mach on Intel. The install procedure produces a kernel panic in "pmap_remove_all 3". If I reboot with the "config=Default" option I can run under 640x480 using monochrome. After triple checking the capabilities of my display adapter/monitor I change tehm via Config.app and reboot. After the messages scroll by I end up with a blank screen, from which there is only one exit: reset. I am using a Diamond Stealth Video 64 VRAM PCI card and MagDX17F and chose 1024x768 @70Hz RGB888/32. The display adapter is listed as supported per NeXTAnswers. Anyone able to offer suggestions? khuhner@ncs-ssc.com
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHosting info from the past (longish) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:25:34 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972325340001@news.tiac.net> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net>, jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote: > If you get a resolution of the question, please email me, since I will be > missing about a week's worth of postings due to a trip. (Note the antispam > feature on the posting address.) Well. I spoke too soon in a way. Though I never got a response to my old posting, I just found this 1995 message in my archives (wish I'd checked more carefully back then): ****** I'm gonna take a stab to see if I can help some of those who seem to be having problems using NXHost with PPP. Please do believe me, there are those (including myself) who have NXHost working. As part of my testing suite, I run a copy of PacMan NXHosted. Here is what I know: 1) The version of open that is shipped with NeXT is broken. There is a replacement version on 129.187.249.15:pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/ 2) Even with the new open, a command such as: open /LocalApps/PacMan.app -NXHost sidney will fail with a message like: open: can't open connection to Workspace on sidney. (Your milage will probably vary). 3) However, each app wrapper usually has an executable file of the same name (minus the .app extension) that resides inside the folder. What I have found is that: /LocalApps/PacMan.app/PacMan -NXHost sidney works just fine. For those of you trying to run apps NXHosted, please try using the executable file's name (inside the app wrapper) and let me know if that solves your problem. Stephen J. Perkins | perkins@cps.msu.edu ****** And I found I had a copy of this "open" replacement, which predates the NS 3.3 version. The author, Chris Limpach, says * open.h,v * Revision 1.2 1994/05/09 21:37:39 chris * fixed NXHost which was broken because of [Application new] I never installed it because that seemed a bit vague (and reading the source doesn't clarify anything), and it didn't matter at the time (or now, since I took the other machine off the net). Does anyone know if "open" is still "broken"? The General Reference for 3.3 includes the following: "An application generally registers with the Network Name Server under the name it uses for its executable file. For example, Digital Webster registers under "Webster" and Mail under "Mail". To get the port for Workspace, you should use the name NX_WORKSPACEREQUEST. Note, however, that this port isn't available until the application is fully initialized; requests for this port before Application's appDidInit: method is invoked will return PORT_NULL." (Which port are they talking about - the application or Workspace? Continuing ...) "If no port is registered for the name application, NXPortNameLookup() returns PORT_NULL. However, NXPortFromName() tries to have host's Workspace Manager launch the application. If the application can be launched and if it registers with the Network Name Server, send rights to its port are returned. This strategy is almost always successful for the local host. It's more problematic for a remote host, since the Workspace Manager is normally protected from messages coming from other machines." (And there are also timeouts such as NXNetTimeout, set to 60 seconds, plus another set to 30 seconds whose reference I have lost. Not quite enought to bring up PPP, restart the routing functions, and launch a remote app on a slower machine.) As for point 2 and 3 of Steve's post, that seems adequately explained by the first two lines of the quote. So perhaps we need a test of open in 3.3 and 4.X, followed by some timeout experiments. I can provide the old source file (when I get back), if it is still needed and has also vanished from the referenced site and archives. Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:19:36 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> In-Reply-To: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Mar-97 Re: Help! How do I solve th.. by James B. Frazer@frazer.c > I have had the same problem when attempting to NXHost between two machines > running ppp (but not dial on demand). I asked the net for help, but got no > useful information. Perhaps the fact that you are demand dialing and have a > log file to capture the request will provide a clue. Did you send nmserver a 'kill -USR2' signal in order to reinitialize it's awareness of the available network interfaces whenever your ppp connection is brought up? Take a look at the end of /etc/rc.net.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703181554.KAA08067@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 494ce54944f26f6a5ce13cc7f0a81bba - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 10:53:55 -0500 Subject: Re: DialIP,PPP, bad serial port? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 494ce54944f26f6a5ce13cc7f0a81bba - Responding To: Tommy Hwang <me@mysolution.com> Original Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 05:15:14 -0500 Message-ID: 494ce54944f26f6a5ce13cc7f0a81bba - > I am using a Macintosh Serial cable try getting a proper NeXT modem cable from Deepspacetech and see if it works better TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <9703181725.AA00767@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) j%q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!N PGO6e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 09:25:46 -0800 Subject: CD-ROM questions Cc: chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com The problem is that sometimes NEXTSTEP thinks it's a PC disc and sometimes it thinks it's a Mac disc. Here's a way to force it to see it only in Mac format... in usr/filesystems (logged in as root) rename the DOS.fs (DOS filesystem) folder to DOS.fsDisabled. Now NEXTSTEP can no longer read DOS formated cdrom's. This usually will solve your problem. Don't forget to rename your folder onces your done. Eric "E.T." Tremblay ericet@cam.org
From: svenifer@snet.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nmserver (netmsgserver) console messages? Date: 19 Mar 1997 07:02:49 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5go32p$nkh@goofy.snet.net> Hello all, After terminating a dial-up connection with a provider, I notice the following messages in Console. Mar 19 01:55:58 flupster netmsgserver[22]: srr_process_queued_request.srr_send_packet fails: 51 Mar 19 01:56:00 flupster netmsgserver[22]: srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 Mar 19 01:56:04 flupster netmsgserver[22]: srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 Documentation of nmserver is scarce and nothing could be found on netmsgserver. Thanks Sven
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can I get 2 NS partitions rather than 4? Date: 19 Mar 1997 17:29:26 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5gp7pm$32m$1@jeeves2.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: partition, hard drive Hi, I have a new Intel system running NEXTSTEP. The drive is not partitioned the way I want and I was wondering if someone could tell me how to repartition it. I have a 4.3-GB SCSI hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 15150N). I would like to have a dual-boot system, with NEXTSTEP 3.3 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I would like to have something like one DOS partition of size 700-MB and two NEXTSTEP partitions of sizes 2000-MB and 1600-MB. I realize there is a 2-GB limit on NEXTSTEP partitions. The NEXTSTEP shop that I bought it from said they could not figure out how to do this and they sent it to me with one 700-MB DOS partition and *four* 900-MB NEXTSTEP partitions. Basically, I'd like to have one NEXTSTEP partition as large as possible for my user files and the remaining space used for the NEXTSTEP system and for /LocalApps. I have not put anything on the disk yet, so this is a good time to start from scratch (if necessary) and repartition the drive the way I want. The only problem is that I don't know how to do it. It sure seems like there must be a way. Could some kind soul please help me with this? Please email me if you have a solution. Thanks, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:08:29 -0800 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gpa2t$298@mpaque.mpaque> References: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> In article <332E111D.4183@communique.net> "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> writes: > I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) > motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All > drives are on the A2940 chain. > > All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the > suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the > "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it > appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. > No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. > > The ONLY way I have found is to specify "config=Default" at the > boot: prompt It sounds like there may be an overlap between the memory address of the framebuffer and main memory. I'd bet that your machine has 64 Mbytes of memory installed, and the Diamond Stealth card has it's default memory window address set to something less than 64 Mbytes. Boot with config=Default. Launch /NextAdmin/Configure.app, and click on the Display button. On the panel that appears for the Diamond Stealth 64, find the Memory Address field. Click the up/down buttons to raise the address past the end of main memory. Save, making sure that Configure.app reports no conflicts. Reboot, and keep your fingers crossed. -- I don't speak for my employer, whoever it is, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@next.com Official business only NeXT Mail OK mpaque@wco.com Non-business or personal mail NeXT mail OK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: help! optical drive doesn't mount Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E7Ansn.J0E@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:19:34 GMT References: <bill-1803971902070001@b52-32.das.mcgill.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <bill-1803971902070001@b52-32.das.mcgill.ca>, Bill Anderson <bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca> wrote: > >Is it possible that NS 3.2 does not support the optical disk drive, that I >wiped out support when I initialized the disk? Does anyone have any advice >on how to mount the OD? > Unfortunately for you, 3.2 handles the optical drive just fine, and I can't think of any way that you could have trashed OD support. Can you mount it manually, doing something like # mount -o ro /dev/od0a /mnt as root? Failing that, perhaps your optical drive took this opportunity to die. -- 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: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 19 Mar 1997 17:59:06 GMT Organization: Napa Valley College Message-ID: <5gp9ha$l7d@wiley.napanet.net> It seems that OPENSTEP 4.1 does *not* like to be a NetInfo server. Ever since I've started trying to make my Pentium Pro 200 into one, it's been giving me tons of Kernel Traps. I disabled Power Management as someone suggested, but it hasn't helped much. I'm still seeing this thing crash a lot. I'm also having problems with doing lookups on one particular hostname here. I ran telnet through gdb, and this is what happened: ---------- Hacking on nvcc: gdb /usr/ucb/telnet GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.14 (NEXTSTEP 4.0 --target i386), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /usr/ucb/telnet...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) set args homnibus (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/ucb/telnet homnibus Dynamic Linkeditor at 0x12000000 offset 0x0 Executable at 0x2000 offset 0x0 /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System at 0x5000000 offset 0x0 Reading symbols from loaded file...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Program generated(1): Memory access exception on address 0x0 (protection failure). 0x50034cb in memmove () ---------- Is there any fix for OPENSTEP 4.1 that will stabilize it? I need to use this for the server! I'm trying to upgrade from an old 25mhz NeXT cube. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Workspace Error 38001? (and info?) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:58:40 -0600 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-1903971358400001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> Hello, I've just started getting errors when Workspace starts up after logging in. It says that an Internal Error 38001 has occurred, and asks if I want to continue. If I continue, everything *seems* fine. I'm just wondering what this is? I *don't* want to reboot, there have been several other problems that I think I've solved, and the only way I can tell if they're fixed is to get quite a bit of uptime. Sooo... if the error is a *bad* thing, I'll do what's necessary to fix it. Otherwise, I'll just ignore it for awhile. Email appreciated, Thanks, John Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: OS 4.1 Display Install Problems Message-ID: <E7AHuA.2yA@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <332FA8D1.2E4@communique.net> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:10:58 GMT In article <332FA8D1.2E4@communique.net> "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> writes: > I have recently installed OS4.1 for Mach on Intel. The > install procedure produces a kernel panic in "pmap_remove_all 3". > If I reboot with the "config=Default" option I can run under 640x480 > using monochrome. > > After triple checking the capabilities of my display adapter/monitor > I change tehm via Config.app and reboot. After the messages scroll > by I end up with a blank screen, from which there is only one > exit: reset. > > I am using a Diamond Stealth Video 64 VRAM PCI card and MagDX17F > and chose 1024x768 @70Hz RGB888/32. The display adapter is listed as > supported per NeXTAnswers. > > Anyone able to offer suggestions? > This is a "normal" problem. Your machine has more than 16MB of memory. You have to correct the address of the "mapped video memory" in Configure. set a higher value. If you have 64 MB replace the 0x1... with 0x4... -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 20 Mar 1997 00:42:37 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5gq15t$5qs@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199703160040.TAA19315@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Bcc: aris@next.com : the maps (passwd.adjunct.byname for the encrypted passwords, and : passwd.byname for the rest of the /etc/passwd information) into : NetInfo, but it would be easy enough for people to use nidump or : getpwent() to read them, rendering vain our efforts at shadowing. You could always recompile any binaries that use getpwnam() for authentication to use getspnam(). The only problem is that loginwindow isn't replacable with freely available software, although in Preferences.app you'll notice the provision for a plugin authenticator for loginwindow. It would be good if Rhapsody supported a pluggable authentication module interface, a la Solaris et Linux (which could be implemented quite elegantly using Objective C). Authenticator delegates could then be written for Kerberos, shadow passwords, one time passwords, SKey, etc... -- Luke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@PEAK.ORG> Message-ID: <199703192134.QAA03852@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@PEAK.ORG> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 16:34:22 -0500 Subject: Re: Controlling growth of swapfiles? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - Responding To: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Original Date: 18 Mar 1997 05:44:24 GMT Message-ID: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - > Is there a preferred way to limit the growth of swapfiles, to keep > them trim enough to not cause the disk to thrash about after a > couple months in action? There is no way to prevent it from happening altogether. By using lots o'RAM. fast processor, and a swapdisk you can minimize the impact, but eventually you'll have to reboot to claim the lost space. There is no way to keep an apps from gobbling up all the swap it wants (well, except for running out of diskspace, which is a bad alternative :-) TjL, author of the SwapDisk and SwapFile FAQ which can be found at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: haze@sailfish.exis.net (Jason Jenkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP: getting sendmail to send Date: 19 Mar 1997 22:08:47 GMT Organization: Exis Net Inc Message-ID: <5gpo5f$p3h@grouper.exis.net> I'm still strugling to get my new NeXTStation up and running as I'd like it. I am using GateKeeper and ppp2.2 to connect. It's working fine and I got OmniWeb to work, so I know the connection is good. I'd like to use Mail.app to do do email. I'm using PopOver to get the mail from my ISP, and recieving works fine. So here's the problem: I followed the help file in PopOver about setting up to send and modified sendmail.cf to include the ISP mail server. When I tell Mail.app to deliver the mail, the send data light on the modem flashes, so I know something is happening. The mail that I send though never get delivered. (ie, if I send something to myself, I never get it back.) Does anyone have any ideas/pointers. BTW I'm using NS3.3 and the included sendmail. Do I have to use a newer version of sendmail? Thanks, Jason
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 19 Mar 1997 21:50:34 GMT Organization: Napa Valley College Message-ID: <5gpn3a$6o3@news.zocalo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It seems that OPENSTEP 4.1 does *not* like to be a NetInfo server. Ever since I've started trying to make my Pentium Pro 200 into one, it's been giving me tons of Kernel Traps. I disabled Power Management as someone suggested, but it hasn't helped much. I'm still seeing this thing crash a lot. I'm also having problems with doing lookups on one particular hostname here. I ran telnet through gdb, and this is what happened: ---------- Hacking on nvcc: gdb /usr/ucb/telnet GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.14 (NEXTSTEP 4.0 --target i386), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /usr/ucb/telnet...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) set args homnibus (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/ucb/telnet homnibus Dynamic Linkeditor at 0x12000000 offset 0x0 Executable at 0x2000 offset 0x0 /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System at 0x5000000 offset 0x0 Reading symbols from loaded file...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Program generated(1): Memory access exception on address 0x0 (protection failure). 0x50034cb in memmove () ---------- Is there any fix for OPENSTEP 4.1 that will stabilize it? I need to use this for the server! I'm trying to upgrade from an old 25mhz NeXT cube. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: mchahny@optlab25.opt.uh.edu (Mirko Chahny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need HELP with Group Assignment Date: 19 Mar 1997 23:04:35 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <5gpre3$v8i@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Hello and thanks for reading! How do I create Groups (and Users) for the Mail.app Addresses panel? I spent about two hours trying to find out info in the literature and only found the explanation for creating groups for the purpose of creating Private Users and Private Groups. The documentation talks that the administrator (and that is me trying to learn the ropes quickly) can set Groups and Users up. It was my understanding (and hope) that if I create user groups when I create a user account and assign it into a group, that it would also show up under the general User and Groups category. All the users DO get listed by their Login Names, though. Can you please enlighten me as to how to create these Groups and Users so that our students can work more productively? Thanks for your time. Mirko Chahny University of Houston College of Optometry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: samba on OS4.0 and NT4.0 Message-ID: <1997Mar18.165846.47422@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 18 Mar 97 16:58:46 MET I'm trying to configure samba on an OPENSTEP4.0 for mach running on both a Cube and Intel box. I'm quite sure the the configuration isn't quite correct, but what is correct? The Intel machine is to export two directories, while the cube exports several directories and also all printers (from a printcap which was dumped). The Intel machine has the internet name 'lucy' but should appear as IFI2_LUCY in the NT domain -- how do I set that? I've managed to set the domain name to IFI2 from the default WORKGROUP, but I can't see anything in the NT browser! I can mount the directories if I enter the full internet domain and name (lucy.ifi.unibas.ch), but then I get more than two directories! The man page is of no use for me at this stage of configuration. I had hoped that things would 'just work', but no, they don't (having to dump printcap is already a nuisance, having to use names shorter than 8 characters with all lowercase and no non-ascii is even worse ...). Any pointers to some usefull help on configuring the samba servers? Thanks, Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 22:26:39 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001903972226390001@news.tiac.net> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Did you send nmserver a 'kill -USR2' signal in order to reinitialize > it's awareness of the available network interfaces whenever your ppp > connection is brought up? Since you're responding to my post, I'll answer. Yes, of course I did. But his point, and it's a resonable concern, is that he can telnet out and bring the link up, but he can't use "open -NXHost" and get the same result. Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu Organization: Disorganization References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:33:41 GMT In <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > However, computer technology and encryption software (in the form of the > UFC algorithm-- "Ultra Fast Crypt()") have improved to the point where a > heuristic attack on the encrypted passwords is feasible if poor > passwords were chosen. It is quite common that many users choose poor passwords. That's the danger of world readable passwd files ! Several years ago I used a NeXT cube to crack a passwd file with about 2000 entries and I was successful at more than 50% of all passwords (after about 24 hours runtime). With todays technology, these numbers will be much better. The only solution to this is shadow password files.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703192137.QAA03893@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 1a07c5dfd7c4ae532aa4a89d1abe19ce - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 16:37:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [Help] MEdai errors Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 1a07c5dfd7c4ae532aa4a89d1abe19ce - Responding To: Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> Original Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:01:09 +1000 Message-ID: 1a07c5dfd7c4ae532aa4a89d1abe19ce - > Is there any way of marking the failing blocks as unusable? Checkout 'man reasb' but I can't tell you more than that, because I've only used it once and someone walked me through it (I can probably find the old message if you want). TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703192159.QAA04091@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 5cd1b6544d771b59bc344a366caa43cd - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 16:59:01 -0500 Subject: Re: I can 'su' to root but I'm still me Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 5cd1b6544d771b59bc344a366caa43cd - Responding To: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Original Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:14:39 -0800 Message-ID: 5cd1b6544d771b59bc344a366caa43cd - > root and luomat have the same user number, and luomat comes first > when netinfo looks up that number in the "passwd" file? Here's a good one: login shell was owned and SETUID to 'luomat' TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: publicist@meetmeonline.com (MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU <-- Note the "A" :) Date: 20 Mar 1997 00:31:00 GMT Organization: MeetMeOnline <a zerologic company> Message-ID: <publicist-1903971833560001@thebook.on-demand.com> References: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> <5gn1sn$nso@bignews.shef.ac.uk> url: http://www.meetmeonline.com/ In article <5gn1sn$nso@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> wrote: > On 03/13/97, MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson wrote: > > I found the Adaptec 2940U drivers at the NeXTansers site but found, much > > to my dismay, that it doesn't support the AU. Does anyone know of a > > workaround for this? > > > Yes, I got my machine working thanks to a useful pointer from Paul Lynch... > > The Adaptec2940AU is not officially supported by the current NEXTSTEP > drivers: the driver information table, however, includes the "Auto Detect > IDs" for the PCI devices. The ID for the AU is missing: I simply added > 0x61789004 > to the list and it seems to work fine. I recieved a similar response too.... thanks to everyone who helped! Michael. -- Meet a friend, Meet a lover, Meet another... MeetMe at http://www.meetmeonline.com/
From: bisk@4dcomm.com (Stephen D. Biskis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Wide SCSI Controller w/disk cache Date: 20 Mar 1997 03:00:13 GMT Organization: 4D Global Internet Services Message-ID: <5gq97t$oq4@news.4dcomm.com> Does anybody have any especially good or bad experiences with any particular disk caching wide SCSI controller. I'm in the market for one to use with NS3.3. Thanks in advance. da bisk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 07:02:54 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom18.netcom.com In article <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org>, Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM> wrote: >It is quite common that many users choose poor passwords. That's the danger >of world readable passwd files ! Several years ago I used a NeXT cube to >crack a passwd file with about 2000 entries and I was successful at more than >50% of all passwords (after about 24 hours runtime). With todays technology, >these numbers will be much better. > >The only solution to this is shadow password files. I'll step out on a limb here. Shadow passwords are only a bandaid to make shallow thinking sysadmins believe that their system is "secure." Various exploitable bugs are found every day on Unix systems, especially NeXT with a relatively old implementation of basic Unix services. Many of the bugs can give a local or network user root access. root can read /etc/passwd.adjunct, regardless of permissions "protecting" it. The file, with passwords intact, can be spirited off to some fast DES crunching machine. What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch that, ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the moment how the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against semi-theoretical differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a number of newer encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could be used as drop in replacements for DES. Does it really matter that much that your /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? -Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Booting NeXTstation without a monitor? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:22:25 -0500 Organization: Dartmouth College Message-ID: <Jim.Matthews-1803971122250001@test-bp-241.dartmouth.edu> We recently upgraded a NeXTstation to OpenStep Mach 4.1, and it seems to work fine with a monitor attached. But it crashes on boot when the monitor isn't there (and that's the way we would like to use it). We've had good luck running NeXTSTEP 2.x on headless machines, and were wondering whether there's a configuration change that would make 4.1 work. In particular, we're suspicious of the audio kernel server, and wonder if it could be disabled. Here's the startup log: booting SCSI target 0, lun 0 blk0 boot: sd()sdmach Booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0 NeXT ROM Monitor 2.0 v58 NeXT Mach 4.1: Thu Sep 26 22:54:37 PDT 1996; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.27.obj~2/RELEASE_M68K FPU version 0x40 physical memory = 32.00 megabytes. available memory = 29.12 megabytes. using 204 buffers containing 1.59 megabytes of memory fc0 at 0x2114100 Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0 SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000 DEC DSP3107LS Rev X441 as sd0 at sc0 target 0 lun 0 Disk Label: Disk Disk Capacity 1021MB, Device Block 512 bytes Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 en0 at 0x2106000 en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:65:fe IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" dsp0 at 0x2108000 np0 at 0x200f000 sound0 at 0x200e000 root on sd0 Mon Mar 17 14:09:38 EST 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Setting up root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to ernestine Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmap routedMar 17 14:09:59 ernestine netinfod[101]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb Mar 17 14:09:59 ernestine netinfod[101]: NetInfo database local.nidb OK netinfo lookupd ntpd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:Mar 17 14:10:10 ernestine autonfsmount[124]: Can't get my (ernestine) address . Starting network daemons: inetd sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Mar 17 14:10:19 ernestine reboot: Reboot complete audio kernel server initialized unexpected kernel page fault failure trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0xb006f78 trap: pc 0x408a3e0 sp 0x3ffe854 sr 0x2300 trap: cpu 0 th 0x10013a80 proc 0x10013400 pid 0 pcb 0x10013c80 traceback: fp 0x4001250 called from pc 0x0408b19c fp 0x04001264 4-args 00000000 00000003 00000000 04001290 called from pc 0x0406a5a4 fp 0x04001290 4-args 1004bf20 00640064 00000001 040da046 called from pc 0x0406a69e fp 0x040012a4 4-args 00000003 00000000 00000000 040012b0 called from pc 0x0406a058 fp 0x040012b0 4-args 00000001 040012c4 04067e86 040da046 called from pc 0x04067e86 fp 0x040012c4 4-args 040da046 04067d10 040c95c4 040012f4 called from pc 0x04094388 fp 0x040012f4 4-args 00000000 00000000 040b609c 00000000 called from pc 0x0408a55c fp 0x04001304 4-args 00000002 11847f78 11847fb0 04001c6e called from pc 0x04001c6e fp 0x11847fb0 4-args 00000000 04051134 00002004 41f90400 called from pc 0x03ffe854 fp 0x11847fe8 4-args 20040405 1134006c 00000000 00000000 called from pc 0x04050a06 fp 0x11847ff4 4-args 040509de 11848000 04001b30 10023d80 unexpected kernel page fault failure trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0x11848008 trap: pc 0x409a4cc sp 0x3ffe854 sr 0x2709 trap: cpu 0 th 0x10013a80 proc 0x10013400 pid 0 pcb 0x10013c80 traceback: recursive call! panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk NeXT ROM Monitor 2.0 v58 panic: NeXT Mach 4.1: Thu Sep 26 22:54:37 PDT 1996; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.27.obj~2/RELEASE_M68K Thanks. -- Jim Matthews Dartmouth Software Development <http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/>
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tftpboot directory? Date: 20 Mar 1997 08:00:21 -0500 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5grcd5$nes@papoose.quick.com> References: <332A535C.1B95@m-w.com> In article <332A535C.1B95@m-w.com>, Amy West <awest@m-w.com> wrote: >The NeXT I'm working on was set-up originally by someone else. >Why is there a /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot directory that >has subdirectories that duplicate the entire drive structure? The system was configured either as a boot server or install server. If you no longer need that functionality you may safely remove it. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: ablasco@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEWBIE QUESTION Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:52:20 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <33314113.26C0@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am a newcomer at the UNIX/NeXTSTEP world, so sorry for this question, I guess all of you know the answer. I have a PC running WIN95 and a Nextstation. I would like to make a network of the two computers but doesn't know how. I will apprecite your suggestions a lot! Thanks in advance Amando Blasco
From: hhoff@ultra.media-group.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Wide SCSI Controller w/disk cache Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Date: 20 Mar 1997 14:34:45 GMT Organization: media group Message-ID: <5grhu5$cs7$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5gq97t$oq4@news.4dcomm.com> Stephen D. Biskis (bisk@4dcomm.com) wrote: >Does anybody have any especially good or bad experiences with any particular >disk caching wide SCSI controller. I'm in the market for one to use with >NS3.3. DPT. They rule. Stable and fast as hell. 4 MB cache makes your system run; 16 MB or more (up to 64 possible) make you effectively forget about your hard disk, no matter how slow it is. Holger
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Controlling growth of swapfiles? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:39:28 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snAIkUa00iV_A21HEj@andrew.cmu.edu> References: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - <199703192134.QAA03852@kira.peak.org> In-Reply-To: <199703192134.QAA03852@kira.peak.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Mar-97 Re: Controlling growth of s.. by "Timothy J. Luoma"@PEAK. >> Is there a preferred way to limit the growth of swapfiles, to keep >> them trim enough to not cause the disk to thrash about after a >> couple months in action? > > There is no way to prevent it from happening altogether. Sort of. It should be that killing a process will free up all of it's associated pages so that you can reuse them for new processes. There may be an infrequent bug in this process that casues pages to be forgotten about occaisionally, however. > There is no way to keep an apps from gobbling up all the swap it > wants (well, except for running out of diskspace, which is a bad > alternative :-) There is a way to control the memory utilization of processes. From a shell: " limit limit resource limit resource maximum-use limit -h limit -h resource limit -h resource maximum-use Limits the consumption by the current process and each process it creates to not individually exceed maximum- use on the specified resource. If no maximum-use is given, then the current limit is printed; if no resource is given, then all limitations are given. If the -h flag is given, the hard limits are used instead of the current limits. The hard limits impose a ceil- ing on the values of the current limits. Only the super-user may raise the hard limits, but a user may lower or raise the current limits within the legal range. Resources controllable currently include cputime (the maximum number of cpu-seconds to be used by each pro- cess), filesize (the largest single file which can be created), datasize (the maximum growth of the data+stack region via sbrk(2) beyond the end of the program text), stacksize (the maximum size of the automatically-extended stack region), and coredumpsize (the size of the largest core dump that will be created). The maximum-use may be given as a (floating point or integer) number followed by a scale factor. For all limits other than cputime the default scale is `k' or `kilobytes' (1024 bytes); a scale factor of `m' or `megabytes' may also be used. For cputime the default scaling is `seconds', while `m' for minutes or `h' for hours, or a time of the form `mm:ss' giving minutes and seconds may be used. For both resource names and scale factors, unambiguous prefixes of the names suffice." Or take a look at setrlimit().... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:05:35 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snAJ8zK00iV_021LNH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001903972226390001@news.tiac.net> In-Reply-To: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001903972226390001@news.tiac.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Mar-97 Re: Help! How do I solve th.. by James B. Frazer@frazer.c >> Did you send nmserver a 'kill -USR2' signal in order to reinitialize >> it's awareness of the available network interfaces whenever your ppp >> connection is brought up? > > Since you're responding to my post, I'll answer. Sigh. It's pretty simple, James-- it bugs me when people send me email with a return-address that's invalid. So I ask such people, politely, to not send me email so that I don't have to deal with bounces which occur due to the invalid address. That annoyance isn't present when I respond to an Usenet article. > Yes, of course I did. Well, good for you. I trust you'll agree that zapping the nmserver is one of the important things that people forget to do, and having NXHost fail to work is one of the indications? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:59:27 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cnAJ3Dq00iV_021KtE@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 20-Mar-97 Re: nidump a security probl.. by Chris Douty@netcom.com > What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch that, > ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the moment how > the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against semi-theoretical > differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a number of newer > encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could be used as drop in > replacements for DES. Does it really matter that much that your > /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? No, it wouldn't matter at all. The problem is that the US government forbids the export of stronger encryption systems that what is currently being used, under authority of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which defines cryptographic devices, including software, as munitions. So much for the First Amendment, but that's a discussion that probably belongs on other newsgroups.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:50:13 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cnAIuZW00iV_A21KNB@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> In-Reply-To: <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Mar-97 Re: nidump a security probl.. by Thomas Funke@gamelan.shn >> However, computer technology and encryption software (in the form of the >> UFC algorithm-- "Ultra Fast Crypt()") have improved to the point where a >> heuristic attack on the encrypted passwords is feasible if poor >> passwords were chosen. > > It is quite common that many users choose poor passwords. True. But there are improved passwd implementations that will reject inadequate passwords which people can install if they want to correct the problem. > The only solution to this is shadow password files. There are lots of other solutions. They include one-time (non-reusable) passwords, challenge-response systems, using dedicated (ie, secure) connections that outsiders presumably could not get access to instead of putting a modem on Ma Bell's global telephone network that anyone could dial into, etc. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! with #9Imagine128 Series 2 Date: 20 Mar 1997 16:09:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5grnfi$759@news.acns.nwu.edu> HELP! I have a Micron Pentium Pro system with 64 Mb of RAM. The system came with the #9Imagine128 Series 2 (Rev 2) , 4Mb video board. I downloaded & installed 2488_Number9Imagine128S2DisplayDriver.pkg.compressed from NeXTanswers (Version 3.30). The problem I'm having is that it just plain don't work!!!!! When I boot using this driver the monitor doesn't sync and I don't get a thing on the Monitor. I've tried another video board (#9GXE64Pro, which uses the S3 chipset) and it works fine. If I use the #9Imagine128 Series 2 board while booting into Win95 everything works great, confirming that the board works. What troubles me is that in Configure.app in the expert settings there is no entry for Memory Maps, I/O Ports, IRQ Levels. Could this have anything to do wiith the symptoms I'm seeing? Can anyone tell me how they have their expert settings configured using a #9Imagine128 Series 2 board? Does anyone have any suggestions how I can get this board to work. Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How do we change TELNET default Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:20:40 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5grv5o$i9i$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5gpq86$uit@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> mchahny@optlab25.opt.uh.edu (Mirko Chahny) wrote: >Hello and thanks for reading! I am new to the world of administration and >I have two questions pertaining to the use of telnet with Terminal.app. > >When a user uses Terminal.app and issues command telnet >machine.domain.name, the system automatically fills in the user name from >their NeXT account and skips to the Password: > >However some of our users have been given different user names on other >machines on campus. This means that they will have to try to login two >times since there is no way to go back into the user field and retype. > >Can you please give any suggestions on how to change this default? If I understand your problem correctly, all the user needs to do is hit return at the first telnet password prompt. The message "Login incorrect" will appear and the user will then be prompted for a new login name and password. > >Second question: > >Is there a way for the non-programmer users to create a simple file that >will automatically log them on to another machine? (i.e. Terminal.app >startup file of some sort) I looked at the documentation for Terminal.app >and found a lot of "over-the-head" info on writing scripts--is there an >easy way to do this? Look into using rlogin instead of telnet. It has some of the features you are looking for built in. --Ryan
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GateKeeper DialUp fails Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:08:50 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5grufi$5u9$1@lynet.de> Hallo, I've just installed ppp2.2 (successfull, I suppose) and GateKeeper2.1 Beta 7. When I now choose "dial" from the GateKeeper-menu, I get the following message: Device cudfa is locked by pid 286 What do I have to do to fix that? I would really appreciate to get a hint. Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 20 Mar 1997 14:10:55 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> I've been following the discussion of nidump being used to capture passwords, and I thought I'd bring up what I see as a much bigger security problem in Netinfo: It doesn't use secure RPC! Think about that for a moment, people. You can packet-sniff the traffic between Netinfo hosts and their servers. Not good. -jcr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Arno Bosse <abosse@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: HELP! with #9Imagine128 Series 2 (Joe Blow) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3331C058.54EA@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Univ. of Chicago References: <5grnfi$759@news.acns.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:55:25 GMT Whoops. My apologies. Dummy settings in Netscape (Joe Blow etc.) were still in place. Arno
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joe Blow <joe@site.com> Subject: Re: HELP! with #9Imagine128 Series 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3331BFF5.50BB@site.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: joe's place References: <5grnfi$759@news.acns.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:53:47 GMT > What troubles me is that in Configure.app in the expert settings there is no entry for Memory Maps, I/O Ports, IRQ Levels. > Could this have anything to do wiith the symptoms I'm seeing? That doesn't matter - it doesn't, as far as I know, apply to PnP PCI cards. > Can anyone tell me how they have their expert settings configured using a #9Imagine128 Series 2 board? > Does anyone have any suggestions how I can get this board to work. Again, you don't need to worry about this. Based on my own experience however, I would make sure that you match the pre-set sync/resolution of your monitor with the settings in Configure.app. i.e. only select modes in Configure that are already preset for your monitor. But I may be wrong here. One other difficulty I had, which was just a stupid error on my part, was having both the beep and the SB16 drivers installed. This messed things up in various ways, incl. the display. Hope this helps. I am using the driver & card on a Dell PPro w/o any problems now (NS 3.3). good luck, arno
From: ablasco@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting NeXTSTEP to Window 95 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:41:26 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <3327BDB6.BE7@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anybody knows if it's very difficult to connect a nextstation to a Pentirum running windows 95? I need to connect them via Ethernet but I don't know how. Any information will be appreciated! Thanks in advance Amando Blasco
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 02:22:12 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5gsrck$4to@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Chris Douty (cdouty@netcom.com) wrote: : What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch that, : ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the moment how : the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against semi-theoretical : differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a number of newer : encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could be used as drop in : replacements for DES. Does it really matter that much that your : /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? It does matter if you want to share the password file via NIS, NetInfo, or rdist. Of course, whether that's a good approach to distributed authentication is another question. There's no reason why someone couldn't write an MD5 drop-in authentication module, at least under Solaris and Linux (using PAM). In fact, I believe it might be being done. -- Luke
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost root password on Intel Date: 20 Mar 1997 20:39:38 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> I have fixed this successfully on Moto hardware, but not on Intel, though I can't see why there would be a difference. What I usually do to regain control over the root account when I have lost the passwd is to 1. Boot in single user mode. 2. Change the root password by doing the following: # passwd root New password: ******* Retype new password: ******* # This doesn't work on my Intel box. What happens is when I boot into multiuser mode and try to log in to the machine as root with the new password, the login window shakes and of course I can't get in. I can of course blow away the NetInfo database, but I'd rather not for certain reasons. What's the deal? Thanks for any help you can muster. .................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:53:16 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> In article <jcr.858895736@idiom.com>, jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >I've been following the discussion of nidump being used to capture >passwords, and I thought I'd bring up what I see as a much bigger >security problem in Netinfo: It doesn't use secure RPC! > >Think about that for a moment, people. You can packet-sniff >the traffic between Netinfo hosts and their servers. Not good. > Packet-sniffing, spoofing, the whole ball 'o wax. And, of course, NeXT's implementation of NIS is no better (arguably, worse). At least, if you install Wietse Venema's Portmapper, you can make spoofing attacks on your RPC daemons a little harder. As to packet sniffing, one could argue that if soemone is sniffing on the network, he can just steal the passwords directly. The way to combat this is to use a One-Time Password system like S/Key. That totally bypasses whatever weakenesses there are in Netinfo and NIS, as the S/Key keys are not shared between machines. However, you can (safely) use the same secret passphrase for each. Jacques Distler
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 20 Mar 1997 22:59:48 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: >In article <jcr.858895736@idiom.com>, jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >>I've been following the discussion of nidump being used to capture >>passwords, and I thought I'd bring up what I see as a much bigger >>security problem in Netinfo: It doesn't use secure RPC! >> >>Think about that for a moment, people. You can packet-sniff >>the traffic between Netinfo hosts and their servers. Not good. >> >Packet-sniffing, spoofing, the whole ball 'o wax. >And, of course, NeXT's implementation of NIS is no better (arguably, worse). >At least, if you install Wietse Venema's Portmapper, you can make spoofing >attacks on your RPC daemons a little harder. >As to packet sniffing, one could argue that if soemone is sniffing on the >network, he can just steal the passwords directly. >The way to combat this is to use a One-Time Password system like S/Key. >That totally bypasses whatever weakenesses there are in Netinfo and NIS, >as the S/Key keys are not shared between machines. However, you can >(safely) use the same secret passphrase for each. That deals with logins, but not with the normal inter-server traffic that goes between netinfo domains. I guess we could solve a lot of this if SWAN was part of the NEXTSTEP distribution. Anyone ported IPSEC from Linux to FreeBSD yet? -jcr
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost root password on Intel Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:36:23 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320213228.11106J-100000@kira> References: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> > I have fixed this successfully on Moto hardware, but not on Intel, though > I can't see why there would be a difference. there should not be one. > What I usually do to regain control over the root account when I have lost > the passwd is to > 1. Boot in single user mode. > 2. Change the root password by doing the following: > > # passwd root > New password: ******* > Retype new password: ******* > # I would think you would have used 'nu -m' to update the NetInfo entry, rather than 'passwd' which would only update the /etc/passwd file. Did you start NetInfo when you logged into single user mode? sh /etc/rc & Let me know if it doesn't work TjL ps -- you may have to reboot to get it to recognize the new password, or restart the NetInfo daemons by hand with 'kill' -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace Error 38001? (and info?) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:13:02 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320211022.11106G-100000@kira> References: <jray-1903971358400001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Ray <jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <jray-1903971358400001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, John Ray wrote: > I've just started getting errors when Workspace starts up after logging > in. It says that an Internal Error 38001 has occurred, and asks if I want > to continue. If I continue, everything *seems* fine. > > I'm just wondering what this is? > > I *don't* want to reboot, there have been several other problems that I think > I've solved, and the only way I can tell if they're fixed is to get quite a > bit of uptime. > > Sooo... if the error is a *bad* thing, I'll do what's necessary to fix > it. Otherwise, I'll just ignore it for awhile. I've gotten this error on more than one occasion, never figured out why. I've come to expect that if it works for a few minutes after it appears and I say 'continue' then it'll be OK a few times it will panic, and sometimes it will just keep coming back until I select 'logout' YMMV TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How do we change TELNET default Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:23:24 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320211547.11106H-100000@kira> References: <5gpq86$uit@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: mirko@uh.edu In-Reply-To: <5gpq86$uit@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> > When a user uses Terminal.app and issues command telnet > machine.domain.name, the system automatically fills in the user name from > their NeXT account and skips to the Password: > Can you please give any suggestions on how to change this default? use the (undocumented) "-l" flag to change the username /usr/ucb/telnet remotehost -l remotename (you will be prompted for just a password, but for the account 'remotename') > Is there a way for the non-programmer users to create a simple file that > will automatically log them on to another machine? (i.e. Terminal.app > startup file of some sort) I looked at the documentation for Terminal.app > and found a lot of "over-the-head" info on writing scripts--is there an > easy way to do this? There's really only one way, and that's rlogin and using .rhosts files, which have security issues. However, if you want to use them: Assume we have 'user1' on host 'MyCube' who is known as 'usera' on 'HostTwo' on "MyCube" make a file ~user1/.rhosts with these contents: HostTwo usera On HostTwo make a file ~usera/.rhosts with these contents: MyCube user1 make the files chmod 600 (-rw-------) so no one else can read/edit them. Have them use 'rlogin MyCube' from "HostTwo" and 'rlogin HostTwo' from 'MyCube' If you need more help with this, let me know TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need HELP with Group Assignment Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:26:27 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320212500.11106I-100000@kira> References: <5gpre3$v8i@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mirko Chahny <mchahny@optlab25.opt.uh.edu> In-Reply-To: <5gpre3$v8i@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> If you are using NeXTStep 3.3 I believe you need to add this dwrite: dwrite Mail LoadNetInfoAddresses YES I don't think it exists with pre-3.3 I don't know of any other way to get it to work. I would also like to know if you find another way, or if this way works for you TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:34:13 -0800 Organization: University of Calfornia Santa Barbara Message-ID: <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy all - any ideas how i can get my OpenStep 4 machine to access my yp network database? ypbind starts up a-ok and i see the stuff using ypcat, but no dice when i try to login with a username/password sent over via yp. presumably this has something to do with netinfo, of which i know nothin' about (i'm a sun guy). thanks for any help! -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Matthew E. Dunham | dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu Marine Science Institute | 805 893-7670 University of California | 805 893-3777 fax Santa Barbara, CA 93106 | http://rtg.lscf.ucsb.edu/~dunham -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: cpayne@xmission.xmission.com (Carl Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost root password on Intel Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:39:29 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5gudk1$6uu$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> wrote: > What I usually do to regain control over the root account when I have lost > the passwd is to 1) scream 2) call your mother 3) scream more > 1. Boot in single user mode. > 2. Change the root password by doing the following: <snip> > This doesn't work on my Intel box. A couple of suggestions: Try using nu -m instead of passwd or other typical SysV tricks... Try doing an nidump and ni restore (modified) (I've only heard it works) Try shutting down NetInfo, doing an nu -m and restarting... > Thanks for any help you can muster. Ketchup goes better with that freshness packet. Carl -- Opportunity only knocks once In my case, it also leaves a flaming bag of dog crap on the porch
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 14:42:24 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5gu6og$d04@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> wrote: >any ideas how i can get my OpenStep 4 machine to >access my yp network database? ypbind starts up >a-ok and i see the stuff using ypcat, but no dice >when i try to login with a username/password >sent over via yp. presumably this has something >to do with netinfo, of which i know nothin' about >(i'm a sun guy). I don't run 4, but I'll imagine it's the same as it ever was. Two things to check: First, make sure there's a "+:" as the last line of /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Second, the NetInfo database supersedes yp, so if you've got NI stuff loaded, and want to use yp, get rid of it. All this is covered in the manual- do they still have all those online in 4? If so, use the Librarian to search for NIS in NextAdmin. I think it's the MixedNet chapter. ab
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(CD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 17:50:20 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5guhos$5e7@transfer.stratus.com> References: <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> In article <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> writes: > Howdy all - > > any ideas how i can get my OpenStep 4 machine to > access my yp network database? ypbind starts up > a-ok and i see the stuff using ypcat, but no dice > when i try to login with a username/password > sent over via yp. presumably this has something > to do with netinfo, of which i know nothin' about > (i'm a sun guy). > > thanks for any help! > Did you put a "+" character at the end of your /etc/passwd file on the OpenStep machine ? You need to do this in order for YP password validation to work. Note that you do *not* need the "+" in the NetInfo password database - only the /etc/passwd file. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 21 Mar 1997 18:17:28 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >>As to packet sniffing, one could argue that if soemone is sniffing on the >>network, he can just steal the passwords directly. > >>The way to combat this is to use a One-Time Password system like S/Key. >>That totally bypasses whatever weakenesses there are in Netinfo and NIS, >>as the S/Key keys are not shared between machines. However, you can >>(safely) use the same secret passphrase for each. > >That deals with logins, but not with the normal inter-server traffic >that goes between netinfo domains. True, though the original discussion *was* about stealing password data. > >I guess we could solve a lot of this if SWAN was part of the NEXTSTEP >distribution. Anyone ported IPSEC from Linux to FreeBSD yet? Would be nice if there were *some* focus on security in the NeXTStep distribution. Personally, I'd like to see support for Pluggable Authentication Modules, like in Solaris and RedHat Linux. But hey, just issuing security patches for known root holes would be a start . . . Jacques
From: lewispsc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Philip Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: messages Date: 21 Mar 1997 11:34:59 -0800 Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA Message-ID: <5gunt3$227@elaine38.Stanford.EDU> private/adm/messages is no longer recording. How do I restart it? Philip Lewis
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ls weirdness Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:15:16 -0800 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <3332FA64.500F9F30@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have several NeXTstations running 3.2 and mounting an NFS shared disk off of an SGI Indy. I also have NIS clients on the NeXTs and the NIS master running on the SGI. Everything's hunky-dory; I can login as the user as specified in the passwd file on the SGI, but I'm getting one weird bug... Some files do not get listed when I do an ls from the NeXT machines in that directory that resides on the SGI. If I do an ls for a specific file that I *know* is there, it DOES list it, but it doesn't list it when I just do a plain 'ls' or 'ls -al'. No difference in permissions or filetypes. It appears that it just wants to list some and not all. Anyone every run into this? -- **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 23:16:19 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5gv4s3$k8u@news.next.com> References: <5guhos$5e7@transfer.stratus.com> Just some clarification on NIS (formerly known as Yellow Pages / YP) access in NEXTSTEP / OPENSTEP for Mach. You need to set your NIS domain name in /etc/hostconfig. Various tools such an NetManager, HostManager, and SimpleNetworkStarter do this for you. If you want to do it with Edit / emacs / vi / whatever, just edit /etc/hostconfig and set the YPDOMAIN variable, e.g: YPDOMAIN=foobar Before version 4.0: Add a "+" to /etc/passwd and /etc/group ("+user" style entries also work). Version 4.0 and later: Lots of details are given in the 4.0 release notes for lookupd: /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf BEWARE! There's a typo in the release notes - it talks about setting lookupd's "lookupOrder". This should be "LookupOrder" with a capital "L". The 4.0 lookupd is vastly more configurable than the old one. To the greatest extent possible, it works exactly the same was as the old lookupd, but enabling NIS is a bit different. The 4.0 lookupd has a set of "agents" for different information systems - NetInfo, NIS, DNS, Flat Files, and an internal cache. When lookupd gets a request for information, it consults with these agents. You can decide which agents should be consulted, and set the order in which they are consulted. For example, you might want to do lookups first in NIS, then in NetInfo, and then in the flat files (/etc/passwd and so on). On top of that, you can also set the lookup order on a per-category basis. The categories are hosts, users, printers, and etc. Thus, you can tell lookupd to look for users from one set of information sources (for example, NIS then NetInfo), while looking for hosts in another set (for example, DNS, then NetInfo, then NIS). The 4.0 lookupd reads all of its configuration options out of the directory /locations/lookupd in NetInfo. You can put the configuration at any level in your NetInfo hierarchy. Put it in a computer's local domain, and it applies to only that one system. Put it in a mid-level domain, and it applies to a subset of your network. Put it in the root domain, and it applies to the whole network. You can use niutil or NetInfoManager to create and manage the configuration. Here's an example, placed in a domain named /sales (I've broken up long lines with "\"): niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd \ LookupOrder CacheAgent NIAgent YPAgent FFAgent This tells lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then NetInfo, then NIS (YP), and finally to read the flat files. Note that the NIS maps are treated as a fully independent information source, not as a network extension of the local flat files. You can use one or the other or both, and in any order you'd like. niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd/hosts niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd/hosts \ LookupOrder CacheAgent DNSAgent NIAgent This overrides the lookup order for hosts, telling lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then DNS, and finally NetInfo. niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd/users niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd/users \ LookupOrder CacheAgent YPAgent NIAgent FFAgent This overrides the lookup order for users, telling lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then NIS, then NetInfo, and finally the /etc/passwd file. The release note has more details on lookupd's features and configuration options. -- Marc Majka
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXFax Data Call Returns Garbage! Date: 22 Mar 1997 01:41:34 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gvdce$qkm@uni2f.unige.ch> Hi I have installed NXFax on a computer, that has been used for several months, without any problem, as a PPP server. Now, the PPP connection isnt possible any more, because the client receives only garbage, altough NXFax seems to recognize properly the data call: %> citenext_fax: wait for incoming call %> citenext_fax: activity on port Mon Mar 17 23:05:05 1997 %> citenext_fax: wait for connect %> citenext_fax: ring 1 %> citenext_fax: answer call %> citenext_fax: incoming data call %> citenext_fax: CONNECT 19200 ----------NXFax Driver Version 1.04.1---------- %> citenext_fax: Mon Mar 17 23:05:21 1997 %> citenext_fax: data call %> citenext_fax: Mon Mar 17 23:05:25 1997 Then it starts the getty process: root 407 0.0 2.4 2.00M 392K ? S 0:00 getty NXFaxA - With the NXFaxA parameter from gettytab (where I had to remove the p8 parameter!): # NXFax dialup on port A NXFaxA:ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT / NXFax (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#38400: But now at the clients end theres only garbage. The connection seems to be there, but the output is unreadable. I tried in kermit to fiddle with the 7/8 bit terminal bytes, but no result. Any help appreciated! Phil
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel <distler-2103972147570001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu> Control: cancel <distler-2103972147570001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:49:59 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2103972150000001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu> cancel <distler-2103972147570001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu>
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl Subject: Perl5.003 / DB_File / NeXTStep question Date: 22 Mar 1997 05:17:56 GMT Organization: Hotspice Development Message-ID: <5gvq24$l7p@chinx10.tpa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I've been trying to get Perl to compile with the DB_File extension on NeXTStep 3.3 for Intel. The first problem was to get libdb.a to compile which I eventually gave up on and copied a version from another machine. Problem number 2 is that when the Perl compile tries the DB_File extension, it dies on the db.h (which I supplied from the Berkeley db.1.85 source), complaining: /usr/local/include/db.h:40: header file 'sys/cdefs.h' not found /usr/local/include/db.h:120: illegal declaration, missing `;' after `)' /usr/local/include/db.h:120: syntax error, found `struct' /usr/local/include/db.h:120: illegal member declaration, missing name, found `)' /usr/local/include/db.h:121: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `)' etc... Has anyone had success with this?? Perhaps you have an appropriate db.h? There's a really nice module for Perl that I'd like to use but it wants the DB_File.pm package installed. Help, of course, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Please reply by email. -- Peace, Arpi arpad@tezcat.com (773)395-8581<voice> (773)395-8582<fax> Chicago, IL
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to JetDirect Date: 24 Mar 1997 07:46:45 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: na Message-ID: <5h5t3l$3aho@atlas.vcu.edu> I'm having a problem printing from OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 to a HP LaserJet 4 with the Postscript option and an HP JetDirect interface. It seems that OPENSTEP/Mach/4.0 does not include the proper JCL header to inform the printer to switch to Postscript. Instead, it prints the %! and so on. Adding _nxfinalform doesn't help. I've tried both the NeXT supplied LaserJet 4 PPD as well as the HP one (really for the 5/5M) from their ftp site. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu BTW, printing through NetWare (yes it does seem to work under OPENSTEP 4.0) produces the same results.
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ATI video cards no longer supported ? Date: 24 Mar 1997 07:50:54 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h5tbe$19l2@atlas.vcu.edu> References: <5gcmb3$g8o$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes: >I just spoke to a NeXT tech support rep about problems I'm having with ATI's >new Mach64 cards using the 264VT or Rage chipsets. That BIOS revision isn't >supported by the current ATI driver, and he does not anticipate that any >updates will be forthcoming since the driver engineers have been relocated to >the Rhapsody group. NeXT recently posted an ATI Rage driver on NeXTanswers (see the sorted by date index). Now all the Gateway 2000's that VCU has been buying can display color under OPENSTEP/Mach. However, the 3Com Etherlink III PCI cards aren't yet. :-( ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu
From: Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Marking bad sectors? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:22:02 +1000 Organization: AUSNet Services Message-ID: <33368E0A.81B@FreeFall.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi; is there any way of marking bad sectors on a SCSI, 4.3-formatted hard disk? (this is black NS 3.2). Thanks, Piotr piotr@FreeFall.com.au
From: ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 24 Mar 1997 00:36:20 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5h4ia4$j6i@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> abosse@midway.uchicago.edu writes: >Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz wrote: >> >> Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: >> 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus >> >> Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com >> >> Thanks, Stan > >Yes, I'm in the same boat. No driver is available. Maybe someone at NeXT >will re-assure us that the driver is on the "planned" list... > >Arno I also have this card. Would someone like to suggest a different PCI ethernet card? I need a "Combo" card as I will be switching from BNC to twisted pait in 6 months. Thanks, Dan -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
From: lewanto@stan.donet.com (Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 22 Mar 1997 15:56:00 GMT Organization: Dayton Ohio Network (DONet, Inc.) Message-ID: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com Thanks, Stan
From: Christian Hahn <1919-484@online.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP II P driver Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 23:52:01 +0100 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <33288511.5E1A@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know where i can get a HP II P printer driver for OpenStep? Thanks in advance, Christian
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting PPP to work Date: 24 Mar 1997 20:15:44 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> Hello, on advice of Ulli Zappe, I ordered the German NewsLetter for OpenStep (3/95 - 2/96), because therein should be a very good introduction to PPP under OpenStep. The articles are great and I know much more about PPP and the Internet now as before, but the connection is still down. I made all steps described in the second article (the config-Files are listed below), but after dialing the provider (mostly successful), ppp is not starting up, and I have absolutely no idea, what could be wrong. Thanks in advance! Andreas ************************************************ ******************* etc/options ******************* ************************************************ /dev/cudfb 38400 crtscts lock defaultroute lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 3 #-vj debug ************************************************ ******************** .ppprc ********************** ************************************************ # nutzerspezifische options-Datei # ergnzt bzw. berschreibt /etc/ppp/options # verbindung mittels asyncronem ppp gem /pppup 57600 connect "/usr/local/ppp/bin/chat -vf /pppup" ************************************************ ****************** pppup ************************ ************************************************ ABORT BUSY ABORT ERROR ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO ANSWER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" "" ATZ OK ATD06131100 "lynet login:" andreas "Password:" a1b2c3 ************************************************ ******************** etc/remote ****************** ************************************************ BASIC|Basic setup:\ :el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D: # a9600|cua9600|Dial-out on cua at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#9600:tc=BASIC: b9600|cub9600|Dial-out on cub at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cub:br#9600:tc=BASIC: fa9600|cufa9600|Dial-out on cufa at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#9600:tc=BASIC: fb9600|cufb9600|Dial-out on cufb at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:br#9600:tc=BASIC: ttya9600|Hardwire on ttya at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/ttya:br#9600:tc=BASIC: ttyb9600|Hardwire on ttyb at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/ttyb:br#9600:tc=BASIC: # # General dialer definitions used below # dial1200|1200 Baud Hayes attributes:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#1200:at=hayes:du: dial300|300 Hayes attributes:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#300:at=hayes:du: # # UNIX system definitions # UNIX-1200|1200 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\ :el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial1200: UNIX-300|300 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\ :el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial300: # tip0|tip1200:tc=UNIX-1200: tip300:tc=UNIX-300: cu0|cu300:tc=UNIX-300: cu1200:tc=UNIX-1200: dialer:dv=/dev/cua:br#1200: #-------------------------------------------------------------------- #The attributes are: # #dv device to use for the tty #el EOL marks (default is NULL) #du make a call flag (dial up) #pn phone numbers (@ =>'s search phones file; possibly taken from # PHONES environment variable) #at ACU type (vadic, ventel, hayes, courier) #ie input EOF marks (default is NULL) #oe output EOF string (default is NULL) #cu call unit (default is dv) #br baud rate (defaults to 300) #fs frame size (default is BUFSIZ) -- used in buffering writes # on receive operations #tc to continue a capability # ********************************************************* # additional entries by Andreas Hoeschler # Date: 22.3.1997 # ********************************************************* b28|cudfb28800|Dial-out on cudfb at 28800 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cudfb:pa=none:pr#38400:tc=BASIC:
From: nospamthanx@nowhere.com (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 24 Mar 1997 22:03:32 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5h6tnk$fse@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> <5h4ia4$j6i@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <5h4ia4$j6i@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> On 03/23/97, Daniel D. Roscigno wrote: .. Etherlink XL... >I also have this card. Would someone like to suggest a different PCI >ethernet card? I need a "Combo" card as I will be switching from BNC >to twisted pait in 6 months. I've had good success with the Cogent EM 960 and the Inter Etherexpress Pro/10. Both are available in combo versions, and both have solid NS 3.3 drivers. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: 24 Mar 1997 22:36:26 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h6vla$ln1@news.next.com> References: <5h3l8p$1eeo@atlas.vcu.edu> Weiyuan W Chin writes > Why doesn't Apple just ship all display drivers with their > framebuffer settings as high as possible? Can the framebuffer > address be above Apple/NeXT's Mach 2.5's maximum system RAM capacity > (was that 256 or 384mb?). Wouldn't that help alleviate a > significant portion of Intel installation problems? Would there > be performance problems setting it high? Some adapters don't support higher framebuffer addresses (this is particularly true of VL-BUS adapters, and older S3 chipsets). So we'd be trading one problem for another. That might be the way to go, though - is anybody still running NEXTSTEP on a VL-BUS system? -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Admin QUESTION Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 17:15:44 GMT Organization: WorldCom Message-ID: <5h17gn$hur@news.worldcom.ch> Hi there ! I must set up a NeXT machin remotly. I have the root password but no users belong to the wheel group I can not make any su !!! What can I do to have the root permissions ? LiONEL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< name : Lionel Tinguely (MiMe & NeXT mail ok) e-mail: ltinguely@pobox.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting PPP to work Date: 25 Mar 1997 00:32:00 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <5h76e0$8s2@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> References: <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, Hello... I don't know if this will help, but I was having a lot of trouble getting ppp running on my machine as well. My scripts all looked good, I had followed several sources of info on how to set ppp up, etc. I was finally able to get it working after using the right modem initialization commands. I don't know what kind of modem you are using, but if you haven't already, you should make sure that you're initializing your modem correctly. (I can't really tell you what exactly -- I don't know myself :) ) -- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (NEXTMail, MIME Mail okay)
From: alcmaeon@one.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT and AT&T Worldnet Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:39:43 GMT Organization: OneNet Communications HUB News Server Message-ID: <5h7acv$n1v@news.one.net> I have been trying to get logged on to AT&T WorldNet from the Cube. I am logged on to another ISP that I have with no trouble, but when I try to get on WorldNet, I get through the UserName and Password stages, but then I get a message something to the effect that: "the serial connection is not 8-bit clean, 0 appears at position 7" Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Mitch
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: comsat and biff problem??? Date: 25 Mar 1997 03:11:04 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5h7fo8$a1h@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Keywords: comsat,biff Hello, I hope some veterans out there can help me with this. I am running a network of NS 3.3 machines and it appears that comsat on all my machines broadcasts to every unix box on our campus when new mail arrives on my machines. Is this a known problem. Does anybody know of a fix. I have read the man pages on biff and comsat and it appears they are geared for shell usage. However, NeXT must use them for the GUI mailer because I witnessed comsat running just before I received new mail in my Mail.app. Any help is much appreciated. -- AB _______________________________________________________________ Alan A. Barhorst | alan@osci.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/ Texas Tech University | NeXT, MIME, Sun, & ASCII mail
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 22 Mar 1997 20:14:04 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <5h1eic$n58$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: > >I guess we could solve a lot of this if SWAN was part of the NEXTSTEP >distribution. Anyone ported IPSEC from Linux to FreeBSD yet? It's been ported to OpenBSD: ftp://freestuff.cs.colorado.edu/pub/OpenBSD/src/sbin/ipsec/ That's a start, anyway. Jacques
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Newbie NeXT Admin: The NeXT Chapter Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-2403972342000001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 04:42:00 GMT Okay here's where I've gotten to, I've got the Turbo color Slab, (refered to as Nexus) up and booting. Nexus is is doing the Internet client things, recognising DNS, telnetting and the Web server stuff. Now that I've played with the machine it's time to get it to work at it's true functions. I was helped on much of this awhile ago, but I lost the ftp shopping list before I finished. What I need to run on this machine is DNS and I need to do the smntp, POPmail thing. The mail clients are macintoshes and one unix box that will either to TCP/IP or UUCP with Nexus, both via ethernet. What software should I be getting or stuff within the box that I should configure? In an unrelated bit of derring do, throwing caution through the winds and after about 15 mins of reading the instructions I recently connected and Amiga 4000 to a T1 Internet connection and it was GOOD. After a few upstarts, I used the ftp software and a few clicks and unpacks I was running Voyager surfing the web. (that reminds me is there a better web browser for NeXT besides Omniweb? the ftp function in Omniweb is an extreme pain to deal with. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: Arno Bosse <abosse@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: zlewanto@stan.donet.com Organization: Univ. of Chicago References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:58:21 GMT Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz wrote: > > Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: > 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus > > Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com > > Thanks, Stan Yes, I'm in the same boat. No driver is available. Maybe someone at NeXT will re-assure us that the driver is on the "planned" list... Arno
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <umax!antigone.sonic.net!ispnet!peak.org!luomat> Message-ID: <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org> In-Reply-To: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 97 09:40:53 -0500 Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__" This is a MIME-encapsulated message If you read this, you may want to switch to a better mailer --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit *This message was sent using a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) UUCPGate* --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit *This message was received using a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) UUCPGate* --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Responding To: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Original Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 07:02:54 GMT > What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch > that, ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the > moment how the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against > semi-theoretical differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a > number of newer encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could > be used as drop in replacements for DES. Does it really matter that > much that your /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? Excellent point. Is it possible to change DES for PGP for password encryption under NS? How would some fool (ie me ;^) go about trying this? Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__--
From: "Jonathan Katz" <jkatz@mac.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Proxies... Date: 23 Mar 1997 00:41:29 GMT Organization: INTERNET Indiana Message-ID: <01bc3723$c2ae09e0$0100000a@litterbox.in.net> Greetings! I have a mini-LAN setup at my house, with a Win95 box acting as a proxy/router. My question is how do I configure my NeXT Cube to use the proxy? Both boxes talk to each other (I can telnet back and forth, as well as telnet from the NeXT station to the proxy). Any/all ideas and information would be appreciated. I'm using WinGate as the proxy software on the Win95 box, and running NS 3.3 developer on the Cube. Many Thanks in advance! -Jon
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:54:48 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2203972054490001@slip-22-13.ots.utexas.edu> References: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org> In article <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org>, luomat@peak.org wrote: >Is it possible to change DES for PGP for password encryption under NS? > >How would some fool (ie me ;^) go about trying this? FreeBSD uses (iterated) MD5 hashes instead of the standard Unix crypt() method. The FreeBSD source code is, well, freely available: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/ You could try grabbing the source for /bin/login and related routines, and see whether you could get it working. Of course, this would necessarily bypass NetInfo. You would also have to do the same for ftpd (which, unlike telnetd and rlogind, does not call /bin/login). I don't know whether LoginWindow calls /bin/login. If not, then you are S.O.L., as the source for that is unavailable. If PAM (Plugin Authentication Modules) were implemented for NeXTStep, you could have your pick (standard Unix passwords, MD5 a la FreeBSD, S/Key one-time passwords, . . .). But it's not. Anyway, the lack of cryptographic strength of crypt() is not, I think, the biggest on your list of worries. Anyone willing to invest the time and effort to cryptanalyse your /etc/passwd file (or the contents of your NetInfo database) could much more easily obtain your password by snooping on the wire, or, for that matter, obtain root access on your machine through any one of a number of root holes (both local and remote) which are as yet unpatched under NeXTStep. Replacing crypt() with something stronger is like installing a heavy deadbolt lock, but leaving the windows of your house wide open. Jacques
From: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@math.enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting NeXTSTEP to Window 95 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:13:00 -0700 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.96.970322200656.-94697F-100000@spam.wireless.org> References: <3327BDB6.BE7@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: ablasco@gcomm.com In-Reply-To: <3327BDB6.BE7@gcomm.com> On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 ablasco@gcomm.com wrote: > Does anybody knows if it's very difficult to connect a nextstation to a > Pentirum running windows 95? I need to connect them via Ethernet but I > don't know how. Any information will be appreciated! > As far as the hardware connection goes you either need to run them both into an ethernet hub or wire yourself an ethernet cable with wires reversed accordingly, kind of the same way a NULL modem reverses the TX and RX lines... Unless of course you already have a LAN setup in which case just plug them into an existing hub or router and assign them IP addresses and off you go. What else you need depends on what you want to do. If you want to do filesystem sharing you either need a Windows NFS package or a NeXT SMB package. Also keep in mind that Windows 95 comes out of the box with no server software. So unless you buy the software you can ftp, telnet, etc into you windows box. l8r, Nate --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt "Noooooooooooooo.........." -- Luke Skywalker
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: 22 Mar 1997 23:25:40 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h2bc4$1jvu@atlas.vcu.edu> References: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) writes: >I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader >will work with black hardware Depends on the Multispin. Some MultiSpin models had standards compliance problems (especially some of the older 1 and 2X models as well as the "p" models). Also, if you have a 3X, they had a ROM upgrade program. Finally, you might want to make sure if there is a SCSI level setting, that it's set to SCSI-2. Otherwise, it should "just work" barring any other standard SCSI problems like bad cables, terminators, conflicting SCSI ID's, etc. Good luck, ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting PPP to work Date: 25 Mar 1997 13:01:39 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5h8ibj$8bo@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: : Hello, : [...] Hello, first idea/comment: do the serial ports/lines work properly - outside PPP like with kermit? Many users - even experienced ones :-) - forget to install/add the TTY portserver in Configure.app (in Misc.) in addition to the serial drivers, especially after upgrade or installtion. The installation/upgrade process does not activate/include the TTY portserver on its own. I'm suspecting that at least three people in this newsgroup are experiencing consequences of this problem at the moment. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.x license Date: 23 Mar 1997 00:18:06 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5h1sru$3tf@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> I am a sysadmin running a mixture of DEC Alphas and NeXT slabs. The NeXT machines are all running NS 3.2 Can someone tell me what the academic licensing is like for NeXT hardware/software? Can I buy the NS 3.3 Academic Bundle and upgrade any/all of the machines, or do I need a seperate license for each machine? The NeXT stations have been here much longer than me so I am unclear on the license situation. Thanks, Dan ( a new NeXT user ) -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
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 Supersedes: <608858488427@digifix.com> Date: 23 Mar 1997 05:00:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3027859093225@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. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wiedner@nxcb01.cern.ch (Wiedner) Subject: Color Monitor for NeXTstation found Message-ID: <E7Lst7.Cu2@news.cern.ch> Keywords: monitor Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:41:31 GMT Hi everybody, 2 weeks ago I posted a mail asking for help in choosing a color monitor for my (black) Color NeXTstation. Several people asked me to inform them if I found out something. Unfortunately their mails got lost, so I have to contac them this way. It seems that a SONY 17SE2T5 monitor works nice with my NeXTstation. To connect it I use the PigTail adapter, which basically conversts the 13W3 connector of the NeXT to RGB (BNC). So, I'm in business again. Cheers...Ulrich
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netboot question Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:13:14 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E7Lx22.8v@xombi.wizard.net> I have a Cube with 1 gig disk and a Slab with 100 meg disk. I've used the Cube for a while now but just bought the Slab. It would be great to Netboot the Slab off of the Cube. After reading the online documentation I've: * added an entry via Hostmanager.app for the Slab, including the physical ethernet address and IP address as well as setting the Netboot options. * exported the root directory to the Slab via NFSManager.app, however I couldn't explicitly export the /clients/slabname directory since it's a child of the root directory.....perhaps this is where my problem starts. So I reboot the Cube, then turn on the slab...halt the Slab and do "ben" and get: Requesting BOOTP information...... [timeout] Any suggestions? Thanks! --- SW Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig SW http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ SW... recurve@resourceful.com SWN?
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: case sensitive mail aliases Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:17:11 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5h98bn$eqg@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:17:11 GMT Ever since I upgraded to 4.0, my mail aliases have become case sensitive. I would prefer that this was not the case. I've read the documentation and can't find anything about how to change this behavior. Please let me know if you know how to do this. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Juha Tuominen <comm@sci.fi> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem in installing NS3.2 into Pentium PC Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:44:45 GMT Organization: Scifi Communications International Oy, http://www.sci.fi/, helpdesk@sci.fi, 03 2899111 Message-ID: <5h9h0d$rid@tron.sci.fi> I'm forced switch back to 3.2 due to unexpected problems in 3.3's Sound system (recording does not work correctly). I've got a new 166 MHz Osborne Pentium PC with 64 MB of RAM, Diamond Steath 64 VRAM (PCI) and Adaptec 1542CF (ISA). There's a 2 GB Seagate Barracuda connected to Adaptec. The problem is that 3.2 installation fails at the very beginning after choosing the initial drivers. The error is thread: waitforInterrupt: return -735 I've seen that error before and earlier I have managed to fix it by making my own installation diskette with updated Adaptec driver. Well, that's exactly what I did now, too, but the problem didn't disappear. I've double- checked that I really have the new driver on the installation diskette and installation program loads it without any errors. When installation is proceeded with "2, continue without installing any further drivers", the last text I manage to see on the screen is that system is loading PS2Keyboard and after that the error message flood begins. Does this problem ring a bell? Anyone? I'd be very appreciated of any suggestions that you might have to solve this problem. -Juha -- My wife ran off with my best friend and I still miss him.
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: How to get NeXTSpell.service into 'Services? Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:52:15 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5h9hef$omo@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hi, fairly new to OpenStep 4.0 and thus have no idea how to activate the NeXTSpell checker as it is done e.g. with Enhance-Mail or even better in 'Services! I copied NeXTSpell.service from /NextLibrary/Services to /LocalLibrary/Services with no apparentt effect. Thanks everybody for their help! Thomas --- 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. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(CD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing to JetDirect Date: 25 Mar 1997 22:00:20 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Distribution: na Message-ID: <5h9htk$kpb@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5h5t3l$3aho@atlas.vcu.edu> In article <5h5t3l$3aho@atlas.vcu.edu> s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) writes: > > > I'm having a problem printing from OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 to a > HP LaserJet 4 with the Postscript option and an HP JetDirect > interface. It seems that OPENSTEP/Mach/4.0 does not include > the proper JCL header to inform the printer to switch to > Postscript. Instead, it prints the %! and so on. Adding > _nxfinalform doesn't help. I've tried both the NeXT supplied > LaserJet 4 PPD as well as the HP one (really for the 5/5M) > from their ftp site. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, > > ..Bill Chin I'd check the printer side of things. Do you have the printer's "personality" set to "auto" so that it can switch between PS and PCL ? Did you try setting the printer to just "PS" mode ? How does it behave then ? I've done a lot with NS and JetDirect and this one sounds like a printer-side problem. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: 23 Mar 1997 11:20:41 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h3l8p$1eeo@atlas.vcu.edu> References: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> <5gpa2t$298@mpaque.mpaque> mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) writes: >In article <332E111D.4183@communique.net> "Kurt E. Huhner" ><khuhner@communique.net> writes: >> I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) >> motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All >> drives are on the A2940 chain. >> >> All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the >> suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the >> "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it >> appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. >> No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. >It sounds like there may be an overlap between the memory address of the >framebuffer and main memory. I'd bet that your machine has 64 Mbytes of >memory installed, and the Diamond Stealth card has it's default memory >window address set to something less than 64 Mbytes. Why doesn't Apple just ship all display drivers with their framebuffer settings as high as possible? Can the framebuffer address be above Apple/NeXT's Mach 2.5's maximum system RAM capacity (was that 256 or 384mb?). Wouldn't that help alleviate a significant portion of Intel installation problems? Would there be performance problems setting it high? ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <1997Mar23.121604.546@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: cdouty@netcom.com Organization: Disorganization References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:16:04 GMT In <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Chris Douty wrote: > > Shadow passwords are only a bandaid to make shallow thinking sysadmins > believe that their system is "secure." Various exploitable bugs are > found every day on Unix systems, especially NeXT with a relatively old > implementation of basic Unix services. Many of the bugs can give a local > or network user root access. root can read /etc/passwd.adjunct, > regardless of permissions "protecting" it. The file, with passwords > intact, can be spirited off to some fast DES crunching machine. Shadow password don't make a system "secure". But the lack of shadow passwords allow a simple user to crack easily, without special knowledges, many accounts. Of course there are other ways to get access to root or other accounts, but they are not so easy as cracking a passwd file. A secure system consists of many more security measures, but a system which has world readable passwd files is a security nightmare.
Message-ID: <332DEA9A.691E@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:06:34 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Copying to a win95 partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am copying files from NS3.3 to a win95 partition, but there is a problem with the files which have too long a name. Is there an easier solution than writing a script which shortens every file name to < 8 characters and every extension to 3 chars? Ted Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ethernet, IPs, PPP, and more Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:25:43 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970325194733.11642B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com Greetings folks, I am about to have a 2 machine LAN here, my original Slab and a new Intel in about 2-3 weeks. They will be connected via Ethernet so I can use the LaserPrinter on the slab, and to run a few m68k-only apps and programs. I am trying to think through the various issues around the best way to set these two machines up. Assume the following: - 2 machines ("A" and "B") running NS 3.3, connected via Ethernet - One machine (either one) connected via PPP to Internet (assume "A" for purposes of this discussion) - a machine "C" which is simply some machine on the Internet Can I: 1) connect from machine "B" to the internet (www,ftp,telnet,rlogin). For example, if I wanted to run the PPP software on the NeXT but wanted to surf/email/etc from the Intel, could I do that? 2) connect (telnet/ftp/rlogin) from B->A and A->B when the PPP connection is up? 3) connect (telnet/ftp/rlogin) from B->A and A->B when the PPP connection is down? (What IPs do I use for machine A and B? [understanding that "A" will get its own when PPP comes up] 4) connect from "C" to machine "B" (ie the one NOT running the PPP connection. If so, what IP would it have?) For example, I can see being at computer "C" and wanting to get to a file on "B" I was thinking that if I cannot connect to "B" from the 'net then I should NFS mount "B" to "A" For example, in the model below, would I be able to telnet to go from the Internet to the Intel and then to the Slab? (I'm sure I couldn't go directly to the slab since it won't have an Internet-acceptable IP) ________ __________ | | | | | slab |<--Ethernet-> | Intel | --modem/PPP--> Internet \____/ | | -------- <--NFS-- ---------- This is the other alternative, where I could connect to the slab from the 'net, but could I go from the slab to the Intel? Could I surf/telnet/ftp/etc from the Intel to the 'net through the slab? Internet | modem/ppp | ___|____ __________ | | | | | slab |<--Ethernet-> | Intel | \____/ | | -------- <--NFS-- ---------- Final Q: I assume that the two machines will be entirely independent (in case one or the other has some big problems). The only thing which would connect them would be the need to Print on the NeXT laser printer from the Intel. How is this done? I assume something in NetInfo. Email response is best. I will post summary info (and re-ask whatever questions get overlooked in the responses). Thanks TjL ps -- FAQ/NeXTDoc pointers appreciated. This is a whole new area for me...
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:50:53 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All drives are on the A2940 chain. All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. Upon restarting, a fschk is done with another reboot. The ONLY way I have found is to specify "config=Default" at the boot: prompt, but then I can't get any of the color settings, etc. Also I have never seen the login panel... Any suggestions?
From: Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: solaris dual boot ? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:04:39 -0800 Organization: University of Calfornia Santa Barbara Message-ID: <33386817.7B12@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit howdy all - when i boot openstep 4.1 on my Sparc 4, the OS tries to mount the Solaris drive, fails, and then wants to initialize it. the NeXT sparc FAQ says to see the mntent man page on how to fix this. so following the sparse intructions there, i stick the following "ignore" lines in my fstab as follows: sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 sd1a /dummy-mount-point ignore sd1b /dummy-mount-point ignore sd1c /dummy-mount-point ignore ... etc, etc ... no dice - still comes up with the "intialize" prompt on login. so i'm wondering if a) anyone knows how to write this fstab properly or b) anyone can tell me how where to zap the automounting facility that creates this mess. thanks a bundle. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Matthew E. Dunham | dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu Marine Science Institute | 805 893-7670 University of California | 805 893-3777 fax Santa Barbara, CA 93106 | http://rtg.lscf.ucsb.edu/~dunham -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Message-ID: <332DEB6F.792D@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:10:07 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: NS3.3, PPP, and Mail Host Unknown Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am running NS3.3 on black hardware. Recently installed PPP using Gateway.app. Great way to do things. I use OminiWebb and Mail.app regularly. Omniweb works fine, but I cannot mail outside of my local domain. The mail gets returned with the statements: Host unknown (Authoritative answer from nameserver). I have set up the file resolv.conf with three nameservers and have the same three listed under NetInfoManager's local - locations - resolver - nameserver stuff. What to I need to get mail outside of the local network which I connect to? Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 23 Mar 1997 21:37:22 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5h47qi$bm3$1@shadow.skypoint.net> References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> In-Reply-To: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> On 03/22/97, Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz wrote: >Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: > 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus > >Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com > >Thanks, Stan > I have been in touch with the NeXT Tech support group on this. I am an EAP. The story I am getting is that it is being writen wtih NO timeframe till beta release yet. May be if we all keep up a weekly reminder effort we will ge their attention. Send email to Mark Tacchi <mtacchi@next.com> and Marc Driftmeyer <Marc_Driftmeyer@next.com> If you hear of any drivers for this card please let me know and visa versa. Thanks -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHosting info from the past (longish) Date: 23 Mar 1997 22:49:57 +0100 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT Message-ID: <x767yicm7u.fsfchris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972325340001@news.tiac.net> In-reply-to: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com's message of Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:25:34 -0500 Originator: uucp@nice.ethz.ch Originator: news@nowhere.ethz.ch In article <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972325340001@news.tiac.net> jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) writes: > And I found I had a copy of this "open" replacement, which predates > the NS 3.3 version. The author, Chris Limpach, says > > * open.h,v > * Revision 1.2 1994/05/09 21:37:39 chris > * fixed NXHost which was broken because of [Application new] > > I never installed it because that seemed a bit vague (and reading the > source doesn't clarify anything), and it didn't matter at the time > (or now, since I took the other machine off the net). this is not related to your problem, it's just that I had to parse the NXHost myself and not let [Application new] steal it from argv. Also the -NXHost option of open does not exactly do what most people here seem to expect: it will not run an application on this machine and NXHost it to another machine but it will ask the other machine's Windowserver to run the application on the other machine > Does anyone know if "open" is still "broken"? The General Reference for > 3.3 includes the following: It seems, that the bug which made me write an open replacement is not longer present in 3.3 (you couldn't say "open -a AppName" in 3.2 if you had a private windowserver). There are numerous features in my open version so that it's still of great use, at least to me. ftp://nice.ethz.ch/users/chris/open.1.3.NI.s.tar.gz is the latest version. christian -- Christian Limpach, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. http://nice.ethz.ch/~chris --- System-Administration VIS/NiCE member of the managing board of VIS (http://www.vis.inf.ethz.ch/)
From: ghost@ghost.neosoft.com (Mark C. Allman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Syslogd: seg fault on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach Date: 26 Mar 1997 05:47:56 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> I seem to recall a thread somewhere about logging not working, but can't find anything in the newsgroup archive, so ... Anyone having a problem running syslogd on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach? When I run it from the command line with the -d (for debugging) switch I get a seg fault, and when I run it w/o the -d I don't see the process running. It also isn't in the process list ("ps -ax") after booting up. Question 1: Is there a fix/patch/new release? I didn't see anything on NeXTAnswers. Question 2: I expect this is why I can't get my PPP s/w to log start-up activity. Right? Yes, I have the line local2.debug /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log in my syslog.conf file. -- Mark Allman -- Sr. Engineer, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, allman@pat.mdc.com -- Software consulting (Perl, C, Python, ...), ghost@ghost.neosoft.com -- (see: http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/5857.html)
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:08:13 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g85kp$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <En9gupa00iWUQ3m3so@andrew.cmu.edu> Steve Jobs migrated to Apple. He struggled with the NeXT hardware, lost and joined Apple with his OS (In my eyes the last action to avoid the total crash, for both!). Apple was the one who took him back in the boat, but don't want to use his OS as is. What do You expect from a new OS? (New hardware too!). I love to see Your optimism but under a realistic point of view the future is passed. (What about the rumor with Lighthouse and SW for OS? Did You ever hold something in Your hands? What about the good idea supporting different hardware?) Henry
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Admin QUESTION Date: 26 Mar 1997 06:51:46 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5hah22$9b@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5h17gn$hur@news.worldcom.ch> Lionel Tinguely (ltinguely@pobox.com) wrote: : Hi there ! : I must set up a NeXT machin remotly. I have the root password but no : users belong to the wheel group I can not make any su !!! What can I : do to have the root permissions ? Use NetInfo to add yourself (using "-p" to authenticate yourself to the NetInfo server) to the wheel group while logged in as your ordinary account. eg. niutil -appendprop . /groups/wheel users lukeh -- luke
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 24 Mar 1997 00:01:57 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5h4g9l$gbv@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org> <distler-2203972054490001@slip-22-13.ots.utexas.edu> : bypass NetInfo. You would also have to do the same for ftpd (which, unlike : telnetd and rlogind, does not call /bin/login). I don't know whether : LoginWindow calls /bin/login. If not, then you are S.O.L., as the source : for that is unavailable. LoginWindow doesn't call /bin/login, but the authenticator is replacable at runtime. : If PAM (Plugin Authentication Modules) were implemented for NeXTStep, you : could have your pick (standard Unix passwords, MD5 a la FreeBSD, S/Key : one-time passwords, . . .). But it's not. No, but if you were going to implement a different authentication scheme under NEXTSTEP, you'd be better off porting PAM. -- luke
From: "Erik D. Schminke" <edschminke@willmar.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hacking a NeXT Mach System Date: 23 Mar 1997 19:06:05 GMT Organization: MEANS Message-ID: <01bc37bc$a9a0d380$ca3a0ace@schminke.willmar.com> I would like some questions answered by any hackers out there willing to help. My school runs a NeXT Mach system and someone hacked into it using one of the so called "default accounts". Please take a look at what was done. The website is at http://willmar.k12.cfa.org/. I expect that this page will be take down and returned to what it was before, as soon as it is discovered, so I made a copy of the page and put it at http://www.willmar.com/~schminke/willmar/. Please check one of these pages and then explain how to this was do to me via e-mail. My address is edschminke@willmar.com Thank you, -- Erik Schminke (edschminke@willmar.com)
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:47:52 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.858358475.11076.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour John, Yes, I was successful. I've used my old Adaptec 1542cf and copied the new 3.37 driver on a copy of my NS 3.3 drivers disquette. I've then replaced the old Adaptec with the new one. I loaded NS with the newest Adaptec driver. Here's one answer I've received that might help you: On 03/05/97 in the group comp.sys.next.sysadmin you wrote: >Bonjour, ... I remember spending almost a week on this problem about a year ago when I installed 3.3 on our PPro machines. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec driver supplied on the boot floppy doesn't properly recognize the 2940UW. You need to get the newer 2940 driver, v3.37, from NeXTanswers: <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1760.htmld/1760.html To install, you can either try the procedure outlined for another Adatec driver under NeXTSTEP 3.2 in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1541.htmld/1541.html or, you can do as I did and make a new copy of the boot floppy, as described in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1824.htmld/1824.html and <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1561.htmld/1561.html but replace the original Adaptec driver with the newer version. That's all I know. Good luck, TH Tom Holton <th@piglet.sfsu.edu> In Article Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. , John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> wrote: Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) Thanks, John Haver Ciao. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michel.tremblay@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: nextjet@bellsouth.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re:Need nextstep ppp help Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 22:40:47 +0000 Message-ID: <3335B16B.45A0@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would be willing to contract someone to set up my cube for ppp internet access I am in the Miami Area so if there are any next folks here please mail me with your schedule. german gobel nextjet@bellsouth.net
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ATI video cards no longer supported ? Date: 14 Mar 1997 23:17:55 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5gcmb3$g8o$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> I just spoke to a NeXT tech support rep about problems I'm having with ATI's new Mach64 cards using the 264VT or Rage chipsets. That BIOS revision isn't supported by the current ATI driver, and he does not anticipate that any updates will be forthcoming since the driver engineers have been relocated to the Rhapsody group. Since it looks like the new ATI cards are all using those chipsets, this means that ATI is not an option any more? I'd like to hear otherwise... -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:10:44 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Mar-97 Cannot stop PPP by andreas@lynet.de > They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID > is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find > anything like this in the process-List. When I enter > ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps > itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the > connection is to restart the computer. This is not > very funny. Try 'ps aux', or 'ps aux | grep pppd'. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reporting connect rates using PPP Date: 26 Mar 1997 16:45:56 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> My PPP installation used to capture connect rates in the log file. It doesn't any longer. I know the modem still reports connect rates, because when I use tip to dial out to my ISP, it reports the connect rate. I use the "-v" option in the chat script. I am using PPP 2.2.0. Also, on my Turbo machine, I cannot use the rate 57600--it claims it is a bad rate. I got the Turbo machine specifically to get the 57600 throughput on the port. What do I need to do to get the higher throughput? TIA, ..........kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca (Bill Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: EZ-Flyer as a backup on a NeXTCube? Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:41:37 -0500 Organization: McGill Message-ID: <bill-2603971841370001@e-14.das.mcgill.ca> To replace a dead optical drive on my NeXTCube (68040, 16mb, 400mb,3.2), I'm planning to get a Syquest EZ-Flyer removable cartridge drive. I've seen comments on this newsgroup that there is no problem using a Zip Drive. I prefer the EZ-Flyer because I have a friend with an EZ-135, and we can swap disks. My question is: Does anyone know for sure (say from personal experience) that the EZ-Flyer will work with my NeXTCube? Would the formatting instructions be the same as with a Zip drive? Thanks, Bill Anderson
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:53:18 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5hccte$a0p$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> On 03/26/97, andreas@lynet.de wrote: >Hello, > >I've just managed to start PPP as described in >NEXTTOYOU 4/95 on Page 35. The Connection to >my provider is working very well (WWW, E-Mail) >but I can't stop anymore. >They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID >is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find >anything like this in the process-List. When I enter >ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps >itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the >connection is to restart the computer. This is not >very funny. > >How do I manage to stop the connection? >Any ideas? Thanks in advance! > >Andreas > > Actually, ps -x will do, but to kill ppp you probably will have to be su'd to root. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: "John H. Casseday" <casseday@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep/Solaris Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:17:43 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <3339E6D7.F28@u.washington.edu> References: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have detailed information on how to set .profile (Bourne sh) to automatically start OpenStep? Also I would like to know of any source of information (other than Sun) on how to set up OpenStep on Solaris.
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! PAP access & GateKeeper Date: 28 Mar 1997 05:37:47 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5hflfb$29$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> My IP has recently switched from PPP to 'Password Authorization Protocol' [PAP] which means I'm out in the cold 'til I can learn how to access PAP. No one at the UBC Computer Help Desk seem to know that anything other than Windoze95 and Macs exist in the world, and have never heard of something called a NeXT. Can anyone help me? Thanks! Seamus If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: klines@halcyon.com (Karen And Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 27 Mar 1997 23:34:10 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Message-ID: <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> I have the exact same mail problem. I am running ns 3.3 and I am connected to the next (foo.bar.com). I can receive mail sent to foo.bar.com, but I can't send mail out. -nick -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Karen Kline 90% of success in life is just showing Woodinville, WA up. ------Woody Allen ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Kill-Script does not work Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 04:05:08 GMT Organization: DFW Internet Services, Inc. Message-ID: <333b427d.47271282@news.dfw.net> References: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> On 27 Mar 1997 19:19:28 GMT, andreas@lynet.de wrote: >Hallo, > >I just tried to kill a process with a Script >containing the following line: > > kill 'ps -ax | egrep "PopOver" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/' > > >The Result is an errormessage like: > > usage kill [ -sig] pid... > [process terminated - exit code 2] > kill(1) requires a signal (-sig in the help). Typically, you want to send -TERM (otherwise known as -9) to the process. Try: kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep "PopOver" | fgrep -v "fgrep" | sed \ 's/^\([0-9]+\).*/\1'/' fgrep(1) is a faster grep, when there are no regular expression meta-chars in the search string, and I switched a '*' to a '+' so that you wouldn't match on zero digits in a ps(1) line. BTW, kill(1), ps(1) and fgrep(1) mean look in the first section of the UNIX manual pages: % man 1 kill to find out how the command works. These pages are complete and tell you all you really need to know.
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bulding Perl 5.00X Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 04:00:25 GMT Organization: DFW Internet Services, Inc. Message-ID: <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net> I'm running into all kinds of problems building Perl 5.x on my NS3.3/Moto machine. Is there a problem using the Next_3 configuration? Is there a better one?
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Syslogd: seg fault on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach Date: 26 Mar 1997 16:48:40 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hbk18$rid$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> Keywords: tabs syslog core In article <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> ghost@ghost.neosoft.com (Mark C. Allman) writes: > ... > Anyone having a problem running syslogd on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach? > When I run it from the command line with the -d (for debugging) > switch I get a seg fault, and when I run it w/o the -d I don't see > the process running. It also isn't in the process list ("ps -ax") > after booting up. >... Hi Mark, You may want to check that your /etc/syslog.conf file has tabs between the fields instead of spaces. This is one sure way to make syslogd dump core. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: Nabil HATHOUT <hathout@arcturus.ciril.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: how to deny rlogin to ftp guest accounts Date: 28 Mar 1997 11:20:24 +0100 Organization: CIRIL, Nancy, France Message-ID: <xdzlo78jp1z.fsf@arcturus.ciril.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, We have a Sun Sparc workstation running NextStep 3.2 on and we want to use it as ftp server in order to give project partners access to some of our data. Our problem is that we want these partners to be able to log on our machine via ftp but not via rlogin. Is there a mean to deny rlogin to some user without also denying ftp login ? Thanks in advance, Regards, -- Nabil Hathout ----------------------------Nabil Hathout--------------------------- CNRS INaLF Chteau du Montet Nabil.Hathout@inalf.cnrs-nancy.fr Rue du Doyen Roubault http://www.ciril.fr/~hathout/ F-54500 Vandoeuvre-ls-Nancy tl : +33 (0)3 83 44 74 40 France fax : +33 (0)3 83 44 38 29
From: klines@halcyon.com (Karen And Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 28 Mar 1997 01:34:16 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Message-ID: <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> In article <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com>, Karen And Nick Kline <klines@halcyon.com> wrote: > >I have the exact same mail problem. > >I am running ns 3.3 and I am connected to the next (foo.bar.com). I can >receive mail sent to me (nicknext.taltos.com) but I can't send mail out. More info. I could ping localhost, or nicknext.taltos.com, but not simply nicknext. I added a new machine in netinfo for nicknext, even though that seems unnecessary. Now I can ping nicknext, but when I try to send mail I still get a message from mailer-agent that says: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 klines@halcyon.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) My sendmail.cf points to the subsidiary one, and the additions I made: 25,32d24 < #my hostname < Cwnicknext < < DSmail.taltos.com < A friend with a linux box uses mail.taltos.com successfully now. My resolv.conf file is: #domain halcyon.com domain taltos.com #was commented out nameserver 198.137.231.1 #nameserver 198.137.231.1 nameserver 204.57.150.1 nameserver 192.135.191.1 My hostconfig is HOSTNAME=nicknext INETADDR=204.57.150.227 ROUTER=-ROUTED- IPNETMASK=255.255.255.240 IPBROADCAST=204.57.150.239 YPDOMAIN=-NO- NETMASTER=-NO- TIME=-AUTOMATIC- nidump hosts / reports: 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost 204.57.150.227 nicknext nidump -r / / reports includes: CHILDREN = ({ name = machines; CHILDREN = ({ name = localhost; ip_address = 127.0.0.1; serves = ./local; }, { name = broadcasthost; ip_address = 255.255.255.255; serves = (); }, { name = nicknext; ip_address = 204.57.150.227; serves = ./local; }); }, { hostname says 'nicknext' thanks for any help -nick -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Karen Kline 90% of success in life is just showing Woodinville, WA up. ------Woody Allen ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: 4.1 lookupd core dumps Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:23:08 +0100 Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <3338F90C.41C6@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: hlauer Hello, we just installed a machine with NextStep 4.1 in our mixed network, after having problems with the setup of NIS(YP) (the key are the release notes of the lookupd), now we have frequent kernel traps when trying to "su root" on the machine. First the machine does nothing and the after a while the trap occured. Every kernel trap leaves a core in /, wich seems to came from lookupd. I include below the configuration of lookupd from netinfo. Has somebody a working version which uses NIS(YPAgent), DNS(DNSAgent) and Netinfo(NIAgent) ? Leaving out one of them (as suggested by some news posting) is impossible on the setup used here. Another question: Is this problem new to 4.1, i. e., have somebody Version 4.0 running with a similar setup ? Thanks for any help/infos/replys. Hermann -----Configuration of lookupd--------------------------------- # nidump -r /locations/lookupd / name = lookupd; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent, FFAgent); CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }, { name = networks; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }); -------------------------------------------------------------- Hermann Lauer Bildverarbeitungsgruppe des Interdiziplinaeren Zentrums fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universitaet Heidelberg INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)548826 Fax: (06221)545224 Email: Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 26 Mar 1997 17:00:28 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hbknc$rus$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> In article <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: > But hey, just issuing security patches for known root holes would be a start > . . . I think it is fair to say that we have no support from NeXT when it comes to security problems. When something has a bug, we either go to great lengths to install a replacement or we disable services. If NeXT ever has a statement on CERT advisories, it has to be that the bug will be fixed in the next version of OpenStep. I wish they'll back port some of these patches. I have long given up the idea of giving acocunts on my NeXT system. It's just too unsafe. Blocking remote root attacks is at least a little more realistic. I am still upset about simple things like SYN flooding and big pings. NeXT has never made it's position on bug pings official. Our kernel is also not toughened against SYN flooding. While I can filter ICMP, I can't do anything about SYN flooding. SIGH. I look forward to the new Rhapsody effort. But I realize that many things have to change. Security has to drastically improve. I hope they have a bunch of guys working on this now. Rgds, Song PS: Rgding netinfo servers, make sure it's not accessible to the world! ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: recurve@wam.umd.edu (Aaron David Rosenzweig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sleeping Netinfo is eluding me Date: 28 Mar 1997 15:36:57 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <5hgoip$q06@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> I have an '030 Cube named xombi which I'd like to use as a Master NetInfo server and a slab named nanotech which I'd like to connect to it. Unforntuately I get the following error during bootup: Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries en0: netmask set to 0.0.0.0 lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to nanotech Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapFeb 6 10:17:21 nanotech syslogd: /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug: No such file or directory netinfo lookupdFeb 6 10:17:25 nanotech lookupd[98]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Unable to recirve; errno = Connection reset by peer Any help appreciated, thanks! -- The fervid Tubist, son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig. http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ finger recurve@old.wam.umd.edu to get my PGP key.
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(CD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 28 Mar 1997 17:03:37 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5hgtl9$15q@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> In article <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) writes: > In article <E7G5H3.1nG@flop.schwaben.de>, > Holger Hoffstaette <hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM> wrote: > >To the original poster: if you really can't get anything going > >without frequent panics, wipe out NI completely, restore from > >/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo and start again. > > I did that quite a few times before ever posting that I was having > problems. I did get a new lookupd from someone at NeXT, but I'm > *still* having problems. > > Now after about 24 hours or so, lookups start to get *very* > slow. It'll take forever to do a lookup on the server for one of the > computers that is in my domain, but is *not* in NetInfo. After about > 36 hours or so, the server hangs *so severely* that I cannot restart > it any other way than to push reset. Can't get into the NMI, nothing. > > So far it looks like there are serious problems with using 4.1 as a > NetInfo server. > Interesting. I've been using 4.1 as a NetInfo server (with 3 clones) on a 100 node network for about 6 months now. Aside from some 4.1-induced driver issues, I haven't had any problems. Certainly none with NetInfo anyway. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.tratus.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Syslogd: seg fault on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:17:54 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328091523.26744B-100000@kira> References: <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> <5hbk18$rid$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Chuang Shyne Song <csong@tip.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <5hbk18$rid$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> > You may want to check that your /etc/syslog.conf file has tabs between the > fields instead of spaces. This is one sure way to make syslogd dump core. This seems a little overly specific, especially since whitespace is generally ignored. I don't doubt that this is a way to dump syslogd, it just seems... ridiculous TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:28:21 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Karen And Nick Kline <klines@halcyon.com> In-Reply-To: <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> > but when I try to send mail I still get a message > from mailer-agent that says: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown so... is there a host named 'ether' somewhere that handles your mail? That is what this message seems to indicate is wrong. You might try finding the 'ether' setting in your sendmail config files and changing it to a hostname of a machine which can actually handle mail coming in and going out.... Or you might want to upgrade your sendmail config to 8.8.5 (there are instructions linked to my web page under 'other sites' and then 'Information') which may make this a lot simpler in the long run. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK (ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/put/next) META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! PAP access & GateKeeper Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:20:58 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092004.26744C-100000@kira> References: <5hflfb$29$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Seamus Dunne <dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <5hflfb$29$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> did 'man pppd' help at all? It describes how to setup PAP (and CHAP for that matter). TjL
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cannot stop PPP Date: 26 Mar 1997 18:11:47 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> Hello, I've just managed to start PPP as described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95 on Page 35. The Connection to my provider is working very well (WWW, E-Mail) but I can't stop anymore. They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find anything like this in the process-List. When I enter ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the connection is to restart the computer. This is not very funny. How do I manage to stop the connection? Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: sarlo@tezcat.com (sarlo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 26 Mar 1997 21:13:38 GMT Organization: Breakfast at Tezcat. Message-ID: <5hc3i2$624@tepe.tezcat.com> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler (distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu) wrote: : Would be nice if there were *some* focus on security in the NeXTStep : distribution. Personally, I'd like to see support for Pluggable : Authentication Modules, like in Solaris and RedHat Linux. : But hey, just issuing security patches for known root holes would be a start On my box, I have a total of 2 suid files: Terminal and Workspace. Granted, not a very friendly operating environment except for root, but then, i'm one of 2 people who use it... ps, as far as i can tell can allow you to get kmem priviledges if a race condition is exploited. Several other holes exist that I found. Basicly, un-suiding anything that isn't needed is a good start. Running qmail instead of sendmail is another. I don't even need to go into netinfo's problems - they're a nightmare, and unfortunatly, as far as i can tell, they are needed in order to keep the machine up, even in a stand-alone fashion. It would be nice if the kids at NeXT payed a little bit of attention to security details, but alas, I'm not counting on it. -- sarlo@tezcat.com - Sarlykins. | I was lying in bed, looking up at the EXXON - Put a tiger in your | stars when I suddenly thought to myself, tank! And while you're at it, | "Where the fuck did my roof go?" toss in a few dead otters too. | -EXXON Ad, 1989 | Alternatives: sarlo@chinet.com http://www.tezcat.com/~sarlo sarlo@pyrotechnics.com \||// sarlo@2600.com Don'tcha love bongo-.sigs? oO sarlo@blight.com ()^() Pttht. sarlo@ripco.com U /~~~~~~ root@mcs.net
From: ferengi@legend.txdirect.net (Conceptual Mindworks Inc.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network Connections Date: 28 Mar 1997 19:58:17 GMT Organization: Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <5hh7sp$7d6$1@eclipse.txdirect.net> Hello All, Is it possible to use both the 10-Base2 and 10-BaseT connectors at the same time? My first guess is no but I just want to be sure. Thanks and party on Dudes, Dan aka Ferengi
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HostManager Question Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 02:07:06 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corp. Message-ID: <333B27CA.1069@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi NeXTians, Could someone tell me why HostManagerdoes not allow me to alter the Internet Address in the Local configuration? I had PPP working and then tried to install gatekeeper and now PPP doesn't work and I can't change the Internet Address value. I am running Openstep 4.1 on Mach if that makes a difference. Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Marking bad sectors? References: <33368E0A.81B@FreeFall.com.au> Organization: University of Calgary CPSC From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Message-ID: <333a0132.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 27 Mar 97 05:10:10 GMT In article <33368E0A.81B@FreeFall.com.au>, Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> wrote: > >Hi; > >is there any way of marking bad sectors on a SCSI, 4.3-formatted hard >disk? >(this is black NS 3.2). > >Thanks, > >Piotr > >piotr@FreeFall.com.au > This is what worked for me: Login as root, or (better) su to root in a terminal window from an ordinary account which is a member of the wheel group. First make sure you really have bad blocks as spare blocks are limited in number. (Thanks for the next bit to Fabien Roy, originally) Think it very easy to test the disk for bad reading blocks: as root type dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/null bs=512k and some time later: 812+1 records in 812+1 records out which says I have a wealthy 400Meg drive. --Fabien ___________________________________________________________________ Fabien Roy fabien@free.fdn.org NeXTmail OK --------------------- OK, he meant to say "healthy" but this can be done safely on any disk, it is non-destructive and simply reads the disk into the biit bucket. This is done from a terminal window, but open the console window too as there is critical info there (namely the bad block number in both hex and decimal. It is the decimal number you are interested in). Having determined the bad block, use reasb to re-assign it (this accesses the disk hardware and makes a completely transparent fix, as though the bad block never existed) Thus if the device was /dev/rsd0a (as in Fabien's example) and the bad block was 212382 base 10 then type reasb /dev/rsd0a 212382 and you should get a message saying the block was re-assigned. You can repeat the bad blocks test and see if it now runs clean. If not, repeat the re-assignment (I've only ever had 2 bad blocks, one on each of two separate occasions, same drive). Provided your drive didn't run out of spare blocks, you have an error free drive. The pointer to reasb I also got off the net, but have lost the reference. Thanks to whoever provided that information to me originally. There is a manual page. This is all for an original black NeXT computer. Good luck. david --- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: gary-nospam-@screaming.org (Gary W. Longsine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 28 Mar 1997 23:18:34 GMT Organization: Save the Skeet Foundation Message-ID: <5hhjka$fiv$1@news.platinum.com> References: <5gpn3a$6o3@news.zocalo.net> <5grg5o$jg0@crcnis3.unl.edu> <E7G5H3.1nG@flop.schwaben.de> <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> Cc: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us In <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> it appeared that Chris Osborn wrote: > In article <E7G5H3.1nG@flop.schwaben.de>, > Holger Hoffstaette <hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM> wrote: > >To the original poster: if you really can't get anything going > >without frequent panics, wipe out NI completely, restore from > >/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo and start again. > > I did that quite a few times before ever posting that I was having > problems. I did get a new lookupd from someone at NeXT, but I'm > *still* having problems. > > Now after about 24 hours or so, lookups start to get *very* > slow. It'll take forever to do a lookup on the server for one of the > computers that is in my domain, but is *not* in NetInfo. After about > 36 hours or so, the server hangs *so severely* that I cannot restart > it any other way than to push reset. Can't get into the NMI, nothing. > > So far it looks like there are serious problems with using 4.1 as a > NetInfo server. As far as I can tell, lookupd on OpenStep 4.1 is marginally functional. I can't get it to work properly with NIS on either NeXT or Intel. (On Intel, I can run the NS3.3 lookupd, and everything that I use -- NIS & DNS -- works fine. On NeXT hardware, this swapout does not work.) The symptom you describe is classic binary-has-a-serious-defect material. You *might* talk to NeXT - maybe there is another update after the one you got. watch the vsize on your lookupd... it may have a leak and be growing so badly that it fills your VM... mine's been up for 5 days, and is less than 2MB VSIZE, and is 400k RSIZE. (I'm running the NS3.3patcha lookupd on an OPENSTEP 4.1/intel system). PID USERNAME STATE PRI NICE THR VSIZE RSIZE %MEM %CPU TIME COMMAND 122 root SW 10 0 1 1808K 400K 0.61 0.00 0:02 lookupd If the lookupd you have is functional (i.e. if it provides the services you need until it causes the machine to lock up) you can set a cron job to kill and restart lookupd every night or something like that. If you find that lookupd is growing for you, do some checking to see if a "kill -1" will cause it to free the bogusly claimed memory (that would be nice... but don't hold your breath) If not, you'll need to spank harder. dinobert # uptime 5:05pm up 5 days, 5:30, 3 users, load average: 1.72, 1.77, 1.79 /gary -- Gary W. Longsine, Systems Engineer | ____/| OpenStep, MachOS, PLATINUM Technologies, Inc. | \ o.O| Objective-C: l_o_n_gsine@platinum.com (NeXTmail | =(_)= (Can i have his spam?) & MIME) |. U Elegance is Relevant.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> Organization: University of Calgary CPSC From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Message-ID: <333a0432.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 27 Mar 97 05:22:58 GMT In article <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de>, <andreas@lynet.de> wrote: >Hello, > >I've just managed to start PPP as described in >NEXTTOYOU 4/95 on Page 35. The Connection to >my provider is working very well (WWW, E-Mail) >but I can't stop anymore. >They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID >is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find >anything like this in the process-List. When I enter >ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps >itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the >connection is to restart the computer. This is not >very funny. > >How do I manage to stop the connection? >Any ideas? Thanks in advance! > >Andreas > You need to type "ps -uaxcg | grep pppd" and this will print a list of all running processes and use grep to print out only the lines relevant to pppd (leave out the " | pppd" if you want to see all the running processes). Now you have the PID. I usually run pppd from a terminal window (via kermit) and simply type my interrupt character when I want to terminate it, but you can find out the process number as above and kill it as you said you wanted to. Hope this helps. david ---- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reporting connect rates using PPP Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:48:19 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970326193710.22579C-100000@kira> References: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> > My PPP installation used to capture connect rates in the log file. It > doesn't any longer. Sounds like something changed your modem initialization. Check your modem manual > I know the modem still reports connect rates, because when I use tip to > dial out to my ISP, it reports the connect rate. I use the "-v" option in > the chat script. I am using PPP 2.2.0. Hmm...ok maybe I was wrong above.... are you using any init strings in 'chat'?? Maybe that changed something. > Also, on my Turbo machine, I cannot use the rate 57600--it claims it is a > bad rate. I got the Turbo machine specifically to get the 57600 throughput > on the port. What do I need to do to get the higher throughput? That doesn't make any sense... It should "just work"... You might try going to ppp2.3, I've been using that for awhile (since it came out) and it works very well. TjL
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 28 Mar 1997 23:28:20 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5hhk6k$68s@news.next.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > > but when I try to send mail I still get a message > > from mailer-agent that says: > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > > so... is there a host named 'ether' somewhere that handles your mail? > > That is what this message seems to indicate is wrong. Nope. It's saying that the "ether" mailer can't contact the machine known as "mailhost". "mailhost" is the default name in our config files for the upstream mail relay. But if you don't use SimpleNetworkStarter (or some other mechanism) to define who that really is, this is what you get. I think the original poster needs to use SNS to define his machine as it's own mail server, then edit the /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf file to define who his upstream host is. joe
From: appleyar@ohsu.edu (Richard J Appleyard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! NS Harddrive Crash Recovery Date: 29 Mar 1997 00:15:23 GMT Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University Message-ID: <5hhmur$hpj@fremont.ohsu.edu> I am running NS3.2 on black HW (NeXTStation Mono). The HD will not boot up. It hangs at "root on sd0". I am able to boot off the CD-ROM using a bootable floppy. I have 'fsck' the drive and it now checks out fine. I have even mounted it and checked the 'init' and 'mach_init' files. What should I try now? I have checked NeXTAnswers and the FAQs to no avail. Thanks, Richard. -- Dr Richard J Appleyard, Medical Informatics Fellow AMIA Internet WG Newsletter Editor, Maintainer WWW VL Medicine Index Biomedical Info. Comm. Ctr (BICC), Oregon Health Sciences Univ. appleyar@ohsu.edu, Voice (503) 494-1230, Fax (503) 494-4551 "To err is human, but to really screw things up takes a computer!"
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Windows NT as NFS server workable? Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:27:00 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Sender: fygir@194.229.196.70 Message-ID: <5hdsj4$ncm$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Does anyone have a working setup with a Windows NT machine as NFS server and a NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP Mach/UNIX system as NFS client? We are having a ball here (not!), with Maestro running on the NT server. (This is NFS Maestro Server V 5.1.3 from Hummingbird.) The automounter seems to be totally ignored, so putting the NT directories to be mounted in NetInfo (with NFSMangager.app) is useless. Mounting from a Terminal window by typing the commands works, but the result is that both `ls` and the File Viewer only show a subset of the files, the first few entries. Not a fixed number, but it seems related to the total length of all the filenames. We have been varying all possible parameters - rsize/wsize spring to mind - but without effect. Can anyone confirm these observations, or better, does anybody have a proper NFS server for Windows NT? Thanks in advance for your comments, Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:46:26 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <knD_mmK00iWn0=VnQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 28-Mar-97 Re: Mail domain problems by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > > so... is there a host named 'ether' somewhere that handles your mail? Nope. It's the name of the mailer which is handling that address. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Kill-Script does not work Date: 27 Mar 1997 19:19:28 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> Hallo, I just tried to kill a process with a Script containing the following line: kill 'ps -ax | egrep "PopOver" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/' The Result is an errormessage like: usage kill [ -sig] pid... [process terminated - exit code 2] I'm not an expert in cryptical unix-cripts, so I have absolutely no idea, what the kill-string above does and why. I just copied it from NEXTTOYOU and hoped, it would work, but it didn't. Any ideas? Andreas
From: Matthew Estes <Matthew.Estes@rose-hulman.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NIS Masters Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:25:13 -0500 Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Message-ID: <33371B69.6F89@rose-hulman.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I currently use a Silicon Graphics machine as an NIS Master. I will be changing the NIS Master to a different SGI machine during some upgrades on the original Master. However, after configuring the new NIS Master machine, the Next machines in my lab cannot find the new master. They work fine as soon as I reactivated the old master, however. The other SGIs in the lab find the new master instantly. Why can't the Nexts find it? -- Matthew Estes, Imaging Lab Manager, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Matthew.Estes@rose-hulman.edu "Always busy, just make time."
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Kill-Script does not work Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:09:11 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970327134638.7690F-100000@kira> References: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: andreas@lynet.de In-Reply-To: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> save this text below into an ascii file: #!/bin/sh name=`basename $0` for i in $* do echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |grep -v $name| \ grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '` done exit 0 # done -- this should be the last line of the file save the text file as 'pid' and do this: 'chmod 755 pid' then move 'pid' to somewhere like /usr/local/bin and type 'rehash' This will allow you to get the PID of a process by entering pid PopOver at the commandline. For example, if you wanted to know the PID of Mail.app, pppd, and PopOver, you could use pid Mail.app ppp PopOver if you want to QUIT PopOver.app, you could do this: kill -QUIT `pid PopOver.app` If you wanted to kill it dead, you could use kill -9 `pid PopOver.app` NOTE: 'pid' is case-sensitive. To make it NON case-sensitive, use 'grep -i -w' rather than 'grep -w' in the code above... For those of you would like to know what this does, I'll walk through it #!/bin/sh << this says what shell the script should use name=`basename $0` << this gets the name of this program and puts it into a variable called 'name' the `basename $0` turns '/usr/local/bin/pid' into 'pid' for i in $* << this says "enter a loop and do it once for do << each argument (that is, each word after "pid") echo ` ` << just says "print to the screen what the command << inside the ` ` gives as output /bin/ps -auxwww << this gets a listing of ALL processes grep -v grep << says "ignore the process with the name "grep" or else we'll get the wrong number grep -v $name << ignore the PID of this program grep -w $i << accept the process line for this argument (ie 'PopOver if you called this program as 'pid PopOver' awk '{print $2}' << of that process line, take the second entry tr -s '\012' ' ' << tells it to 'translate' (tr) and 'substitute' (-s) carriage returns (\012) for simple spaces ' ' done << end of the loop exit 0 <<exit with a nice zero, indicating success I started writing this a few days ago and got side tracked for some reason. I hope it is still useful information. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK (ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/put/next) META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Sleeping Netinfo is eluding me Message-ID: <E7t11L.1rL@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hgoip$q06@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 12:22:33 GMT In article <5hgoip$q06@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> recurve@wam.umd.edu (Aaron David Rosenzweig) writes: > I have an '030 Cube named xombi which I'd like to use as a Master > NetInfo server and a slab named nanotech which I'd like to connect > to it. > > Unforntuately I get the following error during bootup: > > Checking disks > /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries > en0: netmask set to 0.0.0.0 > lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to nanotech > Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping > on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy > devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. > Starting RPC and network services: portmapFeb 6 10:17:21 nanotech > syslogd: /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug: No such file or directory > netinfo lookupdFeb 6 10:17:25 nanotech lookupd[98]: netinfo sleeping: > RPC: Unable to recirve; errno = Connection reset by peer > The network on "xombi" has not been properly configured (looks like a typical RTFM violation to me). And after installing PPP no automatic procedure in SimpleNetworkStarter.app might lead to a proper configuration. You either get a networking guru on site who is apt in the NEXTSTEP specialities or redo the whole customization from scratch. For the latter first study the appropriate sections in the online sysadmin manual /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf. The copy /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig and /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/* to /etc and reboot. Then run SNS and redo the PPP configuration (plus anything else you did to customize your network). -- 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: brisinda@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dale &) Message-ID: <BRISINDA.97Mar29163713@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 29 Mar 1997 23:37:13 GMT Organization: University of Calgary Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Networking OpenStep (Print Server) to WindowsNT Distribution: world Hi all, here is the scenario: I have a NeXTstation Turbo (hades) w/ NeXT printer attached and I have a Pentium machine (pegasus) running WindowsNT and OpenStep. I've successfully networked the two machines together when *both* are running NeXTSTEP and OpenStep (hades acts as a remote print server to pegasus, and there is also filesystem sharing on both ends). Now I'd like to do the same for WindowsNT and hades. Problem is (or is it?) that pegasus is the primary netinfo server and the primary netinfo server is off-line when WindowsNT is running (same machine). When I reboot pegasus to run WindowsNT, hades freezes up becoming unusable. So how can I easily get WindowsNT on pegasus to send print requests to hades? On a related note, do I have to do anything special in WindowsNT to convert print output from standard apps (Word, etc.) to PostScript before it sends it down the pipe to hades? Thanks, Dale --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html -- --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:47:59 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As I have mentioned previously, I'm about to add an Intel to my slab. The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. I'm looking for creative suggestions on how to config these two machines (connected via Ethernet) so they can be connected but not dependent. FAQ & other pointers appreciated TjL
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From: brisinda@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dale &) Message-ID: <BRISINDA.97Mar29170300@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 30 Mar 1997 00:03:00 GMT Organization: University of Calgary Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Networking breaks Mathematica 2.x??? Distribution: world Hi all, I've recently networked a NS black machine running Mathematica 2.x with an NS Pentium machine. Problem is that Mathematica no longer works! It launches, but then when I ask it to evaluate some expression the disk cursor just spins endlessly... I'm guessing this has something to do with launching a remote vs local math kernel -- since it was working fine before the networking. Help! Dale --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html -- --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html
From: Jiunn-jye Huang<jjhuang@cm.nctu.edu.tw> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: compiling samba-1.9.16p11 problems under NS 3.3? Date: 30 Mar 1997 08:02:26 GMT Organization: Dept. of Comm, Natinoal Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan Message-ID: <5hl6mi$l92@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Sorry, I don't know how to program in UNIX, so I don't know what the problem is when I compiled samba-1.9.16p11.... Maybe somebody answered this question before, but I can't find in the c.s.n.s newsgroup, I just found a post of editing chgpasswd.c and system.c, and I failed compiling *before* editing, and failed *after* editing. So I really don't know what problem is. I got the messages below, Thanks in advance: Using CFLAGS = -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="WORKGROUP" -DGUEST_ACCOUNT="nobody" -DNEXT3_0 -arch m68k -arch i386 -arch hppa -arch sparc Using LIBS = Compiling server.c For architecture m68k: server.c: In function `main': server.c:4064: `O_NONBLOCK' undeclared (first use this function) server.c:4064: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once server.c:4064: for each function it appears in.) *** Exit 1 Stop. -- T = Jiunn-jye Huang Administrator of Taiwan main NeXT ftp site, ftp://ftp.cm.nctu.edu.tw/ ===============================#========================================= Dept. of Communication Eng. # mailto:jjhuang@cm.nctu.edu.tw National Chiao Tung University # NeXTMail,PGP,MIME are welcome! 1001 Rd. University # URL http://www.cm.nctu.edu.tw/~jjhuang Hsin Chu City # Phone: +886-3-5726111 x82408/x54592 300 Taiwan # PGP Key ID=0xC40BC8B5 on Key Server ===============================#=========================================
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:49:03 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira>, Tim Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > As I have mentioned previously, I'm about to add an Intel to my slab. > > The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) > > There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. > > I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. > > I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines > can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used > as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. > > I'm looking for creative suggestions on how to config these two machines > (connected via Ethernet) so they can be connected but not dependent. > > FAQ & other pointers appreciated > > TjL Do you want useful or creative? Here is the creative solution: Format the drives as Apple Mac drives and serve them up using CAP or something like that. Then you can install the AppleTalk program from the 3.0 disk and access them as AppleTalk drives. Alternatively, you could just FTP to each drive from whatever machine wasn't directly connected. You can do this without CAP or AppleTalk. Mitch
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: 30 Mar 1997 20:35:49 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hmir5$d89@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> > In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira>, Tim Luoma > <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > As I have mentioned previously, I'm about to add an Intel to my slab. > > > > The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) > > > > There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. > > > > I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. > > > > I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines > > can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used > > as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. > > > > I'm looking for creative suggestions on how to config these two machines > > (connected via Ethernet) so they can be connected but not dependent. > > > > FAQ & other pointers appreciated > > > > TjL I'm not sure what you mean by not dependent. If they'll both be turned on all the time, here's what I'd do: Use the internal 105 as a swapdisk for the slab. Use the 2.1M as a swapdisk and /tmp for the Intel box. Attach the 300M drive to either computer and make it the bootdisk. Attach the 1G drive to the other computer and make it the bootdisk. NFSmount the 1G drive on the other computer. --------- ------------------ | Intel |-----ether------| Slab - 105disk | --------- / ------------------ | /--NFS---/ | ------ / ------ | 1G |---/ | .3G| ------ ------ | ------ | 2.1 | ------ But that's just me...... :) And I'm a neophyte. :) -- Jon Haveman
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:08:45 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970330130325.26147A-100000@kira> References: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> <5hmir5$d89@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jon Haveman <jon@haveman.org> In-Reply-To: <5hmir5$d89@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> > I'm not sure what you mean by not dependent. If I wake up one day and one machine is on fire I'd like the other machine to still be working just fine (or with minimal problems). On a smaller scale: if one disk dies I'd like to have the other machine up and running still. > If they'll both be turned on all the time I would guess they would, except the Intel may be running Win* at some point in the future, and I'd like for the slab to be able to keep running even when the Intel is on Win* mode. > Use the internal 105 as a swapdisk for the slab. > Use the 2.1M as a swapdisk and /tmp for the Intel box. > Attach the 300M drive to either computer and make it the bootdisk. > Attach the 1G drive to the other computer and make it the bootdisk. > NFSmount the 1G drive on the other computer. Sorry, I meant to say 2.1GIG, which seems like a lot of space for swap and /tmp ;-) Thanks for your suggestion, by changing the 300meg and the "2.1M" in the above I think that's a god suggestion. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK (ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/put/next) META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! NS Harddrive Crash Recovery Date: 29 Mar 1997 14:10:04 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Message-ID: <5hj7rs$v06$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> References: <5hhmur$hpj@fremont.ohsu.edu> Cc: In article <5hhmur$hpj@fremont.ohsu.edu>, Richard J Appleyard <appleyar@ohsu.edu> wrote: >I am running NS3.2 on black HW (NeXTStation Mono). > >The HD will not boot up. It hangs at "root on sd0". Let it sit there for a couple of minutes, then type 'bsd' to boot If you can make it boot this way, this means the drive is flaky when cold and works fine whenever the drive is hot. Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! NS Sys Admin inVancouver BC? Date: 30 Mar 1997 23:04:54 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5hmrim$jjp$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Is there anyone in the Vancouver BC area who could help me with some periodic system admin on my NeXT Cube w NS 3.3? ....and of course, I expect you'd deserve some remuneration for your time. Thanks Seamus -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 31 Mar 1997 11:04:27 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5ho5nr$l0h$3@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> Cc: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu In <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> Jeromy Hollenshead wrote: > if I try to send a message to name@tamu.edu from the next it doesn't > seem to search farther than the local system for the name and it > reports nothing as if the mail was sent. Is there anyway I can send > this error to get mailed back to the user that sent the message?? > I have the exact same problem. If I try to send mail to user@mhpcc.edu, it tries to send it to that user on the local NEXTSTEP machine. There must be a definitive solution to this in how one sets up the /etc/hostconfig, /etc/resolv.conf, etc. files. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: 31 Mar 1997 12:57:27 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hocbn$1et@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970330130325.26147A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes > Jon Haveman writes: > > Use the internal 105 as a swapdisk for the slab. > > Use the 2.1M as a swapdisk and /tmp for the Intel box. > > Attach the 300M drive to either computer and make it the bootdisk. > > Attach the 1G drive to the other computer and make it the bootdisk. > > NFSmount the 1G drive on the other computer. > > Sorry, I meant to say 2.1GIG, which seems like a lot of space for swap and > /tmp ;-) Heh, and 2.1M seems just a wee bit small for any drive, let alone a swap drive. Oops.... :) -- Jon Haveman
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: 29 Mar 97 00:38:57 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> In-reply-to: Charles William Swiger's message of Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:10:44 -0500 In article <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Mar-97 Cannot stop PPP by andreas@lynet.de > They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID is the process-Id of > pppd, but I cannot find anything like this in the process-List. > When I enter ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for > ps itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the connection > is to restart the computer. This is not very funny. Try 'ps aux', or 'ps aux | grep pppd'. Or just do "kill `cat /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid`". pppd puts its pid into ppp0.pid when it makes your connection ... in fact, here's a program: slave:/Users/scott> cat /usr/local/ppp/src/killppp.c /* killppp, Scott Hess <shess@winternet.com> */ /* Read the pid for pppd and kill that specific process, without being root. */ /* On NeXTSTEP: cc -O -object -o killppp killppp.c */ /* chown root.wheel killppp ; chmod 6755 killppp */ #include <libc.h> #include <stdio.h> void main( void) { FILE *ff; int pid; ff=fopen( "/etc/ppp/ppp0.pid", "r"); if( ff==NULL) { perror( "opening ppp0.pid"); exit( 1); } if( fscanf( ff, "%d", &pid)<1) { fprintf( stderr, "Unable to read pid from ppp0.pid\n"); exit( 1); } fclose( ff); if( kill( pid, SIGINT)==-1) { perror( "killing pppd"); } } Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 06:12:29 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331055123.16238B-100000@kira> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Scott Hess <shess@one.net> In-Reply-To: <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> > Or just do "kill `cat /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid`". pppd puts its pid into > ppp0.pid when it makes your connection ... in fact, here's a program: (note of obviousness: this might be ppp1.pid if you are using ppp1) Note of less-obviousness: I _think_ that the .pid file is root-read-only (chmod 600). That might just be peculiar to my setup. Anyway, you'll want to check it on your system to see if it is, and if you want to change it (which I do via /etc/ppp/ip-up: chmod 444 /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "NEXTSTEP computers come with a set of uncomplicated yet powerful networking app lications, ... which reside in the /NextAdmin directory." -- NeXT online docs (01_Planning.rtf)
From: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to get NeXTSpell.service into 'Services? Date: 31 Mar 1997 17:39:46 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5host2$f5@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <5h9hef$omo@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> teb@eng.cam.ac.uk wrote: >Hi, fairly new to OpenStep 4.0 and thus have no >idea how to activate the NeXTSpell checker as it >is done e.g. with Enhance-Mail or even better in >'Services! > Nothing to do. Try Edit->Spelling ... Or did I get something wrong ... Greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz http://www.leo.org/~scholz/ Peanuts FTP Admin http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@leo.org, (StuSta ONLY: boerny@xenia.stusta.mhn.de)
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:47:42 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970330163946.25118C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira> <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net, luomat@peak.org In-Reply-To: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > > The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) > > There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. > > I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. > > > > I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines > > can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used > > as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. Here's my suggestion: Hook the 1 gig and 105 to the slab (use the 105 as swapdisk). Hook the 2.1 gig and 300 meg to the intel box (use the 300 as swap and temp). Use NFS to mount the 2.1 gig on the NeXT and the 1.0 gig on the Intel. Thus each computer has adequate local storage, but still has access to the total shared space. (excluding the swapdisks, but why bother sharing those anyway?) 105 megs is not enough to do much useful on the slab. If you don't want to dedicate a gig to the slab, use the 300meg drive for it. Then put the 1gig, 2gig, and 105meg drives on the Intel box, using the 105 for swap. Share via NFS as above. > Here is the creative solution: > > Format the drives as Apple Mac drives and serve them up using CAP or > something like that. Then you can install the AppleTalk program from the > 3.0 disk and access them as AppleTalk drives. Now that *is* creative. :) Unfortunately, I don't think NEXTSTEP or OpenStep will install or run on a mac-formatted disk. > Alternatively, you could just FTP to each drive from whatever machine > wasn't directly connected. You can do this without CAP or AppleTalk. Ugh. I've had to do that before when NFS wasn't an option. No fun. -Isaac
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep for NT? Date: 31 Mar 1997 21:21:16 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5hp9sc$du2@ecuador.earthlink.net> Hello, I am interested in Openstep for NT. However, Im not quite sure what it is. I am now using NSFIP 3.3. Is it similar, but just running on NT? Could I use the NeXTMail app in NT, etc? Or is it just for developers? Thank you. -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@ucla.edu> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: josh hoge <jhoge@pollux.cs.uga.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT cube hangs on boot: culprit = inetd Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:40:47 -0500 Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Message-ID: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Help! My non- networked NeXT cube hangs on inetd on startup. It stops booting after the inetd process is launched. Killing inetd on startup resumes the startup, but netinfo complains and none of the administration utils will work. The hard disk was built using build disk on a cube networked cube running NS 3.2. This may account for the network problem, but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Josh
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 31 Mar 1997 22:52:06 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm243-24.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hallo all. I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS Essentials, so the install process crashes. I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to partition the disk and install the NS by hand? Any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you. Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: sk68@cornell.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cube hangs on boot: culprit = inetd Date: 1 Apr 1997 00:26:21 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <5hpknd$c41@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> josh hoge <jhoge@pollux.cs.uga.edu> wrote: >Help! My non- networked NeXT cube hangs on inetd on startup. It stops >booting after the inetd process is launched. Killing inetd on startup >resumes the startup, but netinfo complains and none of the >administration utils will work. The hard disk was built using build >disk on a cube networked cube running NS 3.2. This may account for the >network problem, but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly >appreciated. Thanks. > >--Josh Hi Josh, I don't you try "cleaning out" the NetInfo database? If you need to know how to do this, please email me. Best regards, Sung Ho Kim sk68@cornell.edu
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: 31 Mar 1997 16:38:49 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.859854747@shellx> I've been using PPP 2.2 from thoughtport for a long time without trouble. I'd like to configure it to dial out "on demand." In other words, I want it to transparently bring up the net connection as needed, like when I access the web or attempt to login to a remote machine. Is this possible? Can someone point me to docs on how to do this? Thanks. -sam
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:21:19 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331200516.7158A-100000@kira> References: <sams.859854747@shellx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Samuel G. Streeper" <sams@best.com> In-Reply-To: <sams.859854747@shellx> > I've been using PPP 2.2 from thoughtport for a long > time without trouble. I'd like to configure it > to dial out "on demand." In other words, I want > it to transparently bring up the net connection > as needed, like when I access the web or attempt > to login to a remote machine. > Is this possible? Can someone point me to docs > on how to do this? I've been using the 2.3 "beta" version with no ill effects and some new features -- but dial on demand is not one of them. Gatekeeper.app can help you do this but you have to setup BIND and a DNS on your machine, which is a lot of hassle IMO, and I have not heard a lot of people say they have had good luck with it. If you want a less-comprehensive but still helpful version of dial on "demand" you can checkout http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul/DialOnDemand.htmld which has an app which will watch for when you launch certain apps and bring the link up when you launch them (ie you can tell it to bring the connection up when you launch OmniWeb, for example). Obvious limitations... I've been thinking of seting up DOD once I ge my Intel and my new drive... Here are the URLs for the DOD package for gatekeeper.... not for the faint of heart as I've said, but I'd love to hear from anyone who has it working or gets it working... ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.README.rtf ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.s.tar.gz TjL ps -- the docs for ppp2.3 (spec. 'man pppd') talk about a 'demand' option, but it is not implemented with the NS-port. -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "NEXTSTEP computers come with a set of uncomplicated yet powerful networking app lications, ... which reside in the /NextAdmin directory." -- NeXT online docs (01_Planning.rtf)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 04:41:08 -0600 From: Geoff.Hopson@mindless.com Subject: Initializing a Jaz disk on OpenStep4.1 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <859890567.10215@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Hi, I am having problems initializing a Jaz disk under OpenStep 4.1 on Intel/Mach. I can format the disk under OpenStep, and the drive works perfectly well under Win95. The diskette in question formats and operates correctly under Win95 too. I am using the disktab entry from NextAnswers, shown below: IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ :fp#160:bp#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: The error I get is as follows: moose:5# disk -i -l "JazDisk" /dev/rsd1a disk name: IOMEGAJAZ-1G disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1032192 72 4 8192 1024 16 10 90 4096 t /dev/rsd1a: 1032192 sectors in 3584 cylinders of 4 tracks, 72 sectors 1057.0Mb in 224 cyl groups (16 c/g, 4.72Mb/g, 1088 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:write error: 32 wtfs: Not enough memory /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) The hardware is a Toshiba Tecra 730 with 80Meg of RAM, sitting in a deskstation, with the AMD PCI SCSI adaptor ....any clues? TIA Geoff -- +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Geoff Hopson | Geoff.Hopson@mindless.com | | Senior Telecomms Architect | http://www.datacomm.ch/~hopson | | SYSTOR AG | "I never make predictions, | | Baslerstrasse 60, 8048 Zurich | and I never will" | +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 08:39:38 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <33411E2A.3B26@ti.com> References: <sams.859854747@shellx> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331200516.7158A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I've been using the 2.3 "beta" version with no ill effects and some new > features -- but dial on demand is not one of them. >[munch] > ps -- the docs for ppp2.3 (spec. 'man pppd') talk about a 'demand' > option, but it is not implemented with the NS-port. That will change soon. I will begin work on 2.3 within this month (Yep... I finally finished school! ;). One thing I would like to do is to support the demand dial features of 2.3. The code is in the LKS but it has not been tested. Hopefully, lots of things regarding PPP will become much easier with round two of development (and PPP-2.3). - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 07:43:30 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970401073924.16171C-100000@kira> References: <sams.859854747@shellx> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331200516.7158A-100000@kira> <33411E2A.3B26@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <33411E2A.3B26@ti.com> > > I've been using the 2.3 "beta" version with no ill effects and some new > > features -- but dial on demand is not one of them. > > ps -- the docs for ppp2.3 (spec. 'man pppd') talk about a 'demand' > > option, but it is not implemented with the NS-port. > That will change soon. I will begin work on 2.3 within this month > (Yep... I finally finished school! ;). One thing I would like to do is > to support the demand dial features of 2.3. The code is in the LKS but > it has not been tested. Hopefully, lots of things regarding PPP will > become much easier with round two of development (and PPP-2.3). This is excellent news! I'd like to take this chance to publically thank you for all the work you have put in on this project (where would I be w/out PPP???) -- and of course I'll be a guinea pig for whatever you come up with as far as beta-versions. The mysterious panics which seemed related to PPP have dropped off significantly -- right after my ISP updated their modem pool -- I think I am getting a lot less junk at connect time. I consider PPP a very stable work, and that's the 2.3 version which is still 'beta' itself I believe! Anyway, thanks for the tip (will DOD require a static IP?) Maybe I won't setup my own DNS after all ;-) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "NEXTSTEP computers come with a set of uncomplicated yet powerful networking app lications, ... which reside in the /NextAdmin directory." -- NeXT online docs (01_Planning.rtf)
From: khader@vnet.net (R. D. Khader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT Disk message? Date: 1 Apr 1997 16:31:33 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779 Message-ID: <5hrd95$3sp$1@ralph.vnet.net> My NS3.3 Intel has two disks an NT and a NS disk. Every time I boot from the NS disk Workspace asks about initializing the NT disk. How can I stop this message from comming all the time, I am affraid I will hit the wrong button and reformat the disk accidently. Also how can I read that NT file system from the NS environment? Thanks, khader@vnet.net
From: gadallah@value.net (Larry Gadallah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 1 Apr 1997 17:25:49 GMT Organization: Value Net Internetwork Services Inc. Message-ID: <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote: : I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer : (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning : completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS : Essentials, so the install process crashes. : I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could : anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I : suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? : Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to : partition the disk and install the NS by hand? I have the same question as Rudolf, except that I am running on black hardware and trying to install 3.3 on a single 2.1 Gb partition. The installer insists on repartitioning the disk into two 1 Gb chunks. Anyone know how to "get around" the installer? Thanks, Larry Gadallah gadallah@value.net
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Routing a LAN to the Internet Date: 1 Apr 1997 18:35:52 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5hrki8$7mn$1@lynet.de> Hello, I've just installed PPP on Computer A as described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95 by Uli Zappe. PPP is working very well on this Computer, wich is additionally the NetInfo-, Email-,...Server of a small LAN. I now want to be able to access the Internet from each Computer in the LAN, when the PPP-Connection between Computer A and my Provider is up. So I suppose I need to declare Computer A as a Router to all other Computers in the LAN, but how do I do that? I tried set the RouterField in HostManager/local/Router to the ip-address of Computer A but that doesn't change anything. I still cannot ping my provider from another Computer than Computer A, wich is hosting the PPP-Connection. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: llefton@math.uno.edu (Lew Lefton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Floppy won't stay in drive Date: 1 Apr 1997 19:57:23 GMT Organization: University of New Orleans Message-ID: <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> Hello, We have a 3.5 in floppy disk which, when inserted into our 68040 slabs running NeXTstep 2.1, is immediately ejected. The console shows the following: Apr 1 09:39:51 Workspace[20976]: ...Ready Disk Label: UntitledDisk Disk Capacity 1440 KB, Device Block 512 bytes fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RECALIBRATE fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RECALIBRATE fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RECALIBRATE fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: FATAL Apr 1 09:59:30 Workspace[20976]: Workspace: 'mounted' message received for unknown device Any suggestions for getting the data off of this bad diskette? Thanks! P.S. Is there any archive of old postings to this newsgroup? Thanks again. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Lew Lefton | Phone: (504) 280-7441 | | Department of Mathematics | FAX: (504) 280-5516 | | University of New Orleans | e-mail: llefton@math.uno.edu | | New Orleans, LA 70148 | (NeXT mail welcome) | ----------------------------------------------------------------
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NT Disk message? Date: 1 Apr 1997 19:51:47 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5hrp0j$th2$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5hrd95$3sp$1@ralph.vnet.net> Cc: khader@vnet.net In <5hrd95$3sp$1@ralph.vnet.net> R. D. Khader wrote: > > Also how can I read that NT file > system from the NS environment? > Use 'vmount' as available on the archives. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:28:49 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970401152705.25479E-100000@kira> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Larry Gadallah <gadallah@value.net> In-Reply-To: <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> NeXTStep cannot deal with disks or patitions 2.0gig or bigger So make a small partition and a big one,, or two ~gig partitions. There is no way around the 2.0 gig limit (well, unless you can NFS mount the drive, but that will not work for a boot drive) TjL
From: steffi@dgs.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep on the same disk with fdisk partitions. Date: 1 Apr 1997 23:42:11 -0500 Organization: Digital Gateway Systems Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5hso33$60h@DGS.dgsys.com> Well I'm trying this at the moment with System Commander and so far it appears to be working. I've got two NEXTSTEP fdisk partitions on a one gig drive. I just changed the id of the first when I installed the second with the Debian Linux fdisk tool. System Commander has the ability to tell a single partition to hide other partitions and I think this keeps the boot loaders happy. Can anybody suggest why this wouldn't work and I'd also like to know if the boot1 loader puts the partition number in the register for boot2 to pick up in OpenStep and NEXTSTEP 3.3 So far it all appears to work. To see if SC is necessary I'll turn off the hiding of the partitions and see if it still works. Cheers.
From: patrick blackburn <nike@well.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Windows NT as NFS server workable? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 22:35:45 -0800 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <3341FE41.1384@well.com> References: <5hdsj4$ncm$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jan-Willem de Bruijn <jwdb@fygir.nl> Jan-Willem de Bruijn wrote: > > Does anyone have a working setup with a Windows NT machine as NFS server > and a NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP Mach/UNIX system as NFS client? Yes, we are using the latest ChameleonNFS/X as the NT NFS server, which seems to be very robust. We do this in order to facilitate source code control systems which also require mounting of NT dirs to NeXT, Solaris, Win95 and the least common denominator, Mac NFS clients. Our backup solution is samba served from NeXT and Solaris to NT, but there are no Mac clients for SMB. -pat blackburn
From: mikec@archimedes.farallon.com (Mike Carter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gzip prob Date: 31 Mar 1997 02:41:46 GMT Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Message-ID: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> Keywords: gzip NeXT Help!! I just got a NextCube and could not find gzip anywhere. I *thought* it was a standard UT but maybe not? Here's the prob...OD is broken and I would like to get gzip for the cube since all archived apps and docs are gzipped. As it stands now, I can't use any of the kewl apps I've FTPed!! How can I get a copy of gzip on the cube? The only connection I have is ethernet. I have another cube at work...a 68K running sys ver 1.0. I tried to tar a copy of gzip and ftp it here, only to find out I get a 'bad executable' error after I untar it. Any input would be greatly appreciated! --Mike Carter mikec@dyna-132-243.farallon.com (this NeXT Cube)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Newbie NeXT Admin.,, Mail Call! Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 05:49:33 GMT Okay, this is the next to last thing I need to do. I have a Turbo Color Slab 0S 3.3 on a networked IP connection. What I need to do is configure it as a mailserver. I'd like to beable to read the mail in 3 ways. 1. NextMail 2. Command line using PINE 3. With networked POP clients like Eudora, Netscape mail etc. I'm plodding through the O'Reilly book on sendmail but would really appreciate some tips in this process. Thanks in advance. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip prob Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 06:09:30 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970402060836.5071A-100000@kira> References: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: mcarter@farallon.com In-Reply-To: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> send me email with the SUBJECT search-peak gzip you'll get a message back automatically telling you the URL of the gzip binary on PEAK TJL
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is OpenStep able to route a LAN to the Internet? Date: 3 Apr 1997 06:50:30 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5hvjvm$4uo$1@lynet.de> Hello, I have just configured a small LAN with SimpleNetworkStarter! I now want to connect the whole LAN to the Internet by connecting the Computer with the NetInfo-Database, Email-Server, ... over PPP to an InternetProvider. Is this possible and if yes, what do I have to do for it, so that I can access the Internet from all Computers in the LAN? The LAN is up and the PPP-Connection from my Server to the Provider is also, but nevertheless I cannot access the Internet from the other Computers. How do I setup my Server as a Router? Thank in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: how to deny rlogin to ftp guest accounts Date: 2 Apr 1997 07:34:28 -0500 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5htjok$lq0@papoose.quick.com> References: <xdzlo78jp1z.fsf@arcturus.ciril.fr> In article <xdzlo78jp1z.fsf@arcturus.ciril.fr>, Nabil HATHOUT <hathout@arcturus.ciril.fr> wrote: >Hello, > >We have a Sun Sparc workstation running NextStep 3.2 on and we want to >use it as ftp server in order to give project partners access to some >of our data. Our problem is that we want these partners to be able to >log on our machine via ftp but not via rlogin. Is there a mean to deny >rlogin to some user without also denying ftp login ? First add a line containing /bin/false to the file /etc/shells. This will enable you to assign the false program as a login shell. For each of these users add local accounts in netinfo. Create an account for each ftp user. Assign an appropriate home directory. Assign /bin/false as the login shell. Assign them all to a group that noody else uses or to the group nobody. Make sure they belong to no other groups. Be sure to set a password. The users will be allowed to ftp from your host (and to it, if you give them write access to any directories) -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bulding Perl 5.00X Date: 3 Apr 1997 04:27:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5hvbjv$mb8$1@news.digifix.com> References: <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net> <5hv5lt$msq@newstand.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <5hv5lt$msq@newstand.syr.edu> On 04/02/97, Terry R. McConnell wrote: >In article <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net>, >Steven R. Staton <steve@deltos.com> wrote: >>I'm running into all kinds of problems building Perl 5.x on my >>NS3.3/Moto machine. Is there a problem using the Next_3 >>configuration? Is there a better one? > >I just built 5.003 under 3.2/moto using Next_3 with no problems. >I did run configure with the -Uuseposix switch, however. > By the same token, last week I built perl 5.00x on NS3.3 (Intel, but I doubt there will be a difference) I went even lasier than Terry though I ran configure -d it just takes the defaults, asks me nothing and just whizs on through. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: kochhar@deas.harvard.edu (Sandeep Kochhar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reboot hangs after Network settings screwed up... (NS 3.3, Intel) Date: 02 Apr 1997 15:02:50 GMT Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University Message-ID: <KOCHHAR.97Apr2100250@deas.harvard.edu> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> In-reply-to: josh hoge's message of Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:40:47 -0500 hi! I was configuring my NextStep 3.3 running on a PC to add a network card driver (EtherPCI LAN Card) and possibly screwed up, since now upon reboot my system gets to the "starting automounter" stage and hangs forever...booting in verbose mode from a floppy shows that it usually hangs around inet or NetInfo stuff.... What's the way to get it to reboot without network support so that I can run Configure.app and try and fix it? I tried booting from the floppy and saying something like hd(1)mach_kernel config=Default but that didn't work either (the config=Default did work when I was having problems with my display driver). Thanks. Pl reply via email as well, if possible. sandeep kochhar, kochhar@avcinc.com -- ---------------------------- Sandeep Kochhar Tel: 617-876-2052, Fax: 617-238-0763 15-17 Lee St. #T2 Email: kochhar@das.harvard.edu Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.avcinc.com/people/kochhar/
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: win95, NT, & OpenStep NT... Date: 3 Apr 1997 06:18:33 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> Hi, I'm putting together a, shock, non OPENSTEP system this friday. I want to have win95 for the very limited purpose of booting to play games :) And NT to do OpenStep NT development on... I have a 1Gb drive for all purposes (it's a laptop)... So, I was thinking I could set up a tiney partition, say 64Mb's for win95; just enough to boot off of. And give NT the rest, but make the NT partition a DOS type of partition. Figuring, I could boot in win 95, yet save all my apps on the NT partition; games included. That way, I could kick off the 64Mb parition on drive C, and then double click on say Quake on the drive D/NT partition and things would work. Otherwise, when not playing games I could simple boot on drive D with NT and do development. However, I understand that to install OpenStep on NT one MUST make drive D an NTFS filesystem (not to mention install ALL of the network stuff). If I do have to make drive D NTFS, then, I'm guessing, when booting in the win95 partition, I won't be able to access any files on the NT partition... So is my only option set aside, say 200Mb for win95 and games? Or is there someway to share filesystems between win95 and NT w/ OpenStep? (perhaps I should just get a zip drive and boot off of that for games....) Thanks for any pointers :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: root@isc_file.dart.de (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: samba printing Date: 2 Apr 1997 15:54:03 GMT Organization: InterShop Communications Message-ID: <5htver$1v6@linux1.netconx.de> hi there, i set up samba to export a printer. i can print from the console as the samba user $/usr/ucb/lpr -PLaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962 i can print from the console as the samba user with smbrun and "" $/usr/samba/bin/smbrun "/usr/ucb/lpr -PLaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962" but i can not print from the console through smbrun without "" $/usr/samba/bin/smbrun /usr/ucb/lpr -PLaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962 and my samba never prints whatever i try. smbrun = /usr/samba/bin/mysmbrun (a script) smbrun = /usr/samba/bin/smbrun (included) print command = /usr/ucb/lpr -P%p %s print command = "/usr/ucb/lpr -P%p %s" and so on... the log says Running the command `/usr/ucb/lpr -P LaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962' gave 0 but nothing shows up in the printer queue. please help! Atze
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:14:59 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu0m3$jnd@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> The maximum partition size is 2GB, so you do need to split the disk up. If you use the regular installation process (floppy, CD, etc.), it will divide your drive up into equal sized partitions of less than 2GB, as many as it takes to do the whole drive. This is not generally optimal. Most people use the boot partition for system stuff and the other partition(s) for user stuff- and users probably need more space. The way around it is to use BuildDisk. Of course, you need to have a working NeXT to do it! If you have another drive (even a 200MB or so), install NEXTSTEP on that, then attach the other drive externally and use BuldDisk on it. Use the partition panel to divide it up, and make sure the partitions are smaller than 2GB (no, it doesn't check). I've not used BuildDisk on a drive larger than 4GB, but I don't think it handles more than two partitions gracefully. If you still have a problem, you'll have to do it manually, or use a different disk as your boot drive. ab
From: sarlo@xochi.tezcat.com (sarlo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reboot hangs after Network settings screwed up... (NS 3.3, Intel) Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:59:31 GMT Organization: Breakfast at Tezcat. Message-ID: <5hu39j$p9k@tepe.tezcat.com> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> <KOCHHAR.97Apr2100250@deas.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sandeep Kochhar <kochhar@deas.harvard.edu> wrote: > hi! > I was configuring my NextStep 3.3 running on a PC to add a > network card driver (EtherPCI LAN Card) and possibly screwed up, since > now upon reboot my system gets to the "starting automounter" stage and > hangs forever...booting in verbose mode from a floppy shows that it > usually hangs around inet or NetInfo stuff.... > What's the way to get it to reboot without network > support so that I can run Configure.app and try and fix it? I tried > booting from the floppy and saying something like > hd(1)mach_kernel config=Default I had a similar problem. I found by setting the netinfobind daemon to accept localhost as the netinfo server, this problem cleared up immediately. -- sarlo@tezcat.com - Sarlykins. | I was lying in bed, looking up at the EXXON - Put a tiger in your | stars when I suddenly thought to myself, tank! And while you're at it, | "Where the fuck did my roof go?" toss in a few dead otters too. | -EXXON Ad, 1989 | Alternatives: sarlo@chinet.com http://www.tezcat.com/~sarlo sarlo@pyrotechnics.com \||// sarlo@2600.com Don'tcha love bongo-.sigs? oO sarlo@blight.com ()^() Pttht. sarlo@ripco.com U /~~~~~~ root@mcs.net
From: rdingman@internal.mcafee.com (Ryan Dingman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reboot hangs after Network settings screwed up... (NS 3.3, Intel) Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:36:58 GMT Organization: McAfee Associates, Inc. Message-ID: <5hu1va$5e1@news.mcafee.com> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> <KOCHHAR.97Apr2100250@deas.harvard.edu> I have experienced the same problems when I tried to change network cards. If anyone has a solution to this I would appreciate a response also. -- ryan rdingman@internal.mcafee.com NeXTMail and MIME accepted
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:07:16 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu07k$jnd@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970330130325.26147A-100000@kira> <5hocbn$1et@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> When I set up groups of NeXTs, I generally NFS mount /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary (because you can live without them) and /NextDeveloper (and /LocalDeveloper if you have one). Make sure all the /LocalApps and the Developer stuff is installed fat. Put the apps you cannot live without in your Apps directory (you said you were the only user) or in /LocalApps on the local disk before you do the mount (but then the mount will hide it, and you'll forget it's there). Ditto for /LocalLibrary. You can also do some of the stuff in /NextLibrary, but be careful as some of that is really necessary for proper operation. This works really well because the machines don't need each other, but the disk consuming stuff is shared. The only other big space hog is your home directory. :-) ab
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Driver floppy Date: 2 Apr 1997 18:06:01 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu769$bl@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Hi All, I've been trying to install NS3.3 for intel for a while now. I've got a boot floppy that seems to be doing its thing ok, but it prompts me for a driver floppy pretty quickly. I insert what a floppy that I've created by using the image off of ftp.next.com, but it looks at the floppy and says that there aren't any valid drivers on the disk. What exactly does this mean? Does it mean that I have the wrong floppies for my system? What seems more likely is that it doesn't recognize the drivers on the floppy. Anybody ever come across this problem before? I'm trying to install on a Gateway PPro with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adaptor. Everything is SCSI. Right now I'm just trying to boot up with regular VGA....I couldn't afford a nice monitor yet and my Matrox Millenium won't be here for another week. Any suggestions? Thanks much - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://www.haveman.org/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@haveman.org Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Networking breaks Mathematica 2.x??? Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:22:36 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu14c$jnd@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <BRISINDA.97Mar29170300@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> brisinda@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dale &) wrote: >I've recently networked a NS black machine running Mathematica 2.x >with an NS Pentium machine. Problem is that Mathematica no longer >works! It launches, but then when I ask it to evaluate some expression >the disk cursor just spins endlessly... I'm guessing this has >something to do with launching a remote vs local math kernel -- since >it was working fine before the networking. Mathematica will check its license when it loads the library. It checks against the hardware idea of the machine, so if it's not licensed for the machine you run it on, it won't work. Also make sure that the command line programs (math and something else) are in your path. I've seen that problem here a lot. Mathematica does work froma shared copy, but all the machines need to be in the license file. You aren't trying to run black binaries on your Pentium are you? ab
From: jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca (Jan Sacharuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting Openstep to recognize NTFS partition? Date: 3 Apr 1997 15:54:44 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Every time I start up Openstep (once NeXTstep..) it tells me that it can't read from my drive that has NT on it. I was hoping with the coming of Openstep, it would magically fix all my problems...but I guess not. How do I resolve this problem. I really hate telling the system that I don't want to initialize the disk at start up every time. Jan Sachaurk jan@cs.ualberta.ca
From: Malcolm Crawford <Malcolm_Crawford@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:40:17 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5hu25h$h3t$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Hi, I am curious on how to CD-ROM burn some NeXT media, and am wondering > if in the software that RockRidge Extensions are Necessary in addition > to ISO 9660? Take the NEXTSTEP 3.3 disc, what exactly is required of > the burning software to do this successfully. A Mac solution would be > prefered... > > Is there Mac OS software that can do this? Anyone know the names? How > about Windoze? > Try looking at Young Minds: http://www.ymi.com/ -- they seem to offer a good range of solutions. Best wishes, mmalc. Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
From: not@my.address.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3 and OS 4.x on same LAN ? Date: 2 Apr 1997 19:55:11 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <5hudiv$pdi@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> Can you run NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP/Mach 4.x on the same LAN? Anything to watch out for? Ie, does it matter which machine is the NetInfo server, or which one is the mailhost, etc. etc.? I'm tempted to try OS 4.x on a Turbo system if I can stuff it with enough RAM -- the OPENSTEP developer tutorial is just WAY TOO interesting ;) .. but I'm not sure I want to mess with OS 4.x on an old mono slab. NS 3.3 is nice and stable and zippy enough. Besides, I can use NXhost if I want anything from OS 4.x ... Suggestions, advice, entertaining anecdotes, etc. are all welcome. -- invert: umich.edu jdevlin insert: shift "2"
From: khader@vnet.net (R. D. Khader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: mount dead lock? Date: 3 Apr 1997 15:58:05 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779 Message-ID: <5i0k2d$d87$1@ralph.vnet.net> Hi there, I have two machine a cube and an intel. Trying to share file systems between the two I used NFSManager to export each's file system and import the other one. This worked fine until I had to shutdown both machines at the same time. Now none of the machines can start any more both hang on "mounting file systems..." messages. I disconnected the network and still no success. How can I correct this? Thanks, khader@vnet.net
From: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:22:46 +0100 Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I'm using Nextstep 3.3 and I note there is no uname command. How can I read the system type/version from a shell script? /Tomas
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: 3 Apr 1997 15:35:46 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5i0ioi$379@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> In article <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes: > I'm using Nextstep 3.3 and I note there is no uname command. > How can I read the system type/version from a shell script? arch, hostinfo -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca (Jan Sacharuk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bash for Openstep? Date: 3 Apr 1997 16:59:38 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5i0nlq$sd8@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I'm assuming that this is possible...I'd just like to know where I can get some directions on doing this, so that I don't bugger up. :) Thanks. :) Jan
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 3 Apr 1997 03:51:54 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary swapfile). Any answers greatly appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: jsc@atype.com (Jin S. Choi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: procmail blowing up on large messages Date: 03 Apr 1997 12:24:46 -0500 Organization: Archetype, Inc. Sender: jsc@canker.atype.com Message-ID: <x4encskoip.fsf@canker.atype.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Anyone else out there use procmail as a mail delivery agent? I run it using the following lines in my sendmail.cf: Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u Problem is, any message of moderately large size (several megs) will cause the procmail process to grow until it's sucked up all the memory on the system, caused the swapfile to take up all available disk, and hang the system. Has anyone else encountered this? Please help! An email reply would be appreciated, I will summarize any responses.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting Openstep to recognize NTFS partition? Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:33:40 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970403102602.19170C-100000@kira> References: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jan Sacharuk <jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> > Every time I start up Openstep (once NeXTstep..) it tells me that it > can't read from my drive that has NT on it. I was hoping with the > coming of Openstep, it would magically fix all my problems...but I > guess not. How do I resolve this problem. I really hate telling the > system that I don't want to initialize the disk at start up every > time. [followup-ed to csn.sysadmin only, crossposting is evil] 'man fstab' will discuss about the options for disks: "4.3, nfs, dos, macintosh, nucfs, cfs, or ignore" I believe that if you set the disk to be of the type 'ignore' then that panel will go away. TjL
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Newbie NeXT Admin.,, Mail Call! Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:53:13 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr3.195313.24001@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> In <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> Frank Lazar wrote: > Okay, this is the next to last thing I need to do. I have a Turbo Color > Slab 0S 3.3 on a networked IP connection. What I need to do is configure > it as a mailserver. I'd like to beable to read the mail in 3 ways. > > 1. NextMail > 2. Command line using PINE > 3. With networked POP clients like Eudora, Netscape mail etc. If you have sendmail working, then 1 & 2 will work. For 3, install a POP daemon. One comes with the PopOver package on the archives, and is trivial to install (put the binary in the right place, modify /etc/inetd.conf, and niload a services entry). Getting standard NeXT sendmail to work is trivial, in two cases: 1) You are a client with a smart mailhost and your hostname set correctly. You need two netinfo directories set up: /locations/resolver, which contains the following property:value pairs: name:resolver nameserver:<ip address of your DNS server> and /locations/sendmail, with property:values - name:sendmail sendmail.cf:/etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf mailhost:<hostname of mailserver> 2) the machine is on the Internet, and has the hostname correctly set. You need /locations/resolver as above, and /locations/sendmail: name:sendmail sendmail.cf:/etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf The file /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf will need a careful review. In most cases, you just need to change: Cw, Dj, and possibly ruleset S6. It your hostname is OK, none of these changes are required. Some people like to install a more modern sendmail, but IMHO this is just needless hassle. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT, OpenStep Enterprise, and Office '97? Date: 2 Apr 1997 21:06:42 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5huhp2$qsm$1@shadow.skypoint.net> While making a tech support call on another issue one of the support engineers at NeXT made a big deal about NOT using the OpenStep NT development environment if NT is running Office '97. I have a real hard time believing that OpenStep NT would have a problem with this basic Microsoft software. Is anyone out there using Office '97 with OpenStep Enterprise on NT? Any comments? Thanks -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: wegmann@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Frank Wegmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [NXFax 1.04] No dialtone at phone system Date: 03 Apr 1997 20:34:56 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Distribution: world Message-ID: <WEGMANN.97Apr3213456@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> I've an analog modem (ZyXEL U1496E+) attached to a phone system so that it needs an additional 0 in order to get a dialtone. I tried it with dwrite <faxmodem> WaitForDialTone NO but to no avail. Has anybody got a clue? Frank -- Frank Wegmann voice: +49 234 700 7677 / +49 234 700 2461 Sprachwiss. Institut fax : +49 234 7094 137 Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum email: wegmann@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, 44780 Bochum wegmann@acm.org (NeXTmail, MIME welcome) Germany WWW : http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
From: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip prob Date: 3 Apr 1997 12:37:50 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5i14eu$g2h@crl.crl.com> References: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> Keywords: gzip NeXT >I just got a NextCube and could not find gzip anywhere. I *thought* it was Hmm, I think it came standard on my 3.3 CD, but otherwise you can find it at: ftp.next.peak.org You can search this ftp site with email by putting this in the subject: search-peak gzip and addressing it to: luomat@peak.org This gzip package might cme as a .tar.Z or a .compressed, both of which are included with NeXTSTEP. -- Hans-Christoph Steiner MIME, NeXTMail, SunMail and PlainOldMail accepted
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bulding Perl 5.00X Date: 3 Apr 1997 02:46:21 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5hv5lt$msq@newstand.syr.edu> References: <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net> In article <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net>, Steven R. Staton <steve@deltos.com> wrote: >I'm running into all kinds of problems building Perl 5.x on my >NS3.3/Moto machine. Is there a problem using the Next_3 >configuration? Is there a better one? I just built 5.003 under 3.2/moto using Next_3 with no problems. I did run configure with the -Uuseposix switch, however. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: "Lee Bennett" <lee.cool@ukonline.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking prob with 12 Blacks Date: 4 Apr 1997 01:34:08 GMT Organization: L&B Software Message-ID: <01bb21c6$be6d5ca0$a97206c2@default> Hi, I have 12 Black systems all hooked by BNC cable and T-Conects. The problem is thay wont talk to each other. Plus I get some shit about Netware not ready to work or something HELP ME!!!! Many Thanks lee@hyper-zone.com
From: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 10:40:48 +0100 Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <33437B20.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Louma told me: > here's all you need. > > It will work for 3.x, I would like to know if it works for OpenStep > > http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/scripts/uname > > TjL > > ps -- if you could post this for me I'd appreciate it as my news > server is not letting me post at the moment Thanks. /Tomas
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: win95, NT, & OpenStep NT... Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:32:42 +0200 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <3343DBAA.6E83@ibp.de> References: <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Kheit wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm putting together a, shock, non OPENSTEP system this friday. > I want to have win95 for the very limited purpose of booting to > play games :) And NT to do OpenStep NT development on... I have > a 1Gb drive for all purposes (it's a laptop)... > > So, I was thinking I could set up a tiney partition, say 64Mb's > for win95; just enough to boot off of. And give NT the rest, but > make the NT partition a DOS type of partition. Figuring, I could > boot in win 95, yet save all my apps on the NT partition; games > included. That way, I could kick off the 64Mb parition on drive > C, and then double click on say Quake on the drive D/NT partition > and things would work. Otherwise, when not playing games I could > simple boot on drive D with NT and do development. You don't want to do this ;-) 8.3 is unbearable for practically everything unless you are used to it since age 8 and have never seen anything else and have too little imagination to even think it could be different... > However, I understand that to install OpenStep on NT one MUST make > drive D an NTFS filesystem (not to mention install ALL of the > network stuff). If I do have to make drive D NTFS, then, I'm > guessing, when booting in the win95 partition, I won't be able to > access any files on the NT partition... Yes, but this should only be a problem when you run out of space for games. > So is my only option set aside, say 200Mb for win95 and games? Or > is there someway to share filesystems between win95 and NT w/ > OpenStep? (perhaps I should just get a zip drive and boot off of > that for games....) You will be able to use the FAT space from NT, just not vice versa. You can even give the FAT files real names; they will be mangled when viewed from DOS. Later, Lars -- mailto:immisch@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~immisch Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 29 Mar 1997 08:15:17 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hij2l$21$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5hhk6k$68s@news.next.com> In article <5hhk6k$68s@news.next.com> jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) writes: > "mailhost" is the default name in our config files for the > upstream mail relay. Joe's right. You need to tell your system who is the upstream mail relay by defining it to be "mailhost". While there are many ways to do this, one easy way is to add your upstream mail relay with HostManager and give it an alias of mailhost. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cloning Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 23:57:02 GMT Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Message-ID: <5huqtm$81e$1@news.bctel.net> I am trying to setup NextStep cloning. I have setup the clone server in the NetInfoManger. I was hoping that once I rebooted that if the the master netinfo server did not exist (not running) that the clone would boot and the network would be stable. What I find is that when I reboot the clone it actually times out looking for its 'parent server'. Does cloning actually allow me to keep the network up and running after the master goes down or is there some type of intervention that is required ? Another note, when I tried to remove the clone server in the NetInfoManager I would then reboot, go back into the NetInfoManager and the machine would still show as a clone. It is like I cannot remove the server as a clone. Thanks in advance. James Instep Mobile Communications Inc.
From: rbumpus@comp.uark.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail problem Date: 3 Apr 1997 05:45:05 GMT Organization: The University of Arkansas Message-ID: <5hvg51$54v@picayune.uark.edu> I'm helping to operate an '040 Mono Turbo machine running NS 3.0. The machine is connected to the local network and the mai daemon doesn't seem to working correctly. It will not: (1) receive mail from the outside world or (2) allow users to mail to each other without assigning the "@localhost" address to the end of the username. Is there something simple that we're overlooking or have we royally screwed up? Any replies can be posted here, e-mailed to Jon at jlosburn@comp.uark.edu, or mailed to me at the address below. Thanks in advance! Bob Bumpus University of Arkanas rbumpus@comp.uark.edu
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Newbie NeXT Admin.,, Mail Call! Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 09:13:45 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0304970913450001@170.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> References: <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> In article <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net>, fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: > Okay, this is the next to last thing I need to do. I have a Turbo Color > Slab 0S 3.3 on a networked IP connection. What I need to do is configure > it as a mailserver. I'd like to beable to read the mail in 3 ways. > > > 1. NextMail > 2. Command line using PINE > 3. With networked POP clients like Eudora, Netscape mail etc. > > > I'm plodding through the O'Reilly book on sendmail but would really > appreciate some tips in this process. Thanks in advance. > I'm interested in this myself and would appreciate and pointers on it. Mitch
From: Jesus Izquierdo <krop@mad.servicom.es> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 100 Mbps network with Next/Open Step Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 15:16:09 +0100 Organization: KROP Audiovisual Systems Message-ID: <334118A8.2380@mad.servicom.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Somebody has any experience in setting up a 100Mbps network with Next? We have installed one but it doesn't perform as expected, just similar to a 10Mbps network. I would appreciate help on that. Regards: Jesus M. Izquierdo KROP Audiovisual Systems Avenida de Galapagar, 15 Torrejon de Ardoz 28850 Madrid, SPAIN Tel: 34 1 6779774 Fax: 34 1 6778279 E-mail: 72332.3705@compuserve.com
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI low-level format for NSFIP Date: 4 Apr 1997 11:37:49 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5i2p6d$49p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, I'm looking for a low level scsi-disk format program which works with intel NS3.3 systems and the Adaptec 2940UW controllter. I've already tried sdformat (version 1.3), but it didn't work. I got the following messages: > Format Unit... > Allowing 180 minutes for format operation to complete... > sr_io_status = 0x14 "<Unknown>" > SCSI status = 00H "Good" > --- sdformat Version 1.3 --- Could anyone point me to a program that works? The reason for this is that I want to re-format a scsi-disk with a block length of 1024 byes/sector in order to create NS-partitions larger than 2GB. Thanks... ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: mount dead lock? Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:41:46 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr3.184146.3331@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5i0k2d$d87$1@ralph.vnet.net> In <5i0k2d$d87$1@ralph.vnet.net> R. D. Khader wrote: > I have two machine a cube and an intel. Trying to share file systems between the two I used NFSManager to export each's file > system and import the other one. This worked fine until I had to shutdown both machines at the same time. Now none of the machines can > start any more both hang on "mounting file systems..." messages. I disconnected the network and still no success. How can I correct > this? You've probably got them both mounting in the Foreground, with option to Retry until it responds. Try Control C on one of them, which should at least let it complete booting. Then change the mounts so they don't conflict. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:04:24 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970402170142.17417A-100000@kira> References: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> here's all you need. It will work for 3.x, I would like to know if it works for OpenStep http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/scripts/uname TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail problem Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:56:52 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr4.195652.2463@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5hvg51$54v@picayune.uark.edu> In <5hvg51$54v@picayune.uark.edu> rbumpus@comp.uark.edu wrote: > I'm helping to operate an '040 Mono Turbo machine running NS 3.0. The > machine is connected to the local network and the mai daemon doesn't seem > to working correctly. It will not: (1) receive mail from the outside > world or (2) allow users to mail to each other without assigning the > "@localhost" address to the end of the username. Is there something > simple that we're overlooking or have we royally screwed up? Insufficient information. Look in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog for the reason why mail isn't working. It sounds like it doesn't know its own hostname, and so will refuse to accept email passed to it. With a 3.0 system, make sure that you have /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf linked to either of sendmail.subsidiary.cf or sendmail.mailhost.cf, and edit the cf files appropriately. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: NetInfo and subnet information Message-ID: <E84p0z.7up@sounds.wa.com> Keywords: NetInfo subnet /etc/networks Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:34:06 GMT How does one specify a non-standard netmask for a subnet in NetInfo? Regular IP addresses have a default netmask based on their class (class 1, class 2, or class 3), but subnets further divide this netmask in a way that it not the default. When entering networks into /etc/networks or the NetInfo domain /networks, how does one inform OPENSTEP of the netmask for the subnet? Without the proper subnet netmask, I don't see how the router can determine whether a remote machine is on a given network that is subnetted. I have NETMASK set in /etc/hostconfig, and this properly works, but only for the local area network over the en0 interface. I need to specify a NETMASK for a remote network listed in /etc/gateways and named in /etc/networks or NetInfo /networks. Thanks, I believe this is an NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP specific question, and not general Unix, thus the newsgroup selected. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP and OpenStep Software Design Engineer Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: How to start routed on a gateway machine Message-ID: <E84xzI.B5L@sounds.wa.com> Keywords: routed gateway Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 22:47:37 GMT I would like to find out if I have set up my local area network correctly. Pointers to tutorials are welcome. After reading the routed man page and scanning /etc/rc, I decided that I could not use any of the default routing options that NeXT prvides. In /etc/hostconfig, one can specify -NO-, -ROUTED- or a hostname/ip address. With the hostname/ip, routed is not run, so this does not seem like the correct option for my gateway machine (which connects my LAN to the Internet), because no routing information will be shared on the LAN without routed. With -ROUTED-, /etc/rc runs "/usr/etc/routed -q" Am I correct in assuming that this is useless for a gateway machine? Doesn't the "quiet" option prevent the gateway from teaching other machines how to reach the Internet? Reading the TCP/IP book from Osborne/McGraw-Hill and the routed man page did not answer all of my questions. The routed man page seems to imply that I should use "routed -g" on my gateway. Is this necessary, or will "routed" with no options suffice? At the moment, I have specified ROUTER=-NO- in /etc/hostconfig, because I cannot make use of anything in /etc/rc. Instead, I have /etc/rc.local run "/usr/etc/routed -g" and have entered a few lines in /etc/gateways to keep routed from deleting the routes to the outside world when the SLIP line is down for long periods of time. I may meet with some success if my other posting Re: subnets and NetInfo is answered, but I would also like to ask if there is anything I need to set up besides routed. For example, if I run OmniWeb.app on the LAN, I have things set up so that the SLIP line on the gateway machine dials out, but the machine running OmniWeb never sees the host that it is trying to reach. I remember some mention of "arp" and that it was required to resolve TCP/IP connections between hosts on either side of a gateway, but I don't know how to use "arp" : is arp managed by a separate daemon or is it handled as part of routed (or both)? -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP and OpenStep Software Design Engineer Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
From: stephen@rhodes.demon.co.uk (Stephen Rhodes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP IP address and NetInfo lookup Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 00:12:02 GMT Message-ID: <860199122.21624.0@rhodes.demon.co.uk> References: <5hh7sp$7d6$1@eclipse.txdirect.net> I am running OpenStep 41. on my Digital HiNote Portable. It has to operate on two networks as well as standalone with the Internet. Accordingly it is set up to automatically take its network configuration from a NetInfo server. I use an ISP with this portable which dynamically allocates IP addresses each time a connection is established. I am finding that when the link is up applications are searching Netinfo for a local server with this allocated IP address and only after that search fails will they connect to the localhost server . Then everything works fine. I have tried dynamically adding the IP address to Netinfo but this doesn't work as Netinfo won't restart cleanly when the link is up - again it seems as if it is searching for a server. I would like to solve this as the whole process of searching/time out takes many tens of seconds. regards, Stephen
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:49:03 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4ljv$c2u@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:49:25 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:48:07 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4li7$bla@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with Matrox -- PLEASE READ Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:51:02 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4lnm$d3u@boursy.news.erols.com> The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3Com Fast EtherLink XL Date: 3 Apr 1997 22:26:07 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5i1apv$18q@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Well, I've gotten NS/I 3.3 installed on my PPRo...it took a little help from Ryan Dingman....thanks Ryan. The first thing I have to say is... WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE it's fast! The second thing I had to say was....damn. They ordered me the wrong ethernet card. What I've got is a 3Com Fast EtherLink XL PCI 10/100BASE-TX I'm wondering/hoping that there is a driver out there for this puppy. I had a look around www.next.com, but came up empty handed. Has anybody used this card in conjunction with NS3.3? If so, what driver did you use? Thanks in advance. Cheers - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://www.haveman.org/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@haveman.org Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: Ador Reodique <*reodiqu@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: create /dev/audio Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 09:53:38 -0700 Organization: expresso dot org Message-ID: <3347D512.6EAC9A2@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello-- I deleted my /dev/audio file :( on my NS3.3 color slab. Don't ask; it was a long story and I learned my lesson. How do I re-create it? Thanks for your help! ador --**-- Email: *reodiqu@ibm.net Please remove the * to reply by mail.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Floppy won't stay in drive Date: 7 Apr 1997 00:51:55 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm286-29.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5i9gfb$iq$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> <E864Jz.3Gx@nidat.sub.org> Cc: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org In <E864Jz.3Gx@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > In article <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> llefton@math.uno.edu (Lew Lefton) > writes: > > Hello, > > > > We have a 3.5 in floppy disk which, when inserted into our 68040 slabs > > running NeXTstep 2.1, is immediately ejected. The console shows the > > following: > > > > Apr 1 09:39:51 Workspace[20976]: ...Ready > > Disk Label: UntitledDisk > > Disk Capacity 1440 KB, Device Block 512 bytes > > fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY > > ...munch... > > fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: FATAL > > Apr 1 09:59:30 Workspace[20976]: Workspace: 'mounted' message received > > for unknown device > > > > Any suggestions for getting the data off of this bad diskette? > > Thanks! > > > Are you sure the floppy has a filesystem on it or is it just a tar archive > written to the raw device? > > In case you're not sure make tar read from the raw floppy and insert the > disk when the popup window asks you to do so. > > > P.S. Is there any archive of old postings to this newsgroup? Thanks > > again. > > There is a Usenet archive on Peanuts <peanuts.leo.org>. Also available on > the "Peanuts Archive" set of four CD/ROMs. > Unformatted (or with unknown format) WRITE PROTECTED floppies are kicked out of the drive immediately, since the question 'Initialize?' doesn't make sense. Rudy -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 7 Apr 1997 00:45:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm286-29.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5i9g2g$iq$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Cc: blazek@stt.msu.edu In <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek wrote: > Hallo all. > > I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer > (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning > completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS > Essentials, so the install process crashes. > > I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could > anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I > suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? > > Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to > partition the disk and install the NS by hand? > > Any advice would be really appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Rudy. > > > Thanks for all the comments. I have called NeXT and they told me that I have to use DOS fdisk (NOT the one under NS 3.3) and create partitions under 2 GB. Install NS in on of the partitions and when I log in, NS is supposed to tell me that it found an unformatted disk (the other partition) and allow me to initialize it with NeXTstep file system. Didn't work for me since I need more than 2 partitions. Might work with disks under 4GB, but I was unsuccessful. Now I am going to write a disktab entry for the disk (3 partitions 2GB, 1.1GB and 1.1GB = 4.2 GB). Start NS from the install floppy in single user mode, mount the root system off the CD ROM and the /private directory off another floppy. That way I can get the /etc/disktab used when formatting the disk by hand. If NeXTstep installer wont install correctly into the pre-formatted disk, I will have to create a new bootable install floppy that will mount the /private from another floppy, so the automatic procedure should again use my new disktab entry for partitioning the disk properly. I really hate writing a new disktab entry. Would anyone possibly have one for SEAGATE ST34371W 0360 disk? Thanks. Also any advice on what I am staring to work on would be really appreciated. Again, I have to do this since I need 3 partitions. People who can split the disk into 2 partitions under 2GB could try the NeXT suggested trick with DOS fdisk created partitions. Thanks all for any help. Good luck. Rudy -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 7 Apr 1997 00:48:50 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm286-29.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5i9g9i$iq$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> Cc: gadallah@value.net In <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> Larry Gadallah wrote: > Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote: > > : I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer > : (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning > : completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS > : Essentials, so the install process crashes. > > : I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could > : anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I > : suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? > > : Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to > : partition the disk and install the NS by hand? > > I have the same question as Rudolf, except that I am running on black > hardware and trying to install 3.3 on a single 2.1 Gb partition. The > installer insists on repartitioning the disk into two 1 Gb chunks. > > Anyone know how to "get around" the installer? > > Thanks, > Larry Gadallah > gadallah@value.net > > In your case a NeXT suggested trick could work. Use DOS fdisk (not the one under NS 3.3) and split the disk into 2 partitions of desired size (one primary and one extended DOS). Then install the NS 3.3 the usual way in the extended DOS partition (it won't let you use the primary one unless you use the NS 3.3 fdisk during the install, which might cause a problem - they warned me to use the DOS fdisk to partition the disk.). Then format the other partition in NS 3.3 after you finish the installation. Didn't work for me, but my problem might be that I need 3 partitions. Good luck. Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: create /dev/audio Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:11:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970406190950.4438B-100000@kira> References: <3347D512.6EAC9A2@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3347D512.6EAC9A2@ibm.net> I don't even have a /dev/audio on my machine, is it made by some special program? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: 4 Apr 1997 11:09:18 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I got a new IBM UltraStar2ES 2GB hard disk, and wanted to put my primary swapfile on it. I made all the necessary changes to /etc/swaptab and /etc/fstab, but during boot, swapon tries to access the swapfile, and it gets a "Device busy" error, and then says "Giving up on"..... It commences to use the old swapfile instead. Details: I created the new swapfile using: localhost# mkfile 150994944 /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile localhost# ls -lg /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile -rw------t 1 root wheel 150994944 Apr 4 00:20 /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile The original swapfile: localhost# ls -lg /private/vm/swapfile -rw------t 1 root wheel 16777216 Apr 4 00:40 /private/vm/swapfile Here are the other files: /private/etc/fstab: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /UsersIBM 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd4a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /private/etc/swaptab: /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944,prefer /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216 Any suggestions as to how to fix the problem will be greatly appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: 4 Apr 1997 11:29:46 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Cc: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net In <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Lee Altenberg wrote: > I got a new IBM UltraStar2ES 2GB hard disk, and wanted to put my primary > swapfile on it. I made all the necessary changes to /etc/swaptab and > /etc/fstab, but during boot, swapon tries to access the swapfile, and it gets a > "Device busy" error, and then says "Giving up on"..... It commences to use the > old swapfile instead. Actually, the error during boot when it tries to mount the swapfile is: Mount: device busy Mount: giving up on /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile So the problem seems to be that the system wants to mount the swapfile, but the disk is already mounted at that point. So how is it supposed to work? Do I need to edit /etc/rc.boot or something? -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting Openstep to recognize NTFS partition? Date: 5 Apr 1997 08:35:21 -0500 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5i5keq$bpg@papoose.quick.com> References: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> In article <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, Jan Sacharuk <jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> wrote: > > >Every time I start up Openstep (once NeXTstep..) it tells me that it >can't read from my drive that has NT on it. Add the partition to the /etc/fstab file with a type field of 'ignore'. example (tailor this for your specific needs): /dev/sd2h /NT ignore ro 2 1 man mntent for more information. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199704050343.WAA07482@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 97 22:43:20 -0500 Subject: Common Mounting Point for all CDs Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Is there some way I can trick all my CDs to mounting at the same point, such as /CDROM ? I saw a post about this awhile back but never saw the answer, if any. This would be very handy in a number of situations. Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo and subnet information Date: 5 Apr 1997 16:20:30 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5i5u4e$srq@news.next.com> References: <E84p0z.7up@sounds.wa.com> In article <E84p0z.7up@sounds.wa.com> brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) writes: > How does one specify a non-standard netmask for a subnet in NetInfo? > Regular IP addresses have a default netmask based on their class (class 1, > class 2, or class 3), but subnets further divide this netmask in a way > that it not the default. When entering networks into /etc/networks or the > NetInfo domain /networks, how does one inform OPENSTEP of the netmask for > the subnet? Without the proper subnet netmask, I don't see how the router > can determine whether a remote machine is on a given network that is > subnetted. > > I have NETMASK set in /etc/hostconfig, and this properly works, but only > for the local area network over the en0 interface. I need to specify a > NETMASK for a remote network listed in /etc/gateways and named in > /etc/networks or NetInfo /networks. Actually, it's class A,B, or C, according to the normal specs. There's no way to specify a netmask for the into in /etc/networks (or the equivalent netinfo data), but it really doesn't matter that much. That info is only used to translate network numbers to human readable form for when you do a "netstat" command or something similar. Nothing in the real networking code needs that info at all. The router itself needs to be programmed with the netmask associated with the network on each of it's ports. A NeXTSTEP box can only be on one network (normally), and it only needs to know the netmask for that network. Why do you think that you need to specify the info for a remote network somewhere on your local system? joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Message-ID: <E8644K.3G6@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 13:57:55 GMT In article <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) writes: > I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP > 3.3. I know that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that > a limit on the space before or after formatting? I know that > the disk will come out under 2GB after formatting. So if the > limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any problem > or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, > I will want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use > it for my primary swapfile). > It is 2GB per partition, i.e. the filesystem pointers mustn't get an overrun on 32bit integers. Since /etc/disk, and therefore also BuildDisk.app, will also get an overrun on the disk capacity reported in the SCSI device info, you'll have to provide a /etc/disktab entry if you have a large drive (i.e. if it needs more than two partitions). Let /usr/etc/scsimodes be your guide in building a disktab entry. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Floppy won't stay in drive Message-ID: <E864Jz.3Gx@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:07:11 GMT In article <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> llefton@math.uno.edu (Lew Lefton) writes: > Hello, > > We have a 3.5 in floppy disk which, when inserted into our 68040 slabs > running NeXTstep 2.1, is immediately ejected. The console shows the > following: > > Apr 1 09:39:51 Workspace[20976]: ...Ready > Disk Label: UntitledDisk > Disk Capacity 1440 KB, Device Block 512 bytes > fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY > ...munch... > fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: FATAL > Apr 1 09:59:30 Workspace[20976]: Workspace: 'mounted' message received > for unknown device > > Any suggestions for getting the data off of this bad diskette? > Thanks! > Are you sure the floppy has a filesystem on it or is it just a tar archive written to the raw device? In case you're not sure make tar read from the raw floppy and insert the disk when the popup window asks you to do so. > P.S. Is there any archive of old postings to this newsgroup? Thanks > again. There is a Usenet archive on Peanuts <peanuts.leo.org>. Also available on the "Peanuts Archive" set of four CD/ROMs. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Message-ID: <E86597.3Hn@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:22:19 GMT In article <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: > Hallo all. > > I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 > installer (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws > the partitioning completely. The root partition sd0a is not even > large enough to take the NS Essentials, so the install process > crashes. > > I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the > disk. Could anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab > entry for the disk (I suppose that I need one) during the > installation process from floppy&CD? > > Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode > and try to partition the disk and install the NS by hand? > NEXTSTEP won't deal with disks of size if you must rely on the automagic disk handling (and you need this during initial loading from CD/ROM). The reason lies in the use of the age old BSD 4.3 filesystem code which uses 32bit integers as pointers and counters. Therefore, partitions larger than 2GB will lead to counter overruns. And thus /etc/disk is only prepared to handle partitions up to 2GB. Unfortunately it is also limited to two partitions if not guided by an appropriate /etc/disktab entry. All in all, NS is not suited to handle disk drives larger than 4GB during installs. You need to partition the drive on a running system with an appropriate disktab entry (up to six partitions of 2GB each should be possible). Then you can install NEXTSTEP without the slightest problems. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Networking prob with 12 Blacks Message-ID: <E865z5.3IM@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bb21c6$be6d5ca0$a97206c2@default> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:37:53 GMT In article <01bb21c6$be6d5ca0$a97206c2@default> "Lee Bennett" <lee.cool@ukonline.co.uk> writes: > Hi, > > I have 12 Black systems all hooked by BNC cable and T-Conects. > The problem is thay wont talk to each other. Plus I get some shit > about Netware not ready to work or something HELP ME!!!! > This is definitely the most desperate posting I've read for some time :-) Without any additional knowledge about the problem at hand I assume the worst of all conditions and tell you about the completely from scratch setup. But don't complain about the length of the procedure ;-) Replace /etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo with the ones found in /usr/template/client/etc and reboot. Repeat on all machines and reboot. The systems will then all be in the pristine out of the box state. Next, read the sections on networking in the online sysadmin manual /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf and subsequently run SimpleNetworkStarter.app on all of the machines just like the manual tells you. After this all machines should be able to boot as members of a network and are ready for site customization (users, printers, NFS, etc.) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:06:54 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5hrpsu$65e@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331055123.16238B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > Or just do "kill `cat /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid`". pppd puts its pid > > into ppp0.pid when it makes your connection ... in fact, here's > > a program: > > (note of obviousness: this might be ppp1.pid if you are using > ppp1) > > Note of less-obviousness: I _think_ that the .pid file is > root-read-only (chmod 600). That might just be peculiar to my > setup. Anyway, you'll want to check it on your system to see if > it is, and if you want to change it (which I do via /etc/ppp/ip-up: > chmod 444 /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid) I'm not sure there's much of an advantage to that. The 'kill' command isn't going to work unless you're root anyway, so there's not much gained by making the pid-file readable. On the other hand, there's probably no drawback to it either, so I don't expect that it can hurt to do that. The program that Scott posted would be the most convenient way to handle it, I imagine. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: loginwindow tries to start BuildDisk! Date: 6 Apr 1997 20:37:33 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <5i9j4t$r53@surf.pangea.ca> I have a diskless cube that boots 3.3 fine from the local ethernet. It puts up the normal login pannel. Whenever a valid userid and password are entered, the screen brightens as expected, then reverts back to the login pannel. I can login as "console" or rlogin and all looks normal. Here is what is in /private/admin/messages: Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[295]: running /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[181]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255). Apr 4 19:59:51 rtmono loginwindow[181]: creating new loginImage There is no mention of BuildDisk in any NetInfo or dread database, nor in /etc/ttys. However "strings /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow | grep Build" gives: /usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk BuildDisk "df" gives: df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on rt040:/ 653614 419643 168609 71% / rt040:/clients/rtmono 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private /private/vm/swapfile 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private/vm/swapfile.front rt040:/General 1014668 551100 362101 60% /General Anyone know what triggers loginwindow to try to start BuildDisk? ... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPPMonitor.app and USR 33.6 help Date: 7 Apr 1997 10:05:47 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> Hello. I would like to set up PPPMonitor.app to work on my NSFIP 3.3. I currently have it working with Kermit and ppp2.2. It would be nice to have the option of just clicking the connect button of PPPMonitor to bring up a connection. If someone has this setup working with a USR 33.6 Internal modem could you please send me the pppup and pppdown scripts so that I can try to bring up a link. I realize that there are examples in the /bin directory, but I unfortuneately dont know how to edit them to work on my system. I have tried Gatekeeper.app which works fine, but when I try to reconnect after a successful connection it freezes my system.( I know someone else that has the same setup as I do had the same problem, apparently it had something to do with USR) Therefore I would like to give PPPMonitor a try. Thank you very much. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@ucla.edu> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Second IDE disk Date: 7 Apr 1997 10:52:23 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5iajl7$mi3@concorde.ctp.com> Hey Folks! I'm trying to initialize an old 250M DOS formated disk. This is what I got: haring# disk -l "bla" -i /dev/rhd1h Only using BIOS-accessible sectors disk name: QUANTUM LPS270A disk type: fixed_rw_ide hdform doesnt exist yet... writing disk label can't write label -- disk unusable!: I/O error .. but I can see the disk, delete and create files etc. What's wrong? (BTW, the workspace tries to initialize it and ends up with the same error...) Thanks -- georg -- P.S. I'm on HP Vectra Xu The boot disk is 500M IDE -- ------- /\/\ Georg Tuparev <georg_tuparev@ctp.com> / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners \ / / Apollo House, Apollolaan 15 \/\/ 1077 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31(20)575-0492 Fax: +31(20)575-0500 WWW: http://www.ctp.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with Matrox -- PLEASE READ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 05:57:29 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405055509.20918B-100000@kira> References: <5i4lnm$d3u@boursy.news.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gcasamen@erols.com In-Reply-To: <5i4lnm$d3u@boursy.news.erols.com> You will find, or hopefully find, people are very willing to help you if you do not re-post the same message to several different groups. I recommend that you look at the document I sent you (http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html) for future reference. I do not have the answer to your problem. I hope someone can help you with it. TjL
From: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Date: Mon, 07 Apr 97 13:53:07 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 Looking in the system messages the following appear.... machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 occasionally this one also shows up: machine-name mach: en0: transmitter not ready I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ....???? Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks Doug Booth
From: jbf_see_sig@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 10:33:23 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_sig-ya023580000704971033230001@news.tiac.net> References: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) wrote: > I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking > the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. > > Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ....???? > Any ideas would be welcome. I would imagine the SCSI controller runs on a DMA channel if anything does. Maybe the drive is going ... If you really think it is a memory chip, try rotating them so that the bad bytes clobber some other bit of code. Also try an extended memory test on boot (see the manual about diagnostic tests). Barney (delete that _see_sig to email me)
From: kochhar@deas.harvard.edu (Sandeep Kochhar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3/Win95 dual boot: clock problems Date: 07 Apr 1997 14:25:46 GMT Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University Distribution: world Message-ID: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> hi! I have a PC configured for dual booting between NextStep 3.3 and Windows 95. I'm having problems keeping the clock (time of day) consistent between the two environments. Both are set to the same time zone (US/EST), but when I switch between the two, the hours are off (the minutes and day/year are OK)... Any ideas what might be wrong, or how to narrow down the problem? Thanks. -- ---------------------------- Sandeep Kochhar Tel: 617-876-2052, Fax: 617-238-0763 15-17 Lee St. #T2 Email: kochhar@das.harvard.edu Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.avcinc.com/people/kochhar/
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 17:02:51 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folk, we want to nfs export something from a SGI running irix 6.2 to the NeXT world. Everything runs fine if the SGI is exporting a drive internally mounted with the old efs filesystems type. But if we use the new xfs type the SGI seems to change the nfs handling as described in man export[f]s and the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: /etc/fstab on the irix6.2 systems /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0 /usr/sw1 xfs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s0 0 0 /dev/dsk/dks0d3s1 /usr/sw2 efs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s1 0 0 ... Exports of /usr/sw2 could be nfs mounted on any NeXTStep or OpenStep/mach maschine, while nfs mounting exportfs of /usr/sw1 causes very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories some entries are missing. These errors are similar to problems caused by wrong "rsize" and "wsize" options. We tried a lot of options (*size, noac, ...) with the mount command on the NeXT side. No success. Even using the "32bitclients" option of the exportfs on the SGI side is not changing anything. There should be mixed networks with SGI and NeXT out there ! Are you not using the (much faster) xfs ? All NeXTs (NS3.3, OS/mach 4.x) behave in the same manner. Any hints ? 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: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] multiple rumba processes Date: 7 Apr 1997 16:00:03 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Sender: fygir@194.229.196.70 Message-ID: <5ib5m3$6eo$1@news1.xs4all.nl> After an earlier question about NFS servers for Windows NT, several people suggested I have a look at rumba, which is basically a windows-export to NFS translator, acting as a client. Indeed it was surprisingly easy to use, and what's more it worked! I started changing our mount scripts from NFS to rumba, and then ran into this problem: Mounting one service from the NT server works flawlessly, but mounting two or more generates a lot of error messages like this one: rumba[12669]: Kernel: smb_request: send error = -32 And sometimes also receive errors. These are several services from the same server. For easy access I mounted all services in one temporary directory and have the Workspace show that directory in a separate window. Clicking on a top level directory (so, on the mountpoint) always causes these error messages. Sometimes the contents fail to show, and sometimes, after some delay, it works. Clicking on files/directories in lower levels then gives no problems. Has anybody else also observed this behaviour? Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPPMonitor.app and USR 33.6 help Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 05:56:33 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407045233.6232B-100000@kira> References: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "G. Quinonez" <quinonez@ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> I _think_ that all you need to do is setup a chat script, that should be the only thing specific to your pppup. What that is will depend on your modem initialization strings, and what your ISP gives as prompts when you connect, ie Login: vs login: vs Login: #space after colon vs User: vs user: ... et cetera and then once you have entered that whether you get: Password: password: PassWord: ... etc (pay close attention to whether there is a space or not after the colon in both those) After you do that, do that you have to enter anything to start PPP? The modem init strings should be the hardest, but your manual should make it easy. For example, I have a SupraFaxModem and my chat script is this: TIMEOUT 300 ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATX3 OK ATQ0H0 OK AT&D2 OK ATW1 OK ATM0 OK ATDT5551212 "CONNECT" "" TIMEOUT 25 ogin: luomat "ord: " mypassword which says: wait 300 seconds before timeout abort if you get "BUSY" abort if you get "NO CARRIER" abort if you get "ERROR" send the modem ATX3, and expect an "OK" response send the modem ATQ0H0, and expect an "OK" response send the modem AT&D2, and expect an "OK" response send the modem ATW1, and expect an "OK" response send the modem ATM0, and expect an "OK" response send the modem "atdt5551212" (which dials) and expect "CONNECT" (Honestly I can't remember why the "" is there) then change the timeout to 25 seconds and expect "login:" (no space after colon) and send "luomat" then expect "password: " (with a space after the colon) and send "mypassword" [Note: I don't try to match the entire word "login:" or the entire word "password: " but just the last few letters, which is why you see "ogin:" and "ord:". This means that it can handle "Login:" or "login:" and "Password: " or "PassWord: " or "password: "] I call this script using the -f flag to chat. It should be _relatively_ easy to adapt this to your own pppup script (make sure you have a /etc/ppp/options file, that makes things easier because it minimizes the options you have to supply pppd in the pppup script. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail 8.8 STILL doesn't fix my mailbomb/child wait problems! Date: 7 Apr 1997 16:58:20 GMT Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5ib93c$4rc@shelob.afs.com> I'm back, and this time I'm begging. 8^) With Robert's help, I successfully installed his sendmail 8.8 on our Net-connected machine. Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the problem which has plagued us all along: certain mail transfer agents simply will not complete a successful transaction with us. One of two things happens: either they sit in a "child wait" state until one side gives up; or the transmission eventually finishes, but the other side doesn't realize it, so it requeues as a failed job and gets re-sent about 100 times. The latter effect is what I describe as "mail-bombing." Here are some sample syslog entries. The first two never deliver: Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: timeout waiting for input from mercury.csc.com during message collect Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: DAA02130: from=<wmoore1@cscmail.csc.com>, size=0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704070710.DAA02130@crab.afs.com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=mercury.csc.com [20.1.20.110] Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: timeout waiting for input from sweden-c.it.earthlink.net during message collect Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: DAA02778: from=<>, size=0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704070736.DAA02778@crab.afs.com>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, relay=sweden-c.it.earthlink.net [204.250.46.50] But this one does deliver and keeps mailbombing me, since the other side presumably believes it failed: Apr 7 04:21:38 shelob sendmail[2123]: DAA02123: from=<>, size=2039, class=0, pri=32039, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704042216.RAA28500@mx5.smtp.psi.net>, proto=ESMTP, relay=mx5.smtp.psi.net [38.8.139.2] Apr 7 04:21:39 shelob sendmail[2952]: DAA02123: to=<greg@afs.com>, delay=01:12:11, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=fugue.afs.com. [192.149.42.8], stat=Sent (Ok) And at first I thought ESMTP was the problem, but this got through on the first try and did not mailbomb: Apr 7 09:52:08 shelob sendmail[4183]: JAA04183: from=<jxh12@po.cwru.edu>, size=1182, class=0, pri=31182, nrcpts=1, msgid=<3348C3A1.6E59@po.cwru.edu>, proto=ESMTP, relay=root@arthur.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.215] Apr 7 09:52:09 shelob sendmail[4185]: JAA04183: to=<greg@afs.com>, delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=fugue.afs.com. [192.149.42.8], stat=Sent (Ok) I should make clear that over 95% of our incoming mail does not suffer this problem. And the culprits always seem to be the same sites. And one last curiosity, outgoing mail to the same locations is NOT a problem. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Gregory H. Anderson | "I wander'd off by myself, In the Crystal Ball/Star Gazer | mystical moist night-air, and from Anderson Financial Systems | time to time, Look'd up in perfect greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | silence at the stars." Walt Whitman
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: 7 Apr 1997 09:50:45 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5iag1l$prl$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405143522.4757C-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Lee Altenberg wrote: > I got a new IBM UltraStar2ES 2GB hard disk, and wanted to put my primary > swapfile on it. I made all the necessary changes to /etc/swaptab and > /etc/fstab, but during boot, swapon tries to access the swapfile, and it gets > the error during boot when it tries to mount the swapfile is: > Mount: device busy > Mount: giving up on /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile > It commences to use the old swapfile instead. In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405143522.4757C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I would guess that perhaps you have compression turned on for both of > them? > > Try using this for /etc/swaptab > > /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile prefer,lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944 > /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216,nocompress > > Don't know if that will help... would really like to know. This is one > area of the SwapFAQ that is sorely lacking -- how to use a swapfile on a > separate disk that is not entirely for swapping. > I switched the order in /etc/swaptab to: /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216 /Users/private/vm/swapfile lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944,prefer and now it seems to be working! Although I still get the "Mount..." error on reboot. At any rate, the swapfile with the "prefer" next to it is the one being paged to. At first, the file swapfile.front "virtual" file was placed in /Users/private/vm/. But then I saw it in /private/vm/, exept that clicking on it showed it to be on the /Users/ disk. Now, it is in /private/vm/, and on the boot disk. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: Nicole Vincent <nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP with fast modem on NeXTstation,... are serial ports on stations buggy? Date: 7 Apr 1997 16:35:13 GMT Organization: Swinburne University of Technology Message-ID: <5ib7o1$18h$1@lucy.swin.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I've just upgraded my modem from a 9600 <-> 14400 connection to a 33.6 <-> 33.6 connection,... the local exchange is a bit old and noisy, but I figured that with two modems of the same type, they should not have any problems retraining in noisy line situations. But as things go, the reality turned out more sinister. Whenever I try to set the DTE rate on the dialin end (a NeXTstation mono running NS3.3) to 38400, I find that the modem spends most of its time idle, _as_if_ it was retraining or something. However when I set it to 19200 it works fine (except for the obvious slowness). Since the DTE rate only affects the computer-to-modem transmit rate, I figure that irrespective of what rate I set it to, the modems should not have problems at the modem-to-modem level,... which brings me to suspect my station's serial ports, rather than the modems' capability to retrain in noisy line situations. If anyone has any experience with using NeXTstations with faster modems, then I'd appreciate it if you could send me a brief note describing whether you've had any problems. Would upgrading to 4.0 or 4.1 help? Could it be a driver problem? Thanx in advance for any help. Cheers Nicole ------------------- NeXTmail and MIME Accepted -------------------- Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au URL : http://pedder.csse.swin.edu.au/~nicolev/index.html MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIA The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPPMonitor.app and USR 33.6 help Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:01:34 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gnGHNyi00iWPE81dxB@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407045233.6232B-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407045233.6232B-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 7-Apr-97 Re: PPPMonitor.app and USR .. by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > TIMEOUT 300 ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATX3 OK ATQ0H0 > OK AT&D2 OK ATW1 OK ATM0 OK ATDT5551212 "CONNECT" "" TIMEOUT 25 ogin: > luomat "ord: " mypassword > > which says: > wait 300 seconds before timeout > abort if you get "BUSY" > abort if you get "NO CARRIER" > abort if you get "ERROR" So far so good. [ ... ] > (Honestly I can't remember why the "" is there) It says to expect an empty string (match anything), then send ATX3. Expect an "OK", then send ARQ0H0. Expect an "OK", then send AT&D2. ...etc... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: 7 Apr 1997 18:11:52 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Message-ID: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: cdrom nextstep What are my options for using cdrom burners for backup/archiving/etc. on nextstep/intel? Convenient? Doable? Impossible? Thanks Geof -- Geoffrey Matthews matthews@cs.wwu.edu voice:360-650-3797 fax:360-650-7788
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:41:17 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405143522.4757C-100000@kira> References: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I would guess that perhaps you have compression turned on for both of them? Try using this for /etc/swaptab /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile prefer,lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944 /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216,nocompress Don't know if that will help... would really like to know. This is one area of the SwapFAQ that is sorely lacking -- how to use a swapfile on a separate disk that is not entirely for swapping. TjL
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: 7 Apr 1997 20:35:12 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5iblq0$env$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Cc: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de In <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > Hi folk, > > > we want to nfs export something from a SGI running irix 6.2 to the NeXT > world. > > Everything runs fine if the SGI is exporting a drive internally mounted > with the old efs filesystems type. But if we use the new xfs type the > SGI seems to change the nfs handling as described in man export[f]s and > the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: > > > /etc/fstab on the irix6.2 systems > > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0 /usr/sw1 xfs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s0 0 0 > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s1 /usr/sw2 efs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s1 0 0 > ... > > Exports of /usr/sw2 could be nfs mounted on any NeXTStep or > OpenStep/mach maschine, while nfs mounting exportfs of /usr/sw1 causes > very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories > some entries are missing. > > These errors are similar to problems caused by wrong "rsize" and "wsize" > options. > > We tried a lot of options (*size, noac, ...) with the mount command on > the NeXT side. No success. > > Even using the "32bitclients" option of the exportfs on the SGI side is > not changing anything. > > > There should be mixed networks with SGI and NeXT out there ! > Are you not using the (much faster) xfs ? > > All NeXTs (NS3.3, OS/mach 4.x) behave in the same manner. > > Any hints ? > > > stefan > Stefan, I have a 9G xfs filesystem on a Indigo2 R4400 that exports to my black box running NS3.3 without a hitch. I have also exported a 2G disk on my black box to the SGI w/o problem (the SGI will switch to nfs2 because nfs on the NS3.3 is rather old). Your question doesn't seem to be very clear. Is it the case that you can nfs mount the xfs partition but that something else goes wrong when trying to read files, or that you can't mount it at all? Randy rencsok@channelu.com
From: bungi@omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: 7 Apr 1997 13:52:11 -0700 Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5ibmpr$hrm$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> References: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank gcasamen@erols.com writes: >Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium >video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been >experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the >monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor >flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be >causing this. I have a similar problem. My P6 has a Matrox Millenium and a ViewSonic PT810 -- this monitor is a PnP monitor, meaning that it and a PnP video card will carry out some obscure conversation over the monitor cable and agree on the list of resolutions and refresh rates that are possible. If I turn the machine on and boot the machine into NEXTSTEP 4.0 or 4.1, I do not get any video (the monitor flashes something about not being able to synch). If, however, I boot the machine into Win95 or NT4.0 first and then reboot into NEXTSTEP, all goes ok. Sounds like there is some bug in NeXT's drivers with respect to PnP video cards/monitors. -tim
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8 STILL doesn't fix my mailbomb/child wait problems! Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:36:00 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snGJek600iWl0CMnQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ib93c$4rc@shelob.afs.com> In-Reply-To: <5ib93c$4rc@shelob.afs.com> [ This is a generic sendmail question and has nothing to do with NEXTSTEP in particular; followups set to comp.mail.sendmail. ] Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 7-Apr-97 sendmail 8.8 STILL doesn't .. by Gregory H. Anderson@afs. > Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: timeout waiting for input from > mercury.csc.com during message collect > Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: DAA02130: > from=<wmoore1@cscmail.csc.com>, size=0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<199704070710.DAA02130@crab.afs.com>, proto=ESMTP, > relay=mercury.csc.com [20.1.20.110] Hmm. It's got a valid envelope "from" header, but it looks like no data were transferred. This happens sometime with busy servers and/or networks losing connections. This might be innocuous. > Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: timeout waiting for input from > sweden-c.it.earthlink.net during message collect > Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: DAA02778: from=<>, size=0, class=0, > pri=30000, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704070736.DAA02778@crab.afs.com>, > bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, relay=sweden-c.it.earthlink.net > [204.250.46.50] Look at the from header-- looks like the remote end either isn't even making it through the initial SMTP negotiation to start sending a message (the "mail from: <sender>" part), it isn't correctly SMTP compliant, or someone is playing games by manually telneting to port 25. > But this one does deliver and keeps mailbombing me, since the other side > presumably believes it failed: > > Apr 7 04:21:38 shelob sendmail[2123]: DAA02123: from=<>, size=2039, > class=0, pri=32039, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<199704042216.RAA28500@mx5.smtp.psi.net>, proto=ESMTP, > relay=mx5.smtp.psi.net [38.8.139.2] > Apr 7 04:21:39 shelob sendmail[2952]: DAA02123: to=<greg@afs.com>, > delay=01:12:11, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=fugue.afs.com. > [192.149.42.8], stat=Sent (Ok) Again, notice that the envelop from header is invalid; this implies that the remote end is screwing up. You've already asked this question a few times before, I believe. There's very little that can be done from your end-- it's the remote machines which aren't managing to make their way through a full SMTP exchange correctly. If you can get in touch with the admins for these sites which are failing to send mail correctly, you can try to have them match up the entries in their mail queue logs. If you can't get in touch with the remote administrators, you're probably out of luck. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Windows NT as NFS server workable? Message-ID: <E8A6x3.30M@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <3341FE41.1384@well.com> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:48:39 GMT In article <3341FE41.1384@well.com> patrick blackburn <nike@well.com> writes: > Jan-Willem de Bruijn wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a working setup with a Windows NT machine as NFS server > > and a NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP Mach/UNIX system as NFS client? > > Yes, we are using the latest ChameleonNFS/X as the NT NFS server, which > seems to be very robust. We do this in order to facilitate source code > control systems which also require mounting of NT dirs to NeXT, Solaris, > Win95 and the least common denominator, Mac NFS clients. > > Our backup solution is samba served from NeXT and Solaris to NT, but > there are no Mac clients for SMB. > There is a commercial client called Dave for the Mac, I just do not know the name of the company. Sorry! -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 8 Apr 1997 00:01:50 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@nicecuppa.ohm.york.ac.uk Message-ID: <5ic1te$v7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <5i9g9i$iq$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: > In your case a NeXT suggested trick could work. Use DOS fdisk (not the one > under NS 3.3) and split the disk into 2 partitions of desired size (one > primary and one extended DOS). Then install the > NS 3.3 the usual way in the extended DOS partition (it won't let you use the > primary one unless you use the NS 3.3 fdisk during the install, which might > cause a problem - they warned me to use the DOS fdisk to partition the > disk.). > > Then format the other partition in NS 3.3 after you finish the installation. How do you do that - surely the NS partiition comes up as the first partition /dev/rsd0a and the DOS ppartition is mounted using /dev/rsd0h ? Thats what happens here anyway. I have exactlly this probllem and need a workaround fairly badly... -bat.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3/Win95 dual boot: clock problems Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:31:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407193112.20221B-100000@kira> References: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Sandeep Kochhar <kochhar@deas.harvard.edu> In-Reply-To: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> Checkout this and see if it helps: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/clocks/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Submissions Coordinator for PEAK Personal NeXT Page: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ PEAK NeXT FTP: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/ PEAK Web Access: http://www.peak.org/next/
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 Supersedes: <7486859698032@digifix.com> Date: 6 Apr 1997 05:00:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <28108860302827@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. 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From: elillio@sndart.cemi.unt.edu (Elainie Lillios) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: networking black NS3.2 with MachTen help! Date: 6 Apr 1997 06:26:55 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Message-ID: <elillio-0604970024030001@remote63.server1.local.premium.dialup.unt.edu> Hi Everyone: I have a NeXtstation running NS 3.2 and I'd like to export filesystems using NFS to my mac which has a partition running MachTen (BSD-type unix). I purchased a Thin Coax microAAUI TnT Ethernet connector which I have hooked up to my mac, with a terminated BNC connector on the other end hooked up to the NeXT machine. I set up a network on my NeXT machine, added host information in /etc/hosts and exported the files with NFSmanager (or whatever that exporter app is called..). I also added host info in MachTen and edited my /etc/fstab file to reflect the filesystems that I want to mount. As you can imagine, this is not working. I think it's due to the fact that when I reboot my NeXT, it is looking for _its_ server -- rather than realizing that it _is_ the server and has no server above it. I run a small network of NeXTs at school, but it's a different setup because the machines are networked to the internet and also to each other. I only want my NeXT to export files to MachTen... no internet connection.. just local. Can someone help me with this dilemma? I know that in order to make any progress at this point I need to 'convince' my NeXT that it's the server.. but I don't know how to fix it. Has anyone successfully exported filesystems from NeXTs to macintosh systems running unix?? If so, how did you do it?? Any assistance is sincerely appreciated!!! Thanks in advance, Elainie Lillios University of North Texas
From: Michelle Buck <buck.erik@mcleod.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA help Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 04:54:25 -0700 Organization: EMB & Associates Message-ID: <33478EF1.4C88@mcleod.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone gotten SAMBA as distributed by next in 4.1 to work? I think I have it configured correctly, but every time a windows 95 machine trys to read shared files, smbd dies and leavs a 2Mb core file. As a child of inetd, smbd starts up again only to crash. I can fill a disk with core files!
From: Annard Brouwer <annard@sfo.com> (Annard Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SCSI low-level format for NSFIP Date: 8 Apr 1997 07:21:40 GMT Organization: The Borg Message-ID: <5icrm4$g84@ramona.sfo.com> References: <5i2p6d$49p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5i3a5l$7qt$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> You (spammers@ruin.the.internet <spammers@ruin.the.internet>) wrote in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 4 Apr 1997 16:27:33 GMT: > Unless your using Openstep (not NeXTStep) 4.x your going to find it > pretty hard (if not impossible) to make a partition that is larger than 2GB > by simply reformatting your disk from 512B/sec to 1024B/sec ;) > No no no. It will work on NS3.3, I did it! The only caveat is that it cannot be your boot drive on Intel because of BIOS limitations. Annard Give me enough bandwidth and I can transmit the earth. - Annard Brouwer (NeXT|MIME mail appreciated)
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 8 Apr 1997 13:50:23 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5idiev$vg$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5i9g9i$iq$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5ic1te$v7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) wrote: >blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: >> In your case a NeXT suggested trick could work. Use DOS fdisk (not the one >> under NS 3.3) and split the disk into 2 partitions of desired size (one >> primary and one extended DOS). Then install the >> NS 3.3 the usual way in the extended DOS partition (it won't let you use the >> primary one unless you use the NS 3.3 fdisk during the install, which might >> cause a problem - they warned me to use the DOS fdisk to partition the >> disk.). >> >> Then format the other partition in NS 3.3 after you finish the installation. > >How do you do that - surely the NS partiition comes up >as the first partition /dev/rsd0a and the DOS ppartition is mounted >using /dev/rsd0h ? Thats what happens here anyway. I have exactlly this >probllem and need a workaround fairly badly... > >-bat. Well, this is advice from NeXT that didn't work for me. They said that you'd just click on the DOS partition and then in the menu on Disk/Initialize and initialize the disk with NeXT filesystem. If it doesn't work for you, please call 1-800-955-NeXT and then choose 1 and again 1. And please be persistant. This is their Tech-support number with a lot of people who were trying to help me, but don't really know how. It is not the fault of the people at the phone. Their bosses didn't do the homework. I spent about 3 weeks using the damn installation softare and am getting really really mad. I found another bug in the install procedure (in single user mode from the CD ROM you cannot mount a floppy over existing directories on the CD, even if the advice after booting advices you do to exactly that). I have a feeling that they didn't know that. Or maybe NeXT did, but not all the tech support people. What I am really mad about is that they don't have a solution to the ancient problem of mishandling large disks during the installation. By ancient I don't mean that it is history. It's been known for years, but isn't solved yet. I think that this is really ridiculous. I am working hard on a solution, but I really don't understand why I should be spending so much time on installing NS. They owe me at least $2000 of my time. And $1 million for punitive damages I suffered after realizing that the NS istall is a lot worse then the one of for example Microsoft products. And that the tech support just isn't knowledgeable and/or helpful enough. Sorry to say this, I really dislike MS. Well, they have company now. Good luck to all. Rudy.
From: Hans Shimizu Karlsson <hanske@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenTransport Mac --> NeXT connection Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 01:33:58 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan Message-ID: <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This one should be easy, I have been told, but I am stuck. I am a novice in networking, so please bear with me. I have been trying to connect a Mac PowerBook to my black NeXTstation over OpenTransport/ftp. What I need to know is first if a. I will need to set up the NeXT at all, b. is so, how, and also c. the settings required in OpenTransport. They are hooked up to 10 base T Ethernet, the Mac using a NewerTechnology PC card. In between is a little hub. I have been able to make the NeXT see the Mac filesystem and copy files back and forth using the old, unsupported NeXT AppleTalk software, but this is so flakey that it is close to useless. On a *good* day it works brilliantly. As far as I understand you can use Fetch on the Mac, for example, to connect and log in as yourself and your own password. No spaecial settings needed on the NeXT side. I have tried this but the connection times out. I also set up ftp as a user and created the ftp directories pub, bin, and etc., following the steps in O'Reilly "Managing Internet Information Services", but no luck there either. I am not sure of the settings on the Mac side, which should be "easy" with OpenTransport. Does anyone know what settings are needed? For instance, what kind of server setting should you use? Using the "manual" setting crashes the Mac. It would be most helpful if someone provid sample setup info for OpenTransport to connect to the NeXT. I have not been able to connect using Telnet, due to the fact that the NCSA Telnet software requires MacTCP, and my Mac came with OpenTransport. MacTCP does not seem to be easy to find these days. Hans Shimizu Karlsson Tokyo, Japan www.webcom.com/hanske
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenTransport Mac --> NeXT connection Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 10:11:55 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0804971011550001@slip-126-17.ots.utexas.edu> References: <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven> In article <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven>, Hans Shimizu Karlsson <hanske@pobox.com> wrote: >. . . >I have been trying to connect a Mac PowerBook to my black >NeXTstation over OpenTransport/ftp. > . . . >As far as I understand you can use Fetch on the Mac, for example, >to connect and log in as yourself and your own password. >No spaecial settings needed on the NeXT side. > >I have tried this but the connection times out. > . . . >I am not sure of the settings on the Mac side, which should be "easy" >with OpenTransport. Does anyone know what settings are needed? > >For instance, what kind of server setting should you use? Using the "manual" >setting crashes the Mac. You almost certainly need to set the Mac's IP number and the IP numbers of the Nameserver(s) manually. Unless your NeXT is miraculously running a BootP or DHCP server, that is the only way your Mac will know "who" it is. MacTCPWatcher 2.0 is a very useful tool for debugging network connections. It does Ping, Traceroute, DNS lookups, etc. If you are having trouble with OT, it will help track down your problem. > . . . >I have not been able to connect using Telnet, due to the fact that >the NCSA Telnet software requires MacTCP, and my Mac came with >OpenTransport. Nonsense. Any recent version of NCSA Telnet (2.7b4 was the last official one) will work just fine with OT. Jacques Distler
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: 8 Apr 1997 15:31:32 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> In article <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) writes: > What are my options for using cdrom burners for > backup/archiving/etc. on nextstep/intel? > > Convenient? Doable? Impossible? > > Thanks > > Geof > > -- The only NextStep app that I ever found (and bought) for doing this was GSCorp's ExtraCD.app. Of course they completely disappeared from the NextStep scene (or any scene for that matter) a few months ago. Note that this app doesn't write the CD directly, it only creates an image file. You then reboot to Win95 and use your choice of apps to create the CD with the image. What's the word on sharing applications written by companies that went belly-up? Cool, not cool, pass at your own risk ??? Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:37:24 -0700 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> References: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > > Hi folk, ... > the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: > > /etc/fstab on the irix6.2 systems > > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0 /usr/sw1 xfs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s0 0 0 > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s1 /usr/sw2 efs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s1 0 0 > ... > > Exports of /usr/sw2 could be nfs mounted on any NeXTStep or > OpenStep/mach maschine, while nfs mounting exportfs of /usr/sw1 causes > very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories > some entries are missing. > We're experiencing the same problems here. We have an Indy R5000 running 6.2. If you get an answer for it, I'd really appreciate finding out if there is a solution. I've been banging my head against it for a couple of weeks. We have a 2G drive (xfs) hanging off the SGI and are able to mount it fine from the NeXTs, but any kind of 'ls' only returns a partial listing of what we *know* is in the directory. Very frustrating. Wish I had an answer, but if you do solve it, I'd *really* appreciate the help. Thanks! P.S. - I tried to talk with NeXT about it, but they had never heard of this problem. -- **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 8 Apr 1997 18:41:58 GMT Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe Message-ID: <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) wrote: >I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know >that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or >after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after >formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any >problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will >want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary >swapfile). I have a IBM 4 GB on NS 3.3. I have to make 3 partitions because the disk (after formated) has a little more than 4 GB. The two first are just below 2 GB, the last one is a little 400 MB. Here is my disktab entry : DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ :pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ :ic:tc=4.3BSD: -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ric Lvnez "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" mailto:levenez@club-internet.fr Publius Vergilius Maro, (NeXTMail, MIME) Georgica, II-489 --------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 16:11:37 -0600 From: hoops@cbc.net Subject: Re: cdrom burning on nextstep Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <860533740.14466@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service References: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com> In article <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com>, cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) wrote: > > In article <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey > Matthews) writes: > > What are my options for using cdrom burners for > > backup/archiving/etc. on nextstep/intel? > > > > Convenient? Doable? Impossible? > > > > Thanks > > > > Geof > > > > -- > > The only NextStep app that I ever found (and bought) for doing this was > GSCorp's ExtraCD.app. Of course they completely disappeared from the NextStep > scene (or any scene for that matter) a few months ago. Note that this app > doesn't write the CD directly, it only creates an image file. You then reboot > to Win95 and use your choice of apps to create the CD with the image. > > What's the word on sharing applications written by companies that went > belly-up? Cool, not cool, pass at your own risk ??? > > Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) > cdodson@cac.stratus.com I think GS is still around. I bought ExtraTiff a couple of months ago. You can still go to the web site http://www.gscorp.com They didn't take visa or master card I had to send them a check or money order. And it took a while for them to reply to my phone calls and email but they were there. There is another place offering NeXTSTEP CDR software that I just saw on the net a couple of weeks ago. A European outfit. You can download a demo from the site. http://ip-service.com/Gehle/ Hope this helps. Jon Hooper hoops@cbc.net -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [NXFax 1.04] No dialtone at phone system Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:41:06 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5if34i$g0e@news2.cais.com> References: <WEGMANN.97Apr3213456@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <WEGMANN.97Apr3213456@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> On 04/03/97, Frank Wegmann wrote: -> I've an analog modem (ZyXEL U1496E+) attached to a phone system so -> that it needs an additional 0 in order to get a dialtone. I tried -> it with dwrite <faxmodem> WaitForDialTone NO but to no avail. Has -> anybody got a clue? dwrite <faxmodem> AuxATCommand "ATDT0" -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: win95, NT, & OpenStep NT... Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:38:42 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5if302$4kes@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> Cc: jkheit@cnj.digex.net In <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> John Kheit wrote: [munch question about setting up windows system] I have all my windows stuff in a single FAT partition, which includes Win NT, Win 95, and Openstep/NT. This appears to work just fine. Windows resides in c:\windows, and windows NT resides in c:\winnt. The Windows NT boot manager allows booting either of these. This way, all other files, such as program files, can be shared hassle free. And I've had zero problems with long file naming even though it is a FAT system (miraculously, MS appears to have gotten name mangling to work correctly!) To my knowledge, OpenStep is not limited to NTFS - if it is, I guess I'm the exception to the rule . . . The trick to installing this way is, first install Win95 on the disk. Then, when you install WinNT, it will give you the option of using the existing partition and just adding NT (as opposed to erasing it). -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html http://www.barbarian.com
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:43:49 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5if39l$ibn@news2.cais.com> References: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> On 04/02/97, Tomas By wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm using Nextstep 3.3 and I note there is no uname command. >How can I read the system type/version from a shell script? OS VERSION: % hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*NeXT Mach \([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p' OS TYPE: % hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*Processor type: \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p' -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Johan Nielsen <johan@nielsencorp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Virtual Interfaces Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 21:54:42 -0500 Organization: Nielsen Information Technology Corporation Message-ID: <334B04E0.491D@nielsencorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a question regarding virtual interfaces on a NeXT cube. I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.1 (?) and I'm currently using a ps_load program to configure virtual interfaces in /etc/rc.local. My question: is it possible to configure more than 10 virtual interfaces in NeXTSTEP? Thanks in advance. johan
From: R.J.Patel@massey.ac.nz (Raj Patel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Simple Question... How do I disable telnet access for certain accounts ? Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:02:41 +1200 Organization: Massey University College Of Education Message-ID: <R.J.Patel-0904971602430001@130.123.240.100> Hi all, Subject says it all. Basically I'd like to disable interactive access on all but a few accounts for security reasons. Users should still be able to pop their mail off the server tho'. I've tried fiddling around with /etc/passwd and removing the shell but have had no luck. Any thoughts ? I'm trying to do a similar thing on a unixware server but haven't had much luck. I tried rksh as an alternative to the normal shell but still now joy (it lets me switch shells which would seem to defeat the purpose of a restricted shell). Thanx in advance for any assistance, Raj.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Message-ID: <E8BrLC.5nJ@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <jbf_see_sig-ya023580000704971033230001@news.tiac.net> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:12:48 GMT In article <jbf_see_sig-ya023580000704971033230001@news.tiac.net> jbf_see_sig@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) writes: > In article <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug > Booth) wrote: > > > I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking > > the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. > > > > Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ...???? > > Any ideas would be welcome. > We had the same errors on different machines, only happens under heavy load... -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: atze@aspohr.dart.de (Alexander Spohr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5htver$1v6@linux1.netconx.de> Control: cancel <5htver$1v6@linux1.netconx.de> Date: 9 Apr 1997 07:20:07 GMT Organization: InterShop Communications Message-ID: <5iffv7$st@linux1.netconx.de> cancel
From: hanske@pobox.com (Hans Shimizu Karlsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenTransport Mac --> NeXT connection Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:16:27 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan Message-ID: <5if1mb$cu5$1@godzilla.gol.com> References: <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven> <distler-0804971011550001@slip-126-17.ots.utexas.edu> Cc: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu In <distler-0804971011550001@slip-126-17.ots.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler wrote: > You almost certainly need to set the Mac's IP number and the IP numbers of > the Nameserver(s) manually. Unless your NeXT is miraculously running a > BootP or DHCP server, that is the only way your Mac will know "who" it is. > Thank you. Will investigate. I must say the on-line help in System 7.5 is scant. OP still is not hand holding enough for a beginner trying to set up his own network. There is for example a "use 803" [can't remember the exact number from the top of my head] checkbox, and I have not found any other edvice regarding the various server settings than "contact your system administrator". On the NeXT side, the documentation is cryptic, sometimes contradictory, but it's there. I wonder if they are going to translate the man pages to human language for Rhapsody. Or replace with "contact your system administrator". Individuals wishing to set up a LAN should be increasing... > >I have not been able to connect using Telnet, due to the fact that > >the NCSA Telnet software requires MacTCP, and my Mac came with > >OpenTransport. > > Nonsense. Any recent version of NCSA Telnet (2.7b4 was the last official > one) will work just fine with OT. > Sorry, I meant "my version of NSCA Telnet", which is an adoption that can display Japanese. Not sure if there is a newer version of that, but English only is better than nothing. BTW, the Japanese Language Kit is OK, but the NeXT internationalization is just so much better. You need the J version, but it costs the same as the English one. Pick your language and you're done. My wife logs in in a Japanese environment, I in English, and we both can use Japanese wordprocessing etc. No garbled characters, like in Mac control panels, for instance. Sorry, got carried away. Thank you for your help Hans Shimizu Karlsson Tokyo
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install Fax-Software (Users Manual) Date: 9 Apr 1997 06:34:42 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5ifda2$fu2$1@lynet.de> Hello, if I press Alt-p in any application I get the Print-Page presented and have the Choice to print my document to the printer, in a file or to the faxprogram. So I haven't installed any faxprogram now. I suppose it's part of OpenStep 4.1 because its mentioned a lot in the Intro-Manuals. They write there, that I have to look into the Users-Manual to find out, how to use the fax-software. This might be a stupid question, but I haven't found the users-manual yet. Where do I have to look for it? Thank you! Andreas
From: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: 4.1 lookupd core dumps Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:23:08 +0100 Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <3338F90C.41C6@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: hlauer Hello, we just installed a machine with NextStep 4.1 in our mixed network, after having problems with the setup of NIS(YP) (the key are the release notes of the lookupd), now we have frequent kernel traps when trying to "su root" on the machine. First the machine does nothing and the after a while the trap occured. Every kernel trap leaves a core in /, wich seems to came from lookupd. I include below the configuration of lookupd from netinfo. Has somebody a working version which uses NIS(YPAgent), DNS(DNSAgent) and Netinfo(NIAgent) ? Leaving out one of them (as suggested by some news posting) is impossible on the setup used here. Another question: Is this problem new to 4.1, i. e., have somebody Version 4.0 running with a similar setup ? Thanks for any help/infos/replys. Hermann -----Configuration of lookupd--------------------------------- # nidump -r /locations/lookupd / name = lookupd; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent, FFAgent); CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }, { name = networks; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }); -------------------------------------------------------------- Hermann Lauer Bildverarbeitungsgruppe des Interdiziplinaeren Zentrums fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universitaet Heidelberg INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)548826 Fax: (06221)545224 Email: Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cant add users on NeXTstation Date: 9 Apr 1997 10:26:10 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5ifqs2$bjm@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <334A5B36.41C6@odyssey.ucc.ie> You should rebuild your netinfo database. -> Boot machine as standalone (bsd -s at 'NeXT>' prompt) -> cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc/ -> ^D (Yes, Ctrl-D, to start into multi-user) The machine should start up without root password and without passwd for the default user 'me' and logs in as user 'me' automatically. -> Set the password for 'me' with the 'Preferences' app -> log out. Now you may log in as root and create users. Possibly you have to restore 'hostconfig' (same directories) as well. Robert -- ----- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `--------------
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: 9 Apr 1997 11:28:03 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Message-ID: <5ifug3$lip@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> References: <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> Hi, what patches have you installed on the SGI side? XFS and NFS (esp V3) had numerous problems and have lots of patches, not all open to all customers... Wolfgang -- Dipl.-Wirtsch.Inf. Voice: +49 941 943 3205 Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 941 943 3211 Uni Regensburg E-Mail: Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de Universitaetsstr. 31 (MIME and NeXTmail ok) D-93053 Regensburg Germany WWW: http://www-wi.uni-regensburg.de/~row01458/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Q: How to set a netmask for more than 255 hosts? Message-ID: <E8CGqC.16F@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 00:15:48 GMT Hello everybody, I'm taking care of a small netinfo network within a heterogeneous network of several hundred hosts. In total, the network consists of IP numbers from two class C networks (..110.* and ..111.*). So far, all NEXTSTEP machines, all servers, and the router had IP addresses in the 110 range. Now system administration asked me to move the IP addresses of the NEXTSTEP machines to the 111 range. First, I wanted to move the network configuration server (running OPENSTEP 4.1 on Mach) over to its new IP address. For this I modified the INETADDR entry in /etc/hostconfig and modified the value of this machine's ip_address property in the host directory of the root netinfo domain. I then used HostManager to set the netmask to 255.255.254.0 (this setting was written to /etc/hostconfig by HostManager). After reboot the network ceased to work because I could not reach addresses in the 110 range (which unfortunately include the router). Using ifconfig -a I found out that the current netmask is ffffff00, even though I specified 255.255.254.0 (fffffe00). Stepping through the boot sequence in /etc/rc.net I stumbled over the following problem: I can try to configure a netmask of 255.255.254.0 using something like: ifconfig en0 inet <myIPnumber> netmask 255.255.254.0 broadcast <myBroadcastAddress> -trailers up but still ifconfig -a shows me a netmask of ffffff00 for en0. My question: Is there anything obvious I'm doing wrong or doesn't OPENSTEP 4.1 / Mach support a netmask of 255.255.254.0? Thanks, Piers -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I think people are happy using Windows, and that's an extremely depressing thought." -= Steve Jobs, 1/96 =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: 9 Apr 1997 15:23:26 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5igc9e$dci@transfer.stratus.com> References: <860533740.14466@dejanews.com> > > In article <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey > I think GS is still around. I bought ExtraTiff a couple of months ago. > You can still go to the web site > > http://www.gscorp.com > > They didn't take visa or master card I had to send them a check or money > order. And it took a while for them to reply to my phone calls and email > but they were there. I'll be damned. This website was down for a *long* time this winter and I thought for sure they'd packed it in. Glad to see they are still around ! Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install Fax-Software (Users Manual) Date: 9 Apr 1997 17:06:02 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5igi9q$1ja@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5ifda2$fu2$1@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5ifda2$fu2$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > if I press Alt-p in any application I get the Print-Page presented > and have the Choice to print my document to the printer, in a file or > to the faxprogram. So I haven't installed any faxprogram now. I suppose > it's part of OpenStep 4.1 because its mentioned a lot in the Intro-Manuals. > They write there, that I have to look into the Users-Manual to find out, > how to use the fax-software. > This might be a stupid question, but I haven't found the users-manual yet. > Where do I have to look for it? > Thank you! > > Andreas > this is just a guess, but perhaps they mean the user manual of the (third party) fax software, eg NXFax by Black & White (among others). -rick
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 18:47:36 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <334BC827.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> <5ifug3$lip@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wolfgang Roeckelein wrote: > > Hi, > > what patches have you installed on the SGI side? XFS and NFS (esp V3) had > numerous problems and have lots of patches, not all open to all > customers... > Wolfgang, the problem was definitely trapped down and could not be fixed by public available patches. The mach kernel of NeXT should be patched to fix it. There is a patch by NeXT but it is available to "Premium ObjectLine" customers only... Let's see what's happening if more and more people keep asking for it. Or do you have $25.000 per year to support your NeXT systems ? We don't. (http://www.next.com/Services/Support/Welcome.html) Stefan
From: fascist@vt.edu (Stefan Hall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Executables Downloading Corruption Question Date: 9 Apr 1997 17:49:37 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech/Blacksburg Electronic Village Message-ID: <5igkrh$ham$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Hello, The company I work at has a NeXTstation running version 3 of NeXTStep, and have self-extracting executables made with the WINZIP self-extractor builder for Windows 3.x. These executables (and *any* executable for that matter), when downloaded, are corrupted and will not run. However, a plain .ZIP file runs just fine. Has anyone encountered this problem as well, or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond via email to: kweston@cslab.vt.edu. Ryan
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS exporting to 32bit client (PROBLEMS) Date: 9 Apr 1997 17:51:55 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5igkvr$leh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <33302A04.6BD6@wam.umd.edu> <33397501.5112@wam.umd.edu> <SHESS.97Mar29002733@slave.one.net> <cdoutyE81xIA.9H7@netcom.com> <5i103d$r62$4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3344B6E5.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <5ic73h$r8j$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3349EF04.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Cc: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de In <3349EF04.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > rencsok@channelu.com wrote: > > > > > I'm doing the same. xfs export to NeXT. There are hard problems with > > > longer directories. The 32bitclient option should be used with the > > > export on the irix6.x system. But I has no success yet. > > > > ..... Well I tried to export the whole xfs disk and started poking around > > on the NeXT with find, etc. I experienced a similiar problem (that some > > directories > > arn't available from the GUI. > > > Hi Randy, > > meanwhile after some emails with people at NeXT and SGI the cause of > this problem was absolutely trapped down. It seems to be clear that only > NeXT could fix this. Both NeXT and SGI know the problem ! > Playing around with rsize/wsize and the 32bitclient option has no effect > on this. > > The inofficial answer from NeXT was "we have a patch but I can't send a > copy to you...". So it seems to be a kind of beta version of a kernel > patch for big customers. > > As far as I know it will not be fixed in OpenStep/mach 4.2 too. > So I'm trying to force them to make this public with the help of the > German distributor DART. > > I recommend you to do the same with your distributor. > Stefan, I have some messages from two kindly people who e-mailed me and for now who shall remain nameless. The first person actually did some work diagnosing the problem. Here is a copy of the informative part of their e-mail to me. First person wrote me: >You wrote: >> Unless someone from NeXT can speak up on this definatively I >> can't say whether it's the SGI or NeXT NFS code that is >> causing the problems we're seeing. But I'd bet that it could >> easily be the SGI. How to pin it down as a user is another >> matter. > >Well, nothing definite and I don't work at NeXT but maybe >this will help. > >Here's a bit more information about the problem which drove >me absolutely nuts about a month and a half ago, regretfully >no fix is possible AFAIK but at least you'll know what seems >to be going on. This is from an email I sent to somebody else >after diagnosing the problem, it explains what is happening: > >> As you may remember the problem is (in a nutshell) NextStep >> 3.[23] NFS clients seeing incomplete directory entries when >> mounting filesystems from the O2 NFS server. Files are still >> there but the directory listings don't show them. This is >> apparently what is happening according to John Spiller, who >> deals with NFS at sgi (this is after I sent him, at his >> request, packet dumps of the ethernet exchanges between the >> next and the o2 when listing a directory): >> >> > The only guess I can make from this is that the next does >> > something like give up as soon as the readdir cookie goes >> > above 0x40000000. This could easily be the case since it >> > wasn't until last year that the sun guys begrudginly admitted >> > that a cookie isn't necessarily an offset. Our XFS system uses >> > the full 32 bits (and in fact uses 64 bits in nfs 3, hence the >> > 32bitclient export option). Since our directories are not >> > just linear files, offset is meaningless, so the numbers could >> > conceivably jump around, although I believe them to be >> > monotonically increasing. >> > >> > According to any spec I've ever seen, cookie is opaque, >> > meaning the client shouldn't try to interpret it at all. It >> > looks like NeXtStep is, however. >> >> The temporary solution is to use efs instead of xfs in the >> exported filesystems as it uses the old offset method for >> creating cookies and so does not generate cookies above >> 0x40000000. I believe the problem is fixed in latter versions >> of NextStep (4.x) although I have not tested that. > >So you see, it is the next clients that are silently failing >when they find what they believe to be objectionable nfs >cookies. I sent a bug report to NeXT but had no response >whatsoever (not surprising). I've heard of a patch for 3.3 >that solved this particular problem but I have not tried to >obtain it (it is not in NextAnswers of the ftp server). Well I think we can confirm it's not just an O2 running 6.3 but now a Indigo 2 running 6.2. And certianly NS3.3 & 4.x (4.2?) Another kind soul sent me the following: >> I've also sent a query off to a friend of mine that works at NeXT. If >> there's actually a beta kernel available, maybe there's some hope. With the followup :( > >Looks kinda hopeless. >No "premiere" customers are pushing for it. >It was very likely not fixed for 4.2. >It will be fixed for Rhapsody, but that's not much help for us :) > >It seems that the problem is actually two separate problems. >One in the kernel dealing with readdir() and one with "recursive file >system commands like ls, tar, du, chown...etc." due to potential bugs >in the system libraries. The fix for the second part appears to be >as simple as downloading the gnu fileutils and compiling them statically >linked. > >If I hear anything else, I'll let you know. That's about where it stands at this point. If NeXT has a patch I wish they'd just release it. I'd be looking for something for NS3.3 since I don't plan on running 4.x anytime soon. I think most of us Black users havn't had a distributor for years :( unless you think a Reseller has any weight with NeXT. I personally could probably do what I need with nfs since I only export space on that xfs disk to be used as a temp directory for images/sounds etc (to share space between machines). I'm rather confused as to why only XFS filesystems illustrate this bug and not EFS filesystems? I can only wonder what is really going on here. Anyone from NeXT or SGI care to comment publically or privately on this? Stefan This is about the best I can do in terms of making a stink about it. Any other action you could recommend to us would be gratefully accepted (like a few e-mail addresses to bombard). But I expect that persons with NeXT's and SGI's on the same LAN are rather RARE. Randy Rencsok rencsok@channelu.com
From: "Jason J. Gullickson" <xjasong@itis.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What's a good gen ref on PPP? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 13:33:57 +0000 Organization: ValCom/MTC Inc. Message-ID: <334A4945.FB8@itis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm configuring a NS3.0 machine for PPP, what/where can I find some good info or FAQ's about doing this (the PPP package I have doesn't have much in the way of documentation) xjasong@itis.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: petergun@coffeehaus.com (Stephane I. Matis) Subject: RARP for Nextstep Message-ID: <E7oH85.Gsv@coffeehaus.com> Organization: >> coffeehaus << " We percolate great ideas. " Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 01:24:05 GMT I'm in the need for RARP under NS 3.3 Is there such a beast anywhere ? Steph -- A .sig from the past! 1992 September to be exact. Roll! ___ +---------------------------------------------------+ Over! __ ( . ) From : Stephane I. Matis
From: James Meacham <webmaster@nh.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using NT fileserver with ColorTurboStation Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 04:11:18 -0400 Organization: NHAI Message-ID: <334CA0A5.70E@nh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, I've just started working at a new company, and they are running an NT Alpha file server. Is there a way of connecting my Turbo Color Station via ethernet to the server. So far, I've been stuck using the ridulous Windows 95 interface, and I'm going to die soon if I don't get my trusty NeXT box in here. Thanks in advance, Peace, James
From: rcc@tilt.engr.sgi.com (Ray Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS exporting to 32bit client (PROBLEMS) Date: 10 Apr 1997 01:54:10 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <5ihh82$51a@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <33302A04.6BD6@wam.umd.edu> <5ic73h$r8j$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3349EF04.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <5igkvr$leh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In article <5igkvr$leh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, <rencsok@channelu.com> wrote: >>So you see, it is the next clients that are silently failing >>when they find what they believe to be objectionable nfs >>cookies. I sent a bug report to NeXT but had no response >>whatsoever (not surprising). I've heard of a patch for 3.3 >>that solved this particular problem but I have not tried to >>obtain it (it is not in NextAnswers of the ftp server). > >Well I think we can confirm it's not just an O2 running 6.3 but now >a Indigo 2 running 6.2. And certianly NS3.3 & 4.x (4.2?) [stuff deleted ... ] >I'm rather confused as to why only XFS filesystems illustrate this bug >and not EFS filesystems? I can only wonder what is really going on >here. Anyone from NeXT or SGI care to comment publically or privately >on this? The reason is really quite simple. EFS, like all FFS-based filesystems that I know of, use the offset into the directory as the cookie that it hands to NFS. Directory entries in EFS don't move around so this is ok. XFS does something different. We couldn't use the offset because the location of a directory entry can change as the directory grows and shrinks so we had to use something else instead. So we use something that includes our btree lookup value (and something else but I forget at the moment exactly what). The problem of course, is that the value of the cookie we generate really has very little correlation with the size of the directory. The value of the cookies will increase as you go through the directory using readdir but that's about the only guarantee you've got. The NFS spec says that cookies are opaque. But the Sun NFS code essentially treated cookies as offsets and did things like silently truncate upper bits, etc. (even for NFS v3, I believe) in the belief that no one would ever have directories that are that big. I think the latest Sun NFS code has the problem fixed. But if Next's implementation is derived from older Sun NFS code, well... >Randy Rencsok >rencsok@channelu.com Ray Chen rcc@sgi.com
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 23:21:43 -0600 From: dsolis@data.net.mx Subject: APEX 4.6 GB OPTICAL HARD DRIVE Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: dsolis@data.net.mx Has anyone been able to format and use the PinnacleMicro Apex under NeXTStep?. It's a double-sided MO disk, and holds 2.3gig on each side. Any experience (disktab?) or comments would be appreciated by e-mail if possible. TIA David Solis dsolis@data.net.mx -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Colm Dineen <colm@odyssey.ucc.ie> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cant add users on NeXTstation Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 15:50:30 +0100 Organization: University College Cork Message-ID: <334A5B36.41C6@odyssey.ucc.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I recently aquired an old (black) NeXTstation color running version 2 of NextStep (I think!!). Unfortunatly I can'tcreate new user accounts orchange any of the existing ones. Unfortunatly I can only login as ROOT. Its a stand alone machine. It was connected to a net but was the only NeXT on the net so it didn't use any distributed NetInfo stuff. It uses NetInfo with a "/" or "local" domain. If I use either UserManager or NetInfoManager to change or add a user I get a "ERROR: Can't update database. All objects marked as read only" message. The files in /etc/netinfo (including local.nidb) all seem to have write permissions set for ROOT, when viewed from a terminal or file browser window. Any ideas???? Thanks in advance, Colm colm@cs.ucc.ie
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FAQ? Having DOS boot by default using NeXT booter? Date: 10 Apr 1997 06:39:14 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ii1ui$8nu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> I'm not sure if this is an FAQ but I've not seen an answer anywhere. I understand you can use the Linux LILO booter with NS/OS. Before I do that, is it possible to have the NeXT booter have D for DOS as the default boot? While I can achieve the default by setting the DOS partition as the active one, I'd still like to get the N for NeXT question, rather than having to set the active partition each time. Many thanks -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: 10 Apr 1997 11:00:30 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Sender: fygir@194.229.196.71 Message-ID: <5iih8e$e2m$1@news1.xs4all.nl> References: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> >Stefan Ried wrote: >... >> the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: >> >> nfs mounting causes >> very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories >> some entries are missing. Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> wrote: >We're experiencing the same problems here. We have an Indy R5000 >running 6.2. If you get an answer for it, I'd really appreciate finding >out if there is a solution. I've been banging my head against it for a >couple of weeks. We have a 2G drive (xfs) hanging off the SGI and are >able to mount it fine from the NeXTs, but any kind of 'ls' only returns >a partial listing of what we *know* is in the directory. Very >frustrating. > >P.S. - I tried to talk with NeXT about it, but they had never heard of >this problem. But it is widespread. We have been having these exact same problems with an OPENSTEP 4.0 Mach system mounting filesystems exported by a Hummingbird Maestro NFS server on Windows NT. I received a technically interesting reply from Fernando Lopez: > I just had some fun a few weeks ago (not!) trying to get a new server > working with our 3.[23] NS clients. It is an SGI O2 running 6.2 and the > symptoms we experienced were exactly the same. Knowing what caused > things might help you (or not...). The problem in 3.[23] is that the sgi > (and probably your nt server) was sending nfs cookies with random (large) > values as it was exporting an xfs filesystem. Apparently the next > _interprets_ the cookies as offsets into the filesystem and bails out of > an ls (or anything that uses a readdir) when if finds an nfs cookie with > a value that is outside the range it expects. The temporary solution for > us was to recreate the sgi partitions as efs filesystems and export > that. Seems that the old efs implementation derives cookies from > filesystem offsets so the nexts are happy. Apparently some NFS servers out there (for Windows or other OSes) work fine, while others exhibit the behaviour described above. I have given up on NFS servers for Windows NT and am now trying my luck with rumba. Which doesn't work flawlessly either, but at least give complete directory access, as long as you mount only one service from the NT machine at a time. (See my earlier post; keyword: rumba.) 2 cents Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cd writers Date: 4 Apr 1997 19:55:48 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Message-ID: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: cdrom writers What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? -- Geoffrey Matthews matthews@cs.wwu.edu voice:360-650-3797 fax:360-650-7788
From: Markus Wenzel <not@this.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Automatic Reply Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:43:27 +0200 Organization: SNI Message-ID: <334CD25F.C34553F7@this.net> References: <40t4b4$m2b@caladan.restena.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 kay@sun wrote: (Check you From: address) > I want to set up the follwoing: > Someone should mail to a user (which doesn't exist) and get > a file (an answer) automatically send. How do I do that? > Example > mail info@cordis.lu > > and I send him back the result of the command ls -l > > ANy idea? You are looking for procmail. Cheers, Markus.
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAQ? Having DOS boot by default using NeXT booter? Date: 10 Apr 1997 12:04:58 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5iil1a$cv4@news.next.com> References: <5ii1ui$8nu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> In article <5ii1ui$8nu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) writes: > > I'm not sure if this is an FAQ but I've not seen an answer anywhere. I > understand you can use the Linux LILO booter with NS/OS. Before I do that, > is it possible to have the NeXT booter have D for DOS as the default boot? > While I can achieve the default by setting the DOS partition as the active > one, I'd still like to get the N for NeXT question, rather than having to > set the active partition each time. Sure. Just use fdisk (under either OS) to set the active partition to the one you want to boot by default (DOS). joe
From: iboehme@abm08.abm.de (Ivo Boehme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cd writers Date: 10 Apr 1997 15:19:40 GMT Organization: Nacamar Data Communications Message-ID: <5ij0ec$23h$1@news.nacamar.de> References: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) wrote: >What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? Geoffrey, tried CDDesigner 0.81? It states to fry CD's w/o needing to create an image first. Homepage: http://www.ip.cubenet.de/gehle --- Cheers, Ivo P.S. I don't work 4 them nor did I try this product ;-)
From: Charles Bennett <chuck@benatong.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Licensing.. Was: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 09:29:23 -0400 Organization: BenaTong Message-ID: <334B99B3.9D3@benatong.com> References: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [munched] > What's the word on sharing applications written by companies that went > belly-up? Cool, not cool, pass at your own risk ??? > > Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) > cdodson@cac.stratus.com My guess is "not cool" I'm not a lawyer but I think it would stillt fall under the normal copyright law. Something like 50 years after the authors death, or forever if the author is a corp..? Any real lawyers out there want to comment? Large company's usually negotiate an escrow of the application source in case it becomes unsupported, but you had better be buying in large numbers to make it worth your while. Perhaps you could contact someone from the companies (If you can find a contact) and get them to GNU license the software. Chuck -- BenaTong suppliers of PowerGuardian for NeXTSTEP http://www.benatong.com
From: Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:38:01 -0700 Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Message-ID: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: rjkuropk@inreach.com, gcasamen@erols.com Greetings, I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 7285. It is a Pentium-200 with a three Gig hard drive. I currently have three formated primary partitions (1 DOS/Win3.1 - 500Mg, 1 Win95 1G that came with the machine(Why does anyone use this OS?) and 1 currently hosed up Win NT partition - 800Mg.) The remaining 7-800 Meg is unformated. Boot Managment is being handled by System Commander. Eventually, I intend to add a second hard drive to install OS/2, Linux and Solaris. My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and move on, I get one of two respones. Either a black screen of purgatory or a screen full of messages ending with an error about not finding any SCSI device and one attempt to enter in a different root device. After trying several random guesses I gave up. I talked with someone else who sucessfully installed with and IDE CD-ROM and a SCSI disk by simply putting in the disk type in response to the prompt for CD-ROM driver and the CD-ROM driver (IDE) in response to the prompt for hard disk driver. My assumption is it loaded the two drivers and created one SCSI device and one IDE device and then figured out on it's own which one to install from and to. In my case however, I need to create two IDE devices, and the install does not seem interested in letting me do so. It then hangs searching for the non-existant SCSI device. I've had this software for a really long time and now finally have a machine I can load it on (I hope). Any help would be appreciated. Thanx, Robert Kuropkat rjkuropk@inreach.com robertk@mfg.sgi.com P.S. Assuming OpenStep would be kinder to me, can anyone tell me how much it costs for the average joe. I'm not in school and I don't need a site license for more than one. I tried looking at the Next site but must say I got a bit lost there. For a group supposedly heavilly involved in things WEB-like, thier own site certainly seemed less then usefull. Perhaps I was not patient or thorough enough in my search. I was kinda hoping to find a "Get install patch for IDE CD-ROM's here -->" link and an "Upgrade to OpenStep cheap here -->" link.
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! Date: 10 Apr 1997 17:28:32 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a very serious problem that I need help with. I have a Jaz disk that had files moved from it onto another disk (using the next window GUI move command). I want to recover the data fromm the original Jaz disk. Unfortunately the disk the data was moved onto was destroyed. The Jaz disk is intact and hasn't had anything done to it since the data was moved off (no read or writes). Is there any way this can be done? Can I do it myself or is there a service that I can send the disk to to have it recovered? If a service is the way to go, are there any recommendations? PLEASE HELP!! Of course I need the data recovered yesterday! Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: 10 Apr 1997 17:39:03 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ij8jn$kb4@q.seanet.com> References: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> Cc: gcasamen@erols.com Hello, I also run a Matrox Millenium with 4MB of WRAM on NeXT3.3, with a Sony 15sf monitor. When I first installed the system, I chose a refresh rate that Win95 and WinNT could handle, but NeXT did not, thus causing the black screen. On Intel boxes, type a "?" at the start prompt, to show a list of boot options. As I remember, type "config=Default" to bring up the default settings. Log in as root, and change the configuration panel settings for the Matrox card. You may need to try several times to find a setting that works for you, but I found that: Graphics Card and Resolution: Matrox - 4MB WRAM 768/1024 72Hz RGB:444/16 - Was the best setting I could use with my small monitor. Steve Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting to network and ISP Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:56:13 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <334D29BD.41FE@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to connect to my ISP with an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px. This is an ISDN router with an ethernet backend which is connected to my computer. My ISP uses an Ascend Max 4000, and has assigned me one static IP address (206.153.50.76). They depend on the router to use network address translation. The manual for the router says to assign the router an artificial address with each of the dotted quads between 100 and 255. And further, to assign the computer an address with the last number different from the router by one. Does this mean that I completely ignore the actual number that the ISP has assigned me, and use any bogus numbers such as 192.168.100.100 for the router and 192.168.100.101 for the computer? Would the correct netmask be 255.255.255.0? Would the correct broadcast address be 192.168.100.255? Are there any other parameters I need to set? I started up the Simple Network Starter application in order to set the parameters. When I entered the settings I got error messages that I could not change them with that application. The NeXT documentation says you can make changes with it, and whats the point in having that app if you can't make changes? So how can I get this app to work, or which app would I use to make the changes? --Greg
From: chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: loginwindow tries to start BuildDisk! Date: 7 Apr 97 14:47:02 GMT Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <chk.860424422@deimos.frii.com> References: <5i9j4t$r53@surf.pangea.ca> I ran into this a while ago... What it ended up being was a file that was missing or existant, which shouldn't have been. Depending on that file, loginwindow starts BuildDisk.. I believe it was /var/adm/BuildDisk.custom. Try touching that file and see what happens. This is something that absolutely has to go into the FAQ! Cheers, Chris siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) writes: >I have a diskless cube that boots 3.3 fine from the local ethernet. >It puts up the normal login pannel. >Whenever a valid userid and password are entered, the screen brightens >as expected, then reverts back to the login pannel. >I can login as "console" or rlogin and all looks normal. >Here is what is in /private/admin/messages: >Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[295]: running /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk >Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[181]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255). >Apr 4 19:59:51 rtmono loginwindow[181]: creating new loginImage >There is no mention of BuildDisk in any NetInfo or dread database, nor in /etc/ttys. >However >"strings /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow | grep Build" >gives: >/usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom >/NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk >BuildDisk >"df" gives: >df >Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on >rt040:/ 653614 419643 168609 71% / >rt040:/clients/rtmono 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private >/private/vm/swapfile 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private/vm/swapfile.front >rt040:/General 1014668 551100 362101 60% /General >Anyone know what triggers loginwindow to try to start BuildDisk? >... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca> -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (home) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "Humbly speaking for myself only."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bpioline@thwgs2.cern.ch (Boris Pioline) Subject: virtual host Message-ID: <E8H30q.6EE@news.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:07:38 GMT Hi there, I want to set up a virtual host on a Next, ie two IP addresses for a single machine. The purpose is to run an Apache webserver answering for two different domains How can I do that ? Thanks Boris Pioline -- Boris Pioline -------------------------------------------------- CERN TH division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail aliases and NetInfo domains... Date: 11 Apr 1997 12:44:00 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5ilbmg$o7p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, we're running a network with two NetInfo levels, the /-domain (root) and a subdomain called /faum. Now, I want to install some mailaliases only for the /faum domain in it's subdirectory /aliases. I put them there, but the users of the /faum subdomain didn't see those aliases in their Mail.app's until I put them in the /-Domain. That's exactly the location where I didn't want to put the aliases. Is it possible to add mailaliases in a subdomain, or do they always have to be in the /-domain? ...Ralf P.S.: I didn't forget to run mailDBupdate after I created the new aliases. -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: NFS export from Linux to NeXTSTEP file creation errors. Date: 11 Apr 97 09:12:32 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.97Apr11091232@slave.one.net> I've got a Linux box running the September 1996 Slackware, with kernel 2.0.27. In /etc/exports, I've got: / howard(rw) slave(rw) howard (NeXT, NS3.2) and slave (P133, NS3.3) are both defined in /etc/hosts, and work fine for everything but NFS. On the NeXT side, I have an fstab entry like: ichabod:/ /Net nfs nosuid,net,timeo=6 0 0 ichabod (i486, Linux) is in the appropriate tables on the NeXTSTEP side, and everything there is fine. I also have the username scott as uid 21 on both boxes. When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp and do "touch barf" from NeXTSTEP as scott, I get a response "touch: barf: Not owner". The zero-length file barf is created, with no rwx permissions at all. If I try to copy a file, same thing (zero-length no-permissions file created, not written). If I got over to ichabod and fix the permissions to be reasonable, I can overwrite the file just fine from NeXTSTEP. When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp and to "touch barf" as _root_, meanwhile, I get a zero-length barf with owner rw, group r, world r, owned be nobody.daemon. Any ideas? Am I running afoul of something specific to Linux or NeXTSTEP? I'm almost to the point where I'm considering running samba/rumba to get the files mounted in working fashion :-). Thanks, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: APEX 4.6 GB OPTICAL HARD DRIVE Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:16:16 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ilh3g$a9g$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> Cc: dsolis@data.net.mx In <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> dsolis@data.net.mx wrote: > Has anyone been able to format and use the PinnacleMicro Apex > under NeXTStep?. It's a double-sided MO disk, and holds > 2.3gig on each side. > > Any experience (disktab?) or comments would be appreciated by e-mail if > possible. > > TIA > Uck.. Your going to need a disktab for two partitions (we still have the 2G limit). How you'd get NeXTStep to mount both of them when inserting the media (via automounter) would still have to be solved (if even possible). I've never tried putting two partitions on a MO to see if the automounter would mount them both. :| Randy
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:30:47 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ilhun$a9g$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> Cc: levenez@club-internet.fr In <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> Eric Levenez wrote: > decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) wrote: > >I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know > >that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or > >after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after > >formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any > >problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will > >want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary > >swapfile). > > I have a IBM 4 GB on NS 3.3. I have to make 3 partitions because the > disk (after formated) has a little more than 4 GB. The two first are > just below 2 GB, the last one is a little 400 MB. > > Here is my disktab entry : > > DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\ > :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ > :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ > :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\ > :pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\ > :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ > :pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\ > :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ > :pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ > :ic:tc=4.3BSD: > You can't get up over 4M blocks? Did you try sa > 4000000? I would have thought one could get 4194000 blocks or there abouts which would eliminate the need for a third partition.. Here is mine for a Conner that does just under 2GB per partition. CONNER CFP4207S 4.28GB|CONNER|CFP4207S|4.28GB|CFP4207S-1024:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3384:nt#20:ns#62:ss#1024:rm#7200:\ :fp#160:bp#256:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=ascended:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#2097151:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#4:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD\ :pb#2097151:sb#2096992:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#5:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD: Now if you want a 400M swap partition your disktab might be the ticket BTW: IMHO Be careful about putting a seperate swap partition on your HD's in some circumstances it can really work out your drive if you get into a swapping circumstance where the heads do a lot of moving back and forth (like if you had / on one partition /usr on another and /private/vm on another). Say your reading in a 20M file off / and you have to swap! Your disk will have to move the heads from / to swap and back again for every swap action. This can be quie hard on a HD. Randy
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cd writers Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 07:48:12 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970411074525.24640C-100000@kira> References: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Geoffrey Matthews <matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> > What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? I'm not sure why this would be thought of as a sysadmin question.... In fact, there is a thread going on about this on csn.software right now. TjL
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Resolving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 11 Apr 1997 15:30:09 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> Hello, I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it to an NetInfoServer. Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur What's wrong about it? Thank's in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: "Juhana Riihimki" <jriihi@sci.fi> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: 11 Apr 1997 16:24:23 GMT Organization: - Message-ID: <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower> References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> wrote in article <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com>... > Greetings, > > I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion > 7285. It is a Pentium-200 with a three Gig hard drive. I currently > have three formated primary partitions (1 DOS/Win3.1 - 500Mg, 1 Win95 1G > that came with the machine(Why does anyone use this OS?) and 1 currently > hosed up Win NT partition - 800Mg.) The remaining 7-800 Meg is > unformated. Boot Managment is being handled by System Commander. > Eventually, I intend to add a second hard drive to install OS/2, Linux > and Solaris. My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the > first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first eh you can install it to second partition on first harddrive also :)) > primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary > controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. yep to get install search for nextstep ATAPI CD-ROM it must be connected as second drive to primary controller (slave).. > When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists > that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or > get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and You need to get EIDE 3.31 or EIDE 3.35 beta driver disk image and make that disk then use that disk when it asks for hard drive. as cd-rom drive use 154x. > I talked with someone else who sucessfully installed with and IDE CD-ROM > and a SCSI disk by simply putting in the disk type in response to the You just need that EIDE driver and to just supply install prog with 154x when it asks for scsi driver first then when it asks for harddisk driver supply EIDE then continue install and it uses automatically ATAPI CD-ROM as cd-rom drive. > P.S. Assuming OpenStep would be kinder to me, can anyone tell me how > much it costs for the average joe. I'm not in school and I don't need a i want openstep too so if you get good answers to this then tell me also. I have successfully installed: DOS, Win95, OS/2 Warp 4, WindowsNT 4.0 Workstation, Linux, FreeBSD and NeXTSTEP. My computer: (Pentium 120MHz, 40 Megs ram, 3.2 + 1.3 Gigs HDD + scsi CD-R)
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resolving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 11 Apr 1997 17:39:19 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5ilt07$qir@newstand.syr.edu> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> In article <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de>, <andreas@lynet.de> wrote: >Hello, > >I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer >in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it >to an NetInfoServer. >Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an >IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. >I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical >IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> >I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have >made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur >What's wrong about it? >Thank's in advance! > It is normal to use NetInfo anyway in this situation to serve the local domain. Thus, if netinfod is running you would need to do niload hosts . < /etc/hosts in order for your changes to be known to netinfo. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Order of NFS mounts: when does it matter? Date: 11 Apr 1997 21:06:08 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5im940$s55@newstand.syr.edu> We have a server called math that exports 3 filesystems to the network: /dev/sd0a, which math mounts on /, /dev/sd1a on /foo and /dev/sd1b on /bar . The mounts directory in the root domain instructs every machine on the network to mount these filesystems /Net. What actually happens is that all machines mount math:/ and math:/foo normally; but while math:/bar appears to be mounted ( in mtab ), the directory /Net/math/bar on all machines is empty. What mystified me is that all of the options are identical for the 3 filesystems. The only difference is the order in which the machines mount the 3 filesystems: math:/foo, then math:/, and finally (and unsuccessfully) math:/bar. The order of mounts appears to be controlled by the directory id number of the corresponding subdirectory of /mounts. After much copying and deleting (is there a better way ?) I was able to rearrange the directory ids so that both /foo and /bar come before /. Now everything works fine. Can anyone explain to me what's going on here? (I guess if I had thought the order mattered I would have expected that / would need to come first, not last. Maybe the mounts actually occur in the reverse of the directory id numbering ?) -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Message-ID: <334eac59.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 11 Apr 97 21:25:45 GMT Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> wrote: >Greetings, > >I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion >7285. >[snip] >My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the >first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first >primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary >controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. > >When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists >that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or >get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and >move on, I get one of two respones. Either a black screen of purgatory >or a screen full of messages ending with an error about not finding any >SCSI device and one attempt to enter in a different root device. After >trying several random guesses I gave up. >[snip] As I recall from the INSTALL NOTES, one of the things you must load is a SCSI driver. I think the Adaptec 1542. The other thing was that the IDE CD-ROM drive had to be connected to the first controller as a slave device. It also has to follow a certain protocol. I think ATAPI. See http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1933.htmld/1933.html I'm sure all of this is in the installation documentation that came with NS 3.3. Check NextAnswers if your missing that documentation. If none of this helps, then send me e-mail directly. Some trouble shooting notes for later: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1127.htmld/1127.html Darren Reely http://www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 11 Apr 1997 21:48:19 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer > in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it > to an NetInfoServer. > Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an > IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. > I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical > IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> > I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have > made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur NextStep/OpenStep does not use the /etc/hosts (or most other etc files) but the netinfo database. Use HostManager.app to add a system on a standalone NS machine, or in a shell (watch the spaces!) nidump hosts / > /tmp/hosts open /tmp/hosts <--- add your systems here niload -d -v hosts / < /tmp/hosts (the -d stand for 'delete hosts not in given input' and the '-v' for verbose (for every added hostname you get a '+' as output)) --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SCSI low-level format for NSFIP Date: 11 Apr 1997 22:03:16 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5imcf4$fj0$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5i2p6d$49p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5i3a5l$7qt$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5icrm4$g84@ramona.sfo.com> Cc: annard@sfo.com In <5icrm4$g84@ramona.sfo.com> Annard Brouwer wrote: > You (spammers@ruin.the.internet <spammers@ruin.the.internet>) wrote > in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 4 Apr 1997 16:27:33 GMT: > > Unless your using Openstep (not NeXTStep) 4.x your going to find it > > pretty hard (if not impossible) to make a partition that is larger than 2GB > > by simply reformatting your disk from 512B/sec to 1024B/sec ;) > > > No no no. It will work on NS3.3, I did it! The only caveat is that it cannot be your boot drive on Intel because of BIOS limitations. > So show me a df on a mounted 4G partition on NS3.3 system. The other point was that I couldn't see why simply going from 512B/sec to 1024B/sec would do anything magical that would allow one to make a 4G partition. If there is then I'd like to know. Randy
From: gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch (Gerold Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help:Services on Root not working Date: 11 Apr 1997 17:27:31 GMT Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> Whenever I log in as root, the services menu does not work. They are perfectly ok when in a regular user account. The dock also does not allow me to add any new application under the root account. In a regular user account all is OK. Any ideas where I should be looking? -- geroldr@webshuttle.ch Gerold Rupprecht Consultant: NeXTSTEP/ Openstep/Databases Financial applications 3 rue Louis Curval CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Subject: anyone figured out ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk? Message-ID: <E8I2AL.66r@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:49:32 GMT I realize that there are multiple compies of ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk, etc. available, but I wonder why my next machine can't even talk with itself! I niloaded services explicictly, but... alas... has anyone figured out the secret to talk on NS3.2? thanks in advance much, bryce
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 12 Apr 1997 03:36:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5imvvp$9kh$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> In-Reply-To: <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> On 04/11/97, Frank M. Siegert wrote: >andreas@lynet.de wrote: >> Hello, > >> I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer >> in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it >> to an NetInfoServer. >> Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an >> IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. >> I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical >> IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> >> I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have >> made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur > >NextStep/OpenStep does not use the /etc/hosts (or most other etc files) but the netinfo >database. > >Use HostManager.app to add a system on a standalone NS machine, or in a shell (watch >the spaces!) > >nidump hosts / > /tmp/hosts >open /tmp/hosts <--- add your systems here >niload -d -v hosts / < /tmp/hosts > >(the -d stand for 'delete hosts not in given input' and the '-v' for verbose (for every added >hostname you get a '+' as output)) Does this hold true for the more 'dangerous' /etc/host.equiv? -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: scribex@cedep.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3/Win95 dual boot: clock problems Date: 12 Apr 1997 09:23:08 GMT Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <5ink9s$p7i@supernews.login.net> References: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> In-Reply-To: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> James E. Quick wrote a very useful utility that will solve your problem. It's called TimeShift. See: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/hack/TimeShift .I.bs.tar.gz (22 KB) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/hack/TimeShift .README Cheers, -Andr ---------------------------- On 04/07/97, Sandeep Kochhar wrote: > > hi! I have a PC configured for dual booting between NextStep 3.3 and > Windows 95. I'm having problems keeping the clock (time of day) > consistent between the two environments. Both are set to the same > time zone (US/EST), but when I switch between the two, the hours are > off (the minutes and day/year are OK)... Any ideas what might be > wrong, or how to narrow down the problem? > > Thanks. > > -- > ---------------------------- > Sandeep Kochhar Tel: 617-876-2052, Fax: 617-238-0763 > 15-17 Lee St. #T2 Email: kochhar@das.harvard.edu > Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.avcinc.com/people/kochhar/ ====================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Executables Downloading Corruption Question Message-ID: <E8It15.5C0@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5igkrh$ham$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:27:04 GMT In article <5igkrh$ham$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> fascist@vt.edu (Stefan Hall) writes: > Hello, > The company I work at has a NeXTstation running version 3 of > NeXTStep, and have self-extracting executables made with the > WINZIP self-extractor builder for Windows 3.x. These executables > (and *any* executable for that matter), when downloaded, are > corrupted and will not run. However, a plain .ZIP file runs just > fine. Has anyone encountered this problem as well, or know how > to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond > via email to: kweston@cslab.vt.edu. > It might be that I'm a bit slow or even outright stupid, but could someone explain to me how a Intel executable like a self extracting ZIP archive is expected to run on a Motorola CPU without help of an emulator like SoftPC? -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Message-ID: <E8Itrq.5Cr@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:43:02 GMT In article <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) writes: > I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. > The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 > Looking in the system messages the following appear.... > > machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 > machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 > > occasionally this one also shows up: > machine-name mach: en0: transmitter not ready > > I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it > thinking the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors > appeared. > > Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or > ....???? > Any ideas would be welcome. > These spurious DMA interupts start to appear when the CPU is too slow to service all I/O requests. Some interupts then get lost while the kernel resides in an uninteruptible section. Since you also mentioned the Ethernet driver posting error messages, could it be that you have a troubled (possibly 10base2?) Ethernet segment that is awash in collisions and other garbled packets? This used to be a very common symptom on any of the erarly BSD implementations. I've seen this as a regular pattern on MicroVAX IIs running Ultrix, for instance. And SUN 3s used to show the same behaviour (although less frequently)... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Resolving hostnames with /etc/hosts Message-ID: <E8IuBu.5DH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:55:06 GMT In article <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: > > Hello, > > I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer in a heterogene > NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it to an NetInfoServer. Thus > I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) > in HostManager-Local. I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use > numerical IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> I > get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have made an > entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur What's wrong about it? > Thank's in advance! > NEXTSTEP just works different! The plain file sysadmin databases just remain for BSD compatibility with old code. Anything that was linked towards the NEXTSTEP runtime libs uses NetInfo to determine network setup and other such stuff (users, printers, etc.). Since you didn't enter the hostnames in NetInfo (by means of HostManager.app) these hostnames won't be resolved. You either enter these host by means of HostManager or you must bulk load them using 'niload' (see man-page). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 12 Apr 1997 17:02:15 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5iof6n$f1e$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> <5imvvp$9kh$1@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > On 04/11/97, Frank M. Siegert wrote: >... how to modify the host db on NeXTSTEP using nidump/niload > Does this hold true for the more 'dangerous' /etc/host.equiv? As far as I know /etc/hosts.equiv /etc/hosts.lpd /etc/resolv.conf /etc/fstab /etc/gettytab (...and a bunch of other files) are still used from /etc. (Maybe there is a way to feed them in NetInfo, however some of them are needed before NetInfo is running at boot time...) - Frank --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: sairanen@park.helsinki.fi (Mika Sairanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: comsat Date: 12 Apr 1997 21:19:01 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Message-ID: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hello, problem with comsat-procedure. our server does this: Mar 27 00:18:02 meisseli in.comsat[16246]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 00:20:05 meisseli in.comsat[16249]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 03:06:22 meisseli in.comsat[16327]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 03:46:23 meisseli in.comsat[16347]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 03:49:28 meisseli in.comsat[16348]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:00:10 meisseli in.comsat[16356]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:30:57 meisseli in.comsat[16371]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:51:13 meisseli in.comsat[16381]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:57:07 meisseli in.comsat[16385]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 05:30:26 meisseli in.comsat[16402]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 05:34:27 meisseli in.comsat[16403]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 and it is not wanted. do you know how to stop it? sairanen@elisir.helsinki.fi
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:29:31 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Dear NeXTers, I would like to ask you if you had any comments on the following procedure. It is only one of four I am putting together. So this is just a testing what you think. The other procedures will be: - Install on small disk in sd0a, initialize the large disk on sd1 using a custom disktab entry, change the SCSI ID's so that large disk becomes sd0a and then move all the stuff from the other disk. Details were provided by my friend. I will translate it, test it (maybe) and post it. - Copy the whole installation CD on a temporary disk, edit /etc/disktab and use the disk instead of the CD to install the software. Details later. - A suggestion to NeXT Software, details later. - Here comes the only procedure I had enough energy to test and type. Please comment. Good luck. Rudy. --------------------------------- I don't assume any responsibility if you damage anything on your machine. This is what I did, and if you want, you can try it. You are on your own. Don't do it unless you are sure what is going on. It is assumed that you have all SCSI and CDROM drivers and know how to perform NS 3.3 installation on your configuration. Procedure 1 ----------- Requires a second SCSI disk, of size at least 60 MB. Advantages: - additional disk could be small (60 MB), e.g. ZIP Drive (not tested) - The scsi ID of the disk might be high, e.g. ZIP drive (not tested) - No need to swap the SCSI id's during installation, useful if you don't want to fiddle with your internal SCSI drives. Disadvantages: - Complicated. - Tested with SCSI harddisks only. SCSI ID's are assumed to be set so that the disks are recognized as: sd0 .... Disk0 - a large harddisk (over 4GB or so) that we want to partition using a custom disktab entry while installing NS 3.3 from the CD on this disk. sd1 .... Disk1 - another harddisk. Size is not essential, as long as the whole NS installation CD can fit on it. This is a disk that we use temporarily to copy the whole CD on. sd2 .... CD ROM. NOTE !!! Both disks, Disk0 and Disk1, will be erased during the installation process. Stage 1 - Basic install on secondary disk Disk1. - Put the NS 3.3 installation CD in the CD ROM drive. - Boot from the installation diskette. - Specify the CD ROM and SCSI drivers as during a usual install. - When asked if you want to install NS on Disk0 (the large disk), type 2 to choose the smaller disk Disk1, which has SCSI higher than Disk0. - Then choose 1 to erase the entire disk and use it for NeXTstep (you can also specify a partition, if you want, but we assume that you use the whole disk.) - After that, choose 1 to start the installation and wait for the basic installation of NS on Disk1 to complete. Stage 2 - Rebooting in single user mode with Disk1 as the root device. - When asked to remove the floppy from the drive and press a key to restart the computer, PUT THE INSTALLATION FLOPPY IN THE DRIVE and then press a key to reboot from the floppy. - At the boot: prompt specify -a -s to start NS from the floppy in single user mode, using Disk1 as the root device. - You will be asked for the CD ROM and SCSI drivers again. It will look like you are starting the installation again, but you will end up in single user mode instead. - After selecting the CD ROM and HardDisk drivers, you will have chance to load additional drivers. Load the FLOPPY DRIVER which is located on the first driver disk. - When prompted for the root device, specify sd1 Stage 3 - Initializing and partitioning the target disk Disk0. - Insert the floppy containing your new disktab file. - Mount the floppy mount /dev/fd0a /Floppy - Copy the new disktab file from the floppy to /ect mv /etc/disktab /etc/disktab.orig cp /Floppy/disktab /etc - In single user mode execute fdisk to remove any partitions from the target Disk0. - To initialize the target disk Disk0 (recognized as sd0) execute: disk -i /dev/rsd0h -l Disk **** disktab notes ************************* Note that the disk will be initialized using your new disktab file. You have to be sure that the name of the disk in the disktab file match the name of the disk as reported by scsimodes. See NeXTanswers 1533 for details. Example output of: scsimodes /dev/rsd0h Drive type: SEAGATE ST34371W 0360JD 512 bytes per sector .... Then the name in the disktab file has to be SEAGATE ST34371W 0360JD-512 where the 512 is the number of sectors You can repeat this step a few times and experiment with the disktab file, until you are happy with the partitioning ... **** end of disktab notes ****************** Stage 4 - Copying the basic install files from Disk1 (mounted as root, sd1a) into the first partition of the target disk Disk0. - To mount the first partition of Disk0 as /Disk0 folder execute: mount /dev/sd0a /Disk0 - To create an identical copy of the Disk1 (sd1a) into the first partition of the target disk Disk0 (mounted as /Disk0) execute: dump 0f - /dev/sd1a | (cd /Disk0; restore xf -) Answer 'y' to the question if you want the set owner/mode for '.' Stage 5 - Continuing with standard install on target disk Disk0 - Edit the file /Disk0/etc/fstab so that the root is mounted from /dev/sd0a instead of /dev/sd1a. The change 1 --> 2 is the only change. For example vi /Disk0/etc/fstab - Touch the file /Disk0/usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom to bypass BuildDisk which would report the size of your disk wrongly and wouldn't let you finish the installation (see Nextanswers 2107 for details) touch /Disk0/usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom - REMOVE ANY FLOPPY from the drive and reboot the system using reboot - Finish the installation on the large Disk0 (sd0a) as if you started the installation on this disk. Note: The machine will bypass the BuildDisk, so after you reboot, the machine will ask you for drivers, boot NS in graphics mode and instead of opening BuildDisk it will reboot immediately. So make sure that there is no floppy with drivers in the drive. After this second reboot it will ask you again for the drivers, so don't think that something went wrong. It's just bypassing the BuildDisk. Stage 6 - Finishing the installation - Since also the Configure.app stage was skipped, you have to install all the additional drivers by hand, otherwise you would be asked for the drivers at every booting. You have to do this as root, so set a password for 'me' account, log out and log in as root. Then run /NextAdmin/Configure.app ... - After you are done with the installation, you will have to edit the file /etc/fstab to mount all the other partitions of your large disk sd0. - Also you should erase all the files on the temporarily used disk Disk1 on sd1a. - You will have to install by hand any packages you want to have on your computer. You can do that by doubleclicking on the package files on the NS 3.3 CD, in the directory NeXTCD/Packages. Good luck, people. I am really tired of this. Rudy.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:34:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipd6c$5gh$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote: >sd0 .... Disk0 - a large harddisk (over 4GB or so) that we want > to partition using a custom disktab entry while installing > NS 3.3 from the CD on this disk. >sd1 .... Disk1 - another harddisk. Size is not essential, as long as > the whole NS installation CD can fit on it. This is a disk > that we use temporarily to copy the whole CD on. >sd2 .... CD ROM. > Sorry, the sd1 can be small, say 60MB. We will not copy the whole CD on it. This was written for a different procedure. Sorry. The sd1 (Disk1) is just another SCSI disk with at least 60MB. Rudy.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:42:50 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipdmq$5gh$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote: >- To create an identical copy of the Disk1 (sd1a) into the first partition > of the target disk Disk0 (mounted as /Disk0) execute: > dump 0f - /dev/sd1a | (cd /Disk0; restore xf -) I forgot the mention that my friend, Tom Hurka from Prague helped me with this step. Thanks, Tom. Rudy.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 02:31:55 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipgir$dk7$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote: >Dear NeXTers, > > I would like to ask you if you had any comments on the following procedure. >It is only one of four I am putting together. So this is just a testing >what you think. > > > >The other procedures will be: > >- Install on small disk in sd0a, initialize the large disk on sd1 using a >custom disktab entry, change the SCSI ID's so that large disk >becomes sd0a and then move all the stuff from the other disk. Details >were provided by my friend. I will translate it, test it (maybe) and post >it. > >- Copy the whole installation CD on a temporary disk, edit /etc/disktab and >use the disk instead of the CD to install the software. Details later. > >- A suggestion to NeXT Software, details later. > >- Here comes the only procedure I had enough energy to test and type. > > >Please comment. > >Good luck. > >Rudy. > I wrote the whole thing for the Intel platform. The idea should be the same for black harware, but the steps would need some changes. If I get some notes from you, I will add these plus my own 3 replies to my post and post it again. Sorry for the updates. Rudy.
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 21:46:06 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith Net-Illinois State University Message-ID: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry for the off topic question, but does anyone have info on installing Windows NT 4 & NEXTSTEP 3.3 onto a Jaz cart? It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? Iomega's WWW site has *NO* info on *installing NT* onto a Jaz cart, much less NS info... Thanks much in advance. The idea is that I can have a different OS on each 1 GB cart...Talk about being a chameleon! 8-) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D --- Instructional Technology Services --- Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."- Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc. CEO ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Services on Root not working Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:24:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Gerold Rupprecht <gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch> In-Reply-To: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> check to make sure the root home is properly defined, and is not something like /users/root if that path does not exist. TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:45:53 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> In-Reply-To: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Apr-97 comsat by Mika Sairanen@park.helsi > Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 > and it is not wanted. > do you know how to stop it? Edit /etc/inetd.conf, and disable the entry for the comsat daemon by commenting it out (insert a '#' as the first character on that line). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: anyone figured out ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk? Date: 13 Apr 1997 13:13:45 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5iqm69$s56$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <E8I2AL.66r@midway.uchicago.edu> bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) wrote: > I realize that there are multiple compies of ntalk, > talk, ytalk, etalk, etc. available, but I wonder why my > next machine can't even talk with itself! I niloaded > services explicictly, but... > alas... has anyone figured out the secret to talk on > NS3.2? Does your machine know about itself? One common problem is that the local hostname is only in /etc/hostconfig but not in the host db (in Netinfo) or known by the resolver. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Message-ID: <cdoutyE8L5IJ.9Br@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> <5imvvp$9kh$1@news.digifix.com> <5iof6n$f1e$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:51:54 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom13.netcom.com In article <5iof6n$f1e$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net>, Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: >sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: >> On 04/11/97, Frank M. Siegert wrote: >>... how to modify the host db on NeXTSTEP using nidump/niload >> Does this hold true for the more 'dangerous' /etc/host.equiv? > >As far as I know > > /etc/hosts.equiv > /etc/hosts.lpd > /etc/resolv.conf > /etc/fstab > /etc/gettytab > (...and a bunch of other files) > >are still used from /etc. (Maybe there is a way to feed them in NetInfo, however some of >them are needed before NetInfo is running at boot time...) Some of those are (can be) superceeded when NetInfo is running. As of 3.3 you can put resolv.conf into /locations/resolver. I'm not sure which takes precedence, the file or NetInfo, but it's probably NetInfo. Note that there is no builtin format for resolver info in niload/nidump. NFS mounts can go into /mounts, and I believe that autonfsmounts must go there. However the file /etc/fstab is certainly required for booting. Heaven help you if you have multiple disk partitions (or multiple disks) and you lose this file. The rest of those config files are definitely NOT in NetInfo. I'm not sure if this is good or bad. -Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: 13 Apr 1997 09:46:06 -0400 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5iqo2u$mop@papoose.quick.com> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> In article <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>, Mika Sairanen <sairanen@park.helsinki.fi> wrote: >hello, >problem with comsat-procedure. >our server does this: >Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 >and it is not wanted. >do you know how to stop it? If you do not want to run comsat on your box then just comment out the definition of the service in /etc/inetd.conf. To do this change the line: comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/comsat comsat to #comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/comsat comsat Then either send a hangup signal to inetd or reboot the system to have it take affect. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: carsten@selene.cube.net (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cd writers Date: 13 Apr 1997 20:51:34 GMT Organization: CUBENet Munich Message-ID: <5irh0m$23g$1@salyko.cube.net> References: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970411074525.24640C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >> What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? > >I'm not sure why this would be thought of as a sysadmin question.... > >In fact, there is a thread going on about this on csn.software right now. > >TjL > > > A free Beta of the CDDesigner is available at http://www.ip.cubenet.de/gehle. It is a pre- and mastering software for NS on NeXT/Intel and supports devices by Yamaha, Grundig, HP, Phillips and Plasmon. Carsten Gehle (GehleSoftware@t-online.de)
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 15:11:13 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at least the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable drives. That being the case, I would assume Jaz drive would also work. > Iomega's WWW site has *NO* info on *installing NT* onto a Jaz cart, much > less NS info... I've had no contact with them myself, but from comp.scsi.periphs and others, I never expect to do business with them. SyQuest, on the other hand, has been very helpful on many differetnt occasions. Their email staff has been helpful, as has their 800# folks. > The idea is that I can have a different OS on each 1 GB cart...Talk > about being a chameleon! 8-) I intend to do the same thing one of these days when I get a SyJet drive. Hope it goes well. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Preferences Question Date: 14 Apr 1997 01:02:15 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <5irvmn$o0t@speering.alleg.edu> References: <jiwu-1304971553250001@ont-ca11-56.ix.netcom.com> I recently came across this problem and it happened after someone had their account restored. When changing the ownership of her account, some of the files in ~/.NeXT did not get changed from being owned by root to her ownership. So check the permissions in this directory with the Listing View in the WorkspaceManager.app. Ricardo "Jim Wu" <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu> wrote: :-> Apparently I am unable to save my preferences setting any more. Does anyone :-> have an idea why? I am running 3.2 on a cube. I have recently added the :-> foundation patch, could that be why?? Thanks. :-> :-> Jim Wu :-> jimwu@bigfoot.com -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
From: gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch (Gerold Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Services on Root not working Date: 13 Apr 1997 18:59:51 GMT Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <5iraf7$38h@news.eunet.ch> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > check to make sure the root home is properly defined, and is not something > like /users/root if that path does not exist. > > TjL > > I am not sure where to look. All the users were created using the Create User apps. .. The root account appears to have been corrupted when we crashed NetInfo a while back... Can you explain what you mean by root being properly defined? Many thanx in advance, -- Gerold Rupprecht Consultant: NeXTSTEP/ Openstep/Databases Financial applications geroldr@webshuttle.ch 3 rue Louis Curval CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail aliases and NetInfo domains... Date: 13 Apr 1997 22:53:40 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5iro5k$t3o$1@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <5ilbmg$o7p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5imb89$1e4@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Cc: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de In <5imb89$1e4@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Uli Zappe wrote: >specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) wrote: >> we're running a network with two NetInfo levels, the /-domain >> (root) and a subdomain called /faum. Now, I want to install some >> mailaliases only for the /faum domain in it's subdirectory >> /aliases. I put them there, but the users of the /faum subdomain >> didn't see those aliases in their Mail.app's until I put them in >> the /-Domain. That's exactly the location where I didn't want to >> put the aliases. >> >> Is it possible to add mailaliases in a subdomain, or do they >> always have to be in the /-domain? > >Did you run mailDBupdate with the option -a /faum? > >By default, mailDBupdate only looks at the root domain. Right. Take a look at what's being done in your /etc/crontab(s). ____________________________________________________________________ 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: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3 Install on Proprietary Panasonic Adapter? Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:37:49 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith Net-Illinois State University Message-ID: <3351B49C.32F8@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anyone know if it's possible to do a NEXTSTEP 3.3 Install on Proprietary Panasonic Adapter? It's connected via the sound card, and is *NOT* straight IDE or SCSI. Thanks in advance. :) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D --- Instructional Technology Development --- Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."- Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc. CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: loginwindow tries to start BuildDisk! Date: 13 Apr 1997 22:26:19 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <5is84r$6a0@surf.pangea.ca> References: <5i9j4t$r53@surf.pangea.ca> <chk.860424422@deimos.frii.com> chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) writes: >I believe it was /var/adm/BuildDisk.custom. >Try touching that file and see what happens. BINGO! "touch /clients/rtmono/adm/BuildDisk.custom" fixed it. I had seen that file on the *server* and thought it might be the *problem* rather than the solution, since my diskless client used work fine. Of course it also used to be headless :-) It has since got the mono monitor from my server cube. Before installing a NextDimention on the server, I tried a quick backup, since I had not done one for a year. So long, in fact, that I left out the hyphen in: "dump 0uf - /dev/rsd0a | compress > /OD/backup.Z" Recovering took so many changes, I didn't know which one to blame. Must have tried a hundred "trial and error" fixes. >This is something that absolutely has to go into the FAQ! At least now it will be in DejaNews. Many thanks Chris. Also thanks to the emailers who suggested "dread -l" and "nidump -r" ... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:43:55 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith Net-Illinois State University Message-ID: <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: luomat@peak.org Timothy Luoma wrote: > > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? > > I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told > me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at least > the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable drives. Ok, thanks Timothy, but now the question is *HOW*! Is there an FAQ for this? > That being the case, I would assume Jaz drive would also work. I'm sure it would, but again - how? Have a URL for this info? > > Iomega's WWW site has *NO* info on *installing NT* onto a Jaz cart, much > > less NS info... > > I've had no contact with them myself, but from comp.scsi.periphs and > others, I never expect to do business with them. SyQuest, on the other > hand, has been very helpful on many differetnt occasions. Their email > staff has been helpful, as has their 800# folks. Why do you say this? Bad Iomega tech support? I have yet to deal with them, but soon... Also, I have a flakey SyQuest 130 MB cart drive, and have heard about the *extreme* suseptability of vibration damage to the SyQuest media, and that's what seems to have happened in my case...I don't know if SyJet media is the same, however - this experience caused me to buy a Jaz as opposed to SyJet, plus the Jaz has been out longer, and bugs worked out better...comments? > > The idea is that I can have a different OS on each 1 GB cart...Talk > > about being a chameleon! 8-) > > I intend to do the same thing one of these days when I get a SyJet drive. It would be most beneficial if you could post your experiences for all! :) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D --- Instructional Technology Development --- Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."- Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc. CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intel and NeXT -- NetInfo and setting up "network" printing Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:08:38 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210744.26047C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Could someone give me some clear FAQ pointers or "i've done this, do it this way" references to getting my Intel to print via my NeXT? They will be connected via Ethernet. I really do not know how to do this, and would gladly accept anyone's help. I know I have to set the NeXT laser printer to 'public' via PrintManager.app, but what else is required (or is anything else required)? I will have just 2 machines. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me --__==========00000000006906==antigone.sonic.net==__--
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Services on Root not working Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:07:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413205844.26047B-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> <5iraf7$38h@news.eunet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Gerold Rupprecht <gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch> In-Reply-To: <5iraf7$38h@news.eunet.ch> > I am not sure where to look. All the users were created using the Create > User apps. .. The root account appears to have been corrupted when we > crashed NetInfo a while back... Can you explain what you mean by root > being properly defined? When you login to root from 'su' and do pwd what path do you see? When you login as root from the console, where is your home directory? When you open 'root' in UserManager.app (which I assume is what you mean by 'Create User' apps) what is the Home Directory path? Most users are in /Users/ but root is normally at / While it doesn't really matter which one you choose (I have set root to /Users/root personally) you must make sure that if it is set to /Users/root that /Users/root actually exists. You can also see root's home by doing 'nidump passwd . |grep root' TjL ps -- my Usenet reading is more sporadic than my email reading, so if you need a faster response, please send email directly... you just happened to catch me on a day I checked news twice.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo, PPP, IPs, and more Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:09:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210844.26047D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings all. I'm about a week from having my Intel machine, and I want to make sure I have all the details worked out so I can get up and running asap once it gets here. Here's the situation: 1) NeXTslab, whose main function in life will be printserver 2) Intel, which will be the main machine I've pretty much decided that the Intel's disk will be NFS mounted to the slab. That way I can keep the slab turned off when not in use. I would like to keep the slab otherwise independent of the Intel I will have backups of the Intel nightly, so if the Intel should ever die I should be able to get the slab running like the Intel was and have a limited amount of downtime. Of course, there are some m68k-only apps that I may want to NXHost, so maybe I will want the slab up.... who knows... Anyway, I've read the NeXT info on SimpleNetworkStarter, but I've got a few questions remaining. The Intel will be connecting to the 'net via PPP. Eventually I hope to have a static IP for it, but for now I will just have two machines, and I'd like to know how to setup the IPs in /etc/hosts and NetInfo. Should the Intel be '192.42.172.1' and the slab '192.42.172.2'? 192.42.172.1 IntelHostname 192.42.172.2 SlabHostname Thanks all TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me --__==========00000000006907==antigone.sonic.net==__--
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: NFS export from Linux to NeXTSTEP file creation errors. Date: 13 Apr 97 17:46:52 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.97Apr13174652@howard.one.net> References: <SHESS.97Apr11091232@slave.one.net> In-reply-to: shess@one.net's message of 11 Apr 97 09:12:32 In article <SHESS.97Apr11091232@slave.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp (an NFS mount from a Linux machine) and do "touch barf" from NeXTSTEP as scott, I get a response "touch: barf: Not owner". The zero-length file barf is created, with no rwx permissions at all. If I try to copy a file, same thing (zero-length no-permissions file created, not written). If I got over to ichabod and fix the permissions to be reasonable, I can overwrite the file just fine from NeXTSTEP. When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp and to "touch barf" as _root_, meanwhile, I get a zero-length barf with owner rw, group r, world r, owned be nobody.daemon. This was a hairy one, and I'm still not sure what tipped me off. I tried doing the same basic things from another Linux machine - no problems at all. So I poked around. Under NeXTSTEP, user scott (uid 21) is a member of the wheel group (uid 0). Under Linux, scott was uid 21, but uid 0 was for group root, and NFS was doing magic id-remapping for root uid and gid. Bang! Adding no_root_squash to /etc/exports fixed things right up. Of course, root_squash is the default for a reason. But since the machines which get no_root_squash are both on a private LAN behind an IP_MASQUERADE box, and the routers are set up not to route packets from that LAN to the public Internet, and also not to route packets with the same network address _from_ the public Internet onto the private LAN, I _assume_ that it should be relatively safe. Thanks, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: anyone figured out ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk? Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:49:44 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E8LrMw.1JC@xombi.wizard.net> References: <E8I2AL.66r@midway.uchicago.edu> <5iqm69$s56$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> > Does your machine know about itself? One common problem is > that the local hostname is only in /etc/hostconfig but not in > the host db (in Netinfo) or known by the resolver. Could you explain this a little more? I have two NeXTs networked together, one of which I gave the ficticious address 128.0.0.1 and hooked it up to the net via modem and PPP. The NeXTs and Macs on the network can send talk requests back and forth but the NeXT with the PPP connection is not able to talk to the outside world. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the ip address this machine recieves through PPP. --- SW Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig SW http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ SW... recurve@resourceful.com SWN?
From: Christian Hahn <chahn@on-luebeck.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: teTeX Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:18:15 +0200 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <33513176.5426FD13@on-luebeck.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi to everybody! Has anyone installed teTeX 0.4 under OS 4.1 properly? I did so far except one thing: When i try to start xdvi, it says "Error: Couldn't open display!" What's wrong, any ideas? Thanks in advance, Christian ---------- Christian Hahn --- chahn@on-luebeck.de .'/,-Y"^^^^^"~-. l.Y ^. /\ _\_ i ___/" "\ | /" "\ o ! l ] o !__./ \ _ _ \.___./ "~\ X \/ \ ___./ \ ___. _..--~~" ~`-. ` Z,-- / \ \__. ( / ______) \ l /-----~~" / Y \ / | "x______.^ |_____________\ j__________V___\__
From: Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:29:33 +0200 Organization: University of Karlstad Message-ID: <3352070D.2BEE@cse.hks.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've tried to install NextStep 3.3 now for two days w/o any success. Is there any FAQ that covers installation? My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and I'm using the Intel VX chipset. Thanks for any help. // jorgen
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Preferences Question Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 06:25:58 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970414062449.9014B-100000@kira> References: <jiwu-1304971553250001@ont-ca11-56.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jim Wu <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu> In-Reply-To: <jiwu-1304971553250001@ont-ca11-56.ix.netcom.com> > Apparently I am unable to save my preferences setting any more. Does anyone > have an idea why? I am running 3.2 on a cube. I have recently added the > foundation patch, could that be why?? Thanks. Could be that some of your files in your $HOME are owned by root, so you don't have write permission. Check the $HOME/.NeXT folder and the files inside first. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: NFS from NeXT to SGI Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:39:20 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <33524197.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folks, has anybody out there managed to nfs-mount something from a OpenStep/mach 4.1 or 4.2pr on a SGI running irix6.2 ??? 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: jensb@mevis.uni-bremen.de (Jens Breitenborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NFS from NeXT to SGI Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:20:59 GMT Organization: University of Bremen, Germany Message-ID: <5iti0r$7sa@gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de> References: <33524197.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Cc: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de In <33524197.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > Hi folks, > > > has anybody out there managed to nfs-mount something from a > OpenStep/mach 4.1 or 4.2pr on a SGI running irix6.2 ??? > > I've nfs-mounted various directories of an SGI file system (ONYX running Irix6.2) to be accessible by my OpenStep 4.1 / Mach for Intel system. But I haven't tried the other way. Jens -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Breitenborn mailto:jensb@MeVis.Uni-Bremen.DE http://WWW.MeVis.Uni-Bremen.de/~jensb
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Boris Pioline <bpioline@thwgs2.cern.ch> Subject: ps_if for NextStep3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <335243C3.6F7@thwgs2.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CERN. European Lab. for Particle Physics Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:48:35 GMT Hi there, Being told in aswer to a previous message that 'ps_if' was the thing to use in order to set up multiple virtual hosts, (available from ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/), I installed it and was actually able to run it under NextStep3.3, not 3.0 (complains that ps_reloc is not a good Mach file - it also complains during compilation that it needs kernserv/machine/spl.h, not present in 3.0) Does anybody know whether there exists a version compatible with 3.0 around ? If not I will have to upgrade to 3.3 :-< Thanks all Boris Pioline
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FAXing with PPP Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:34:30 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax mode? David A. Johnson, Research Engineer, Northwestern University
From: carsten@selene.cube.net (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modem connection Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:09:05 GMT Organization: CUBENet Munich Message-ID: <5itkr1$3jf$1@salyko.cube.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hallo there probably anyone can help me with the this problem: I have a host (named hermes) running NXFax 1.04 and connected to a ZyXEL U-1496E. When I try to connect this host from a NECVersa (running a demo-version of NXFax and using a MultiTec MT2834LTI) via tip the following happens: > localhost:1# tip fa9600 > connected > ATDT.... > CONNECT 14400 LAPM COMPRESSED > > > NeXT / NXFax (hermes) (ttydfb) > > > hermes login: guest > P8^w'dw %(a destroyed password-request) from than any transferred characters seem to be destroyed. Any idea ? Thanks Carsten Gehle (carsten@selene.cube.net)
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dhpcd & NEXTSTEP: route-ing trouble Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:55:27 GMT Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: <5itnhv$il7$1@news.belwue.de> I'm trying to use our NeXT server as dhcpd server. The dhcpd package compiled fine with a few changes, but I seem to run in some routing problems now. The problem seems to be that I have to sent out packages with an unchanged broadcast address 255.255.255.255. NEXTSTEP, like other systems, seems to rewrite this to the local broadcast address, and this makes the clients unhappy. The documentation hints to add a route from the network interface address to 255.255.255.255, but with NEXTSTEP's route this won't work. Any hints how I can do this programmatically ? From the dhpcd docs: "Even if you only need dhcpd to work on systems with a single interface, there can still be problems. Of all the systems dhcpd currently works on, only one (Solaris) has an IP stack that allows the all-ones broadcast address (255.255.255.255) to go out onto the network unchanged. Other systems insist on changing 255.255.255.255 into the local subnet broadcast address (here, that's 204.254.239.255). This results in a protocol violation, and while many DHCP clients don't notice the problem, some (e.g., all Microsoft DHCP clients) do. Clients that have this problem will appear not to see DHCOPFFER responses from the server. It is possible to work around this problem on most such systems by creating a host route from your network interface address to 255.255.255.255. On most systems, you do this with: route add 255.255.255.255 <your-interface-address> 0 or route add -host 255.255.255.255 <your-interface-address> Some Linux systems work better with: route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev <your-interface-name> On some systems, you will get error messages if you use the route command, but may succeed if you write a small program to do the system calls. It would be nice if dhcpd were to do this automatically. If you have a patch to do this, send it in! :')" Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit Mathematisches Institut, Uni HD | | flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany | | (NeXTmail, MIME) (49)6221 54-5771 fax 54-8312 | | PGP Key fingerprint = 23 8F B3 38 A3 39 A6 01 5B 99 91 D6 F2 AC CD C7 |
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:33:39 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <3352070D.2BEE@cse.hks.se> Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> wrote: > I've tried to install NextStep 3.3 now for two days w/o any success. > Is there any FAQ that covers installation? > My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and I'm > using the Intel VX chipset. You'll need a SCSI CDROM. AFAIK EIDE won't work at install time. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: clp5@cornell.edu (Collin Pieper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting to Gateway Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:36:55 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <5itmf7$d8r@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Hello all- I currently have my NeXTCube connected to the net via PPP, but I would prefer to use my Mac as a gateway to the net. I downloaded a demo of some internet gateway software for the mac and that seems easy enough to configure, but I'm not quite certain what to do on the NeXT side of things. The Mac and NeXT are happily connected via AppleTalk over Ethernet, so the physical connection is all set. I just need some pointers on how to configure the software on the NeXT. I imagine it's about as simple as setting a gateway address somewhere, but I'm not sure where to look. Thanks...Collin l (/NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf), Chapter 2 how to use the SimpleNetworkStarter.app to setup a master net info server. Carsten Gehle (carsten@selene.cube.net)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 18:22:28 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5itsl4$ars@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> In article <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) writes: > Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> wrote: > > I've tried to install NextStep 3.3 now for two days w/o any success. > > My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and > > I'm using the Intel VX chipset. > You'll need a SCSI CDROM. AFAIK EIDE won't work at install time. This is incorrect. NS-3.3 fully supports installs to EIDE Hard drives from EIDE (ATAPI) CDROMS. You just need to get the most up-to-date drivers to use at install-time, to use instead of the drivers on the drivers diskette that comes with the NS-3.3 CDROM. You can get all the newest drivers (and drivers disk image) from NeXTanswers. In particular, you'll need: EISABus, v3.35 EIDE, v3.35 (which now supports installing from CDROM attached to secondary IDE channel) 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: bob@hugo.geophys.washington.edu (Bob Crosson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring USR internal modem Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:05:42 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <5iu676$3ot@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Keywords: modem I need help getting a US Robotics "Sportster" internal 33.6 modem to configure and then run on a NS Intel (Pentium Pro 200) machine. All of the patches and latest EISA bus (3.35), portserver, and serial port drivers have been installed. The modem board is configured PnP (checked on the board). In Configure.app, COM1 comes up normally and is configured as an active serial port (port 1) which feeds a Zyxel external modem (this part of the system works fine). COM2 appears to come up as the internal USR modem, and it configures with IRQ 3 (no conflicts). When the machine boots, everything looks find until final configuration of the modem port. The following message is issued to the system message log: ISASerialPort1: Unable to determine chip type at I/O base 0x2f8 I suspect that this is not really the problem, since the modem manual says that it has a "standard" 16550 UART, which is supposed to be acceptable to the driver according to the help section of Configure.app. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Bob Crosson Geophysics University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 E-mail: bob@geophys.washington.edu
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System Panic and DMA Underrun Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:32:56 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5iu7q8$c6j@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:32:56 GMT Here is a listing of our /private/adm file. We have had trouble printing lately in that the jobs will stop early, or that it will print half the page, and then print the full page, and then print the full page again. It should only print one page. Any ideas. This is our printserver machine. On a separate note, occasionally (once every three weeks) we will get system panics coming from the /users/ filesytem. We have this on a separate disk. Is it possible the disk is bad? Ideas?? Thanks, Jeromy jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu Apr 13 22:41:10 chenext1 mach: np0: spurious packet received, cmd = 87 Apr 13 22:41:10 chenext1 mach: np0: DMA Underrun; Reprinting Page Apr 14 08:14:11 chenext1 loginwindow[7089]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace Apr 14 08:14:12 chenext1 Workspace[7089]: logged in Apr 14 10:44:10 chenext1 mach: dev = 0x610, block = 3016, fs = /users/Userdisk1 Apr 14 10:44:10 chenext1 mach: panic: (Cpu 0) free_block: freeing free frag Apr 14 10:44:11 chenext1 syslogd: going down on signal 15 Apr 14 11:04:29 chenext1 mach: init arg: -xx --
From: pmalley@csus.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sound problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 19:04:13 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <5itv3d$2ci@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> I have black hardware running NS 3.3. I am getting strange sound problems. If I record myself and playback, all I get is garbage out, however all the system sounds come out ok. My sound for printer errors comes out garbage but if I decode MP3 files, they sound ok. Anyone know what is happening? Patrick(pmalley@csus.edu)
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel and NeXT -- NetInfo and setting up "network" printing Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:17:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970414101532.276I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210744.26047C-100000@kira> <5itluc$3jf$2@salyko.cube.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Carsten Gehle <carsten@selene.cube.net> In-Reply-To: <5itluc$3jf$2@salyko.cube.net> > See NeXTs SysAdmin Manual (/NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf), > Chapter 2 how to use the SimpleNetworkStarter.app to setup a master > net info server. Been there, read that. However, I do not want to have the slab with the printer be the NetInfo master, because it will not always be turned on. Unless I am mistaken (quite possible) that doesn't seem to be covered. I'll check again when I get home TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: bward@stevens-tech.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTs connected to the internet Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:03:45 -0400 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <3352B7D1.DDCC3A74@stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 How safe is it to connect a NeXT to the internet? I read in a book that if you allow login on a NeXT connected the the internet your asking for big trouble. Are there any procautions other than the ussuals when it comes to a NeXT server? -- Brian Ward Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken NJ bward@stevens-tech.edu http://menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu/~bward
From: "Steve Buhr" <kdavis@apk.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printer info passed on to printer Date: 14 Apr 1997 22:57:41 GMT Organization: sb Message-ID: <01bc4928$bcaff960$LocalHost@bis.bowne.com> I print to a number of postscript printers using appletalk and IP on NS 3.2. The printer info like drawers, page size and so on, Is not passed on to the printer. If I open the ps file the info is there, At the the end of the file. Help Kent Davis kent.davis@bowne.com
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Blank screen Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:13:52 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33530E90.39F7@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I used NetInfo to change my computers IP address. I also changed the computer's name, net mask, broadcast, and nextdefault gateway addresses. After rebooting the computer, when I log in, the Workspace Manager does not come up. The background color is there, and the mouse pointer is there (and able to move it around), but there are no windows, just the blank backspace color. How can I correctly reset the machine, and how do I shutdown the machine cleanly if I reach this position again? --gh
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel and NeXT -- NetInfo and setting up "network" printing Date: 14 Apr 1997 20:47:33 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5iu555$t0s$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210744.26047C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > Could someone give me some clear FAQ pointers or "i've done this, > do it this way" references to getting my Intel to print via my NeXT? > They will be connected via Ethernet. > I really do not know how to do this, and would gladly accept > anyone's help. > I know I have to set the NeXT laser printer to 'public' via > PrintManager.app, but what else is required (or is anything else > required)? I will have just 2 machines. Guess your mean 'How can my NeXTSTEP (or OS) Intel box print to my NeXT when both machines are not part of a NetInfo network (no NI master, both running standalone but networked)'? It's quite easy: (Assuming both machines know each other on the network and can be pinged from each other by name) 1. Create a 'local' printer of type 'LaserWriter' or similar (serial connected - doesn't matter) 2. Open NetInfoManager.app 3. Click on 'printers' in your local domain 4. Click on your new printer name, you should see Admin Comm Device forget about these and again doubleclick on your new printer name, a new browser opens, you should see the printcap entries beginning with 'name'. 5. Create a new property, give it the name 'rm' 5.1 Create for this property a new value, write your machine name here you want to print to here. (This will tell lpd to print to a remote machine, hence 'rm') 6. Create a new property, give it the name 'rp' 6.1 Create for this property a new value, write your queue name here you want to print to here (the printer name as it is called your your NeXT). (This will tell lpd the name of the target queue on the remote machine) 7. Create a new property, give it the name '_nxfinalform' (This will advice the NeXT printing mechanism to include all fonts in the print job) 8. Edit the 'ty' property value to make it a 'NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer' (This will tell your client system to use the correct PPD) 9. On your target machine, create a new file called '/etc/hosts.lpd' and write the name of your client machine in it. Alternatively you can use the '/etc/hosts.equiv' file. 10. Save and quit NetInfoManager.app. 11. Open an app and print something. It can take a few 10 minutes for the type of printer to propagate through NetInfo. If you want to be sure everything is set and ready just reboot. 12. I never understood why NeXT did not implement this functionaliy into PrintManager.app. Maybe someday I'll write an add-on utility for it. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: atownley@informix.com (Andrew S. Townley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 68040 boot problem Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:23:43 GMT Organization: Informix Software, Inc. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Distribution: WORLD Message-ID: <5iu78v$kag@news.informix.com> Keywords: 68040 monitor boot problem After owning my 60040 NeXTcube since NS2.1 was the latest and greatest version of the OS, I finally have what appears to be a serious hardware problem. The short version is: When powered on, the Testing System... graphic never goes away--even after 20 or 30 minutes. What seems to have happened is that either low voltage or some sort of power fluctuation must've done something to the system. Last Sunday, we were gone for about an hour-and-a-half during which there seems to have been two power outages (found out later). When we got home, the PC running NT was displaying the "blue screen of death", but the NeXT was still running. While rebooting the PC, the power went out for what we later found out was the third time. Everything was still running smoothly thanks to my Best Ferrups UPS so I proceeded to shut things down just in case. Later, after the power seemed to have stabilized (still no clue what was going on), I went to power-up the NeXT and encountered the above problem. In trying to figure out what happened, I swapped the 040 motherboard for a spare 030 board and changed all of the RAM. Put everything back together and booted cleanly (except for NXFax complaining that the password was invalid :). So, the problem doesn't appear to be with any of the other hardware than the 040 board, but I'm not sure how to go about finding out more information. If it is salvagable for a small amount of money, I'd like to make it work again because 030's (even with 40MB of RAM) are really slow, not to mention the apps which are tied to the ethernet ID of the board aren't usable until I get a new key. I am not prepared to spend the $$ to replace the board, however. I have two 030's that will run all the legacy m68k apps I own and would much rather buy something else. Sorry to be so long-winded, but has anyone out there encountered this problem? Does anyone have any ideas on where to go from here? All non-essential boot hardware from the 040 has been moved to other machines, so I'm not down, but it is still annoying! Thanks in advance for any suggestions, ast -- Andrew S. Townley ///// / 16011 College Boulevard // // / Lenexa, Kansas 66219 // / // Informix atownley@informix.com (NeXTmail welcome) / ///// Software, Inc.
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5iukoo$okg$7007@news.j51.com> Date: 15 Apr 1997 02:07:58 GMT Control: cancel <5iukoo$okg$7007@news.j51.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5iukoo$okg$7007@news.j51.com> Sender: S.P., Woodring<datamax@j51.com> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: 15 Apr 1997 05:59:16 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Apr-97 comsat by Mika Sairanen@park.helsi > Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 > and it is not wanted. > do you know how to stop it? >>Edit /etc/inetd.conf, and disable the entry for the comsat daemon by >>commenting it out (insert a '#' as the first character on that line). >>-Chuck Yes, but *what* is this thing Chuck? I was waiting with baited breath for your follow-up! I have tried to scour the SysAdmin & Man Pages, but have found nothing on this. I mostly see it show-up in 'top' whilst I have that running... Sincerely, - Hans Rupert rupert@noir.net
From: James Meacham <webmaster@nh.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 03:49:04 -0400 Organization: NHAI Message-ID: <335332F0.4579@nh.com> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know if you can use the AppleTalk client from 3.0 on 3.2. I'm using a NeXT colorstaiton turbo. If this won't work, is it possible to buy an AppleTalk client? Thanks in advance. Peace, James
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From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: teTeX Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:08:44 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970415110354.15765C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> References: <33513176.5426FD13@on-luebeck.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christian Hahn <chahn@on-luebeck.de> In-Reply-To: <33513176.5426FD13@on-luebeck.de> On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Christian Hahn wrote: > Hi to everybody! > Has anyone installed teTeX 0.4 under OS 4.1 properly? > I did so far except one thing: > When i try to start xdvi, it says > "Error: Couldn't open display!" > What's wrong, any ideas? > I would say that xdvi is a X11 client which in order to run needs a X11 display server which NextStep does not come with. You dont need it anyway since there exist a dvi previewer using Nexts own GUI, it should be available at any next archive. Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: I.J.Wiskerke@research.kpn.com (Yvo Wiskerke) Subject: NFS Stale filelocks (Linux <-> NeXTStep) Message-ID: <33532cc6.1123354588@news.research.kpn.com> Sender: usenet@news.research.kpn.com (USENET News System) Organization: KPN Research, Groningen Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:23:59 GMT Hello, I have a problem with Linux as NFS-server for a couple of NeXTStep clients. Now and then NeXTStep starts to cry 'NFS stale file locks'. Stale locks...fine...ok...,but I can't seem to find te cause of this problem. Does anybody out here have any suggestions? Thanks Yvo -------------------------------------- This message is the my opinion and not the one of the company I work for
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:14:03 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <EnIq=v600iWp02CZA0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> In-Reply-To: <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Apr-97 Re: comsat by rupert@noir.net > >>Edit /etc/inetd.conf, and disable the entry for the comsat daemon by > >>commenting it out (insert a '#' as the first character on that line). > > >>-Chuck > > Yes, but *what* is this thing Chuck? I was waiting with baited breath for > your follow-up! I have tried to scour the SysAdmin & Man Pages, but have > found nothing on this. 'man comsat' is pretty informative: "COMSAT(8C) UNIX Programmer's Manual COMSAT(8C) NAME comsat - biff server SYNOPSIS /usr/etc/comsat DESCRIPTION Comsat is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail and notifies users if they have requested this service. Comsat receives messages on a datagram port asso- ciated with the ``biff'' service specification (see ser- vices(5) and inetd(8)). [ ... ]" -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: 15 Apr 1997 11:38:39 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5ivpbv$ast$1@news.inc.net> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> <EnIq=v600iWp02CZA0@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <EnIq=v600iWp02CZA0@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: >>>'man comsat' is pretty informative: Duh. Would you believe that bleary-eyed, I kept typing 'comast'? I make that transposition so often, I should just remap the 'a' & 's' keys (or wsa that 's' & 'a'?) :) Thanks - sorry for the silliness. - Rupert
Date: 15 Apr 1997 09:32:53 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <cancel.5ivp2j$9h8$4951@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Control: cancel <5ivp2j$9h8$4951@msunews.cl.msu.edu> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: -no- @pm281-22.dialip.mich.net Subject: cmsg cancel <5ivp2j$9h8$4951@msunews.cl.msu.edu> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19970415.01 for further details
From: ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting password info from the network Date: 15 Apr 1997 12:25:31 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5ivs3r$f7f@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> I have a single 68040 NeXT running NS 3.3 on a Unix network. The network uses yp passwords. Under NS 3.2 I thought that I just added a line to the end of my passwd file with a "+:" on it and the NeXT magically knew to look to another machine for the password info. When I upgraded to NS 3.3 I screwed this up :) Can anyone explain to me how this system works? Thanks -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
From: steffi@dgs.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 1997 DISASTER RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK Date: 15 Apr 1997 21:02:40 -0400 Organization: Digital Gateway Systems Message-ID: <5j18fg$nq2@DGS.dgsys.com> References: <5itr5j$829$3@mhade.production.compuserve.com> $98.... James Martin eat your heart out!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: nameserver?? Message-ID: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: ihate@spammers.com Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:36:44 GMT References: <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com> In comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin bf wrote: > Im rather new to the next community and actually just fired up my color > station today to learn about it. I was trying to configure the network > and setup its IP, gateway etc with the SimpleNetworkSetup or something > similar in the admin apps. However i noticed no place to stick in a > nameserver, so i went searching for a resolv.conf in /etc with no luck. > Im not running a YP, etc server on this little localnet, so how do i > setup what nameservers to use?? You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't need DNS. Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips on that score as well. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Message-ID: <E8n84K.H7x@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:43:31 GMT Rudolf B. Blazek writes > Procedure 1 > ----------- > Requires a second SCSI disk, of size at least 60 MB. > Stage 1 - Basic install on secondary disk Disk1. whatever it takes on the platform. Complete the installation on this disk (may require reboot and continuation). I continued this until I had a barebones system disk complete with workspace, etc. give user me a password. This disk also is a nice live backup version - but then you have the CDs. > Stage 2 - Rebooting in single user mode with Disk1 as the root device. > Stage 3 - Initializing and partitioning the target disk Disk0. > Stage 4 - Copying the basic install files from Disk1 (mounted as root, sd1a) > into the first partition of the target disk Disk0. gnutar is an alternative > Stage 5 - Continuing with standard install on target disk Disk0 I disconnected (ejected) disk1. Booting will give CD in the workspace. Packages can be installed from there directly. 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: Viorel Chita <viorel@pathcom.com> Subject: Q: Replace Swapdisk with Swapfile Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3353EACC.468@pathcom.com> Sender: news@news.wrc.xerox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: XEROX Canada, Ltd. Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:53:32 GMT Hi, all ! For NS 3.3/Intel: Hard drives: hd0, hd1, hd2 I have created a swapdisk on hd2 and I want to take it out, being too slow; Q: How can I take out the swap disk, and use a swapfile instead, on hd1 ? NS3.3's root (/) is on hd0, and has hd1 mounted in /Disk2 I will appreciate any info related with this issue, including pointers to info on the Net. Thanks, in advance ! ================================== Viorel Chita E-mail: viorel@pathcom.com ** NeXTmail, MIME mail welcome ** ==================================
From: awallace@blackslab.auburn.k12.al.us (Art Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting to Gateway Date: 15 Apr 1997 19:27:30 GMT Organization: Altopia Corp. - Affordable Usenet Access - http://www.alt.net Message-ID: <5j0kr3$mlm@tofu.alt.net> References: <5itmf7$d8r@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Cc: clp5@cornell.edu In <5itmf7$d8r@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Collin Pieper wrote: > Hello all- > > I currently have my NeXTCube connected to the net via PPP, but I would > prefer to use my Mac as a gateway to the net. I downloaded a demo of some > internet gateway software for the mac and that seems easy enough to > configure, but I'm not quite certain what to do on the NeXT side of things. > The Mac and NeXT are happily connected via AppleTalk over Ethernet, so the > physical connection is all set. I just need some pointers on how to > configure the software on the NeXT. I imagine it's about as simple as > setting a gateway address somewhere, but I'm not sure where to look. > > Thanks...Collin I'm guessing that your referring to the Mac product called "VICOM Internet Gateway". I'm posting this message through such a gateway right now from a NeXTstation running RadicalNews. My Quadra 840 is running the gateway software using a 28.8 modem through a MindSpring POP. This server has been giving every Mac at my home Internet access for months. With Open Transport on the Mac client machines, DHCP addressing is easy and works well. For simplicity, I'll assume that you already have the VICOM gateway running with Mac OS clients getting their IP address through DHCP (as is the default configuration). This means that your already browsing the web, sending email, etc. from machines other than the gateway computer. While I'm pretty sure that a NeXT box can take advantage of DHCP addressing, I just bought mine last week and have yet to discover this secret. As such, the following directions are for setting the NeXT box up with a FIXED IP address, not DHCP. Assuming you accept the default configuration that VICOM offers, the IP address of the gateway machine would be 192.168.1.100. You will have to enter that IP address as the "Gateway Address" in the "Simple Network Starter" app on the NeXT. You will have to give the NeXT box an IP address of it's own, making sure that it is in the valid IP range that the router will see. I gave my NeXT the address of 192.168.1.125. This should work fine but could cause problems depending on the number of DHCP clients that you wish to use. Please email me if you want to talk things over. artwallace@aub.mindspring.com
Message-ID: <33548C75.1F92@ibm.net> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:23:18 +0900 From: Takahiro Oda <todays@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install OS4 on SPARCstation20MP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, Could anyone tell me how to install OPENSTEP 4.0/4.1 on SPARCstation20 configured with *dual* 60MHz SuperSPARC? I understand NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP does not have multi-processing function right now, but want to install without removing one SPARC chip actually. Thanks in advance. -- //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Takahiro Oda // e-mail: takahiro.oda@ibm.net
From: Steven Lewis E-mail: DRYP@DATABLAST.com <71261.3657@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 1997 DISASTER RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK Date: 14 Apr 1997 17:57:07 GMT Organization: The Systems Audit Group, Inc. Message-ID: <5itr5j$829$3@mhade.production.compuserve.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1997 DISASTER RECOVERY RESOURCE GUIDE April 4, 1997 Contact: Steven Lewis DRYP@DATABLAST.com TEL: 617 - 332-3496 FAX: 617 - 332-4358 SIXTH EDITION OF THE DISASTER RECOVERY YELLOW PAGES(tm) BEGINS SHIPMENTS - - - UPDATED FOR 1997 (coincides with yet another disastrous season) Newton, MA -- The 6th edition of the Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages(tm), by The Systems Audit Group, Inc. has begun shipping, just as people are digging out of last Winter's snows, and getting ready to cope with Spring's flooding! Based on nearly two decades of disaster planning experience, the Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages(tm) is a 320-page, comprehensive sourcebook designed to help users locate scores of crucial but hard-to-find recovery services throughout the United States and Canada. It contains over 3000 vendors and covers hundreds of categories such as drying & dehumidification of paper & microfilm records, smoke odor counteracting services, trauma counselors, emergency rental of POS and other computer equipment, planning software, etc. The volume is an essential reference for risk managers, computer operations managers, emergency personnel, facility managers, security managers, librarians, record managers, systems executives, and business recovery coordinators, as well as claims adjusters, insurance agents, and any others responsible for putting organizations "back to normal" after a crisis. This reference contains five comprehensive sections, covering restoration services, mobile buildings, computer and emergency equipment, planning and data recovery software, as well as training publications, videos, associations, etc. In addition, The Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages(tm) also includes an alphabetical listing of companies for ease in locating a vendor without knowing an address. The Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages(tm) also includes a tutorial on areas which are frequently overlooked - even by experienced users - when preparing their disaster recovery plans, as well as hints on "getting started" and preparing a disaster plan. The Systems Audit Group, Inc., has worked for years with leaders in the Disaster Recovery field to develop this comprehensive sourcebook, as well as using the experiences gained in working with over 100 organizations and institutions to prepare comprehensive recovery plans for the resumption of their operations following a disaster. These organizations have ranged from Banks and Colleges, to Insurance companies, Manufacturers, Retailers, and other organizations. The Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages(tm) comes in a three-ring binder, for ease in adding sources which individual users have gathered that are unique to their own circumstances. The price is $98. per copy, plus $3 for shipping and handling. Regular updates are available. To obtain a free brochure, or to order The Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages(tm), contact The Systems Audit Group, Inc., 25 Ellison Road, Newton, Mass. 02159, Telephone 617-332-3496, FAX: 617-332-4358, E-Mail: DRYP@DATABLAST.com KEYWORDS: disaster, recovery, planning, facilities, physical plant, computer REPLY TO: DRYP@DATABLAST.com -- Steven Lewis, The Systems Audit Group, Inc Reply to: DRYP@DATABLAST.com Fax: 617-332-4358 Phone: 617-332-3496
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Replace Swapdisk with Swapfile Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:28:34 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970415182610.5568D-100000@kira> References: <3353EACC.468@pathcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Viorel Chita <viorel@pathcom.com> In-Reply-To: <3353EACC.468@pathcom.com> > I have created a swapdisk on hd2 and I want to take it out, > being too slow; > Q: How can I take out the swap disk, and use a swapfile instead, > on hd1 ? NS3.3's root (/) is on hd0, and has hd1 mounted in /Disk2 > > I will appreciate any info related with this issue, including pointers > to info on the Net. I've got a swapfaq... however this should be pretty easy. If you called it 'swapdisk' all you need to do is rename it and it _should_ be ok.... alright, you should check /etc/swaptab to make sure it looks something like this: # # /etc/swaptab # /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216 # 16 Meg low water mark If you did something else, you'll have to tell me what before I can tell you how to undo it TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 18:44:15 GMT Organization: THINK New Ideas, Inc., New York City Message-ID: <5itttv$poj$1@darla.visi.com> References: <3352070D.2BEE@cse.hks.se> <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: > Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> wrote: > > My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and I'm > > using the Intel VX chipset. > You'll need a SCSI CDROM. AFAIK EIDE won't work at install time. It can be done if you have another NEXTSTEP box to make a driver disk. You need to be familiar with the primary/secondary and master/slave configurations of your drives, and load two instances of EIDE/ATAPI for each port/IRQ combo (probably 14/15 and 0x170/0x1F0 ?). You'll probably need to fiddle with the order in which they load, as well. It's not fun. I did it once, it took me a good two hours. Intel rules. -- .............david.young...senior.developer...think.new.ideas.inc... ....work:.http://www.thinkinc.com...net:.david_young@thinkinc.com...
From: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 15:53:14 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5j2sns$kkk@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <E8Itrq.5Cr@nidat.sub.org> Thanks to all who responded to my request for information. The problem has now been resolved. It turned out to be a hardware network problem. We had three other NeXTs autonfsmounting the user directories from the machine which was generating the spurios DMA interrupts. Upon checking the console messages from the other machines it turned out that 2 of the 3 were reporting errors in connecting. They were on a thin-net segment of the network. The T connector was replaced on the machine without the errors and this seems to have cleared up the problem. Again thanks to all! Doug Booth School of Mining & Petroleum Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA email: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca
From: geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:13:00 -0500 Organization: Chapman and Cutler Message-ID: <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> <335332F0.4579@nh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <335332F0.4579@nh.com>, webmaster@nh.com wrote: :Does anyone know if you can use the AppleTalk client from 3.0 on 3.2. :I'm using a NeXT colorstaiton turbo. If this won't work, is it possible :to buy an AppleTalk client? Thanks in advance. Peace, : :James I was able to do it with 3.1 but not 3.3. You might want to take a look at CAPer availible from <http://www.this.net/~frank> That is what I m using under 3.3. -- Geordie Korper geordie@chapman.com ********************************************************************* * The text above should in no way be construed to represent the * * opinions of my employer, even if specifically stated to do so. * *********************************************************************
From: "Marc P. Duchesne" <mduchesn@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP !!! : REBOOTING - MONITOR - HANG UP Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:21:42 +0200 Organization: [posted via] Easynet SA Message-ID: <3354D266.4714@easynet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi There My system: NeXTCube 16/400 Mo, running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (stand-alone machine, no network) The problem to be fixed: after booting by the Monitor, I cann't access to the Workspace Manager, nor to the login window. Actually, the system hangs up in the Monitor "NeXT Mach Operating System" window. Following is the process: -------------------------------------------------- Wed April 16 13:59:31 GMT+0100 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: adress automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapApr 16 13:59:47 localhost syslogd: /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: No such file or directory netinfo lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:. Starting network daemeons: intetdApr 16 13:59:48 localhost netinfod[98]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Apr 16 13:59:47 localhost rebbot: Reboot complete NXFax kernel server 1.03 loaded %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines %> xwing_fax: Unknown modem [...] %> xwing_fax: Wait for incoming call -------------------------------------------------- To help you to fix this problem, here are some facts: - I have to boot with the monitor ("NeXT > bsd") since 2 years now ! Never have problem like this one. - The login window always did appear after the line: %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines - The only I can do is to shut down the machine with the "Alim" key Thanks for your help, _Marc (Please reply at mduchesn@easynet.fr) -- Marc P. Duchesne mduchesn@easynet.fr -------------------------------------------------- XWinG, The Fiberoptics Consulting & Training Company CE4801, Lisses - F 91048 Evry Cedex, France Tel +33 (0)1 60 86 2050 Fax +33 (0)1 60 86 2053 infos@xwing.oleane.com http://www.optoroute.com/fiber66 --------------------------------------------------
From: "Kevin Birch" <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: 16 Apr 97 20:31:09 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Allan Noordvyk" <allan@cetus.ali.bc.ca> Cc: kbirch@mindspring.com nntp://news.mindspring.com/comp.sys.next.sysadmin Return-Receipt-To: H On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 6:36 PM, Allan Noordvyk <mailto:allan@ali.bc.ca> wrote: >You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf >file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just >use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't >need DNS. >Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command >to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. >If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips >on that score as well. Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. TIA, Kevin --------------------------------------------------- This message was created and sent using the Cyberdog Mail System ---------------------------------------------------
From: rreynolds@rockstar.com (Richard Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Killing pppd Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:34:16 -0700 Organization: Rockstar Studios, Inc. Message-ID: <rreynolds-1604971734160001@sfo-ca16-12.ix.netcom.com> For some odd reason, I can't kill pppd on my 4.0 OpenStep Turbo Station. I've tried kill -HUP 123 as well as every other kill option and it just won't die. Any ideas? Man someone has got to come out with a better PPP for NeXT/Rhapsody (Hint Hint). -- Rick Reynolds... Head Geek & Executive Nerd Rockstar Studios, Inc. For more FreePPP and Gearbox information check out http://www.rockstar.com Gearbox is coming in May 97 (Betcha can't wait!)
From: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 10:40:48 +0100 Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <33437B20.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Louma told me: > here's all you need. > > It will work for 3.x, I would like to know if it works for OpenStep > > http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/scripts/uname > > TjL > > ps -- if you could post this for me I'd appreciate it as my news > server is not letting me post at the moment Thanks. /Tomas
From: "Futeh Kao" <futeh@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:02:12 -0400 Organization: Sprynet News Service Message-ID: <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> try end the nameserver line with a return, i.e. "domain blah...\n nameserver 192.42.172.1\n" in C string representation. Hope this help. Kevin Birch wrote in article ... >On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 6:36 PM, Allan Noordvyk <mailto:allan@ali.bc.ca> >wrote: >>You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf >>file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just >>use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't >>need DNS. > >>Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command >>to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. > >>If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips >>on that score as well. > > > >Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I >tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with >domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the >...
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:13:53 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3355CDB1.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you are using OpenStep/mach 4.x the lookupd is configured by netinfo. (See /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf) This means that lookupd looks for DNS (due to /etc/resolv.conf) to resolve names only if it is configured to do so. Set the right values with Netinfomanager.app like this: (nidump -r locations .) name = locations; CHILDREN = ( ... , { name = lookupd; MaxThreads = 12; CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = users; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = groups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = netgroups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }); }); Unfortunately the word "LookupOrder" isn't written with a capital "L" in release notes. This is a documentation bug. I haven't seen anything documented which defautls lookupd uses if not configured with netinfo. Stefan Futeh Kao wrote: > > try end the nameserver line with a return, i.e. > "domain blah...\n > nameserver 192.42.172.1\n" in C string representation. > Hope this help. > > Kevin Birch wrote in article ... > >On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 6:36 PM, Allan Noordvyk <mailto:allan@ali.bc.ca> > >wrote: > >>You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf > >>file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just > >>use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't > >>need DNS. > > > >>Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command > >>to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. > > > >>If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips > >>on that score as well. > > > > > > > >Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > >tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > >domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > >... -- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nameserver?? Date: 15 Apr 1997 22:27:34 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com> Im rather new to the next community and actually just fired up my color station today to learn about it. I was trying to configure the network and setup its IP, gateway etc with the SimpleNetworkSetup or something similar in the admin apps. However i noticed no place to stick in a nameserver, so i went searching for a resolv.conf in /etc with no luck. Im not running a YP, etc server on this little localnet, so how do i setup what nameservers to use?? -b ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- -------------------------------------------------------------
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 17 Apr 1997 07:48:32 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5j4kkg$3fe@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> <3355CDB1.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> : Unfortunately the word "LookupOrder" isn't written with a capital "L" in : release notes. This is a documentation bug. I haven't seen anything : documented which defautls lookupd uses if not configured with netinfo. I believe that the default lookup order is CacheAgent, NIAgent (except for hosts and networks,where the order is CacheAgent, NIAgent, DNSAgent). I *think* this is the same as for lookupd in 3.x. -- Luke
From: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 17 Apr 1997 07:56:09 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, I installed PPP just as it is described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95. So after a fresh installation, I could put mail in the queue and as I brought up a PPP-Connection to my provider, it was delivered correctly. I really changed nothing at the configuration, but the next day it was no longer working. When I post mail, I get an error-message from the system (unknown host) and the mailqueue remains empty. So, I can repeat the whole progress. I reinstalled the system many times and had always the same effect. Could it be a problem, to put mail in the queue, then switch the computer off, before it could be send to the internet? My configuration is as follows! - resolv.conf - sendmail.mailhost.cf resolv.conf: ========== domain lynet.de nameserver 194.127.178.1 sendmail.mailhost.cf: ================= ############################################################ # # Sendmail configuration file for "MAIN MACHINES" # # You should install this file as /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf # if your machine is the main (or only) mail-relaying # machine in your domain. Then edit the file to # customize it for your network configuration. # # See the paper "Sendmail Installation and Administration Guide" # for more information on the format of this file. # # @(#)main.mc 1.0 88/10/26 NeXT; from SMI 3.2/4.3 NFSSRC # ### local info # my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally #Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$. # if you want the gateway to assume the identity of its parent domain, use: Dj$m # Major relay mailer - typical choice is "ddn" if you are on the # Defense Data Network (e.g. Arpanet or Milnet). All mail for # non-local domains will be forwarded to the major relay host using # the major relay mailer. We chose "uucp" as the default because most # isolated networks use it to link their network with the outside # world. # # If you want to use a relay mailer, examine ruleset 0. There are some # rules that need to be uncommented DMddn # major relay host: use the $M mailer to send mail to other domains # To have mail automatically forwarded to other domains, you should # replace this with the name of your major relay host. DR mail.lynet.de CR mail.lynet.de # local UUCP connections - output from the uuname command FV|/usr/bin/uuname # options that you probably want on a mailhost: # checkpoint the queue after this many receipients OC10 # refuse to send tiny messages to more than these recipients Ob10 ############################################################ ##### ##### General configuration information ##### # local domain name # # This is now set from the resolver configuration call. If the domain # name you would like to have appear in your mail headers is different # from your Internet domain name, edit and uncomment the following to # be your mail domain name. # DmPodunk.EDU # Version number of configuration file DVNX3.0M ### Standard macros # name used for error messages DnMailer-Agent # UNIX header format DlFrom $g $d # delimiter (operator) characters Do.:%@!^=/[] # format of a total name Dq$?x$x $.<$g> # SMTP login message De$j Sendmail $v/$V ready at $b ### Options # Remote mode - send through server if mailbox directory is mounted OR # location of alias file OA/etc/sendmail/aliases # default delivery mode (deliver in background) Odbackground # rebuild the alias file automagically OD # temporary file mode -- 0600 for secure mail, 0644 for permissive OF0600 # default GID Og1 # location of help file OH/usr/lib/sendmail.hf # log level OL9 # default messages to old style Oo # To Cc postmaster on error replies I generate, uncomment the next line # OPPostmaster # queue directory OQ/usr/spool/mqueue # read timeout for SMTP protocols Or15m # status file -- none # OS/etc/sendmail/sendmail.st # queue up everything before starting transmission, for safety Os # return queued mail after this long OT3d # default UID Ou1 ### Message precedences Pfirst-class=0 Pspecial-delivery=100 Pjunk=-100 ### Trusted users Troot agent daemon uucp ### Format of headers H?P?Return-Path: <$g> HReceived: $?sfrom $s $.by $j ($v/$V) id $i; $b H?D?Resent-Date: $a H?D?Date: $a H?F?Resent-From: $q H?F?From: $q H?x?Full-Name: $x HSubject: H?M?Resent-Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j> H?M?Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j> HErrors-To: ########################### ### Rewriting rules ### ########################### # Sender Field Pre-rewriting S1 # None needed. # Recipient Field Pre-rewriting S2 # None needed. # Name Canonicalization # Internal format of names within the rewriting rules is: # anything<@host.domain.domain...>anything # We try to get every kind of name into this format, except for local # names, which have no host part. The reason for the "<>" stuff is # that the relevant host name could be on the front of the name (for # source routing), or on the back (normal form). We enclose the one that # we want to route on in the <>'s to make it easy to find. # S3 # handle "from:<>" special case R<> $@@ turn into magic token # basic textual canonicalization R$*<$+>$* $2 basic RFC822 parsing # make sure <@a,@b,@c:user@d> syntax is easy to parse -- undone later R@$+,$+:$+ @$1:$2:$3 change all "," to ":" R@$+:$+ $@$>6<@$1>:$2 src route canonical R$+:$*;@$+ $@$1:$2;@$3 list syntax R$+@$+ $:$1<@$2> focus on domain R$+<$+@$+> $1$2<@$3> move gaze right R$+<@$+> $@$>6$1<@$2> already canonical # convert old-style names to domain-based names # All old-style names parse from left to right, without precedence. R$-!$+ $@$>6$2<@$1.uucp> uucphost!user R$-.$+!$+ $@$>6$3<@$1.$2> host.domain!user R$+%$+ $:$1%%$2 user%host R$+%%$+%$+ $1%$2%%$3 move gaze right R$+%%$+ $@$>3$1@$2 re-canonicalize # Final Output Post-rewriting S4 R$+<@$+.uucp> $2!$1 u@h.uucp => h!u R$+ $: $>9 $1 Clean up addr R$*<$+>$* $1$2$3 defocus # Clean up an name for passing to a mailer # (but leave it focused) S9 R@ $@$n handle <> error addr R$*<$*LOCAL>$* $1<$2$m>$3 change local info R<@$+>$*:$+:$+ <@$1>$2,$3:$4 <route-addr> canonical ############################################################# ##### ##### Rewriting rules ##### # special local conversions S6 R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain ############################################################ ##### ##### Local and Program Mailer specification ##### Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMnuP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMeuP, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u S10 # None needed. S20 # None needed. ############################################################ ##### ##### Ethernet Mailer specification ##### ##### Messages processed by this configuration are assumed to remain ##### in the same domain. This really has nothing particular to do ##### with Ethernet - the name is historical. Mether, P=[TCP], F=mDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h S11 R$*<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2>$3 already ok R$+ $@$1<@$w> tack on our hostname S21 # None needed. ############################################################ ##### ##### General code to convert back to old style UUCP names ##### S5 R$+<@LOCAL> $@ $w!$1 name@LOCAL => host!name R$+<@$-.LOCAL> $@ $2!$1 u@h.LOCAL => h!u R$+<@$+.uucp> $@ $2!$1 u@h.uucp => h!u R$+<@$*> $@ $2!$1 u@h => h!u # Route-addrs do not work here. Punt til uucp-mail comes up with something. R<@$+>$* $@ @$1$2 just defocus and punt R$*<$*>$* $@ $1$2$3 Defocus strange stuff ############################################################ ##### ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=mDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n, A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u) # Convert uucp sender (From) field S13 R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to old style R$=w!$+ $2 strip local name R$+ $:$w!$1 stick on real host name # Convert uucp recipient (To, Cc) fields S23 R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to old style ############################################################ ##### ##### DDN Mailer specification ##### ##### Send mail on the Defense Data Network ##### (such as Arpanet or Milnet) Mddn, P=[TCP], F=mDFMuCX, S=22, R=22, A=TCP $h, E=\r\n # map containing the inverse of mail.aliases DZmail.byaddr S22 R$*<@LOCAL>$* $:$1 R$-<@$-> $:$>3${Z$1@$2$} invert aliases R$*<@$+.$*>$* $@$1<@$2.$3>$4 already ok R$+<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2.$m>$3 tack on our domain R$+ $@$1<@$j> tack on our hostname ############################################################ # # RULESET ZERO # # This is the ruleset that determines which mailer a name goes to. # Ruleset 30 just calls rulesets 3 then 0. S30 R$* $: $>3 $1 First canonicalize R$* $@ $>0 $1 Then rerun ruleset 0 S0 # On entry, the address has been canonicalized and focused by ruleset 3. # Handle special cases..... R@ $#local $:$n handle <> form # For numeric spec, you can't pass spec on to receiver, since rcvr's # are not smart enough to know that [x.y.z.a] is their own name. R<@[$+]>:$* $:$>9 <@[$1]>:$2 Clean it up, then... R<@[$+]>:$* $#ether $@[$1] $:$2 numeric internet spec R<@[$+]>,$* $#ether $@[$1] $:$2 numeric internet spec R$*<@[$+]> $#ether $@[$2] $:$1 numeric internet spec # resolve the local hostname to "LOCAL". R$*<$*$=w.LOCAL>$* $1<$2LOCAL>$4 thishost.LOCAL R$*<$*$=w.uucp>$* $1<$2LOCAL>$4 thishost.uucp R$*<$*$=w>$* $1<$2LOCAL>$4 thishost # Mail addressed explicitly to the domain gateway (us) R$*<@LOCAL> $@$>30$1 strip our name, retry R<@LOCAL>:$+ $@$>30$1 retry after route strip # deliver to known ethernet hosts explicitly specified in our domain R$*<@$+.LOCAL>$* $#ether $@$2 $:$1<@$2>$3 user@host.ourdomain # hosts in no domains are assumed to be local R$*<@$->$* $#ether $@$2 $:$1<@$2>$3 user@host # Clean up addresses for external use -- kills LOCAL, route-addr ,=>: R$* $:$>9 $1 Then continue... # resolve UUCP domain R<@$=V.uucp>:$+ $#uucp $@$1 $:$2 @host.uucp:... R$+<@$=V.uucp> $#uucp $@$2 $:$1 user@host.uucp R<@$-.uucp>:$+ $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1 R$+<@$-.uucp> $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2 # If you want to pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder # to our forwarder then uncomment the following line. R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain # and comment out this one. #R$*<@$+.$->$* $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain # All addresses in the rules ABOVE are absolute (fully qualified domains). # Addresses BELOW can be partially qualified. R$*@$* $#error $:I don't understand $1@$2 # Local names with % are really not local! R$+%$+ $@$>30$1%$2 retry # everything else is a local name R$+ $#local $:$1 local names ===========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What's a good gen ref on PPP? References: <334A4945.FB8@itis.com> From: dreely@cyberstore.ca Message-ID: <3355dbdb.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 17 Apr 97 08:14:19 GMT "Jason J. Gullickson" <xjasong@itis.com> wrote: > I'm configuring a NS3.0 machine for PPP, what/where can I find some > good info or FAQ's about doing this (the PPP package I have doesn't > have much in the way of documentation) Check out http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ Darren http://www.bcog.org/~dreely I log in, the Workspace Manager does not come up. > The background color is there, and the mouse pointer is > there (and able to move it around), but there are no > windows, just the blank backspace color. How can I correctly > reset the machine, and how do I shutdown the machine cleanly > if I reach this position again? > > --gh > To shutdown the machine, if it went out of order, you can press ALT-NumLock (on Intel), wich brings a small window up, in wich you can either select 'r' for rebbot and 'h' for halt. Please choose halt, because then, filesystem is shutdown correctly. Pressing 'r' is equal to reset the computer with the reset-switch (Not a good idea)! You can't simply change hostname, ip-address, ... in HostManager. If you want to do such changes, you've to reset NetInfo to it's default state (No Network-Configuration). This is done with the following script, wich could be startet in singleuser-mode too (enter '-s' after 'boot:' at systemstart and then return. This brings up a textconsole wich is working even if the configuration is corrupted) #!/bin/sh # #Skript zum Ersetzen fehlerhafter Netinfo-Konfigurationen durch #Default-Dateien in /usr/template/net im Single-User-Modus # echo "" echo "Mache BackUp vom jetzigem NetInfo und jetziger" echo "hostconfig-Datei in /etc/netreset.backup" if [ ! -d /etc/netreset.backup ] then mkdir /etc/netreset.backup fi cp -pr /etc/netinfo /etc/netreset.backup cp -p /etc/hostconfig /etc/netreset.backup echo "" echo "Ersetze lokale NetInfo-Datenbank" cp -r /usr/template/net/netinfo/local.nidb /etc/netinfo echo "" echo "Ersetze hostconfig-Datei" cp /usr/template/net/hostconfig /etc echo "" echo "Lösche Netzweite NetInfo-Datenbank" rm -r /etc/netinfo/network.nidb echo "" echo "Ok" echo ""
From: John Wong <wongj@ats.orst.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't delete users Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:40:11 +0800 Organization: Oregon State University Message-ID: <33533EEB.328D@ats.orst.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to delete some users using niload but get the message "deletion for reeder failed: Cannot delete name object with children". I've listed the steps that I used. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? Thanks. John Wong, Oregon State University 1) nidump passwd . > /etc/passwd 2) edit /etc/passwd to delete some users 3) niload -d passwd . < /etc/passwd
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: 17 Apr 1997 20:48:22 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. Any suggestions are appreciated. -- Feng Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3975 phone: 714-824-1750, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department) Fax: 714-824-1750, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:52:42 +0100 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - Possibly a basic question. In UserManager under OS4.1/Mach/Intel, when trying to change someone's default shell from /bin/csh to /bin/csh, I get a message saying that "Unknown shell: /bin/tcsh Not found in: /etc/shells". Okay, so as su I change /etc/shells and add the entry /bin/tcsh. But even after rebooting, UserManager still doesn't want to accept any users with the /bin/tcsh. The previos message keeps coming back, even though I've modified that file Is there something I'm missing here? TIA, C. charlesa@ncast.co.uk
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:03:08 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970417200003.23261B-100000@kira> References: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> > Possibly a basic question. In UserManager under OS4.1/Mach/Intel, when > trying to change someone's default shell from /bin/csh to /bin/csh, I > get a message saying that "Unknown shell: /bin/tcsh Not found in: > /etc/shells". > > Okay, so as su I change /etc/shells and add the entry /bin/tcsh. But > even after rebooting, UserManager still doesn't want to accept any users > with the /bin/tcsh. The previos message keeps coming back, even though > I've modified that file Is there something I'm missing here? Curious.... it seems that you have done all that it right. Yet it doesn't work. Welcome to my life ;-) Anyway, a few questions: does /bin/tcsh actually exist? Is it executable? It is readable? What about using nidump to a file, editing a user's shell to /bin/tcsh, and niload the file and see if it works? This is not a solution, obviously, but perhaps a temp. workaround. Be interested to see how it turns out TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
From: sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem mounting second partition Date: 18 Apr 1997 04:35:57 GMT Organization: DigiPhone Corporation, Bryan/College Station Texas 409-693-8885 Message-ID: <5j6tnd$6a@news.myriad.net> Hello, I need help trying to mount a second partition of a scsi drive on a color slab. A friend has a hd that was formatted as 2 partitions, rsd0a, rsd0b. The NS 3.3 system on the first partition crashed and would not boot. So, he reinstalled NS 3.3 on the first partition (opps, :-( ). rsd0a is still the size that it was and fsck still finds and checks rsd0b but it says it only finds 2 files (not good). The b partition will not mount, mount /dev/sd0b just returns device not found. Any ideas as to how we might mount this drive, recover the files that were on this second partition? Stephen -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 22:40:31 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-1704972240320001@165.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> <335332F0.4579@nh.com> <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie> > > I was able to do it with 3.1 but not 3.3. You might want to take a look at > CAPer availible from <http://www.this.net/~frank> That is what I m using > under 3.3. > I was able to get the AppleTalk from 3.0 to work under 3.3, but you can't print to etherneted laswer printers with it. For that you will need CAPer.app. Mitch
From: sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 18 Apr 1997 05:01:57 GMT Organization: DigiPhone Corporation, Bryan/College Station Texas 409-693-8885 Message-ID: <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> On 04/14/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax mode? > >David A. Johnson, >Research Engineer, >Northwestern University > Do you have fax software, such as NXFax or there are some which may require a good bit of configuring available on NEXTSTEP ftp sites? The NS built in fax driver doesn't support Zyxel or very many other modems either. -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 18 Apr 1997 02:05:08 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc4b9d$40367270$5b506fcb@decisionware> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> Andreas Hoeschler <andreas@lynet.de> wrote in article <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de>... > Hello, > > I installed PPP just as it is described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95. So after a fresh > installation, I could put mail in the queue and as I brought up a > PPP-Connection to my provider, it was delivered correctly. > I really changed nothing at the configuration, but the next day it was no > longer working. When I post mail, I get an error-message from the system > (unknown host) and the mailqueue remains empty. So, I can repeat the whole > progress. I reinstalled the system many times and had always the same effect. > Could it be a problem, to put mail in the queue, then switch the computer > off, before it could be send to the internet? > My configuration is as follows! > > - resolv.conf > - sendmail.mailhost.cf > > resolv.conf: > ========== > domain lynet.de > nameserver 194.127.178.1 > > sendmail.mailhost.cf: > ================= > ############################################################ > # <snip> > # major relay host: use the $M mailer to send mail to other domains > # To have mail automatically forwarded to other domains, you should > # replace this with the name of your major relay host. > DR mail.lynet.de > CR mail.lynet.de > Andreas, There really is no need to change the sendmail.cf file. An alias in netinfo for mailhost would have sufficed and works well when upgrading a system. Anyway, to your problem. sendmail is trying to contact mail.lynet.de to send the mail but first it must resolve the name to an address. It is this stage that is failing. What you need to do is create a host (in HostManager.app) for mail.lynet.de with its real IP address. You can find this out while on-line. By putting the entry in HostManage.app you enable the DNS lookup to succeed. The next thing that fails when you are offline is the actual connection to that mail server. sendmail can cope with this failure so-long as it has a real IPaddress to try. The message sent while off-line will go to defferred status. Next time you are on-line run /usr/lib/sendmail -q0 (I think). You will need to be root to do this either via su or sudo (a shareware product that gives specific su access to some commands to some users). By running sendmail like this you will cause it to 'tickle' the queue and send any outstanding messages and now that you are on-line they will succeed. The same effect cannot be achieved by simply sending another mail message and hoping that sendmail will pick yours up on its way past. sendmail doco says this is the case but it is not. Sending new mail while on-line will only send that message not any deferred messages.
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Quantum 1GB Intermittant object.station problem Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:01:37 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Development - Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, USA Message-ID: <33571BB7.4F1C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have a Quantum 1GB SCSI drive that came with my object.station and I have an intermittant problem- The drive only sometimes starts up, and now it RARELY starts up, the other 500 MB drive comes up fine, but this one - no luck. I've never had a head crash (or any other harddrive HW problem...), but are these the symptoms? Any response would be appreciated, as well as do-it-yourself data recovery techniques... -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D--Instructional Technology Development--Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."-Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: jbf_see_sig@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:21:46 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_sig-ya023580001804970021460001@news.tiac.net> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> <335332F0.4579@nh.com> <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie>, geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper) wrote: > In article <335332F0.4579@nh.com>, webmaster@nh.com wrote: > > :Does anyone know if you can use the AppleTalk client from 3.0 on 3.2. > :I'm using a NeXT colorstaiton turbo. If this won't work, is it possible > :to buy an AppleTalk client? Thanks in advance. Peace, > : > :James > > I was able to do it with 3.1 but not 3.3. It runs under 3.3 if you know how to load it. Isn't reliable enough to bother. Barney (delete that _see_sig to email me)
From: wotmp@rhodes.edu (Mike Wottle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: 17 Apr 97 23:20:18 GMT Organization: The University of Memphis Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[3400] Message-ID: <3356b032.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. Kevin - tell me how you fized it if you do - I'm having the exact same problem. Thanks.
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: 16 Apr 1997 18:04:41 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5j34bp$jpo@q.seanet.com> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > > > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? > > I have loaded OpenStep 4.1 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my NeXTstation turbo. It works fine, the Jazz drive works as well or better than the NeXTstations internal drive. I have loaded WinNT 4.0 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my Intel box. It also works, but the performance works as well or less than the Intel box internal drive. I now have 6 Jaz cartridges to share between NeXT and MS OS's. I give these two thumbs up for my consulting work. > > I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told > > me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at > > least the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable > > drives. > > Ok, thanks Timothy, but now the question is *HOW*! Is there an FAQ for > this? I will try to post a FAQ at our Puget Sound NeXT User Groups site: http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug There's disk geometry issues for the Jaz drive for NeXT, and you will need a MAC or Windows box running Jaz Tools to help with disk initialization issues, if the NeXT OS tells you the disk is bad. Steve Roller sroller@roller.seanet.com Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: "Marc P. Duchesne" <mduchesn@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP NEEDED !!! : REBOOTING - MONITOR HANG UP Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:33:23 +0200 Organization: Marc Duchesne IT Consultant Message-ID: <335723C3.26F5@easynet.fr> References: <5j4lg1$rf6@hagen.amg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi There My system: NeXTCube 16/400 Mo, running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (stand-alone machine, no network) The problem to be fixed: after booting by the Monitor, I cann't access to the Workspace Manager, nor to the login window. Actually, the system hangs up in the Monitor "NeXT Mach Operating System" window. Following is the process: -------------------------------------------------- Wed April 16 13:59:31 GMT+0100 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: adress automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapApr 16 13:59:47 localhost syslogd: /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: No such file or directory netinfo lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:. Starting network daemeons: intetdApr 16 13:59:48 localhost netinfod[98]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Apr 16 13:59:47 localhost rebbot: Reboot complete NXFax kernel server 1.03 loaded %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines %> xwing_fax: Unknown modem [...] %> xwing_fax: Wait for incoming call -------------------------------------------------- To help you to fix this problem, here are some facts: - I have to boot with the monitor ("NeXT > bsd") since 2 years now ! Never have problem like this one. - The login window always did appear after the line: %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines - The only I can do is to shut down the machine with the "Alim" key Thanks for your help, _Marc Please reply at/ mailto: mduchesn@easynet.fr -- Marc P. Duchesne mduchesn@easynet.fr -------------------------------------------------- XWinG, The Fiberoptics Consulting & Training Company CE4801, Lisses - F 91048 Evry Cedex, France Tel +33 (0)1 60 86 2050 Fax +33 (0)1 60 86 2053 infos@xwing.oleane.com http://www.optoroute.com/fiber66 --------------------------------------------------
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:01:37 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <33572A61.15FB@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Ashley wrote: > > Hi all - > > Possibly a basic question. In UserManager under OS4.1/Mach/Intel, when > trying to change someone's default shell from /bin/csh to /bin/csh, I > get a message saying that "Unknown shell: /bin/tcsh Not found in: > /etc/shells". > > Okay, so as su I change /etc/shells and add the entry /bin/tcsh. But > even after rebooting, UserManager still doesn't want to accept any users > with the /bin/tcsh. The previos message keeps coming back, even though > I've modified that file Is there something I'm missing here? I'm using tcsh and no problems. So login as root (csh, never change roots shell as the system might restore the old /etc/shells after upgrade). Set me's shell to tcsh. Do su - me in a terminal window. This tells all the messages lost when login by loginwindow. 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: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Faxing with HayesCompatible Modem Date: 18 Apr 1997 07:29:19 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5j77sf$dh@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, i've installed JollyClass2.0-FaxDriver in the PrintManager and I'm able to send Faxes now, but how to I get the modem to receive faxes. There are controls in the preferences of the FaxDriver, to determine, after how many rings it should take the call a.s.n., so I suppose, the software is also for receiving faxes, but it does not put the modem in answering mode. Do I need another software for this purpose or do I just have to send some AT-commands to the modem on my one (with tip or so)? If yes, what commands do I have to use. I've an ELSA 28800 TVQ and unfortunately lost the handbook with the AT-CommandSet. Thank in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: 18 Apr 1997 08:30:48 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5j7bfo$dio@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> Feng Liu writes > All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel > become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down > the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. > I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. > Look into 'man loginwindow'. There you'll find something about "-PowerOffDisabled true". You may also use the Preferences to enable/disable PowerOff (as root, of course). Robert -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network printers, missing fonts, 8bit data Message-ID: <1997Apr18.111337.47476@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 18 Apr 97 11:13:36 MET I'm having trouble with a HP laserjet 5M network printer. I have loaded the appropriate ppd and can use the printer for several applications as well as from the commandline. However, when trying to print something which uses fonts not present in the printer, it substitutes a default. Is there anyway of *automatically* downloading the missing font? The other thing is the problem with postscript containing 8bit data (to be exec'd from within the PS code). This data doesn't seem to be transmitted correctly, as the printer will just print junk instead of the data. When printing to a NeXT printer, all is fine. Any hints as to what can be done? Thanks, Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: wam@zoo.bt.co.uk (Wayne Morrison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: History keys ^P, ^N, ^B, ^F Date: 18 Apr 1997 09:39:46 GMT Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK Message-ID: <5j7fh2$o45@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I set up Terminal.app so that I can shuffle through the command history list with the Cursor keys (or at least with a Ctrl-Cursor modifier) as opposed to using: ^P move up through history ^N move down through history ^B move left along the current command ^F move right along the current command I saw something on the FAQ that used emacs macros but was unable to get it to work. I've also set up my keymapping for the cursors but Terminal.app refuses to recognise the cursor press. Thanks for any help, Wayne
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 18 Apr 1997 09:52:18 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5j7g8i$f8@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> <01bc4b9d$40367270$5b506fcb@decisionware> "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> wrote: > There really is no need to change the sendmail.cf file. An alias in > netinfo for mailhost would have sufficed and works well when upgrading a > system. I don't understand. The alias just tells the system *which* sendmail config file to use (mailhost, subsidiary, sharedsubsidiary), but does not replace changes within them. It is correct, however, that sendmail.mailhost.cf for some configurations works "out of the box". > Anyway, to your problem. sendmail is trying to contact mail.lynet.de to > send the mail but first it must resolve the name to an address. It is this > stage that is failing. What you need to do is create a host (in > HostManager.app) for mail.lynet.de with its real IP address. You can find > this out while on-line. By putting the entry in HostManage.app you enable > the DNS lookup to succeed. This is really confusing me. I've heard several times now that people had to put an entry of their mailhost in HostManager.app to make sendmail queue mail when offline. The point is: this is *not* necessary on my machine (and on a lot of other's machines, for that matter). It "just works" with sendmail.mailhost.cf; when offline, mail gets queued, just as it should. No DNS information needed. So the explanation you're giving above can't be completely correct. Anybody has any idea why this problem causes so much grief for some users while it's plug'n'play for the others? Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine _____________________________________________________________________
From: rdogra@nowhere.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: History keys ^P, ^N, ^B, ^F Date: 18 Apr 1997 12:53:21 GMT Organization: Internet MCI Message-ID: <5j7qs1$87l$1@news.internetmci.com> References: <5j7fh2$o45@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit wam@zoo.bt.co.uk (Wayne Morrison) wrote: > > >How do I set up Terminal.app so that I can shuffle through the command >history list with the Cursor keys (or at least with a Ctrl-Cursor modifier) >as opposed to using: >^P move up through history >^N move down through history >^B move left along the current command >^F move right along the current command > >I saw something on the FAQ that used emacs macros but was unable to get it to >work. I've also set up my keymapping for the cursors but Terminal.app refuses >to recognise the cursor press. > >Thanks for any help, > > Wayne Hi From man page of csh: . . . HOW TO ENABLE THE EXTENDED C-SHELL FEATURES To enable the extended C-Shell features, put the line: set editmode = emacs in the .cshrc file in your home directory. If you don't have such a file, create one and add the line to the end. Log out and log in again and you will be using the new shell. . . . Rajnish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Font conversion, how to make .lepf file (possibly from a .bepf file)? Message-ID: <E8u3rI.BID@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:52:29 GMT Hi, I have a font which contains a .bepf file. This is the big-endian binary file that contains the font. I'd like to use the font on an intel (little endian) machine instead. How do I create the .lepf file? I looked at prebuild, but I did not understand it. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: Trey or Gwen McClendon <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for HP DeskJet 870/850 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:10:27 -0500 Organization: haphazard Message-ID: <335772C3.463A@hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have a PPD for the above printer that would work with Win95 and generate postscript that the eXTRAPRINT program by GS Corporation would digest? I'd like to be able to print from some win95 machines to our networked Color deskjet hanging off a NEXTSTEP-based computer. Thanks, Trey
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: network printers, missing fonts, 8bit data Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 04:47:28 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970418044601.4982F-100000@kira> References: <1997Apr18.111337.47476@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch In-Reply-To: <1997Apr18.111337.47476@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> I don't know if this will work, but you might try 'save' from the Print panel and select 'For Chosen Printer/Include Fonts' in the save panel, and then print it. There may be another way, and this may not work, but it would be worth a try perhaps TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:30:20 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5j842c$9dp$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> In-Reply-To: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> On 04/17/97, Feng Liu wrote: >All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel >become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down >the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. >I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. > These may have been disabled by root in Preferences -- there is an extra entry in Prefernces which only shows up when you're logged in as root. Best wishes, mmalc. -- Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA Date: 17 Apr 1997 21:00:38 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5j631m$bg23@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Can anyone help with SAMBA config on Openstep 4.1. I get kernel panics when windows 95 clients attemp to access the SAMBA srver.
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: History keys ^P, ^N, ^B, ^F Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:23:27 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Message-ID: <5j8hnf$4ns4@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5j7fh2$o45@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <5j7qs1$87l$1@news.internetmci.com> Cc: rdogra@nowhere.com,wam@zoo.bt.co.uk In <5j7qs1$87l$1@news.internetmci.com> rdogra@nowhere.com wrote: > HOW TO ENABLE THE EXTENDED C-SHELL FEATURES > To enable the extended C-Shell features, put the line: > > set editmode = emacs > > in the .cshrc file in your home directory. If you don't > have such a file, create one and add the line to the end. > Log out and log in again and you will be using the new > shell. > > Rajnish > This doesn't enable the arrow keys (or at least I've never been able to get it to do so). The easiest way I've found to get arrow keys (and lot's of other neat features) is intsalling Bash. There is a pre-compiled binary for it at ftp.next.peak.org. Good luck. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html http://www.barbarian.com
From: Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:22:03 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Message-ID: <ytwwq0cf1g.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> writes: > I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running > NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a > 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP > Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP > 6MP). > > Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all has a huge collection of ppd files. You'll find the HP PPD's there, and they'll work fine with your NeXT with little if any tweaking. -- Fredrik Nyman Hughes STX Work <ice@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Play <fredrik@mindspring.com> Code 505 B32/N231 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Fax 301-614-5270
From: grape@matrix.teuto.de (Timo Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:57:42 +0200 Organization: PoP teuto.net Bielefeld Message-ID: <199704182057422168869@[192.168.0.2]> References: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> Feng Liu <fliu@uci.edu> wrote: > All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel > become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down > the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. > I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > On my Nextstation (NEXTSTEP 3.2), I can power th achine off by entering "power" as user-name into the login window. Other keywords I found: "exit" seems to restart the Workspace manager (right word?) and "reboot" reboots the computer. Any more keywords out there? Bye Timo --- Timo Hoepfner - grape@matrix.teuto.de
From: zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 18 Apr 1997 22:26:39 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <5j8sev$m88@news-central.tiac.net> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> Organisation: GarageSoftware Ivc Hi, I think the problem is in mailer. You might want to use ether instead of ddn. ># Major relay mailer - typical choice is "ddn" if you are on the ># Defense Data Network (e.g. Arpanet or Milnet). All mail for ># non-local domains will be forwarded to the major relay host using ># the major relay mailer. We chose "uucp" as the default because most ># isolated networks use it to link their network with the outside ># world. ># ># If you want to use a relay mailer, examine ruleset 0. There are some ># rules that need to be uncommented >DMddn Just change the last line to DMether and I hope it will help. Regards, Aleksey
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/passwd equivalent Date: 18 Apr 1997 23:37:06 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5j90j2$psv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hi everyone, sorry to take your time! Where could I find the equivalent file to /etc/passwd in netinfo? Thanks in advance! Reply-to: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Thomas --- 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. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:08:54 -0600 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970417230703.1278C-100000@cedar.enmu.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> cc: Allan Noordvyk <allan@cetus.ali.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 16 Apr 1997, Kevin Birch wrote: > Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that > I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. > We had this problem before as well. It turned out that we had the permissions on /etc/resolv.conf incorrect. As root, do a chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf and that *should* fix it. As to not having a resolv.conf in the first place, just create one, it's the standard BSDish format. Nate - --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt Don't get even -- get odd! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM1cB7c2CzYgxXPeRAQEVTgP8CVleyNwHHJqemNmkwnRX/wWFM3Pbx5AG EiqJ6FMEbGCqpnh6ERVt1ILztmTaiHxM3G+loXAjZPzWd+6GQdMVkyKBlBYnZzTh 3ICJry5LKUN105Lp8wN31o2BXtNuWXH413YnSGyt0SRkjx4os0/yCAU7/NzoM0pd 9+M+kBB71mA= =f8VN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:13:32 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <33582A47.7121@xsf.com> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>, Futeh Kao <futeh@sprynet.com>, Mike Wottle <"wotmp"@rhodes.edu >, Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>, Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au>, Nathan.Burnett@enmu.edu, paul@spectrum.slu.edu, kris@xmission.com, allan@cetus.ali.bc.ca CC: welshofer.jay@mindspring.com Kevin Birch wrote: > > ... <snip> ... > Hello all, Thanks to everyone who has sent messages regarding the nameserver problem I've been having. When I posted my original message I probably didn't give enough information on my setup. It was pretty late when I wrote it so you'll have to forgive me. Here is my situation: I have a HP 712/80i running NeXTSTEP 3.3 User. It is a new install, so there is no danger of a corrupt system from a previous install. I created a resolv.conf file after reading the docs just like I've done on dozens of other UN*X systems. But nslookup never seemed to read in the address of the namserver. The resolv.conf file looks like this: takeda:21# cat resolv.conf domain cyberstar.com server 10.1.5.2 server 192.168.254.4 Paul Sanchez had hinted at something regaring the end of line character, but I created this file in vi, so I am assuming they would be correct. With the the resolv.conf file in this format nslookup does the following: takeda:22# nslookup Default Server: takeda Address: 0.0.0.0 > rune Server: takeda Address: 0.0.0.0 res_mkquery(0, rune.cyberstar.com, 1, 1) recvfrom: Connection refused recvfrom: Connection refused *** takeda can't find rune: No response from server > rune.cyberstar.com Server: takeda Address: 0.0.0.0 res_mkquery(0, rune.cyberstar.com.cyberstar.com, 1, 1) recvfrom: Connection refused recvfrom: Connection refused *** takeda can't find rune.cyberstar.com: No response from server > takeda:23# I can change the server to the ip address of our server, and I can resove names within nslookup ( although it still prints out the "recvfrom: Connection refused" messages immediately after changing the ip address of the server). Stefan Ried had mentioned that NetInfo will preempt standard DNS, and that was what I was thinking was happening, since the nameserver never changes in nslookup. So I took Stefan Ried's advice and did a nidump and got this: takeda:23# nidump -r locations . name = locations; CHILDREN = { name = renderers; CHILDREN = { name = localhost; _writers = "*"; note = "Local Renderer"; }; }; There doesn't seem to be any entries for lookupd, even though it shows up in the process table. Would this info be somewhere else in 3.3? I also looked in NetInfo per Paul Sanchez's suggestion but it, ofcourse contains the same information. If I were to create file with the form of: name = locations; CHILDREN = ( ... , { name = lookupd; MaxThreads = 12; CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = users; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = groups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = netgroups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }); }); and then did a niload, would this force NetInfo to behave? I am stumped. What am I missing? I apologize for the length of this message, but I wanted to clarify my situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Kevin
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:29:44 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nJakMG00iUyI4MbB3@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> In-Reply-To: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 16-Apr-97 Re: nameserver?? by "Kevin Birch"@xsf.com > Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that > I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. Did you put the IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf and not the names? Why not show us the file.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: building a new 4.1 SCSI drive from 3.3 EIDE booting machine Date: 19 Apr 1997 05:52:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j9miv$cdf$1@news.digifix.com> I've got a spiffy new 4.2 gigger Baracuda drive here, ultra wide, its going to be replacing the EIDE drives I've been using... I gather I'm going to have to partition that bad boy in DOS to be 2 separate drives right? Am I going to have to futz with an disktab entry for it then??? I'd REALLY like to be able to install OpenStep 4.1 on it without having to go through the whole install disk, driver junk... Can I just run upgrader or BuildDisk and install using that? Or do I need to go through the whole process.... -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:45:08 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970418204330.6149H-100000@saul5.u.washington.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <33582A47.7121@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: kjaeros In-Reply-To: <33582A47.7121@xsf.com> Predicate: Whose triangle is it? On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Kevin Birch wrote: > takeda:21# cat resolv.conf > domain cyberstar.com > server 10.1.5.2 > server 192.168.254.4 obelix:13# cat /etc/resolv.conf domain washington.edu nameserver 128.95.20.1 nameserver 128.95.21.1 search washington.edu u.washington.edu HTH ok -r http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kjaeros -------------------------------------- [ e x l i b r i s ]
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/passwd equivalent Date: 19 Apr 1997 04:16:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j9guv$aki$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5j90j2$psv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5j90j2$psv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> On 04/18/97, teb@eng.cam.ac.uk wrote: >Hi everyone, sorry to take your time! > >Where could I find the equivalent file to >/etc/passwd in netinfo? > >Thanks in advance! Reply-to: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk > >Thomas > > from the command line nidump passwd . (or / for the parent domain) From NetInfoManager there should be a users directory.. You could also just use the UserManager to find what you are looking for.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: b9gy9xd@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Alfonso Rush) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: faq and manual Date: 19 Apr 1997 01:59:07 -0500 Organization: Educational Computing Network Message-ID: <5j9qfr$mob@ecom3.ecn.bgu.edu> Summary: faq? Keywords: help need to find out how to print the system manual. My research group recently received 4 stations from another dept. I get to be sys admin but we have no manuals. I know that there is a way to print up the manuals from within the os but I don't remember how. Can anyone help? Also is there an f.a.q. for this group? where can i download it? thanks...
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From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't get AddType to work! Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:19:52 -0500 Organization: CyberNews Network Message-ID: <33591AD8.60D8107@kypris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can someone help me? I'm running Apache 1.1.0 on a NeXT box. Runs fine, but I can not get a new type to add. I've realaudio encoded a sound file and have put something on a web page with the EMBED tag, pointing to a .rpm file, which is the RealAudio metafile. I've added the following to BOTH mime.types and srm.conf: AddType audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin .rpm I've also tried adding this to my srm.conf: AddHandler x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm I've restarted the server numerous times. When hitting the web page in Netscape, it tells me there's a plugin of type "text/plain". Anybody have any ideas how I can get this to work or what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Dan -- Daniel A. Nichols [O-] Voice: (972) 790-7255 2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (972) 790-2950 Irving TX 75061-6645 E-Mail: dan_nichols@kypris.com LP 40,45,64 NeXTMail Welcome! <A HREF="http://rampages.onramp.net/~dan/">
From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Can't get SSI to work with Apache Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:32:32 -0500 Organization: CyberNews Network Message-ID: <33591DD0.2F830224@kypris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I'm running Apache 1.1.0 on a NeXT box. I've done all the things that are supposed to make SSI work, but nothing happens. I added the following to both mime.types and srm.conf, separately and together: AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml Then I added the following to a .shtml file: <!--#include file="sig.html"--> Nothing gets included. The include module is supposedly compiled into my server. Thanks for any help. Dan -- Daniel A. Nichols [O-] Voice: (972) 790-7255 2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (972) 790-2950 Irving TX 75061-6645 E-Mail: dan_nichols@kypris.com LP 40,45,64 NeXTMail Welcome! <A HREF="http://rampages.onramp.net/~dan/">
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 19 Apr 1997 21:15:45 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) writes: >On 04/14/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >>I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the >first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the >modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be >done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I >configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) >is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem >queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I >need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax >mode? >> >>David A. Johnson, >>Research Engineer, >>Northwestern University >> >Do you have fax software, such as NXFax or there are some which may >require a good bit of configuring available on NEXTSTEP ftp sites? The >NS built in fax driver doesn't support Zyxel or very many other modems >either. >-- >--- >Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net >Computer Consulting Intl, LTD >PO Box 1046 >College Station, TX 77841 >409-778-4717 >"the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" >President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845 Maybe you can get mgetty+sendfax on major Linux FTP site. kai
From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: lpd? Date: 19 Apr 1997 21:50:25 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5jben1$v26$1@brokaw.wa.com> ive got a mac on the localnet that is running lpd so that my unix boxes can print to its laserprinter. Can I/How do I setup NeXT to print to a ethernet lpd server? -b ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- -------------------------------------------------------------
From: punzi@nwlink.com (Robin N. Werner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] Dual boot of Linux and OPENSTEP Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:14:56 -0700 Organization: Northwest Link Message-ID: <punzi-ya023580001904971114560001@news.nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: Linux Openstep dual-boot lilo Hello, I have Openstep 4.1 running on white hardware, and I would like to configure the machine to also run Linux. Furthermore, I would like to use Lilo as the boot loader. Has anyone successfully produced such a configuration? If so, would you be willing to share your lilo.conf for booting the machine? Any additional experiences you could share would be a great help. Thus far, I have found information regarding dual booting similar configurations, but never using Lilo. NeXTanswers does mention that this is possible, but the actual configuration is not provided. I have also searched FAQ's at Stepwise and peak.org, but their answer's utilized OS/2's boot-loader. Prior to obtaining Openstep I was running Linux on this machine so I am familiar with the basics of configuring a Linux host and Lilo. As a new Openstep user, I do not wish to destroy it when I reinstall Linux and overwrite the existing master boot-record. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Robin Robin N. Werner punzi@nwlink.com
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From: dennis@csie.nctu.edu.tw ([) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nextstep hangs if no boot option.. Date: 18 Apr 1997 01:30:37 GMT Organization: Computer Science & Information Engineering NCTU Message-ID: <5j6irt$1dt@netnews.csie.nctu.edu.tw> hi all, when my nextstep system starts, it will hang (blank screen) if I didn't give any option for the "boot:" prompt. It only sccess when I give any option such as "-v". How can I resolve this problem? or is there any way to define a "default" boot option so that I won't have to type the option everytime. thanks.
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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 Supersedes: <15479860904022@digifix.com> Date: 20 Apr 1997 03:59:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26385861508830@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. 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. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: - (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next - Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl - (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it - (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next - eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: - See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. 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USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. 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From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5jboag$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Date: 20 Apr 1997 03:37:09 GMT Control: cancel <5jboag$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5jboag$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Sender: <glucas@netusa1.net> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: gary@mail.pex.net (Gary Marantos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up a network... stupid newbie question Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:40:21 -0700 Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <gary-ya02408000R1904972340210001@news.connectnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Please be patient, I am new to the world of Unix admin. :) I am running OPENSTEP Mach 4.1 on an Intel machine. I have an Intel 10/100 EtherExpress card and a 3Com 8 port 10BaseT hub. My other computer is a PowerMac 7600/150 with the built in 10BaseT connector. I ran the SimpleNetworkStarter in attempt to start the netowrk. I set up all of the parameters and everything appears to be starting at boot, but I can't see my Mac and my Mac can't see the Unix box. I have tried to ping the Mac with no success. If anyone has routinely done this and is willing to at least guide me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. I don't really wanna be told step by step because I learn nothing and there's no point in it if I can;t learn something. :) Please email me if you can offer some help, thanks. :) PS: I did read the help files but they're pretty vague. :)
From: gary@mail.pex.net (Gary Marantos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:46:39 -0700 Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <gary-ya02408000R1904972346390001@news.connectnet.com> References: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> <5ibmpr$hrm$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I had the same with a 4m Diamond. Boot with the setting "config=Default" and go into Configure.app. Then load the driver for the card and check for an area of ram you can switch, move it up one notch. I forget what it's called and I am not on my NeXT box now but it fixes the black screen problem. You need to change it on machine with >32m ram. In article <5ibmpr$hrm$1@gaea.omnigroup.com>, bungi@omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) wrote: > gcasamen@erols.com writes: > > >Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium > >video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been > >experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the > >monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor > >flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be > >causing this. > > I have a similar problem. My P6 has a Matrox Millenium and a ViewSonic > PT810 -- this monitor is a PnP monitor, meaning that it and a PnP video card > will carry out some obscure conversation over the monitor cable and agree > on the list of resolutions and refresh rates that are possible. If I turn > the machine on and boot the machine into NEXTSTEP 4.0 or 4.1, I do not get > any video (the monitor flashes something about not being able to synch). > > If, however, I boot the machine into Win95 or NT4.0 first and then reboot > into NEXTSTEP, all goes ok. Sounds like there is some bug in NeXT's drivers > with respect to PnP video cards/monitors. > > -tim
From: gary@mail.pex.net (Gary Marantos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What's a good gen ref on PPP? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:47:23 -0700 Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <gary-ya02408000R1904972347230001@news.connectnet.com> References: <334A4945.FB8@itis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have NS/OS PPP configuration down to a science. I can help you if you need help. In article <334A4945.FB8@itis.com>, "Jason J. Gullickson" <xjasong@itis.com> wrote: > I'm configuring a NS3.0 machine for PPP, what/where can I find some > good info or FAQ's about doing this (the PPP package I have doesn't > have much in the way of documentation) > > > xjasong@itis.com
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to use Sony NeXT CD-ROM for music on MO (or just how to play music) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 20 Apr 1997 00:31:26 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> Hi, I purchased an original Sony CD-ROM (CDU-541 Rev 2.6a) for my 040/25 cube on c.s.n.m. For installing software it works great. But when I insert a music CD and plug a set of speakers into the sound jack, or a set of headphones, no sound comes out. Is there something I need to do play music on this CD-ROM and to have the music come out of the sound jack? Do I need run a particular app to listen to music from a CD-ROM? Thanks, Emmett
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: lpd? Date: 20 Apr 1997 11:54:31 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5jd05n$fqo$2@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5jben1$v26$1@brokaw.wa.com> ihate@spammers.com (bf) wrote: > ive got a mac on the localnet that is running lpd so that my unix boxes > can print to its laserprinter. Can I/How do I setup NeXT to print to a > ethernet lpd server? Since you did not include an eMail address (Maybe a bit too paranoid even in this spammer-cursed world) I will repost the instructions in this group: (Assuming both machines know each other on the network and can be pinged from each other by name, 'local' is the NeXT, 'remote' is the target machine) 1. Create a 'local' printer of type 'LaserWriter' or similar (serial connected - doesn't matter) 2. Open NetInfoManager.app 3. Click on 'printers' in your local domain 4. Click on your new printer name, you should see Admin Comm Device forget about these and again doubleclick on your new printer name, a new browser opens, you should see the printcap entries beginning with 'name'. 5. Create a new property, give it the name 'rm' 5.1 Create for this property a new value, write your machine name here you want to print to here. (This will tell lpd to print to a remote machine, hence 'rm') 6. Create a new property, give it the name 'rp' 6.1 Create for this property a new value, write your queue name here you want to print to here (the printer name as it is called your your NeXT). (This will tell lpd the name of the target queue on the remote machine) 7. Create a new property, give it the name '_nxfinalform' (This will advice the NeXT printing mechanism to include all fonts in the print job) 8. Edit the 'ty' property value to make it a 'NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer' (or whatever the remote printer is known to be, if the type is correct there is not need to change it and you can skip this step) (This will tell your local system to use the correct PPD) 9. On your target machine (if it is a BSD UNIX system), create a new file called '/etc/hosts.lpd' and write the name of your client machine in it. Alternatively you can use the '/etc/hosts.equiv' file. 10. Save and quit NetInfoManager.app. 11. Open an app and print something. It can take a few 10 minutes for the type of printer to propagate through NetInfo. If you want to be sure everything is set and ready just reboot the local machine. I never understood why NeXT did not implement this functionaliy into PrintManager.app. Maybe someday I'll write an add-on utility for it. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: bobg@uic.edu (Bob Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Can't get SSI to work with Apache Followup-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Date: 20 Apr 1997 15:02:23 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Message-ID: <5jdb5v$1a8k$1@piglet.cc.uic.edu> References: <33591DD0.2F830224@kypris.com> Dan Nichols (dan@kypris.com) wrote: : Hi. : I'm running Apache 1.1.0 on a NeXT box. : I've done all the things that are supposed to make SSI work, but nothing : happens. : I added the following to both mime.types and srm.conf, separately and : together: : AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml You must also enable the ssi module for your particular directory or location. You need something like: <Directory ....> Options ... Includes .... </Directory> Check out the "Options" directive for details. bobg
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Network settings using NAT Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:26:56 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <335A7C10.3C55@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to connect to my ISP using an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px router with OPENSTEP 4.0/Intel. The ISP has assigned me one static IP address along with a registered domain name. The Ascend directions say that in order for NAT to work correctly, all of the dotted quads in the IP address must be above 100, and further, to assign the computer an address one number next to it so that the router sees it as being on the same network. Since one of the dotted quads of the address that my ISP assigned me is below 100, I assigned my router a dummy address of 100.100.100.100. Using SimpleNetworkStarter, in section 1, I checked the third box 'Provide the services specified below'. In section 2, I set the IP address to 100.100.100.101. And under [Network Options...], I set the -Router- to the address of my router 100.100.100.100, set -Netmask- to 255.0.0.0, set -NIS Domain Name- to my registered domain name, and set -Broadcast Address- to 100.255.255.255. I then attached the ethernet wire when the prompt told me to. However I am not able to get the computer to make a connection to the network. Afterwards, I accessed the router directly using Kermit and dialed into my ISP manually. When I set the router's IP address to the dummy number, it would connect with my ISP for about five seconds then terminate. However if I set the address to the number that they assigned me, the connection would stay up - but I can't use NAT with this IP address. Are the above settings correct? And does anyone know how I can get this working? --gh
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: faq and manual Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:14:15 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970420131257.12895O-100000@kira> References: <5j9qfr$mob@ecom3.ecn.bgu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Alfonso Rush <b9gy9xd@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5j9qfr$mob@ecom3.ecn.bgu.edu> You can find the FAQ link and many other helpful (I hope!) pointers at my web page http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next As for the manual & doc, open Librarian.app and see if that helps. If not, drop me a line TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
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From: Jeff Fedor <jfedor@annexmultimedia.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Problem Booting Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:43:21 +0000 Organization: Annex Multimedia Message-ID: <335A8DF9.1DAF@annexmultimedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi... I just got a mono NeXTStation (running release 3.0) I played around with it and filled in the new network info upon which the system suggested I reboot. Now it won't get past the "CHECKING SYSTEM FILES" part of the boot... any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. thanks in advance, Jeff
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:09:51 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP 6MP). Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? Anything else I should consider? Reasons why this won't work? Thanks for any comments. Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] Dual boot of Linux and OPENSTEP Date: 20 Apr 1997 17:25:22 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jdji2$pd7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <punzi-ya023580001904971114560001@news.nwlink.com> Keywords: Linux Openstep dual-boot lilo punzi@nwlink.com (Robin N. Werner) writes: >Hello, > I have Openstep 4.1 running on white hardware, and I would like to >configure the machine to also run Linux. Furthermore, I would like to use >Lilo as the boot loader. > Has anyone successfully produced such a configuration? If so, would >you be willing to share your lilo.conf for booting the machine? Any >additional experiences you could share would be a great help. > Thus far, I have found information regarding dual booting similar >configurations, but never using Lilo. NeXTanswers does mention that this is >possible, but the actual configuration is not provided. I have also >searched FAQ's at Stepwise and peak.org, but their answer's utilized OS/2's >boot-loader. > Prior to obtaining Openstep I was running Linux on this machine so I >am familiar with the basics of configuring a Linux host and Lilo. As a new >Openstep user, I do not wish to destroy it when I reinstall Linux and >overwrite the existing master boot-record. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks! > -Robin >Robin N. Werner >punzi@nwlink.com Yes, it work but one thing to remember is the OPENSTEP only boot from 1st HD (NeXT disk utility suck). below is a sample config. lilo.conf boot=/dev/sda # put your lilo in the MBR root=/dev/sda1 # your linux root device . . other=/dev/sda3 label=openstep -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: gary@a-team.connectnet.com (s00p) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS box can't see Mac on network Date: 21 Apr 1997 06:06:29 GMT Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com> I am running OPENSTEP Mach 4.1 on a Pentium 133 and this box is networked to a PowerMac 7600 via TCP/IP. Here's the problem, if anyone has any suggestions please email me. :) When I first boot my Mac I am unable to ping the Mac from the OS machine. My pings, telnets, and FTPs all time out. Now, when I go to the Mac and telnet to the OS box I can get in. After I have made the attempt to contact the OS box from the Mac I can ping the Mac from the OS box. In a nutshell, the OS can not see the Mac until *after* the Mac has tried to connect to the OS. Any ides on this? Thanks Gary
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From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Robert F Tobler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: 21 Apr 1997 15:29:27 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5jg14n$3f3@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970417200003.23261B-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org > > Curious.... it seems that you have done all that it right. Yet it doesn't > work. Welcome to my life ;-) > > Anyway, a few questions: does /bin/tcsh actually exist? Is it executable? > It is readable? > > What about using nidump to a file, editing a user's shell to /bin/tcsh, > and niload the file and see if it works? This is not a solution, > obviously, but perhaps a temp. workaround. > Another possibility: some UNIX configuration files are sensitive with respect to missing linefeeds. So make sure, you have put in a linefeed after the end of /bin/tcsh in /etc/shells ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
From: ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to send e-mail to all the users Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 18:33:10 GMT Organization: WorldCom Message-ID: <335bb18b.9932151@news.worldcom.ch> Hi there, I would like to send an e-amil to all the user of my network. The mailserver runs NeXTSTEP 3.3. Is there an way to send to all user in one time or must I send the e-mail to each of theme separately ??!! Thanks LiONEL
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: top Date: 21 Apr 1997 21:49:40 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5jgndk$7d1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hi, would anyone know off-hand where to obtain an equivalent to the familiar 'top' monitor for use in a terminal? Cheers, Thomas B. --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! Date: 22 Apr 1997 00:19:50 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5jh076$gd7@news.tamu.edu> References: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 1997 00:19:50 GMT In-Reply-To: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> On 04/10/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >I have a very serious problem that I need help with. > >I have a Jaz disk that had files moved from it onto another disk (using the next window GUI move command). I want to recover the data fromm the original Jaz disk. Unfortunately the disk the data was moved onto was destroyed. The Jaz disk is intact and hasn't had anything done to it since the data was moved off (no read or writes). Is there any way this can be done? Can I do it myself or is there a service that I can send the disk to to have it recovered? If a service is the way to go, are there any recommendations? > >PLEASE HELP!! Of course I need the data recovered yesterday! > >Thank's in advance, > > > >David A. Johnson > Here are a list of companies to whom I have talked about recovering data. DriveSavers are expensive but might be the best bet. I tried Lazarus and CBL. I would not recommend CBL for NEXTSTEP especially and in general their customer service was not very good. Data Recovery Labs (813) 725-3818 Phone (813) 725-8510 Fax datareclab@aol.com $100 eval. - recovery ~$500-$1200 Data Recovery Services, Inc. ? Vantage 1-800-487-5678 (603) 883-6249 FAX: (603) 883-1973 recovery@vantagetech.com $250 eval. fee CBL 1-800-551-3917 590 Alden Rd., Unit 105, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 8N2 (905) 479-9938, Fax: (905) 479-1515 $100/hr 2-4hrs wk Unix DriveSavers (800) 440-1904 415-883-4232 FAX (415) 883-0780 E-Mail: DriveSaver@aol.com NEXTSTEP Lazarus 381 Clementina Street San Francisco, CA 94103 800-341-DATA 415-495-5553 fax
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Executable Size vs Machine Specs Date: 22 Apr 1997 02:37:32 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5jh89c$ljb@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 1997 02:37:32 GMT Problem: We currently have 2 machines running NeXT/OpenStep. We are compiling fortran software (using the same version of f2c). When we increase the size of given arrays, the ld (link) fails on Machine 2, but not on Machine 1. The linker messages complain about crossing segment boundaries. The 2 major differences between the 2 machines are the version of the compiler and the amount of RAM. Can anyone tell me which is giving me the problem, and why? Machine 1. PentiumPro, 64Mb RAM, running OpenStep 4.0 with cc Compiler version 475 with gcc version 2.5.8 Machine 2. Pentium, 40Mb RAM, running NeXTStep 3.3 with cc Compiler version 432.2.6 with gcc version 2.5.8 --
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:11:20 -0600 From: Tom Guyette <tguyette@is.com> Subject: Intel 3.3 SerialPort driver recognizes a 16550 when a 16650 is present Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <861710199.3532@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I recently purchased a serial card from ByteRunner (actually made in Taiwan) on which I got a 16650 hoping to improve my multitasking ability. I am running 3.3 and I have the latest Next drivers installed - ISA/EISA Bus Support(v3.35) SerialPort(v3.33) TTY Port Server(v3.33) Although the SerialPort driver's documentation does say that it automatically detects the 16650, on my system it DOES NOT. It says that a 16550 is detected with fifo=16 bytes!! I asked next and they said to try downloading the latest drivers which I did and the results didn't change. I booted in DOS and ran a program that detects the UART and it saw a 16650 alright!! Any suggestions how to get this guy to work? Does anyone have the same problem? Tom -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: byeger@cs.ucr.edu (Boaz Yeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: starting X from rc.local Date: 21 Apr 1997 18:24:56 GMT Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <5jgbdo$l6q@rumors.ucr.edu> Hello, I am trying to start X by running /usr/local/bin/X -query from rc.local. My goal is to have X login windows come up during boot time without the need to login and start it manually. I added some debug lines in rc.local, but nothing is recorded there. Any ideas? Boaz Yeger
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From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfomanager Date: 22 Apr 1997 15:55:38 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am having problems on my motorola turbo. I just installed 3.3, it was at 3.0 before. I just gave it an IP address before and it worked just fine. I only have my NT machine and the next machine at home. I just want to be able to ftp to the next and maybe run samba. When I try to run the simplenetworkstarter.app it says netinfo manager not found, then it quits when I hit ok. Can anyone tell me what is setup wrong? oh, it also says that it can't find the netinfo server at bootup. I want to be the netinfo server since I'm the only next on the network right? How can I make myself the server? thanks vince
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to send e-mail to all the users Message-ID: <E91F0J.82G@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <335bb18b.9932151@news.worldcom.ch> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:38:43 GMT In article <335bb18b.9932151@news.worldcom.ch> ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) writes: > Hi there, > > I would like to send an e-amil to all the user of my network. > The mailserver runs NeXTSTEP 3.3. > Is there an way to send to all user in one time or must I send > the e-mail to each of theme separately ??!! > This request has a good share of RTFM in it ;-) The way NeXTmail supports this is via "group addresses". There are system wide and private group addresses. The system wide feature has the same flexibility as all NetInfo based user administration, i.e. it can be tied to NI domains. It is up to a sysadmin to form system wide groups. You could use user admin exists to create default entries into several groups if you're running NS 3.3 or higher (the new bulk admin feature in UserManager.app). Any user can point and click his own address groups through the Mail.app address book dialog, though. A second chance are alias lists in sendmail. Notice, this is not a NEXTSTEP feature! Though, the plain sendmail installation in NEXTSTEP would allow for this (see sendmail docu in man-pages, for instance). But to put it plain and simple, there is no out of the box E-mail broadcast built into NEXTSTEP (or any other Unix I know). Sysadmins always have to become the active part in making this possible. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NS Problem Booting Message-ID: <E91Fww.836@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <335A8DF9.1DAF@annexmultimedia.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:58:08 GMT In article <335A8DF9.1DAF@annexmultimedia.com> Jeff Fedor <jfedor@annexmultimedia.com> writes: > Hi... > > I just got a mono NeXTStation (running release 3.0) I played around with > it and filled in the new network info upon which the system suggested I > reboot. > > Now it won't get past the "CHECKING SYSTEM FILES" part of the boot... > any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. > The reason why this achieved FAQ status long ago: it is much easier to mess up the network conf than getting back to a standalone conf. As second hand markets certainly don't form a marketing pressure I don't expect this situation to change that soon ;-) Unfortunately, curing your situation minimal invasively would require much more knowledge about what you did and/or direct access to your system. therefore, you can only get advice on the most radical of all cures. How to get a messed up NEXTSTEP conf back into out of the box state. 1. Boot into single user mode Type 'Command-Command-~', yes a triple key stroke, to get into the boot monitor. Then type 'bsd -s' to boot single user from the boot disk. You'll get a bare bones Unix environment. Don't expect it to be fun. But it will be exactly what you need to save your ass. 2. Copy the files in /usr/templates/client/etc/hostinfo and /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo /etc Yes, you'll have to do this with plain Unix commands. And you'll have to account for netinfo being a directory. This will erase ALL your site customization. If you feel fit to recover some of the setup make copies of the replaced files. 3. Reboot and give the account 'me' a password. Then log in as 'root' and start to redo your site specific setup from scratch (and stay away from the networking stuff until you studied the Sysadmin Manual thoroughly :-) -- 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
Date: 22 Apr 1997 12:16:36 EST Message-ID: <cancel.199704221015.DAA28927@web1.zzz.com> Control: cancel <199704221015.DAA28927@web1.zzz.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: <Barb@railway.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <199704221015.DAA28927@web1.zzz.com> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19970422.24 for further details
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: top Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:26:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970421192554.1213C-100000@kira> References: <5jgndk$7d1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <5jgndk$7d1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/top.0.5.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/top.0.5.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/top.0.5.s.tar.gz TjL
From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS box can't see Mac on network Date: 22 Apr 1997 18:46:53 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <5jj12t$1ts$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com> s00p writes > In a nutshell, the OS can not see the Mac until *after* the Mac has > tried to connect to the OS. Any ides on this? Have you tried adding the mac's ethernet (MAC, no pun intended) address to NetInfo? The arp tables on the OS box aren't being updated properly. Well, maybe. leo. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXT/MIME) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 22 Apr 1997 21:06:15 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc4f61$2f861670$87506fcb@decisionware> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> <01bc4b9d$40367270$5b506fcb@decisionware> <5j7g8i$f8@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote in article <5j7g8i$f8@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>... > "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> wrote: > > There really is no need to change the sendmail.cf file. An alias in > > netinfo for mailhost would have sufficed and works well when upgrading a > > system. > > I don't understand. The alias just tells the system *which* sendmail config > file to use (mailhost, subsidiary, sharedsubsidiary), but does not replace > changes within them. It is correct, however, that sendmail.mailhost.cf for > some configurations works "out of the box". the alias entry in netinfo in this instance is for the DMmailhost line to resolve to a host name (eg. mail.server.com.au) rather than changing the sendmail.cf line to DMmail.server.com.au or some such. The mechanism in use on my machine for deciding *which* sendmail.cf file to use is done with a symbolic link from sendmail.cf to sendmail.mailhost.cf. > <snip> > > This is really confusing me. I've heard several times now that people had to > put an entry of their mailhost in HostManager.app to make sendmail queue mail > when offline. The point is: this is *not* necessary on my machine (and on a > lot of other's machines, for that matter). It "just works" with > sendmail.mailhost.cf; when offline, mail gets queued, just as it should. No > DNS information needed. So the explanation you're giving above can't be > completely correct. > point taken.
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From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3Com Etherlink Drivers Date: 22 Apr 1997 19:23:53 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute Message-ID: <5jj389$bd6@news.sei.cmu.edu> Have a PC with an EtherLink XL (3C900-COMBO) PCI network adapter card upon which I'm hoping to run NS 3.3. Can't find any information on NextAnswers concerning an appropriate driver. Any other info? An alternative might be replacing XL with an EtherLink III EISA, but NeXT's information on latest EtherLink III driver (4.03) gives EISA model as 3C589C-COMBO, whilst 3Com is selling 3C592-COMBO. Should I worry about compatability here too? Finally, if I'm obliged to buy an EISA NA, what's my best option among current offerings when running NS 3.3? Thanks. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Misc Questions Date: Wed, 23 Apr 97 00:05:55 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jjjq3$a7s@news.jump.net> Looking for a NeXT Guru who can tell me: (Black Hardware Questions) Is it possible to change the root pattern in the X Windows environment to be a XBM (or similar)? How? Is the lowest device ID on the SCSI controller the one that is booted from? What ID does the controller own? (ie on a PC, Controller is standard ID 7, and boot disk is standard ID 0) What would DSP memory get me? Would it be worthwhile to invest in some? Where would I get it? What is the Max memory configuration of a NextStation Mono Turbo? I am roughly familiar with Linux and SunOS, so standard UNIX stuff I've got. How do I go about installing and / or compiling new apps? And for the real winner: Where can I get a few good FAQs, a group of FAQs, or a reference manual? Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: rangmj@rice.edu (Moon J. Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: Wed, 23 Apr 97 00:00:30 GMT Organization: Rice University Message-ID: <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower> I have been trying to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Pentium PC with two 1.6 GB EIDE hard disks ( one is for Win95 and the other is blank), an EIDE CD-ROM drive, and a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM video card ( 2 MB, S3-986 chip). The BIOS uses "LBA" mode for the hard disk. My plan is the NEXTSTEP is installed in the second blank hard disk and later booting up the second disk with boot floppy diskette. I have read the manual and NEXT answers and list below is what I did (1) Connect the blank hard disk ( unformatted ) as master and the CD-ROM drive as slave to the primary disk controller on the motherboard. The other hard disk is left disconnected. (This is the only way to install NEXSTEPT from CD-ROM ) (2) Change the BIOS setup according to the above connection. (3) Insert NEXTSTEP 3.3 CD and 3.3 boot floppy disk ( downloaded recently from ftp.next.com) (4) When boot prompt is appeared, type -v ( in verbose mode) (5) Select the Adaptec 154x SCSI driver ( v 3.31) for CD-ROM drive ( NEXT answer says that it is the only choice no matter what CD-ROM drive is connected) (6) Select EIDE and ATAPI device controller ( beta version 3.35 : downloaded from next ftp site) for the hard disk (7) Select the advanced installation : create a 750 NEXTSTEP partition ( the rest is free space ) and install on it (8) ROM monitor shows a bunch of messages and then the files being installed (9) After about 10 miniutes, the message says the installation is completed (10) Remove only the floppy disk and press return to restart the computer (11) When boot prompt is appeared, type -v ( in verbose mode) (12) The computer requests to insert the floppy disk having EIDE and ATAPI device controller( version 3.35 ) -> insert it and return (13) Another bunch of messages on ROM monitor ( Everything seems fine, except one message in middle of messages : " device loader : scandir ( /dev/EIDE.cong ) error " " Aborting the configuration of EIDE device" (14) ROM moniter disappears, and "Alert window" appears and says " insert the floppy disk having EIDE controller version 3.35" -> insert it and return (15) Summary of Devices screen appears (16) In expert mode, change " Boot Graphic mode" from "Yes" to "No" (17) Add display device driver ; Diamondstealth PCI, S3 Generic ,or Default VGA display. (18) When "save" button is pressed, the screen goes into black and the red light for the hard disk keeps on ( not blinking and no sound ) I restarted the installation from the start and changed the choice of EIDE device controller ( 3.31 or 3.35 ) and of display driver as the above (17) in device configuration step (15-18). No luck Is this the problem of hard disk or display card ( hard disk and display card have no problem with Windows95 ) ? Did I miss something during the installation ? If you have any idea about this problem, please post it or email me. I am really looking forward to hearing the good advice. lIn article <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower>, "Juhana Riihimki" <jriihi@sci.fi> wrote: >Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> wrote in article ><334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com>... >> Greetings, >> >> I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion >> 7285. It is a Pentium-200 with a three Gig hard drive. I currently >> have three formated primary partitions (1 DOS/Win3.1 - 500Mg, 1 Win95 1G >> that came with the machine(Why does anyone use this OS?) and 1 currently >> hosed up Win NT partition - 800Mg.) The remaining 7-800 Meg is >> unformated. Boot Managment is being handled by System Commander. >> Eventually, I intend to add a second hard drive to install OS/2, Linux > >> and Solaris. My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the >> first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first > >eh you can install it to second partition on first harddrive also :)) > >> primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary >> controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. > >yep to get install search for nextstep ATAPI CD-ROM it must be connected as >second drive to primary controller (slave).. > >> When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists >> that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or >> get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and > >You need to get EIDE 3.31 or EIDE 3.35 beta driver disk image and make that >disk then use that disk when it asks for hard drive. as cd-rom drive use >154x. > >> I talked with someone else who sucessfully installed with and IDE CD-ROM >> and a SCSI disk by simply putting in the disk type in response to the > >You just need that EIDE driver and to just supply install prog with 154x >when it asks for scsi driver first then when it asks for harddisk driver >supply EIDE then continue install and it uses automatically ATAPI CD-ROM as >cd-rom drive. > >> P.S. Assuming OpenStep would be kinder to me, can anyone tell me how >> much it costs for the average joe. I'm not in school and I don't need a > >i want openstep too so if you get good answers to this then tell me also. > >I have successfully installed: >DOS, Win95, OS/2 Warp 4, WindowsNT 4.0 Workstation, Linux, FreeBSD and >NeXTSTEP. > >My computer: (Pentium 120MHz, 40 Megs ram, 3.2 + 1.3 Gigs HDD + scsi CD-R) >
Message-ID: <335AFBA3.5801@ultranet.ca> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:31:15 -0800 From: John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would agree that mgetty+sendfax would be the way to go. If you manage to get them installed and configured let me know. I think you have to be a bit of a propellor-head to set up mgetty!
Message-ID: <335AFFFD.4B13@ultranet.ca> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:49:49 -0800 From: John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: newsgroups FTP sites Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hate browsing through the news online. Where is an FTP comp.sys.next.* archive from which I can download and grep to my heart's content? Thanks.
From: Tom <troehl@mnsinc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking Nextstation with Mac Date: 23 Apr 1997 01:13:34 GMT Organization: Monumental Network Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so they are both able access the network? Thanks. Tom troehl@mnsinc.com
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newsgroups FTP sites Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:15:57 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970422191414.8760B-100000@kira> References: <335AFFFD.4B13@ultranet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> In-Reply-To: <335AFFFD.4B13@ultranet.ca> If you check out my web page you'll find info on various NeXTStep CD-ROMS, including the Big Green CD collection, which has the news from the beginning of time through last October on CD rom, ready for Digital Libraian Much nicer than grep, and a lot of other good stuff on the CDs too TjL
From: roger@baseline.net (Roger Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with configuring imapd on OpenStep 4.1 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:37:13 -0700 Organization: Base Online Message-ID: <roger-2204971837130001@smith-roger.apple.com> Hi, I managed to compile the imap4rev-1 sources, but am having problem getting it running. Does some one have some pointers on the various settings in the config files I need to use? Does anyone have imapd working under 4.1? Roger --- Roger Smith Base Online internet:roger@baseline.net
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Networking Nextstation with Mac Date: 23 Apr 1997 04:24:35 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jk2u3$e5p@news.sei.cmu.edu> References: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Cc: troehl@mnsinc.com In <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Tom wrote: > I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want > to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked > at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems > really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the > PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so > they are both able access the network? Thanks. Can be done using software routing/proxying products from Vicom Technology (http://www.vicomtech.com); Internet Gateway, for example. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hardware passwd lost!!!!!! Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:59:47 GMT Organization: WorldCom Message-ID: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Hi there, I lost the Hardware password of a NeXTSTATION... How can I recover ? Thanks LiONEL
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 07:41:27 -0600 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@net.iss.it> Subject: Re: nextstep hangs if no boot option.. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <861798732.4532@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service References: <5j6irt$1dt@netnews.csie.nctu.edu.tw> In article <5j6irt$1dt@netnews.csie.nctu.edu.tw>, dennis@csie.nctu.edu.tw ([) wrote: > > hi all, > when my nextstep system starts, it will hang (blank screen) if > I didn't give any option for the "boot:" prompt. It only sccess > when I give any option such as "-v". How can I resolve this problem? > or is there any way to define a "default" boot option so that > I won't have to type the option everytime. > > thanks. some video cards can boot only in non graphic mode (this is only for the load the OS [kernel, etc.], after boot process you have the system run normally). In Configure.app Expert Settings, set Boot Graphics to No. You can also use -v in the Kernel Flags. I think you must log as root for change this. Bye -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Networking Nextstation with Mac Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:51:30 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E93A9v.251@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> In article <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Tom <troehl@mnsinc.com> writes: > > I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want > to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked > at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems > really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the > PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so > they are both able access the network? Thanks. As someone has pointed out, to do it on the Mac requires the Viacom router or similar (about $150), as Mac TCP implementations are too dumb to handle variable numbers of interfaces (My NeXT varies between 0 and 3, plus the loopback). Using the NeXT isn't so difficult (it's a bit daunting if you're new to TCP networking, but if you're going to have to get to grips with this however you tackle it), and requires only free software, but the NeXTSTation serial ports aren't so fast (and NeXTPPP occasionally crashes). Additionally the NeXT will not fake IP addresses, so you'd need two IP addresses from your ISP. (Don't know about the Viacom router, but I think not). I'm currently looking at tackling this problem using a freeBSD box - the machine itself can be just a 386, so you can put together a machine for ~$100 (less than the Mac software), and all the software is free. Serial ports will be faster than the NeXT, and you're not loading either the NeXT or the Mac with needless extensions. Best of all freeBSD will act as a gateway and firewall such that you can connect to external sites from internal machines with only a single external IP address (big win). As an added bonus I should be able to use it as both an NFS and AppleShare server (maybe I'll hook my printer there too) so I can hang discs on there, and access then from all machines (again without loading either of the clients with needless extensions - particularly as my Mac is only a PowerBook!). You can also use the new machine as a general mail, news and web server. Just another option you could consider... $an
From: wottle@mathcs.rhodes.edu (Mike Wottle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: using SCSI devices pon my NeXTstation Date: 22 Apr 97 01:25:32 GMT Organization: The University of Memphis Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[3400] Message-ID: <335c138c.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. I'm a beginner to NeXTStep and I was wondering two things: Can I use my SyQuest EZ135 drive with it? and Can I use the Apple CD 300e drive with it? If so, how would I do this? Thanks. Also, if anyone has an extra copy of NS Dev which will work with NS 3.0, let me know. email me at <wottle@mathcs.rhodes.edu>
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfomanager Date: 23 Apr 1997 13:49:51 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jl41v$8hk$1@news10.gte.net> References: <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nevermind. I reinstalled and it works great now. vince
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: using SCSI devices pon my NeXTstation Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:55:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970423065333.27955B-100000@kira> References: <335c138c.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mike Wottle <wottle@mathcs.rhodes.edu> In-Reply-To: <335c138c.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> > I'm a beginner to NeXTStep and I was wondering two things: > Can I use my SyQuest EZ135 drive with it? Yes, in fact I am using one with it righ now. Works nicely. You can use any SCSI-1 or SCSI-2 device, and hard drives as long as they use asynch (I think). TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hardware passwd lost!!!!!! Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:56:44 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970423065541.27955C-100000@kira> References: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Lionel Tinguely <ltinguely@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Checkout the faq at my page which explains this process and many others. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to remove newsgroups in PersonalINN Date: 23 Apr 1997 10:46:42 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, I've removed some newsgroups in slurp.sys and in active, but the directories for these groups and the corresponding files still exist on the disk. Do I have to delete them by hand, or are they removed automatically by PersonalINN at a later news.daily-call?
From: hallmann@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Hallmann ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disktab builder out there? Date: 23 Apr 1997 15:12:29 GMT Organization: CS Department, University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <5jl8st$ml8$1@fbi-news.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Keywords: disktab Hello, I want to know if there exists a utility which helps a lonesome sysadmin building disktab entries for multipartitioned disk. Any hints? -- Andreas Hallmann Lehrstuhl Informatik V, Fax : +49-231-755-4851 University of Dortmund, Tel. : +49-231-755-5107 D -44221 Dortmund >>> If live is too complex, just make an abstraction. <<<
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: where to get samba Date: 23 Apr 1997 15:29:58 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jl9tm$3v5$1@news9.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I got a binary distribution of samba a few weeks ago and I need it again. I can't seem to find it this time. Can anyone point me to it? thanks vince
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: netinfomanager Message-ID: <E93K4H.sE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:24:16 GMT In article <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) writes: > I am having problems on my motorola turbo. I just installed 3.3, it > was at 3.0 before. I just gave it an IP address before and it worked > just fine. I only have my NT machine and the next machine at home. > I just want to be able to ftp to the next and maybe run samba. When > I try to run the simplenetworkstarter.app it says netinfo manager not > found, then it quits when I hit ok. Can anyone tell me what is setup > wrong? > > oh, it also says that it can't find the netinfo server at bootup. I > want to be the netinfo server since I'm the only next on the network > right? How can I make myself the server? > The upgrade from a NS 3.0 NetInfo database to a later version is not always successful if the local config was not anticipated by the developers (there was a major design change from 3.0 to 3.1!). I had the same problems with my upgrade to 3.1. Although, I agree that later versions had better converters it seems not all conversions work well. My solution was a backup of 3.0 to a second drive (I relegated my user partition to tape for this) and did a full installation from scratch followed by a manual restore of all local changes. Lots of work but it payed! This requires that you have either enough spare disk or a sufficient tape drive, though. And if the original 3.0 conf has not been saved somewhere the restore of the old conf will inevitably need much more research and labour. In this case it might be more rewarding to redo all installations from scratch. Depending on your prior situation that might be taxing, though. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Misc Questions Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:38:04 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snLZQAO00WBO43l45V@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5jjjq3$a7s@news.jump.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 23-Apr-97 Misc Questions by Matt Seibert@ita1.inow.c > Is it possible to change the root pattern in the X Windows environment to > be a XBM (or similar)? How? Did whatever version of X you have installed come with 'xsetroot'? Try that.... > Is the lowest device ID on the SCSI controller the one that is booted from? Yes. > What ID does the controller own? (ie on a PC, Controller is standard ID 7, > and boot disk is standard ID 0) The SCSI controller is ID 7. > What would DSP memory get me? Probably nothing, unless you're doing something special with sounds & MIDI or doing some DSP programming. > Would it be worthwhile to invest in some? Probably no, but it depends on what you want to do. > Where would I get it? You might be able to buy some used DSP memory from someone, but I don't even know whether that style of memory is still being manufactured. > What is the Max memory configuration of a NextStation Mono Turbo? 128 MB; four 32-MB 72-pin SIMMs. > I am roughly familiar with Linux and SunOS, so standard UNIX stuff I've got. > How do I go about installing and / or compiling new apps? NEXTSTEP software generally comes in packages-- ie, files with a .pkg extension. Double-click on such a file to run Installer.app, which is very user friendly (you shouldn't have any problems). As for compiling software, you need to have NEXTSTEP/Developer installed. > And for the real winner: > Where can I get a few good FAQs, a group of FAQs, or a reference manual? Take a look at /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin, NeXTAnswers (www.next.com), and Stepwise (www.stepwise.com). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to remove newsgroups in PersonalINN Date: 23 Apr 1997 18:17:36 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5jljo0$9hn$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> On 04/22/97, Andreas Hoeschler wrote: > >Hello, > >I've removed some newsgroups in slurp.sys and in active, but the directories >for these groups and the corresponding files still exist on the disk. Do I >have to delete them by hand, or are they removed automatically by PersonalINN >at a later news.daily-call? You should be using the ctlinnd command to add and remove groups cleanly. ctlinnd rmgroup <groupname> ctlinnd newgroup <groupname> See man ctlinnd for more details. - Chris -- _______________________________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf -- WolfWare -- NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody Developer For info about NewsFlash the lightning fast NeXTSTEP news-reader visit our newly revised web site at: http://www.wolfware.com _______________________________________________________________________
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SNI security Advisory (BIND Vulnerability) Date: 23 Apr 1997 19:18:42 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5jlnai$4s1$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Has anyone from SGI seen this yet and care to comment. Randy rencsok (at) channelu (dot) com PS. I have been finding my dns server hosed periodically lately with the latest incident being a spammer forging my domain, IP, etc. on their unsolicited garbage.. I couldn't help but wonder if this is related.. ************************************************************************************* ###### ## ## ###### ## ### ## ## ###### ## # ## ## ## ## ### ## ###### . ## ## . ######. Secure Networks Inc. AND CORE Seguridad de la Informacion Security Advisory April 22, 1997 BIND Vulnerabilities and Solutions Problem Description ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This advisory contains descriptions and solutions for two vulnerabilities present in current BIND distributions. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited on the Internet. I. The usage of predictable IDs in queries and recursed queries allows for remote cache corruption. This allows malicious users to alter domain name server caches to change the addresses and hostnames of hosts on the internet. II. A failure to check whether hostname lengths exceed MAXHOSTNAMELEN in size. This results in potential buffer overflows in programs which expect the BIND resolver to only return a maximum hostname length of MAXHOSTNAMELEN. Problem I. The usage of predictable ID's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Problem I. - Impact ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remote root users can poison BIND and Microsoft Windows NT name server caches by forging UDP packets. We should note that unlike other well documented attacks, in this instance it is NOT necessary for the attacker to take over a DNS server or sniff the target network. Problem I. - Technical Details ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This particular cache corruption attack requires that the target nameserver be configured to allow recursion. Recursion allows a nameserver to handle requests for zones or domains which it does not serve. When receiving a query for a zone or domain which is not served by the name server, the name server will transmit a query to a nameserver which serves the desired domain. Once a response is received from the second nameserver, the first nameserver sends the response back to the requesting party. The following attack is outlined in the paper "Addressing weaknesses in the Domain Name System Protocol" by Christopher Schuba and Eugene Spafford [6]. To the extent of our knowledge, this problem has not been previously addressed. The paper also assumes that the attacker has super-user access to a primary nameserver, here we demonstrate that this is not necessary nor are source routed packets required. Using the recursion feature, one can poison the cache on a name server with the following procedure: Problem I. - The Players ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. HOST.ATTACKER.COM is the attacking host. .. DNS.ATTACKER.COM is ATTACKER.COM's nameserver, we presume that this is the only name server for ATTACKER.COM to simplify the description. .. DNS.TARGET.COM is the target nameserver which runs BIND. What we will attempt to do is add an A (address) resource record on DNS.TARGET.COM that will resolve WWW.SPOOFED.COM to 127.0.0.1. We are sure that WWW.SPOOFED.COM is not cached in DNS.TARGET.COM's DNS cache. .. DNS.SPOOFED.COM is the nameserver for SPOOFED.COM's domain. We have determined this before the attack begins. Once again we just presume its the only one in order to simplify this description. Problem I. - The Attack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. First a query is sent to DNS.TARGET.COM asking for the address of UNKNOWN.ATTACKER.COM. Our query has the recursion desired bit set, meaning that if the nameserver we are querying has recursion enabled, it will query another nameserver with our query (assuming it does not have the information cached). B. DNS.TARGET.COM will first determine who serves the ATTACKER.COM domain, then it will build a query packet and send it to DNS.ATTACKER.COM. C. We sniff DNS.ATTACKER.COM's local network and retrieve the query packet sent by DNS.TARGET.COM to DNS.ATTACKER.COM. We can then determine the query ID (qid0) used by DNS.TARGET.COM. Chances are that the next queries generated by DNS.TARGET.COM will have query IDs that will fall in the range [qid0,qid0+N] where N is dependent on the amount of queries DNS.TARGET.COM is generating in the period of time on which the attack takes place. N is usually <= 10 for most cases. D. Once we have determined what the next query ID generated will be, we send a query to DNS.TARGET.COM asking for WWW.SPOOFED.COM's address. E. Then we start sending spoofed DNS replies from DNS.SPOOFED.COM, telling DNS.TARGET.COM that WWW.SPOOFED.COM is '127.0.0.1'. F. If we guessed the query ID used by DNS.TARGET.COM in its recursed query and our response is received first, our response will be taken as valid and the address will be cached. Subsequent responses will be discarded as duplicates. We can always send many (N*M) spoofed packets with different IDs in the range (qid0,qid0+N] so we will be sure that at least one of them will hit DNS.TARGET.COM and have the 'right' ID. M is a factor dependent of the amount of UDP packets we expect to lose on their way to DNS.TARGET.COM. Problem I. - The Result ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If the attack succeeded, any query to DNS.TARGET.COM asking for WWW.SPOOFED.COM's address, will get 127.0.0.1 as a response. Thus, any user on TARGET.COM's domain will connect to 127.0.0.1 if they try to contact WWW.SPOOFED.COM. The usage of 127.0.0.1 in this description is of course for instructional purposes, any IP address can be used, in particular an attacker could use its own IP address (BADGUY.COM's IP) so all connections to 'host' will go to 'BADGUY'. The attacker can then 'impersonate' WWW.SPOOFED.COM. Given this attack, it is easy to visualize the effects of impersonating a high traffic FTP distribution site. This attack can also be used to intercept email traffic, and bypass address based authentication methods, including TCP wrappers and firewalls. Problem I. - Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This attack depends on a few things to succeed: 1. The attacker has complete control of DNS.ATTACKER.COM's network, he can both spoof and sniff DNS packets there. In particular, he can sniff DNS packets sent to DNS.ATTACKER.COM. 2. Spoofed DNS responses sent from the attacker to DNS.TARGET.COM must be received before the legit response from DNS.SPOOFED.COM. This is very easy to achieve. In testing we have not yet encountered a situation where we could not get our packets to the nameserver first. 3. The name server on DNS.TARGET.COM supports recursion and caches responses. This is common practice. It should be noted that most nameservers allow recursion (unless specifically denied by configuration options). Root name servers, however, do not allow recursion. If DNS.TARGET.COM caches negative responses as well (NCACHE), a denial of service attack can be performed, in this case, spoofed responses sent by the attacker will tell DNS.TARGET.COM that WWW.SPOOFED.COM does not exist (and be authorative on this). The existence of several nameservers for the domains does not alter the basic outline of this attack. The attacker would only need to send DNS responses with source addresses of each of SPOOFED.COM's nameservers. (N*M*I responses, where I is the number of nameservers). Problem I. - Systems Affected ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - All systems using BIND as their domain name server with recursion enabled. - - Windows NT (server) version 3.51 & 4.0 DNS server. Microsoft has been notified and has acknowledged this is a serious problem. No information on a fix is availible. Problem II. Hostname length checking ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Problem II. - Impact ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BIND allows passing of hostnames larger than MAXHOSTNAMELEN in size to programs. As many programs utilize buffers of size MAXHOSTNAMELEN and copy the results from a query into these buffers, an overflow can occur. This can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a remote server in a worst case scenario. Problem II. - Systems Affected ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All systems running BIND. Fix Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Obtain BIND version 4.9.5-P1. BIND is availible from ftp.isc.org in the directory /isc/bind/src. Patches to solve both problem I and problem II are included at the end of this advisory. Once BIND has been obtained, follow the following procedure: i. First remove the patches from this text. This can be performed by removing all text in between the "CUT HERE" lines, and saving it to a text file (i.e. /tmp/diffs.txt). ii. Perform the following operations to apply the patches: % gzip -d bind.tar.gz % mkdir bind % cd bind % tar -xvf ../bind.tar % patch < /tmp/diffs.txt iii. Rebuild BIND Attributions ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ivan Arce <ivan@secnet.com> Emiliano Kargieman <ek@secnet.com> The OpenBSD Project Who found a good solution to problem, developed a solution and performed various tests to ensure its correctness. Individuals involved in this effort were: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> Niels Provos <provos@openbsd.org> Todd Miller <millert@openbsd.org> Allen Briggs <briggs@openbsd.org> Further attributions: AUSCERT <auscert@auscert.org.au> David Sacerdote <davids@secnet.com> Oliver Friedrichs <oliver@secnet.com> Alfred Huger <ahuger@secnet.com> Additional Information: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] Vixie P. , "DNS and BIND security issues". This was originally published in the proceedings of the 5th USENIX Security Symposium and its included in the BIND distribution under the doc/misc directory. [2] Kumar A., Postel J., Neuman C., Danzig P. , Miller S. "RFC1536: Common DNS implementation errors and suggested fixes" Refer to problem 2 for a description of other weaknesses previously found in the recursion scheme. [3] Lottor, M., "RFC1033: Domain administrators operations guide" [4] Mockapetris, P., "RFC1034: Domain names - Concepts and facilities" [5] Mockapetris, P., "RFC1035: Domain Names - Implementation and specification" [6] Schuba Christopher and Spafford Eugene, "Adressing weaknesses in the Domain Name System Protocol", COAST Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University. Comments and questions regarding this advisory can be sent to: Ivan Arce <ivan@secnet.com> Emiliano Kargieman <ek@secnet.com> For more information about CORE S.A. contact: core@secnet.com Or visit: http://www.secnet.com/core Encrypted mail can also be sent to <sni@secnet.com> encrypted with the following PGP key: Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/9E55000D 1997/01/13 Secure Networks Inc. <sni@secnet.com> Secure Networks <security@secnet.com> - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzLaFzIAAAEEAKsVzPR7Y6oFN5VPE/Rp6Sm82oE0y6Mkuof8QzERV6taihn5 uySb31UeNJ4l6Ud9alOPT/0YdeOO9on6eD1iU8qumFxzO3TLm8nTAdZehQSAQfoa rWmpwj7KpXN/3n+VyBWvhpBdKxe08SQN4ZjvV5HXy4YIrE5bTbgIhFKeVQANAAUR tCVTZWN1cmUgTmV0d29ya3MgSW5jLiA8c25pQHNlY25ldC5jb20+iQCVAwUQM1yd EB/bLKAOe7p9AQFptAQAiYpaZCpSmGgr05E698Z3t5r5BPAKUEtgvF53AvZUQLxz ZsYsVU5l5De0qKWJOQ/9LiDyWu1lvKhlTphbLy2RatWD4kO3oQL9v3TpSXm2WQhU uIzyZvj7S5ENodNnKn+gCDIvbou6OMot+7dRbWWgN2oabbru4CSlOxbG++yaTz+J AJUDBRAzTefbtOXez5VgyLkBAd0bA/43eGEgvPOFK+HHWCPpkSWCwtrtDU/dxOVz 9erHnT/CRxeojCI+50f71Qe+kvx9Q1odz2Jl/fLxhnPQdbPnpWblIbu4F8H+Syrj HTilDrl1DWa/nUNgK8sb27SMviELczP1a8gwA1eo5SUCG5TWLLTAzjWOgTxod2Ha OwseUHmqVIkAlQMFEDNOVsr/d6Iw8NVIbQEBxM0D/14XRfgSLwszgJcVbslMHm/B fF6tHoWYojzQle3opOuMYHNN8GsMZRkc1qQ8QuNA9Aj5+qDqEontGjV5IvhBu1fY FM77AhagskaFCZxwqV64Qrk328WDO89NGSd+RuovVNruDdn20TxNCEVuPTHjI0UA 8H+E6FW9jexg6RTHhPXYtCVTZWN1cmUgTmV0d29ya3MgPHNlY3VyaXR5QHNlY25l dC5jb20+iQCVAwUQMtqTKB/bLKAOe7p9AQFw5wQAgUwqJ+ZqfEy/lO1srU3nzxLA X0uHGHrMptRy/LFo8swD6G1TtWExUc3Yv/6g2/YK09b5WmplEJ+Q09maQIw+RU/s cIY+EsPauqIq4JTGh/Nm0Z4UDl2Y1x4GNtm0YqezxUPS0P0A3LHVLJ3Uo5og0G8O gPNrfbVz5ieT14OSCWCJAJUDBRAy2hd2/3eiMPDVSG0BAVNhBACfupfAcNhhnQaq aI03DOOiZSRjvql1xw4V+pPhM+IksdSK3YNUZVJJtANacgDhBT+jAPRaYbBWI3A5 ZMdcSNM8aTG0LWMLIOiOYEm6Lgd3idRBFN0Js08eyITl8mhZ33mDe4I0KQri9UiV ZcPYTbb9CWM6Hv2cMbt6S6kLnFziqIkAlQMFEDLaF0+4CIRSnlUADQEBCLoEAJwt UofDgvyZ4nCDx1KKAPkkXBRaPMWBp46xeTVcxaYiloZfwHfpk1h2mEJAxmAsvizl OtIppHl4isUxcGi/E2mLCLMvis22/IQP/9obPahPvgNaMLVtZljO1Nv3QFEkNciL FEUTNJHR1ko7ibCxkBs4cOpirFuvTMDvWnNaXAf8 =DchE - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Copyright Notice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The contents of this advisory are Copyright (C) 1997 Secure Networks Inc and CORE Seguridad de la Informacion S.A., and may be distributed freely provided that no fee is charged for distribution, and that proper credit is given. You can find Secure Networks papers at ftp://ftp.secnet.com/pub/papers and advisories at ftp://ftp.secnet.com/advisories You can browse our web site at http://www.secnet.com You can subscribe to our security advisory mailing list by sending mail to majordomo@secnet.com with the line "subscribe sni-advisories" Patches ~~~~~~~ --- CUT HERE --- diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/contrib/host/host.c ./contrib/host/host.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/contrib/host/host.c Sat Oct 12 16:24:42 1996 - --- ./contrib/host/host.c Wed Apr 9 15:27:05 1997 *************** *** 537,543 **** _res.retrans = DEF_RETRANS; /* timeout in secs between retries */ /* initialize packet id */ ! _res.id = getpid() & 0x7fff; /* save new defaults */ new_res = _res; - --- 537,543 ---- _res.retrans = DEF_RETRANS; /* timeout in secs between retries */ /* initialize packet id */ ! _res.id = res_randomid(); /* save new defaults */ new_res = _res; diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/named/ns_main.c ./named/ns_main.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/named/ns_main.c Tue Nov 26 03:11:23 1996 - --- ./named/ns_main.c Wed Apr 9 00:24:14 1997 *************** *** 1658,1668 **** } /* ! * These are here in case we ever want to get more clever, like perhaps ! * using a bitmap to keep track of outstanding queries and a random ! * allocation scheme to make it a little harder to predict them. Note ! * that the resolver will need the same protection so the cleverness ! * should be put there rather than here; this is just an interface layer. */ void - --- 1658,1668 ---- } /* ! * This just an interface layer to the random number generator ! * used in the resolver. ! * A special random number generator is used to create non predictable ! * and non repeating ids over a long period. It also avoids reuse ! * by switching between two distinct number cycles. */ void *************** *** 1674,1683 **** u_int16_t nsid_next() { ! if (nsid_state == 65535) ! nsid_state = 0; ! else ! nsid_state++; return (nsid_state); } - --- 1674,1680 ---- u_int16_t nsid_next() { ! nsid_state = res_randomid(); return (nsid_state); } diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/Makefile ./res/Makefile *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/Makefile Thu Aug 8 16:49:48 1996 - --- ./res/Makefile Wed Apr 9 00:32:13 1997 *************** *** 77,89 **** res_comp.c res_init.c res_mkquery.c res_query.c res_send.c \ getnetbyaddr.c getnetbyname.c getnetent.c getnetnamadr.c \ gethnamaddr.c sethostent.c nsap_addr.c hostnamelen.c inet_addr.c \ ! inet_ntop.c inet_neta.c inet_pton.c inet_net_ntop.c inet_net_pton.c OBJS= base64.o herror.o res_debug.o res_data.o \ res_comp.o res_init.o res_mkquery.o res_query.o res_send.o \ getnetbyaddr.o getnetbyname.o getnetent.o getnetnamadr.o \ gethnamaddr.o sethostent.o nsap_addr.o hostnamelen.o inet_addr.o \ ! inet_ntop.o inet_neta.o inet_pton.o inet_net_ntop.o inet_net_pton.o all: libresolv.a - --- 77,91 ---- res_comp.c res_init.c res_mkquery.c res_query.c res_send.c \ getnetbyaddr.c getnetbyname.c getnetent.c getnetnamadr.c \ gethnamaddr.c sethostent.c nsap_addr.c hostnamelen.c inet_addr.c \ ! inet_ntop.c inet_neta.c inet_pton.c inet_net_ntop.c inet_net_pton.c \ ! res_random.c OBJS= base64.o herror.o res_debug.o res_data.o \ res_comp.o res_init.o res_mkquery.o res_query.o res_send.o \ getnetbyaddr.o getnetbyname.o getnetent.o getnetnamadr.o \ gethnamaddr.o sethostent.o nsap_addr.o hostnamelen.o inet_addr.o \ ! inet_ntop.o inet_neta.o inet_pton.o inet_net_ntop.o inet_net_pton.o \ ! res_random.o all: libresolv.a diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_comp.c ./res/res_comp.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_comp.c Mon Dec 2 02:17:22 1996 - --- ./res/res_comp.c Fri Apr 18 18:45:02 1997 *************** *** 98,103 **** - --- 98,105 ---- dn = exp_dn; cp = comp_dn; + if (length > MAXHOSTNAMELEN-1) + length = MAXHOSTNAMELEN-1; eom = exp_dn + length; /* * fetch next label in domain name diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_init.c ./res/res_init.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_init.c Sat Sep 28 00:51:07 1996 - --- ./res/res_init.c Wed Apr 9 00:33:30 1997 *************** *** 197,209 **** if (!(_res.options & RES_INIT)) _res.options = RES_DEFAULT; - - /* - - * This one used to initialize implicitly to zero, so unless the app - - * has set it to something in particular, we can randomize it now. - - */ - - if (!_res.id) - - _res.id = res_randomid(); - - #ifdef USELOOPBACK _res.nsaddr.sin_addr = inet_makeaddr(IN_LOOPBACKNET, 1); #else - --- 197,202 ---- *************** *** 644,655 **** return(0); /* if not using DNS configuration from NetInfo */ } #endif /* NeXT */ - - - - u_int - - res_randomid() - - { - - struct timeval now; - - - - gettimeofday(&now, NULL); - - return (0xffff & (now.tv_sec ^ now.tv_usec ^ getpid())); - - } - --- 637,639 ---- diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_mkquery.c ./res/res_mkquery.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_mkquery.c Sat Sep 28 00:37:58 1996 - --- ./res/res_mkquery.c Wed Apr 9 00:31:30 1997 *************** *** 107,118 **** #endif /* * Initialize header fields. */ if ((buf == NULL) || (buflen < HFIXEDSZ)) return (-1); bzero(buf, HFIXEDSZ); hp = (HEADER *) buf; ! hp->id = htons(++_res.id); hp->opcode = op; hp->rd = (_res.options & RES_RECURSE) != 0; hp->rcode = NOERROR; - --- 107,123 ---- #endif /* * Initialize header fields. + * + * A special random number generator is used to create non predictable + * and non repeating ids over a long period. It also avoids reuse + * by switching between two distinct number cycles. */ + if ((buf == NULL) || (buflen < HFIXEDSZ)) return (-1); bzero(buf, HFIXEDSZ); hp = (HEADER *) buf; ! hp->id = htons(_res.id=res_randomid()); hp->opcode = op; hp->rd = (_res.options & RES_RECURSE) != 0; hp->rcode = NOERROR; diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_random.c ./res/res_random.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_random.c Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969 - --- ./res/res_random.c Tue Apr 22 02:31:25 1997 *************** *** 0 **** - --- 1,262 ---- + /* $OpenBSD: res_random.c,v 1.3 1997/04/19 10:07:01 provos Exp $ */ + + /* + * Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> + * All rights reserved. + * + * Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> came up with the idea of using + * such a mathematical system to generate more random (yet non-repeating) + * ids to solve the resolver/named problem. But Niels designed the + * actual system based on the constraints. + * + * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without + * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions + * are met: + * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright + * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. + * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright + * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the + * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. + * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software + * must display the following acknowledgement: + * This product includes software developed by Niels Provos. + * 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products + * derived from this software without specific prior written permission. + * + * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR + * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES + * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. + * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, + * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT + * NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, + * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY + * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT + * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF + * THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. + */ + + /* + * seed = random 15bit + * n = prime, g0 = generator to n, + * j = random so that gcd(j,n-1) == 1 + * g = g0^j mod n will be a generator again. + * + * X[0] = random seed. + * X[n] = a*X[n-1]+b mod m is a Linear Congruential Generator + * with a = 7^(even random) mod m, + * b = random with gcd(b,m) == 1 + * m = 31104 and a maximal period of m-1. + * + * The transaction id is determined by: + * id[n] = seed xor (g^X[n] mod n) + * + * Effectivly the id is restricted to the lower 15 bits, thus + * yielding two different cycles by toggling the msb on and off. + * This avoids reuse issues caused by reseeding. + * + * The 16 bit space is very small and brute force attempts are + * entirly feasible, we skip a random number of transaction ids + * so that an attacker will not get sequential ids. + */ + + #include <sys/types.h> + #include <netinet/in.h> + #include <sys/time.h> + #include <resolv.h> + + #if defined(BSD) && (BSD >= 199103) + # include <unistd.h> + # include <stdlib.h> + # include <string.h> + #else + # include "../conf/portability.h" + #endif + + #define RU_OUT 180 /* Time after wich will be reseeded */ + #define RU_MAX 30000 /* Uniq cycle, avoid blackjack prediction */ + #define RU_GEN 2 /* Starting generator */ + #define RU_N 32749 /* RU_N-1 = 2*2*3*2729 */ + #define RU_AGEN 7 /* determine ru_a as RU_AGEN^(2*rand) */ + #define RU_M 31104 /* RU_M = 2^7*3^5 - don't change */ + + #define PFAC_N 3 + const static u_int16_t pfacts[PFAC_N] = { + 2, + 3, + 2729 + }; + + static u_int16_t ru_x; + static u_int16_t ru_seed; + static u_int16_t ru_a, ru_b; + static u_int16_t ru_g; + static u_int16_t ru_counter = 0; + static u_int16_t ru_msb = 0; + static long ru_reseed; + static u_int32_t tmp; /* Storage for unused random */ + static struct timeval tv; + + static u_int32_t pmod __P((u_int32_t, u_int32_t, u_int32_t)); + static void res_initid __P((void)); + + #ifndef __OpenBSD__ + /* + * No solid source of strong random in the system. Sigh. Fake it. + */ + u_long + arc4random() + { + static char state[256]; + char *savestate; + char *setstate(); + static unsigned seed; + static int count; + u_long datum; + + if (++count == 129837 || seed == 0) { + struct timeval tv; + + count = 0; + gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); + seed = getpid() ^ tv.tv_sec ^ tv.tv_usec; + initstate(seed, state, sizeof state); + } + savestate = setstate(state); + datum = random(); + setstate(savestate); + return (datum); + } + + #endif + + /* + * Do a fast modular exponation, returned value will be in the range + * of 0 - (mod-1) + */ + + static u_int32_t + pmod(gen, exp, mod) + u_int32_t gen, exp, mod; + { + u_int32_t s, t, u; + + s = 1; + t = gen; + u = exp; + + while (u) { + if (u & 1) + s = (s*t) % mod; + u >>= 1; + t = (t*t) % mod; + } + return (s); + } + + /* + * Initalizes the seed and chooses a suitable generator. Also toggles + * the msb flag. The msb flag is used to generate two distinct + * cycles of random numbers and thus avoiding reuse of ids. + * + * This function is called from res_randomid() when needed, an + * application does not have to worry about it. + */ + static void + res_initid() + { + u_int16_t j, i; + int noprime = 1; + + tmp = arc4random(); + ru_x = (tmp & 0xFFFF) % RU_M; + + /* 15 bits of random seed */ + ru_seed = (tmp >> 16) & 0x7FFF; + + tmp = arc4random(); + + /* Determine the LCG we use */ + ru_b = (tmp & 0xfffe) | 1; + ru_a = pmod(RU_AGEN, (tmp >> 16) & 0xfffe, RU_M); + while (ru_b % 3 == 0) + ru_b += 2; + + tmp = arc4random(); + j = tmp % RU_N; + tmp = tmp >> 16; + + /* + * Do a fast gcd(j,RU_N-1), so we can find a j with + * gcd(j, RU_N-1) == 1, giving a new generator for + * RU_GEN^j mod RU_N + */ + + while (noprime) { + for (i=0; i<PFAC_N; i++) + if (j%pfacts[i] == 0) + break; + + if (i>=PFAC_N) + noprime = 0; + else + j = (j+1) % RU_N; + } + + ru_g = pmod(RU_GEN,j,RU_N); + ru_counter = 0; + + gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); + ru_reseed = tv.tv_sec + RU_OUT; + ru_msb = ru_msb == 0x8000 ? 0 : 0x8000; + } + + u_int + res_randomid() + { + int i, n; + + gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); + if (ru_counter >= RU_MAX || tv.tv_sec > ru_reseed) + res_initid(); + + if (!tmp) + tmp = arc4random(); + + /* Skip a random number of ids */ + n = tmp & 0x2f; tmp = tmp >> 6; + if (ru_counter + n >= RU_MAX) + res_initid(); + + for (i=0; i<=n; i++) + /* Linear Congruential Generator */ + ru_x = (ru_a*ru_x + ru_b) % RU_M; + + ru_counter += i; + + return (ru_seed ^ pmod(ru_g,ru_x,RU_N)) | ru_msb; + } + + #if 0 + void + main(int argc, char **argv) + { + int i, n; + u_int16_t wert; + + res_initid(); + + printf("Generator: %d\n", ru_g); + printf("Seed: %d\n", ru_seed); + printf("Reseed at %ld\n", ru_reseed); + printf("Ru_X: %d\n", ru_x); + printf("Ru_A: %d\n", ru_a); + printf("Ru_B: %d\n", ru_b); + + n = atoi(argv[1]); + for (i=0;i<n;i++) { + wert = res_randomid(); + printf("%06d\n", wert); + } + } + #endif + --- CUT HERE --- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM1ygQLgIhFKeVQANAQHhvwQAgm9c8ai94FzE03dZ3S8HQmpiZXDB4cGU EqZYu32tV7a/eHT/fyw01uMXpeLIaZERQNGTJokwpZKbCUAY67ZzsOGYqp5Ja+To YN3WMD1pXHPEC5+vq+r94chX0zobvjPrd3Rhg1PHxEcrkMjsliiYPNnTrotOMrUy NHiFI/kbY0Q= =vf1T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com (Eric Chu) Subject: Re: Networking Nextstation with Mac Message-ID: <E93po0.LEo@ceco.ceco.com> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co. References: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> <E93A9v.251@cam-ani.co.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:24:00 GMT Ian Stephenson (ians@cam-ani.co.uk) wrote: : In article <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Tom <troehl@mnsinc.com> writes: : > : > I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want : > to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked : > at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems : > really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the : > PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so : > they are both able access the network? Thanks. : Using the NeXT isn't so difficult (it's a bit daunting if you're new to : TCP networking, but if you're going to have to get to grips with this : however you tackle it), and requires only free software, but the : NeXTSTation serial ports aren't so fast (and NeXTPPP occasionally : crashes). : I'm currently looking at tackling this problem using a freeBSD box - the : machine itself can be just a 386, so you can put together a machine for : ~$100 (less than the Mac software), and all the software is free. Serial : As an added bonus I should be able to use it as both an NFS and AppleShare : server (maybe I'll hook my printer there too) so I can hang discs on : there, and access then from all machines (again without loading either of : the clients with needless extensions - particularly as my Mac is only a : PowerBook!). You can also use the new machine as a general mail, news and : web server. hi, while i agree that the above is certainly possible, would you really want to use a 386 as a NFS and AppleShare server? I just as well load down the '40 mono for those duties and leave all of the firewall/proxy/ gateway to the 386. ...but besides i get the feeling that Tom didn't want to spend any money and was looking for a software solution...time to pick up o'reilly and learn tcpip. jsut another thought, eric echu@ceco.com : Just another option you could consider... : $an
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to remove newsgroups in PersonalINN Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:27:53 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0nLZGd_00WBO43l3ZW@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 23-Apr-97 How to remove newsgroups in.. by Andreas Hoeschler@lynet. > I've removed some newsgroups in slurp.sys and in active, but the directories > for these groups and the corresponding files still exist on the disk. Do I > have to delete them by hand, or are they removed automatically by PersonalINN > at a later news.daily-call? The old articles will eventually be removed via the daily expiration process. However, there's a better way, from the INN FAQ: ---------- Subject: expire reports "Group not matched (removed?) -- Using default expiration" Expire says: Group not matched (removed?) alt.techno-shamanism -- Using default expiration Group not matched (removed?) misc.computers.forsale -- Using default expiration Group not matched (removed?) de.rec.sf.startrek -- Using default expiration YOU DID NOTHING WRONG! That just means that you've removed those newsgroups and expire is slowly removing articles from the spool as they expire. Eventually the articles will all have been deleted and so will these messages. Here's a neat trick to make deleted groups go away at the next expire instead of hanging around waiting for their articles to expire in a timely manner. Using this combination of lines at the *start* of expire.ctl: *:A:0:0:0 *:U:0:7:31 *:M:0:14:365 will cause groups which are neither moderated nor unmoderated to be discarded - the only such groups are deleted ones. Thanks to ian@pipex.net (Ian Phillipps) for this tip! ---------- -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hardware passwd lost!!!!!! Date: 23 Apr 1997 20:16:18 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5jlqmi$3vj@news.next.com> References: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Lionel Tinguely writes > > Hi there, > > I lost the Hardware password of a NeXTSTATION... How can I recover ? > > Thanks > LiONEL Power off the system, take out the battery, wait a few minutes, then put it back in. Alternatively, there's a program out on the archive sites that will recover the hardware password for you (if you run it as root). -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: svenifer@snet.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: using dump with TR4 tape drive? Date: 23 Apr 1997 20:45:02 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5jlsce$k4t@goofy.snet.net> Hi readers, Using a Seagate 4MB native QIC drive, I am trying to use the dump of dump/restore for OPENSTEP4 on Mach. At command line I type: dump 0ufsd /dev/nrst0 740 60000 where 740 is tape size in feet and 60000 is bits per inch. My question is why might this program report that a backup of 750MB will require 3.3 4MB tapes? Thanks, Sven
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lpd services Date: 23 Apr 1997 22:48:21 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jm3jl$n73$1@news13.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit can someone tell me the proper way to setup a printer so that it is available as an lpd type from an NT box? I have the printer working from the next and I also setup the printer to be available to / domain from the print manager. It doesn't seem to be working though. any help is greatly appreciated. vince
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From: bierman@apple.com (Peter Bierman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS box can't see Mac on network Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:47:29 -0700 Organization: I do not speak for Apple Computer! Message-ID: <bierman-2304971547290001@17.128.203.192> References: <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com> In article <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com>, gary@mail.pex.net wrote: > When I first boot my Mac I am unable to ping the Mac from the OS > machine. My pings, telnets, and FTPs all time out. Now, when I go to > the Mac and telnet to the OS box I can get in. After I have made the > attempt to contact the OS box from the Mac I can ping the Mac from the > OS box. > > In a nutshell, the OS can not see the Mac until *after* the Mac has > tried to connect to the OS. Any ides on this? Usually, macs are configured not to load their TCP stack until it's used. Hence, no ping response until after you do something. Try turning off the "load only when needed" checkbox in the TCP/IP control panel. -pmb -- bierman@apple.com http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~lunatic/ "This is MASS MADNESS you MANIACS!"
From: Patrique Lalonde <pat@point-net.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:25:38 -0400 Organization: Bell Network Solutions Message-ID: <335EC4A2.1F55@point-net.com> References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower> <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is also a nice alternative... you can also make a 7 mb NeXT partition on the primary drive which you can boot off into NS later on... quite nice... Next answers covers this in detail... Search the archive for: Booting from alternate hard drive... Pat
From: Patrique Lalonde <pat@point-net.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Zyxel Elite 2864 + NS + NXFax... Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:41:12 -0400 Organization: Bell Network Solutions Message-ID: <335EC848.5B3D@point-net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all just upgrade my ZyXEL's ROM to 1.15. Ever since, the modem answers but won't handshake. So I can't receive any faxes or complete any dial-ins... Anyone know of a fix for this? P.S. Please post a copy to my e-mail address. I am not always able to connect to my news server. Patrique Lalonde
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: lpd services Date: 24 Apr 1997 04:40:46 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jmo8e$ijl$1@news8.gte.net> References: <5jm3jl$n73$1@news13.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, I have the local printer working just fine. I opened the print monitor and added a remote name and chose the printer to be in the / domain. Then I added an lpd port to my windowsNT machine pointing at the IP of the next and the name "Laser" wich is the name that I specified for the printer to be known as. I just get printing errors on the NT machine so I'm not sure whats going on. Does anyone have the location of a howto or faq on this? thanks vince
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:14:22 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061018.18199B-100000@kira> References: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> 1) 3.1 is so old you wouldn't want to use it even if it would work. 2) It probably won't work... 3.1 / Intel was a version 1.0 of Intel support.... I doubt it would handle anything but SCSI and a few SCSI drivers... 3) there is no way to upgrade it... unless it is the commerical bundle TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:20:20 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira> References: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I assume you mean from Mail.app? Select the message you want to copy, press 'copy' and then paste into an Edit.app ASCII window... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ARRRGG! Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:42:35 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424062142.18199D-100000@kira> References: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> In-Reply-To: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> > Did something DUMB! You ain't kidding... > Deleted the ROOT account! How can I save my ass? Hmm.. can you 'nidump passwd . > /tmp/somefile' add a line like this: root::0:0:Operator:/:/bin/csh and then niload passwd . < /tmp/somefile Otherwise you'll have to restore the default NetInfo, I'd guess... There's a NeXTanswer about this... http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1295.htmld/1295.html **WARNING: restoreing the NetInfo is a big step, a major pain... but it may, may be all you can do... someone else may have another thought.. TjL
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ARRRGG! Date: 24 Apr 1997 18:57:16 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5joaec$oi$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424062142.18199D-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424062142.18199D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > Did something DUMB! > > You ain't kidding... > > > Deleted the ROOT account! How can I save my ass? > > Hmm.. > can you 'nidump passwd . > /tmp/somefile' > > add a line like this: > root::0:0:Operator:/:/bin/csh > > and then > > niload passwd . < /tmp/somefile > > Otherwise you'll have to restore the default NetInfo, I'd guess... > > There's a NeXTanswer about this... > http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1295.htmld/1295.html > > **WARNING: restoreing the NetInfo is a big step, a major pain... but it > may, may be all you can do... someone else may have another thought.. > This is one of the MANY reasons for maintaining periodic backups. One could restore /etc/netinfo and /etc/password and be back up.. Of course you'd have to be clever about turning off netinfod or booting single user mode to drop the old /etc/passwd and particularly /etc/netinfo back in place. Since I think that information is cached when you come up into multiuser mode (i.e. netinfod starts).. I'm not an absolute expert on netinfo caching particulars though :| Randy rencsok (at) channelu (dot) com PS. Anyone see the SNI BIND security advisory?!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E95KAE.K8J@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:23:01 GMT References: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira>, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >I assume you mean from Mail.app? > >Select the message you want to copy, press 'copy' and then paste into an >Edit.app ASCII window... > There's also a service provided by something (maybe Edit, maybe TickleServices) that is something like "Save to File..." that prompts you for a file name and then shoves the text in there. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: klingler@news.rt66.com (Dave Klingler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: suddenly netinfo hangs me Date: 24 Apr 1997 18:43:13 -0600 Organization: Rt66.COM Sender: Dave Klingler Distribution: world Message-ID: <5joun1$jn6$1@mack.rt66.com> Hi folks. My Intel 4.2 machine suddenly started hanging during boot. It gets to Apr 24 18:24:37 bosephus netinfod local[106]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb netinfo ...and hangs for 5 minutes or so, then goes on to lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons: ...and hangs again for a few minutes, then proceeds to Apr 24 18:30:07 bosephus autonfsmount[125]: Can't get my (bosephus) address . Starting network daemons: inetd ...and hangs again, etc. I can't figure out what it's timing out on. I don't *think* I've made any changes, other than installing MusicKit this afternoon, but obviously something's different. The other thing I did, obviously a more likely candidate, was attempt yesterday to get my NeXT cube to export a few directories via nfs. So far as I could tell, that never worked, and I deleted my exports file. This is not the first time the Intel machine's been rebooted since I made that change, but it is the first time it's hung. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would guess that autonfsmount is running now and wasn't before. I also just looked in messages and noticed a "netinfo error: 0" that I hadn't noticed before. From there, I'm still sorting out where to look. Thanks! Dave klingler@REMOVE.rt66.com
Message-ID: <335F2F24.10F20C6C@ibm.net> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:00:05 -0400 From: Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 A bit of a blast from the past here... After sitting on the unopened box for almost 4 years - I finally opened up my copy of NeXTStep/Intel 3.1 and tried to install it. I have a Adaptec 1540 SCSI controller, 16meg of memory, and a suitable IDE hard drive. When booting the NS3.1 kicker disk, it cannot locate the CD-ROM. Ever. Even when I add a SCSI hard drive to the system, no SCSI devices register (and the "Resetting SCSI Bus..." message takes quite a long time.) My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct mystical incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I console myself with running off my black hardware forever? Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation package through NeXT? (The last time I had contacted their web site, they were perfectly happy to send me info on how I could purchase their latest software.) Thanks in advance to anybody patient enough to reply.. Bill (..determined to check this newsgroup to monitor replies..)
Message-ID: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:02:55 -0400 From: Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 A bit of a blast from the past here... After sitting on the unopened box for almost 4 years - I finally opened up my copy of NeXTStep/Intel 3.1 and tried to install it. I have a Adaptec 1540 SCSI controller, 16meg of memory, and a suitable IDE hard drive. When booting the NS3.1 kicker disk, it cannot locate the CD-ROM. Ever. Even when I add a SCSI hard drive to the system, no SCSI devices register (and the "Resetting SCSI Bus..." message takes quite a long time.) My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct mystical incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I console myself with running off my black hardware forever? Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation package through NeXT? (The last time I had contacted their web site, they were perfectly happy to send me info on how I could purchase their latest software.) Thanks in advance to anybody patient enough to reply.. Bill (..determined to check this newsgroup to monitor replies..)
From: bchin@freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Date: 25 Apr 1997 04:10:44 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5jpas4$c8t$2@news.freedomnet.com> References: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> wrote: >I have a Adaptec 1540 SCSI controller, 16meg of memory, >and a suitable IDE hard drive. > >When booting the NS3.1 kicker disk, it cannot locate the >CD-ROM. Ever. Even when I add a SCSI hard drive to >the system, no SCSI devices register (and the "Resetting >SCSI Bus..." message takes quite a long time.) What CD-ROM drive do you have? Does the Adaptec 1540 "see" the proper devices when it registers it's BIOS at boot time? If I remember correctly, there are updated drivers available. Of course, 3.1 stuff may not be around... it was the first Intel version and I would recommend at least running 3.2 on a VESA local bus system or you must run 3.3 (or least, it's very highly recommended) on a PCI Intel system. >My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct >mystical incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I >console myself with running off my black hardware >forever? It depends on your PC hardware. Anything short of a 486DX4 100Mhz CPU, adequate memory and fast local bus video, you might as well stick with black hardware. >Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation >package through NeXT? You can upgrade to OPENSTEP 4.x for Mach on Intel User for $199. It's Developer that's really expensive. Of course, Apple is expected to change the pricing model so if you wait until WWDC or after, they might have a better deal. ..Bill Chin
From: bchin@freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3Com Etherlink Drivers Date: 25 Apr 1997 04:04:12 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5jpafs$c8t$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <5jj389$bd6@news.sei.cmu.edu> lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) wrote: >Have a PC with an EtherLink XL (3C900-COMBO) PCI network adapter card >upon which I'm hoping to run NS 3.3. Can't find any information on >NextAnswers concerning an appropriate driver. Any other info? Unfortunately, there isn't one. >An alternative might be replacing XL with an EtherLink III EISA, but >NeXT's information on latest EtherLink III driver (4.03) gives EISA model >as 3C589C-COMBO, whilst 3Com is selling 3C592-COMBO. Should I worry >about compatability here too? If you are going to buy an ethernet card, get a PCI one based on a DEC 2104x chipset. See the NeXTanswers for exact supported cards (Cogent, Linksys, etc.). Far better than the 3Com stuff under NS/OS/Mach. Unfortunately, 3Com's are often the bundled solution (like Gateways), so if Apple/NeXT could get an EtherLink XL driver out, a lot more people would even try OPENSTEP. ..Bill Chin
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Date: 24 Apr 1997 12:07:03 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Does anyone know, what the most elegant way of doing so could be (the text is ascii-postscript)? Thanks for your help! Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring 2 display resolutions at boot-time Date: 24 Apr 1997 11:41:17 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5jngst$ear@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, I want to set-up two different configurations (differing in their display-resolutions, both using the same driver) which should be selectable at boot-time with the config=low or config=high options to the NeXTstep boot manager. config=low should boot the machine with a low displat resolution, config=high should select the higher resolution. I tried to Install the two .table-files in /private/Drivers/i386/System.config but had no success because they both use the same display-driver. Is there a possibility to tell the display-driver which resolution it should use for which config-table? Thanks... ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: speed of Openstep on black hardware? Date: 25 Apr 1997 05:43:27 GMT Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5jpg9v$oau@news.dmv.com> I'm wondering if there are any performance caveats to running Openstep4.1 on black hardware. I've got a NeXTstation turbo color with 3.3 user installed. It's pretty responsive and I like it. However I've got no developer stuff and I was wanting to get the developer cd. But then I thought I'd just get openstep but I'd like to no whether it will be as responsive as 3.3 is. Is it bloatware that runs best on a pentium or is it also optimized for black hardware? TIA, Dave
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ARRRGG! Date: Thu, 24 Apr 97 12:37:15 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> Did something DUMB! Deleted the ROOT account! How can I save my ass? Matt
From: markfr@markfr .cse.tek.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problems with lookupd during boot up Date: 24 Apr 1997 16:21:47 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR USA Distribution: USA Message-ID: <5jo1ar$o9t$1@bvadm.bv.tek.com> I am connecting my Next to a Sun NIS domain. The boot process sometimes proceeds OK. Other times, after lookupd is started, and I get the message: "Mounting remote file systems", I get the error message: "yp:server not responding for domain "sun_domain_name"; still trying" This message keeps going up forever, until I hit ctrl-C, but then I am not connected to the NIS server. Can anyone help me locate the problem? Is there anything I can put in the boot up scripts to give me further information? - Thanks, Mark markfr@markfr.cse.tek.com
From: "Steve Loranz" <sloranz@pencom.com> Subject: Re: nameserver?? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin References: <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com> Organization: Pencom Systems Administration Message-ID: <01bc50cd$86c1d920$e17578a4@loranzs.sch.advantis.com> Date: 24 Apr 97 16:26:41 GMT You can actually put this in NetInfo. Every new machine you put in the domain will then be able to resolve DNS names. Create a resolver directory under locations. Mine sits in /locations/Resolver with domain, nameserver, nameserver, search properties. -steve bf <ihate@spammers.com> wrote in article <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com>... > Im rather new to the next community and actually just fired up my color > station today to learn about it. I was trying to configure the network > and setup its IP, gateway etc with the SimpleNetworkSetup or something > similar in the admin apps. However i noticed no place to stick in a > nameserver, so i went searching for a resolv.conf in /etc with no luck. > Im not running a YP, etc server on this little localnet, so how do i > setup what nameservers to use?? > > -b > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- larryf at halcyon dot com > ----------------------------------------------------- > --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- > ------------------------------------------------------------- >
From: ©6michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Login tiffs in 4.x Date: 24 Apr 1997 16:52:46 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5jo34u$890@corporate.hesta.com> There used to be a way to get custom login screens - under 3.3 we had them...anyone patient enough to tell me how to get them to work again under 4.0 Mach/Intel? And can I use the old 3.3 ones still up on PEAK as templates? Thanks! Michael Verruto michael@hesta.com MIME + NeXTMail Ok.
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: identd for Next? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:26:18 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970425142456.20627B-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does Nextstep come wth it or do i have to get it somewhere else? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 23 Apr 1997 14:24:06 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jl626$ggg@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <335AFBA3.5801@ultranet.ca> John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> writes: >I would agree that mgetty+sendfax would be the way to go. If you manage to >get them installed and configured let me know. I think you have to be a bit >of a propellor-head to set up mgetty! I have a copy compiled. Send me email if you want one. kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: michael@curie (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is there a "shutdown" file? Date: 25 Apr 1997 14:35:51 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> Dumb question most likely, so I apologize in advance. Our INN server is on a machine that we reboot from time to time and as such our ISP news guru tells me I need to insert a clean shutdown command into the shutdown script. The inverse I would imagine of the rc.local file on the way *up*. I have the command however cannot seem to determine if there is such a file referenced as part of the automatic reboot/shutdown process. Any help? -- Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail.cf Date: 25 Apr 1997 06:11:28 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <5jphug$eik$1@hermes.is.co.za> Hi, I am desparately looking for a sendmail.cf file that works fine over PPP. I have tried several different configurations but with no luck. Is there anybody that uses a dial-up connection to an ISP via PPP that has a sendmail.cf file that works fine? My problem is the "Sender" and "From" Headers in the mail that I send are wrong. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a "shutdown" file? Date: 25 Apr 1997 19:47:46 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5jr1p2$1it@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit michael@curie (Michael Verruto) wrote: > Our INN server is on a machine that we reboot from time to time > and as such our ISP news guru tells me I need to insert a clean > shutdown command into the shutdown script. There is no such thing as a "shutdown script". Rename /usr/etc/halt to /usr/etc/halt.ORIGINAL, and write a script /usr/etc/halt that does what you want to be done and finally calls /usr/etc/halt.ORIGINAL. That's the only way to do it. The following example script issues a command to a modem via kermit before shutting down:
CUF=c # Prfe auf Nothalt-Optionen case $* in *-n* | *-q* ) STOP=1 ;; esac # Falls kein Nothalt, stoppe FaxDaemon und sende "atz2" an das Modem if [ ! "$STOP" ]; then kill `ps -ax | egrep "FaxDaemon" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/` /usr/local/bin/kermit -C "set line /dev/cuf$CUF, set speed 19200, msleep 300, o atz2\13, exit" fi # rufe das eigentliche Programm (halt bzw. reboot) auf /usr$0.ORIGINAL $*
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: speed of Openstep on black hardware? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:47:38 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425124235.3163H-100000@kira> References: <5jpg9v$oau@news.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "J. David Purnell" <dave@dmv.com> In-Reply-To: <5jpg9v$oau@news.dmv.com> OpenStep/Mach has the great quality of running NeXTStep apps... however there is a cost when running both NeXTStep and OpenStep apps on the machine... someone put it at 8megs is taken up by loading the libraries or something llike that... You are running a turbo, so that's good. I'd suggest 64 ram from comments I've heard on csn.* , and I would have a nice magazine handy to read while compiles are running if you plan to do developer stuff. I'd probably wait until the summer and see what 4.2 brings (another month I'd guess hopefully??) unless you have a pressing desire to go to OpenStep, and some extra cash also. NeXTStep 3.3 is nice to have if you are nostalgic about the last NeXTStep release and have some black hardware which cannot take more than 32 ram (like most non turbo slabs, I think). It is also handy (in fact, downright necessary) if you want to be able to compile quadfat apps for NeXTStep... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: identd for Next? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:53:12 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425124916.3163I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970425142456.20627B-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970425142456.20627B-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> I seem to have it on my machine but I think I got & compiled it from somewhere... It must not have been too hard if I got it compiled... in fact, it probably worked autpmatocailly... I've got it only for m68k however if that will help you I will be happy to email it to you TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: tgo@phorcys.wscis.wsc.com (Thomas Kent Go) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Writeup document questions Date: 25 Apr 1997 21:03:20 GMT Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc. Message-ID: <5jr66o$idq@cerberus.wsc.com> Hi, I have about a few hundred Writeup document in which I want to convert to either Word or WordPerfect for Windows. Does anyone know of any command line or program that could convert these files easily? At this point I would need to open each one and save it as a Word or WordPerfect format. Is there an easier way to do this? Thanks Thomas tgo@wsc.com P.S. Please respond via e-mail
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:40:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425123846.3163G-100000@kira> References: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira> <E95KAE.K8J@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <E95KAE.K8J@novice.uwaterloo.ca> > Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > >I assume you mean from Mail.app? > > > >Select the message you want to copy, press 'copy' and then paste into an > >Edit.app ASCII window... > > > > There's also a service provided by something (maybe Edit, maybe > TickleServices) that is something like "Save to File..." that prompts you for a > file name and then shoves the text in there. I believe that is from TickleServices.... It is called 'Save as ASCII...' on my system here... There's also this program which does that and a few other neat tricks: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/SaveFromMail.1.03.NIHS.bs.tar.gz TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a "shutdown" file? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:03:29 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425125457.3163J-100000@kira> References: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> > Dumb question most likely, so I apologize in advance. Not at all... > Our INN server is on a machine that we reboot from time to time and as such > our ISP news guru tells me I need to insert a clean shutdown command into the > shutdown script. The inverse I would imagine of the rc.local file on the way > *up*. I have the command however cannot seem to determine if there is such a > file referenced as part of the automatic reboot/shutdown process. You should not have to tell the machine to shutdow cleanlly, it should do it by default. There is no 'shutdown script' per se... the system just halts and reboots or powers down: /usr/etc/shutdown -h -p # to power down cleanly /usr/etc/shutdown -h -r # to reboot cleanly You could, of course, rename the shutdown script to something like 'shutdown.real' and then put your own script in its place and have it call 'shutdown.real' when it is done... if this is what you want, let me know and I'll see if I can come up with something... I've written some scripts before to do such things... 'man shutdown' has one of the better opening descriptions of any UNIX command: Shutdown provides an automated shutdown procedure which a super-user can use to notify users nicely when the system is shutting down, saving them from system administrators, hack- ers, and gurus, who would otherwise not bother with niceties. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: WTB: 3.3 Developer for HPPA Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:06:28 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <336146CE.1B6C@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I am looking for a copy of NeXTSTEP 3.3 Developer for HP. I realize that this is an old product, but I really would like to start development on NeXTSTEP. TIA, Kevin
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Where are all the extras in 3.3? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:17:04 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <33614977.6DB8@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I recently installed 3.3 User on an HP and am enjoying it so far. I hadn't used NeXTSTEP for a long time, but as I recall, it used to come with lots of extra niceities. Things like Shakespeare's writings, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, WriteNow, Mathematica, Allegro Common Lisp, and Sybase's SQL server, etc. What happened to all this cool stuff? Kevin -- Kevin Birch Principal Scientist Xsf, Incorporated
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Printing with NeXTSTEP 3.3 on HP Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:17:17 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <33614984.4186@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I have an HP 715/80i running NeXTSTEP 3.3 User, and I am trying to set up printing. I want to communicate with an Apple LaserWriter 12/640PS. In PrintMagnager my options are either HP JetDirect or serial. I tried JetDirect and put in the printer's ip address, but it never prints. The busy light will flash briefly but then it will stop, and the print job just sits in the queue forever, and no errors are ever reported. Next I tried serial, but even less happens there. The busy light never even flashes. The 715 has only one serial port, but I have tried to print with both serial A & B selected in PrinterManager. Again, the jobs sits forever in the queue. I installed the correct PPD for my printer according to the docs, and it shows up in the list of available printer types. I'm stumped, any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Kevin
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:43:48 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425174139.8295B-100000@kira> References: <5jphug$eik$1@hermes.is.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gvandyk@icon.co.za In-Reply-To: <5jphug$eik$1@hermes.is.co.za> There is a detailed set of instructions on how to upgrade to a new version of sendmail, which makes this easy. This can be done by modifying the sendmail.cf file directly, and has been discussed frequently in recent time. Checkout dejanews if there isn't a copy of the answer on your news server.... TjL, on his way to add this to his FAQ... -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dwrite Error Date: Sat, 26 Apr 97 03:46:46 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> System: Mono Turbo Station, NS 3.3 User When I try to set the LoginWindow to display the hostname (perthe FAQ) by typing: dwrite loginwindow HostName WildNeXT I get the following error: dwrite: Couldn't write into database Any suggestions? Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Keeping a CD mounted on logout (or other removable device) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:15:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425192352.28809A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I found an easy way to keep a CD or other removable drive mounted after logout. Create a link from the CD to the regular filesystem. For example, I linked /FontGarden to ~/Library/Fonts/ and it stayed in even after I logged out... FYI TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: mc6983@mclink.it Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Receiving faxes Date: 26 Apr 1997 15:40:53 GMT Organization: MC-link The World On Line Message-ID: <5jt7m5$osg@news1.mclink.it> I 've installed a copy of JollyClass2.0 and now I can fax out my documents with my USRobotics Sportster 33.6 FaxModem. The problem is that I cannot receive faxes. I remember I read a similar question sometime ago but I couldn't find the article. Did someone solve the problem ? Thanks. Mario Scarpa -- mc6983@mclink.it
From: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3Com Etherlink Drivers Date: 26 Apr 1997 18:11:16 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jtgg4$hq0@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <5jpafs$c8t$1@news.freedomnet.com> <5jj389$bd6@news.sei.cmu.edu> In Re: 3Com Etherlink Drivers comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x2a57bc> writes, > lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) wrote: >>Have a PC with an EtherLink XL (3C900-COMBO) PCI network adapter card >>upon which I'm hoping to run NS 3.3. Can't find any information on >>NextAnswers concerning an appropriate driver. Any other info? > > Unfortunately, there isn't one. And, as far as they told me, there are also no plans to do so. > Unfortunately, 3Com's are often the bundled solution (like Gateways), so if > Apple/NeXT could get an EtherLink XL driver out, a lot more people would even > try OPENSTEP. We would have no Windog computer here, if NeXT would... Phil
From: dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: imapd for m68K? Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:04:35 GMT Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5ju1m3$dvs@news.dmv.com> Does anyone know where I can get an imap daemon for Nextstep 3.x ? I'd like to use Mail.app while I'm in front of the machine and then go home and connect with an imap client. Dave
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite Error Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:10:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426180708.11887C-100000@kira> References: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> In-Reply-To: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> > System: Mono Turbo Station, NS 3.3 User > > When I try to set the LoginWindow to display the hostname (perthe FAQ) by > typing: > > dwrite loginwindow HostName WildNeXT > > I get the following error: > dwrite: Couldn't write into database Are you doing this as root? If so, make sure that root's home dir is properly defined. If you aren't doing this as root, I don't think it will work, but if you are then it means your dwrites file (insider ~/.NeXT) has somehow become owned by root. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: imapd for m68K? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:13:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426181227.11887D-100000@kira> References: <5ju1m3$dvs@news.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "J. David Purnell" <dave@dmv.com> In-Reply-To: <5ju1m3$dvs@news.dmv.com> ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin-compressed/imapd-bin.next.Z TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reasb help Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:42:21 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426183533.18649A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've read the 'read' man page and I'm still not quite sure how to fix this. Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 1 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 2 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 3 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 4 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 5 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 6 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 7 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 8 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 9 sd2 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11 SCSI Block in error = 225165; Partition a F.S. sector 112422 I got this response (above) from this command: # dd if=/dev/rsd2a of=/dev/null bs=512k dd: /dev/rsd2a: I/O error 219+0 records in 219+0 records out This was on my EZ135 disk. I checked the rest and they all reported no error: 255+1 records in/out How can I reassign this block? Thanks folks, this is one of my backup carts... TjL
From: Brian Sutherland <rmaniac.spamless.@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netinfo: Please Help Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:27:19 -0600 Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP Message-ID: <3362C796.6353165E@onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Please remove the .spamless. from my email address before replying. I have two NeXT machines and all I want to do is share the printer. I tried to set one up as a master netinfo server and it works ok until I reboot. Then when the server is rebooting it gives me an error saying it cannot find the master netinfo server. (of course it can't IT IS THE MASTER NETINFO SERVER!) What am I doing wrong? Is there an easier way to share a printer? Any info would be helpful it seems like a very compicated thing to set up a network with theses things tho I am told it is easy. The instructions I have been reading all say not to plug in the workstations to the ether net until the server is set up is this really nesassary? Do all the machines have to be fresh installs just to make a network work properly? Thanx in advance. -Brian Sutherland rmaniac,onramp,net
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 Supersedes: <26385861508830@digifix.com> Date: 27 Apr 1997 03:59:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <25195862113623@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:26:41 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've got a crossover cable (and a hub if I want to use that). I've got a slab, I'll have an Intel soon. I want to figure out some various things about Networking these two machines. I've read the online info & NeXTanswers, and they make it sound liket it's really easy to setup my own Network. Nonetheless, I'd like to hear from some folks as to some 'gotchas' they've come across, as well as answer some (probably simple) networking questions I have. One quick q: if I have 2 connected machines, should one be 192.42.172.1 and the other 192.42.172.2? (One of these machines will occasionally link to the 'net via PPP). - what if I get a static IP from my ISP? What IP should I give the other one? (192.42.172.1?) I'm not trying to do anything too fancy, just be able to rcp/rsh/rlogin, maybe NFS a few directories, print from the Intel to the slab (I think I've got info on this already from someone here).... maybe send email from slab-->Intel (ie Intel will be PPP host, I'll want to be able to send email from the slab to someone on the 'net and have it get there). Thanks! TjL ps -- if you're willing to answer some more, specific questions as I come across them, please drop me a line directly. Otherwise feel free to send your replies here, as I'm sure others will want to know also..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How to use Sony NeXT CD-ROM for music on MO (or just how to play music) References: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> From: ANTI-SPAM! Message-ID: <336309ca.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 27 Apr 97 08:09:46 GMT emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: >I purchased an original Sony CD-ROM (CDU-541 Rev 2.6a) >for my 040/25 cube on c.s.n.m. For installing software >it works great. But when I insert a music CD and plug >a set of speakers into the sound jack, or a set of >headphones, no sound comes out. > >Is there something I need to do play music on this >CD-ROM and to have the music come out of the sound jack? > >Do I need run a particular app to listen to music from >a CD-ROM? As I recall, just plug the headphones into the front jack and turn up the volumn control to the right of the jack and set the volumn on the cd-player app up. Is the cd player app incrementing the time indicating the music is actually being played. If not try a different CD or may sure the proper files are installed in the /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs directory. Darren Reely P.S. Return e-mail address should now be useless thanks to those damp spammers.
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: reasb help Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:01:40 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nMrVY200iWm03zH40@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426183533.18649A-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426183533.18649A-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Apr-97 reasb help by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > How can I reassign this block? Try "reasb /dev/rsd2a 225165 -r".... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Machine hangs upon typing bfd or bsd in ROM monitor on black Date: 27 Apr 1997 16:13:32 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5k0mis$f30@slip.net> Hi, I'm trying to re-install NS 3.3 user on an 040/25. After putting the CD in the external CD-ROM and putting the startup diskette into the internal floppy drive and typing bfd in the (ROM Monitor v5 2.66 ) the machine hangs. The machine also hangs if I type bsd. (Once bsd(0,0,0) worked but now that doesn't work either) However, if I don't hold down the command key and just let the machine boot with out interupting it, it starts up logged in as "me" and fails to prompt for a user login or password. Ah, I just upgraded the machine from 28 to 40 MGs of RAM. I also added a second hard drive. Originally I installed the new hard drive with a SCSI target value of 2 (the original disk had a SCSI traget value of 1). I used build disk to format the new disk and copied the NS OS onto it. Then I opened the box and switched SCSI target values. (I left the cabeling and termination sequence the same) So the new larger disk has a SCSI target of 1 and the old disk has a target of 2. Can anyone offer some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Emmett San Francisco
From: "Steve Loranz" <sloranz@king.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x Date: 28 Apr 1997 06:29:03 GMT Organization: Kiwi InterNet Group, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc5395$03ddc7b0$09b429ce@fisher> Has anybody built BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x? I running into problems while building the named binary. It was complaining about _inet_aton being defined multiple times so I put -m in the ldflags to get it to use the symbol defined in libresolv.a within the bind source tree. Apparently, NeXT's cc doesn't understand -m as a linker option. I commented out the cc line in the named makefile and replaced it with a call to ld but then I had a number of undefined symbols. ld should look in the standard lib and include directories, no? I'm including all of the object files and libraries that the cc line had... I'd be happy to get any insight from people who have gotten this package to build. Thanks in advance. -steve
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Date: 26 Apr 1997 21:25:52 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5jtrt0$i0r@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> wrote: > After sitting on the unopened box for almost 4 years - I finally > opened up my copy of NeXTStep/Intel 3.1 and tried to install it. > My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct mystical > incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I console myself > with running off my black hardware forever? It is probably not worth it to get NS-3.1 running on Intel hardware. > Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation package > through NeXT? Not at this time. If you had registered NS-3.1 back when you bought it, you would have received the upgrade to NS-3.2 for free. I think this is a case of "you snooze, you lose". NS-3.3 fixed up even more things that were missed in NS-3.2, so really that's the version I'd recommend the most (if you aren't going to make the jump to NeXTSTEP 4.x). NS-3.2 is pretty good. NS-3.1 has too many problems, particularly on the Intel platform, to spend a lot of time on it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Boris Pioline <bpioline@thwgs2.cern.ch> Subject: ps_if for NextStep3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <335243C3.6F7@thwgs2.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CERN. European Lab. for Particle Physics Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:48:35 GMT Hi there, Being told in aswer to a previous message that 'ps_if' was the thing to use in order to set up multiple virtual hosts, (available from ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/), I installed it and was actually able to run it under NextStep3.3, not 3.0 (complains that ps_reloc is not a good Mach file - it also complains during compilation that it needs kernserv/machine/spl.h, not present in 3.0) Does anybody know whether there exists a version compatible with 3.0 around ? If not I will have to upgrade to 3.3 :-< Thanks all Boris Pioline
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: 16 Apr 1997 18:04:41 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5j34bp$jpo@q.seanet.com> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > > > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? > > I have loaded OpenStep 4.1 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my NeXTstation turbo. It works fine, the Jazz drive works as well or better than the NeXTstations internal drive. I have loaded WinNT 4.0 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my Intel box. It also works, but the performance works as well or less than the Intel box internal drive. I now have 6 Jaz cartridges to share between NeXT and MS OS's. I give these two thumbs up for my consulting work. > > I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told > > me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at > > least the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable > > drives. > > Ok, thanks Timothy, but now the question is *HOW*! Is there an FAQ for > this? I will try to post a FAQ at our Puget Sound NeXT User Groups site: http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug There's disk geometry issues for the Jaz drive for NeXT, and you will need a MAC or Windows box running Jaz Tools to help with disk initialization issues, if the NeXT OS tells you the disk is bad. Steve Roller sroller@roller.seanet.com Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:29:44 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nJakMG00iUyI4MbB3@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> In-Reply-To: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 16-Apr-97 Re: nameserver?? by "Kevin Birch"@xsf.com > Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that > I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. Did you put the IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf and not the names? Why not show us the file.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: sbrandon@music.gla.ac.uk (Stephen Brandon - SysAdmin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ethernet buffers and network problems Date: 28 Apr 1997 12:22:25 GMT Organization: University of Glasgow Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k24q1$19r@singer.cent.gla.ac.uk> Hi all, Our master netinfo server has started to crash regularly (like nearly every night) with enrx: no network buffers It's a black cube, running 3.3 patched. It had the same problem while running 3.3 unpatched. 64MB RAM, plenty of HD space. It serves a 3-level domain, a total of about 40 NeXTs and NS/I systems. The result of this error is that the machine grinds to a halt, and loses contact with the rest of the network. This has happened at times when I have put a high network load on the machine (lots of Omniweb, RBrowser, SafetyNet etc), so I have eased up a bit on those things. But most regularly it crashes out at seemingly random times overnight. It occasionally does the same thing, unprovoked, during the day. I have got tcpdump running on another cube, and have tried to trace packets being sent to it, to identify any host that might be flooding it. So far that has not turned up anything, except that at least once it has crashed on a scheduled cron job of quotaing (sizing) all user accounts during the night (user accounts are stored on other machines on the network, nfs mounted). This is not consistent behaviour though. It has been suggested that bad connections on the ethernet (electrical problems maybe) could be interpreted as real packets by the ethernet interface on the machine. But only this machine seems to be having the problems... surely this would affect all machines on the network? I get the server to log "date" into a file every 15 minutes to gauge exactly when it crashes -- this helps a bit. But I am no closer to finding out why this happens. I was told that netstat -m gives the ethernet buffer situation (thanks NeXT support!). Ok, that's interesting... the % "in use" (what is this? number of buffers in use out of total? Percentage of allocated memory in use?) seems to fluctuate in a strange way. It certainly goes up if I do nfs-intensive activity (like my quotaing stuff) but then takes a while to go back down again after the script is finished. The usual % in use is around 70-80%, but this rises into the high 90s at times. I assume that when the machines crashes, that that is when it reaches 100%. On our Intel machines, the figure is in the 30s. I had the idea that the nbuf command on bootup controlled the amount of memory available for buffers. Without the nbuf command, 254 buffers get allocated. On another machine, I tried varying nbuf and looking at the effect that this has on netstat -m. Well, nbuf=1 prevented the machine from booting, but any other figure *seemed* to have no effect on the % thing which stayed reasonably constant. At the moment I have set nbuf on the affected machine to a somewhat lower figure, hoping that simply making a change might make a difference. It hasn't helped. (in any case, the only logical change to nbuf would be to increase it, not decrease it, but it doesn't go past 254 I don't think). Can anyone help me please? What I want to know is: 1) How do I increase the amount of network buffers available? 2) How can I trace exactly what is using the buffers that are available? 3) Have other people had this problem? 4) Could it be caused by aging hardware on this one machine? It is the only machine on our network that has this problem, though the fact that it is the master NetInfo server makes it look a bit too much of a coincidence. 5) Can anyone explain all the figures in the netstat -m command, or point me to an info on them? 6) Are any of these figures related to the particular ethernet card you use if you are on Intel? Questions, questions. NeXT tech support recommended that I don't upgrade to 4.0 or 4.1 on this machine (4.2 might be ok), but that 4.2 on a new Intel (my suggestion) would be the best. Stephen Brandon Systems Administrator, Department of Music, e-mail:S.Brandon@music.gla.ac.uk 14 University Gardens, (NeXT mail welcomed) University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6065 Glasgow. Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3518 Scotland
From: Marcos Polanco <marcos@imana.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Can't boot single user. Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:55:47 -0700 Organization: Imana, Inc. Message-ID: <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm running NS3.3 on a Nextstation slab. The problem here is that my machine refuses to boot claiming: / file system is full vnode_pageout: failed! Or something close to the above. I can't even get into the machine single user. So I'm locked out. Anyone experience this before? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance, - marcos -- Marcos J. Polanco Imana, Inc. 415.436.9700 tel 480 Potrero Ave. 415.436.9793 fax San Francisco, CA 94110 marcos@imana.com http://www.imana.com
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite Error Date: Mon, 28 Apr 97 18:19:25 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5k2ppe$g2m@news.jump.net> References: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> Finally figured it out. Apparently (probably due to me) the Root's home dir got set to /root instead of /. Fixed this using NU and it works fine now. Matt In article <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net>, mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) wrote: >System: Mono Turbo Station, NS 3.3 User > >When I try to set the LoginWindow to display the hostname (perthe FAQ) by >typing: > >dwrite loginwindow HostName WildNeXT > >I get the following error: >dwrite: Couldn't write into database > >Any suggestions? > >Matt >please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: dturren@dukebar.crml.uab.edu (Don Turrentine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UDP ports for netinfo Date: 28 Apr 1997 19:09:04 GMT Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Message-ID: <5k2skg$c89@maze.dpo.uab.edu> What are the UDP port numbers that netinfo use? I have about a dozen machines that I need to temporarily set up on a new segment and do not want to set up a new netinfo server or domain. I was told that the ports were 666, 667 ,668 about a year ago in this newsgroup. I am using version 2.2 and 3.0 on the old black hardware. Please e-mail - Don -- Don Turrentine, Network Specialist University of Alabama Health Services Foundation 301 South 20th Street LNB 201 Birmingham, AL 35233 (205) 731-9666 Direct (205) 731-9856 Fax dturrent@uabmc.edu
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 00:05:54 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote in article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira>... > > > I've got a crossover cable (and a hub if I want to use that). > I've got a slab, I'll have an Intel soon. > I want to figure out some various things about Networking these two > machines. > > I've read the online info & NeXTanswers, and they make it sound liket it's > really easy to setup my own Network. Nonetheless, I'd like to hear from > some folks as to some 'gotchas' they've come across, as well as answer > some (probably simple) networking questions I have. > A quick fix to get out of the hole you will inevitably find yourself in. A virgin copy of your /etc/netinfo directory is kept in /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo. Copy this entire directory into /etc and you will rectify damn near anything submitted to netinfo. This includes bad passwords, bad/lost domain controllers, bad subnet masks, etc. You will lose you own password but not your preferences. 'me' will also lose it's password Also backup your hostconfig before you start. > One quick q: if I have 2 connected machines, should one be 192.42.172.1 > and the other 192.42.172.2? (One of these machines will occasionally link > to the 'net via PPP). > > - what if I get a static IP from my ISP? What IP should I give > the other one? (192.42.172.1?) > The following is open to conjecture by more experienced net heads. Be aware that once you connect up it is possible that your IP address will become visible to the outside world. So although one of your addresses is static the other may be in use by someone else on the net. It is important to use addresses that either are not routed across the net like 10... addresses. Also check how you are routing your traffic to the net.
From: Ryan Watkins <vamp@vamp.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 28 Apr 1997 17:03:19 -0700 Message-ID: <x6iv1666gn.fsf@zero.dimensionx.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Cc: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > One quick q: if I have 2 connected machines, should one be 192.42.172.1 > and the other 192.42.172.2? (One of these machines will occasionally link > to the 'net via PPP). > > - what if I get a static IP from my ISP? What IP should I give > the other one? (192.42.172.1?) > > I'm not trying to do anything too fancy, just be able to rcp/rsh/rlogin, > maybe NFS a few directories, print from the Intel to the slab (I think > I've got info on this already from someone here).... maybe send email from > slab-->Intel (ie Intel will be PPP host, I'll want to be able to send > email from the slab to someone on the 'net and have it get there). I presume what you want to do is setup the ethernet interface on each machine as an IP from the reserved private IP block. I currently use 192.168.* for all the machines on my private network. (ex 192.168.1.1 for one machine and 192.168.1.2 for the other) Then use whatever IP address you get from your ISP for the PPP interface. You can then telnet/nfs/etc between the two machines using the private 192.168.* network. If you need to access something on the internet from the second machine (not directly connected) you can setup a telnet or http proxy service on the machine thats got the PPP connection and connect thru it to the outside. -- Ryan L. Watkins "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' Web Overlord label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad vamp@dimensionx.com old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance www.dimensionx.com of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." - Tim Berners-Lee
From: mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 05:32:10 GMT Organization: WorldWide Access (tm) - Midwestern Internet Services http://www.wwa.com Message-ID: <3365865a.4425653@news.wwa.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >I've got a crossover cable (and a hub if I want to use that). >I've got a slab, I'll have an Intel soon. >I want to figure out some various things about Networking these two >machines. > >I've read the online info & NeXTanswers, and they make it sound liket it's >really easy to setup my own Network. Nonetheless, I'd like to hear from >some folks as to some 'gotchas' they've come across, as well as answer >some (probably simple) networking questions I have. > Another thing you'll want to learn (before you really need to) is how to boot single user mode. This will be required for backing out some kinds of configuration errors. On my machine (Intel Hardware, configured w/ NextStep3.3, Windoze95, NT4.0) I hit ? at the "boot:" prompt, then type "hd()mach_kernel -s". On a Turbo Slab, you would hit Command-Tilde when the first beep happens during boot, then type "bsd -s" at the prompt.
From: mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 05:37:01 GMT Organization: WorldWide Access (tm) - Midwestern Internet Services http://www.wwa.com Message-ID: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey Next People! Has anyone got a NE2000 clone ethernet card working with NS3.3? I have located a driver for 3.2 which seems to be a port of the Linux NEX000 driver. Can this be used with 3.3? I'd love to hear from anyone who has 3.3 working with an ne2000 ethernet card... Thanks, Matt Krueger mkrueger@wwa.com
From: marcel@system.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 05:50:53 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k427t$6vq$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <3365865a.4425653@news.wwa.com> In article <3365865a.4425653@news.wwa.com> mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) writes: > Another thing you'll want to learn (before you really need to) is how > to boot single user mode. This will be required for backing out some > kinds of configuration errors. On my machine (Intel Hardware, > configured w/ NextStep3.3, Windoze95, NT4.0) I hit ? at the "boot:" > prompt, then type "hd()mach_kernel -s". On a Turbo Slab, you would > hit Command-Tilde when the first beep happens during boot, then type > "bsd -s" at the prompt. Just typing '-s' in either case will suffice. Or at least has for me. Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr Subject: Cant see my posts with CNews? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <E9E5Ls.8uA@x-lan.alienor.fr> Sender: news@x-lan.alienor.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: x&lan Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:44:15 GMT Ive installed CNews on NS 3.3 and an Intel machine. Ive made a local newsgroup and managed to compose some news. The news appear in the in.coming directory but when newrun is launched from the crontab (or by hand) they move to dead.article. In the log file the error message is :" no Message-ID: header". And in fact there is no Message-ID : header in the files in in.comming. So what to do for having a Message-ID : header ??? Thanks for help. -- --------------------------------------- | O_O | O_O -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Fred Galot fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr
From: comuboma <comuboma@bologna.nettuno.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:17:47 +0200 (METDST) Organization: NETTuno Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.90.970429151720.11868C-100000@bologna.nettuno.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I'm trying to backup my next (harware intel), but I don't know this warning: DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: the hard disk is QUANTUM XP34550W 4,5 giga partioned in thre zone: /dev/sd0a 2049247 1328240 516082 72% / /dev/sd0c 1146343 9 1031699 0% /extend /dev/sd0b 1146343 402707 629001 39% /extend2 Can anyone offer some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Stefano Sola ------------------------------ rsh funes /usr/etc/rdump 0usf 500000 uqbar:/dev/nrst9 funes:/ DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Apr 29 13:35:29 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/nrst9 on host uqbar DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 1374126 tape blocks on 0.16 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: 6.36% done, finished in 1:13 DUMP: 12.91% done, finished in 1:07 DUMP: 19.52% done, finished in 1:01 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 223016]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 199746]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 201536]: count=2048, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 202432]: count=8192, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 204217]: count=7168, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 223912]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 225696]: count=8192, got=-1 DUMP: 25.20% done, finished in 0:59 DUMP: 31.98% done, finished in 0:53 DUMP: 39.00% done, finished in 0:46 DUMP: 45.70% done, finished in 0:41 DUMP: 52.76% done, finished in 0:35 DUMP: 59.96% done, finished in 0:30 DUMP: 67.12% done, finished in 0:24 DUMP: 68.13% done, finished in 0:25 DUMP: 74.44% done, finished in 0:20 DUMP: 81.10% done, finished in 0:15
From: Erik Evensen <erik@avalon.harvard.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Date: 29 Apr 1997 09:18:30 -0400 Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Message-ID: <to4tcqhsrd.fsf@avalon.harvard.edu> References: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) writes: > Has anyone got a NE2000 clone ethernet card working with NS3.3? I > have located a driver for 3.2 which seems to be a port of the Linux > NEX000 driver. Can this be used with 3.3? I'd love to hear from > anyone who has 3.3 working with an ne2000 ethernet card... Hi, I think I'm using the driver to which you are refering in my NS3.3 system. It works except for one big problem: it appears that when I try to access the network and the disk (Seagate Barracuda on an Symbios (NCR) 810 controller) the machine locks up solid and I have to hit the hardware reset to get the thing back. I haven't had the time to muck around looking for the solution to this problem; has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix for it? Thanks! --erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu Subject: Drives stopped mounting on boot! HELP! Message-ID: <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:49:34 GMT Oddly enough, whenever I reboot now, nothing mounts but my root drive (/dev/sd0a), and the thing drops into a single-user shell, where I then have to manually mount sd1a and sd2a, then continue. From there, everything seems to be fine (well, except that no one can access /etc/utmp, which also seems strange). Anyhow, my fstab is still there and still correct, so does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Thanks much, Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x Message-ID: <E9EJA3.L0@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <01bc5395$03ddc7b0$09b429ce@fisher> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:39:39 GMT "Steve Loranz" <sloranz@king.net> wrote: >Has anybody built BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x? I running into problems There is a BIND-4.9.5 installer package which I created in directory: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet Note, that this is a binary-only package and it only replaces named, nslookup and such, it does not install a new libresolv.a or header files. The new named and nslookup do use the BIND 4.9.5 libresolv.a (if I recall correctly). The reason is as follows: NeXT's resolver functions (gethostbyname() and such) are Netinfo-aware, but they still keep the BIND names. Which means that installing (and using) a libresolv.a from BIND would make Netinfo unavailable for programs linked with libresolv.a. NeXT's BIND installation is special, they have renamed all functions to something like _res_gethostbyname(), and the Netinfo-aware functions (like gethostbyname()) call these functions. If I had enough time, I would probably create a way to make a NeXT MachOS compatible libresolv.a that would give you a way to upgrade to BIND 4.9.5 seamlessly. But I do not know what all the naming conventions for NeXT's adaptation of BIND are, so thus far I have kept that project on hold. If someone can give me a reliable mapping between BIND names (like gethostbyname()) and NeXT names for BIND functions (like _res_gethostbyname()), I'll create a complete installer package, also for Developer installations. And don't forget, NeXT's istallation is multiple-architecture (with several endiannesses), so it is quite a bit of work to get the stuff transparantly working. If I only had the time to do it, I would. So far, let's keep it at named and nslookup, that at least gives you the extra security of running BIND 4.9.5. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Can't boot single user. Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:42:11 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5k58d3$meu@xmission.xmission.com> References: <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Marcos Polanco <marcos@imana.com> wrote: : Hello, : I'm running NS3.3 on a Nextstation slab. The problem here is that my : machine refuses to boot claiming: : / file system is full : vnode_pageout: failed! : Or something close to the above. I can't even get into the machine : single user. So I'm locked out. Anyone experience this before? Your help : is much appreciated. This happened to me once. I had to remove the disk from the slab, install it in another machine, then remove files by hand to clear up some space. ...............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 18:04:23 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5k5d77$c0f$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> In article <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> writes: > A quick fix to get out of the hole you will inevitably find yourself in. A > virgin copy of your /etc/netinfo directory is kept in > /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo. ..... Here's another hint for keeping your NetInfo safe: I always keep an up-to-date text version of my NetInfo databases. I do cd /etc/netinfo; nidump -r / . >ni.local nudump -r / / >ni.network These can be hand-edited if necessary and used to rebuild the NetInfo database. However, it's rather tricky as NetInfo needs to be already running in order to rebuild the databases from the text files. What I do is boot single user, copy the virgin netinfo templates to my local.nidb and network.nidb directories (in /etc/netinfo), run an rc.emergency script to bring up the services essential to running NetInfo, run nibindd (which starts the local and network netinfo services using the virgin templates, and finally do niload -d -r / . </etc/netinfo/ni.local niload -d -r / / </etc/netinfo/ni.network to restore my original NetInfo databases. Here's my emergency script: #!/bin/sh -v # # rc.emergency # Emergency script to start rudimentary network services and NetInfo # /usr/etc/nmserver -nonet # remove this line if you're on an m68k box... /usr/etc/driverLoader a sh /etc/rc.net -h sh /etc/rc.swap mount -vat 4.3 /usr/etc/mach_swapon -av /bin/rm -f /dev/log /usr/etc/syslogd /etc/hostconfig /usr/etc/portmap /usr/etc/route add default $ROUTER 1 (echo "Type /usr/etc/nibindd to start netinfo services") >/dev/console (echo "Type /usr/etc/lookupd to start lookup services") >/dev/console -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr Subject: Re: Cant see my posts with CNews? Message-ID: <E9EK2D.9FJ@x-lan.alienor.fr> Sender: news@x-lan.alienor.fr Organization: x&lan References: <E9E5Ls.8uA@x-lan.alienor.fr> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:56:37 GMT It was a very stupid question.... the mailname file and the server file were empty..... -- --------------------------------------- | O_O | O_O -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Fred Galot fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:44:16 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5k5j2g$113g@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> <5k5d77$c0f$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> >Here's another hint for keeping your NetInfo safe: > I always keep an up-to-date text version of my NetInfo databases. I do > cd /etc/netinfo; > nidump -r / . >ni.local > nudump -r / / >ni.network > ... Or just cp -rp /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.backup cp -p /etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig.backup cp -p /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup When necessary boot single user, copy them back, and reboot. - Gareth
From: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 29 Apr 1997 09:40:50 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, I've just setup a small network with a NetInfoServer and wondered, why there's a difference in the screenlayout depending on, on wich machine I log me in. I've customized the dock and the FileViewer of my login on one machine and hoped I would find the same, when I login on another host, but I haven't. Instead the dock presented himself in the template-format with the Librarien and Edit Icon on it and in the FileViewer I even didn't see my HomeIcon (single House) but only the Icon of the host. Why this? Does anyone has an idea? Andreas Hoeschler
From: Igor van Oostveen <igorvo@euronet.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't Connect PS printer over Ethernet Date: 30 Apr 1997 01:11:30 GMT Organization: err...dinges... Message-ID: <3366BA51.53E7@euronet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit More specifically, I can't even select anything other than serial connection... BTW I am runnin 3.2 on Black Hardware...but the Print Manager says it's version 3.0 ? huh? I installed the correct PPD for the printer. Switched Appletalk on and off, both of them didn' work. Any help greatly appreciated... ....Thanks, Igor (please mail direct: igorvo@euronet.nl)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 23:34:59 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cnNfrXe00iWZQIC=BG@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 29-Apr-97 DOCK and FileViewer not ide.. by Andreas Hoeschler@lynet. > I've just setup a small network with a NetInfoServer and wondered, why > there's a difference in the screenlayout depending on, on wich machine I log > me in. I've customized the dock and the FileViewer of my login on one > machine and hoped I would find the same, when I login on another host, > but I haven't. Is the filesystem which contains your home directory NFS exported and is the second machine mounting it correctly? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't Connect PS printer over Ethernet Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:27:33 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202633.8736F-100000@kira> References: <3366BA51.53E7@euronet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Igor van Oostveen <igorvo@euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <3366BA51.53E7@euronet.nl> > BTW I am runnin 3.2 on Black Hardware...but the Print Manager says it's > version 3.0 ? huh? I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 and PrintManager says it's version 3.0... They don't necessarily change the apps for each version of the OS TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 30 Apr 1997 04:32:59 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k6i1r$t60$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202511.8736E-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202511.8736E-100000@kira> On 04/29/97, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >Do they share the same path to your $HOME? Are they running the same >version of the OS? > >Just guessin' > >TjL One other possible cause might be that one machine is running NEXTSTEP and the other is running OpenStep.. the name of the directory that defaults are stored in got moved when they moved from NS to OS.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 30 Apr 1997 07:40:52 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5k6t24$1mg@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> Andreas Hoeschler writes > Hello, > > I've just setup a small network with a NetInfoServer and wondered, why > there's a difference in the screenlayout depending on, on wich machine I log > me in. I've customized the dock and the FileViewer of my login on one machine > and hoped I would find the same, when I login on another host, but I haven't. > Instead the dock presented himself in the template-format with the Librarien > and Edit Icon on it and in the FileViewer I even didn't see my HomeIcon > (single House) but only the Icon of the host. > Why this? Does anyone has an idea? > > Andreas Hoeschler Different screen resolutions lead to different dock layout. Very clever, isn't it? Robert -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
Subject: NFS from SGI to NeXT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vincent@sente.epfl.ch (Vincent Kohler) Message-ID: <33674788.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Date: 30 Apr 97 13:22:16 GMT Hi, I experienced something strange with NFS. We just tried to mount a shared dir from an SGI (IRIX 6.2) to OPENSTEP 4.1 and NS3.3 machine. The mounted dir behaves strangely. When we try to copy, say the Draw project from the developer examples into the shared dir and begin to compile it, some file disappear (i.e Group.h is not visible any more), and the compilation fails. Uh ? The same with the NS3.3 machine. As soon as we try to access the directory (a simple ls -al into a Terminal) and some file disappear... Anybody has any idea ? Vincent K. -- ---------------------------------------- Vincent Kohler vincent@sente.epfl.ch (NextMail welcome) Sen:te Parc Scientifique - EPFL - Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu Subject: UPDATE: Re: Drives stopped mounting on boot! HELP! In-Reply-To: fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu's message of Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:49:34 GMT Message-ID: <ukvhggoa9ia.fsf_-_@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:08:29 GMT fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu said: > > Oddly enough, whenever I reboot now, nothing mounts but my root drive > (/dev/sd0a), and the thing drops into a single-user shell, where I then > have to manually mount sd1a and sd2a, then continue. From there, everything > seems to be fine (well, except that no one can access /etc/utmp, which also > seems strange). > > Anyhow, my fstab is still there and still correct, so does anyone have any > idea what's happening here? Just an update: Turns out that the machine is complaining about not being able to access the kernel namelist (i.e., /mach), and this is apparently what causes the machine to drop into a single-user shell during boot. I've collected an exhaustive list of all the files I've changed this month, and checked the file permissions on the kernel files, and I can't come to any better conclusion that I somehow thrashed /mach. Sooooo...I'm going to reinstall the system tonight, which should fix the problem (and hopefully leave my config in place). I'll let everyone know if this solves the problem. Thanks again Mark
From: "John Hills" <jhills@ultranet.ca> Subject: Re: Where are all the extras in 3.3? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software References: <33614977.6DB8@xsf.com> Message-ID: <01bc5581$352cc580$8cbf66cf@kyushu.infoserve.net> Date: 30 Apr 97 16:18:10 GMT Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> wrote in article <33614977.6DB8@xsf.com>... > Hello all, > > I recently installed 3.3 User on an HP and am enjoying it so far. I > hadn't used > NeXTSTEP for a long time, but as I recall, it used to come with lots of > extra > niceities. Things like Shakespeare's writings, Oxford Dictionary of > Quotations, > WriteNow, Mathematica, Allegro Common Lisp, and Sybase's SQL server, > etc. What > happened to all this cool stuff? > > Kevin The operative phrase is "used to come with". They've all been dropped. BTW my NS2.0 OD is futzed and thanks to an inadequate backup strategy (fixed) I lost my copy of WriteNow. If anyone out there would be kind enough to send it to me, I'd be v.grateful. I'm sure it would be legal, since I still have my old 1.0 and 2.0 ODs. The Date App from 2.0 would be nice too.... John Hills jhills@ultraserve.ca
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting up next to be an lpr server Date: 30 Apr 1997 16:30:20 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5k7s2s$f8a$1@news5.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have NS3.3 black hardware and a next postscript laser printer. I have it and my windows NT machine happily on the network at my house. I can telnet to the next and ftp etc.... I would like to make the next printer show up as a printer that the NT machine can print to as an lpr type printer. Can anyone help me with the steps needed to do this? I'd be happy to write a section for the FAQ when I have it figured out. thanks vince ed various ways of making the printer known as a service, but still no success. So I gave up. Be interested to hear how you get it to work, if you do. Barney (delete that _see_sig to email me)
From: kykim@access2.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ESS1x88 Audio Driver problems Date: 30 Apr 1997 13:00:34 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Message-ID: <5k7tri$6on@access2.digex.net> Summary: sound works a few times, then stops Hi all, I'm using the ESS 1x88 driver on my Toshiba Portege 610CT (which has an ESS688 chip built-in) running NS 3.3. Sounds will play a few times, then stop. It then won't play any sounds until I power off and restart the machine. A restart won't fix it. I hate to have to power off my machine all the time to get sounds working. And I would really like to be able to play sounds. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, -kevin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Message-ID: <1997Apr30.111722.26585@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 30 Apr 97 11:17:22 MDT References: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> Distribution: world Cc: mkrueger@wwa.com In <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> Matt Krueger wrote: > Hey Next People! > > Has anyone got a NE2000 clone ethernet card working with NS3.3? I > have located a driver for 3.2 which seems to be a port of the Linux > NEX000 driver. Can this be used with 3.3? I'd love to hear from > anyone who has 3.3 working with an ne2000 ethernet card... > I have used this driver under 3.3 for a while with no problems. There is a new driver of the peak ftp archive, which might be better. I have yet to try it... -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble with DPT2012 SCSI and upgrading to NEXTSTEP3.3 Date: 30 Apr 1997 17:26:13 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k7vbl$r7i@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Keywords: DPT2012 EISA SCSI Disk controller Hi, I have a problem upgrading several servers from NEXTSTEP 3.2 to 3.3. After three years of extremely reliable operation I tried to upgrade from 3.2 and was totally frustrated by the problems I've run into. Systems: Dell 4066/XE (i486DX2-66MHz CPU's 32MB RAM) DPT 2012 SCSI disk controllers Integrated (on mother board) S3-805 graphics adapter and Intel EtherExpress16 NIC's I ran the upgrader and things went very smoothly... I rebooted and the system hangs trying to find the DPT2012 controller... so I twiddle the hostfig file in single user mode and reboot with config=Default and it works OK. I run Configure.app and select the drivers to match my hardware config and reboot... and again it hangs.... A couple of things I've found... The Instance0.table file for the driver contains the following line: "Auto Detect IDs" = "0x1214a410"; The Default.table does NOT. On boot up under 3.2 this shows up in /usr/adm/messages: .. mach: CPU: EISA id 10ac0036 .. mach: slot 8: EISA id 1214a402 Do I drop the Auto Detect IDs line from the Instance0.table or add the ID that the DPT 2012 claims? And, yes, I know I should get the 3.32 version of the driver... but its *.table files appear to be similar to the v3.30 files. Any advice gratefully accepted, Milo -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology Services -- Network Services University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting up next to be an lpr server Date: 30 Apr 1997 19:36:51 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5k870j$21je@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5k7s2s$f8a$1@news5.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) wrote: >I have NS3.3 black hardware and a next postscript laser printer. I >have it and my windows NT machine happily on the network at my >house. I can telnet to the next and ftp etc.... I would like to make >the next printer show up as a printer that the NT machine can print to >as an lpr type printer. Run samba on the NeXT and export your printer. It'll also allow your NT box to access the NeXT's filesystem (run rumba to get your NeXT to access NT's filesystem). - Gareth
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS from SGI to NeXT Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:59:40 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3367A4AC.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <33674788.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vincent Kohler wrote: > > Hi, > > I experienced something strange with NFS. > > We just tried to mount a shared dir from an SGI (IRIX 6.2) to OPENSTEP > 4.1 and NS3.3 machine. The mounted dir behaves strangely. > When we try to copy, say the Draw project from the developer examples > into the shared dir and begin to compile it, some file disappear (i.e > Group.h is not visible any more), and the compilation fails. Uh ? > > The same with the NS3.3 machine. As soon as we try to access the > directory (a simple ls -al into a Terminal) and some file disappear... > > Anybody has any idea ? > > Vincent K. > If your SGI is exporting a filesystems internally managed by xfs this bug is well known. There was a longer thread in comp.sys.next.sysadmin and comp.sys.sgi.bugs on this topic. I have figured out (with the help of serveral people at SGI and NeXT) exactly what the problem is. Both companies agree that it's NeXT's turn to patch their mach kernel. NeXT has even done a first version of a kernel patch for two of their main customers. Unfortunately NeXT is not willing to spend any time on it and this patch seems not to be published or finished any more. I recommend to complain at your dealer and directly at NeXT. As it looks like in the moment nothing will happen until Rhapsody is out. (So no more NeXTStep Apps, only OpenStep and Mac Apps are going to run in connection with NFS from SGI for ever !) As I'm not very happy about this, see the official answer to Bug Report109248 below. Stefan -------------------------- cut ------------------------- From: Kenneth Topka <ktopka@next.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 97 14:42:29 -0700 To: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de Subject: [109646] NFS from SGI to NeXT:Bug Report109248 Reply-To: appendlog@next.com, ktopka@next.com Hi Stefan, Here is the response from the senior engineer responsible for the kernel patch. The bottom line is no - the patch is not available. Further explanation is given below: This can get tricky. With some genuine engingeering efforts I am confident we could isolate the problem in the recursive commands - then we would be able to distribute a patch at some level. I was under extreme pressure to provide a patch to two major customers at the time - hence, I resorted to a temporary fix that was supposed to be followed up with it being fixed in 4.2 (then I would provide a proper patch for 3.3, 4.1, 4.0). However... because of Rhapsody there hasn't been much effort to get this fixed for 4.2. To summarise: the kernel is fixed - there remains some invesitgation as to why recursive filesystem commands return bogus information with this kernel. Chances are that if we supply this patch to your customer then they will find problems with it (eg: the install command I replace has different options to ours). Again, not something I want to deal with until Rhapsody. If we did get a proper fix to the problem with the recursive commands, and engineering OK-ed the kernel changes, then I'd put together a backpatch for 3.3, 4.0, 4.1. Then I'd say we could offer the patch to almost everyone. Unfortunately, this is not likely to happen anytime soon. Ken Topka - NeXT/Apple Tech Support -------------------------------- cut --------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ /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: mwatson@next.com (Matt Watson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 30 Apr 1997 20:07:01 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k88p5$fqb@news.next.com> References: <5k6i1r$t60$1@news.digifix.com> The dock defaults are preserved on a screen-size basis. So, if you log into a machine with 1024x768 screen, then to a (perhaps the same) machine with a 1280x1024 screen, you'll get different docks. matt.
From: michael@curie (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: dread and dwrite problems Date: 30 Apr 1997 19:22:49 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5k8669$2dk@corporate.hesta.com> I am having some flaky behavior on one of our systems running 3.3intel. When I try to dread or dwrite I get the following: # dread -l dread: Can't open defaults database # dwrite loginwindow ImageFile /LocalLibrary/Images/LoginScreens/nextlogin.Computerstack.4.0.tiff dwrite: Couldn't write into database # Plus it's the only terminal that won't show the hostname in the prompt line - which leads me to believe theirs something fishy... Any sugestions? -- Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Date: 30 Apr 1997 20:53:24 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Hi, I am being plagued by these errors every 5 minutes and 36 seconds or so. Apr 30 16:22:13 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Apr 30 16:27:49 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Apr 30 16:33:26 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Rebooting doesn't help. I am running Intel NS 3.3 and the machine is set up to only use the local NetInfo domain. Anyone have any suggestions for what might be causing these messages? Cheers, Mark
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reformatting a single disk partition Date: 30 Apr 1997 22:00:03 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5k8fd3$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Hi, When I purchased my Intel machine I had the 2 GB disk divided into two partitions, one for NeXTSTEP and one for DOS. I never needed the DOS partition and don't intend to ever use it, so I would like to reclaim the space that it takes up. Is there are way to intall a NeXTSTEP filesystem over the DOS partition so that the partition can be mounted and accessible without reformatting the whole drive and losing the information that is in the current NS partition? Cheers, Mark
From: martin brouillette <martin.brouillette@gme.usherb.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem receiving mail Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 20:33:55 -0500 Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke Message-ID: <3367F302.1806@gme.usherb.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had to reinstall NS 3.3 from scratch and since then I am having problems with receiving mail. My slab is correctly (so it seems) hooked up to our network, and name service works fine. I can send messages without any problem but any message sent to me is returned to the sender after "too many hops" with the message from my computer that "service is unavailable." This happens with the two mail configurations that I tried: 1- mailhost is defined in NetInfo as the SMTP server on my network and I use "sendmail.subsidiary.cf" as the sendmail.cf file for my computer; 2- mailhost is defined as my computer and I use "sendmail.mailhost.cf" as the sendmail.cf file. In either case, the usr/spool/mail directory is not exported (it sits in my slab). Both of these configurations have the same (poor) performance. I wonder if this problem happened before and what could be the fix. TIA, Martin Brouillette martin.brouillette@gme.usherb.ca
From: gary@a-team.connectnet.com (s00p) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cube to MAC ?s Date: 1 May 1997 01:28:55 GMT Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <5k8rkn$cvl$1@news.connectnet.com> References: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> In-Reply-To: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> On 02/25/97, Bill Mitchell wrote: >At home: >The "new" cube, about 2 weeks old, has the following config... > > NeXTStep 3.0, 040, 8MB RAM, 650 MB HD > > >Cube sits next, no pun intended, to my MAC Performa 6400/180. > > 1. What/how is best method of connecting/sharing the 2? > > 2. Can I "share" the Performa's modem with the Cube? > > 3. Can I print from Cube to attached Apple inkjet 1500 printer? > > 4. Will the EXECUTOR emulater assist in these quests? > >Thanks in advance. All responses are greatly appreciated. > > >Bill Mitchell > What I am doing with my P5 (OS 4.1) and my Powermac 7600 is this. I have them both on a 10BaseT hub and set up using TCP/IP. If youw anted to get fancy you could get this freeware NFS server for the Mac and use drives on the Cube. If you wanna get really fancy crazy you can get a 3rd party AppleShare server for the Cube. As far as modem sharing I don't know, but I think a quality Appleshare server will let you shaer printers. Hope this helps. -- Gary Danko <gary@mail.pex.net>
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cube to MAC ?s Date: 1 May 1997 01:47:10 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5k8smu$oju$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> <5k8rkn$cvl$1@news.connectnet.com> you might try Frank's port of CAP Appletalk software.. he has a good description on it on his webpage.. http://www.this.net : > 1. What/how is best method of connecting/sharing the 2? : > probably ethernet for best performance.. Tim Luoma is working on hooking up with his with an Intel .. using a "null" ethernet cable.. that would be the cheapest way to do it.. email Tim luomat@peak.org. I prefer hubs but then again if it is side by side.. hubs can be bulky. : > 2. Can I "share" the Performa's modem with the Cube? : > you need a gateway software : > 3. Can I print from Cube to attached Apple inkjet 1500 printer? : > is 1500 in Postscript mode?? if not try to see if there is a 3rd party driver for it.. the situation is similiar to the Mac<>PC printer side.. NeXT OS needs Postscript compatible printers in order to work out of the box.. there is stuff like freeware port of ghostscript etc. Godwin
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS from 95 Box to NeXT Date: Thu, 01 May 97 02:24:33 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5k8uv1$1gb@news.jump.net> Well, I guess that sums it up. I am looking for a way to mount a directory or two from the NeXT to my 95 Box. Sharware / freeware software that would help would be great, or a way to do it natively would be better. Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sound Card Help Date: 1 May 1997 01:58:21 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5k8tbt$hbq@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I have purchased a P200 Pro that has a Soundblaster Vibra 16 PnP sound card. I am running NS 3.3 and can't get the card to be recognized while booting NS. The plug-n-play recognizes the card before given the NS boot option. Does anyone know if this card is supported with the drivers listed on NextAnswers? This card (Vibra) is a card made by creative labs for oems, but it is not a card they sell to the public. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- 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: Rich@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: All writers seeking publication Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 22:59:35 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Now*accepting <new> and <previously published> writers for publication. We are a NEW=YORK based international literary agency with three offices: 2 in NEW=YORK and one in <FLORIDA.> <Please follow guidelines for submission:> For ALL fiction, including screenplays for TV & Movies: Send us a <brief synopsis>, the first chapter, and include a self-addressed, stamped envelope=S.A.S.E. Short Stories: Send brief synopsis, 3 pages, S.A.S.E. Poetry: Send 3 poems, S.A.S.E. For ALL nonfiction: Send us a <brief synopsis>, the first chapter, and include a S.A.S.E. Do not send complete manuscript unless invited. <WOODSIDE=INTERNATIONAL=LITERARY=AGENCY> <Thirty Three Twenty Nine 58 St.> <Wood-Side, New York> <zip: 1.1.3.7.7> <(Tel)=={718}=651=8145>
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Date: 1 May 1997 04:04:22 GMT Control: cancel <5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Sender: Rich@aol.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Seek etc/remote entries on 040 for SupraFAX 14400 Date: 30 Apr 1997 22:39:49 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5k9ab5$hpj@slip.net> Hi, I'd like to use cu to dial into my ISP. I can't connect and I have a hunch that the source of the problem is that the machine is attempting to make a connection at the UNIX /etc/remote default baud rate of 9600. Ah, my ISP doesn't support anything less than 14400 and later I want to connect at rates faster than 14400 on another modem. I'm running an 040 cube with NS 3.3. Could someone send me the /etc/remote entries they are using for connections at faster speeds? Or is there a package which manages these entries? Also, I have Yyrid's package cables but it doesn't have a section on assigning these entries. If that can help somehow we can use that. Thanks, Emmett
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dwrites in OpenStep? Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:27:41 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Did something change with the defaults database in OpenStep? How do I access it now? Where can I get a list of these changes? DL didn't give much help.. Thanks TjL
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrites in OpenStep? Date: 1 May 1997 06:01:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k9bkl$1c0$1@news.digifix.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> On 04/30/97, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >Did something change with the defaults database in OpenStep? > >How do I access it now? > >Where can I get a list of these changes? DL didn't give much help.. > It moved.... I ended up making 1 sanguish wheel 9 Mar 11 02:31 .NeXT -> .OpenStep/@ 6 sanguish other 1024 Apr 30 23:48 .OpenStep/ so that I could have all my old stuff still there, and so that some older apps that use dwrites worked properly.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: lin@localhost.com (Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: None, 8, 1 Date: 1 May 1997 10:51:26 GMT Organization: Univ. of Maryland Message-ID: <5k9sje$d7s$1@hecate.umd.edu> Is there any way to get the serial port on a black NeXT box to accept connection with none parity, 8 bits data word and 1 stop bit ? adding p8 to gettytab has no effect at all.
From: ©6michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting up next to be an lpr server Date: 1 May 1997 14:01:23 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5ka7nj$5a4@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5k7s2s$f8a$1@news5.gte.net> <5k870j$21je@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu wrote: >Run samba on the NeXT and export your printer. It'll also allow your NT box >to access the NeXT's filesystem (run rumba to get your NeXT to access NT's >filesystem). > >- Gareth Well we *are* running Samba and yet when I print to the next printers it will only print one page of the document.... I can't seem to figure out why. Otherwise it works fabulously as as file sharing system!
From: rangmj@rice.edu (Moon J. Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> Control: cancel <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> Date: 1 May 1997 16:52:32 GMT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Message-ID: <5kahog$r8l$1@joe.rice.edu> cancel
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS from 95 Box to NeXT Date: 1 May 1997 17:23:30 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5kajii$2811@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <5k8uv1$1gb@news.jump.net> Cc: mseibert@ita1.inow.com Openstep 4.1 ships with a SAMBA server. SAMBA lets Openstep talk Windows native SMB protocol. However, I was baffled by Windows network administration, and rather than thow the stupid things out a window (I was tempted), I invested in PCNFS from FTP Inc. PCNFS makes your Windows 95/NT/3.11 machine understand standard NFS protocols. On a related note, does anyone know how to make PCNFS translate back slashes \ into forward slashes / for UNIX ?
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sound Card Help Date: 1 May 1997 17:26:18 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5kajnq$2812@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <5k8tbt$hbq@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Cc: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu In <5k8tbt$hbq@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Darryl L. James wrote: > I have purchased a P200 Pro that has a Soundblaster Vibra 16 PnP > sound card. I am running NS 3.3 and can't get the card to be > recognized while booting NS. The plug-n-play recognizes the card > before given the NS boot option. Does anyone know if this card is > supported with the drivers listed on NextAnswers? This card (Vibra) > is a card made by creative labs for oems, but it is not a card they > sell to the public. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > I have had good luck by disabling the PNP features of NeXTstep via Configure. I think there is a switch in the ISA driver. Is seems that Next and BIOS can not agree so it is better to let BIOS take care of PNP issues.
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From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Starting network by hand Date: 1 May 1997 22:34:49 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5kb5q9$l3c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I have two NeXTstations networked together. If I power up one by itself, it finds the network is down, and doesn't start up whatever it would otherwise. So when I power on the other NeXTstation, is can't connect to the other. I couldn't find any documentation on what to do in this circumstance. I tried running rc.net on the first NeXTstation, but oh brother, it causes routed to eat up CPUs and prevents a clean shutdown. I couldn't find an answer on DejaNews either. If anyone knows the RIGHT thing to do, please reply. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100, Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenXber@mhpXcc.edu <Delete the "X"s; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~Xaltenber/ <Delete the "X"> =======================================================================
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:26:08 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ok, I thought this was pretty simple: Two machines: slab and Intel. Intel is hooked to the net. I want to sync the Intel to the atomic clock and then sync the slab to the Intel... but when I do: /usr/etc/ntp -sf InteHostname I get recvfrom: Connection refused I figured this was in /etc/inetd.conf but I didn't see anything.. figured I'd ask before mucking with netInfo (which could muck up PPP) Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> < Greatly pleased with his NSFIP from Bifrost > http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrites in OpenStep? Date: 2 May 1997 03:33:24 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5kbna4$cid$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Did something change with the defaults database in OpenStep? >How do I access it now? For OPENSTEP apps, there is a new defaults system. The equivalent to dwrite/dread is now called defaults. Do a man on defaults. Also look for NSUserDefaults in Digital Librarian for programmer related info. NEXTSTEP 3.3 applications still store defaults in the old way and those defaults can still be accessed using dwrite/dread. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Date: 2 May 1997 03:51:40 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5kbocc$d92$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> <to4tcqhsrd.fsf@avalon.harvard.edu> Erik Evensen <erik@avalon.harvard.edu> wrote: >mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) writes: >> Has anyone got a NE2000 clone ethernet card working with NS3.3? I >> have located a driver for 3.2 which seems to be a port of the Linux >> NEX000 driver. > >I think I'm using the driver to which you are refering in my NS3.3 >system. It works except for one big problem: it appears that when >I try to access the network and the disk (Seagate Barracuda on an >Symbios (NCR) 810 controller) the machine locks up solid and I have >to hit the hardware reset to get the thing back. Buy a new network card. :-) The NE2000 in a modern system is just a bad idea. The prices of high performance NICs have dropped to a point where one should definitely get a Digital 21040 based 10mbps PCI network card for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. The NeXTanswer for the driver is: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2244.htmld/2244.html The explicitly supported cards are: Cogent EM960 PCI SMC PCI EtherPower (SMC 8432) Digital EtherWORKS Turbo PCI (DE435) Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card DANPEX PCI Ethernet (EN-9400P3) JCIS Condor (JC1260) Kingston EtheRx PCI Ethernet (KNE40T & KNE40BT) and the Digital 21140 driver (10/100Mbps) supports: Cogent EM100 Fast Ethernet Adapter Cogent EM110 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter SMC 9332 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter DEC DE500 Fast EtherWORKS PCI 10/100 Cogent EM110-T4 Fast Ethernet 10/100/BNC Adapter Neutronet (http://www.neutronet.com/) carries the Kingston EtheRx PCI 10BT card for $39.95 The combo version is $48.95, while the 10/100 is $68.95. The SMC EtherPower TP is $112.95. Personally, I have a Cogent EM960 combo which you should be able to find at any NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP hardware vendor like Bifrost Workstations (http://www.bifrostworks.com/). I can get over 900kbps on a quiet net with this card (the other end was a SPARC). My NeXTstation can only hit 450kbps and an Intel EtherExpress Pro ISA card is good for ~300kbps. (Raw throughput) It was about $140 at the time I bought it, but prices have dropped. Another vendor is JCIS - http://www.jcis.com/. They have their own card based on the 21040 - the JCIS Condor. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:22:08 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YnOSe0y00iWY01gwE2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 1-May-97 ntp on one of two machines .. by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > Two machines: slab and Intel. Intel is hooked to the net. I want to sync > the Intel to the atomic clock and then sync the slab to the Intel... but > when I do: > > /usr/etc/ntp -sf InteHostname > > I get > > recvfrom: Connection refused You have to run ntpd on the Intel machine in order to service NTP requests sent to it. > I figured this was in /etc/inetd.conf but I didn't see anything.. figured > I'd ask before mucking with netInfo (which could muck up PPP) ntpd normally runs forever; it's not started when NTP requests come in via inetd (although you could set it to run that way, as well, I suppose). The easiest way to start ntpd is to set the TIME variable in /etc/hostconfig to -AUTOMATIC-, or run HostManager.app and change the "Local..." configuration to "use Network time". -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 09:11:35 -0600 From: epeyton@cmg.fcnbd.com Subject: Upgraded to Openstep : lost my /dev/cufb? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: epeyton@cmg.fcnbd.com Hi all, I just finished upgrading my machine to Openstep 4.2pr1 (from NS3.3) and everything went fine... at least I thought it did until I tried to dial out with my machine. I am using DialUp.app and I also tried Gatekeeper however both give the same message /dev/cufb no such device. Now I've checked /dev and a cufb is there. I checked my Serial Ports in Configure and those were fine. I tried other serial port /dev/cufa and recieved the same problem. Everything was fine the day before I upgraded and I can dial out fine from my Win 95 side of the same machine. Does anyone have any ideas??? Please respond to my e-mail as well as my Usenet service is sporadic at best. Thanks, Eric Peyton epeyton@cmg.fcnbd.com -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help! Can't boot single user. Message-ID: <E9Js2D.2tK@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:37:25 GMT In article <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Marcos Polanco <marcos@imana.com> writes: > Hello, > > I'm running NS3.3 on a Nextstation slab. The problem here is that my > machine refuses to boot claiming: > > / file system is full > > vnode_pageout: failed! > > > Or something close to the above. I can't even get into the machine > single user. So I'm locked out. Anyone experience this before? Your help > is much appreciated. > This might happen when you're logged in as 'root' (including some deamon or batch) or rhe root filesystem isn't setup with correct overhead margins and someone overfills the filesystem. This filesystem will never boot again until you removed some files manually. For doing so you need an alternate boot drive. Either attach a boot drive externally (SCSI-ID 0) or attach your drive to a bootable machine. If you're really desperate and/or have a recent backup, doing a fresh NS installation would clear the disk... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Message-ID: <E9JrGA.2s5@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:24:10 GMT In article <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) writes: > Hi, > > I am being plagued by these errors every 5 minutes and 36 seconds > or so. > > Apr 30 16:22:13 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain > Apr 30 16:27:49 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain > Apr 30 16:33:26 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain > > Rebooting doesn't help. I am running Intel NS 3.3 and the machine > is set up to only use the local NetInfo domain. Anyone have any > suggestions for what might be causing these messages? > No, I don't believe you! Might be you think you only use 'local' but then you'd never get this error. Verify the 'serves' property of the entries in the /machines directory. I bet there is some './network' entry in it! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Drives stopped mounting on boot! HELP! Message-ID: <E9Jrns.2su@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:28:40 GMT In article <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu writes: > Oddly enough, whenever I reboot now, nothing mounts but my root > drive (/dev/sd0a), and the thing drops into a single-user shell, > where I then have to manually mount sd1a and sd2a, then continue. > From there, everything seems to be fine (well, except that no > one can access /etc/utmp, which also seems strange). > > Anyhow, my fstab is still there and still correct, so does anyone > have any idea what's happening here? > Might be you garbeled some access rights. Possibly dropped an s-bit or changed ownership... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,control From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Message-ID: <cancel.5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> Control: cancel <5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> no reply ignore Organization: Semi-Automatic Lupine Remover Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:20:40 GMT Sender: hinda ann kolansky<ayala20@prodigy.net> ignore Make Money Fast post canceled by J. Porter Clark.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl (Mark F. Vlems) Subject: What is the meaning of mach_kernel files with different sizes? Message-ID: <1997May2.174833.932@vbox.xs4all.nl> Sender: mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl (Mark F. Vlems) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 17:48:33 GMT Howdy, I was looking around on my intel OPENSTEP 4.0 and found the following. Can anybody explain these differences? What about the kernel files that won't fit on a floppy? TIA, Mark vbox:51# ls -l /*mach* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 9 Nov 12 1994 /mach -> $BOOTFILE@ -r--r--r-- 2 root 1019556 Apr 22 1996 /mach_kernel vbox:52# ls -l /private/tftpboot/*mach* -r--r--r-- 2 root 1019556 Apr 22 1996 /private/tftpboot/mach_kernel vbox:53# ls -l /OPENSTEP_4.0/*mach lrwxrwxrwx 1 mvlems 9 May 11 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/mach -> $BOOTFILE@ -r--r--r-- 2 mvlems 3284900 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/mach_kernel -r--r--r-- 3 mvlems 832196 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/odmach -r--r--r-- 3 mvlems 832196 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/sdmach vbox:54# ls -l /OPENSTEP_4.0/private/tftpboot/*mach* -r--r--r-- 3 mvlems 832196 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/private/tftpboot/mach -r--r--r-- 2 mvlems 3284900 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/private/tftpboot/mach_kernel -- Mark F. Vlems Poor is the man, MIME Mail OK Whose pleasures depend NeXTMail preferred! On the permission of another. Fax: +31 (0) 23 5622368 Madonna in "Justify my love", 1990
From: chris@computerActive.com (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: me account and auto-login Date: 2 May 1997 16:18:34 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login (ie when 'me' has no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? --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 http://www.computerActive.com/ | FAX: (613)225-1670 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The telephone was not invented by Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: vi segmentation fault Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 13:47:18 -0700 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It wasn't doing it before...as they say. **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: hinda ann kolansky<ayala20@prodigy.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Date: 2 May 1997 16:40:05 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Corp Message-ID: <5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> ****Make up to $50,000 in 4 weeks! 100% leagal**** NO SCAM!!! Make $50,000 in 4 weeks! This system works! NOT A SCAM... Read the text! This is the fairest, most honest way I have seen to share in the wealth of the world! This works so well that all of my friends are trying it! Take five minutes to read this and it IT'LL change your life if you want to know how to make thousands of dollars quickly, and leagally with NO CATCH, then keep reading. THe internet has grown tremendously. it doubles in size every 4 months. Think about it. YOu see those "make money fast" postings more and more. Thats becasue it works! So I thought, all those new users might make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides, whats $5 and a little effort on your behalf?? Everyone was calling it a scam, but there are soany new users from AOL, NETCOM, etc. that they will join in and make it work for you. just follow these simple steps: STEP ONE Invest your $5 by writing your name and address on five seperate sheets of paper along wit the words: "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST." (in this way you are not just sending a dollar bill to someone, you are paying for a legimate service.) Also on each of the sheets of paper indicate the number of the person. Fold a $1 bill inside each piece of paper with your name and address on it. Ensure that when the dollar is folded in between the paper and it is held up to light, THE DOLLAR SHOULD NOT BE VISABLE! 1) Odd Hilsen Avda Espana 93 Sitio de Calahonda Mijias Costa- Malaga SPAIN 2) Peter Kjoge Camino de la Condesa 9, 5-A E-29640 Fuengirola SPAIN 3) Bob Tomlinson 3208 21st Sioux City, La 51105 USA 4) Alex Tikhanoff 1636 n. Verdugo rd. Glendale Ca. 91208 apt.202 USA 5) hinda kolansky 49-35 167 st flushing ny 11365 usa STEP TWO Now remove the top name from the list, and move the other names up. This way, #5 becomes #4 and so o. Put your name as the fifth one on the list. STEP 3 Post the article to at least 250 newsgroups. There are at least 19000 newsgroups at any given moment in time. Try posting to as many newsgroups as you can. Remember, the more newsgroups you post to, the greater your audience and cash flow from all these subscribers. STEP 4 You are now in business for yourself, and should start seeing returns within 7 to 14 days! Remember, the internet is new and awesome in its size. There is no way you can lose. now here is how and why the system works: Out of every block of 250 posts i made, i got back 5 responses. YES! THATS RIGHT ONLY 5. You make $5 in cash, not check or money orders, but real cash with your name at #5. Each additional person who sent you $1 now will also make 250 additional postings with your name at #4, 1000 postings. On average then, 50 people will send you $1 with your name at #4....$50 in your pocket! Now these 50 new people will make 250 postings each with your name at #3 or 10,000 postings. Average returns, 500 people=$500.00. they make 250 postings each with your name at #2=100,000 postings=5000 returns at $1 each=$5,000 in cash!! Finally, 5,000 people make 250 postings each with your name at #1 and you get a return of $50,000 before your name is dropped from the list. And thats only if everyone down the line makes 250 postings each! Your total income for this cycle is $50,000.00 When you see your name is no longer on the list, you take the latest posting and start all over again. The end result depends largely on you. You must follow through and repost this article everywhere you can think of! The more postings you make, the more cash ends up in your mailbox. Its too easy and too cheap to pass up!! So thats it. Pretty simple sounding working concept, dont you think? But believe me, this really works. There are millions o people surfind the net every day, all day, all over the world. And 100,000 new subscribers everday eager to access your newsgroup. Youknow that because you have read the facts in the newspaper and seen for yourself on T.V. So, my dear little 'fortne seeker.' read carefully the instructions and play fair and swuare with your endeavors.. remember, YOU CAN ONLY TAKE OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN!! thats the key to success in any venture. Print these pages out now REMEMBER....HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. YOU DON'T NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE BIG BUCKS!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND PLEASE PLAY FAIR AND YOUW ILL BE MORE THAN GENEROUSLY REWARDED! P.S. if you try to decieve people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the bucks to the people already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this and only got about $150 (and thats after 2 months) then he sent the five bills and was added to their lists. In 4-5 weeks, he had in excess of $10,000. Good luck! <Picture>
From: dcase@case.com (David Case) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: trashed boot disk. Any hope? Date: 2 May 1997 22:19:33 GMT Organization: scruz-net Message-ID: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> I trashed my NS3.2 boot disk on my nextstation somehow. It id's the drive and starts to boot but, after the 'root on sd0' message the kernel panics and the system drops back to the monitor. I don't have any other boot media for it unfortunatly. The errors I get are 'vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root'. Is there any disk utilities in the monitor or any standalone type utilities on the 3.2 disk that I can get at? -- Thanks, David Case CASE Electronics - 4770 Soquel Drive - Suite D - Soquel - California - 95073 (408)479-0759
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: trashed boot disk. Any hope? Date: 3 May 1997 03:53:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kecrh$qff$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> In-Reply-To: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> On 05/02/97, David Case wrote: >I trashed my NS3.2 boot disk on my nextstation somehow. It id's the drive >and starts to boot but, after the 'root on sd0' message the kernel panics >and the system drops back to the monitor. I don't have any other boot >media for it unfortunatly. The errors I get are 'vfs_mountroot: cannot >mount root'. Is there any disk utilities in the monitor or any standalone >type utilities on the 3.2 disk that I can get at? There are images of the 3.2 boot disks on NeXTanswers. You can create them using either a NeXT, or a DOS machine.. all the goodies needed are in NeXTanswers. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Eric Peyton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Upgraded to Openstep : lost my /dev/cufb? Date: 2 May 1997 23:37:35 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5kdtrv$p1f@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com> References: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> Thanks everyone for helping out. I found out that the upgrade had blown away my ttyport device. Fixed now. Well Thanks. Eric
From: Peter Sung <fantasia@hula.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: All you need is to invest $5 for a FORTUNE!!! ACT NOW!!! Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 04:07:13 -0700 Organization: Hula Net, Inc. Hawaii's Newest Internet Provider Message-ID: <336B1C61.322E@hula.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="income.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="income.txt" A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $5.00! So I thought, "Yeah, right, this must be a scam," but like most of us I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 5 names and address stated in the article. You then place your own name and address in 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, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured what have I got to lose except 5 stamps and $5.00, right? Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it all. So I checked it out with my country Post Office, and others had with US Post (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed that it is indeed legal! Then I invested the measly $5.00............. Well GUESS WHAT!!... with in 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 the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $20.00 to $30.00 dollars. By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1,000.00!!!!!! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in ....... It's certainly worth $5.00, and 5 stamps, I spent more than that on the lottery!! Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, Why it works....also, make sure you print a copy of this article NOW, so you can get the information off of it as you need it. The process is very simple and consists of 3 easy steps: STEP 1: Get 5 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST." Now get 5 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 5 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each of the 5 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 5 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating the above phrase and a $1.00 bill. What you are doing is creating a service by this. THIS IS PERFECTLY LEGAL! Mail the 5 envelopes to the following addresses: #1 B.C. Smith P.O. Box 170 Greenland, AR 72703 #2 Beddingfield, Bobby 12404 Nokesville Road P.O. Box 40 Nokesville, Va 22123 #3 Keen, Callye 44181 Bristow Circle Ashburn, VA 20147 #4 Tom, BDB. Via Damiano Chiesa 10 00010 Marcellina (Roma) Italy #5 H. J. Sung 1839 Keeaumoku St. Honolulu, HI 96822-3004 STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up (5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3, etc...) and add YOUR Name as number 5 on the list. STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (I think there is close to 25,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you make! Don't know HOW to post in the newsgroups? Well do exactly the following: FOR NETSCAPE USERS: 1) Click on any newsgroup, like normal. Then click on "To News", which is in the top left corner of the newsgroup page. This will bring up a message box. 2) Fill in the SUBJECT with a flashy title, like the one I used, something to catch the eye!!! 3) Now go to the message part of the box and retype this letter exactly as it is here, with exception of your few changes. (remember to add your name to number 5 and move the rest up) 4) When your done typing in the WHOLE letter, click on 'FILE' above the send button. Then, 'SAVE AS..' DO NOT SEND YOUR ARTICLE UNTILL YOU SAVE IT. (so you don't have to type this 200 times :-) 5) Now that you have saved the letter, go ahead and send your first copy! (click the 'SEND' button in the top left corner) 6) This is where you post all 200! OK, go to ANY newsgroup article and click the 'TO NEWS' button again. Type in your flashy subject in the 'SUBJECT BOX', then go to the message and place your cursor here. Now click on 'ATTACHMENT' which is right below the 'SUBJECT BOX'. Click on attach file then find your letter wherever you saved it. Click once on your file then click 'OPEN' then click 'OK'. If you did this right, you should see your filename in the 'ATTACHMENT BOX' and it will be shaded. NOW POST AWAY! FOR INTERNET EXPLORER: It's just as easy, holding down the left mouse button, highlight this entire article, then press the 'CTRL' key and 'C' key at the same time to copy this article. Then print the article for your records to have the names of those you will be sending $1.00 to. Go to the newsgroups and press 'POST AN ARTICLE' type in your flashy subject and click the large window below. Press 'CTRL' and 'V' and the article will appear in the message window. **BE SURE TO MAKE YOUR ADDRESS CHANGES TO THE 5 NAMES.** Now re-highlight the article and re-copy it so you have the changes.... then all you have to do for each newsgroup is 'CTRL' and 'V' and press 'POST'. It's that easy!! THAT'S IT! All you have to do is jump to different newsgroups and post away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup! **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200** **If these instructions are too complex to follow, try Fortes "Free Agent." It is freeware for noncommercial use. To download it, simply use a search utility and type "Forte Free Agent". You should be able to find it.** That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O. Box due to the large amount of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you con invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it. **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.** --- Now the WHY part: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #5 on the letter. Now, each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name at #4 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #3 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #2 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #1 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!! With a original investment of only $5.00! AMAZING! And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probable 20 to 30! So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is what you will make: at #5 $15.00 at #4 $225.00 at #3 $3,375.00 at #2 $50,625.00 at #1 $759,375.00 When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $5.00 to names on the list, putting your name at number 5 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is that thousands of people all over the world are joining the Internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $5.00 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 joining the actual Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. 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 newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly. Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the basic idea to make the money!! GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from this, which is tons of extra CASH. **By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked to knew someone who did that and he only made about $150.00, and that's after seven or eight weeks! Then he sent the 5 $1.00 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!!! Don't listen to the people that don't trust it and continue to say it's illegal and don't work... They are just too much skeptics. You also may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars. Please remember to declare your extra income. Thanks once again...
Date: 3 May 1997 15:24:30 GMT From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Sender: Peter Sung <fantasia@hula.net> Message-ID: <cancel.336B1C61.322E@hula.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <336B1C61.322E@hula.net> Control: cancel <336B1C61.322E@hula.net> MMF spam cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Original Subject: All you need is to invest $5 for a FORTUNE!!! ACT NOW!!! Total spams this type to date: 67124 Total this spam type for this user to date: 221
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: vi segmentation fault Message-ID: <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 10:57:26 GMT In article <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> writes: > I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I > try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I > get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 > lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It > wasn't doing it before...as they say. > I dont remember that I ever had such a problem on NS 3.2. Your image of 'vi' must be corrupted or some of the link libs must be fried. Try to reinstall the image from CD. -- 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 see the result by changing the time preference panel from a calender to a simple dialog where you can force network time update. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: trashed boot disk. Any hope? Message-ID: <E9Lq5v.379@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 10:51:31 GMT In article <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> dcase@case.com (David Case) writes: > I trashed my NS3.2 boot disk on my nextstation somehow. It id's > the drive and starts to boot but, after the 'root on sd0' message > the kernel panics and the system drops back to the monitor. I > don't have any other boot media for it unfortunatly. The errors > I get are 'vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root'. Is there any disk > utilities in the monitor or any standalone type utilities on the > 3.2 disk that I can get at? > I fear there is no hope. If you can't mount root not even a singleuser boot will be possible. The boot partition needs to be redone. Only other chance is to attach the drive to a bootable machine and repair then. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: mario@gestel.it (Mario Mazzardo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: support for IBM Thinkpad 760ED Date: 3 May 1997 23:46:18 +0200 Organization: GESTEL Italia srl Sender: mario@gestel.it (Mario Mazzardo) Message-ID: <5kgbna$jg2@mikasa.iol.it> I have a IBM Thinkpad 760ED and Openstep 4.1, configuring the drive 2522_IBMThinkPad760EDDisplayDriver.pkg.compressed after the boot the screen becames dark. Thank you Mario Mazzardo GESTEL Italia srl mario@gestel.it
From: "Jeffrey S. Dutky" <dutky@BellAtlantic.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me account and auto-login Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 18:32:38 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland Student Body Message-ID: <336BBCE0.1119@BellAtlantic.net> References: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Saldanha wrote: > > Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login > (ie when 'me' has no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? > Yes. There are some command line arguments to loginwindow that allow you to select the default user. Check the man page for login window. I think that there might be default entries for this as well but I don't remember. - Jeff Dutky
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,sfnet.atk.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,sfnet.atk.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT laser printer type in Windows NT 4.0? Followup-To: poster Date: 4 May 1997 03:56:37 +0300 Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Sender: otto@tukki.cc.jyu.fi Message-ID: <OTTO.97May4035634@tukki.jyu.fi> NNTP-Posting-User: otto I've recently put Windows NT 4.0 into my PC as an addition to linux. I've set up TCP/IP printing to print to my NeXTstation 400dpi PS laser printer. Everything works nicely, except I haven't found a specific entry for the NeXT laser printer in Windows NT, nor have I located a "generic postscript" option. The only thing relevant I found on the net was a MicroSoft KnowledgeBase article from 1995 (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q104/7/48.htm) for NT 3.5 which has the most cheerful title of NeXT 400 DPI Laser Printer Is Not Supported Under Windows NT Suggestions, anyone? This most probably isn't widely interesting, so please reply via email to me. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@cc.jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 14 613 847, BBS: +358 14 211 562 (V.32bis/USR-HST,24h/d) */ /* Mail: Cygn.k.7 E 46/FIN-40100 Jyvaskyla/Finland, ICBM: 62.14N 25.44E */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
From: dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAPer funkiness Date: 4 May 1997 02:08:24 GMT Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> Hi, I've set up CAPer on a slab running 3.3 and I can mount exported directories from the slab on a macintosh. However, when I try to copy a file from the slab to the mac or try to copy a mac file to the slab it complains that it can't do the copy because the file is locked. It's not a permission problem I don't think, especially since the error occurs when I'm simply trying to read from the slab's drive. In any case I'm only trying to read or write in my home directory after having logged in as myself. What am I doing wrong? Dave.
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 Supersedes: <25195862113623@digifix.com> Date: 4 May 1997 03:59:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <851862718425@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. 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From: marcel@system.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer funkiness Date: 4 May 1997 06:00:12 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5kh8lc$12f$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> In article <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) writes: > Hi, > > I've set up CAPer on a slab running 3.3 and I can mount exported > directories from the slab on a macintosh. > > However, when I try to copy a file from the slab to the mac or try to > copy a mac file to the slab it complains that it can't do the copy > because the file is locked. I had this problem, too. It was fixed by downloading the newest version. Apparently the first version had a bug on black only. Marcel
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: 4 May 1997 02:30:36 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5kgscc$838$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> <E9Lq0B.36L@nidat.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <E9Lq0B.36L@nidat.sub.org> On 05/02/97, Peter Nitezki wrote: >In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma ><luomat@peak.org> writes: >> >> Ok, I thought this was pretty simple: >> >> Two machines: slab and Intel. Intel is hooked to the net. I >> want to sync the Intel to the atomic clock and then sync the slab >> to the Intel... but when I do: >> >> /usr/etc/ntp -sf InteHostname >> >> I get >> >> recvfrom: Connection refused >> >> I figured this was in /etc/inetd.conf but I didn't see anything.. >> figured I'd ask before mucking with netInfo (which could muck up >> PPP) >> >You need to run SimpleNetworkStarter on the white machine to enable time >service. The server must be started at boot time, therefore a change to >rc.net and /etc/hostconfig will be made, AFAIR. Then either SNS or >HostManager should set the black machine to use network time. You'll see >the result by changing the time preference panel from a calender to a >simple dialog where you can force network time update. > >-- >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 I'm trying to achieve the same thing... (except the slab is hooked to the net and I want the Intel machine to update from the slab.) I have it all working to the point where I can go to preferences on the Intel machine and click on the synchronize button and it will synch with the black machine. However, I thought the whole point of ntp was to prevent the machines from getting out of synch in the first place but I notice the clock on the Intel machine drifting by a minute or so every couple of days. So my question is, how can I force the Intel machine to STAY in synch with the NeXT box without requiring manual intervention? - Chris -- _______________________________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf -- WolfWare -- NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody Developer For info about NewsFlash the lightning fast NeXTSTEP news-reader visit our newly revised web site at: http://www.wolfware.com _______________________________________________________________________
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me account and auto-login Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 14:33:13 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970503143031.24056B-100000@kira> References: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Chris Saldanha <chris@computerActive.com> In-Reply-To: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> On 2 May 1997, Chris Saldanha wrote: > Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login (ie when 'me' has > no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? sure, as root use dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser chris to make 'chris' autologin account... but the account cannot have a password TjL
From: "I.U.T." <istechun@dci.iran.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP for adding new hard drive Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 06:43:12 -0400 Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970504063727.10294C-100000@dci> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Recently i bought a 3Giga hard disk (QUANTUM) for my sun workstation SS2 with solaris 1.1 sunos4.1.2 - I try to add it to existing file systems . becuase we have many users and we have a restriction on /usr filesystem for sending/receiveing emails. In old hard disk with 1Giga capacity we have 5 file system. Amount of disk space ocupied by currently mounted file system is /dev/sd0a 92% capacity mounted on / /dev/sd0g 110% " " /usr /dev/sd0d 38% " " /export /dev/sd0e 0% " " /export/swap /dev/sd0h 63% " " /home Do you have any idea that how we can partition it for increasing our systems. If you have any point please contact with me. Thanks in advance for your cooperations masroor(^_^)! my personal email address is masroor@cc.iut.ac.ir
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer funkiness Date: 4 May 1997 12:01:09 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5khtq5$7p4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> <5kh8lc$12f$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> marcel@system.de wrote: > In article <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) > writes: > > Hi, > > > > I've set up CAPer on a slab running 3.3 and I can mount exported > > directories from the slab on a macintosh. > > > > However, when I try to copy a file from the slab to the mac or try to > > copy a mac file to the slab it complains that it can't do the copy > > because the file is locked. > I had this problem, too. It was fixed by downloading the newest > version. Apparently the first version had a bug on black only. Yes, the m68k version V4 (as it is at the moment on the archives) has this problem, but a patch is available on the CAPer WWW site: http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html The CAPer Intel versions are not affected, it was a byte order problem. I would suggest you should get the newest V6 version from there as it solves a few other quirks too and is easier to use and setup. CAPer V6 is to hit the peanuts and peak archives as replacement for V4 in the next days. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Christian Hahn <chahn@on-luebeck.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: driver for ct65545 display Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 21:37:00 +0200 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <336CE55C.30F7@on-luebeck.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi to everybody! Is there a driver for the Chips & Technologies 65545 display? If yes, please mail me. Thanks in advance, Christian ------- Christian Hahn --- chahn@on-luebeck.de
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 20:51:28 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0nPGwEO00iV1A1LUMH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> <E9Lq0B.36L@nidat.sub.org> <5kgscc$838$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> In-Reply-To: <5kgscc$838$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 4-May-97 Re: ntp on one of two machi.. by Christopher Wolf@wolfwar > However, I thought the whole point of ntp was to prevent the machines from > getting out of synch in the first place but I notice the clock on the Intel > machine drifting by a minute or so every couple of days. > > So my question is, how can I force the Intel machine to STAY in synch with > the NeXT box without requiring manual intervention? You've got to run ntpd continuously. Unfortunately, NeXT really kludged ntpd when adapting it to NetInfo, and you are supposed to set up the configuration information (like which higher stratum timeservers to pay attention to) using NetInfo, according to the manpage for NeXT's version of ntpd. I've found it easier to just build a modern xntpd and use a standard /etc/ntp.conf file, which looks like this on my machine: # peer configuration for a private workstation server NETSERVER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU. server mailer.psc.edu. driftfile /etc/ntp.drift enable bclient monitor Make sure to touch '/etc/ntp.drift', which lets the ntp daemon keep a track of the machines' drift from "real time" and lets it compensate even when the machine first boots up or when it can't get in touch with other timeservers for whatever reason. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andreas@wb-net.de Subject: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection refused Sender: news@tlnet.de Organization: Nordic Data Communications Luebeck Message-ID: <5kk95g$qe@merkur.wb-net.de> Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 09:27:12 GMT Hello, I've just changed my provider. ConnectionEstablishment and mail is okay, but I still cannot slurp news from the new Server (PersonalINN installed). The configuration works with my old provider. I only exchanged all entries in the concerned files from news.lynet.de to news.tlnet.de and hoped it would work, wich it didn't. When my ip-up tries to get news with su news -c '(/usr/local/inn/slurp news.tlnet.de) &' I get the following ErrorMessage written to my slurp.log: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection refused What does that mean? I can connect to the newsServer on-line with Alexandra, so the anddress seems to be ok. Andreas Hoeschler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andreas@wb-net.de Subject: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.lynet.de: Connection timed out Sender: news@tlnet.de Organization: Nordic Data Communications Luebeck Message-ID: <5kkdk1$29a@merkur.wb-net.de> Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:43:13 GMT Hello, I've just changed my provider. ConnectionEstablishment and mail is okay, but I still cannot slurp news from the new Server (PersonalINN installed). As you see posting news with post-news works. See also my last article. Because I cannot slurp news from the new provider, I tried to slurp from the old one while being connected to the Internet through the new Provider (synchronous PPP). This also didn't work. There I get the ErrorMessage tcp_open: can't connect to server news.lynet.de: Connection timed out I didn't find a hint in the manual-pages, so I you have an idea, I would really appreciate to get it. Thank you in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection refused Date: 5 May 1997 12:59:25 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5kkljd$r9@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5kk95g$qe@merkur.wb-net.de> andreas@wb-net.de wrote: > I've just changed my provider. ConnectionEstablishment and mail > is okay, but I still cannot slurp news from the new Server > (PersonalINN installed). The configuration works with my old > provider. I only exchanged all entries in the concerned files > from news.lynet.de to news.tlnet.de and hoped it would work, wich > it didn't. When my ip-up tries to get news with > > su news -c '(/usr/local/inn/slurp news.tlnet.de) &' > > I get the following ErrorMessage written to my slurp.log: > > tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection > refused > > What does that mean? I can connect to the newsServer on-line with > Alexandra, so the anddress seems to be ok. Your new provider most probably doesn't offer time service on its news server. Start slurp with the -l option. Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine _____________________________________________________________________
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with manual fsck? Date: 5 May 1997 13:16:41 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5kkmjp$jq5@corporate.hesta.com> I have a 128mb optical drive and when you manually eject a disk while it is still mounted the disk gets corrupted slightly and will not remount again. The repair dialog box says it will not repair; years ago I learned how to manually moun the disk and run fsck...but for the life of me I cannot remember how... Could someone re-explain the process? (I will write it down this time....) Thanks. -- Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: bologna1@sirio.cineca.it Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: frame Buffer physical address of ATIMACH64 Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:03:05 +0200 Organization: NETTuno Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.970505155611.15020A-100000@sirio.cineca.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I had a Pentium 133Mhz with 64MB-RAM and ATI MACH 64 with 4MB I upgrade with Pentium Pro 200 with 128MB and the same video card, same configuration, but at the boot I have this error: Display 0:changing config table address to 0xFF000000 Display 0: frame buffer physical address 0xFF000000 mapped to 0x993e000 Registering Display 0 <3> object error: fatal error kerndevice descriptor does not recognize selector Panic: (CPU 0) objc If i start the system with config=Default and i use the ATI Mach 64 like a SVGA standard all is ok. Do you know this error? the driver config show a field mapped memory 4 MB at ... but how configure this field? Thank's Stefano Sola
From: "H. Blakely Williford" <blakew@fuller.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: equ. of xhost command in NeXT Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 02:55:36 -0500 Organization: The Fuller Brush Company Message-ID: <336D9278.50C98332@fuller.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello World! I'v inherited a NeXT cube (willow); when I key hostinfo the system comes back with the following information. |Mach kernel version: | NeXT Mach 2.1: Thu Mar 7 19:13:47 PST 1991; |/ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.14/RELEASE | |Kernel configured for a single processor only. |1 processor is physically available. |Processor type: MC680x0 (68040) |Processor active: 0 |Primary memory available: 16.00 megabytes. |Default processor set: 46 tasks, 77 threads, 1 processors |Load average: 0.42, Mach factor: 0.66 I am trying to allow users of these workstations access to netscape running on another unix machine. When I do the $ netscape -display willow:0 & I get a display error message, I've tried the "xhost" command but that dosent work -- command not found. Is what I'm trying to do even possable? thank-you for your time. -- H. Blakely Williford Men never do evil so completely and Systems Administrator cheerfully as when they do it from The Fuller Brush Company religious conviction. (Pascal)
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu (Yuwen Cheng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: equ. of xhost command in NeXT Date: 5 May 1997 17:13:40 GMT Organization: University of Arizona Message-ID: <5kl4g4$fsq$1@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <336D9278.50C98332@fuller.com> Cc: blakew@fuller.com You don't have X-window installed in your NeXT. There are several possible options you may try, e.g., CubX, MouseX, co-Xist, etc. Check ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT for detail. In <336D9278.50C98332@fuller.com> "H. Blakely Williford" wrote: > Hello World! > > I am trying to allow users of these workstations access to > netscape running on another unix machine. When I do the > > $ netscape -display willow:0 & > > I get a display error message, I've tried the "xhost" command > but that dosent work -- command not found. Is what I'm trying > to do even possable? > > thank-you for your time. > > -- Best Regards Yuwen Cheng ,,, (. .) +--oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------------------------------+ Yuwen Cheng | yucheng@math.arizona.edu University of Arizona, MATH | NeXTMail welcome P.O. Box 43692 | (520) 881-4314 Tucson, AZ 85733 | (520) 881-4314 (fax) +------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PopOver.app says: Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! Date: 5 May 1997 18:44:56 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5kl9r8$mk@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, my Mail/News-Configuration has been working for a long time. Yesterday, I tried to configure my system for a new provider. So I did some changes to my config-files, but know I can't pop my mail from any of the two providers anymore. I undid all changes to the config-files (I at least think so), but the problem remains. Each time I call PopOver to Retrive the new Mail, I get the following ErrorMessage after a few seconds. Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! But the password is quite correct. I checked it a few times. Moreover I can retrieve the mail under OS/2 with PM-Mail without any problems. So what's wrong here? Do you have any idea? PS:Please post your answer in the newsgroup, because I cannot retrieve your e-mail at the moment! Andreas Hoeschler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de.NOSPAM (Ernst Kloecker) Subject: Re: NeXT laser printer type in Windows NT 4.0? Message-ID: <E9o837.1IL@fritz.snafu.de> Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de Organization: Software Engineering Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 19:13:52 GMT >I've recently put Windows NT 4.0 into my PC as an addition to linux. >I've set up TCP/IP printing to print to my NeXTstation 400dpi PS >laser printer. Everything works nicely, except I haven't found >a specific entry for the NeXT laser printer in Windows NT, nor >have I located a "generic postscript" option. > >The only thing relevant I found on the net was a MicroSoft KnowledgeBase >article from 1995 (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q104/7/48.htm) >for NT 3.5 which has the most cheerful title of > NeXT 400 DPI Laser Printer Is Not Supported Under Windows NT > I assume you have Samba installed on the NeXT system, so that exporting the NS printer as a Windows printer is no problem. First of all you can also use a driver for a different make of Postscript printer, e.g. here the Apple LaserWriter driver worked fine, too. But if you want to use special NeXT printer features, like 400dpi or manual paper feed, you should install a special PPD for the NeXT printer. Adobe provides PPDs for both NeXT Postscript Level 1 and Level 2 print engines on its web site. I am using the Level 2 PPD named Nxnlp2_1.ppd without any problems here. To be able to use it I first of all installed the Apple LaserWriter driver, which copies the generic PS driver and the LaserWriter specific PPD to C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 and C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2 and also puts some information into the registry, I found the appropriate entries looking for LaserWrite with REGEDIT.EXE. I then copied Nxnlp2_1.ppd to C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 and C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2 and made some new registry entries according to the entries the LaserWriter driver had, but with the reference to the Nxnlp2_1.ppd of course. That was it. If you are interested, I can send you the PPD I got from Adobe (Nxnlp2_1.ppd). Cheers, Ernst. (Please use address below for replies) --- Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Hangs at "rootdev 600, howto 0" Date: 5 May 1997 16:14:14 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5kl10m$lhg@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> One of the machines in our network of Intel Pentiums running NEXTSTEP 3.3 will not reboot. The last few lines during reboot are: sd1: MITSUMI CD-ROM !B B05 Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 Registering: sd1a sd0: Waiting for drive to come ready sd0: Disk Not Ready Registering: event0 Registering: kmDevice0 rootdev 600, howto 0 Then, it just hangs there. It does this even when I reboot in single-user mode. When I try to restart (using ALT-NUMLOCK), I get "ROOT UNMOUNT FAILED 1 1 1 etc," it restarts, and then hangs at the same place. I do not really know what all these means and I do not know what to do next. Any help, suggestions, ... would be appreciated. Vicki Bragin -- ********************************************************** Victoria M. Bragin E-mail: vbragin@ix.netcom.com Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena,CA Phone: (818) 585-7147 Fax: (818) 585-7919 (NeXTmail and MIME mail welcome) **********************************************************
From: chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me account and auto-login Date: 4 May 97 05:37:38 GMT Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <chk.862724258@deimos.frii.com> References: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> chris@computerActive.com (Chris Saldanha) writes: >Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login (ie when 'me' has >no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? Huh?.. Don't use the me login (in fact, blow it away) if you use a NeXT box for anything but non-networked use. What's the big deal about authenticating yourself with the system? -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (home) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "Humbly speaking for myself only."
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Upgraded to Openstep : lost my /dev/cufb? Date: 6 May 1997 02:22:13 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5km4kl$omf@fridge-nf0.shore.net> References: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> In-Reply-To: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> Verify that you have TWO instances of the SerialPort driver loaded and ONE instance of PortServer. You can also try removing the driver and adding it back in. If you did an upgrade vs. a full install, your system may be using the old 3.3 Instance0.table when the Default.table has changed. Robert -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: greg davis <gregor@crosslink.net> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hp 820-70 or Epson 800 inkjets on a NeXTstation 3.1 machine Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:11:55 -0400 Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3370A9CB.47E7@crosslink.net> References: <01bc5a46$873f1480$d3463181@arty-s-win95.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dkat wrote: > > Does anyone know if you can install an Epson or HP inkjet on a NeXTstation > (black) machine that is running 3.1 without using something like > Ghostscript (tried it - can't get it to work and it is real ugly if you are > used to NeXT or Win95)? Is there an upgrade for NeXTstep that will handle > these printers and if so what is the lowest upgrade (I don't want to change > the basic look and use of the machine since it is for someone that does not > have time to deal with the differences)? Thanks, DK One alternative is to run a Hewlett-Packard Jet Direct box out of the ethernet port. It isn't the cheapest solution, but depending which model you get (1 or 3 outputs) you can run any parallel port output printer at network transfer speeds, and any machine (if you are on a local network) can access the printer(s). GS Corp had an excellent Epson driver for the 500, and that should drive the 800 as well. The downside there is that they are no longer selling license keys for their most excellent product any longer, as far as I know. Jet Pilot is still current but I've never used it, but it will work in conjunction with the Jet Direct box. BTW, a single port box is $225 or so street price, and the EX model is about $375. Lotsa luck Gregor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network faxing w/ NXFax Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 11:16:42 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970507110923.4513A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: paul@plsys.co.uk Has anyone gotten this to work: (Using NXFax-compatible modem on NeXTStation) Fax from Intel (connected via NetInfo) through station... I assumed it would be similar to setting up printing from Intel to slab but that hasn't been the case... Thanks TjL
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Date: 5 May 1997 14:47:36 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5kkru8$9a@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> References: <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <E9JrGA.2s5@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >In article <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) >writes: >> I am running Intel NS 3.3 and the machine >> is set up to only use the local NetInfo domain. Anyone have any >> suggestions for what might be causing these messages? >> >No, I don't believe you! Well, to the best of my knowledge it is set up that way... ;^) >Might be you think you only use 'local' but then you'd never get this >error. Verify the 'serves' property of the entries in the /machines >directory. I bet there is some './network' entry in it! None have a ./network entry in it. Grepping for serves: (next)root:/Users/doyle|2> nigrep serves / 2 /machines/localhost: serves ./local 3 /machines/broadcasthost: serves So, there are no ./network references. However, broadcasthost defines an empty 'serves' property, but this seems OK to me. All other entries (including the one for next and next.aps.org which is the machine in question) don't define a 'serves' property at all, but again, this shouldn't matter. Another thing worth mentioning is that the machine is setup to be a PPP server. Perhaps I have that configured slightly wrong? Any other ideas or things to check? Cheers, Mark
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CRASH due to "excessive DPS errors" (with error log) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:22:55 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970507162056.995B-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The last month or so my Pentium 100 running NS 3.3 has crashed several times due to "excessive dps errors." It (almost) always happens when I'm running Netscape over X-windows. I'm using CubX-window version 5.00. As you can see from the /usr/adm/messages file (see below) I get numerous DPS errors just prior the the crash. What is causing this and how do I fix it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[2160]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 3e5a4, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[2160]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs WM[202]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext ae7bc, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[454]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 44c84, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[454]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs CubXWindow[203]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 3cc64, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs CubXWindow[203]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs WatchSwap[207]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 12c44, data 0 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs WatchSwap[207]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs LaunchBar[210]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 18c64, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs LaunchBar[210]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Remotes[209]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 104c44, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Remotes[209]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs CDPlayer[234]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 16c24, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs CDPlayer[234]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs X[216]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 3f46fc, data 0 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs X[216]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Mail[204]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext a4cc0, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Mail[204]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Terminal[2251]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 3e5a4, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Terminal[2251]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:32 rjacobs Cassandra[208]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 26c44, data -102 May 6 16:11:32 rjacobs Cassandra[208]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:33 rjacobs BackSpace[206]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 40c74, data -102 May 6 16:11:33 rjacobs BackSpace[206]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:45 rjacobs loginwindow[197]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0). May 6 16:11:46 rjacobs loginwindow[197]: dps_err_write May 6 16:11:46 rjacobs last message repeated 20 times May 6 16:11:46 rjacobs loginwindow[197]: exiting due to excessive DPS errors May 6 16:11:51 rjacobs loginwindow[3225]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk May 6 16:11:56 rjacobs reboot: rebooted by root May 6 16:11:57 rjacobs syslogd: going down on signal 15
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CRASH due to "excessive dps errors" Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:19:42 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970507161527.995A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The last month or so my Pentium 100 running NS 3.3 has crashed several times due to "excessive dps errors." It (almost) always happens when I'm running Netscape over X-windows. I'm using CubX-window version 5.00. As you can see from the /usr/adm/messages file (see below) I get numerous DPS errors just prior the the crash. What is causing this and how do I fix it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: info@scribex.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PopOver.app says: Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! Date: 6 May 1997 16:19:21 GMT Organization: SPC Message-ID: <5knlm9$3i6$1@wagner.spc.videotron.ca> References: <5kl9r8$mk@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5kl9r8$mk@merkur.lynet.de> Did you configure PopOver correctly? You need to install both providers in PopOver's Mail host setup panel via the MailHosts... menu In PopOver, 1. Click on Mail Hosts... menu 2. In the Mail Hosts panel that follows, click on the Add... button. 3. In the Mail host setup panel, fill in the 3 fields with your provider's info. Mail host Username Password 4. Click on the OK button 5. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 for your second provider. Hope this helps. Andr --------------------- On 05/05/97, andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > my Mail/News-Configuration has been working for a long time. Yesterday, I > tried to configure my system for a new provider. So I did some changes to my > config-files, but know I can't pop my mail from any of the two providers > anymore. I undid all changes to the config-files (I at least think so), but > the problem remains. Each time I call PopOver to Retrive the new Mail, I get > the following ErrorMessage after a few seconds. > > Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! > > But the password is quite correct. I checked it a few times. Moreover I can > retrieve the mail under OS/2 with PM-Mail without any problems. So what's > wrong here? Do you have any idea? > > PS:Please post your answer in the newsgroup, because I cannot retrieve your > e-mail at the moment! > > Andreas Hoeschler >
From: "dkat" <dkat@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hp 820-70 or Epson 800 inkjets on a NeXTstation 3.1 machine Date: 6 May 1997 17:55:52 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Distribution: inet Message-ID: <01bc5a46$873f1480$d3463181@arty-s-win95.sunysb.edu> Does anyone know if you can install an Epson or HP inkjet on a NeXTstation (black) machine that is running 3.1 without using something like Ghostscript (tried it - can't get it to work and it is real ugly if you are used to NeXT or Win95)? Is there an upgrade for NeXTstep that will handle these printers and if so what is the lowest upgrade (I don't want to change the basic look and use of the machine since it is for someone that does not have time to deal with the differences)? Thanks, DK
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: changing a HD Date: 8 May 1997 03:19:11 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5krgnf$cp@rumah.pc.my> What I have: Two slabs, connected via ethernet One slab w/ adequate HD One slab w/ very minimal HD One moderate sized HD w/o system in a cardboard box What I want to do: Replace the minimal HD with the moderate sized HD How to do this, considering: I do not have a CD-drive, so am not able to install system on the replacement disk that way. I do not have an external drive power supply to attach it via scsi. In other words, can I put the replacement HD in the slab, and somehow install the system via the ethernet? Thanks, Mike
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Hangs at "rootdev 600, howto 0" Date: 6 May 1997 07:00:58 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5kmkva$pqp$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5kl10m$lhg@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) wrote: > Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 > Registering: sd1a > sd0: Waiting for drive to come ready > sd0: Disk Not Ready > Registering: event0 > Registering: kmDevice0 > rootdev 600, howto 0 > This machine's SCSI boot disk isn't working. You should check the drive. Maybe a hardware failure? 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: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 21:05:05 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I used a DOS startup floppy (fdisk) to partition my drive into 2 partitions. How can I now format those partitions to a bsd file system? anybody have any ideas for a brand spanken new OpenStep 4.1 user/admin? thanks, sean
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mail via tcp Date: 8 May 1997 08:22:09 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5ks2fi$455@rumah.pc.my> I have taylor-uucp on NS3.2, and want to send mail via tcp when a ppp connection is up. However, I get the following errors: ---------------------- uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 15:31:01.84 3992) ERROR: All matching ports in use uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 15:31:01.96 3992) Calling system jaring (port TCP) uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 15:31:03.40 3992) ERROR: connect: Connection refused --------------------- The first error is due to an attempt to dial out, which then trys tcp as an alternative port. Is it a problem with my ISP not letting me connect? If so what can be done? Here's the relevant part of the sys file: ------------------------ system jaring time any call-timegrade a Expensive phone 1511 port V32bis:38400@cufa chat name: nuucp3 sword: jaring ogin: \L sword: \P chat-timeout 40 debug chat # the timeouts, window and packet sizes protocol igj alternate port type tcp address jaring.my chat ogin: \L word: \P ------------------------------ Note that if I take out the address line, the doc's say that the remote system name will be used. In this case, heres what happens: ------------------------------ uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 12:31:03.28 1365) ERROR: All matching ports in use uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 12:31:03.43 1365) Calling system jaring (port TCP) uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 12:31:03.45 1365) ERROR: 1511: unknown host name
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BSD libDB 1.85 ported to NS3.3? Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 13:34:36 GMT Organization: Deltos Fleet Computing Message-ID: <33712bd2.247407587@news.dfw.net> I'm trying to finish out the sendmail V8 (8.8.5) build, and to compile makemap(8) correctly, I need to have the BSD libdb.a v1.85. I'm having difficulty building this library on NS3.3 (Moto) -- NS is not in the "official" port list, and it's taking some time to get it together. Has anyone done a port, and is it out there (ftp, http)?
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BSD libdb.a 1.85 ported to NS3.3? Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 13:34:37 GMT Organization: Deltos Fleet Computing Message-ID: <33712bad.247370960@news.dfw.net> I'm trying to build makemap(8) in the BSD sendmail V8 (8.8.5) kit, and it requires the unsupported BSD db library. I have the 1.85 version of this kit, but it doesn't list NeXTSTEP as an "official port". Trying to build it has taken most of the afternoon, and I'm still not getting very far. Is this library already built for NS3.3 (moto), or is there a makefile that will actually build it on the Net?
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 9 May 1997 11:42:20 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > appreciate it. I've been running squid and CERN httpd with success, and recommend squid. It's available as a package via ftp (round up the usual suspects :-) Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: zorglub <marmier4@uni2a.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mutli-boot / Openstep 4.1 for mach / Intel Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 14:00:30 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <33731FED.30EAFF0A@uni2a.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: marmier4@hei.unige.ch I'm stuck in a nerve twisting problem: I've got an Intel with 2 IDE hard disk drives. One with Openstep, the other with windows 95. I've installed Openstep before Windows 95, consequently the multi-booter (is this the proper name?) is NOT running at boot... Openstep runs on the MASTER drive. I'have to switch jumpers to switch OS... :(( Is there a way to install the multi-booter without reinstalling all of Openstep? ...which is to much work... Thanks in advance Raphael Marmier marmier4@hei.unige.ch
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 9 May 1997 14:09:43 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So this is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that does all types of traffic? vince On 9 May 1997 11:42:20 GMT, neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) wrote: >Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: >> Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep >> machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy >> for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would >> appreciate it. > >I've been running squid and CERN httpd with success, and recommend >squid. It's available as a package via ftp (round up the usual >suspects :-) > >Chris >-- >// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." >// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ >// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Server problems Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 10:30:56 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0905971030570001@47.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> Can anyone help me with these problems: 1. I have a cube running OS 4.1. I set it up as the NetInfo Server. I don't want it to run all the time so I shut it down. Now when I restart, i can't get it to serve the network info. Do you have to leave it running all the time? Is there anyway to set it up so that it will automatically serve the netinfo info when it comes on? 2. I have another NeXT MB ('030) in the cube. If I leave the cube on all the time, how can I restart the MB to get it to recognize the network. Will a ben be sufficient to get it to look for the network? Thanks, Mitch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Finding the second partition Message-ID: <E9x098.1t5@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171542.6380B-100000@kira> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:03:08 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171542.6380B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > Hey all > > I've got a second partition somewhere, I think it is formatted > for WinNT... I'd like to use it for swapspace or storage space > under OpenStep. > > Problem is I can't seem to find it... the partition that is... > > I've tried > > mount -t dos /dev/sd0[a-h] /Partition > > (I'm not sure which it is... I think sd0h) > > What am I doing wrong? > You have to identify the partition in DOS first. Only when you know the DOS partition you can determine which BSD device mapping it would get. And NS (as well as OS) will only recognize the first FAT filesystem on a drive. Therefore, partitions on a white machine will only be available for BSD when they are not initialized for a known filesystem or they are the first FAT filesystem which will then be mapped through automounting. If it is the second FAT on the drive you must initialize the partition in DOS first, whithout generating a filesystem on it! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: network faxing w/ NXFax Message-ID: <E9x0My.1tt@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5kt01s$ls3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:11:21 GMT In article <5kt01s$ls3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) writes: > Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > >Has anyone gotten this to work: > > > >(Using NXFax-compatible modem on NeXTStation) Fax from Intel > >(connected via NetInfo) through station... > > > >I assumed it would be similar to setting up printing from Intel > >to slab but that hasn't been the case... > > > > I have a NetInfo network of NeXTstations, the fax/modem and NXFax > software are installed on the NetInfo master. All of the machines > in the master's domain have access to the fax. It is exactly > the same as setting up printers, use the PrintManager. If the > fax modem doesn't show up in the PrintManager then there may be > a problem with your NetInfo setup. Be sure to read the online > help about adding faxes in PrintManager and be sure to enable > public access. > This depends on the NetInfo domains you've set up and the rights on these the administrator has who wants to setup the FAX device. If you have proper rights PrintManager.app allows you to specify the domain for which you want to setup the FAX device as 'public'. Default is 'local' but it will show a listbox containing all domains in the hierarchy up to the root. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Partitioning for NetBoot Message-ID: <E9x0qs.1uH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <mitchell.allen-0805971534510001@31.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:13:39 GMT In article <mitchell.allen-0805971534510001@31.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net writes: > Is it really necessary to partition the disk to export the root and > /private directories? Is it possible to just create a /hosts/hostname > directory and copy the root entries into it? > No partitioning necessary. The only prerequisite is that the filesystem setup allows for conflict free NFS exports. -- 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: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 9 May 1997 17:12:14 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <5kvlte$p8r$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> Vincent Koser writes > > So this is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that does all types > of traffic? I've compiled the Firewall Toolkit v1.3 quad-fat for NS 3.3. It has a generic proxy but we don't use it so I don't know if it works well or even at all. If you can tell me what the license restrictions are on distributing the FWTK v1.3 I'd be happy to send it to you. leo. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXT/MIME) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Color Printers under Openstep Date: 9 May 1997 19:24:10 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5kvtkq$jui@news.acns.nwu.edu> Can anyone tell me if they have success with color printers? I'm considering purchasing a color printer and I'd like recommendations. Please email me at daj@nwu.edu Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson Northwestern University
From: wenews@usc.com (Will "to send me mail change to westes at usc.com" Estes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Better serial drivers for Intel 3.2? Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 17:12:29 GMT Organization: U.S. Computer Message-ID: <337065f5.35016125@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The serial drivers that comes with NS 3.2 FIP appear to be quite bad. We are constantly getting receive messages like "ttysccl: receive error 2 (-902)...last message repeated 200 times". I don't think the connection is bad. Is there a better set of serial drivers available, either as an upgrade addable to 3.2, or in NS 3.3/4.1? -- Will Estes U.S. Computer Internet: westes at usc.com POB 3150 Saratoga, CA 95070 PLEASE READ: to send me Internet e-mail, you will need to change the default reply address on this message to westes @ usc.com, removing the spaces on either side of the "@" character.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 30 Apr 1997 04:32:59 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k6i1r$t60$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202511.8736E-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202511.8736E-100000@kira> On 04/29/97, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >Do they share the same path to your $HOME? Are they running the same >version of the OS? > >Just guessin' > >TjL One other possible cause might be that one machine is running NEXTSTEP and the other is running OpenStep.. the name of the directory that defaults are stored in got moved when they moved from NS to OS.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: proxy server Date: 6 May 1997 20:18:49 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would appreciate it. thanks vince
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 10 May 1997 06:54:09 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5l162h$osd$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> <5kvlte$p8r$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) wrote: >I've compiled the Firewall Toolkit v1.3 quad-fat for NS 3.3. It has a >generic proxy but we don't use it so I don't know if it works well or even FWTK version 2.0 is no longer in beta and was released sometime back. You might want to check it out. Rgds, Song
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 10 May 1997 06:56:04 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5l1664$osd$2@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) wrote: > >So this is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that does all types >of traffic? To proxy more types of traffic, you should look at SOCKS (www.socks.nec.com). I've never compiled it on NextStep and I think I remember someone with difficulties involving shared libraries... Rgds, Song
From: Samuel Goldberger <smg@orb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 23:59:32 -0800 Organization: Spherical Solutions Message-ID: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to boot from the drive, I get: SCSI unexpected msg 1 sc: unexpected msg etc. I ordinarily associate this with bad termination jumpers, but I've checked with Seagate tech support, and verified that they are correct. I've turned off parity. Anyone run into this and have a fix? Urgent! Please email. -- Samuel M. Goldberger <smg@orb.com> Spherical Solutions 47 Myrtle Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 415-383-2919--voice 415-381-9556--fax
From: inet97@ameritech.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: A GUARANTEED MONEY MAKER!! Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 04:55:05 PDT Organization: Internet Communications Inc. Message-ID: <5l19n3$sck$4728@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> E-Mail Your Way To Riches! Dear Friend, We all know E-mail is here to stay. It's fun, easy and exciting! Would you be interested if we could show you a way to make well over $1,000 per week doing it? This is not a joke. You may have seen many people trying to tell you that you can make money by joining this or that scheme! Guess what, you decide to go for it and then you get nothing but frustration and disappointment! We are here to take your frustration and disappointment into an Electrifying Adventure! We have been marketing on-line for almost 2 years now! We have never spent one red penny on advertising and made nothing but profits. We can show you how to make money every day of the year. Many people may think this is untrue or it just can't be done. We are here to tell you that it is absolutely not true. The biggest mistake people make about marketing on-line is that they sit and wait for people to contact them. You will never make it if this is your approach and we'll tell you why. There are over 60 MILLION people on-line right now, and seven new people logging on every minute of the day world-wide and everyone is offering something. So how do you get a potential client or a new customer before your competition does? The answer is simply " Creative E-mailing" and it WORKS! I'll tell you why. You're taking your product, service or idea directly to the market instead of waiting for the market to come to you! Here are a few testimonials we'd like to share with you ( They're all 100% TRUE! ): Internet Communications, my wife and I owe you so much. We ordered your Creative E-mail System and within the first week we received over $1,150 in orders for my Internet Consulting business! --Charles -- California I have bought two so-called E-mail programs that cost me over $600.00 when I received them. They were extremely difficult to operate and it took me about two weeks to figure them out. Once I did, they were so time consuming it just wasn't worth my time. When I received your course it took me about four minutes to install and I was in business! Within the first 24 hours of my first E-mailing I received over $580.00 in sales over the phone. That first week I grossed over $2,000.00! I really can't believe how easy you made this, anyone can do it! Thanks! --Dennis -- Illinios Hello, I'm a divorced mother of two children. I wanted to thank you for helping me out. This was my first time buying anything on the Internet. I was skeptical at first but I figured I'd take a chance. This was the best chance I've ever took! My part-time business is now a full-time home-business, thanks to your Creative E-mail System. I had to hire my two family members to help me out! This is GREAT, thanks so much! I'd recommend this for anyone! --Ellen -- Florida You may have seen other people offering products "E-mail Programs, E-mail Addresses, Extractors, Etc." The vast majority of these products are very over-priced and very difficult to even use. None of them even supply you with current, up-to-date, FRESH & RESPONSIVE E-mail addresses! Our Creative E-mail System puts everything into one package to make your profits soar immediately! Even if you do not have a product or service to offer, we are going to give you over 500 how-to reports that you will have full reprint rights to! What makes our course different from anything else being offered anywhere is that we're dedicated to your success! We do not succeed unless you succeed! All of our E-mail Address Databases are created in house. We do not trade our databases with anyone because people are selling extremely bad lists on the Internet. Many of other people's databases are filled with duplicate addresses and many of them are undeliverable. We keep our own database so we know exactly what we have and we keep nothing but the best. There's no other way. We believe in producing high quality products that should be priced reasonably for your success! Read on to see the special bonuses you will receive. ******** SPECIAL 10 DAY BONUS ******** If you order within the next 10 days we will include: 1) 500 How-To Reports ( You may resell these at any price ) 2) Your Personal Complete Guide To The Internet -- This 175 page e-book covers every single aspect of the internet. You will never have to buy another internet book! When you complete this book, you will know more about the internet than 90% of the people online right now. 3) When you purchase our 8 MILLION SUPER responsive E-mail list we will include Mega-Mailer. It sends 250,000 E-mails per hour! All other orders will receive Pegasus Mail. It mails about 30,000 per hour. Here's how to get the Creative E-Mail System: All orders are delivered on CD-ROM or 100mb Zip Disk ( Iomega ). ============> E-Mail Databases <================ 2 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $ 99.95 4 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $179.95 6 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $249.95 8 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $299.95 You will be sending your Marketing Letter to 2, 4, 6 or 8 MILLION People! To mail to 2 MILLION People by U.S. Mail at $.32 per stamp would cost $640,000.00, not including envelopes or paper! The price of 2 MILLION E-mail Addresses isn't even a fraction of the cost. And the great thing is that if you have 10 products, you can E-mail to your list as many times as you want to! Your profits will never stop soaring! Don't pay someone else to send your advertisement out, do it yourself and save big money! The average cost right now to send your ad one time to ONE MILLION people is $1,400.00. You can send it 100 times to EIGHT MILLION people for only $299.95 and that includes Mega-Mailer that sends 250,000 per hour! ===============> Order Form <=============== Yes, Internet Communications Inc., I wish to take you up on your SPECIAL 10 DAY OFFER FOR YOUR CREATIVE E-MAIL SYSTEM, INCLUDING THE TWO SPECIAL BONUSES: "Complete Internet Guide Book" and "500 How-To-Reports". I understand I have to completely fill out the order form so you can fulfill my order. Name:______________________________________ Address:____________________________________ City:_______________________________________ State:_______________________________________ Zip Code:____________________________________ Country:____________________________________ E-mail Address:_______________________________ Phone Number:_______________________________ I wish to pay by: ( Check One ) Check:____ Money Order:_____ ( Check One ) 2 Million______ 4 Million______ 6 Million______ 8 Million_______ *Remember the 8 MILLION Includes Mega-Mailer! Zip Disk:______ CD-ROM:______Total:_______________ Pegasus Mail ( WIN 3.1 ) ( WIN 95 ) ( MAC ) (Circle One ) ============================================================= We Accept Checks By Fax Simply Tape Your Check Here With The Above Order Form And Fax It To: 1-216-895-1930 If you have any questions please call customer service at: 1-216-895-1919 Fax: 1-216-895-1930 Phone: 1-216-895-1919 ============================================================= Make check or money order payable to: Internet Communications Mail check or Money Order to: Internet Communications 30628 Detroit Ave. Suite 295 Westlake, Ohio 44145 The entire contents of this message are copyrighted and protected by both United States copyright laws and international treaty provisions. None of the text in this message may ever be reproduced, in original or modified form, for commercial purposes, without express written permission by Internet Communications Inc.. We do authorize and encourage the forwarding of this message to interested parties, for the purpose of informing them of Internet Communications Inc. services.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MORE INFO (Re: network faxing w/ NXFax) Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 23:31:51 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> References: <5kt01s$ls3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <E9x0My.1tt@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <E9x0My.1tt@nidat.sub.org> Thanks to all those who have offered help The problem (I guess) is that these are two separate NeXT machines... Each has its own Netinfo which is aware of the other machine. This is OK for network printing and NFS but seems to be more challenging for Faxing... TjL
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From: inet97@ameritech.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 04:55:05 PDT Message-ID: <cancel.5l19n3$sck$4728@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <5l19n3$sck$4728@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Control: cancel <5l19n3$sck$4728@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Sat May 10 15:07:36 1997 Original subject was: A GUARANTEED MONEY MAKER!!
From: ** Craig Cook ** <cookca@cs.purdue.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 10:24:47 -0500 Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm using OnmiWeb 2 and am trying to set it's http requests to use the proxy server I have running on my PC machine. Can it be configured to use a proxy server? thanks Craig
From: inet97@ameritech.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Make Money With Your Computer! Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 17:09:58 PDT Organization: Internet Communications Inc. Message-ID: <5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> E-Mail Your Way To Riches! Dear Friend, We all know E-mail is here to stay. It's fun, easy and exciting! Would you be interested if we could show you a way to make well over $1,000 per week doing it? This is not a joke. You may have seen many people trying to tell you that you can make money by joining this or that scheme! Guess what, you decide to go for it and then you get nothing but frustration and disappointment! We are here to take your frustration and disappointment into an Electrifying Adventure! We have been marketing on-line for almost 2 years now! We have never spent one red penny on advertising and made nothing but profits. We can show you how to make money every day of the year. Many people may think this is untrue or it just can't be done. We are here to tell you that it is absolutely not true. The biggest mistake people make about marketing on-line is that they sit and wait for people to contact them. You will never make it if this is your approach and we'll tell you why. There are over 60 MILLION people on-line right now, and seven new people logging on every minute of the day world-wide and everyone is offering something. So how do you get a potential client or a new customer before your competition does? The answer is simply " Creative E-mailing" and it WORKS! I'll tell you why. You're taking your product, service or idea directly to the market instead of waiting for the market to come to you! Here are a few testimonials we'd like to share with you ( They're all 100% TRUE! ): Internet Communications, my wife and I owe you so much. We ordered your Creative E-mail System and within the first week we received over $1,150 in orders for my Internet Consulting business! --Charles -- California I have bought two so-called E-mail programs that cost me over $600.00 when I received them. They were extremely difficult to operate and it took me about two weeks to figure them out. Once I did, they were so time consuming it just wasn't worth my time. When I received your course it took me about four minutes to install and I was in business! Within the first 24 hours of my first E-mailing I received over $580.00 in sales over the phone. That first week I grossed over $2,000.00! I really can't believe how easy you made this, anyone can do it! Thanks! --Dennis -- Illinios Hello, I'm a divorced mother of two children. I wanted to thank you for helping me out. This was my first time buying anything on the Internet. I was skeptical at first but I figured I'd take a chance. This was the best chance I've ever took! My part-time business is now a full-time home-business, thanks to your Creative E-mail System. I had to hire my two family members to help me out! This is GREAT, thanks so much! I'd recommend this for anyone! --Ellen -- Florida You may have seen other people offering products "E-mail Programs, E-mail Addresses, Extractors, Etc." The vast majority of these products are very over-priced and very difficult to even use. None of them even supply you with current, up-to-date, FRESH & RESPONSIVE E-mail addresses! Our Creative E-mail System puts everything into one package to make your profits soar immediately! Even if you do not have a product or service to offer, we are going to give you over 500 how-to reports that you will have full reprint rights to! What makes our course different from anything else being offered anywhere is that we're dedicated to your success! We do not succeed unless you succeed! All of our E-mail Address Databases are created in house. We do not trade our databases with anyone because people are selling extremely bad lists on the Internet. Many of other people's databases are filled with duplicate addresses and many of them are undeliverable. We keep our own database so we know exactly what we have and we keep nothing but the best. There's no other way. We believe in producing high quality products that should be priced reasonably for your success! Read on to see the special bonuses you will receive. ******** SPECIAL 10 DAY BONUS ******** If you order within the next 10 days we will include: 1) 500 How-To Reports ( You may resell these at any price ) 2) Your Personal Complete Guide To The Internet -- This 175 page e-book covers every single aspect of the internet. You will never have to buy another internet book! When you complete this book, you will know more about the internet than 90% of the people online right now. 3) When you purchase our 8 MILLION SUPER responsive E-mail list we will include Mega-Mailer. It sends 250,000 E-mails per hour! All other orders will receive Pegasus Mail. It mails about 30,000 per hour. Here's how to get the Creative E-Mail System: All orders are delivered on CD-ROM or 100mb Zip Disk ( Iomega ). ============> E-Mail Databases <================ 2 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $ 99.95 4 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $179.95 6 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $249.95 8 Million FRESH E-mail Addresses only $299.95 You will be sending your Marketing Letter to 2, 4, 6 or 8 MILLION People! To mail to 2 MILLION People by U.S. Mail at $.32 per stamp would cost $640,000.00, not including envelopes or paper! The price of 2 MILLION E-mail Addresses isn't even a fraction of the cost. And the great thing is that if you have 10 products, you can E-mail to your list as many times as you want to! Your profits will never stop soaring! Don't pay someone else to send your advertisement out, do it yourself and save big money! The average cost right now to send your ad one time to ONE MILLION people is $1,400.00. You can send it 100 times to EIGHT MILLION people for only $299.95 and that includes Mega-Mailer that sends 250,000 per hour! ===============> Order Form <=============== Yes, Internet Communications Inc., I wish to take you up on your SPECIAL 10 DAY OFFER FOR YOUR CREATIVE E-MAIL SYSTEM, INCLUDING THE TWO SPECIAL BONUSES: "Complete Internet Guide Book" and "500 How-To-Reports". I understand I have to completely fill out the order form so you can fulfill my order. Name:______________________________________ Address:____________________________________ City:_______________________________________ State:_______________________________________ Zip Code:____________________________________ Country:____________________________________ E-mail Address:_______________________________ Phone Number:_______________________________ I wish to pay by: ( Check One ) Check:____ Money Order:_____ ( Check One ) 2 Million______ 4 Million______ 6 Million______ 8 Million_______ *Remember the 8 MILLION Includes Mega-Mailer! Zip Disk:______ CD-ROM:______Total:_______________ Pegasus Mail ( WIN 3.1 ) ( WIN 95 ) ( MAC ) (Circle One ) ============================================================= We Accept Checks By Fax Simply Tape Your Check Here With The Above Order Form And Fax It To: 1-216-895-1930 If you have any questions please call customer service at: 1-216-895-1919 Fax: 1-216-895-1930 Phone: 1-216-895-1919 ============================================================= Make check or money order payable to: Internet Communications Mail check or Money Order to: Internet Communications 30628 Detroit Ave. Suite 295 Westlake, Ohio 44145 The entire contents of this message are copyrighted and protected by both United States copyright laws and international treaty provisions. None of the text in this message may ever be reproduced, in original or modified form, for commercial purposes, without express written permission by Internet Communications Inc.. We do authorize and encourage the forwarding of this message to interested parties, for the purpose of informing them of Internet Communications Inc. services.
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:00:14 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510145837.9036I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: ** Craig Cook ** <cookca@cs.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> FYI: OmniWeb 2.5 was just released There is a set of proxy preferences in OmniWeb (at least in 2.5). I'm not sure that it would do what you want, but it might... TjL ps -- you can find OW 2.5 at www.omigroup.com or peak.org in /pub/next/new_arrivals/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) Subject: Re: proxy server Message-ID: <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: mgoedel@m.isar.de Organization: Disorganization References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 18:50:01 GMT In <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > In article <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) writes: > > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > > appreciate it. > > > > thanks > > vince > > A version of apache, which can be configures as proxy is avaible on several > NeXT related website (like ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de) The good old CERN httpd works fine as a proxy as well. I have it running on a 040 NeXT with PPP. I'm surfing from a Linux box (Netscape) to the NeXT proxy, good solution.
From: mark@sfmny.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Fast SCSI 2 disk drives..? Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 18:00:34 GMT Message-ID: <3370c1ba.427727599@raptor> Hello all, I need to buy a new disk drive for one of my NEXTStation's. Mostly there are Fast SCSI 2 disk drives on the market today along with Fast-Wide/SCSI 3, etc.. Will Fast SCSI2 disks work with the older NeXT hardware? The machines are NeXTStation Turbo ADB. I read in NeXTAnswers that the M68k driver does not recognise the "fast" SCSI implementation. Does anybody have any experience with this? It has been too long since I have had to work on my NeXT hardware. Do I have to buy a disk that is just SCSI 2 and NOT Fast SCSI 2? thanks in advance Mark LeScoezec Network Administrator Soros Fund Management mark@sfmny.com NO JUNKMAIL PLEASE
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 Supersedes: <851862718425@digifix.com> Date: 11 May 1997 03:58:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8856863323226@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. 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From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: USR and PPro system problem Date: 10 May 1997 23:08:45 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5l2v5t$17q@argentina.earthlink.net> Hello everyone. Someone has told me that he does not know of anyone running NSFIP3.3 on the PPRO200 and USR33.6 sportster. I realize NXFax does not work with USR, but what about just bringing a connection up to browse the web, pick up mail, etc? Does anyone have this working? I want to upgrade from my P90, but it will be of no use unless I can use the modem. Thanks for your responses. Please email responses to quinonez@ucla.edu gq -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@ucla.edu> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: inet97@ameritech.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Control: cancel <5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 05:35:45 +1 Organization: Internet Communications Inc. Message-ID: <cancel.5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> References: <5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "InternetCommunicationsInc" or "summary of auto-cancellations" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: Make Money With Your Computer!.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 11 May 1997 13:45:20 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5l4ihg$rig$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) wrote: > In <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > > In article <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) > writes: > > > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > > > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > > > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > > > appreciate it. I can only praise 'squid', fast, reliable, small, easy to install. From the readme: Squid has descended from Harvest, and is a non-forking proxy/cache server which uses asynchronous I/O. The source is freely available, and NEXTSTEP diffs are available from me by request. It's available at: ftp://ftp.schnet.edu.au/pub/lukeh/NeXT/ The Squid home page is http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/ --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Message-ID: <EA0H8E.2B9@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 10:02:37 GMT In article <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Samuel Goldberger <smg@orb.com> writes: > I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda > hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, > and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to > boot from the drive, I get: > > SCSI unexpected msg 1 > sc: unexpected msg > etc. > > I ordinarily associate this with bad termination jumpers, but I've > checked with Seagate tech support, and verified that they are correct. > I've turned off parity. > > Anyone run into this and have a fix? > That's the ordinary behaviour when the drive isn't set to asynch mode. In synch mode almost everything seems to work, just that you get the above error when you try to boot... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: MORE INFO (Re: network faxing w/ NXFax) Message-ID: <EA0HMr.2Bx@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 10:11:15 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > Thanks to all those who have offered help > > The problem (I guess) is that these are two separate NeXT machines... > Each has its own Netinfo which is aware of the other machine. > > This is OK for network printing and NFS but seems to be more challenging > for Faxing... > No that's wrong! Printing and FAXing are almost the same! Only if you got a network printer that has its own IP address printing and FAXing would differ. The output file in the spooling system only differs in a handful of lines for print or FAX! But in general, you must share a NI domain to be able to share printers the easy way. Otherwise there is the mechanism described in the chapter on "Mixed Networks" in the online SysAdmin Manual. And this one should also work for FAX since, as I said, in the spooling queue the files differ only in a few lines of text. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Message-ID: <E9uyBx.16E@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5kkru8$9a@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 10:26:21 GMT In article <5kkru8$9a@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) writes: > Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: > >In article <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) > >writes: > > >> I am running Intel NS 3.3 and the machine > >> is set up to only use the local NetInfo domain. Anyone have any > >> suggestions for what might be causing these messages? > >> > >No, I don't believe you! > > Well, to the best of my knowledge it is set up that way... ;^) > > >Might be you think you only use 'local' but then you'd never get this > >error. Verify the 'serves' property of the entries in the /machines > >directory. I bet there is some './network' entry in it! > > None have a ./network entry in it. Grepping for serves: > > (next)root:/Users/doyle|2> nigrep serves / > 2 /machines/localhost: serves ./local > 3 /machines/broadcasthost: serves > > So, there are no ./network references. However, broadcasthost defines an > empty 'serves' property, but this seems OK to me. All other entries > (including the one for next and next.aps.org which is the machine in > question) don't define a 'serves' property at all, but again, this > shouldn't matter. > > Another thing worth mentioning is that the machine is setup to be a PPP > server. Perhaps I have that configured slightly wrong? > > Any other ideas or things to check? > I'm left clueless. I've never seen this error without any trace in the 'serves' property. But I have no exerience with PPP. So there's till some chance... -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Change disk name/label/whatever you call it? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 18:44:24 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is there a way to change the label/name of a disk (hard drive) without reformatting the whole thing? I've got a disk that currently gets mounted at /Disk and I'd like to change it to 'swapdisk' I've tried disk -L and interactive 'disk' .... looks like the only way is to re-initialize / refomat which I'd much rather not do.... Any help appreciated (the drive is at /dev/sd3a FWIW) TjL
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Change disk name/label/whatever you call it? Date: 11 May 1997 19:30:10 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <5l56o2$3fo$1@kanga.accessone.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > Is there a way to change the label/name of a disk (hard drive) without > reformatting the whole thing? > > Any help appreciated (the drive is at /dev/sd3a FWIW) The following should get the results that you are after, Tim: disk /dev/rsd3a name swapdisk w quit I have done this many times in the past without issue. 'name' is the alternative to 'label', where the latter causes irreparable damage. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Message-ID: <E9vK08.96D@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: roehnelt@csulb.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 18:14:31 GMT References: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > I used a DOS startup floppy (fdisk) to partition my drive into 2 partitions. > How can I now format those partitions to a bsd file system? > > anybody have any ideas for a brand spanken new OpenStep 4.1 user/admin? If this is for a boot disk, then the simplest thing to do is to install OpenStep using the floppies and the CD. You should get an opportunity to keep the existing partitioning and select the desired partition to use for OpenStep. If it is for a non-boot disk then you should investigate the /etc/disk program. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." --- Les Lamport
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Partitioning for NetBoot Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 15:34:50 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0805971534510001@31.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> Is it really necessary to partition the disk to export the root and /private directories? Is it possible to just create a /hosts/hostname directory and copy the root entries into it? Thanks for the help, Mitch
From: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 12:29:00 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <33722977.84D4C119@csulb.edu> References: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> <E9vK08.96D@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Allan Noordvyk wrote: > > In comp.sys.next.sysadmin roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > > I used a DOS startup floppy (fdisk) to partition my drive into 3 > partitions. > > How can I now format those partitions to a bsd file system? > > > > anybody have any ideas for a brand spanken new OpenStep 4.1 user/admin? > > If this is for a boot disk, then the simplest thing to do is to install > OpenStep > using the floppies and the CD. You should get an opportunity to keep > the existing partitioning and select the desired partition to use for > OpenStep. > > If it is for a non-boot disk then you should investigate the /etc/disk > program. > I did install OPENSTEP 4.1 from floppy-CD. I selected the partition that I wanted to install onto, and everything worked great. But now how do I make OPENSTEP recognize the other two partitions that exist? I have a 2 Gig partition with OPENSTEP installed on it (boot partition), a 1.9 Gig blank partition, and a 150 MB partiton. I don't know how to access either of the blank partitions... I guess that is my question. (I formatted it this way because BSD doesn't support partitions larger than 2 Gigs) any more help? sean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Message-ID: <E9vnF6.G8w@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: roehnelt@csulb.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:28:18 GMT References: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> <E9vK08.96D@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <33722977.84D4C119@csulb.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > I did install OPENSTEP 4.1 from floppy-CD. I selected the partition that I > wanted to install onto, and everything worked great. But now how do I make > OPENSTEP recognize the other two partitions that exist? I have a 2 Gig > partition with OPENSTEP installed on it (boot partition), a 1.9 Gig blank > partition, and a 150 MB partiton. I don't know how to access either of the > blank partitions... I guess that is my question. (I formatted it this way > because BSD doesn't support partitions larger than 2 Gigs) Ooops. Sorry I read more into your post than was there. I assumed that you were leaving the other partitions for another operating system. So you want to just make a blank OpenStep file-system on the remaining partitions of the disk and you've already got OpenStep running on the first partition. Its been a while since I've done this but... Assuming that you are using a SCSI disk then you want to become root and type: /usr/etc/newfs /dev/sd0b and /usr/etc/newfs /dev/sd0c Since /dev/sd0b is the second partition of the first SCSI disk and /dev/sd0c is the third partition. If you are using a EIDE disk, then you would type: /usr/etc/newfs /dev/hd0b and /usr/etc/newfs /dev/hd0c If you read the man page for newfs, there are a bunch of options you can pass to it to tune your file system as desired. Once you've created the files systems you'll need to put them in /etc/fstab for them to be visible when you next reboot. This would be something like: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd0b /Foo 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd0c /Bar 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 where /Foo and /Bar are the names under which you would like the disks to appear. Change the sd's to hd's if you are using EIDE disks. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." --- Les Lamport
From: John LaViola <jlaviola@iconn.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 22:41:19 -0400 Organization: i-conn Message-ID: <3376834F.4CF4@iconn.net> References: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Samuel Goldberger wrote: > > I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda > hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, > and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to > boot from the drive, I get: > > SCSI unexpected msg 1 > sc: unexpected msg > etc. > I've used many Barracuda 2LP and 4LP drives and never had this problem. In fact installation was quite uneventful. What SCSI controller are you using? What driver?
From: "Thomas" <thomas@cs.sonoma.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Samba for NeXTStep 3.3? Date: 12 May 1997 01:49:22 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <01bc5e75$3d6efe00$6ea66bc7@206.170.168.35.jps.net> References: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> Hi. Thanks for the advice and such. Oddly the samba sources ain't on the NeXT archives (peanuts or anywhere else). I understand that they're included with 4.1 but am not really interested in running it. Maybe I'm finally becoming an old man and getting stubborn. For 3.3 compatability I had to hack the codebase a bit to get it to compile but... it seems to work perfectly now. Windoze networking is _definitely_ flaky but once you get things working the first time it works o.k. Thanks, Thomas Thomas Poff <thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu> wrote in article <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net>... > > Hi, > > Are there any networking solutions that allow Windows '95/NT connectivity > to NeXTStep? I'd like to add a couple of NeXT machines to our network > but haven't found anything except "rumba," which does the opposite of > what samba does (i.e. allows client but not servers). > > Thanks, > Thomas > > -- > <>+<> ////// __v__ __\/__ > `\|||/ /---\ """"""" | _ - | (_____) . / ^ _ \ . > (q p) | o o | <^-@-@-^> (| o O |) .( O O ), |\| (o)(o) |/| > _ooO_<_>_Ooo_ooO_U_Ooo_ooO__v__Ooo_ooO_u_Ooo_ooO__(_)__Ooa__oOO_()_OOo___ > [_____}_____!____.}_____{_____|_____}_____i____.}_____!_____{_____}_____] > __.}____.|_____{_____!____.}_____|_____{.____}_____|_____}_____|_____!___ > [_____{_____}_____|_____}_____i_____}_____|_____}_____i_____{_____}_____] >
From: "Scott A. Perry" <sperry@os-knight.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Trying to install NextStep 3.3 on Sparc 5 w/dual etherne Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 22:28:03 -0500 Organization: OS-Knight Corp. Message-ID: <33768E43.61E3@os-knight.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Help, I am trying to install NextStep 3.3 for Sparc on a Sparc 5 that has a SCSI/Ethernet SBus card in it. I try booting and it hangs on the network interface initialization. Are there any drivers that I can apply to get past this hump? (Removing the SBus card is not an option). Thanks in Advance. Desperately Seeking Solution, Scott A. Perry sperry@os-knight.com P.S. Could you please email me as I don't get a chance to read this group as often as I'd like (I just can't seem to get away from those 4 hours/night of sleep). Again, thanks. Scott
From: Mark Sirota <msirota@isc.upenn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Exabyte 8500 on NeXT? Followup-To: poster Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 16:44:04 -0400 Organization: University of Pennsylvania, ISC Network Engineering Message-ID: <33723B14.5C3E@isc.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We've got an old NeXT system running NeXT Mach 3.3, to which we are trying to attach an Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive. The device is seen, and we can talk to it as either /dev/rst0 or /dev/rxt0. However, we cannot write to it. We get "unexpected EOF" immediately. We're guessing that maybe the system only understands the 8200 (2.3gb) drives, and not the 8500 (5gb) drives, because it's too old or something. What do we need to do in order to be able to write to this drive? Please reply via e-mail; I will summarize if there is interest. -- Mark Sirota, Network Systems Engineer University of Pennsylvania, Information Systems and Computing msirota@isc.upenn.edu, 215/573-7214
From: thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu (Thomas Poff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba for NeXTStep 3.3? Date: 9 May 1997 00:44:58 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> Hi, Are there any networking solutions that allow Windows '95/NT connectivity to NeXTStep? I'd like to add a couple of NeXT machines to our network but haven't found anything except "rumba," which does the opposite of what samba does (i.e. allows client but not servers). Thanks, Thomas -- <>+<> ////// __v__ __\/__ `\|||/ /---\ """"""" | _ - | (_____) . / ^ _ \ . (q p) | o o | <^-@-@-^> (| o O |) .( O O ), |\| (o)(o) |/| _ooO_<_>_Ooo_ooO_U_Ooo_ooO__v__Ooo_ooO_u_Ooo_ooO__(_)__Ooa__oOO_()_OOo___ [_____}_____!____.}_____{_____|_____}_____i____.}_____!_____{_____}_____] __.}____.|_____{_____!____.}_____|_____{.____}_____|_____}_____|_____!___ [_____{_____}_____|_____}_____i_____}_____|_____}_____i_____{_____}_____]
From: psybeast@pond.com (PsyBeast) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Just Got a NeXT "Cube" Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 01:18:29 -0500 Organization: the Dragon Distribution: inet Message-ID: <psybeast-ya02408000R1205970118290001@news.pond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As of Friday, I now have a NeXT "Cube" running around my apartment, ethernet that is. The only major problem at this stage of the game, is that I need a Clean New OS install. The cube came with what appears to be all the basic manuals, and a blank 256MB MO cartridge... and NOTHING else!!!! When I log on as root, the icons in my apps dock are generic icons, and I have NO /NextApps directory/folder... All I have is /NextDeveloper, Library, Tour... and therefor, NO services... I want to reformat the drive... and begin FRESH... I have files that have NOT been touched since 1990... I need an OS... I did manage to upgrade the cube to 28MBs of RAM, and it already comes with an '040 with a 660HD and MO drive... no floppy... I want to connect it to my existing HOME ethernet network, and turn it into a possible print/file server... I did get the NeXT LaserWriter with it... I already have a PMac 7100/66/2xCD/56MB RAM/1GB HD... MacIIci 32MB/250 HD/DayStar cache card... Mac SE 4/80... HP DeskWriter w/Mini EtherPrint box... all connected with Cat 5 to a Dayna MiniHub-8... I have spent a good part of the weekend reading what I have in print, including the "Upgrading to Release 2.0", and I have surfed the various Net homepages, and found some GREAT FUTURE INFO... but, I have a really operating OS... In my searches, I was not able to find a place, where I could download ANY version... Did I miss something?? At NeXTes homepage, I found the multiple-K stuff without a problem, I am NOT an Enterprise... I just want to get a simple basic OS... Bonuses would be WriteNow... Mathematica... Websters... etc... I have emailed the folks at NeXT... and seeing it was the weekend, I really did not expect to hear anything til Monday... I did get an AutoAnswer from there mailer... Where can I find and OS!! I am willing to spend a couple hundred bucks for a LEGAL copy (factory sealed). Or, I do have a T1 at work and a major credit card... SCSI storage is NOT a problem... I carry a 3.2GBs HD around for work... I also have a 7300/180 with 2GBs... At home, externally, there is a 500HD, 1GB HD, 230HD 3.5" MO, 45MB SyQuest, and a 1xCD... I am also planning to hookup a TeleBit T-3000... In the new apartment, I'm looking at ISDN... July 1st time frame... In the new apartment, it looks like there will be at least three WinTels; 386/Win3.X, 486/Win95, 596/NT4 added to the HomeNet... Looking to go to TCP/IP... Again, after all that background info, I come back to my basic question... Where can I get a LEGAL version of a NeXT OS that will run on a NeXT 040/28MB RAM/660MB HD/256MB MO???? I you have any other comments, please send them along to me... Please don't spam... If I did miss something... Sorry, but I could not easily find it in the FAQs online... I have done some reading in my life, and I generally enjoy useful, practical information... I also submit the above with the knowledge that MacOS 8.0 is just around the corner, and Rhapsody's light might just be seen at the end of the WWDC next week's tunnel. Thanks in advance, Psybeast psybeast@pond.com www.pond.com/~psybeast ----- "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet" - Chinese future cookie
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BSD libDB 1.85 ported to NS3.3? Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:11:24 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171054.6380A-100000@kira> References: <33712bd2.247407587@news.dfw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Steven R. Staton" <steve@deltos.com> In-Reply-To: <33712bd2.247407587@news.dfw.net> Have you seen ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.README TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Finding the second partition Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:18:33 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171542.6380B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hey all I've got a second partition somewhere, I think it is formatted for WinNT... I'd like to use it for swapspace or storage space under OpenStep. Problem is I can't seem to find it... the partition that is... I've tried mount -t dos /dev/sd0[a-h] /Partition (I'm not sure which it is... I think sd0h) What am I doing wrong? TjL
From: curtis@pencom.com (Curtis Preston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: Date: 12 May 1997 06:21:13 GMT Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated Message-ID: <09970411231834.OUI52.curtis@pencom.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.90.970429151720.11868C-100000@bologna.nettuno.it> This usually means either a bad disk, bad file system, or a file system that is significantly changing underneath you. -- I am currently writing a book for O'Reilly Publishing about enterprise backup and recovery, and would really appreciate hearing anything you would like to ask me or tell me. If you have problems with something, then others will as well. Can you think of anything else that should go in such a book?
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Samba for NeXTStep 3.3? Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 20:44:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508204317.2587G-100000@kira> References: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Thomas Poff <thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu> In-Reply-To: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> You should be able to get samba to compile under NS. Others have reported doing so TjL ps the web page for samba is http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/
From: Hkan Jonsson <Hakan_Johnsson@vtc.volvo.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: Users can not login Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 14:54:03 +0200 Organization: Volvo Truck Corporation Message-ID: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! After a crash the other day of my Intel machine running NS 3.3 a couple of tool files in Workspace.app became corrupt. I fixed this by copying them from the NS3.3 CD and things seemed to be OK again. Wrong! Now only root can login, all other users get trown out immediately. Restoring the old Workspace.app files does not work. What shall I do? What should I have done? /Hakan Jonsson
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syslog(3) buffer overrun - What NextStep versions? Date: 12 May 1997 15:39:28 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> syslog(3) is not vulnerable to buffer overrun on my 3.3 system. If you've verified that you have an overrun on your system, can you please tell me what version of NextStep was vulnerable? 3.2 and before? Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dual monitor config under OS 4.1? Date: 12 May 1997 15:17:47 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5l7car$p0d$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Hi, Has anyone had any success in getting a dual headed Intel box to work under OPENSTEP 4.1? I've tried using two Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 cards or one of those and an ATI Mach64 card, but no joy. The driver for Display0 always loads smoothly, but the Display1 driver just won't play ball. Either there is a port allocation conflict --- even if Configure.app is happilly saying that there are no conflicts --- or I get a screenfull of error messages unpleasantly full of hexadecimal which could be summarized as saying that there is a major problem with the video BIOS. Any clues would be gratefully received. Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: thompson@shell3.ba.best.com (Eric Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to dual-boot NT4 and Openstep 4.x? Date: 12 May 1997 09:35:16 -0700 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories Message-ID: <5l7gs4$1c5$1@shell3.ba.best.com> I may have an opportunity to use a machine to dual-boot NT4 and OpenStep for Intel. What's the wisdom on methods of installing each of these; does NT4 go first, then OpenStep? If I have a 1gb boot disk, can I split it in half and expect reasonable (if minimal) performance from each? Any other caveats or advice (or pointers to URLs) appreciated! thanks, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mgoedel@m.isar.de Subject: Re: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Message-ID: <EA1HwL.BK8@muaddib.m.isar.de> Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel) Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 23:14:45 GMT In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> ** Craig Cook ** <cookca@cs.purdue.edu> writes: > I'm using OnmiWeb 2 and am trying to set it's http requests to use the > proxy server I have running on my PC machine. > > Can it be configured to use a proxy server? > > thanks > Craig > > Yes, OmniWeb supports proxy servers. Type in your proxy-server e.g. http://your_proxy:8080/ and and http, ftp and gopher als protocoll. Works fine. MaX(T) -- __ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10 /\_\ KARSTADT AG Unternehmensbereich IW | 81543 Muenchen \/_/ Sysadmin der cyberb@r | Tel.: 049 89 652918 NeXTSTEP! mgoedel@m.isar.de (NeXT) | Work: 049 89 2902-5418
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mgoedel@m.isar.de Subject: Re: proxy server Message-ID: <EA1HuH.BJH@muaddib.m.isar.de> Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel) Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel References: <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 23:13:29 GMT In article <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) writes: > In <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > > In article <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) > writes: > > > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > > > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > > > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > > > appreciate it. > > > > > > thanks > > > vince > > > > A version of apache, which can be configures as proxy is avaible on several > > NeXT related website (like ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de) > > The good old CERN httpd works fine as a proxy as well. I have it running on a > 040 NeXT with PPP. I'm surfing from a Linux box (Netscape) to the NeXT proxy, > good solution. > > > Yes I know. It's also running on my machine. Hey Marcus, did you get the binaries for the cern? MaX(T) -- __ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10 /\_\ KARSTADT AG Unternehmensbereich IW | 81543 Muenchen \/_/ Sysadmin der cyberb@r | Tel.: 049 89 652918 NeXTSTEP! mgoedel@m.isar.de (NeXT) | Work: 049 89 2902-5418
From: holger@object-factory.com.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 12 May 1997 17:41:58 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <5l7kp6$amk$1@leonie.object-factory.com> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> <5l4ihg$rig$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > I can only praise 'squid', fast, reliable, small, easy to install. Yeah, but.. > From the readme: > > Squid has descended from Harvest, and is a non-forking proxy/cache server > which uses asynchronous I/O. The source is freely available, and NEXTSTEP > diffs are available from me by request. > > It's available at: > > ftp://ftp.schnet.edu.au/pub/lukeh/NeXT/ > > The Squid home page is > http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/ ..unfortunately I couldn't get any version later than 1.1.8 to work properly. They compile (courtesy the patches from Gerben Wieda, I think) but just refuse to connect. No errors in the logs - any client connection is simply refused. Does anybody know the trick? Holger
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: vi segmentation fault Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 13:47:18 -0700 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It wasn't doing it before...as they say. **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: Serguei Bakhteiarov <serge@conextions.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to dual-boot NT4 and Openstep 4.x? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:02:16 -0400 Organization: Conextions, Inc. Message-ID: <33777748.705007F8@conextions.com> References: <5l7gs4$1c5$1@shell3.ba.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Thompson wrote: > > I may have an opportunity to use a machine to dual-boot NT4 and OpenStep > for Intel. What's the wisdom on methods of installing each of these; does > NT4 go first, then OpenStep? If I have a 1gb boot disk, can I split it > in half and expect reasonable (if minimal) performance from each? > > Any other caveats or advice (or pointers to URLs) appreciated! > > thanks, > Eric I'd recommend to install OpenStep first and then NT, I did not have any problems with this. You certainly can split the fist HD. The minimum partitions (for developer) can be no less than 500Mb though... for the OpenStep. good luck serge
From: Serguei Bakhteiarov <serge@conextions.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mac with RJ45 and NeXT station; how to connect? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:07:59 -0400 Organization: Conextions, Inc. Message-ID: <3377789F.7F95449D@conextions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folks, I bought Mac for my daughter and we want to use my black hardware via twisted pair. My first goal is: to share black NeXT printer. I understand that, there is a Samba which could share the Printer. So what I have to do from the black side of the problem is not a big deal for me. The most difficult thing is the Mac. 1. Can i connect Mac and NeXT using twisted pair (RJ 45) directly without hub? 2. What should I do on the Mac (Mac OS 7.5) side to see the printer? many thanks in advance, please respond to my e-mail address: serge@conextions.com serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: proxy server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xyb9k5p7b.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:56:55 GMT >>>>> "VK" == Vincent Koser <vkoser@biggun.com> writes: VK> So this [squid] is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that VK> does all types of traffic? squid also serves as a proxy/cache for ftp. Markus G -- http://www.muc.de/~mgloede/A/URL/says/more/than/thousand/words/
From: Tom ONeil <oneilts@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rookie - need FAQ/sources Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:22:00 -0500 Organization: Microsoftically Impaired Message-ID: <33779808.2B16@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit to all; I am a Solaris Admin who just inherited a slew of Next machines. Having problems w/ "me" icon not appearing at the top of the tree, and some other minor glitches. Where is the FAQ for this group, and does anyone know where I can get some documentation on sys admin? I will be monitoring this newsgroup, and e-mail replies are appreciated. Tom ONeil "E Pluribus Unix"
From: tcondon@isp.net (Tom Condon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 23:41:46 -0700 Message-ID: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> I have received my Prelude to Rhapsody goodies today and have spent much of the evening setting up my PC. I have one problem. Does anyone know how to get OpenStep Mach setup to look for a DNS server. I found a reference in one of the online Docs thats says all I have to do is create a "/etc/resolv.conf" file. I have created it. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK! Any Ideas? -- Tom Condon
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syslog(3) buffer overrun - What NextStep versions? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:49:53 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1205972149530001@slip-125-9.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> In article <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg>, csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) wrote: >syslog(3) is not vulnerable to buffer overrun on my 3.3 system. Really??? That's interesting. Are you *sure*? There is a test program (syslogerr) included in http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/newlog-1.0.4.tar.gz Run it and see that is does not die with a segmetation fault. Then run syslogerr-fix (which was compiled with the new syslog library). Note that it terminates normally: % syslogerr Before Segmentation fault % syslogerr-fix Before After % > >If you've verified that you have an overrun on your system, can you please >tell me what version of NextStep was vulnerable? 3.2 and before? NS3.3 for HPPA is definitely vulnerable. Jacques Distler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) Subject: Re: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Message-ID: <1997May12.192324.859@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: luomat@peak.org Organization: Disorganization References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510145837.9036I-100000@kira> Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:23:24 GMT In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510145837.9036I-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > FYI: OmniWeb 2.5 was just released > > There is a set of proxy preferences in OmniWeb (at least in 2.5). > > I'm not sure that it would do what you want, but it might... > Omniweb can use proxies of course. Works fine.
From: Grant Passmore<skaboy@usa.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Infusion Subject: Infusion BBS Software Message-ID: <33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Date: 12 May 97 00:00:32 GMT I just thought I'd let everyone know.... There is finally a BBS Software with all of the great features of OBV/2 and Iniquity, but without the bugs and bad support. Infusion BBS Software is a new generation in BBS Software, modeled after OBV/2 and Iniquity with everything that the sysop can imagine..and more. Some basic features are: o Multi-node upto 255 concurrent users o Light-bar support [arrow keys] o Requires NO Fossil Driver [selectable FOSSIL, ASYNC, and Digiboard for each node] o Online Configuration [menu editor, string editor, evemt editor, node editor, system editor, etc] o Pipe Color Codes o MCI Codes o Powerful scripting language o Internal One-Liners, Blacklist, voting booth, etc o Internal Z-Modem, X-Modem, Y-Modem, Y-modem-g [no limit to external protocols] o Internal COMM Program with internal protocols, Auto Up/DL o Great support o Basically all of the great features of OBV/2 and Iniquity combined Infusion has been picked up by fuEl [international art group], and Infusion 1.0th will be released June 10th. Come to the Infusion Home-Page at http://web.wt.net/~sparky/ibbs/ and jump into the JAVA Based Chatroom, or come to the ANNEX, the official Infusion IRC Server [irc.annex.net] #infusion / #bbs send the author skaboy101 [Grant Passmore] E-mail at skaboy@usa.net -lata skaboy101
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Date: 13 May 1997 06:26:01 GMT Control: cancel <33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Message-ID: <cancel.33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Sender: Grant Passmore<skaboy@usa.net> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syslog(3) buffer overrun - What NextStep versions? Date: 13 May 1997 11:56:01 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5l9ksh$lbc$2@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> <distler-1205972149530001@slip-125-9.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote: >Really??? That's interesting. Are you *sure*? There is a test program Jacques, Sorry, you're right. 3.3 Intel is indeed vulnerable to syslog(3) overflow. I wasn't testing with multiple parameters. :-( Rgds, Song
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel Control: cancel <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> Date: 13 May 1997 11:53:23 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5l9knj$lbc$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> cancel
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jaz drive & OS4.1? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:46:57 +0100 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <337870D1.27A0@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone has got a 1gb Jaz drive working with OS.41 on Intel? If so, is there anything I should know before purchase? TIA, C. charlesa@ncast.co.uk
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jaz drive & OS4.1? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:47:22 +0100 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <337870EA.13F1@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone has got a 1gb Jaz drive working with OS4.1 on Intel? If so, is there anything I should know pre-purchase? TIA, C. charlesa@ncast.co.uk
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: question about partitions Date: 13 May 1997 15:35:09 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I know about the 2Gb partition limit for OpenStep, but during a recent installation I may have got the number wrong. I asked for a partition size of 2079 (thinking it was in in units of decimal megabytes), and so now I have a Workspace that claims there is 250M free when there should be about 1500M free. What number should I specify for a maximum partition size? Sorry if there is a FAQ on this somewhere I haven't found. William Clocksin
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't ping router Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:40:23 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33788B67.7B4@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not getting a response when I ping my router and want to make sure everything is configured correctly with NEXTSTEP before concluding that the router is broken. Entering 'netstat -rn' returns: Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 298 lo0 default 192.168.100.101 UG 0 0 en0 192.168.100 192.168.100.102 U 4 1280 en0 My router, an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px, has the address 192.168.100.101 and my computer's address is 192.168.100.102. When I ping the router, it hangs, not returning any packets. When I ping the computer, it returns all packets immediately. It also returns all packets immediately when I ping 192.168.100.0 and 192.168.100.255. Does anyone know if this is configured correctly? --Greg
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz drive & OS4.1? Date: 13 May 1997 11:02:05 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5la6qd$89t@xmission.xmission.com> References: <337870D1.27A0@ncast.co.uk> Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> wrote: : I'm wondering if anyone has got a 1gb Jaz drive working with OS.41 on : Intel? Yes. I have. If so, is there anything I should know before purchase? You will need a custom disktab to format it in NeXTstep format. The disktab is available from Apple/NeXT. DOS and Mac formats work out of the box. ......................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 17:42:54 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > I know about the 2Gb partition limit for OpenStep, but during a recent > installation I may have got the number wrong. I asked for a partition size > of 2079 (thinking it was in in units of decimal megabytes), and so now I > have a Workspace that claims there is 250M free when there should be about > 1500M free. What number should I specify for a maximum partition size? > Sorry if there is a FAQ on this somewhere I haven't found. > > William Clocksin I just had a problem like this... but yes, you should have entered 2047 MB. I had OS4.1 automatically format my 4.2 Gig drive, and I had to throw eway 52 MB, otherwise it would tell me I have only 53 MB left, and thus said I didn't have enough disk space to continue the install. After I threw eway the 53 MB it auto partitioned and formated my disk into 4 1-Gig partitions... sean
From: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Change disk name/label/whatever you call it? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 17:46:26 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <33790B61.F8B85304@csulb.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> <5l56o2$3fo$1@kanga.accessone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marc Salvatori wrote: > > In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > > Is there a way to change the label/name of a disk (hard drive) without > > reformatting the whole thing? > > > > Any help appreciated (the drive is at /dev/sd3a FWIW) you could also do this in /etc/fstab I think... something like /dev/sd3a /NewDiskName 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 sean
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Date: 13 May 1997 23:13:40 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <5lasj4$5vk$1@radjah.navigator.de> References: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> <3376834F.4CF4@iconn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: jlaviola@iconn.net In <3376834F.4CF4@iconn.net> John LaViola wrote: > Samuel Goldberger wrote: > > > > I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda > > hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, > > and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to > > boot from the drive, I get: > > > > SCSI unexpected msg 1 > > sc: unexpected msg > > etc. > > > > I've used many Barracuda 2LP and 4LP drives and never had this problem. > In fact installation was quite uneventful. What SCSI controller are you > using? What driver? Black hardware hasn't a big amount of different SCSI controllers and drivers. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MORE INFO (Re: network faxing w/ NXFax) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:23:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970513202018.6364I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> <EA0HMr.2Bx@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de In-Reply-To: <EA0HMr.2Bx@nidat.sub.org> > No that's wrong! Printing and FAXing are almost the same! Only if you > got a network printer that has its own IP address printing and FAXing > would differ. The output file in the spooling system only differs in a > handful of lines for print or FAX! Yes it would seem that would be true since the spooling takes place much the same way as faxing... > But in general, you must share a NI domain to be able to share printers > the easy way. Otherwise there is the mechanism described in the chapter > on "Mixed Networks" in the online SysAdmin Manual. And this one should > also work for FAX since, as I said, in the spooling queue the files differ > only in a few lines of text. Yes I will have to cehck this out since I don't seem to have the 'easy way' setup right now.... Thanks for the pointers... now that finals are done I should be able to get this working..... well, except that I'm moving this week too.. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:26:03 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970513202418.6364J-100000@kira> References: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Tom Condon <tcondon@isp.net> In-Reply-To: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> On Sun, 11 May 1997, Tom Condon wrote: > I have received my Prelude to Rhapsody goodies today :-P > of the evening setting up my PC. I have one problem. Does anyone know > how to get OpenStep Mach setup to look for a DNS server. I found a > reference in one of the online Docs thats says all I have to do is create > a "/etc/resolv.conf" file. I have created it. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK! > Any Ideas? Didya put the IP of a nameserver in the file, something like this: domain peak.org nameserver 198.68.23.27 nameserver 207.98.65.2 nameserver 128.193.4.20 You should use differetn IPs but that is how it should be setup... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Users can not login Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:28:44 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970513202734.6364K-100000@kira> References: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_Jonsson?= <Hakan_Johnsson@vtc.volvo.se> In-Reply-To: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> My guess is that some of the files are not setuid or don't have the read bits turns on for non-root/wheel members? Check vs the CD to see if the permissions are the same... TjL
From: Horst_Dries@stratus.com (Horst Dries) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printer description file not available Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:27:10 GMT Organization: stratus.com Message-ID: <337b76ec.7371485@news> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since the installation of OpenStep 4.1,I can't print to a HP LaserJet network printer anymore. I configured the printer with PrintManager , defined it as "access:private", "Communications:HP JetDirect" and assigned the correct IP address to it. When I try to print to that printer, the error message "printer description file not available " appears . Any hints are very appreciated. thanks & regards Horst
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: 14 May 1997 10:14:40 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> Cc: roehnelt@csulb.edu In <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > > > I know about the 2Gb partition limit for OpenStep, but during a recent > > installation I may have got the number wrong. I asked for a partition size > > of 2079 (thinking it was in in units of decimal megabytes), and so now I > > have a Workspace that claims there is 250M free when there should be about > > 1500M free. What number should I specify for a maximum partition size? > > Sorry if there is a FAQ on this somewhere I haven't found. > > > > William Clocksin > > I just had a problem like this... but yes, you should have entered 2047 MB. > > I had OS4.1 automatically format my 4.2 Gig drive, and I had to throw eway 52 > MB, otherwise it would tell me I have only 53 MB left, and thus said I didn't > have enough disk space to continue the install. > > After I threw eway the 53 MB it auto partitioned and formated my disk into 4 > 1-Gig partitions... If you can attach your disk temporarily to another NeXT box, or manage to boot single user off the CD Rom, you can partition a 2 -- 4 Gb disk into a 2Gb partition plus another partition with the rest of the space by the command: disk -h hostname -l diskname -i -b -p 2097152 /dev/rsd1a Note that the man page for disk says this about the -p flag: -p partitionsize The first partition of a two-partition disk will be partitionsize, and the second partition uses the remainder of the disk. The partitionsize is in units of the native blocksize of the device (minimum 1K). The -p option only has meaning when used with -i. In practice this means specify the partition size in kilobyte blocks for all standard disks with 512b or 1024b blocks. YMMV if you're a fan of using larger block sizes. If you want to get any fancier than that you're going to have to write a custom disktab entry: in theory with that you can create upto eight partitions per disk, for a maximum disk sie of 16Gb... Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: "Paul Summermatter" <paulrs@lgs-systems.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dump Date: 14 May 1997 12:32:00 GMT Organization: LGS Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> Hello All, We recently purchased a Sony HyperDAT II tape drive so that we can perform more thorough backups of our systems. I've been experiencing a lot of problems and am trying to determine if the problem lies in the hardware or my understanding of the use of tapes for backup. There are three machines on our network for which I would like to have a nightly backup. The tape drive is hooked up to an intel machine; let's call it intelbox. The other two machines are a cube and turbo slab; let's call them cube and slab. I've written a simple script which dumps the intelbox first, then rsh's to slab and rdump its hard drive to intelbox:/dev/nrst0, and finally rsh's to cube and rdumps to intelbox:/dev/nrst0. My first problem is that the rdump from cube never works. I always get a tape write error or an I/O error. In an attempt to trouble shoot the problem, I connected the tape drive directly to the cube and did a dump. Again I got tape write errors ( they have occurred any where from right at the outset of the dump to as far as 56% of the way completed). I have tried this on at least ten different occasions. To verify that the tapes are good, I successfully dump another machine, say slab, and then rewind the tape and try to dump cube, still with no success. That's major problem number one, as cube is our file server. One thing I should note about cube is that it has two internal hard drives. I'm trying to back up only sd0a. I don't want to take out the other drive until I have successfully dumped to tape. My second problem is with multiple dumps on a single tape. Let's say I successfully dump intelbox and then dump slab to the same tape. dump says it's rewinding the tape at the end of each dump, but it appears that this messsage is just wrong. I never hear the tape rewinding and nothing seems to be going on. My understanding is that if I want to now restore slab, since it is second on the tape, I rewind the tape 'mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind', and fast forward past the first file, 'mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1', and execute 'restore -if /dev/nrst0'. I've also tried this on multiple occasions and each time I get the message, 'Tape/disk read error while restoring <directory file - name unknown>'. So, even though dump claims the dump from slab was successful, I cannot seem to restore. I've tried reversing the order of the dump, slab first and then intelbox, and it still seems that I can restore only from the first file on disk. Is there anything obvious which I am missing? I really know very little about this, help from a friend, man pages, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please cc:paulrs@lgs-systems.com, as I don't always get to read this newsgroup. Regards, Paul paulrs@lgs-systems.com
From: Trey or Gwen McClendon <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't ping router Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:10:36 -0500 Organization: haphazard Message-ID: <3379B9CC.1C5C@hiwaay.net> References: <33788B67.7B4@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gh@smart.net Having just installed my first Pipeline 75, I might take a guess. If you are running with an AUI to BNC transceiver made by Allied Telesyn, it might be getting too hot and failing. To test this, take it off for a few minutes and let it cool. Then connect it and ping within about 20 seconds. If it works, the transceiver is overheating (or just plain defective). I ordered an HP transceiver that works with a supply of 10.x to 15.8 volts. The Ascend supplies 15, but the AT transceiver expects 12, so it gets too hot. The IEEE spec is for 12 or 15. trey gh@smart.net wrote: > > I'm not getting a response when I ping my router > and want to make sure everything is configured > correctly with NEXTSTEP before concluding that > the router is broken. > > Entering 'netstat -rn' returns: > Routing tables > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 298 lo0 > default 192.168.100.101 UG 0 0 en0 > 192.168.100 192.168.100.102 U 4 1280 en0 > > My router, an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px, has the address > 192.168.100.101 and my computer's address is 192.168.100.102. > When I ping the router, it hangs, not returning any packets. > When I ping the computer, it returns all packets immediately. > It also returns all packets immediately when I ping > 192.168.100.0 and 192.168.100.255. > > Does anyone know if this is configured correctly? > > --Greg
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 06:30:56 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> > In practice this means specify the partition size in kilobyte blocks for all > standard disks with 512b or 1024b blocks. YMMV if you're a fan of using > larger block sizes. I believe that Intel hardware cannot boot off of anything but 512 blocksize.... but you should be able to mount a 1024 drive as a secondary drive.... FWIW I think for most folks 1024 is a waste of space, but that's just MO TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No such device or address? Message-ID: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 14 May 97 09:05:27 MDT Distribution: world I'm trying to install an old 1 Gig drive on my cube. Ordinarily, when the machine boots with a new disk on it, it will prompt me if I want to format/install a filesystem. This time, it didn't do that. When I attempt a newfs, it complains that the disk has no label. When I try to put a label on the disk using the "disk -l /dev/rsd1a" command, it complains that there is "no such device or address". What gives here? What is triggering the disk utility to complain about no device? All other SCSI utilities (ie SCSIinquirer and SCSI_Inspector find the drive and report its parameters correctly. Any tips/help/advice appreciated.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device or address? Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:57:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514165638.4149A-100000@kira> References: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: edx@cc.usu.edu In-Reply-To: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> > When I attempt a newfs, it complains that the disk has > no label. When I try to put a label on the disk using > the "disk -l /dev/rsd1a" command, it complains that > there is "no such device or address". I take it that the drive is sd1a and not sd0a? Did you try BuildDisk? What version of the OS are you working on? TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Users can not login Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 20:42:01 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snSZjNe00iV104EjBV@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-May-97 Q: Users can not login by Hkan Jonsson <Hakan_J@? > After a crash the other day of my Intel machine running NS 3.3 a couple > of tool files in Workspace.app became corrupt. I fixed this by copying > them from the NS3.3 CD and things seemed to be OK again. Wrong! Now only > root can login, all other users get trown out immediately. Restoring the > old Workspace.app files does not work. The odds are very good that you've lost the setuid bit on Workspace. Do a 'chmod u+s /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace' and see whether that fixes things. You should use 'tar' to copy filesystem hierarchies like so: cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xfp -) ...if you want to avoid changing the permissions inappropriately. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't ping router Date: 15 May 1997 05:16:42 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5le67q$a8c$1@news.nuri.net> References: <33788B67.7B4@smart.net> gh@smart.net wrote: > I'm not getting a response when I ping my router > and want to make sure everything is configured > correctly with NEXTSTEP before concluding that > the router is broken. > Entering 'netstat -rn' returns: > Routing tables > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 298 lo0 > default 192.168.100.101 UG 0 0 en0 > 192.168.100 192.168.100.102 U 4 1280 en0 > My router, an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px, has the address > 192.168.100.101 and my computer's address is 192.168.100.102. > When I ping the router, it hangs, not returning any packets. > When I ping the computer, it returns all packets immediately. > It also returns all packets immediately when I ping > 192.168.100.0 and 192.168.100.255. > Does anyone know if this is configured correctly? > --Greg -- Your routing configuration seems okay and thus I think that the problem is your router. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mailto:jin@nuri.net Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineering Team phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: 15 May 1997 08:31:45 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > In practice this means specify the partition size in kilobyte blocks for all > > standard disks with 512b or 1024b blocks. YMMV if you're a fan of using > > larger block sizes. > > I believe that Intel hardware cannot boot off of anything but 512 > blocksize.... but you should be able to mount a 1024 drive as a secondary > drive.... > > FWIW I think for most folks 1024 is a waste of space, but that's just MO It's a toss-up, as ever. With larger block sizes, you can get better IO throughput and less of the disk space is taken up by the filesystem overhead, but each file, even if it is only a byte long, will eat up at least one filesystem block. So, as Tim says, it can be a big waste of space. Use small block sizes on partitions where there are lots of small files, eg. news spools, and larger block sizes where you keep lots of big files, like images or databases. 512b or 1024b blocks are about right for a Unix system disk and for most typical user home directories. Most SCSI disks come preformatted with 512b blocks, and not all will support larger sizes. Of course, if you're going to go to the trouble of tweaking your filesystem to this extent, you will probably want to account for the rotational speed of your drives, and to adjust the number of bytes per inode and so forth. Rotational speed can make quite a big difference: by default, the disktab supplied with NeXT systems assumes a 3600 rpm disk, whereas disks nowadays tend to operate at 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm. The first results in pretty close to pessimal performance, whilst the second is fairly good. Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: DE500 network card under OpenStep 4.1 Date: 15 May 1997 13:02:40 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5lf1hg$17j@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I'm trying to configure a DE500 ethernet card under OpenStep 4.1, without success. I've tested the card and cable on another machine (running another operating system) OK; the green light comes on indicating an electrical connection; and "ifconfig en0" gives results saying the card is up, etc. Yet, no network traffic takes place (can't ping, etc). Hostconfig is all correct. Is there a problem with the driver? I'm using version 4.02 of the DE500 driver (10Mb/s option), and I don't see an alternative or a newer version. Can anyone help? William Clocksin Computer Laboratory
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Latest Apache? Date: 15 May 1997 18:02:11 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5lfj33$8tg$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hello all, Just wondering if anyone has any success compiling the latest Apache?? The only version binaries I can find is Apache 1.0 on (www.apache.org), is there a reason for this?? pointers?? success stories?? Thanks Godwin
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device or address? Date: 15 May 1997 22:02:13 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5lg155$c51$4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514165638.4149A-100000@kira> Cc: edx@cc.usu.edu In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514165638.4149A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > When I attempt a newfs, it complains that the disk has > > no label. When I try to put a label on the disk using > > the "disk -l /dev/rsd1a" command, it complains that > > there is "no such device or address". Take a look at man disk. Or just type disk no parameters. dove> disk usage: disk [option flags] [action flags] raw-device option flags: -h hostname specify host name -l labelname specify label name -k kernelname specify default file to boot -t disk_type specify disk type name -p part_size specify partition 'a' size -n part_size specify bfd partition size -d density specify format density (in KBytes) action flags: -b write boot block -e eject disk -i initialize disk -q query disk name and print it -s print disk statistics -B[n] bootfile write boot block [#n] from file -F Format Disk -H hostname change host name on label -L labelname change disk label name -N do not format disk during initialization -T run test patterns -f Don't force blksize to be >= DEV_BSIZE -u Use all sectors, not just those bios-accessible interactive mode if no action flags specified you can get interactive mode by doing disk /dev/rsd1a ascended:1# disk /dev/rsd0a disk name: SEAGATE ST41650 disk type: fixed_rw_scsi Disk utility disk> help commands are: init initialize disk eject eject disk boot write boot block(s) label edit label information host change hostname on label name change disk label name defaultbootchange default bootfile Format Format Disk scan scan for superblocks read read from disk write write to disk verify verify data on disk rw read-after-write rwr read-after-write random look look at read/write buffer set set read/write buffer abort toggle abort on error mode vers toggle label version help print this list ? print this list quit quit program disk> and you can use label to drop the label on there. Your problem is the fact that disk -l /dev/rsd1a isn't complete valid command I think you want to probably try disk -i -L Disk1 /dev/rsd1a or something similiar.. Just remember to put the desired option/action flags and paramters in AND then the device.. > I take it that the drive is sd1a and not sd0a? > > Did you try BuildDisk? Only if he wants to build a complete System/boot disk. My impression is he wants a empty fs on the external 1G. > What version of the OS are you working on? > Shouldn't matter in this case AFAIK Randy rencsok at channelu dot com
From: dvit@ip.pt (Diogo Vitorino) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Just Got a NeXT "Cube" Date: 16 May 1997 00:24:05 GMT Organization: ILHA Distribution: inet Message-ID: <dvit-1605970127080001@pm-lx-1-03.net.ip.pt> References: <psybeast-ya02408000R1205970118290001@news.pond.com> In article <psybeast-ya02408000R1205970118290001@news.pond.com>, psybeast@pond.com (PsyBeast) wrote: > As of Friday, I now have a NeXT "Cube" running around my apartment, > ethernet that is. > > The only major problem at this stage of the game, is that I need a Clean > New OS install. > > The cube came with what appears to be all the basic manuals, and a blank > 256MB MO cartridge... and NOTHING else!!!! >..... I actually have more or less the same problem with a Turbo Color station. Please help!
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vi segmentation fault Date: 15 May 1997 13:39:23 GMT Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5lf3mb$77n$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> In article <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > In article <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> > writes: > > I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I > > try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I > > get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 > > lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It > > wasn't doing it before...as they say. > > > I dont remember that I ever had such a problem on NS 3.2. Your image of > 'vi' must be corrupted or some of the link libs must be fried. Try to > reinstall the image from CD. > -- > 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 I have the same behaviour, but ONLY if the file is on a disk mounted via NFS from an SGI machine! Locally mounted disks or via NFS from SUNs, DECs or other NeXTs work fine with vi. I have no idea why! later, helmut -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: Tom ONeil <oneilts@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mac with RJ45 and NeXT station; how to connect? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 23:59:43 -0500 Organization: Microsoftically Impaired Message-ID: <337BE9BF.2885@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> References: <3377789F.7F95449D@conextions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: serge@conextions.com Serguei Bakhteiarov wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I bought Mac for my daughter and we want to use my black hardware via > twisted pair. > > My first goal is: to share black NeXT printer. > > I understand that, there is a Samba which could share the Printer. So > what I have to do from the black side of the problem is not a big deal > for me. The most difficult thing is the Mac. > > 1. Can i connect Mac and NeXT using twisted pair (RJ 45) directly > without hub? > > 2. What should I do on the Mac (Mac OS 7.5) side to see the printer? > > many thanks in advance, > > please respond to my e-mail address: serge@conextions.com > > serge I think I can help w/ part of it - if you don't have a hub you have to use a hub-to-hub cable between the 2 machines. They can be identified by a yellow collar/yellow cable on them. Also called patch cords. As for the rest, I have little experience except for some loooong nites this week, getting some systems to work. tom -- Thomas J. ONeil oneilts@ix.netcom.com Dallas, Tx. USA UFO's are real - the Air Force doesn't exist. My apologies for the NOSPAM on the return address, but I pay for the disk space, not them.
From: Tom ONeil <oneilts@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI resets on Compaq 5120e Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:10:47 -0500 Organization: Microsoftically Impaired Message-ID: <337BEC57.381D@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To All, I am trying to load 3.3 on a Compaq 5120E w/ an Adaptec 1540 and a NEC CD. The whole rig works fine on H-P machines, but I get SCSI resets on boot after I install all the drivers. Is there a driver for the Compaq I nedd, or which EIDE driver should I use for the CD? Any help, including wild goose chases, is welcome. P.S. - These got dropped on me 'cause I'm the Unix admin and everyone else hates them. I may blow away NT4.0 and run this as a desktop O/S. This is more fun than Linux! And a cool GUI to boot! -- Thomas J. ONeil oneilts@ix.netcom.com Dallas, Tx. USA UFO's are real - the Air Force doesn't exist. My apologies for the NOSPAM on the return address, but I pay for the disk space, not them.
From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Newbie help Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 05:27:34 GMT Message-ID: <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com Hi NeXT GURUs, i recently got my hands on a Monostation. There was no HD in it, so I have to install the OS (NeXTStep 3.0 in my case), but Im unable to do so :-( Here is my hardware configuration: NeXTMonostation with 16MB RAM, Toshiba 4X speed SCSI CD-ROM (external) I tried a IBM 1 GB and a Quantum 170MB ProDrive SCSI Disk The SCSI ID of my disk is set to 1, the CD-ROM is set to 6. After power up, my Station is waiting for the disk to spin up. Ive got no mention of the CD-ROM. (Dont know if this is ok or not :-( I got some error messages from my harddisk, telling me that the disk is in a wrong format. ...... The last error message is Bad Label. I think thats ok, becouse this HDs never seen an NeXT before :-) I tried to boot from the floppy disk, using bfd. The floppy is spinning for about 10 sec. and than it returns to the NeXT prompt, telling me Exeption #3 and some addresses ..... I also tried to boot directly from CD, but here I got an no SCSI Disk error ... Please replay via e-mail to: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com Thanks for your help Dieter
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From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cdr driver Date: 16 May 1997 10:23:26 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5lhciu$jiv@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, Does anyone know what do I have to do for using a CDR-drive in OpenStep? The kernel didn't detect the drive. Thanks a lot, khanh,
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 14:45:23 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <UnT_h3O00iV181xRVy@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> In-Reply-To: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-May-97 OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! by Tom Condon@isp.net > I have received my Prelude to Rhapsody goodies today and have spent much > of the evening setting up my PC. I have one problem. Does anyone know > how to get OpenStep Mach setup to look for a DNS server. I found a > reference in one of the online Docs thats says all I have to do is create > a "/etc/resolv.conf" file. I have created it. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK! > Any Ideas? You have to list the nameservers in that file. Read 'man 5 resolver', although the format is quite simple: domain my.do.main nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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From: "bebeto.slip.wg.saar.de" <bebeto@wg.saar.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: boot-problems Date: 17 May 1997 10:52:59 GMT Organization: Yoyodyne Posting Systems, INN Lab. Message-ID: <5lk2mb$prg@bellona.wg.saar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have boot problems with my NeXT. Trying to boot with "bsd" gives me the message "... loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port". Can anybody helps me. Thanx Bebeto PS: I have the posibility to boot over the CD-ROM, but I dont know what command I must use? The SCSI-number of the CD-Rom is 4? Also, I have seen, that I can not shutdown the system correctly, only with plugging out.
From: andydunn@op.net (Andy Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: flushing the mail queue Date: 17 May 1997 18:34:48 GMT Organization: OpNet -- Greater Philadelphia Internet Service Message-ID: <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net> Hi, I have the problem that I sometimes lose my SLIP connection while there are still outgoing messages in the mail queue. The sit there until either they timeout or I manually remove them. Is there some way to get sendmail to wake up and resend the messages the next time I connect to my server? I'm running NS 3.1, if that matters. Thanks for any help, _andy
From: tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! ColorStation turbo won't start Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:48:26 +0100 Organization: TelaArch Message-ID: <tim-1805970048260001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> My ColorStation turbo hung whilst copying a file in the Workspace, wouldn't let me log out. Pressed power key and got into the NMI monitor. Typed 'reboot', system restarted. The drive made a few (very few) read/write noises and then wouldn't get past the 'loading from disk panel...' The animated disk icon just keeps on spinning. System was purchased 4 weeks a go with a (i presume) new HD (540 MB Conner). Any ideas, pointers, etc.? Thanks in advance, Tim Danaher tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk
From: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (B. N. Bondoc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help requested in making bash 2.0 on NS3.3 Motorola Date: 17 May 1997 20:23:43 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I am interested in compiling Bash 2.0 for Black running NS3.3 U&D I was wondering if someone had already acomplished this feat since it failed for me. I can provide more detailed information but for now I am trying to conserve bandwidth ... :^) thanks nick
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 14:21:10 -0600 From: awest@webster.m-w.com Subject: installing tcpwrappers & smrsh Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <863895502.20887@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Does anyone out there have any experience installing tcpwrappers or sendmail restriction shell on NeXTStep? I've hit a brickwall in installing both. And I'm merely an educated user (I picked up some Unix know-how when hanging out in my husband's Art Intell lab in grad school) who's stuck administering the mail system on this baby, so very often I don't have clue one about system stuff. I'm trying to install an old version of tcpwrappers (6.3) on an old version of NS (2.2) (okay, ancient). It exits (with a 1 not a 0) out of the "make next" right after this line: fakelog.o definition of _closelog in section (_TEXT, _text) /lib/libsys_s.a(syslog.o)definition of absolute _closelog (value 0x50022a6) What's going on? Any ideas? recommendations (yeah, I've heard "upgrade the system before)? With smrsh, first off it recommends compiling without dynamic linking? Do I have to worry about that? Also, the bloody thing won't compile: it complains that there's no unistd.h. Is there any way around this? ---Amy West, who won't open her big mouth next time and say, "I know some Unix" -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
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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 Supersedes: <8856863323226@digifix.com> Date: 18 May 1997 03:57:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <16065863928021@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting parity - PPP Date: 18 May 1997 06:30:25 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5lm7m1$a7m@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Is there any way of varying the word size and parity the version of PPP bundled with OpenStep 4.0 uses when making a serial-line connection to the PPP server via /dev/cufa or /dev/cufb? As far as I can tell, my NeXT ppp program uses a 7 bits even parity connection which my ppp server no longer tolerates (it previously did, but now 8 bits no parity or 7 bits space parity seems to be required). Many thanks for your suggestions. Tomaz
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From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: flushing the mail queue Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 11:46:58 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <337ED012.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andy Dunn wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the problem that I sometimes lose my SLIP connection while there are > still outgoing messages in the mail queue. The sit there until either they > timeout or I manually remove them. > > Is there some way to get sendmail to wake up and resend the messages the next > time I connect to my server? May be this helps man sendmail says: -q[time] Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals. If time is omitted, process the queue once. Time is given as a tagged number, with ``s'' being seconds, ``m'' being minutes, ``h'' being hours, ``d'' being days, and ``w'' being weeks. For example, ``-q1h30m'' or ``-q90m'' would both set the timeout to one hour thirty minutes. If time is specified, sendmail will run in background. This option can be used safely with -bd. So I placed this in the ip-up script of my ppp as suggested by Gatekeeper. Stefan ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dump Date: 19 May 1997 00:18:06 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5lo67u$sc0$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> <EADK5p.3to@nidat.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <EADK5p.3to@nidat.sub.org> On 05/17/97, Peter Nitezki wrote: >All in all, since I've become a SafetyNet user I'm happy about my tape >backup and have built a high level of trust in the safety of my data. I must say that SafetyNet is hands-down the best tape backup software I've ever used on any platform and I sure hope it gets ported to Rhapsody. - Chris >-- >Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth >Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and >D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked >GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf -- WolfWare -- NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody Developer For info about NewsFlash the lightning fast NeXTSTEP news-reader visit our newly revised web site at: http://www.wolfware.com _______________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Dump Message-ID: <EADK5p.3to@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 11:34:37 GMT In article <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> "Paul Summermatter" <paulrs@lgs-systems.com> writes: > Hello All, > > We recently purchased a Sony HyperDAT II tape drive so that > we can perform > more thorough backups of our systems. I've been experiencing a > lot of problems and am trying to determine if the problem lies > in the hardware or my understanding of the use of tapes for > backup. > ...lengthy problem description deleted... Unfortunately, you omitted to tell which version of NS/OS you're running, so I'll have to be a bit more general about the problem. Tape operations on Unix are somewhat troublesome, especially on BSD derivatives. The tape driver was conceived in a time of slow Start/Stop drives, back in the sixties. For compatibility reasons (who wants to rewrite all the tape utilities?) streaming mode was halfheartedly "added on". It works but always has problems, weak spots, and unsupported features. NEXTSTEP is no exception! NS introduced "handcrafted" support for the EXABYTE line of 8mm video tape streamers (/dev/rxt0-1) since they were the only high performance tapes at the time of development and very popular at that time (had several of 'em on our VAXes and SUNs in the late 80ies). And then there was a generic SCSI-streamer (/dev/rst0-1) left for everybody who wanted to try something else. Most SCSI-streamer tapes however had problems with the generic SCSI driver since they didn't support variable length data transfers. So you needed to tamper with the settings of the SCSI driver. There were several PD solutions until NS 3.3 which introduced code that made /dev/rst being set to fixed block (512 Byte) transfers automatically. Most (all?) of the quick fixes turn out of not taking into account most exceptions that occur in some tape operations, rendering the driver in an unusable state. Setting back and forth sometimes cures the mishaps but sometimes only a reboot restores the proper settings. Second source of trouble: 'dump' and 'tar' and probably several other utilities have special features built in that rely on features and properties of tape drives discontinued long ago. The tape capacity computation of 'dump', for instance, or the append option of 'tar' which is broken for streamer tapes. Third, remote dumping/restoring relies on the 'rmt' protocol which might have trouble setting the right options for your tape drive. Thus, even when 'dump/restore' work, 'rdump/rrestore' might not. And unfortunately, I only can point to repeated experiment to find out how to make it work. But there is help for those who only want to make it work and don't care why and how. You can use NFS to mount all filesystems to be backed up and forget about remote tape operations at all. And you can cough up the money for a license of SafetyNetPro and forget about this dusted 'dump/restore' at all. SatetyNet is the 'dump/restore' of the NEXTSTEP ages. Not only that it introduces a high grade of usability through modern GUI features, it also has all the knowledge about modern streamer tapes and the NS SCSI subsystem built in. Therefore, you never have to worry whether this operation would work or not, it simply does. And SafetyNet has a high performance streaming interface. More than double the throughput of 'dump/restore', in most cases even a factor of five! All in all, since I've become a SafetyNet user I'm happy about my tape backup and have built a high level of trust in the safety of my data. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT Newbie help Message-ID: <EADKvI.3uE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 11:50:06 GMT In article <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) writes: > Hi NeXT GURU s, > i recently got my hands on a Monostation. > There was no HD in it, so I have to install the OS > (NeXTStep 3.0 in my case), > but I m unable to do so :-( > > Here is my hardware configuration: > NeXTMonostation with 16MB RAM, > Toshiba 4X speed SCSI CD-ROM (external) > I tried a IBM 1 GB and a Quantum 170MB ProDrive SCSI Disk > > The SCSI ID of my disk is set to 1, the CD-ROM is set to 6. > > After power up, my Station is waiting for the disk to spin up. > I ve got no mention of the CD-ROM. > (Don t know if this is ok or not :-( > > I got some error messages from my harddisk, telling me that the disk > is in a wrong format. ...... > The last error message is Bad Label. > I think that s ok, becouse this HD s never seen an NeXT before :-) > > I tried to boot from the floppy disk, using bfd. > The floppy is spinning for about 10 sec. and than it returns to the > NeXT prompt, telling me Exeption #3 and some addresses ..... > > I also tried to boot directly from CD, but here I got an no SCSI Disk > error ... > The error message about the disk drive is no surprise since nobody expects a fresh disk to be bootable. Only thong you must make sure is that it is harware formatte dto 512B or 1kB blocks to be usable. To make a fresh install you need to place the NS User CD into the CD/ROM drive and insert the floppy. Then you need to type 'bfd' at the boot monitor prompt. If that doesn't work you might have a damaged floppy or dirty drive. Or you might have trouble with SCSI termination, although I don't expect this to be the case from what you discribed about your situation. But if you can't be sure the machine works at all there might even be hardware trouble at hand (memory?). The boot monitor has some basic tests built in. Type '?' or 'help' to get a synopsis of the boot monitor comands. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: vi segmentation fault Message-ID: <EADu31.3vv@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5lf3mb$77n$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 15:09:00 GMT In article <5lf3mb$77n$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) writes: > In article <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter > Nitezki) writes: > > In article <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Chris Stuart > > <cstuart@ucsd.edu> writes: > > > I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. > > > Whenever I try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some > > > as small as 32K) I get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If > > > I create a file of over 1000 lines, I get a bus error. > > > Anybody know what's happening here. It wasn't doing it > > > before...as they say. > > > > > I dont remember that I ever had such a problem on NS 3.2. Your > > image of 'vi' must be corrupted or some of the link libs must > > be fried. Try to reinstall the image from CD. > > I have the same behaviour, but ONLY if the file is on a disk > mounted via NFS from an SGI machine! Locally mounted disks or > via NFS from SUNs, DECs or other NeXTs work fine with vi. I have > no idea why! later, helmut This one is easy! NEXTSTEP uses the old (version 1) NFS protocol, whereas SUN, SGI, and others use the newer one. Therefore, you experience buffer overruns on NS when the buffer size isn't explicitly set. I don't remember the syntax, since I have no such machine on my site, but the topic is to be found in the FAQ on Peanuts and on the Usenet archives that keep c.s.n. groups. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: David Andel <da_vid@next_to_you.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help requested in making bash 2.0 on NS3.3 Motorola Date: 18 May 1997 14:40:44 GMT Organization: NEXTTOYOU (http://www.nexttoyou.de) Message-ID: <5ln4dc$vo8@hal.nexttoyou.de> References: <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> In article <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (B. N. Bondoc) writes: > I am interested in compiling Bash 2.0 for Black running NS3.3 U&D I > was wondering if someone had already acomplished this feat since it > failed for me. Rex Dieter just made a quad-fat Bash 2.0 Installer package. It should be soon available on the archives. Works like a charm. -- -> remove all "_" from my address to email me <- "...he said Captain, I said wot" (Captain Sensible)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: carlip@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Walter C3arlip) Subject: What to do in a Panic? Message-ID: <EA7HxE.9o8@boss.cs.ohiou.edu> Sender: news@boss.cs.ohiou.edu (News Admin) Organization: Ohio University Mathematics Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:00:50 GMT The folks at comp.sys.next.misc suggested I post this question here. Periodically, my black NeXT Slab drops into a "Panic" box. This usually occurs while I am logged in using ppp from home. My connection drops and I cannot get back in. Is there any way to have the slab automatically reboot when it hits such a panic or any way to log in remotely to reboot? As far as I can tell, the only way to fix this is to drive into the office, sit at the NeXTStation itself and reboot. Thanks, -- Walter -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Walter C3arlip **** carlip@ace.cs.ohiou.edu **** (the "3" is silent) _____________________________________________________________________________
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help requested in making bash 2.0 on NS3.3 Motorola Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:39:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970519093748.28946B-100000@kira> References: <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <5ln4dc$vo8@hal.nexttoyou.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5ln4dc$vo8@hal.nexttoyou.de> ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/loginshells/bash.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/loginshells/bash.2.0.README
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mount: / not found Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:54:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970519095047.28946E-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This seems to be a very bad thing... After a move (done with extreme care and original packaging) my NSFIP machine is acting rather strangely. I have removed all external SCSI connections so we are just dealing with the boot drive and the monitor (well, and the floppy drive). It boots just fine, everything going as expected until it gets to this point: Power management is enabled # normal Checking disks # normal Mount: / not found # very bad It then tries to continue booting but complains about the system being mounted Read Only. It hangs when starting the 'netinfo' services (before 'lookupd'). I can boot single user and get the same thing: Mount: / not found If I do this: mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / # thanks to Marc Majka @ Next a couple years ago for this gem! and then control-D out of single user mode, it starts up fine and dandy. However, this is not the way it should be, and not a process I want to go through everytime I reboot the machine. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know what is wrong and how to go about checking / fixing things? I have checked /etc/fstab, which was my first thought. It is there, and readable: # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING # # This file contains information used to mount local hard # disks. Consult your Network and System Administration # manual for information on adding local disks. Information # on the format of entries in this file can also be found in # the fstab man page. # /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 #/dev/sd3a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1 Note: /Disk is the other hard drive which is currently not attached Any help/guesses would be greatly appreciated..... I really don't want to power this machine down until I make sure I can get it back up and running! TjL
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Overwrote on Exabyte tape. Can I recover?? Date: 19 May 1997 18:17:44 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5lq5g8$4e8$1@ncar.ucar.edu> I have been archiving files to an Exabyte 8-mm tape on a daily basis. Each day, I advance the tape to the end of tape (EOT), then write another gnutar archive. $ mt -f /dev/nrxt0 fsf 99 $ gnutar -cvf /dev/nrxt0 * $ mt offline Unfortunately, one day I forgot to advance the tape and wrote the new archive at the beginning of the tape. Certainly the files that were overwritten are gone forever. But what about the files that are beyond the new EOT? How can I get the tape to advance past the EOT and start reading again? Can it be done? Thanks. NeXTstep v3.3 Sun Sparcstation 5 EXABYTE EXB-85058SQANXR1 07J0 -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: erikr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Erik Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Non-postscript printers with NextStep/Intel Date: 19 May 1997 20:57:11 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Message-ID: <5lqer7$m9s$1@Radon.Stanford.EDU> I'm buying an NextStep/Intel system and am considering what printer to buy for under $400. Has anyone used a cheap, non-postscript laser printer? If so, how does the print quality compare to postscript, and how is it done? How about an inkjet? I have heard that the original NeXT laser printer is not PostScript-compatible either - it relies on the Display postscript in software. So I'm figuring it must be possible to use a cheap laser printer to good effect, but this question is not present in any of the FAQ's. I'd appreciate anyone relating their experiences on this. -Erik
From: steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (Steven Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP wierdness Date: 20 May 1997 01:02:34 GMT Organization: Silicon Beach - Business Internet Services Message-ID: <5lqt7a$pje@ocean.silcom.com> I am setting up UUCP mail for a small net using the stock UUCP which comes with NS3.3p1. I am running into serial line wierdness on INTEL hardware. The same UUCP setup on black hardware works fine. On the intel I am running ISAserial driver v3.33 and TTY port server v3.33 and the serial line works fine with kermit. When UUCP trys to access the modem it can't get any characters back. Does any one have any suggestions as to what is wrong? Here are some transcripts. ------------------UUCP----------------- # /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x6 -sbeach root beach (5/19-17:40-10167) DEBUG (Local Enabled) finds (beach) called getto: call no. cufb for sys beach Using DIR to call Opening /dev/cufb login called ABORT ON: BUSY wanted """" got: that send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? root beach (5/19-17:40-10167) FAILED (LOGIN) root beach (5/19-17:40-10167) FAILED (call to beach ) and yet when I run kermit, it works fine: ------------------KERMIT----------------- C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufb C-Kermit>set speed 57600 /dev/cufb, 57600 bps C-Kermit>c Connecting to /dev/cufb, speed 57600. The escape character is Ctrl-] (ASCII 29, GS) Type the escape character followed by C to get back, or followed by ? to see other options. at OK -- ...STeve steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (NeXT and MIME mail welcome) (805) 963-5904 x104
From: bny@spamdunk_cut_here_crl.com (Brad Yearwood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhap.: WebObjects install problem Date: 19 May 1997 21:09:49 -0700 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5lr86d$lg3@crl3.crl.com> I was able to install 4.2 OPENSTEP and Developer OK, but seem to be having problems with WebObjects. When I try to start WebObjectsBuilder, it quits immediately, leaving the following on the console (edited a bit for line length): dyld: /NextDeveloper/Apps/WebObjectsBuilder.app/WebObjectsBuilder can't open library: /NextLibrary/Frameworks/EOAccess.framework/Versions/B/EOAccess (No such file or directory, errno = 2) There is no sign of EOAccess.framework/ . Is this part of EOF? Is something missing from the way I installed, or was WebObjects mis-packaged? Brad Yearwood bny@spamdunk_cut_here_crl.com (do what it says) Cotati, CA
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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Seek sz and rz for black Date: 19 May 1997 22:19:50 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5lrc9m$5iq@slip.net> Hi, I'm running a NS 3.3 on a 040/25 cube. I went to one of the NeXT archives seeking sz and rz. I found two zmodem like packages with zmodem compatibility but not actual rz and sz binaries. Would someone be so kind as to e-mail me their uuencoded binaries of sz and rz? (Ah, my ISP doesn't have kermit.) Thanks, Emmett
From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Newbie help Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 06:10:51 GMT Message-ID: <33813edd.4814857@8.1.30.1> References: <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> <EADKvI.3uE@nidat.sub.org> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com On Sun, 18 May 1997 11:50:06 GMT, Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >In article <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter >Sabathi) writes: >> Hi NeXT GURU s, >> i recently got my hands on a Monostation. >> There was no HD in it, so I have to install the OS >> (NeXTStep 3.0 in my case), >> but I m unable to do so :-( ...... >> I tried to boot from the floppy disk, using bfd. >> The floppy is spinning for about 10 sec. and than it returns to the >> NeXT prompt, telling me Exeption #3 and some addresses ..... >> >> I also tried to boot directly from CD, but here I got an no SCSI Disk >> error ... >> >The error message about the disk drive is no surprise since nobody expects >a fresh disk to be bootable. Only thong you must make sure is that it is >harware formatte dto 512B or 1kB blocks to be usable. > >To make a fresh install you need to place the NS User CD into the CD/ROM >drive and insert the floppy. Then you need to type 'bfd' at the boot >monitor prompt. If that doesn't work you might have a damaged floppy or >dirty drive. Or you might have trouble with SCSI termination, although I >don't expect this to be the case from what you discribed about your >situation. > >But if you can't be sure the machine works at all there might even be >hardware trouble at hand (memory?). The boot monitor has some basic tests >built in. Type '?' or 'help' to get a synopsis of the boot monitor >comands. Thanks for your help. My NeXT ist now up and running !!! It looks like the guy who sold the Station to me took out half of the RAM. The monitor was telling me everything is ok, and 16 MB of RAM is found. But after pulling out this RAM and inserting it to the other bank (the one next to the powersupply) everything is working fine !! Greetings Dieter
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From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:54:33 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seek sz and rz for black Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 04:56:32 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970520045550.21308A-100000@kira> References: <5lrc9m$5iq@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> In-Reply-To: <5lrc9m$5iq@slip.net> Did neither of these do what you needed? ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/comm/rzsz.0525.NISH.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/comm/rzsz.3.4.NIHS.tar.gz TjL
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 20 May 1997 09:37:14 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. : Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? No, unfortunately. ...................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Cannon GP200 Driver? Date: 20 May 1997 16:23:40 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5lsj6c$7th@corporate.hesta.com> Cc: bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com We are thinking of buying a multifunction (copy and print) machine from Cannon called a GP200 and attatching it to our network via ethernet. It has full postscript and PCL functionality - is there a driver for this? They have a Mac and Windows driver (no NT yet...) Can I get documents to print to it simply (no duplexing etc...) with a differnt driver ? What might the likelihood be that a driver would become available under Rhapsody? -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
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From: pat@altair.krl.caltech.edu (Pat Huber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange printer failure Date: 20 May 1997 18:31:22 GMT Organization: Kellogg Radiation Lab, Caltech Message-ID: <5lsqlq$t4r@gap.cco.caltech.edu> I have a printer which seems to drop data from the beginning of the files sent to it. TeX files appear shifted up and right (not getting initial centering commands) and the test page is missing the "cube" icon. Normally I get these things serviced on campus, but our guy has never seen this. I have switched the printer between identical NeXTstations and the problem follows the printer exactly. We have NeXTStep 3.2 on 68040s. -pat
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 21 May 1997 00:30:00 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? : No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. You wouldn't work for Novell, eh Kris? :-) I'm fairly sure Linux will do IPX routing. -- Luke
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 20 May 1997 21:55:15 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5ltrn3$sac@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote: : planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : : Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : : : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? : : No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. : You wouldn't work for Novell, eh Kris? :-) : I'm fairly sure Linux will do IPX routing. What I meant was to route IPX, *I* will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. =) ...........................kris : -- Luke -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: PPD file for HPLJ4? Summary: Looking for PPD files in the net Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EAI1zu.Jot@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:50:18 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Greetings everyone! Could someone kindly point me to a site that hosts PPD files for Next OS. I'm particularly looking for HP LaserJet4 files. I looked at the Adobe site. But it seems to have PPD files only for Mac and Windows. Are any of these PPD files compatible with the ones for Next OS(v.3.0)? Thanks. -Thas (thas@ibme.utoronto.ca)
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From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <337e239b.22380619@news.nasionet.net> Date: 21 May 1997 06:37:04 GMT Control: cancel <337e239b.22380619@news.nasionet.net> Message-ID: <cancel.337e239b.22380619@news.nasionet.net> Sender: netfree@hotmail.com (-Future Net-) Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD file for HPLJ4? Date: 21 May 1997 09:44:07 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5lug57$3e2$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <EAI1zu.Jot@ecf.toronto.edu> In article <EAI1zu.Jot@ecf.toronto.edu> yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) writes: > Greetings everyone! > > Could someone kindly point me to a site that hosts PPD files > for Next OS. I'm particularly looking for HP LaserJet4 files. > I looked at the Adobe site. But it seems to have PPD files > only for Mac and Windows. Are any of these PPD files compatible > with the ones for Next OS(v.3.0)? Besides the file name there is no big difference. They should work (see below). The PPD file for HP_LaserJet_4 is part of NEXTSTEP 3.3 in the standard distribution: /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/HP_LaserJet_4_PostScript_600DPI.ppd Those PPD files at the Adobe site are _packed for_ Mac or Win. They contain more or less the same PPD files, except for the file names and the ASCII new line characters. Unfortunately, the Mac archives are now packed with a StuffIt version that Opener.app can't deal with (newer compression algorithm ?). Further, the Win archives are self extracting executables,but in fact can be dealt with as ZIP file. You should try the Win version, rename it to "hp.zip" and see what Opener does. Worked for me! If this doesn't work, you'll need to use SoftPC to unpack or some DOS/Windows system. You may then rename the unpacked PPD files by taking the "*ModelName:", replacing all spaces (and other special chars like '/') with underscores and appending ".ppd". For further info see NeXTanswer #1367. Detlev -- Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Emil: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
From: "Jeffrey R. Paules" <paules@albany.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA capabilities? Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:51:33 -0400 Organization: QED Associates Message-ID: <33830BF5.2A6B@albany.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does the SAMBA implementation in OpenStep 4.X permit printing from Win95 clients to a Next Laser printer connected to a slab? Any experience would be helpful. Jeff Paules paules@albany.net
From: jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu (Jesse Goldberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: logging fingers Date: 21 May 1997 20:25:22 GMT Organization: University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> Does anyone know how to log fingerers? Thanks in advance.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 15:33:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970521153051.13810A-100000@kira> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jesse Goldberg <jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> There is a program called back-finger I believe.... maybe ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Quartz/src/backfinger.tar.gz TjL
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:19:21 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> In article <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu>, jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu wrote: >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > TCP-Wrappers will log all sorts of services started by inetd, including fingerd. Of course, this won't record a *local* user executing finger, but I assume you were more interested in remote fingers. JD
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5m001v$mpa@tesla.netline.net> Date: 22 May 1997 00:48:21 GMT Control: cancel <5m001v$mpa@tesla.netline.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5m001v$mpa@tesla.netline.net> Sender: htreetrunk@hotmail.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 22 May 1997 03:58:53 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5m0g9t$nt5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <5ltrn3$sac@xmission.xmission.com> planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : : I'm fairly sure Linux will do IPX routing. : What I meant was to route IPX, *I* will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare SCO own UnixWare now, though? Wonder whether Rhapsody will have the NetWare client in it again. -- Luke
From: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: flushing the mail queue Date: 22 May 1997 07:07:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn5o7rtk.g96.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> References: <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net> In article <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net>, Andy Dunn wrote: >I have the problem that I sometimes lose my SLIP connection while there are >still outgoing messages in the mail queue. The sit there until either they >timeout or I manually remove them. You'll find the following on the man page for sendmail: -q[time] Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals. If time is omitted, process the queue once. So, you want to do a "/usr/lib/sendmail -q" as root. Ta, Paul -- _____________________________________________________________________ Paul Brown Grad student, UCB mathematics (510)-843-7817 pbrown@math.berkeley.edu http://math.berkeley.edu/~pbrown/ _____________________________________________________________________
Subject: vnode_pageout: failed! Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vincent@sente.ch (Vincent Kohler) Message-ID: <33841260.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Date: 22 May 97 09:31:12 GMT Hi, We experienced strange behavior with our brave NeXTStation Turbo. The machine has an internal 100MB swapdisk and an external 1.6MB SCSI disk. Suddenly, since beginning of last week, the console shows many vnode_pagout: failed! messages. This machine runs NS3.3 and is the master Netinfo, other stations run OPENSTEP 4.1. As I thought it was due to the second external SCSI disk we recently attached to, I removed the disk and renamed the swapdisk to avoid using it. It seemed to work for two days, but this morning, the strange message appeared again. Is it a hardware problem (like power weakness, or some rost above RAM chips :-) or are both HD too old (the 1.6 MB one is 3 years old) ? Thanks for any input. Regards Vincent -- ---------------------------------------- Vincent Kohler vincent@sente.ch (NextMail welcome) Sen:te Parc Scientifique - EPFL - Switzerland
From: richarde@sophisticated.com (Richard Elmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhapsody network setup problem (newbie) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 02:43:55 -0700 Organization: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C. Message-ID: <richarde-2205970243550001@207.66.154.195> Hello, I am trying to install the "Prelude to Rhapsody" edition of OpenStep on my Pentium (Micron) machine and have run into a wall. I have the basic OS installed and booting OK but I cannot get the networking to function. This is the only OpenStep machine on my network (10BaseT) so I followed the setup instructions in the MixedNet.rtfd document in the SysAdmin Manual. Everything seemed to configure OK but I cannot connect to anything else on the network. I have tried pinging other machines on the same IP network and I never get a response, I have tried opening a telnet session to other hosts and I get stuck at the "Trying xx.xx.xx.xx..." message forever. When I installed OpenStep the Configure.app detected my Ethernet card (3COM 3c509b-TP) and loaded the Plug-and-Play driver for it. If I do an "ifconfig en0" from the shell window I get: en0: flags=63<UP, BROADCAST, NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet xx.xx.xx.196 netmask fffffff0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.207 The the values all look good, in fact they are all the same values that I use when I boot this machine on it's other HD which has Window's NT installed and the networking is fine under NT. A "netstat -r" returns: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface localhost localhost UH 0 318 lo0 default xx.xx.xx.193 UG 0 3 en0 xx.xx.xx.192 xx.xx.xx.196 U 6 1219 en0 Note: xx.xx.xx.193 = my ISDN router xx.xx.xx.196 = OpenStep machine Another odd thing is that I cannot change either the IP address or the hostname in HostManager's "Local Configuration" window. If I click in either of those fields nothing happens (no insertion point appears and I cannot select any text in those fields). Other fields (like the Netmask and Router address) can still be edited just fine. If I try to change either of these values in SimpleNetworkStarter I get a slew of errors in the Log window after I click the Configure button as follows: Beginning Configuration Updating configuration file: /etc/hostconfig Error: Can't change computer's name with SimpleNetworkStarter Error: Invalid address for router: xx.xx.xx.193 Router's address is not on this network. Error: Invalid broadcast address. Any help is greatly appreciated! TIA! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Elmore That's a good idea; in fact it's such a good idea that I shall henceforth refer to it as "My Idea". - John E. Whitmore III
From: Jan Van Riel <jvanriel@innet.be> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhapsody: Boot Problem Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 01:52:44 +0200 Organization: Wave Research Message-ID: <33838ACC.E7A19D03@innet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I'm installing Prelude to Rhapsody on SCSI drive on an Intel box. I was able to do the initial install but when it reboots, it fails mounting the root. It says in the System Panic window: .... rootdev 300, howto 0 vfs_mountroot: error=19 panic: Cpu(0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root .... What can I do next? Where can I find more information on Mach commands e.g. the options for the "boot:" prompt, for example. Thanks. Jan Van Riel
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 05:56:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055510.13577B-100000@kira> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> > >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > > > > TCP-Wrappers will log all sorts of services started by inetd, including > fingerd. Of course, this won't record a *local* user executing finger, but > I assume you were more interested in remote fingers. This will only log the ip/hostname they are coming from, right? Is there a way to get the username as well? I _think_ this is what backfinger does, but I've never used it... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vnode_pageout: failed! Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 05:59:55 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055736.13577C-100000@kira> References: <33841260.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Vincent Kohler <vincent@sente.ch> In-Reply-To: <33841260.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> > We experienced strange behavior with our brave NeXTStation Turbo. The > machine has an internal 100MB swapdisk and an external 1.6MB SCSI > disk. > Suddenly, since beginning of last week, the console shows many > vnode_pagout: failed! messages. > This machine runs NS3.3 and is the master Netinfo, other stations run > OPENSTEP 4.1. As I thought it was due to the second external SCSI disk > we recently attached to, I removed the disk and renamed the swapdisk > to avoid using it. It seemed to work for two days, but this morning, > the strange message appeared again. This is the sign of the swapspace filling up. (usually) Give it more swapspace and it will take longer for this to happen. Reboot to reclaim that swapspace. Add more RAM to improve performance. Don't run any graphical apps on the machine to drastically improve the time between necessary reboots. Use WatchSwap.app to check the size of the swapfile: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/WatchSwap.1.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz TjL
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: 22 May 1997 14:38:10 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5m1loi$hi9$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055510.13577B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >This will only log the ip/hostname they are coming from, right? > >Is there a way to get the username as well? I _think_ this is what >backfinger does, but I've never used it... TCP Wrappers can be compiled with support for IDENT. In such a case, tcpd will try to contact identd on the system from which the finger originated. However, many systems do not run identd. Fingering the site where the finger originated from can also be done by TCP Wrappers. However, think about what happens if two similar sites carelessly keep fingering each other endlessly as a result... ;-) I feel that it is not possible to track where an elusive finger comes from. Accounts can be stolen, fingers can be chained, public gateways may be used, etc... Rgds, Song
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: 22 May 1997 15:25:42 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5m1ohm$j6e$2@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055510.13577B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >This will only log the ip/hostname they are coming from, right? > >Is there a way to get the username as well? I _think_ this is what >backfinger does, but I've never used it... TCP Wrappers can be compiled with support for IDENT. In such a case, tcpd will try to contact identd on the system from which the finger originated. However, many systems do not run identd. Fingering the site where the finger originated from can also be done by TCP Wrappers. However, think about what happens if two similar sites carelessly keep fingering each other endlessly as a result... ;-) I feel that it is not possible to track where an elusive finger comes from. Accounts can be stolen, fingers can be chained, public gateways may be used, etc... Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel Control: cancel <5m1loi$hi9$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> Date: 22 May 1997 15:25:48 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5m1ohs$j6e$3@newton.pacific.net.sg> cancel
From: nospamthanx@nowhere.com (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: 22 May 1997 15:14:41 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5m1nt1$f7c$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> On 05/21/97, Jesse Goldberg wrote: >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > Finger 1.04 (which I got from the orst/peak archive years ago) includes an executable .plan-file option that can be used to log fingerers. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a question of disks Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 12:52:39 -0400 Organization: USN-CDNSWC Message-ID: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi We've got an Intel 166 running NS 3.3 and we've had various heartburn in getting a reliable 2 GB disk installed and opearational on the system ( not as a boot disk, just a 2 GB disk in two 1 Gig partions ) - have tried a 2 Gig Quantum and have had a variety of problems - given the Intel system what seems to the most reliable device that others are using with NS ? Thanks in advance for any and all insight / info / etc. Bob Kurhajetz
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 22 May 1997 12:58:11 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5m2503$cn0@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <5ltrn3$sac@xmission.xmission.com> <5m0g9t$nt5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote: : Wonder whether Rhapsody will have the NetWare client in it : again. I hope so. .............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail question From: ebaca@ICSI.Net Message-ID: <3384b174.0@news.intnet.net> Date: 22 May 97 20:49:56 GMT My service provider account name is "ebaca" (sendmail reads u=ebaca), my local user name is "ernie" (g=ernie), my service provider is "icsi.net" (m=icsi.net). In mail.app I have filled in the Reply-To field with "ebaca@icsi.net". When I send mail the headers say the following: > From: Ernesto Baca <ernie@icsi.net> > ... > Reply-to: ebaca@icsi.net Question: How can I change the From: field so that it reflects the correct address? i.e., From: Ernesto Baca <ebaca@icsi.net> Please, email the answer to ebaca@icsi.net since I don't follow this group very much. Thank you for your help. ---ernie -- ____________________________________________________________ Visit me at: http://www.bac-ground.com/ Last Updated: 20 May 1997 - ILE Banner added to homepage Go Rockets! ____________________________________________________________ Ernesto Baca, P.E. Environmental Consultant BAC-GROUND Houston, TX, USA ebaca@ICSI.Net (713) 664-8452 (w) ____________________________________________________________
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 14:57:16 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522145525.28232D-100000@kira> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <5m1nt1$f7c$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Tim Luoma <luomat@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <5m1nt1$f7c$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> On 22 May 1997, Gary Finley wrote: > On 05/21/97, Jesse Goldberg wrote: > >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > > > Finger 1.04 (which I got from the orst/peak archive years ago) includes > an executable .plan-file option that can be used to log fingerers. ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/finger.1.04.N.bs.tar.gz I'll compile a quadfat version as soon as I can... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: mikelea@digex.net (Michael Lea) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: appending to the mail spool? Date: 22 May 1997 22:29:49 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> I'm working on setting up mail forwarding from my Pentium to my NextStation. I don't want to set up a whole smtp server on the pentium, so I've been playing with automagically ftp'ing selected messages from the pentium directly to the mail spool on the next. However, if I try to just append to the file (/usr/spool/mail/mikelea, for example), it doesn't see the message as seperate from the previous message. What is the seperator used in the spool to differentiate between messages? Thanks... -- *mikelea@access.digex.net* "imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known-there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, because I will not change." -de Sade
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail question Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:01:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522145923.28232E-100000@kira> References: <3384b174.0@news.intnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: ebaca@ICSI.Net In-Reply-To: <3384b174.0@news.intnet.net> With NS 3.3 or higher, set the Expert Headers to include the From line... http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/ has instructions on upgrading to sendmail.8.8.5 TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a question of disks Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:02:23 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522150206.28232F-100000@kira> References: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> The Seagate barracuda is working well for me... TjL
From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network printing problem Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:15:01 GMT Message-ID: <3385334d.4453584@8.1.30.1> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com Hi NeXT GURUs. Id like to use my HP Deskjet600 as a printer for my new NeXT Monostation. The printer doesnt have a Serial port, so I want to use my other computer (Amiga 4000) to act as the printserver. On the peanuts archive I found a piece of software called djf as a solution to print on a HP Deskjet locally mounted to the NeXT. I got the NeXT to print via TCP/IP to the Amiga. On the Amiga I got a quite simple lpd, unable to do any filtering. AFAIK the machine the printer is connected to, should do the PS to raster conversation, but in my case thats impossible :-( Is there any way to let the NeXT do this filtering before sending the file to the other computer ????? Please reply by e-mail ! Thanks for your help Dieter
From: jinyu@eagle.pa.dec.com (Jin Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHost protocol? Date: 23 May 1997 07:34:11 GMT Organization: DEC Systems Research Center Message-ID: <5m3h9j$jgt@src-news.pa.dec.com> I am interested in the protocol behind NeXT's remote display mechanism, ie. how does a NeXT app display to a remote WindowServer using -NXHost? What is the communication channel? using TCP/IP like X protocol? Mach port? ... Is the protocol public? Any docs? I assume an app sends a stream of binary PS 2 to the remote WindowServer. But I would like to know the detailed mechanism... Please reply by email, thanks... Jin
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 03:33:18 -0600 From: Benoit.Marchant@questintl.com Subject: How use rumba so that users can write on mounted directory ? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <864376023.27678@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Hi, I succed to mount a NT shared drive while logged in as root with: rumba //nt_server/shared /nt -U John -P Thanks -s NT_SERVER the nt drive is mounted with root access permissions. I made chown root rumba chmod u+s rumba and while logged in as user corresponding to John/Thanks rumba //nt_server/shared /nt -U John -P Thanks -s NT_SERVER answered me: error connecting to server: [1] Not owner Does anyone has a script or an idea to get nt drive mounted on OpenStep client with rumba with netinfo ? Thanks in advance for help Best Regards, Benoit Marchant -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: appending to the mail spool? Date: 23 May 1997 09:03:52 GMT Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m3mho$sg$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> In article <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> mikelea@digex.net (Michael Lea) writes: > I'm working on setting up mail forwarding from my Pentium to > my NextStation. I don't want to set up a whole smtp server > on the pentium, so I've been playing with automagically > ftp'ing selected messages from the pentium directly to the > mail spool on the next. However, if I try to just append > to the file (/usr/spool/mail/mikelea, for example), it doesn't > see the message as seperate from the previous message. What > is the seperator used in the spool to differentiate between > messages? > Thanks... Usually this should work. Probably you don't have the proper header lines, perhaps the From: field has been mutilated somehow. From: needs to be at the beginning of the line and I think this is what starts a new mail. -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with compiling using Workshop Openstep for Solaris Date: 23 May 1997 09:00:44 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5m3mbs$7ic$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Aftrer I installed (and licensed) the Openstep Workshop for Solaris on a Sun Ultra I try to compile a simple project. But the process stopped with the Message: CC -O -Isym -mt -I/usr/openstep/include -I/usr/openwin/include -I/usr/openwin/include/X11 -c HelloWorld_main.m -o sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o sh: CC: not found *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o' Does anybody knows what the caused this problem? Thanx for your help Andreas dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: logging fingers Message-ID: <EAMpoL.DKn@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 10:12:21 GMT A TCP Wrappers binary (4-way fat) Installer package can be found at ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 15:10:55 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970523150822.1836D-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> On 20 May 1997, planetary wrote: > Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > > : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? > > No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. Or Netware server, i should have known this... maybe thes a public tool available that can do it? > > : Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? > > No, unfortunately. What about using some programs from 3.3 in combination? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: appending to the mail spool? Date: 23 May 1997 13:55:58 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk Message-ID: <5m47le$8ou$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> mikelea@digex.net (Michael Lea) writes: > see the message as seperate from the previous message. What > is the seperator used in the spool to differentiate between > messages? A blank line - plus an old style UUCP deluivered from line (no colon). take a look aat the file and you will see what I mean... -bat.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: appending to the mail spool? Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:35:54 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523063343.4622E-100000@kira> References: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Lea <mikelea@digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> For the record: I think this is a very bad idea. For real mail forwarding you should be using a .forward file.... if you want to only forward some messages, use procmail (I'll even offer to help). However, since you asked: messages are separated by a blank line and then a 'From ' line such as From luomat@peak.org 00:30:21 -0700 TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with compiling using Workshop Openstep for Solaris Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:39:02 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523063702.4622F-100000@kira> References: <5m3mbs$7ic$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andreas Dietzsch <dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <5m3mbs$7ic$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> This would probably be better in csn.programmer, but I can even tell you this one... > CC -O -Isym -mt -I/usr/openstep/include -I/usr/openwin/include > -I/usr/openwin/include/X11 -c HelloWorld_main.m -o > sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o > sh: CC: not found > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o' > > Does anybody knows what the caused this problem? Sure: CC was not found. CC is the compiler. You might want to use 'cc' (check to make sure that /bin/cc exists and it executable), or set your environmental variable: CC=/bin/cc (you could also use whatever flags you like for cc there) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 23 May 1997 15:11:05 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a Pentium Pro system with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller. Currently I have a Baracuda 4.3gb boot drive that I have set asside only 2 Gb for NextStep. I just purchased a Seagate Cheeta 4.5Gb Wide SCSI drive and I would like to install it as my boot drive. I'd like to partition it something like this sd0a partition 2Gb sd1a partition .5Gb (for swap space) 2GB dos partition Now here's the questions.... 1.) From what I understand the WIDE SCSI drives have to be at lun 8 and above, is this true? 2.) [Newbie question here] Is there anyway (with my existing hardware) to boot from the Cheeta drive and have other (narrow SCSI drives) on luns 1-6? 3.) How do I create a NeXT/Openstep bootable WIDE SCSI (or for that matter any SCSI disk) disk that has more than one NeXT partition on a Pentium Pro? My basic (and it is very very basic) understanding is to partition the disk using DOS fdisk, but with the PentiumPro I can't boot from dos 6. Should I try to boot to Win96 using the Baracuda drive, and partition the Cheeta drive using Win95 fdisk? Why won't NeXT's fdisk work? Thank's in advance for any help or suggestions.... David A. Johnson Research Engineer Northwestern University
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 23 May 1997 15:45:29 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> daj@nwu.edu wrote: > I have a Pentium Pro system with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller. > Currently I have a Baracuda 4.3gb boot drive that I have set > asside only 2 Gb for NextStep. > I just purchased a Seagate Cheeta 4.5Gb Wide SCSI drive and I > would like to install it as my boot drive. I'd like to partition > it something like this > sd0a partition 2Gb sd1a partition .5Gb > (for swap space) 2GB dos partition This is NOT wise. If you make another partition the swap drive, it will THRASH the drive. i.e. as you read some files in partition a, and a pge swap occurs in partition b, the head of the drive will have to leave partition a, travel to partition b, then go back to partition a. You will get a net performance decrease. If you want to gain performance, you need a seperate drive for swapping, not a seperate partition. -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: Richard J Appleyard <appleyar@ohsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HD won't boot Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:35:31 -0700 Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University Message-ID: <3385B892.B92@ohsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: appleyar@ohsu.edu The filesystem is intact (fsck checks out) and the disk can be mounted as an external drive. However, the disk will not boot (as the startup disk) and hangs around the "root on sd0" message. I thought that the boot block might be corrupted? Any thoughts? I tried re-installing the boot block with the 'disk -b' command but I get the error, 'get info: Inappropriate ioctl for device' Can anyone help me here? Thanks, Richard. -- Dr Richard J Appleyard, Medical Informatics Fellow Biomedical Info. Comm. Ctr (BICC), Oregon Health Sciences Univ. appleyar@ohsu.edu, Voice (503) 494-1230, Fax (503) 494-4551 "To err is human, but to really screw things up takes a computer!"
From: Jeffrey Koppi <jkoppi@diehlgraphsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: domain name server? Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 16:08:30 -0400 Organization: Diehl Graphsoft, Inc. Message-ID: <3385F914.4CAE@diehlgraphsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I specify my Domain Name Server (DNS) in OpenStep 4.2 (Mach Intel)? I run OmniWeb, and it says "No such Host" for any URL I enter. If I type in the address number instead of the domain name it works. Jeff jkoppi@diehlgraphsoft.com
From: "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes Date: 24 May 1997 00:04:48 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> Please be patient, I haven't learned much about NEXTSTEP yet. I have learned a lot in the last 2 weeks from FAQS and by reading posts in this and other groups but I can't get either of the cubes I am trying to administer to work correctly. I think that there is just something simple wrong with them that I don't understand yet but maybe one of you more experienced peple could help me with. Here is the situation: Cube 1: Palo 68040-25 8 megs RAM NS 2.1 This cube was once upon a time hooked up to a server in a college lab. It is no longer hooked up to a server of any kind, but is now simply attached to a piece of ethernet cable along with some Windows machines. I think that the cube still thinks it is part of its old network. When I got it it would not boot into its GUI, it always drops out into the verbose unix mode complaining about not being able to find its server when I attached a ethernet line to it. I tried to edit the host files and other files that contained references to the college in its /etc directory and it doesn't say that its trying to find its server anymore, but it still doesn't work. Here is what happens: everything looks ok to me until it gets to the "checking disks" part. then it displays checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Please insert new disk for volume 0 (press n if disk is not available) **I press n here because there is no MO disk for the drive* can't open /dev/rod0a (null pointer): CAN'T CHECK FILESYSTEM (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY Reboot failed. . . help! Faking root mount entries Configuring ethernet interface to 192.42.172.4 Using default broadcast address Configuring local interface Configuring hostname to Palo erase^?, intr ^C, kill ^U # It wont go into the GUI at this point, it stays in the command prompt mode. I boot it with bsd, not the single user mode I read about so I thought that it should go into the GUI but it doesn't. I don't understand what it means with the null pointer stuff but I understand that when it says "reboot failed. . . help!" it isn't good! Can anyone tell me what I can try to get the cube back into its graphical state? If you can't explain it to me, can you suggest places that I can check? I tried the NeXT Answers and FAQ and some of the FAQS at TjL's page which were helpful but didn't tell me enough to make it work. I don't have any original manuals from the computers, I ordered the User Guide from NeXT but it is not a technical reference at all and doesn't help me. I will post the other cube's problem in a seperate message because it is totally different and I don't want to get them mixed up. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. Heath Tucker heatht@mindspring.com
From: "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ailing cube 2 Date: 24 May 1997 00:31:39 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <01bc67d9$54543460$6ad845cf@heath> Here is the other cube that I am unable to get working. Cube 2: Alto 68030-25 16 MB RAM NS 3.3 This cube was working fine when we got it, it booted right up into its GUI like we needed it to. We were trying to figure out how to get it to talk to some Windows machines though, and we messed it up. I don't have the books that came with it so I was trying to figure it out on my own by looking at the online librarian files and the net FAQs and Next Answes. I thought I had it working pretty well, I could FTP and Telnet to it from the other machines but then I was making some fine tuning adjustments and rebooted and poof! it wont work anymore. This one wont even finish its booting without being put into single user mode. Here is what it does: it loads nicely and looks good until it gets to this part., then it goes very badly astray. Starting RPC and network services: portmap netinfo lookupd Mounting remote filesystems May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver wont link May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver wont link *then it sits here forever* I can get into it with single user mode and edit files, but I dont know what to do. I don't have a boot disk because this cube has no drives. The other cube, Palo has an OD but I dont know if it works, and I dont have a MO disk. I have a CD player, but not the NS disks. I thought that I could get around a full reinstallation because I can still get into the computers and all the files seem intact, they are just configured incorrectly. Can anyone help me with either computer? (for first cube see "Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes" post) Once again, any help/advice/tips would be very appreciated. BTW, if this looks familiar it is because my friend Jennifer Mask posted for help in the software group a few days back, but was still unable to fix it so she gave me the task of correcting this cube also ; ) Heath Tucker heatht@mindspring.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 23:07:25 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII OK this should be simple, right? On Intel I have two HDs one as / and another as /Disk I want to export them to the slab I setup NFSexport on Intel to export the /Disk I setup NFSimport on slab to import /Disk at /Net/peace/Disk yet nothing appears at /Net/peace/Disk Am I missing something? Please help... I feel very clueless... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 02:32:07 -0600 From: Benoit.Marchant@questintl.com Subject: New NFS Client for NextStep, OS 4.1, O.S 4.2 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <864458820.17741@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Hi, I experience troubles using an NT Server as a file server througth NFS with OpenStep 4.1 Clients. Other people got the same troubles with SGI servers. I rode in this thread that NeXT had a patch for it ? NeXT, is it correct ? If it is not possible to be supported by NeXT itself, would it be possible for someone with that knowledge and a bit of time to adapt the NFS Client of Linux for which source code is available to NeXTSTEP/OpenStep for Mach ? Best regards, Benoit Marchant -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer Frohnhfer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prelude to Rhapsody: Boot Problem Date: 23 May 1997 07:23:15 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5m3gl3$v48@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <33838ACC.E7A19D03@innet.be> Jan Van Riel <jvanriel@innet.be> wrote: >I'm installing Prelude to Rhapsody on SCSI drive on an Intel box. I was >able to do the initial install but when it reboots, it fails mounting >the root. It says in the System Panic window: > >.... >rootdev 300, howto 0 >vfs_mountroot: error=19 >panic: Cpu(0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root >.... > >What can I do next? Where can I find more information on Mach commands >e.g. the options for the "boot:" prompt, for example. Ups, I had this several times ... a) your SCSI controllor was recognized at installation time, but not anymore. This happens sometimes on my stone-age system (VLB bus, aha-1542), but probably not on a new system and definitely not regularly. Let's rule this out. b) try "rootdev=/dev/sd0a" at boot time, or whereever you root partition lies; if it is on the second partition of the first drive, it's "/dev/sd1a", if it's the first partition of the second drive, "/dev/sd0b" etc. If this doesn't work, I'm at a loss. SCSI controller problem? Try "config=Default rootdev=xxxxxx" (<- right drive again) at "boot:". This will use the generic setup without any drivers except SCSI. If this *was* the problem, then - ack, my memory leaves me here - try to edit /private/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table There should be an entry for "Boot Device" with a proper entry there, but, as it goes, I'm not so sure anymore. Probably no big help :), Rainer. (This I*tel HW is a pain in the ***, I'll try to lay my hands on some decent hardware as soon as Rhapsody comes out) -- ---------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer Frohnhfer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prelude to Rhapsody: Boot Problem Date: 23 May 1997 13:20:31 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5m45iv$jmn@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Arg, I wrote: > b) try "rootdev=/dev/sd0a" at boot time, or whereever you root partition >lies; if it is on the second partition of the first drive, it's "/dev/sd1a", >if it's the first partition of the second drive, "/dev/sd0b" etc. Rats rats rats! This should read: Drive one, first partition: /dev/sd0a drive one, second partition:/dev/sd0b drive two, first partition: /dev/sd1a drive two, secon partition: /dev/sd1b ... and so on ... I didn't have enough caffeine this morning ...... -- ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 24 May 1997 12:36:47 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5m6ncv$3on@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Organisation: RRR Hello Timothy et. al., Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > OK this should be simple, right? Not quite :) > On Intel I have two HDs one as / and another as /Disk > > I want to export them to the slab > > I setup NFSexport on Intel to export the /Disk > I setup NFSimport on slab to import /Disk at /Net/peace/Disk > > yet nothing appears at /Net/peace/Disk "df /Net/peace/Disk" reports "peace:/" right? The problem is that the automounter has problems with mounting the root filesystem as /Net/peace and another filesystem as /net/peace/Disk. You can try to bypass this by mounting peace:/ as /Net/peace/peace (e.g.) or try tweaking with the sequence in witch the mounts get executed (hm, don't know how to do that for the automounter) Hope this helps Bastian -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 17:38:59 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can somebody please explain how to use a wavetable board connected to a Soundblaster in an Ix86 computer. I tried the midi driver out of the Music kit without success. The Soundblaster driver blocks the port and interrupt and also i would like to know if there is anywhere a mixer application available? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 24 May 1997 13:35:48 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5m7fuk$cir@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.970523150822.1836D-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : On 20 May 1997, planetary wrote: : > Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : > : Or Netware server, i should have known this... maybe thes a public tool : available that can do it? Caldera OpenLinux might be able to do this, but I sure can't tell from looking at their web site. : > : > : Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? : > : > No, unfortunately. : What about using some programs from 3.3 in combination? It might work, but it would be useful only with a 3.1x server or a 4.x server with bindery emulation. If that's all you have to worry about, then by all means, grab your 3.3 CD and give it a whirl. What we really need is an NDS-aware client, because NDS is where the big fun happens with IntranetWare. I think it might actually be easier to get source to NDS itself than to a client, though, since NDS is licenseable to any OS vendor. And I'd hate to write a client from scratch. ...............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
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 Supersedes: <16065863928021@digifix.com> Date: 25 May 1997 03:57:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12797864532834@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help Install NS3.3.-->Intel box w NO SCSI? Date: 25 May 1997 04:35:39 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5m8fir$d18$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> A number of NeXT-knowledgable fellows have told me that NEXTSTEP 3.3 will, will, in fact, install onto a PC (AMD K5, 64 MB RAM, Quantum 3.2 GB HD )(partitioned into a 700 MB part'n, made "installable" and active; this is where NEXTSTEP will go) using the 2 floppies supplied with NS for Intel. OPENSTEP will install *without using a SCSI CDROM*, despite what the sages prescribe. Been there; done it. . YES I *know* that the usual situation calls for a SCSI CD-ROM: This is my question. Can I install NS3.3? I've done so with Open step 4.0---but I don't own that CD, only the NS3.3 CD. I've tried doing as directed: selecting first an Adaptec SCSI driver. then an ATAPI/EIDE driver....The sys finds the Quantum HD, but cannot find the SCSI device. I get "packet sent...packet not received" and other errors. Any advice would be appreciated. Reply here, but certainly to my email, so I don't miss anything. >>>>> THANK YOU...... -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: <lavy@gate.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cable T.V & EQUIPMENT Date: 25 May 1997 11:14:23 GMT Organization: land of jesus Message-ID: <5m96uf$1m70$9270@news.gate.net> you need cable T.V call us. we can help you wite CONVERTERS & EQUIPMENT. 30 - days MONEY BACK** 1 YEAR WARRANTY. e-mail me to: lavy@gate.net
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 25 May 1997 14:52:13 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: ... I setup NFSexport on Intel to export the /Disk I setup NFSimport on slab to import /Disk at /Net/peace/Disk yet nothing appears at /Net/peace/Disk ... Why use the '/Net' mount? - it's part of the 'autonfsmount', and you probably don't need the extra step. I've had great luck with small setups like this just mounting these things at the root level. Two things: - Is there **really** a directory at /Net/peace? Are you sure? Sorry, but I doubt it. - Don't include the name of the mount (/Disk). Just tell NFSMangler to mount it at /Net. Read the sections on NFS in SysAdmin.bshlf; you won't be sorry. Particularily, watch how you mount things (forground/background) and how errors are handled. Let me know how you do. - Rupert
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help! ColorStation turbo won't start Message-ID: <EAqHHv.5Ap@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <tim-1805970048260001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 11:05:55 GMT In article <tim-1805970048260001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) writes: > My ColorStation turbo hung whilst copying a file in the Workspace, > wouldn't let me log out. Pressed power key and got into the NMI monitor. > Typed 'reboot', system restarted. The drive made a few (very few) > read/write noises and then wouldn't get past the 'loading from disk > panel...' The animated disk icon just keeps on spinning. System was > purchased 4 weeks a go with a (i presume) new HD (540 MB Conner). > A 540MB Conner drive leads me to qustion your usage of the term "new" ;-) But seriously, have you tried to boot verbosly (Command-Comand-~, and then 'bsd' at the boot monitor prompt)? What is the verbose boot telling you just before it gets stuck? -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes Message-ID: <EAqJ0z.5BI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 11:38:59 GMT In article <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> writes: Disclaimer: I have not much experience with NS 2.1, and I know your conf is a bare bones minimum, but I'll try to give you a few pointers drawn from analogies with NS 3.x. You can check them out and see whether teh"re valid. I share your feeling that the trouble comes from ripping the pour critters out of their usual network environment without being reconfigured properly. In NS 3.x the network conf is determined by the file /etc/hostinfo and the contents of the local NetInfo database. They can be restored to a pristine state by copying /usr/templates/client/etc/hostinfo and /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo/* to /etc. Unfortunately, this will not only restore the network conf but all local customization. But anyhow, it is a way to clean the machine up and start from new. The only other way would be to restore NS 2.1 from optical disk (if you have one). NS 3.x is no option since the low amount of memory would make the poor cube creep to almost a halt. The "NULL POINTER" thing is a unfriendly reaction to the optical disk not being available. I don't know why the machine insists in the od being a vital part of the boot process but why not just insert one and try again? The reaction you get is a kind of mild panic, the boot has failed but a basic (possibly single user) mode is usable for debugging. To me this is a kind of friendly reaction, much better than just shutting down :-) At least you can browse the /etc/rc and /etc/rc.* scripts and get an idea at which point the boot failed and try some corrective measures... > Please be patient, I haven't learned much about NEXTSTEP > yet. I have learned a lot in the last 2 weeks from FAQS and by > reading posts in this and other groups but I can't get either of > the cubes I am trying to administer to work correctly. I think > that there is just something simple wrong with them that I don't > understand yet but maybe one of you more experienced peple could > help me with. Here is the situation: > > Cube 1: Palo 68040-25 8 megs RAM NS 2.1 > > This cube was once upon a time hooked up to a server in a college > lab. It is no longer hooked up to a server of any kind, but is > now simply attached to a piece of ethernet cable along with some > Windows machines. I think that the cube still thinks it is part > of its old network. When I got it it would not boot into its > GUI, it always drops out into the verbose unix mode complaining > about not being able to find its server when I attached a ethernet > line to it. I tried to edit the host files and other files that > contained references to the college in its /etc directory and it > doesn't say that its trying to find its server anymore, but it > still doesn't work. Here is what happens: > > everything looks ok to me until it gets to the "checking disks" > part. then it displays > > checking disks > /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check > Please insert new disk for volume 0 > (press n if disk is not available) **I press n here because there is > no MO disk for the drive* > can't open /dev/rod0a > (null pointer): CAN'T CHECK FILESYSTEM > (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY > Reboot failed. . . help! > Faking root mount entries > Configuring ethernet interface to 192.42.172.4 Using default > broadcast address Configuring local interface Configuring hostname > to Palo > > > erase^?, intr ^C, kill ^U > # > > It wont go into the GUI at this point, it stays in the command > prompt mode. > I boot it with bsd, not the single user mode I read about so I > thought that it should go into the GUI but it doesn't. I don't > understand what it means with the null pointer stuff but I > understand that when it says "reboot failed. . . help!" it isn't > good! > > Can anyone tell me what I can try to get the cube back into its > graphical state? If you can't explain it to me, can you suggest > places that I can check? I tried the NeXT Answers and FAQ and > some of the FAQS at TjL's page which were helpful but didn't tell > me enough to make it work. I don't have any original manuals > from the computers, I ordered the User Guide from NeXT but it is > not a technical reference at all and doesn't help me. > > I will post the other cube's problem in a seperate message because > it is totally different and I don't want to get them mixed up. > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. > -- 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
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 15:29:49 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 23-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > > I just purchased a Seagate Cheeta 4.5Gb Wide SCSI drive and I > > would like to install it as my boot drive. I'd like to partition > > it something like this > > sd0a partition 2Gb sd1a partition .5Gb > > (for swap space) 2GB dos partition > > This is NOT wise. If you make another partition the swap drive, > it will THRASH the drive. i.e. as you read some files in partition > a, and a pge swap occurs in partition b, the head of the drive will > have to leave partition a, travel to partition b, then go back to > partition a. You will get a net performance decrease. If you want > to gain performance, you need a seperate drive for swapping, not > a seperate partition. John, I know you've convinced yourself that partitioning a drive for swapspace decreases performance, but that doesn't actually make it true. There's an entire chapter in the O'Reilly "Unix System Performance Tuning" (may not be the exact title, but close) book on how to partition drives correctly. You'd find it good reading.... In general, you want to have where the swap area is located to be near the middle of the drive cylinders, and you want to have actively-used files/partitions on either side of the swap area. Such an arrangement results in higher performance compared to not partitioning the drive, both from experimental testing, and from a theoretical standpoint (compare full-disk seek times to half-stroke seek times, and consider the impact of IO request scheduling algorithms like elevator seeking). Given a 4.5 MB drive and what the original poster wants to do, I'd probably partition the drive as follows: sd0a -- 400 MB to 750 MB (for the operating system, depending on whether Developer is going to be installed) sd0b -- 250 MB (swap partition) sd0c -- 1.x GB, for NEXTSTEP user space (and /LocalApps, etc) sd0d -- 2 GB for DOS I'd create a ~240 MB swapfile in sd0b using mkfile which would be the primary swapfile (set the low and hi water marks appropriately), and I'd create a secondary swapfile 0 bytes in size on sd0a in case the primary ever fills up. Also, you can blow away sd0a and re-mkfs it when upgrading to a new version of the system, which is convenient. Some of the other advantages of having a seperate swap partition is that you can newfs/mkfs the filesystem more appropriately for what you're doing (reduce the number of inodes and cylinder groups). Also, such a swap partition is not going to have the swap file as fragmented as it would be if it were created on a partition which held lots of other files (say on the main root partition holding the system). The reason for that is because the FFS wants to store files in empty cylinder groups before completely filling up all of the blocks in partially-used cylinder groups (this relates to MINFREE, the 10% or so disk space reserved to help avoid fragmentation)-- since leaving some empty space allows files to grow in size without having to fragment themselves (or not too badly, anyway). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 25 May 1997 20:55:46 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > John, I know you've convinced yourself that partitioning a drive > for swapspace decreases performance, but that doesn't actually > make it true. > There's an entire chapter in the O'Reilly "Unix System Performance > Tuning" (may not be the exact title, but close) book on how to > partition drives correctly. You'd find it good reading.... So the way I unders stand it: 1) The partitions are physically seperated. e.g. partition a would be the inner portion (wheel) of the drive, and partition b would be the outer. If the swap is in the outer portion, and the regular system is in the inner, a demand to swap while reading info on the outer would force the head way out to the outer. 2) The partitions are striped "interlaced" so that a seek would not not be necessarily further from any system file to the swap portion. However, that "interlacing" makes the swap file non contiguous physically and thereby reduces performance. Even in your example of putting the swap in the middle... Look at would "could happen" in case 1. If it's a large drive, say only 600megs of the first 2gig partition is used, and 1.5Gb of the third. Then if there's a swap request, and the head is in the first partition, it might have to travel over a good bit of space to get to the middle, and the same if from the 3rd. Whereas if it was one partition, then it's equally likely it would be closer, at least mathematically, than with the partitions. I.E. it would only be dealing with traversing 2.1Gb of data instead of 4Gb (assuming a 4Gb drive). In the second case, if the partitions are NOT physically seperate and are "interlaced" then the swap file is NOT contiguous and that is reducing performance. It's an either or situation (as far as I can tell). If I got it wrong, could you please let me know where the performance boost lies? What are the other alternatives that make partitioning for swap space and system access just as fast as having a single unpartitioned drive (obviously a seperate drive will always be better than either of the former possibilities). -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: pdamiano@gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Web Browsers for NS3.2 Date: 25 May 1997 19:23:49 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ma3k5$fjm$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Hi. I was wondering if anyone new of any frames compatible Web Browsers that would be compatible with NeXTStep version 3.2 on black hardware. Thanks Peter Damiano -- =============================================================================== Peter Damiano Phone: (403)-492-2526 Department of Physics FAX: (403)-492-0714 The University of Alberta email: pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2J1 ===============================================================================
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Web Browsers for NS3.2 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 17:00:28 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525165932.24869C-100000@kira> References: <5ma3k5$fjm$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: P Damiano <pdamiano@gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <5ma3k5$fjm$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> You can use OmniWeb 2.5, you need the FoundationUserPatch.... You can find them both @peak.org and/or my web pages... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: Suppressing Printer Burst Page Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EAqsp5.B2r@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 15:07:52 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Greetings everyone! I have my Next machine connected to a LaserJet 4M which is equipped with a JetDirect Card. I'm using the LPD in the JetDirect card. Could someone kindly suggest how I might be able to AUTOMATICALLY suppress the annoying burst pages (and hence save some trees!) that are sent every time I send a print job to the printer? Thanks. -Thas
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo "master", server/client, and a headache the size of Nebraska Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 17:30:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525170158.24869D-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: rupert@noir.net, Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu, everhart@alterlife.com, netinfo-talk@xedoc.com.au, nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com In-Reply-To: <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> Greetings Friends and NetInfo gurus, My forehead throbs, my keyboard has several imprints of my brow, as do the desk, wall, and dog.... I have rendered my machine unbootable several times now, and I'm just out of ideas.... I've read "QuickStart" about a dozen times and now find its name is just a mockery... Here's what I'd like to do: Intel running 4.1 Slab running 3.3 I want the _Intel_ to be connected to the 'net via PPP, do time & host config, serve as the NetInfo master for folders (NFS) and Users. The slab will handle printing and faxing.... Anytime I try SimpleNetworkStarter (yeah, right) I get this: "May 25 12:38:57 peace syslog: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping" or this "May 25 12:43:57 peace lookupd[117]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping" and some other time I got this: "May 24 19:05:26 localhost sendmail[138]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry" With HostManager, I've set "Use local domain only" and 'Readable only by local net' I've set the hostname to 'peace' and set the internet address to 192.42.172.1, Broadcast & Netmask to 'default' and Rounter to 'none' Anytime I set SNS to 'provide the services below: - Maintain the master copy of the network admin data - limit access to admin data to local network - automatically add new NS systems to the network - Require password - Run network time - maintain the network's email server (this one doesn't matter much) Directories exported: Homes = /Users Shared Apps = /LocalApps Shared data = /usr/local I reboot and get the above errors... I'm stuck & confused and may just be overlooking something really simple... Anyway, any help appreciated.... I had this working with the slab as the netinfo master but decided I wanted the Intel to be it... I thought I had reset everything to its default but perhaps I overlooked something... Thanks yet again TjL ps -- I also need sendmail to run on the Intel just for outgoing mail from the Intel to the 'net ...
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: JumpBack cryptic message... Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 20:10:46 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <EAr6py.1xD@micmac.com> I do my backups with JumpBack. Now it tells me again and again the same thing about some files that appear to be safe: Warning: missing links... These are GIF files. And they are all in the same directory. -- mc _________________________________________________________ Michel Coste <mailto:mic@micmac.com>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what do I do with these core files? Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 19:54:39 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I seem to have crashed lookupd a couple times, producing two 7+ meg 'core' files.... Do they have any use or should I recycle them?? TjL
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Creating multiple NeXT partitions on single disk? Date: 26 May 1997 06:17:08 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5mb9t4$evm$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Hello All, How is it possible to create a second OpenStep/Mach Intel partition on an IDE disk? I have a 1Gb disk that has been partitioned with a spare 200Mb for DOS that we now want to use as a data storage area for the 800Mb OpenStep partition. Given that BuildDisk will automatically partition a drive greater than 2Gb into 2 OpenStep partitions, how do I get fdisk to allow me to create two NeXT partitions? Do I have to mark my second 200Mb partition as something other than NeXT? Many Thanks Leigh -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 26 May 1997 06:40:05 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Cc: kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > Can somebody please explain how to use a wavetable board connected to a > Soundblaster in an Ix86 computer. I tried the midi driver out of the Music > kit without success. The Soundblaster driver blocks the port and > interrupt and also i would like to know if there is anywhere a mixer > application available? > > Regards > Konstantin Wiesel > Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de > > > As far as I know, the daughter boards are not supported as MIDI devices, only MIDI output to external synths are (which works well enough). The only way you could get internal MIDI instruments to work would be if the mapping was totally in hardware and it had been programmed correctly. I believe someone is working on a mixer or new driver for the Soundblaster, dunno who and a mate of mine needs the same thing. If you can wait another half year I might be able to have a go at it....Sorry. Leigh -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:29:29 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970526112708.4291C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Leigh Smith <leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> On 26 May 1997, Leigh Smith wrote: > In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > As far as I know, the daughter boards are not supported as MIDI devices, only > MIDI output to external synths are (which works well enough). The only way > you could get internal MIDI instruments to work would be if the mapping was > totally in hardware and it had been programmed correctly. I believe someone > is working on a mixer or new driver for the Soundblaster, dunno who and a > mate of mine needs the same thing. If you can wait another half year I might > be able to have a go at it....Sorry. > Hmm, up to this time i thought there was no difference whether i use an external midi synth or the wavetable daughtercard, at least thats the way i use it under windows (External midi device driver). Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: question about partitions Message-ID: <EAs2xE.71H.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 07:46:26 GMT >In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: >> >> FWIW I think for most folks 1024 is a waste of space, but that's just MO It depends upon the drive. Usually, you gain space on a drive by low-level formatting with a larger block size. Here are some real-world figures: Drive Model Size@512 Size@1024 Increase in size ----------- -------- --------- ---------------- Seagate ST1480N 406.5MB 419.9MB 13.39MB Maxtor MXT-1240S 1183MB 1257MB 73.3MB Seagate ST34371N 4148.9MB 4341.3MB 192.37MB In article <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, Matthew Seaman <matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk> wrote: >It's a toss-up, as ever. With larger block sizes, you can get better IO >throughput and less of the disk space is taken up by the filesystem overhead, >but each file, even if it is only a byte long, will eat up at least one >filesystem block. So, as Tim says, it can be a big waste of space. There is a difference between physical block size at the low level and allocation size at the file system level. The BSD 4.3 BFFS that NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP use has a minimum allocation size of 1024 bytes, so even those 512 byte block drives are still wasting 1K per file. Actually, the 4.3 file system will break a partition block (usually 8192 bytes) into 4 smaller fragments (minimum 1024 bytes) for use by files which are smaller than one block. Search for BFFS on the Web or via Archie to learn more. >512b or 1024b blocks are about right for a Unix system disk and for most >typical user home directories. Most SCSI disks come preformatted with 512b >blocks, and not all will support larger sizes. I don't think that there is ever a gain under NEXTSTEP for 512 byte blocks. If you are forced to use 512 bytes blocks by a stunted Intel BIOS or by a narrow-minded drive manufacturer, then you don't have a choice. In this light, portability between Intel and real workstations might point to the only advantage of 512 byte block formatting. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA, U.S.A. Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
From: Sven Droll Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 26 May 1997 10:17:21 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> Hi We have got the same problem here (white machine exports a disk, black does not mount it). As far as I know, this is a problem with the permissions (the black machine has not the right to mount the disk). The permissions for our black machine was granted through NFSManager, but it seems that this do not work. Any hint how to solve this problem would be nice. ciao -- Sven Droll __ ______________________________________________________/ / ______ __ sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/ /_ _/ _/ =====\_/======= LOGOUT FASCISM! ___________________________________________________________________ NeXT-mail, MIME-mail welcome ;-))
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHosting NS3.3 -> OS4.1 Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 16:27:37 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970526162449.4533A-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Very often the NXHosting from the NS3.3 P1 machine to the OS4.1 machine does not work. It displays the following line: DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host pollux I used this command line: /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit -NXHost pollux& Any suggestions anyone? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:36:19 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 25-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > So the way I unders stand it: > > 1) The partitions are physically seperated. e.g. partition a would > be the inner portion (wheel) of the drive, and partition b would > be the outer. If the swap is in the outer portion, and the regular > system is in the inner, a demand to swap while reading info on the > outer would force the head way out to the outer. But read what I said again-- you want to have the swap partition in the middle of the drive surrounded by active partitions. Ie, a being the system (or system mini-root), b being the swap, and c being either user space or the rest of the system. Case 1 is the most common arrangement with normal drives. > 2) The partitions are striped "interlaced" so that a seek would > not not be necessarily further from any system file to the swap > portion. However, that "interlacing" makes the swap file non > contiguous physically and thereby reduces performance. Right. Such a case might happen on an IDE drive due to the bizzare way sectors have to be remapped by lying about the real drive geometry due to BIOS limitations. > Even in your example of putting the swap in the middle... Look at > would "could happen" in case 1. If it's a large drive, say only > 600megs of the first 2gig partition is used, and 1.5Gb of the third. > Then if there's a swap request, and the head is in the first > partition, it might have to travel over a good bit of space to get > to the middle, and the same if from the 3rd. Whereas if it was > one partition, then it's equally likely it would be closer, at > least mathematically, than with the partitions. It doesn't work out that way in practice, John. A system under enough load to be swapping is obviously doing a fair amount of work, or is completely RAM-starved (or both). If it's doing a lot of work, it's virtually certain that the IO requests involve both files from the system and /tmp, and user files or applications. In other words, the drive heads are going to be moving accross a fiarly wide range of cylinders just for user-side IO no matter where you put the swap area. The time required to perform an IO request involves the sum of the seek time to the initial track, reading the data, plus any track-to-track motion (exaberated if the file is highly fragmented), plus overhead imposed by and within the OS. Given the arrangement of partitions I've defined above, the average distance required to reach the swap area is going to be D/4, where D is the total distance between the inner and outer cylinders. If you don't partition, the average distance to reach the swap area is going to be D/2. [ This is modulo many assumptions, but it's a reasonable model for the purpose of discussion. ] Using a dedicated partition for swapping reduces swapfile fragmentation to the best it can possibly be, which means that you also minimize the amount of track-to-track motion within the IO request due to file fragmentation. If you didn't have a seperate swap partition, the swap file is going to be more fragmented, which means more time spent moving track-to-track. > In the second case, if the partitions are NOT physically seperate > and are "interlaced" then the swap file is NOT contiguous and that > is reducing performance. It's an either or situation (as far as > I can tell). If I got it wrong, could you please let me know where > the performance boost lies? In the case of an interlaced drive, usually it's interlaced on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis. The initial seek times are going to be completely equivalent, but using a seperate swap partition is still going to reduce fragmentation within each cylinder because you've ensured that all sectors within a cylinder are going to belong to the swap area, which would not be the case if you didn't partition. Again, partitioning for the swap area can help performance. > What are the other alternatives that make partitioning for swap space and > system access just as fast as having a single unpartitioned drive > (obviously a seperate drive will always be better than either of the > former possibilities). Yes, a seperate drive is going to be better because you can do IO in parallel, and because you've got two sets of head assemblies to work with, which means that you win due to the probable locality of reference for swapfile accesses. I think I've answered the other part of your question above. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:46:36 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <onWQlwu00UzxI20Mle@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <EAs2xE.71H.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-May-97 Re: question about partitions by Brian Willoughby@sounds. > There is a difference between physical block size at the low level and > allocation size at the file system level. The BSD 4.3 BFFS that NEXTSTEP > and OPENSTEP use has a minimum allocation size of 1024 bytes, so even those > 512 byte block drives are still wasting 1K per file. > > Actually, the 4.3 file system will break a partition block (usually 8192 > bytes) into 4 smaller fragments (minimum 1024 bytes) for use by files which > are smaller than one block. Close, but that's not quite right. From 'man mkfs': The optional arguments allow fine tune control over the parameters of the file system. Nsect specify the number of sectors per track on the disk. Ntrack specify the number of tracks per cylinder on the disk. Blksize gives the primary block size for files on the file system. It must be a power of two, currently selected from 4096 or 8192. Fragsize gives the fragment size for files on the file system. The fragsize represents the smallest amount of disk space that will be allocated to a file. It must be a power of two currently selected from the range 512 to 8192. ...and from 'man fs': Addresses stored in inodes are capable of addressing frag- ments of `blocks'. File system blocks of at most size MAXBSIZE can be optionally broken into 2, 4, or 8 pieces, each of which is addressable; these pieces may be DEV_BSIZE, or some multiple of a DEV_BSIZE unit. You can get a 512 byte fragment size, which means that files waste an average of 256 bytes due to internal fragmentation. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHosting NS3.3 -> OS4.1 Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:25:42 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970526112143.23793B-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970526162449.4533A-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970526162449.4533A-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Very often the NXHosting from the NS3.3 P1 machine to the OS4.1 machine > does not work. It displays the following line: > > DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host pollux Sounds like you do not have PublicWindowServer turned "on" for host "pollux" see Preferences.app under UNIX module... unless your sysadmin has 'discourage PublicWindowServer' in NetInfo, in which case it will not show up in Preferences.app and you have to set it via commandline, something like dwrite System PublicWindowServer YES (let me know if you need the exact dwrite... I'm sure I have it somewhere....) Not a good idea if the machine is on the 'net but works just fine
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 26 May 1997 23:27:39 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > But read what I said again-- you want to have the swap partition > in the middle of the drive surrounded by active partitions. Ie, > a being the system (or system mini-root), b being the swap, and > c being either user space or the rest of the system. Well, first, this breaks down in the case of a system with two partitions (like mine :) because in that situation you WILL have the head going over some dead space to get to the swap all the time... > It doesn't work out that way in practice, John. A system under > enough load to be swapping is obviously doing a fair amount of > work, or is completely RAM-starved (or both). If it's doing a > lot of work, it's virtually certain that the IO requests involve > both files from the system and /tmp, and user files or applications. > In other words, the drive heads are going to be moving accross > a fiarly wide range of cylinders just for user-side IO no matter > where you put the swap area. Hmmm, that's true... My setup is two partitions (which might be a worst case scenario!) and typically you can almost FEEL the darn heads being moved away to get to swap... However, one point to make...if the drive is REALLY big... Let's say 9 gigs, and you have 3 partitons: a being 4gb for system, b being 1gb for swap, and c being 4gb for files/apps... Let's say you only have 1gb of data on both partitions a and c. Then the heads will have to travel over more space than had the person made a single partition with all 3gb's of data situated more tightly together...no? See what I mean... |aa-aaa-aa----------------|bbbbbbbb|cc-ccc-cc--------------| |-----------max head seek distance----------| vs. |a-c-aa-c-a-c-ac-bbbbbb-a-c-a-cc-b-b-----------------------| |---------max h.seek distance------| When there is LOTs of free space, on average the heads might travel less in the single partition situation... Especially when the system has to access BOTH system (a partition) and files/apps (c partition) info... In that case, I may have reduced my max seek distance, and thereby also reduced my avg seek, no? When the drive gets more and more full, then I think what you say is true when a lot of swapping takes place, b/c the system is guaranteed to find the swap in the middle. But note, if the system uses both system and files more often (i.e. partitions a & c), then it's still going to thrash something silly. And in practice, I think both system and user files are accessed quite often...so even if swap isn't at issue, you still take a hit with system and user files/apps. Anyway, sorry if I'm being daft and frustrating you. It's truly based on my ignorance and I'm trying hard to "get it straight." -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hardware From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: CDROM detected but not mounted Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EAsz66.19q@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 19:22:54 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Hello Everyone, I have an external MediaVision CDROM drive that I used to install NetStep3.0 on my nextstation. I had no problem when I was installing the software. But now I have the following problem: - if I boot the system with NS3.0 disk in the drive, the CDROM is detected and mounted. - if I have any other disk (e.g.RedHat Linux - for installing on another machine), the system detects the drive at boot time but does not mount the drive. Instead I get the message "Eject Disk". If I eject the disk, the system puts the message "Please Insert a Disk" !! A manual mount attempt using a terminal results in the following error mount: /dev/sd1a on /cdrom: I/O error mount: giving up on: /cdrom NOTE: At boot time the system detects the CDROM and connects it as sd1 at sc0 target 6 lun 0 Has anyone experienced this problem? Any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks. Cheers, -Thas
From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what do I do with these core files? Date: 27 May 1997 04:55:06 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5mdpfa$n3c$1@brokaw.wa.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > I seem to have crashed lookupd a couple times, producing two 7+ meg 'core' > files.... > > Do they have any use or should I recycle them?? > > TjL not unless you plan on using a debugger and examining the core files to find out why the program blew up. Otherwise, just delete them as they serve no usefull purpose (unless yer the developer or like to hack source ;) -b -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- Email: larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what do I do with these core files? Date: 27 May 1997 05:16:48 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc6a5b$f6e0b120$015f6fcb@decisionware> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy, 'core' files are used for post-crash diagnostics usually by the developer or alpha tester. If you have no need of them or cannot decode them then feel free to delete them. Cheers, Greg Shaw. Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote in article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira>... > > I seem to have crashed lookupd a couple times, producing two 7+ meg 'core' > files.... > > Do they have any use or should I recycle them?? > > TjL > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: liu@emerald.physics (Wei Liu) Subject: Install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on 3 GB large disk? Message-ID: <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@info.physics.utoronto.ca (System Administrator) Organization: University of Toronto - Dept. of Physics Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 04:32:14 GMT Hi, there: Anyone has such experience in installing NEXTSTEP OS 3.2 on a large SCSI disk bigger than 2GB? I know both /etc/disk and DiskBuilder have problem with that. And the CDROM installation won't help either. Following one of NEXTanswers on this issue, I was able to partition and initialize it by creating a disktab entry. Although it behaves all right as a file system, it seems it can't be booted even I moved every system file to this disk and wrote the /usr/standalone/boot into the boot sector. It just hangs ri ght after saying "root on sd0". Sometimes it even says no SCSI disk attached. Your help is greatly appreciated!! Wei
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Two Disks and a question Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 05:59:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527055112.17194C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've got one 2-gig disk (2047meg/one partition of OS 4.1) and one 1-gig disk. The 2gig is new and the 1gig is a few years old (3-5 I'd say) I'd like to 'tweak' this setup as much as possible for compiling & overall performance.... Right now I've got _all_ my system files under the 2-gig which is the boot drive, with a couple hundred megs remaining (it has 4.1 user/dev installed). The 1-gig has nothing on it except a 200meg swapfile (/tmp remains on the primary drive) For compiling: I assume that because the source code will be on the 2gig and the swap on the 1-gig I will be getting the full 'double-spindle' effect when compiling. Q: would I be any better off with the header files & swap on the 1gig and the source code being compiled on the 2-gig? Q: other than making the 1-gig a backup-bootable drive and using the leftover space for swap, what else could I use it for? Thanks folks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:07:09 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 26-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net >> But read what I said again-- you want to have the swap partition >> in the middle of the drive surrounded by active partitions. Ie, >> a being the system (or system mini-root), b being the swap, and >> c being either user space or the rest of the system. > > Well, first, this breaks down in the case of a system with two > partitions (like mine :) because in that situation you WILL have > the head going over some dead space to get to the swap all the > time... Yes, it does. There are lots of ways of partitioning your drives which decrease performance, and only having two partitions is one of them for precisely the reasons you've described. [ ...I wanted to snip some of the following, but there's no good place to do so... ] >> It doesn't work out that way in practice, John. A system under >> enough load to be swapping is obviously doing a fair amount of >> work, or is completely RAM-starved (or both). If it's doing a >> lot of work, it's virtually certain that the IO requests involve >> both files from the system and /tmp, and user files or applications. >> In other words, the drive heads are going to be moving accross >> a fairly wide range of cylinders just for user-side IO no matter >> where you put the swap area. > > Hmmm, that's true... My setup is two partitions (which might be > a worst case scenario!) and typically you can almost FEEL the darn > heads being moved away to get to swap... However, one point to > make...if the drive is REALLY big... Let's say 9 gigs, and you > have 3 partitons: a being 4gb for system, b being 1gb for swap, > and c being 4gb for files/apps... Let's say you only have 1gb of > data on both partitions a and c. Then the heads will have to travel > over more space than had the person made a single partition with > all 3gb's of data situated more tightly together...no? > > See what I mean... > > |aa-aaa-aa----------------|bbbbbbbb|cc-ccc-cc--------------| > > |-----------max head seek distance----------| > > vs. > > |a-c-aa-c-a-c-ac-bbbbbb-a-c-a-cc-b-b-----------------------| > > |---------max h.seek distance------| Yes, you're absolutely correct that partitioning the drives in the way you describe would decrease performance. However (and this however is an essential distinction), you aren't supposed to randomly partition drives with arbitrary sizes. You're supposed to consider the actual space requirements, and size the partitions accordingly. That's why OS vendors which encourage use of and/or ship systems with pre-partitioned drives (Sun comes to mind), generally break the OS itself into a bootable miniroot that's guaranteed to fit in 16-32 MB, so you can break up your boot drive into at least three partitions (miniroot, swap, and the rest of the OS including X or whatever windowing system) which is a situation where the IO load is pretty much guaranteed to be distributed. They generally provide disk configuration utilities to aid in partition-size calculations.... > When the drive gets more and more full, then I think what you say > is true when a lot of swapping takes place, b/c the system is > guaranteed to find the swap in the middle. But note, if the system > uses both system and files more often (i.e. partitions a & c), then > it's still going to thrash something silly. TANSTAAFL. If you've got X GB worth of system and data/user files, you've got X GB worth of cylinders to move the heads across no matter what you do. However, there tends to be patterns of IO requests due to the fact that you generally swap when starting up a new process or resuming an swapped out one (ie, by reading in the executable pages from disk), and that there tends to be regular IO to /tmp and to user files for storing documents and program output after the executable pages are read in. Partitioning the drive to put the swapspace in the middle improves performance unless you've badly misjudged how big the partitions should be and have too much unused space. > And in practice, I think both system and user files are accessed quite > often... That's certainly true. > so even if swap isn't at issue, you still take a hit with system and > user files/apps. Again, there ain't no free lunch. Partitioning the drive can still help even ignoring swap since you tend to have the system files filling up most of the root partition, with enough free space left for /tmp, corefiles, log files, mail spools, and so forth...which tends to be fairly self-contained, and the user space, which gets used however. Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more fragmentation, and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem tuning to adjust the filesystem parameters more appropriately for the intended usage of the partition. > Anyway, sorry if I'm being daft and frustrating you. It's truly > based on my ignorance and I'm trying hard to "get it straight." No need to apologize to me; I make mistakes too. And it's infinitely better to have a reasonable conversation with someone who's honestly trying to understand a topic rather than arguing with people who refuse to listen or consider other points of view (which is half of .advocacy, unfortunately). You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing too far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt performance. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Anyone running FreeBSD & NeXTStep/OpenStep? Followup-To: poster Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 08:07:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527080458.1779A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu [Homebrew folks: sorry if this is a little off-topic] I've been toying with the idea... just to see what another UNIX looks like I guess.. Anyway, if anyone has done this and would be willing share their experiences, please let me know... Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 27 May 1997 16:03:29 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5mf0kh$av9$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > John Kheit said: > > When the drive gets more and more full, then I think what you > > say is true when a lot of swapping takes place, b/c the system > > is guaranteed to find the swap in the middle. But note, if > > the system uses both system and files more often (i.e. partitions > > a & c), then it's still going to thrash something silly. > TANSTAAFL. If you've got X GB worth of system and data/user ^^^^^^^^^^is a new one on me :) What's it mean? > files, you've got X GB worth of cylinders to move the heads across > no matter what you do. > Partitioning the drive to put the swapspace in the middle improves > performance unless you've badly misjudged how big the partitions > should be and have too much unused space. Aha! I see now...ok. So on a a 4Gb drive one might do the following... Partition a is 450Mb for OPENSTEP, partition b is swap and say 550Mb, partition c is 1.5Gb for apps, and partition d is 1.5Gb for User stuff? See, the problem is that one will have about 3+gb's left over for user/apps stuff, and we have 2gb partition limits... So what will likely happen on partition's c and d is they will have lots of free space (unless you have a LOT of user files etc... Hmmm...which partition, if any, is it OK to keep a goodly amount of space free so performance won't take a hit? > Again, there ain't no free lunch. Partitioning the drive can Ain't that the truth...seems like a real balancing act that may change w/ time as a user get's more stuff... > Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more > fragmentation, and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem > tuning to adjust the filesystem parameters more appropriately > for the intended usage of the partition. Yea, but doesn't FFS pretty much keep that to a minimum (I don't think I've ever had more thean 0.7% percent fragmentation, and that was on a PACKED hard drive (almost no free space) that was used for a LONG LONG LONG time). And as for swap space fragmentation and placement...one could fill the hard drive half way... then kick with another system, make a new 500mb swap file, delete the old one (make the appropriate swaptab entries with lowat, hiwat, etc) then install the rest of the user files...and in essence get the swap file unfragmented in the middle of the system... > You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts > performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing > too far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt > performance. I can see in certain situations it doesn't have to be an all out performance looser now... I guess I'll have to try it for myself to see if it is a genuine performance winner (as soon as I figure out how to arrange partitions with free space appropriately...) Thanks much for the info! :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 27 May 1997 13:54:43 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mep33$drv@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > Can somebody please explain how to use a wavetable board connected to a > Soundblaster in an Ix86 computer. I tried the midi driver out of the > Music kit without success. The Soundblaster driver blocks the port and > interrupt and also i would like to know if there is anywhere a mixer > application available? You're mostly out of luck. Reading the docs for Music kit indicate you can only use the Sound OR Midi capabilities for Soundblaster, not BOTH. You can load the Midi(MPU) driver OR the Soundlbaster driver on boot. The only card that currently supports midi within the native audio driver is Ensoniq. -- 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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 14:26:09 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QnWmR1C00UhBA6PkB5@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> <5mf0kh$av9$1@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 27-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net >> TANSTAAFL. If you've got X GB worth of system and data/user > ^^^^^^^^^^is a new one on me :) What's it mean? "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", R.A. Heinlein. >> Partitioning the drive to put the swapspace in the middle improves >> performance unless you've badly misjudged how big the partitions >> should be and have too much unused space. > > Aha! I see now...ok. So on a a 4Gb drive one might do the > following... Partition a is 450Mb for OPENSTEP, partition b is > swap and say 550Mb, partition c is 1.5Gb for apps, and partition > d is 1.5Gb for User stuff? 400-odd is plenty for a normal User install; you want more like 600-odd for a full Developer install, and that depends on how much logging and /tmp space you want available. If you've got space to burn, 750 is probably more than enough. I'd be fairly surprised if you filled up more than 100-200 MB worth of swap space, but again, if you've got disk space to blow, you can make swap bigger. That would leave around 3 GB or so, which I'd probably break into a 2 GB partition and a 1+ GB partition; use the first for everything active, and maybe use the second for rarely used stuff like .tar.gz archives, random images (GIF, TIFF, JPEG), backups of essential system files, and whatnot. > See, the problem is that one will have about 3+gb's left over for > user/apps stuff, and we have 2gb partition limits... Right. I tend to prefer smaller drives than 4 GB myself because you can take advantage of IO in parallel between multiple drives and the difference in cost economy isn't that great, and there's the performance gain. > So what will likely happen on partition's c and d is they will have > lots of free space (unless you have a LOT of user files etc... > Hmmm...which partition, if any, is it OK to keep a > goodly amount of space free so performance won't take a hit? The last one. Your active files are going to be in the first 3 partitions (or should be, anyway). >> Again, there ain't no free lunch. Partitioning the drive can > > Ain't that the truth...seems like a real balancing act that may > change w/ time as a user get's more stuff... Yes, or when the intended usage of the machine changes. Of course, if you've got a decent backup mechanism, it's no big deal, but it still takes time to reformat and reinstall. >> Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more >> fragmentation, and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem >> tuning to adjust the filesystem parameters more appropriately >> for the intended usage of the partition. > > Yea, but doesn't FFS pretty much keep that to a minimum (I don't > think I've ever had more thean 0.7% percent fragmentation, and that > was on a PACKED hard drive (almost no free space) that was used > for a LONG LONG LONG time). The FFS tries to reduce fragmentation by using cylinder groups and restricting the max number of blocks a file can use in a cylinder group (and gby keeping MINFREE reserved). In some sense, the FFS deliberately fragments very large files into medium-sized but contiguous pieces in order to avoid extreme fragmentation. I mentioned this in more detail earlier. > And as for swap space fragmentation > and placement...one could fill the hard drive half way... then > kick with another system, make a new 500mb swap file, delete the > old one (make the appropriate swaptab entries with lowat, hiwat, > etc) then install the rest of the user files...and in essence get > the swap file unfragmented in the middle of the system... If I've followed you, yes, that's precisely what you want to do. >> You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts >> performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing >> too far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt >> performance. > > I can see in certain situations it doesn't have to be an all out > performance looser now... I guess I'll have to try it for myself > to see if it is a genuine performance winner (as soon as I figure > out how to arrange partitions with free space appropriately...) > > Thanks much for the info! :) You're welcome. Tell you what, though-- if we ever run into each other at an expo or some such, you owe me a good beer. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 27 May 1997 19:03:23 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5mfb5r$fgr$4@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> <5mf0kh$av9$1@news2.digex.net> <QnWmR1C00UhBA6PkB5@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 27-May-97 Re: HELP > with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > > And as for swap space fragmentation > > and placement...one could fill the hard drive half way... then > > kick with another system, make a new 500mb swap file, delete > > the old one (make the appropriate swaptab entries with lowat, > > hiwat, etc) then install the rest of the user files...and in > > essence get the swap file unfragmented in the middle of the > > system... > If I've followed you, yes, that's precisely what you want to do. I meant NOT partitioning above. That one could use a single partition to achieve much the same as a multipartition setup.... In essence do what can be done with 3 partitions in only one...but from what you mentioned before...that FFS WILL break up a file into chunks...b/c of that, it's better to set up a middle partition with few inodes and just fill the sucker up with a single file that's going to be guaranteed to be contiguous.... Whereas, even making a huge file the same size in a single partition won't guarantee a contiguous file... Ok, I think I've got it (or at least as much as the mush in my head will allow :) > You're welcome. Tell you what, though-- if we ever run into each > other at an expo or some such, you owe me a good beer. :-) Sounds like a good deal to me :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 19:47:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com /etc/resolv.conf is setup with IPs just as it has been before... I've been mucking with NetInfo, etc so maybe that has something to do with it... Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by hostname, just IPs. Now normally this is that /erc/resolv.conf isn't setup, but in this case it is.... so what do I look for NeXT? Thanks TjL
From: ultra@best.com (Scott Violet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with serial ports under 4.1 Date: 27 May 1997 20:46:29 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST Distribution: usa Message-ID: <5mg9ql$5ne$1@shell2.ba.best.com> Hi, I know there has been some recent discussion about the differences between serial ports under 3.3 and 4.1 Mach on Intel. But I still can't get mine to work and am hoping that someone might have a clue what is up. I have a serial mouse on COM1 and the modem on Com2, I've added two serial port drivers and one tty port manager with two instances. When I try to tip/kermit to the device I get: /dev/cua: No such device link down Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, -Scott Violet (ultra@best.com)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: NFS-Automounting from WIN NT (Hummingbird NFS) Message-ID: <EAvts0.F5@onevision.de> Keywords: nfs,automount,nextstep,nt Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 08:19:12 GMT Hello, I am currently evaluting the Hummingbird NFS Server for Win NT4.0 on our NT Server. I am in need to export some drives from NT to our NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Machines via NFS. I have exported the drives in netinfo domain / with bg,net,timeo=6 option to /Net. With 4.1 and up there is no problem with automounting them. With 3.3 (half of our machines) I can not automount that drives. It is just not working. No error nothing. Just a few seconds of spinning mousecursor. But I can do a 'mount -t nfs ntserver:/d/test /test' on 3.3. What is not working is automounting... My NFS setup is correct. Mounting by hand works every time on every version of the operationg system I have handy. Any ideas? I need to mount them. Or has anyone a better suggestion for a NT NFS server software? Thanks, Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Developer, SysAdmin Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: 28 May 1997 13:55:32 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5mhdgk$8g7$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by >hostname, just IPs. > >Now normally this is that /erc/resolv.conf isn't setup, but in this case >it is.... so what do I look for NeXT? You can check to see if your DNS setup is working by using nslookup. Just type in nslookup at the command line and it should do something like: nikita:5# nslookup Default Server: richmond.freedomnet.com Address: 198.240.104.3 > Obviously, your DNS server IP address and name will be different. At the > prompt, then type in a name to be resolved (ie. www.next.com). It should answer something like: > www.next.com Server: richmond.freedomnet.com Address: 198.240.104.3 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.next.com Address: 129.18.1.3 > Type Control-D to exit. If any of this doesn't work, make sure that the IP address you have for your DNS server is correct. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with serial ports under 4.1 Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 07:12:34 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970528071130.12508D-100000@kira> References: <5mg9ql$5ne$1@shell2.ba.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Scott Violet <ultra@best.com> In-Reply-To: <5mg9ql$5ne$1@shell2.ba.best.com> I'd guess you didn't go to configure.app & add the TTY / serial port stuff.... (last module in configure.app) I could be wrong... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: aks@athens (Allan Schougaard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 28 May 1997 14:52:15 GMT Organization: Pioneer Global Message-ID: <5mhgqv$5sr@wizard.pn.com> References: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> <5mep33$drv@crcnis3.unl.edu> Cc: rdieter@math.unl.edu In <5mep33$drv@crcnis3.unl.edu> Rex Dieter wrote: > In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Reading the docs for Music kit indicate you can only use the Sound OR Midi > capabilities for Soundblaster, not BOTH. You can load the Midi(MPU) driver > OR the Soundlbaster driver on boot. The only card that currently supports > midi within the native audio driver is Ensoniq. Where can you find the native audio driver for the Ensoniq ? (Yes I have looked at NextAnswers.) --Allan
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: verbose shutdown? Date: 28 May 1997 16:27:55 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network Message-ID: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been noticing something. I have an Intel system with the Triton chipset and an S3 card. I know about the timing problem that causes lockups during a graphical boot, but I noticed that occasionally, when i shut down, the same lock up happens when it's trying to switch to the graphical screens. I started using shutdown from the command line, and it has not once locked up. which is making me begin to think that the timing problem exists during the shutdown procedure at times. I'd like to know if it's possible to configure the thing so that it does a verbose shutdown, similar to what was done to prevent the graphical boot screen. if it's possible, please let me know. my gf is highly computer illiterate and having to type shutdown blah blah blah is asking a bit too much of her *8^).. thanks andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (Steven Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail and UUCP on NeXT Date: 28 May 1997 17:53:23 GMT Organization: Silicon Beach - Business Internet Services Message-ID: <5mhrej$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Hi, I am in sendmail hell. What I am trying to set up should be straightforward. I have an old cube that I want to set up to serve mail for an isolated network. Currently I am using a tangled web of PPP, sendmail, fetchmail, and procmail to send and receive mail. This set up is less than optimal. For one thing, the free PPP for the next, while great for a home user, isn't reliable enough to send mail via a cron script. The mail host (an 040 cube) dials every hour. When it works, it is fine, but it crashes several times a week and everyone using it grumbles about how unreliable it is. On the incoming end the mail is dropped into a multidrop mailbox on the ISP and I have been using fetchmail to split it apart. While this works okay, it is less than optimal since once the mail has been delivered into the ISP mailbox, the envelope address has been lost and the true recipient is often unknowable. It dawned upon me that what I was really doing was recreating UUCP so I decided to set up a UUCP mail transfer. I thought it would be easy, but it has turned out to be a pain. If one uses the instructions with the next supplied BSD UUCP and sendmail, the mail addresses are in UUCP bang style addressing. I really want to have sendmail hide all of the internal machine names and to rewrite the outgoing addresses as user@wyatt.com. Therefore I got a more recent version of sendmail (sendmail.8.8.5) which supports masquerading but the documentation, while describing all of the zillions of configuration options, isn't very helpful in setting up a very basic connection. All I want is all outgoing mail be rewritten in DNS notation and the mail transport to get queued up for the next UUCP connection. Does anyone have a simple set of configuration files which does this? Similarly I want the UUCP bring in all of the incoming mail. There must be others out there who have nearly the exact same configuration as I. How do others deal with this problem? -- ...STeve steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (NeXT and MIME mail welcome) (805) 963-5904 x104
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: 28 May 1997 13:15:47 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mhb63$fkl@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > /etc/resolv.conf is setup with IPs just as it has been before... > Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by > hostname, just IPs. Try a few things: 1. /usr/etc/nslookup Does it tell you which server it's using? hint: it should be one you've specified in /etc/resolv.conf 2. Post the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file. 3. You can alternatively specify the resolver information in NetIfno, at /locations/resolver with tags, name: resolver nameserver: nameserver_ip1 nameserver_ip2 nameserver_ip3 domain: your.domain.here -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (Steven Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP and internal sportster modem. Date: 28 May 1997 18:08:08 GMT Organization: Silicon Beach - Business Internet Services Message-ID: <5mhsa8$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> I am having a problem with internal sportster modem running in a Dell Pentium Pro. I am running NS3.3pl1 with Serial Port driver v3.33 and TTY port server (v3.33). Kermit and PPP work fine on /dev/cufb, however when I use uucp on these lines I don't get anything back from the modem. The same L.sys works fine on other intel hardware as well as an old cube. Does anyone have a clue as to why UUCP can't access the modem. Here is a simple example: -----------------KERMIT--------------- C-Kermit 5A(190), 4 Oct 94, for NeXTSTEP Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Type ? or HELP for help. C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufb C-Kermit>set speed 38400 /dev/cufb, 38400 bps C-Kermit>c Connecting to /dev/cufb, speed 38400. The escape character is Ctrl-] (ASCII 29, GS) Type the escape character followed by C to get back, or followed by ? to see other options. at OK ---------------------------------------- Notice that the modem echos "OK", However if I use uucp I get nothing back --------------------UUCP-------------------- # /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x6 -s root gollum (5/28-10:59-12274) DEBUG (Local Enabled) finds (silcom) called root silcom (5/28-10:59-12274) FAILED (call to silcom ) finds (beach) called getto: call no. cufb for sys beach Using DIR to call Opening /dev/cufb login called ABORT ON: BUSY wanted """" got: that send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? root beach (5/28-10:59-12274) FAILED (LOGIN) root beach (5/28-10:59-12274) FAILED (call to beach ) ---------------------------------------- Notice that all I ever get back from the modem is "?" Any clues? -- ...STeve steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (NeXT and MIME mail welcome) (805) 963-5904 x104
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From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS and PPP Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:53:02 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Friends, I am using PPP to connect my NeXT to the [schol's] internet. I have a NeXT account at work as well. I would like to access the diskspace on the NeXT machine from home. The problem is that the IP address is different every time as it gets assigned semi-randomly at the time of establishing the PPP connection. I was wondering if you could advise me how to export/import the disks in such a case. I don't think that the standard NFS allows for using user/password verification. So the other options I thought about were Samba/Rumba at Work/Home or Appletalk installed on both (CAPPer) What do you think? Are the Samba and Appletalk the only choices I have. Which one would you recommend? Thanks. Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: brennanh@pacbell.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with SB64AWE PnP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 28 May 1997 21:31:10 GMT Organization: Hildebrand Consulting Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mi86u$5s6$1@news3.snfc21.pacbell.net> Keywords: Sound Blaster NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN I've recently installed OpenStep 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) and can't seem to get my soundblaster 64 awe PnP to work. This card is really just a glorified SB16PnP with the advanced wave effects and 64 voice channels. I've tried setting it up through hostconfig, but the only choices are the SB16 and SB16 PnP. I don't mind giving up the extra features for the time being and using the card as a straight SB16. Unfortunately, I can't get it to make any sound at all. Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
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From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS intel? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:06:04 -0700 Organization: A customer of Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1CCC.7525B52A@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fuser command or equiv Date: 28 May 1997 17:50:05 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5mhr8d$q7f@inet-prime.comshare.com> greetings ethereal composite mind, "fuser" doesn't appear to exist on NS, is there something else I can use to find out who/what has a file open? Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 22:58:05 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1AED.3974DD14@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:00:22 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 22:58:27 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1B03.6DE8FB48@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: tmccubbin@nccsinc.com (Tracy McCubbin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help With Next IP Config Date: 28 May 1997 15:28:00 -0700 Organization: NCCS Inc. Message-ID: <MPG.df66d4a3fa1f9e4989680@news.primenet.com> I am new to Next but i have a basic unix background. Where on the next 3.2 system can i have it use its local settings for ip and such. Now it is looking for a network load or info server? Thanks in advance.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS and PPP Date: 28 May 1997 22:42:04 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5micbs$pk8$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu In <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > Dear Friends, > I am using PPP to connect my NeXT to the [schol's] internet. I have a > NeXT account at work as well. I would like to access the diskspace on > the NeXT machine from home. > The problem is that the IP address is different every time as it gets > assigned semi-randomly at the time of establishing the PPP connection. > I was wondering if you could advise me how to export/import the disks > in such a case. > I don't think that the standard NFS allows for using user/password > verification. So the other options I thought about were Samba/Rumba at > Work/Home or Appletalk installed on both (CAPPer) > What do you think? Are the Samba and Appletalk the only choices I have. > Which one would you recommend? Appleshare won't cross PPP lines, you'll need to encapsulate it in IP using a router. NFS and Samba/Rumba should work. However the changing IP number and hostname would make NFS a bit hard to setup. Based on the afpmount program I have started a little tool that uses ftp to connect to a remote server but looks like a NFS mounted directory on the local side (a FTP to NFS mapper). I know of Alex (a similar utility) but mine will (hopefully) be much easier to use and setup. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:00:06 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1B66.8CA9AE58@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 28 May 1997 16:15:49 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mhlnm$g04@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mhgqv$5sr@wizard.pn.com> In article <5mhgqv$5sr@wizard.pn.com> aks@athens (Allan Schougaard) writes: > Where can you find the native audio driver for the Ensoniq ? > (Yes I have looked at NextAnswers.) From the announcement posted to comp.sys.next.announce on May 7: SoundscapeVIVO Audio Driver now shipping from Sound Consulting ..snip... For additional information on the EnsoniqSoundscape Audio Driver, including pointers to sources for the sound cards, please visit the web pages at http://www.nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/ss_nsi.html -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP on 4.1 Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 21:28:11 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-2805972128120001@104.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> Does anyone know where I can get some detailed instructions on setting up PPP on OS 4.1 on black? I can't seem to crack this nut. Mitch
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and UUCP on NeXT Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:40:13 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970528172636.11677C-100000@kira> References: <5mhrej$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Steven Trainoff <steve.trainoff@wyatt.com> In-Reply-To: <5mhrej$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Steven It's OK, you are in good company.... others have done this also... Let me make sure I understand you correctly: You want to use PPP to connect to the world You want to be able to send mail off-line and have PPP start via cron & pure the mail q You want to be able to download mail via cron Does your ISP have pop3 support or imap? If so, you can use PopOver.app to download mail & feed it to procmail. Set the mail directory to |/usr/local/bin/formail -e -s procmail You can use this in yourprocmailrc file: :0wfh *^From PopOver | formail -I'From ' | formail and that will recreate the 'From ' line and procmail can deliver the mail (we can talk procmail later) If you want help setting up sendmail, checkout this most helpful guide http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/ (note: using this guide I was able to setup my config once and have used it through 3 reinstalls... this past time I setup sendmail in less than 5 minutes), ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz is the newest sendmail setup for NeXTStep/OpenStep. As for PPP -- what version are you using? I am using ppp2.3 under NSFIP and it hasn't crashed once... Feel free to ask me more questions if I've missed something... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UUCP and internal sportster modem. Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:46:59 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970528174500.11677D-100000@kira> References: <5mhsa8$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Steven Trainoff <steve.trainoff@wyatt.com> In-Reply-To: <5mhsa8$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Did you load the Serial port & tty drivers in configure.app? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail config problem Date: 29 May 1997 02:25:35 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Hello, all-- I have _almost_ completely configured sendmail for the first time, on my cube, running NS 3.3, and ppp2.2, following the sendmail instructions of Francois Magnan, and everything is working EXCEPT... everything I send is "from" Operator@root.ns.bitstream.net, or root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net. Messages from me should all be "from" cejensen@bitstream.net. This problem is causing confusion and misdirected mail. ganesh is my machine name. ns.bitstream.net is my domain server. I have browsed through old UseNet messages on this subject that sort of dance around the solution to this problem, but never spell out precisely what files I have incorrectly configured and which files (or which lines of which files) I need to tweak to get this fixed. Luckily in Mail.app preferences I am able to change the reply-to field, which helps, but not every mail application seems to read this field, leading to returned messages sent in error to Operator@root.ns.bitstream.net. Any pearls of wisdom from the NeXT community would be sincerely appreciated! Many thanks in advance -- Chris Jensen Please send replies to cejensen@bitstream.net
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP on 4.1 Date: 29 May 1997 05:42:19 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5mj4vr$8on$1@news.nuri.net> References: <mitchell.allen-2805972128120001@104.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get some detailed instructions on setting up > PPP on OS 4.1 on black? I can't seem to crack this nut. > Mitch Setting up ppp on 4.1 is same as on 3.3 except those two: (You could follow the instruction of GateKeeper Help memu for 3.3) 1) Directories: pppd is at /usr/etc/ and configurations are /etc/ppp/. You don't need to install pppd again. It's aleady installed with the OS itself. (You should install GateKeeper by yourself) 2) Loadable Kernel Module: on 3.3 you should load two kernel modules but, on 4.1 you are needed to load only one kernel module, ppp_reloc, by inserting following line into your /etc/rc.local: if [ -f /usr/lib/kern_loader/ppp/ppp_reloc ]; then /usr/etc/kl_util -a /usr/lib/kern_loader/ppp/ppp_reloc > /dev/console 2>&1 (echo -n * ppp*) > /dev/console fi Good Luck! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mailto:jin@nuri.net Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineering Team phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail config problem Date: 29 May 1997 06:44:41 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net On 29 May 1997 02:25:35 GMT, Operator <root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net> wrote: > [...] > everything I send is "from" Operator@root.ns.bitstream.net, or > root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net. Messages from me should all be "from" > cejensen@bitstream.net. This problem is causing confusion and > misdirected mail. > [...] Hello, Chris, It looks like you're logged in as root and sending mail that way. Then the problem might be that _by sendmail default_, 'root' are exposed, even though you are masquerading as bitstream.net via MASQUERADE_AS(...). In other words, when you send mail as root, instead of appending your domain name to ($M) your address, your internal site name will also be displayed. Fix: (Don't know how to do this through m4 macros.) * edit /etc/sendmail.cf Find the following lines: # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host... # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even ... # class M: domains that should be converted to $M #CL root CE root Comment out "CE root". * restart your sendmail daemon. If this still doesn't work, please post your sendmail .mc, .m4 and userdb files. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
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From: richarde@sophisticated.com (Richard Elmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhapsody Networking doesn't Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 02:32:31 -0700 Organization: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C. Message-ID: <richarde-2905970232320001@207.66.154.195> I am trying to get networking to function on my Intel machine that I have installed the Prelude to Rhapsody on. Everything _seems_ to be configured OK, the info returned by ifconfig and netstat all looks good but I cannot even ping other machines on my network. So I fired up the packet analyzer to see what is happening on the wire and here is what I found: Every time I try to ping another system on my LAN (from the OpenStep machine) I see the OpenStep machine generate an ARP request packet requesting the MAC address corresponding to the IP address I ping'ed. The target device responds with what looks like a valid ARP response packet. The OpenStep machine never sends the ICMP echo packet to the target machine, and about a second later the OpenStep machine sends another ARP request identical to the last one. This cycle repeats until I kill the ping command. If I try to ping the OpenStep machine from another machine I see the ICMP echo packets being sent to the OpenStep machine but it never responds. So it looks like the OpenStep machine is not seeing the ARP responses, or is somehow mishandling them. About the only odd thing in my network setup is that my IP network is a small subnet of our companies class C using a netmask of 255.255.255.240 and my LAN is connected to the main company LAN via a Farallon ISDN router. Other systems on the local network can communicate through the router fine, so I am pretty sure the problem is on the OpenStep machine. General Setup Info: System: Micron Millennia P166 w/48MB of RAM Ethernet card: 3COM 3c509b-TP, auto-detected during install, plug-and-play driver loaded. "ifconfig en0" returns: en0: flags=63<UP, BROADCAST, NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet xx.xx.xx.196 netmask fffffff0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.207 A "netstat -r" returns: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use localhost localhost UH 0 318 lo0 default xx.xx.xx.193 UG 0 3 en0 xx.xx.xx.192 xx.xx.xx.196 U 6 1219 en0 Note: xx.xx.xx.193 = ISDN router xx.xx.xx.196 = OpenStep machine Any ideas? TIA! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Elmore That's a good idea; in fact it's such a good idea that I shall henceforth refer to it as "My Idea". - John E. Whitmore III
From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 29 May 1997 07:43:42 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net [ Followup: To my own response to Chris Jensen's root email address question ...] Sorry, I left the following out of the proposed fix for Chris' problem. Indeed, the previous post will only take your "From" header as far as root@bitstream.net, for all mails sent while logged in as root. To achieve the desired effect, i.e., cejensen@bitstream.net, you must also put the following in your /etc/sendmail/userdb file: Your /etc/sendmail/userdb file should look similar to this: [There're other ways to do it, but this is how I did it.] root:mailname cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net cejensen:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net cejensen:maildrop cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net cejensen:fullname Chris Jensen [...other users...] **Make sure you recompile your userdb after changing it!** **Don't forget to restart your sendmail daemon either ! ** Now, when you send mail as root, your "From:" header will be From: Operator <cejensen@bitstream.net> If you want "From:" to look like From: Chris E. Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> even when you're sending mail as root, then put this line in your /etc/sendmail/userdb file: root:fullname Chris E. Jensen (Note: I did not test this part, YMMV.) If you want to find out why, the easiest way is to run sendmail in debug mode, e.g., '/usr/lib/sendmail -d cejensen < /etc/hosts'. liuyi On 29 May 1997 06:44:41 GMT, I wrote: > Hello, Chris, > > It looks like you're logged in as root and sending mail that way. > Then the problem might be that _by sendmail default_, 'root' are > exposed, even though you are masquerading as bitstream.net via > MASQUERADE_AS(...). > > In other words, when you send mail as root, instead of appending your > domain name to ($M) your address, your internal site name will also be > displayed. > > Fix: (Don't know how to do this through m4 macros.) > > * edit /etc/sendmail.cf > > Find the following lines: > > # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host... > # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even ... > # class M: domains that should be converted to $M > #CL root > CE root > > Comment out "CE root". > > * restart your sendmail daemon. > > If this still doesn't work, please post your sendmail .mc, .m4 and > userdb files. > > liuyi > -- > Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
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From: dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: configure a network-printer Date: 29 May 1997 10:26:31 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5mjlkn$s8g$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Hello all! I'm a starter in administrating NEXTSTEP and I now hav the problem to configure a network printer. I used the PrintManager to install a new one. How can I deny a group of users to use this printer. thanx for your help Andreas dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de
From: Timm Wetzel <me@baloo.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 13:23:10 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) wrote: > I've been noticing something. I have an Intel system with the Triton > chipset and an S3 card. I know about the timing problem that > causes lockups during a graphical boot, but I noticed that [...] > during the shutdown procedure at times. I'd like to know if it's possible > to configure the thing so that it does a verbose shutdown, similar to what > was done to prevent the graphical boot screen. Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. Timm --- Timm Wetzel <twetzel@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> <twetzel@gwdg.de> Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie, Abt. 081 Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Goettingen
From: dcoyle@ctp.com (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting rumba working Date: 29 May 1997 13:50:23 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5mk1iv$e4d@concorde.ctp.com> Could someone please point me to some more practical information (like a Web page or FAQ) on rumba? I'm afraid the man page just doesn't do it for me... ;-) thanks, Dave ------- /\/\ Dave Coyle <dcoyle@ctp.com> / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners \ / / 118/119 Lower Baggot Street \/\/ Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland Tel: +353 1 607 9008 WWW: http://www.ctp.com>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS-export /usr/local/ ? Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 06:53:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529061854.6816D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings folks Thanks to the extraordinary help from Hans Rupert, I have my network running. There is one slab running 3.3 (unpatched/no dev tools) called 'charisma' There is one Intel running 4.1 (user/dev) called 'peace' trying to NFS mount '/usr/local' from 'peace' onto 'charisma', so that 'charisma' will have it's own /usr/ but the /usr/local/ will be the same as on 'peace' However, when I tried that with NFSMangler, I got this error when I rebooted 'charisma' May 28 23:07:51 charisma mach: NFS write error 13 on host peace fh 60000 0 a000000 80450200 8d38dd52 a000000 5be70000 652eac54 May 28 23:07:58 charisma last message repeated 5 times So either I've set something wrong or this isn't possible.... but if people can NFS mount /usr/spool/mail to other machines with a /usr/ folder, why can't I NFS export /usr/local/ (other than preferences about what "/usr/local/" is supposed to mean). Any help appreciated.... thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes Date: 27 May 1997 17:42:43 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5mf6ej$19dc@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> wrote: >checking disks >/dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check >Please insert new disk for volume 0 >(press n if disk is not available) **I press n here because there is no >MO disk for the drive* Sounds a little like its trying to force mount the OD. Did you check in /etc/fstab to see there isn't an entry for mounting the OD. Might be worth checking. - Gareth
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:12:30 GMT Organization: Applied Chaos Lab Message-ID: <338dcba2.87982601@news.gatech.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> On Tue, 27 May 1997 19:47:07 -0700, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > /etc/resolv.conf is setup with IPs just as it has been before... > >I've been mucking with NetInfo, etc so maybe that has something to do with >it... > >Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by >hostname, just IPs. > >Now normally this is that /erc/resolv.conf isn't setup, but in this case >it is.... so what do I look for NeXT? I've had a similar problem since upgrading to 4.x . Everything worked fine under NS 3.3 but now if I try and use a the host name to telnet and OS can't find the IP. However, if I specify the full host name and domain (but not the address) I can telnet out. For example: /Users/zippy> telnet acme acme: Unknown host /Users/zippy> telnet acme.gatech.edu Trying 130.207.165.24... Connected to acme.gatech.edu. If you check the lookup: acl1:1# nslookup Default Server: troll-gw.gatech.edu Address: 130.207.244.251 >acme Server: troll-gw.gatech.edu Address: 130.207.244.251 Non-authoritative answer: Name: acme.gatech.edu Addresses: 130.207.165.22, 130.207.160.10, 130.207.171.14 Now resolv.conf reads: domain gatech.edu nameserver 130.207.244.251 nameserver 130.207.244.244 The man pages say /etc>resolv.conf is all I need to enable DNS. It's just a little problem, but I'd still like to know what's going on. As always any and all help is greatly appreciated. Brian ______________________________________ Brian K. Meadows Applied Chaos Laboratory School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 phone: (404) 894-1448 fax: (404) 894-9958 email: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu WWW: http://acl.gatech.edu ______________________________________
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 29 May 1997 14:59:29 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mk5kh$1e7@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> I didn't mean to cause a big todo over this. I think I've got the practicle answer. Buy an additional fast wide SCSI drive and use it for swap space! Now its a problem of money (one almost everyone is familiar with)! BTW my situation is that I have a 128Mb PenbiumPro and the real problem is related to some mathematical modeling I run in Mathematica. Often I am doing multidimensional Fourier's with several thousands of long float type operations. Then I output very very large PostScript files as results (along with some condensed data files). So essentially, I often run out of RAM and use swap space, however when I do it should be heavily hit in continuous or frequent sequences. By using a separate swap drive it should speed things up considerably. David A. Johnson > > Yes, a seperate drive is going to be better because you can do IO in > parallel, and because you've got two sets of head assemblies to work > with, which means that you win due to the probable locality of reference > for swapfile accesses. > > I think I've answered the other part of your question above. > > -Chuck > > > Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- > I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS and PPP Date: 29 May 1997 15:44:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5mk89p$ohj$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <5micbs$pk8$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) wrote: >In <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B >Blazek wrote: > >[Snip] > > > >Appleshare won't cross PPP lines, you'll need to encapsulate it in IP using >a router. NFS and Samba/Rumba should work. However the changing IP number and >hostname would make NFS a bit hard to setup. > >Based on the afpmount program I have started a little tool that uses ftp to >connect to a remote server but looks like a NFS mounted directory on the >local side (a FTP to NFS mapper). I know of Alex (a similar utility) but mine >will (hopefully) be much easier to use and setup. > >-- >* Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net >* NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy > Cool! Looking forward to seeing it... --Ryan Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: CDROM detected but not mounted Message-ID: <EAxw9u.66n@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EAsz66.19q@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:08:18 GMT In article <EAsz66.19q@ecf.toronto.edu> yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) writes: > Hello Everyone, > > I have an external MediaVision CDROM drive that I used to install > NetStep3.0 on my nextstation. I had no problem when I was installing > the software. But now I have the following problem: > - if I boot the system with NS3.0 disk in the drive, the CDROM > is detected and mounted. > - if I have any other disk (e.g.RedHat Linux - for installing on > another machine), the system detects the drive > at boot time but does not mount the drive. Instead I get the > message "Eject Disk". If I eject the disk, the system puts > the message "Please Insert a Disk" !! > A manual mount attempt using a terminal results in the following error > mount: /dev/sd1a on /cdrom: I/O error > mount: giving up on: > /cdrom > As far as I remember (NS 3.0 is quite a way back) this version had problems installing ISO 9660 CDs (or it wasn't supported at all?). I question whether filesystem support from later versions would run on NS 3.0 since the kernel libs were changed from NS 3.0 -> 3.1. I'd advise you to get NS 3.1 User or later. That should do it. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on 3 GB large disk? Message-ID: <EAxwzM.67D@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:23:46 GMT In article <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> liu@emerald.physics (Wei Liu) writes: > Hi, there: > > Anyone has such experience in installing NEXTSTEP OS 3.2 on a > large SCSI disk bigger than 2GB? I know both /etc/disk and > DiskBuilder have problem with that. And the CDROM installation > won't help either. Following one of NEXTanswers on this issue, > I was able to partition and initialize it by creating a disktab > entry. Although it behaves all right as a file system, it seems > it can't be booted even I moved every system file to this disk > and wrote the /usr/standalone/boot into the boot sector. It just > hangs ri > > ght after saying "root on sd0". Sometimes it even says no SCSI > disk attached. Your help is greatly appreciated!! > You didn't tell which hardware you're on. But let's assume it is a black one. Most of your descriptions match this assumption. For a disk drive to be bootable on black machines it must be configured SCSI-1, asynch. SCSI drives will not boot when in synch mode! ON NS 3.2 it might be right that the installation procedure is not configured to partition large drives in two. But /etc/disk and BuildDisk.app will be able to generate two partitions and get the OS installed on the first one. Although this might imply that such drives don't fit an initial installation on NS 3.2 (I only did upgrades, sorry), they certainly work as second drives. Worst case, you'd have to attach the drive to a running black machine and run BuildDisk on the second drive. Then, after having partitioned and initialized you can switch it bach to your machine and boot from there. Alternatively, you could generate a 'disktab' entry for the drive to force a custom partitioning. Details to be found in the man-pages and in the FAQ on Peanuts. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NFS-Automounting from WIN NT (Hummingbird NFS) Message-ID: <EAxxCy.683@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EAvts0.F5@onevision.de> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:31:46 GMT In article <EAvts0.F5@onevision.de> roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) writes: > Hello, > > I am currently evaluting the Hummingbird NFS Server for > Win NT4.0 on our NT Server. I am in need to export some > drives from NT to our NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Machines via NFS. > > I have exported the drives in netinfo domain / with > bg,net,timeo=6 option to /Net. > > With 4.1 and up there is no problem with automounting > them. With 3.3 (half of our machines) I can not automount > that drives. It is just not working. No error nothing. > > Just a few seconds of spinning mousecursor. But I can > do a 'mount -t nfs ntserver:/d/test /test' on 3.3. > What is not working is automounting... > > My NFS setup is correct. Mounting by hand works > every time on every version of the operationg > system I have handy. > Is this the good old block size problem? NS 3.x used to have this problem since it only implements NFS v1. All NFS v2 systems sent blocks too large to fit into NEXTSTEP's buffers (used to be the case for Solaris servers). It used to go away if the server was explicitly told to use smaller blocks. I don't remember the exact syntax but it is described in the FAQ and/or Usenet archive on Peanuts. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Two Disks and a question Message-ID: <EAxxKz.68r@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527055112.17194C-100000@kira> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:36:34 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527055112.17194C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > I've got one 2-gig disk (2047meg/one partition of OS 4.1) and one 1-gig > disk. > > The 2gig is new and the 1gig is a few years old (3-5 I'd say) > > I'd like to 'tweak' this setup as much as possible for compiling & > overall performance.... > > Right now I've got _all_ my system files under the 2-gig which is the > boot drive, with a couple hundred megs remaining (it has 4.1 user/dev > installed). > > The 1-gig has nothing on it except a 200meg swapfile (/tmp remains on > the primary drive) > > For compiling: I assume that because the source code will be on the 2gig > and the swap on the 1-gig I will be getting the full 'double-spindle' > effect when compiling. > > Q: other than making the 1-gig a backup-bootable drive and using the > leftover space for swap, what else could I use it for? > Link /tmp to the drive and enjoy some speedup in scratch file heavy operations. Same could be advisable for the spool filesystem. -- 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: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Soundblaster on P6 PnP Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 10:20:02 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <338DBAC0.2AC926F5@csulb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to get OPENSTEP 4.1 to recognize my sound card. I'm using the soundblaster driver 4.01 and the isa/eisa driver 4.03 After I install the driver my system hangs right before the login window searching for the defice (it doesn't hang, it just searches forever) then I press reset; start in default mode; remove the driver and reboot. I tried turning all the PnP stuff off and setting the DMA and IRQ manually, but I seem to be having the same problem. any ideas? sean -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sean Roehnelt : CSU Long Beach Extended Education mailto:roehnelt@csulb.edu : 1250 Bellflower Blvd, UTC-113 http://amp.csulb.edu/~roehnelt : Long Beach, CA 90840 (562) 985-4352 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 17:14:24 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network Message-ID: <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> Timm Wetzel wrote: > awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) wrote: > > I've been noticing something. I have an Intel system with the Triton > > chipset and an S3 card. I know about the timing problem that > > causes lockups during a graphical boot, but I noticed that > [...] > > during the shutdown procedure at times. I'd like to know if it's possible > > to configure the thing so that it does a verbose shutdown, similar to what > > was done to prevent the graphical boot screen. > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
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From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Digital 21140 NIC Revision Problem Date: 28 May 1997 14:24:56 GMT Organization: ICOL GmbH Message-ID: <5mhf7o$c3b$2@news01.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have made good expieriences with network cards with the Digital 21140 Chipset. Unfortunately the new revicion of the chip is 21140-AE and does not work with NexTStep. Revision 21140-AC works fine. How can we get the -AE revision working? Any Tips are wecome. Alex -- ICOL GmbH Alexander Dietz Im Grundrasen 3 36391 Sinntal Tel: +49 6664 919211 Fax: +49 6664 6204 E-Mail: icol.animo@t-online.de
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 17:20:33 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network Message-ID: <5mkdt1$2jk$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Andy Wang wrote: > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. > > I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter > Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. > > andy oops.. correction. i was stupid it worked.. i just mistyped it as ShutDown... duh.. god i'm dumb. andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 Date: 29 May 1997 17:53:17 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5mkfqd$sec$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Oh dear, I guess there's yet another security hole to fix up. ============================================================================= CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 Original issue date: May 29, 1997 Last revised: --- Topic: ftpd Signal Handling Vulnerability ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- More to the point, why isn't Apple/NeXT taking a pro-active role in responding to security concerns raised by CERT? There's no mention of NextStep/OpenStep anywhere in the advisory, and judging by the number of BSD variants that are affected, I'd guess that NS is too. Now, where did I put those sources to wu-ftpd I had lying about... Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Apache SSL -- SmartSoft?? Date: 29 May 1997 16:00:04 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <5mk964$3u1@news.dialisdn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I'm looking for a port of the Stronghold/Apache webserver for NeXTSTEP. Apparently, a company called SmartSoft out of Cedarburg, WI successfully released this but now the company has disappeared, for all practical purposes. Their phone is disconnected and they don't answer their emails. Does anyone have any information regarding this company or their ported SSL server?? Alternately, does anyone know of an ssl server that will run on NeXT (other then the $24,999 WebObjects)? Thanks. David Geller arpad@hotspice.com
From: <elmo1@rocketmail.com> Organization: SEXZILLA.COM http://www.sexzilla.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <338bdb92.1@news.netzilla.net> Message-ID: <cancel.338bdb92.1@news.netzilla.net> Control: cancel <338bdb92.1@news.netzilla.net> References: <338bdb92.1@news.netzilla.net> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 19:33:37 +1 EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "netjava.com" or "summary of auto-cancellations" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: World Weather Database.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:45:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andy Wang <awang@plains.nodak.edu> In-Reply-To: <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> > > > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. > > I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter > Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. I didn't mistype anything afaik and I still get this happening to me and cannot seem to fix it.. I'm new @ configure.app.... amd I supposed to have an APM yes entry? What do I do (exactly) to set this up? Thanks TjL
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prelude to Rhapsody Networking doesn't Date: 29 May 1997 20:44:04 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5mkpqk$8f1$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <richarde-2905970232320001@207.66.154.195> In article <richarde-2905970232320001@207.66.154.195> richarde@sophisticated.com (Richard Elmore) writes: > About the only odd thing in my network setup is that my IP network is a > small subnet of our companies class C using a netmask of 255.255.255.240 .. > "ifconfig en0" returns: > en0: flags=63<UP, BROADCAST, NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> > inet xx.xx.xx.196 netmask fffffff0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.207 I'm running a similar setup with a 5-bit netmask (but with NEXTSTEP3.3) and it works fine. Your network configuration looks ok. This has all the symptoms of an IRQ problem: you can send packets, but not receive them. I've had problems with PnP systems where the IRQ could not be assigned because of conflicts, running out of lines, etc, and the BIOS never complained! Check for IRQ's conflicts with Configure. Try booting with the -v option (if it's the same in OPENSTEP 4.2) to see how your eNet card is getting configured. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 21:58:04 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > > > > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > > > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. > > > > I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter > > Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. > > I didn't mistype anything afaik and I still get this happening to me and > cannot seem to fix it.. Don't worry, keep typing... it happened to me too. As soon as you type the name for the entry, it gets alphabetized IMMEDIATELY, putting it near the bottom, and, of course, putting APM first again. Leave the expert panel, and come back, and you'll see your new entry is indeed there. BTW, I now have "Shutdown Graphics = No", but it doesn't work. Can anyone confirm that it Does/Doesn't work? -- 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: paul@washburn.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Swap file won't shrink!!! Date: 28 May 1997 17:46:11 GMT Organization: Princeton University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mhr13$3vl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Originator: paul@washburn.Princeton.EDU I'm posting this for a friend. His problem is that his swapfile does not shrink on a reboot, and consequently it is chewing up all of his disk space. Reply here or to me at paul@silvertone.princeton.edu or to him at link@klang.latrobe.edu.au thanks in advance paul lansky
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap file won't shrink!!! Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:43:04 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529184027.21390B-100000@kira> References: <5mhr13$3vl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Paul Lansky <paul@washburn.Princeton.EDU>, link@klang.latrobe.edu.au In-Reply-To: <5mhr13$3vl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Hi Paul ! I also live in Princeton (near Rt 1), nice to meet a 'neighbor' The swapfile does not shrink, as a rule, until you reboot. If you or your friend wants to read more about this, checkout my FAQ at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/FAQs/swapfaq.html Feel free to email me if you or he has more questions.. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 30 May 1997 02:07:12 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> In-Reply-To: <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> Hello-- > > If this still doesn't work, please post your sendmail .mc, .m4 and > > userdb files. Ok... I'm afraid your suggestions did'nt work, but it is possible that I didn't execute them properly. As you request, here are my userdb, mydomain.m4, and next.mc files: <...begin userdb...> root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net <...end userdb...> <...begin mydomain.m4...> divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software # must display the following acknowledgement: # This product includes software developed by the University of # California, Berkeley and its contributors. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors # may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software # without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE # ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE # FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL # DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS # OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) # HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT # LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY # OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF # SUCH DAMAGE. # # # The following is a generic domain file. You should be able to # use it anywhere. If you want to customize it, copy it to a file # named with your domain and make the edits; then, copy the appropriate # .mc files and change `DOMAIN(generic)' to reference your updated domain # files. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)mathcn.umontreal.ca.m4 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/21/95') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`ns.bitstream.net')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl <...end mydomain.m4...> <...begin next.mc...> divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software # must display the following acknowledgement: # This product includes software developed by the University of # California, Berkeley and its contributors. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors # may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software # without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE # ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE # FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL # DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS # OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) # HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT # LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY # OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF # SUCH DAMAGE. # # # The following is a generic domain file. You should be able to # use it anywhere. If you want to customize it, copy it to a file # named with your domain and make the edits; then, copy the appropriate # .mc files and change `DOMAIN(generic)' to reference your updated domain # files. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)mathcn.umontreal.ca.m4 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/21/95') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`ns.bitstream.net')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl <...end next.mc...> All of these are altered as per the instructions of Francois Magnan in the readme.rtfd enlosed with his set of sendmail config files. They were then copied/installed to their respective locations with the inst_sendmail executable included with these docs. As per your suggestions I tried the following userdb files, with no result: <---> root:mailname cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net root:fullname Chris Jensen cejensen:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net cejensen:maildrop cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net cejensen:fullname Chris Jensen me:mailname cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net me:fullname Chris Jensen <---> root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net root:fullname Chris Jensen me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:fullname Chris Jensen <---> Ultimately, what I want is for mail sent from both accounts on my machine (root and me), to have Chris Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> in preferably both the From: and Sender: headers. > > exposed, even though you are masquerading as bitstream.net via > > MASQUERADE_AS(...). What about MASQUERADE_AS? As you can see from the files above, as far as I know I am not masquerading as anyone! :-) How do I do this? Is this the answer to my problem? Many thanks for your help, and I look forward to hearing from you! --Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:10:54 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2905972110540001@slip-76-14.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5mkfqd$sec$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <5mkfqd$sec$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) wrote: >CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 >Original issue date: May 29, 1997 >Last revised: --- > >Topic: ftpd Signal Handling Vulnerability > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >More to the point, why isn't Apple/NeXT taking a pro-active role in >responding to security concerns raised by CERT? This isn't even a *new* hole. CERT is just reprinting an old AusCERT advisory: The text of this advisory was originally released by AUSCERT as AA-97.03 ftpd Signal Handling Vulnerability on January 29, 1997, and updated on April 18, 1997. . . . So Apple/NeXT has had months to mull the matter over. >There's no mention of >NextStep/OpenStep anywhere in the advisory, and judging by the number of BSD >variants that are affected, I'd guess that NS is too. Almost every ftpd *is* vulnerable (according to the BugTraq discussions from way back when). It's a sure bet that NS's ftpd is vulnerable too. Have fun compiling a replacement! Jacques Distler
From: Kausik Sarkar <sarkar@venus.me.jhu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netmanagement Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:17:28 -0500 Organization: UIUC Message-ID: <338E46C8.1AD5@venus.me.jhu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I am a new one in the group. I inherited a NeXT machine and trying to bring it back to life. The problem I have is regarding net communication. I wanted to change the assigned IP address of the machine as the computer network has been recently remodelled. Anyway because I could not do that I copied /hostconfig and /netinfo from /usr/template. That allowed me to start the local .. from User manager. Now I do not see how to assign gateway and DNS. There is one entry called "router" ---I set it to the correct gateway. But after that booting is not working properly. Kausik Sarkar
From: arzt@isc.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Alternate "from" address in NeXTMail? Date: 30 May 1997 03:42:42 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5mlibi$ap0@netnews.upenn.edu> Folks, Any way for an individual user of NeXTMail 3.3 to configure for an alternate outbound address ("from", not "reply-to") for mail? I know how to change it system-wide in the sendmail.cf file, but many desktop mail clients allow users to fudge the outbound address. I don't see how to do it under NeXTmail. Thanks in advance. Please respond via email. -- Dr. Noam H. Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice) University of Pennsylvania 215/898-9348 (FAX) Executive Director, Administration, Info Systems & Information Technology Architecture, Computing (ISC) and Network Services Research Associate/Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba configuration for use of files on NeXT Date: 30 May 1997 03:53:01 GMT Message-ID: <19970530035300.XAA08944@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com I currently have a one-line samba.conf ([homes] writable = yes or some such--copied it out of a Byte magazine article) and I'm having difficulties using the files on my NeXT with NeXTStep programs. Does anyone have any suggestions/examples on what I should add to my conf to make this usage more transparent? Thanks! William William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
From: Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,roadrunner.help Subject: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Date: 30 May 1997 03:58:15 GMT Organization: Road Runner Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure it for use with an ethernet card. I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem service. My UNIX sysadmin skills are very weak. Is there a FAQ for this kind of thing? Thanks, -Tony Graham
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From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 30 May 1997 05:52:38 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net Chris, Now that you've posted your config files, I have a pretty good idea of why your "From:" header doesn't work: * Your mydomain.m4 is _exactly_ the same as your next.mc, did you cut and paste the wrong next.mc? * Your domain is misconfigured: Your real domain: bitstream.net As configured: ns.bitstream.net That's what has been causing all mails sent out from ganesh to look like they are from ns.bitstream.net. To check this out, after you've dialed in, run this in Termial.app nslookup `netstat -rn|grep ppp0|grep -v default|awk '{print $2}'` If it comes back with a host name like ppp102.bitstream.net, then your FQDN (fully qualified domain name) is ganesh.bitstream.net. (I'm assuming you're on a dynamic IP PPP dialup.) Make the appropriate changes to NetInfo following the Sendmail config instructions. * Are you using sendmail.cw file? If not, you should. (See below) There're some other things you might want to fix, but there're not directly related to your current sendmail problem. I've put them at the very end of the post. Instead of going through your config files line by line, let me write a set of sendmail config files for you from all the info you've given so far. I've left out the divert(-1) etc, since they're not necessary. You can put in those boilerplates later on. Your config files should look like these: (Note: throw away the comments when you paste the following files, they are meant for humans only and might screw up m4 macro processor) # File: next.mc # OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl DOMAIN(mydomain)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) # End of next.mc # File: mydomain.m4 # define(`ALIAS_FILE', netinfo:members@/aliases)dnl ifdef(`HELP_FILE',`define(`HELP_FILE', /usr/lib/sendmail.hf)')dnl define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`bitstream.net')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl # End of mydomain.m4 # File: sendmail.cw # bitstream bitstream.net # End of sendmail.cw # File: userdb # root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net root:maildrop root@ganesh.bitstream.net root:fullname Chris Jensen me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:maildrop me@ganesh.bitstream.net me:fullname Chris Jensen # End of userdb # File: aliases # Put these in your aliases file as appropriate. I've left out all # the comments and examples in the default aliases Postmaster: root MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster MAILER-AGENT: postmaster nobody: /dev/null root: me news: me usenet: me # End of aliases That's it. And don't forget to modify the FQDN in NetInfo. There're several other things you might want to consider: * mail to 'root' and any other account on ganesh should be delivered locally, i.e., to root@ganesh, to ensure that, put this line in your next.mc file: FEATURE(stickyhost) * I strongly recommend that you setup a 'cejensen' account on ganesh, because using 'root' as your regular account is considered unsafe and 'me' is a big security hole. 'me' should be deleted as soon as possible. * Consider installing tcpwrapper package once you're done with sendmail configuration. It protects you from most of the casual attacks from crackers. (If you decides to use 'root' or 'me' as your regular account, then please at least install tcpwrapper to give yourself some protection.) You can find the latest tcpwrapper package on peak or peanuts. Let me know how it goes. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: Re: NFS-Automounting from WIN NT (Hummingbird NFS) Message-ID: <EAzIAL.4sF@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <EAxxCy.683@nidat.sub.org> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 08:01:32 GMT Hello, > > Hello, > > > > I am currently evaluting the Hummingbird NFS Server for > > Win NT4.0 on our NT Server. I am in need to export some > > drives from NT to our NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Machines via NFS. > > > > I have exported the drives in netinfo domain / with > > bg,net,timeo=6 option to /Net. > > > > With 4.1 and up there is no problem with automounting > > them. With 3.3 (half of our machines) I can not automount > > that drives. It is just not working. No error nothing. > > > > Just a few seconds of spinning mousecursor. But I can > > do a 'mount -t nfs ntserver:/d/test /test' on 3.3. > > What is not working is automounting... > > > > My NFS setup is correct. Mounting by hand works > > every time on every version of the operationg > > system I have handy. > > > Is this the good old block size problem? > > NS 3.x used to have this problem since it only implements NFS v1. All NFS > v2 systems sent blocks too large to fit into NEXTSTEP's buffers (used to > be the case for Solaris servers). It used to go away if the server was > explicitly told to use smaller blocks. I don't remember the exact syntax > but it is described in the FAQ and/or Usenet archive on Peanuts. I even have tried this befor my posting and limited the blocksize to 1024. I didn't helped. If it would be the read/writesize problem I would have got a readdir failure in the console. But there is nothing. Unfortunately. Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Developer, SysAdmin Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: wgriffit@neo.lrun.com.nospam (William Griffith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,roadrunner.help Subject: Re: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Followup-To: alt.test,alt.binaries.test Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:10:58 GMT Organization: Meep Meep Message-ID: <3393d1a2.60920619@news-server> References: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 30 May 1997 03:58:15 GMT, Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> wrote: >I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure it >for use with an ethernet card. > >I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem >service. > >My UNIX sysadmin skills are very weak. Is there a FAQ for this kind of >thing? > >Thanks, >-Tony Graham Please refrain from cross posting to roadrunner.help Thank You William
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Root and .cshrc..... Date: 30 May 1997 14:39:21 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Ok, I should be able to solve this problem, but I can't seem to. When I "su", the .cshrc file for root doesn't seem to be acknowledged and I end up with this really helpful prompt: "#". This is a new phenomenon on my Intel system that I didn't encounter on black or HP. I'm running NS 3.3 The .cshrc file is in "/" I've tried putting: "source /.cshrc" in both .profile and .login and still it doesn't work. As you know because you're read this far, I'm a neophyte. Any suggestions as to what I need to do? Thanks much - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://www.haveman.org/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@haveman.org Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: "Kurt Ramsden" <ramsden@mscd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Client cannot find NeXT server Date: 30 May 1997 17:01:13 GMT Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver Message-ID: <01bc6d1b$05df34f0$17719993@ramsden> I am new to NeXTStation networking. I am trying to connect a client to a network with the server on a different router. Unfortunately, it is not finding the server. Is there a protocol that needs to be turned on for the router on the servers end? Any information on a solution would be greatly thanked, Kurt Ramsden ramsden@mscd.edu
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 30 May 1997 13:17:48 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mmk1s$j2m@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes: > BTW, I now have "Shutdown Graphics = No", but it doesn't work. Can > anyone confirm that it Does/Doesn't work? OK, I'll confirm it myself. It does indeed work, but only the NEXT time you boot up and shutdown. Sorry for the confusion. -- 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Date: 30 May 1997 13:19:45 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mmk5h$j2p@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> In article <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> writes: > I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure it > for use with an ethernet card. > I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem > service. As far as I know, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep uses bootp, and NOT DHCP. If it IS possible, I'd bet it is not trivial. Good luck. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CHAP authentication using PPP Date: 30 May 1997 20:42:48 GMT Organization: BCTEL Advanced Communications Message-ID: <5mne48$b0e$1@news.bctel.net> Keywords: CHAP, PPP, authenticate Trying to have my unix mahcine (NeXTStep) dial into my NT Server machine using PPP. I find they negotiate on all parameters except the authenication being used. I have tried both CHAP and PAP and I cannot get them to work. Is there either a way of disabling authentication all together on NT or what is NT expecting as a part of the CHAP authentication. From NT I get an auth chap 80 as a configuration request from but can't seem to configure my Next machine to match this. Thanks in advance. -- James Ford <james@instep.bc.ca> <604-872-7116> System Support, InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From: Kurt Neumann <kneuman1@san.rr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,roadrunner.help Subject: Re: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:55:52 -0700 Organization: Road Runner Message-ID: <338F5AF8.7EEE35E1@san.rr.com> References: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> I have been using NS 3.3 / 4.0 for quite a while. There is no FAQ for NeXT Road Runner, but many for getting ISDN and dialup connections going. Initially your host manager local config should have : Netinfo : Use local domain only Readable only by local net Hostname : autoconfigure NIS domain name : none Internet Address : Autoconfigure Broadcast Address : default Time Standard : Ignore Network Time Netmask : Automatic Router : Dynamic Following this, simply compile the freely available client for BSD. If don't have the NS compiler, I might be able to give something. Thats the description in a nutshell. Try getting the ip config working first. You should be able to ping addresses like 204.210.2.254. Then compile the client. If you have any questions drop me a line, I always like helping with NeXT configs. :) > I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure > it > for use with an ethernet card. > > I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem > > service. > > My UNIX sysadmin skills are very weak. Is there a FAQ for this kind of > > thing? > > Thanks, > -Tony Graham
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems installing Openstep on wide scsi Date: 30 May 1997 22:53:44 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mnlpo$l5t@news.acns.nwu.edu> Ok everyone, I think I've resolved some of the newbie questions I had earlier relating to using a wide SCSI disk. Now I have real problems. Here's my system Micron Pentium Pro with 64Mb, and one CPU with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller. On the SCSI controller I have 2 SCSI devices, a ST34501W Seagate ST34501W Cheetah 4.3Gb WIDE SCSI Hard Drive and a Plexor 12x CDROM. Now my problem I start the installation proceedure select the appropriate disk controller and I select to set asside 2.3Gb for DOS. After which the system IS SUPPOSED TO (but doesn't) partition the drive and format it for Openstep. I get an error something like: Can not initialize hard drive, rebooting, this may take a minute. (The above is a paraphrase since I'm working from memory, which is failing daily) So I figure, maybe I've got some small problem with the disk, so I low level format it using the SCSI controller bios and try the install again. Again I get the same message. Has anyone got any clue what the problem is? Does Openstep support Wide SCSI as a bootable drive? Is the problem the rotational speed of the disk (10k rpm) or some other disktab type entrie? Please email/post ASAP I can't live without my machine! David A Johnson At Home......
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 31 May 1997 01:41:31 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> In-Reply-To: <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> On 05/29/97, Yi Liu wrote: > * Your mydomain.m4 is _exactly_ the same as your next.mc, did you cut > and paste the wrong next.mc? Probably. I've now changed that file as you instructed. If all went well, the headers on this post should be correct... Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Apache SSL -- SmartSoft?? Date: 31 May 1997 08:41:09 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5moo75$5nb$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5mk964$3u1@news.dialisdn.net> arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) wrote: >... >Alternately, does anyone know of an ssl server that will run >on NeXT (other then the $24,999 WebObjects)? >... >David Geller >arpad@hotspice.com Will SSL v2 be sufficient? If so, there are publicly available patches for Apache. Last time I tried, it worked fine with 1.1.3. You should find a link to a UK site from the Apache site. If you still need the URL, let me know. I've seen similar patches for NCSA and CERN as well. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ergo@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Subject: Re: Root and .cshrc..... Message-ID: <EB0q10.KFF@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Sender: news@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Organization: none References: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 23:46:12 GMT jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) wrote: > Ok, I should be able to solve this problem, but I can't seem to. > > When I "su", the .cshrc file for root doesn't seem to be acknowledged and I end > up with this really helpful prompt: "#". This is a new phenomenon on my Intel > system that I didn't encounter on black or HP. > > I'm running NS 3.3 > > The .cshrc file is in "/" > > I've tried putting: "source /.cshrc" in both .profile and .login and still it > doesn't work. Did you treat the root-account with the UserManager ? Sometimes it changes the homedirectory to /root. One can change it back using NetinfoManager. Greetings Olaf -- Olaf Foellinger homepage: http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ergo/ NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 31 May 1997 03:48:22 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mo726$97v$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> On 05/30/97, Operator wrote: >If all went well, the headers on this post should be correct... All did not go well. Mail is now not going out at all! Console is reporting the following error: May 30 22:38:57 ganesh sendmail[240]: WAA00238: SYSERR(root): mail.bitstream.net config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Please help! What's wrong? Inbound mail is still coming in. >Chris Jensen >cejensen@bitstream.net > >
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 31 May 1997 05:52:38 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5moeb6$c12$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <5mo726$97v$1@maryj.bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5mo726$97v$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Hello, Yi Liu-- You wrote: > * Your mydomain.m4 is _exactly_ the same as your next.mc, did you > cut and paste the wrong next.mc? I believe I did. Sorry. My current one is below. > > * Your domain is misconfigured: > > Your real domain: bitstream.net > As configured: ns.bitstream.net > > That's what has been causing all mails sent out from ganesh to look > like they are from ns.bitstream.net. > > To check this out, after you've dialed in, run this in Termial.app > > nslookup `netstat -rn|grep ppp0|grep -v default|awk 'print $2'` > > If it comes back with a host name like ppp102.bitstream.net, then > your FQDN (fully qualified domain name) is > ganesh.bitstream.net. > (I'm assuming you're on a dynamic IP PPP dialup.) You're right: The result of the above command while connected was: port166.bitstream.net > Make the appropriate changes to NetInfo following the Sendmail > config instructions. When I did this, however, my Sendmail ceased to function! When I attempted to send mail, the collowing console error occurred: May 30 21:56:24 ganesh sendmail[237]: VAA00235: SYSERR(root): mail.bitstream.net config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) So I had to revert to the following in NetInfo: /machines/ganesh/name/[value]ganesh/[value]ganesh.ns.bitstream.net I had originally created machines/ganesh in NetInfo by duplicating and editing /machines/localhost. When I shortened ganesh.ns.bitstream.net to ganesh.bitstream.net, I merely edited /machines/ganesh. Was this wise? Should I have deleted /machines/ganesh and reduplicated localhost i.e. started over? Or would this not make any difference? > * Are you using sendmail.cw file? If not, you should. (See below) Yes. > Your config files should look like these: I edited everything exactly as you specified, and got the error above. I then reverted to the old, incorrect files (that at least got mail out!). Just so we know how the files stand right now, here they are at the moment, again sending mail, but with the incorrect headers: ####/etc/sendmail.cf (sans comments, etc)#### Cwlocalhost # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email Fw/etc/sendmail.cw # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain Djns.bitstream.net CP. # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DSrelay:mail.bitstream.net # place to which unknown users should be forwarded Kuser user -m -a<> DLrelay:mail.bitstream.net.CA ####/etc/sendmail.cw#### ns ns.bitstream.net ####/etc/sendmail/cf/cf/next.mc#### VERSIONID(`@(#)nextstandalone.mc 8.4 (Montreal) 25/2/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl define(`ALIAS_FILE', netinfo:members@/aliases)dnl ifdef(`HELP_FILE',`define(`HELP_FILE', /usr/lib/sendmail.hf)')dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file) FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) DOMAIN(mydomain)dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl ####/etc/sendmail/userdb#### root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net ####/etc/resolv.conf#### domain bitstream.net nameserver 204.73.77.77 ####/etc/sendmail/aliases#### # @(#)aliases 0.8 88/10/31 NeXT ## # Aliases can have any mix of upper and lower case on the left-hand side, # but the right-hand side should be proper case (usually lower) # # >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" will need to be run after # >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to # >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail. # ## # Following alias is required by the mail protocol, RFC 822 # Set it to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this system's mail problems. Postmaster: root # Alias for mailer daemon; returned messages from our MAILER-DAEMON # should be routed to our local Postmaster. MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster MAILER-AGENT: postmaster # Aliases to handle mail to programs or files, eg news or vacation # decode: "|/usr/bin/uudecode" nobody: /dev/null # Sample aliases: # Alias for distribution list, members specified here: #staff:wnj,mosher,sam,ecc,mckusick,sklower,olson,rwh@ernie # Alias for distribution list, members specified elsewhere: #keyboards: :include:/usr/jfarrell/keyboards.list # Alias for a person, so they can receive mail by several names: #epa:eric ####################### # Local aliases below # ####################### ####end of config files#### When I got the error, and realized no mail was getting out, I decided to go back to the last configuration that was at least sending mail, even if that configuration had errors in it. I may have not needed to revert every file, but felt it was the safest route. In addtion, in the Mail.app expert preferences, I have tried adding a From key, with the value "Chris Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net". As far as I can tell, this is having no effect whatsoever. This information does not appear in the mail headers when it is received (I send test messages to my CompuServe acct. on my Windows PC). Do you have any idea what went wrong? Suggestions for a fix? FYI: My ISP is Bitstream Underground, their Domain Name Server is ns.bitstream.net, their domain name is bitstream.net, DNS IP is 204.73.77.77,and router or gateway address is 204.73.77.254. Many humble thanks for your continued help! ************************************************************ Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
From: NoboruYamada <danbo@tcp-ip.or.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wanted! Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:08:19 +0900 Organization: =?iso-2022-jp?B?TUFDGyRCJCpKdTRVRGpDRBsoSg==?= Message-ID: <338F7A02.2E06@tcp-ip.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wanted! I personally manage news web site of Macintosh in Japan. I want your topics, such as trouble shooting at software and hardware, leak of beta software and Apple, and any. I am looking forward to your information! Regards, Mac Treasure Tracing Club http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~danbo/ DANBO danbo@tcp-ip.or.jp
From: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400 Organization: Center for Neural Science, NYU Message-ID: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I installed NS4.1/Mach and set aside a DOS partition on which I want to install Windows-95. However, when I boot with the Win-95 startup diskette it wants to format my entire disk... How do I install Win-95 on the DOS partition? Thanks... -- Dario Ringach | office: (212) 998-7614 lab: (212) 998-7613 Center for Neural Science | home: (212) 727-9346 fax: (212) 995-4011 4 Washington Place, Rm 809 | New York University | e-mail: dario@cns.nyu.edu New York, NY 10003 | http://www.cns.nyu.edu/home/dario
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: configure a network-printer Message-ID: <EB1JH9.762@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5mjlkn$s8g$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:22:20 GMT In article <5mjlkn$s8g$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) writes: > Hello all! > > I'm a starter in administrating NEXTSTEP and I now hav the problem to > configure a network printer. > > I used the PrintManager to install a new one. How can I deny a group of > users to use this printer. > You can't, it is either private, i.e. local to a machine and open to all the users of this machine, or public and, therefore, open to every machine in the NetInfo domain they belong to. So either you choose your NetInfo domains in a way only those machines accessible to the right people belong to the domain the printer is known to, or you resort to nasty hacks about write access to the spool file which will lead to ugly error messages if you don't have a right to write. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Client cannot find NeXT server Message-ID: <EB1u83.7nH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc6d1b$05df34f0$17719993@ramsden> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 14:14:27 GMT In article <01bc6d1b$05df34f0$17719993@ramsden> "Kurt Ramsden" <ramsden@mscd.edu> writes: > > I am new to NeXTStation networking. I am trying to connect a client to > a network with the server on a different router. Unfortunately, it is > not finding the server. Is there a protocol that needs to be turned on > for the router on the servers end? > Reposting a contribution of Marc Majka on exactly this problem. There is no more compent and exaustive answer on this matter, IMHO! ---------------------------------------------- From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo between different subnets Date: 1 Jul 1994 17:30:52 GMT Organization: NeXT, Inc. Lines: 310 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2v1jsc$46c@rosie.next.com> References: <2v08sh$hec@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: grep.next.com Todd Takken writes > How do I have a client NeXT computer bind to a netinfo server in another > internet subnet? This is a question that gets to the heart of NetInfo configuration. Here's a long reply that covers most of the details. If you want to know everything there is to be known about NetInfo configuration and NetInfo internals, see the Summer 1993 issue of NEXTSTEP IN FOCUS. It's available from NeXTanswers. First of all, a quick review of terms: A "domain" is a collection of NetInfo server processes that all have a copy of the same database. One of these servers is called the "master" of the domain, and it holds the "master" copy. The remaining server processes in the domain are "clones". The master is responsible for maintaining database consistency within the domain. Within the database that's shared by all the server processes for a domain is a list of computers (the contents of the /machines directory). If a computer has a NetInfo server process for this domain, then a record of that fact is kept in the"serves" property for that computer. A value for the serves property will be "./<tag>", where "tag" is a somewhat-arbitrary name that identifies a particular NetInfo server from the potentially large number of NetInfo database server processes that may be running on that computer. To say all that again from a slightly different perspective, the database for a domain records the location (computer's name and Internet address) and tag of every server for that domain. Any computer that hosts a server for the domain will be included in /machines, and will have a value "./<tag>" for its "serves" property. For example, say the domain has a master server process running on the computer named "alcor", and that the database on "alcor" has the tag "super" (i.e. in the file viewer, you'll find the database in the directory /etc/netinfo/super.nidb). Lets say there's a clone copy of the database on the computer named "mizar", and that it's tag there is also "super". In the domain's database, then, you'll find this entry for /machines/alcor: name: alcor ip_address: 192.42.172.12 serves: ./super And there will be an entry for /machines/mizar: name: mizar ip_address: 129.18.33.74 serves: ./super The master and its clones carry on a little dialogue from time to time to make sure that their copies of the database remain synchronized. As long as the Internet addresses are correct, it doesn't matter what subnets they are on. All that is important is that they can communicate with one-another to maintain database synchronization. A NetInfo domain may be related to other NetInfo domains in a tree-structured hierarchy. The database for each domain records the location (computer's name and IP address), tag, and "domain name" of all the server processes of it's child domains. If a computer, say "polaris", runs a NetInfo server (say with the tag "network") for the child domain that you've named "graphics", then the parent domain's database will contain an entry for /machines/polaris that looks like: name: polaris ip_address: 129.18.2.7 serves: graphics/network That is, a parent domain identifies a server for a child domain by attaching a value of the form "<child_domain_name>/<tag>" to the record for the computer which hosts that child server process. If the computer "deneb" also has a server for the "graphics" domain, and its copy of the "graphics" domain database also has the tag "network", then the parent domain will also have an entry for /machines/deneb: name: deneb ip_address: 192.42.172.147 serves: graphics/network As long as the Internet addresses of the child servers are correct, then there's no problem finding a server for the child domain named "graphics" (relative to the current domain). In this example you have a choice: you can contact the server process named "netinfod network" running on the computer named "alcor", or the server process named "netinfod network" running on the computer named "mizar". Since they each have a copy of the same database, it doesn't really matter much which one you contact. Notice again that it doesn't matter what the Internet addresses of the computers are (as long as they're correct!), so the servers for a child domain can be on many different subnets. Let me make a brief aside into the UNIX filesystem for a moment. Like NetInfo domains, the UNIX filesystem has a hierarchical structure. A "node" in the UNIX filesystem hierarchy (called a "directory") contains a list of the names and file numbers ("i-node numbers" if you want to get technical) of all its children. You can see this if you use the UNIX "ls -i" command. For example: myhost> ls -i 48975 .NeXT/ 47887 .logout 51143 Library/ 47881 .commanddict 47885 .mailrc 54404 Mailboxes/ 47953 .cshrc 47888 .pipedict 48044 meeting_notes 47883 .indent.pro 47886 .plan 48043 mydata 47884 .index.store 47889 .profile 47882 .login 50063 Apps/ So what? you might say. My point is that, like NetInfo, the UNIX filesystem creates a hierarchy by maintaining, in each "node", a list of the symbolic names of the "children" of that node, and some internal addressing information that specifies exactly where that child is to be found. For example, if you give the shell command: myhost> cd Library it looks up the name "Library" in the current "node" and finds that "Library" is really i-node number 51143 in the filesystem. At that point, you've switched your attention to a new "node" (number 51143), which contains still more names and i-node numbers. This is exactly what happens in NetInfo: If, for example, you are inspecting your NetInfo domain hierarchy using NetInfoManager, and you decide to open a connection to the domain "/graphics". Assuming that NetInfoManager already has a connection to the "/" domain (I'll return to this point), then all it needs to do is look through the computers listed in /machines in the "/" domain and find all the "serves" properties that look like "graphics/<tag>". Doing so, it constructs a list of the IP address and tag of all the servers for the "/graphics" domain, and establishes a connection to the first one on the list that if finds actually running. By having the complete list, the NetInfo software can also switch to a different server for the "/graphics" domain at any time. For example, if it connected to "netinfod network" on deneb, but deneb crashes, then the NetInfo software will switch to "netinfod network" on polaris as soon as it gets a timeout. It can do all this without a blink, and you will only notice a short delay (the default is 5 seconds for the timeout, but each client can adjust its own timeout independently). One more point to make: not only do parent domains keep a list of the addresses, tags, and domain names of their children, but child domains know the addresses and tags of server processes for their parent domain. Let me make a quick return to my comparison of NetInfo domains to "nodes" in the UNIX filesystem. If you are working in a UNIX shell and issue the command: myhost> cd .. you are telling the software to move you up to the parent directory of the current directory. How does the filesystem find the parent directory? It turns out that each directory contains not only a list of its children, but it contains the i-node number of its parent as well: myhost> ls -ai 47880 ./ 47884 .index.store 47889 .profile 10379 ../ 47882 .login 50063 Apps/ 48975 .NeXT/ 47887 .logout 51143 Library/ 47881 .commanddict 47885 .mailrc 54404 Mailboxes/ 47953 .cshrc 47888 .pipedict 48044 meeting_notes 47883 .indent.pro 47886 .plan 48043 mydata Aha! There's an entry for ".." - it's i-node number 10379. Thus ".." is really just a name that means "parent directory", and the shell can use this name to move up in the directory hierarchy. Back to NetInfo: It turns out that we use the name ".." to mean "parent" in NetInfo too. If you're looking around in the "/graphics" domain, you'll find an entry for the computer polaris: name: alcor ip_address: 192.42.172.12 serves: ../super That is to say: if you want to contact a NetInfo server for the parent ("..") of this domain, you can contact "netinfod super" at alcor. You may find other entries for servers for the parent domain, in the example I've been using, you'll probably find: name: mizar ip_address: 129.18.33.74 serves: ../super in the "/graphics" domain as well. When a process that accesses NetInfo (a NetInfo client process) needs to access the parent domain of a domain to which it already has a connection, it asks the server for the child for the address and tag of any one of the servers for its parent domain (in NetInfo terminology, this is called an "rparent" request by the client). Before the child server gives back a reply to the "rparent" request, it checks two things: First, it checks if it actually *has* any parents. A server for the top-level domain in the hierarchy won't have any computers listed with "../<tag>" values. If it has no parents, it must be a server for the top-level ("root") domain. In that case it replies to the "rparent" request with the information that it is a server for the root domain. Second, if it isn't a server for the root domain, it checks to see if it has ever been in contact with one of the servers for its parent domain. If it hasn't, it sends a request of its own to all of the parent servers listed in it's database. NetInfo calls this a "bind" request. At the other end, a server that receives a "bind" request checks to see if the sender is really one of its children. If so, it sends back a reply. (We'll see later why its important that a server that receives a "bind" request will only reply if the sender is listed as a child). If, on the other hand, a server that gets an "rparent" request has already been in contact with a parent (i.e. it has already sent a "bind" request and received a response from some server for its parent domain), then it only probes to see if the parent is still running. If it is, then it gives the NetInfo client (the one that sent it the "rparent" request) the address and tag of its parent server. If the parent isn't running, the child goes through its "bind" procedure all over again to find another running parent, and then gives that new parent's address and tag as a reply to the "rparent" request. We see from the paragraph above, that anytime a client process (for example, NetInfoManager) needs to climb up the NetInfo domain hierarchy, it can ask a server at each step for the address and tag of its parent. This may result, behind the scenes, in making that server bind or re-bind to a parent, but the NetInfo client doesn't really care what goes on behind the scenes. All it cares is that it gets back the address and tag of a server for the parent domain, and that the address and tag are for a server that's actually running at the moment. The client, upon connecting to that server for the first time, collects the addresses and tags of all the servers for that domain (the master and all its clones: anything with a serves property like "./<tag>"), so that it can re-connect to a new server if its current connection times out. One last thing about clients: How do they know how to start climbing the hierarchy at all? They always start with the server named "netinfod local" running on the same computer that they are on. The tag "local" is reserved for the bottom-level of the domain hierarchy. There's a curious thing about children: They often want a parent, but they don't really care which parent they get. A frightened child will broadcast a request for a parent, and it will be happy as soon as any of its parent replies to its broadcast. The same may be true of NetInfo: it can be configured so that child servers send a broadcast request for a parent server when they bind. How? Look in one of your local domains. You'll find an entry for /machines/broadcasthost: name: broadcasthost ip_address: 255.255.255.255 serves: ../network This means that when a "netinfod local" server tries to bind to a parent, it will broadcast a bind request to "netinfod network". It is extremely important to note that (1) you should *never* change this address, and that (2) the "netinfod local" server isn't *restricted* to sending a bind request to the broadcast address. As I mentioned above, a child looks for ALL "serves ../<tag>" properties, and sends a bind request to ALL of them. It may be that ONE of the bind requests it sends is directed to the address 255.255.255.255, which means something special to the Internet protocol (IP) software on your computer: it means "this message is addressed to every computer on the local area network". The astute reader will have noticed that this is the first and only time that I've said that any NetInfo communication is related in any manner to the network topology. We ship NetInfo so that the only parent that the "local" servers have in their database are the one shown above: "network" at 255.255.255.255. If you want the local domain of a computer on one subnet to be able to bind to a parent server running on a computer on another subnet, then all you need to do is to tell the child how to contact that parent. If, for example, you want the local domain to be able to bind to "network" at polaris, then all you need do is add /machines/polaris to the local domain: name: polaris ip_address: 129.18.2.7 serves: ../network The reasons that we ship NetInfo with only the "broadcasthost" parent in the local domain are: (1) we don't know the addresses and names of your computers when we put a /etc/netinfo/local.nidb on your NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. (2) in most cases, there will be a parent or two on the local subnet, so sending out a broadcast bind request is sufficient to find at least one running parent. This means less work for you, the system administrator, since you don't need to edit each and every one of your local NetInfo databases when you set up your NEXTSTEP network Since for the most part, local domains do rely exclusively on broadcast to find a parent, we recommend that, after you've established the first NEXTSTEP system on a new subnet, you make a clone of the parent domain on that computer. That way, you won't have to edit the local database on any other computers you add to that subnet, since they'll contact the new clone when they broadcast. In fact, we recommend that you have at least two servers per subnet for any domain that relies on broadcast. Why two? So that if one is down, the other will still be available to answer broadcast bind requests. One final comment on broadcast binding: we now see why it's important that parents only reply to bind request from their own children. There may be many servers on a single network that all have the tag "network", but grouped into a few separate domains. A "netinfod local" that sends a broadcast bind request may get the attention of some "netinfod network" servers that are not servers for THAT local domain's parent domain. Since the recipients won't have a "serves <childname>/local" value for the sender, they will ignore the bind request, so the child will only receive replies from real parents. -- Marc Majka NeXT Computer -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: "John E. Ray" <jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [HELP] Problems with installation hang on OS 4.0, Intel Date: 31 May 97 14:02:17 -0400 Organization: NetSet Internet Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <AFB5DFED-302D4@128.128.128.127> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.netset.com/comp.sys.next.sysadmin I'm having a bit of a problem installing OpenStep 4.0 on a Pentium IDE system. The installation disks work fine, the CD-ROM is recognized, everything progresses normally up to the point where it should be prompting me to set up a partition on my drive. I get the "NeXT Mach OS" screen, it registers the ATAPI CD-ROM, then the hard drive. The last three messages I get are : "root on sd0", "rootdev 600, howto 0", and "Power Management is enabled." Then the machine just stops. I've disabled power management, and the same thing happens (minus the "Power Management enabled" message). It doesn't completely freeze the machine, because *sometimes* I can type into the window, and everytime I can hit ALT-CLEAR and reboot or halt the machine. I've also tried the latest EIDE/ATAPI drivers, to no avail. Any thoughts or suggestions? I'm not sure what it *should* be doing at this point, so I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Ray, System Dev/Eng. "You hack code in your sleep, dreaming Communications & Technology, OSUE in Perl and Java..." -- Redhat Ad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Supersedes: <12797864532834@digifix.com> Date: 1 Jun 1997 03:57:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26791865137630@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Switching video modes without seeing what your're doing? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 1 Jun 1997 04:56:34 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> Cc: comrade@umich.edu NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN In <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: > > A few times now my monitor has blanked out at certain video modes. Is >there a way to switch resolution/etc. without seeing the desktop? What can >I do to switch without having to reinstall? Boot single-user, then go into /private/Drivers. (Now I'm doing this from memory, so I may be a little off.) Find the proper directory for your video driver, cd to it, and there should be a file called Instance0.table. Open the file up in an editor, and you can directly edit the display resolution and frequency. Exit out of single-user, and you should see it come up in the new resolution. ____________________________________________________________________ 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: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Switching video modes without seeing what your're doing? Date: 1 Jun 1997 06:40:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mr5gs$2qe$1@news.digifix.com> References: <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> On 05/31/97, Leon von Stauber wrote: >NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN > >In <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: >> >> A few times now my monitor has blanked out at certain video modes. Is >>there a way to switch resolution/etc. without seeing the desktop? What can >>I do to switch without having to reinstall? > >Boot single-user, then go into /private/Drivers. (Now I'm doing this from >memory, so I may be a little off.) Find the proper directory for your >video driver, cd to it, and there should be a file called Instance0.table. >Open the file up in an editor, and you can directly edit the display >resolution and frequency. Exit out of single-user, and you should see >it come up in the new resolution. Ack! It would be much easier to at the start up OpenStep prompt type boot=Default and then change the setting of the refresh rate in the Configure.app -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bring up console from command line Date: 1 Jun 1997 15:22:42 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Hi, Is there a way to bring up the console from a term command line? Thanks, Emmett
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Switching video modes without seeing what your're doing? Date: 1 Jun 1997 17:17:12 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5msvto$lus@xmission.xmission.com> References: <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> <5mr5gs$2qe$1@news.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> wrote: : >In <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: : >> : >> A few times now my monitor has blanked out at certain video modes. : Is : >>there a way to switch resolution/etc. without seeing the desktop? : What can : >>I do to switch without having to reinstall? : Ack! It would be much easier to : at the start up OpenStep prompt type : boot=Default : and then change the setting of the refresh rate in the : Configure.app It would be easier if you could change the resolution and refresh rate from the login window. Try http://www.next.com/~svail/MainMenu/Nextstep/sv_nextstep.html for something that will make res switching much easier. Note that this is the personal home page of Scott Vail and doesn't represent the work of NeXT Software / Apple Computer. For the standard disclaimers, check out http://www.next.com/~svail/. ...................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: seeking advice on display adapters for NS 3.3 on Pentium Date: 2 Jun 1997 02:06:31 GMT Message-ID: <19970602020600.WAA13049@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Hello Seeking advice and insight on selecting a high quality display adapter for use with a Pentium ( Triton ) 166 system that is set-up with NS 3.3 - the vendor that is putting the unit together informs us that there are S3 conflicts when using either a Diamond Stealth 64 or a Number Nine Motion 771 with the Triton motherboard - anyone have any suggestions or work-arounds for this type of issue? Many thanks in advance ---- Bob K. -- please reply to my work e-mail bob@monet.dt.navy.mil
From: takis@takis2.ee.net (Panagiotis Velissariou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: ISDN under NS? Date: 2 Jun 1997 04:16:52 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5mthfk$624$2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Cc: brennanh@pacbell.net In <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Brennan Hildebrand wrote: > I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine > running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. > > I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. > Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -brennan > Hi, I thought ISDN devices come with PPP/SLIP and all you have to do is to configure the box to initiate the connections (phone#, username, password, IP adresses, e.t.c). Everything else is taken care through TCP/IP. Here at home I have an ISDM modem (Ascend Pipeline) configured and when I start for example OmniWeb it initiates the connection when I request a document on the Net. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Panagiotis Velissariou _/ _/ The Ohio State University _/ _/ Department of Civil, Graphics & Environmental Engineering _/ _/ E-mail: takis@superior.eng.ohio-state.edu _/ _/ pvelissa@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu _/ _/ takis@takis2.ee.net _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: ISDN under NS? Date: 2 Jun 1997 04:21:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mtho0$s9n$1@news.digifix.com> References: <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> <5mthfk$624$2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5mthfk$624$2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 06/01/97, Panagiotis Velissariou wrote: >In <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Brennan Hildebrand wrote: >> I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine >> running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. >> >> I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. >> Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> -brennan >> > >Hi, > >I thought ISDN devices come with PPP/SLIP and all you have to do >is to configure the box to initiate the connections (phone#, >username, password, IP adresses, e.t.c). Everything else is >taken care through TCP/IP. > >Here at home I have an ISDM modem (Ascend Pipeline) configured and >when I start for example OmniWeb it initiates the connection >when I request a document on the Net. I'm not sure that the Ascend Pipeline qualifies as an ISDN modem as such, since it does connect to the machine via Ethernet, and is basically a router. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: seeking advice on display adapters for NS 3.3 on Pentium Date: 2 Jun 1997 04:22:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mthq7$s9o$1@news.digifix.com> References: <19970602020600.WAA13049@ladder02.news.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <19970602020600.WAA13049@ladder02.news.aol.com> On 06/01/97, Rkurhajetz wrote: >Hello > >Seeking advice and insight on selecting a high quality display adapter for >use with a Pentium ( Triton ) 166 system that is set-up with NS 3.3 - the >vendor that is putting the unit together informs us that there are S3 >conflicts when using either a Diamond Stealth 64 or a Number Nine Motion >771 with the Triton motherboard - anyone have any suggestions or >work-arounds for this type of issue? Many thanks in advance ---- > Bob K. > My personal preference for video under NS is the Matrox Millenium... I've had excellent success using those under 3.3 and up.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Root and .cshrc..... Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:14:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970601201250.29515G-100000@kira> References: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: jon@haveman.org In-Reply-To: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Is root's shell set to /bin/csh? What does the .cshrc file have in it? If you copy it to another user's home dir does it work there? Check root's $HOME in UserManager and make sure it isn't /root Just a couple thoughts.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:17:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970601201629.29515H-100000@kira> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> In-Reply-To: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > command line? I have no idea what you mean 'bring up the console' if you want to see the console.log, try 'cat /tmp/console.log' TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 22:12:38 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Message-ID: <5mlgj6$6s1@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >Don't worry, keep typing... it happened to me too. > >As soon as you type the name for the entry, it gets alphabetized >IMMEDIATELY, putting it near the bottom, and, of course, putting APM first >again. Leave the expert panel, and come back, and you'll see your new >entry is indeed there. > >BTW, I now have "Shutdown Graphics = No", but it doesn't work. Can anyone >confirm that it Does/Doesn't work? actualoly, what happened to me at first was i mistyped it. but then i typed it correctly, but didn't hit enter afterwards instead i just used the mouse to click on the value column and it reverted the setting to APM. anyway.. i got it now on my machine, and i can confirm that it works i tried the power off button that appears when i log out and both the reboot and power off buttons on the login window. yay!! no more crashes during shutdown. anyway. just out of curiosity, has anyone else experienced the same lockups during shutdown? andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NSF mount from SunOS 4.1.4 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 10:52:22 -0400 Organization: Center for Neural Science, NYU Message-ID: <3392DE25.167E@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have OpenStep 4.0 / Mach for Intel. I can mount files from other machines running NS 3.2 / Intel and from SGI machines running IRIX 5.3/6.2 but fail to mount from a Sun server running SunOS Release 4.1.4 when using the NFS manager... However, when I try to mount it by hand from a terminal by doing: % mount myserver:/u/u2 mounthere/ It works. Any ideas? Thanks... -- Dario Ringach | office: (212) 998-7614 lab: (212) 998-7613 Center for Neural Science | home: (212) 727-9346 fax: (212) 995-4011 4 Washington Place, Rm 809 | New York University | e-mail: dario@cns.nyu.edu New York, NY 10003 | http://www.cns.nyu.edu/home/dario
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: 3 Jun 1997 01:24:00 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > command line? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. However, if I were to guess at what you mean, the answer would be "No". The second part of the answer would be "there is no need to". (unless you're talking about the NMI monitor, or the bootup monitor, in which case there might be a need to, but there still is no way to get to it from a unix command-line). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Lusty Wench <lusty@lusty.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what do I do with these core files? Date: 2 Jun 1997 19:24:01 -0700 Organization: What's that? Message-ID: <5mvv81$cg9@idiom.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira>, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >I seem to have crashed lookupd a couple times, producing two 7+ meg 'core' >files.... > >Do they have any use or should I recycle them?? You could make a hat... a broach... or a pterodactyl! Lusty
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: need to install Win3.1 after OS4.1 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 20:03:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sad but true... the day I've long dreaded is here... cable modems are coming to my area.... sounds like the only sure way to get connected it with W*nd*ws.... As much as I hate the thought/concept/morality of it (supporting the monopoly) I don't hate it enough to give up 1500kb/s.... I've got an 8meg DOS parition after my 2047meg OS4.1 partition and a second (also SCSI) HD.... I could also set the 2nd HD to id=0 to install.... I just want to make sure it doesn't muck with my OS4.1 partition.... Right now the boot manager comes up with 'n for ns d for dos' -- how can I tell it to do 'd for dos' on the 2nd HD? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: need to install Win3.1 after OS4.1 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 01:00:19 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970603005759.3528A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > Sad but true... the day I've long dreaded is here... > > cable modems are coming to my area.... sounds like the only sure way to > get connected it with W*nd*ws.... As much as I hate the > thought/concept/morality of it (supporting the monopoly) I don't hate it > enough to give up 1500kb/s.... > Really? This is a bad news for me. We have them available here and I always thought that I'd just connect my NeXT station to it using the ethernet cables. Am I wrong? How does it work then? Thanks. Rudy. P.S.: Don't get win3.1 - use win95 if you have to use win. Rudy.
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on 3 GB large disk? Date: 3 Jun 1997 06:34:53 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5n0dud$dc8$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> <EAxwzM.67D@nidat.sub.org> Cc: liu@emerald.physics In <EAxwzM.67D@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > In article <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> liu@emerald.physics (Wei > Liu) writes: > > Hi, there: > > > > Anyone has such experience in installing NEXTSTEP OS 3.2 on a > > large SCSI disk bigger than 2GB? I know both /etc/disk and > > DiskBuilder have problem with that. And the CDROM installation > > won't help either. Following one of NEXTanswers on this issue, > > I was able to partition and initialize it by creating a disktab > > entry. Although it behaves all right as a file system, it seems > > it can't be booted even I moved every system file to this disk > > and wrote the /usr/standalone/boot into the boot sector. It just > > hangs ri > > > > ght after saying "root on sd0". Sometimes it even says no SCSI > > disk attached. Your help is greatly appreciated!! > > > You didn't tell which hardware you're on. But let's assume it is a black > one. Most of your descriptions match this assumption. > > For a disk drive to be bootable on black machines it must be configured > SCSI-1, asynch. SCSI drives will not boot when in synch mode! > > ON NS 3.2 it might be right that the installation procedure is not > configured to partition large drives in two. But /etc/disk and > BuildDisk.app will be able to generate two partitions and get the OS > installed on the first one. Although this might imply that such drives > don't fit an initial installation on NS 3.2 (I only did upgrades, sorry), > they certainly work as second drives. > > Worst case, you'd have to attach the drive to a running black machine and > run BuildDisk on the second drive. Then, after having partitioned and > initialized you can switch it bach to your machine and boot from there. This was the ONLY way I got 3.2 built on a 4G disk was with builddisk off another < 2G HD. Randy rencsok at channelu dot com
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: 3 Jun 1997 14:11:58 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5n18ne$1jc2@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> Cc: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu In <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn wrote: > emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > > command line? > > tail /usr/admin/messages will output the same information as the console.
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Network time polling sites? Date: 3 Jun 1997 14:47:09 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5n1apd$2a1@corporate.hesta.com> We have a setting in our crontab.local file that is supposed to be polling and setting our network time... We have a full time link to the net, yet I noticed we had gotten off by almost 15 minutes, and lo and behold I *think* it may be set incorrectly; or the ans service is nop longer available. Here's what we have in the crontab entry: 0 * * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -s -f ns.ans.net. So I went in and simply executed the command itself to see what would happen. The result: corporate:1# /usr/etc/ntp -s -f ns.ans.net *Timeout* *Timeout* Host ns.ans.net is not responding corporate:2# Any suggestions? Are there other sites I should point to instead ? Thanks! -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: need to install Win3.1 after OS4.1 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 05:45:23 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603054112.5122B-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> <Pine.SOL.3.96.970603005759.3528A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970603005759.3528A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > Sad but true... the day I've long dreaded is here... > > > > cable modems are coming to my area.... sounds like the only sure way to > > get connected it with W*nd*ws.... As much as I hate the > > thought/concept/morality of it (supporting the monopoly) I don't hate it > > enough to give up 1500kb/s.... > > > > Really? This is a bad news for me. We have them available here and I > always thought that I'd just connect my NeXT station to it using the > ethernet cables. It's not the connection, I think but getting the IP address.... They claim that anything can do it, but they only support Win/Mac. The Ethernet connection (at least in this area) is the same as on my NeXTStation (if their web page is correct). > Am I wrong? How does it work then? Something called DCHP or something like that... rather than bootp, from what I've heard... > P.S.: Don't get win3.1 - use win95 if you have to use win. Rudy. Sure, anyone got a free copy? 3.1 is relatively easy to come by (people who have gotten Win95). They aren't giving away Win95 yet..... You don't actually expect me to pay for it, do you ?!? ;-) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 06:49:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu In-Reply-To: <9706030347.AA01394@bifrostworks.com> Hey folks, Yeah me again.... in my every expanding attempts to not get any sleep at all, I have rendered my machine unbootable yet again.... I know what I did wrong & can fix it quite easily if I can boot off the CD-ROM. However, any time I try I get thrown into the installation process. What's the magical incarnation I'm looking for? This is my setup: (un)boot drive sd0a (SCSI ID=1... unfortunately I don't have a bootable backup drive because I "haven't gotten around to it" ... which I will get around to ASAB (as soon as bootable ;-) I've also got at sd1a (id=2) a SyQuest drive at sd2a (id=3) CD-ROM at sd3a (id=4) second HD So how do I boot off the CD into single-user mode? Supposing I made a bootable SyQuest cart, how could I boot off that (can it be done without changing the id=2)? Thanks for any help... I'm really rather stuck at the moment... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: script at shutdown Date: 3 Jun 1997 17:02:17 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jun 1997 17:02:17 GMT Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? The reason for asking is that I just installed ps_if for virtual interfaces and it works very well (Thanks! to Hideo "Sir MaNMOS" Morishita <manmos@stellar.co.jp>) but ... when trying to shutdown the machine I get the following error message: Pseudo Device for NEXTSTEP by Hideo "Sir MaNMOS" Morishita Invalid ps control add-multicast So it seems to me that it would be best to automatically execute ps_unload before going down. I'm fairly sure I've seen shutdown scripts discussed before, but I can't find it in the archives or FAQs anywhere. Pointers please! Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:55:56 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603105343.15999A-100000@kira> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> <5n18ne$1jc2@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5n18ne$1jc2@castor.cca.rockwell.com> On 3 Jun 1997, Erik M. Buck wrote: > > tail /usr/admin/messages will output the same information as the console. note: I assume you meant 'tail /usr/adm/messages'... does that get all the same messages as /dev/console? Assuming you are logged in, you can also get /dev/console from /tmp/console.log TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: script at shutdown Date: 3 Jun 1997 17:40:51 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5n1kv3$2gp@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu In <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? > > CHOMP> > I'm fairly sure I've seen shutdown scripts discussed before, but > I can't find it in the archives or FAQs anywhere. Pointers please! > > Thanks. > > I second the request! If someone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it as well. We need the ability to run a inn shutdown command to assure no corruption of the news server. -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: script at shutdown Date: 3 Jun 1997 18:31:03 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5n1nt7$1n0@news.tamu.edu> References: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jun 1997 18:31:03 GMT Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote: >Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? Here's a perl script that seems to work for me. Please let me know if there are any sysadmin no-nos for using this. --BEGIN PERL SCRIPT #!/usr/local/bin/perl # This script allows commands to be run as part of the shutdown # process. Install it as /etc/shutdown or make /etc/shutdown a # symbolic link to this script. Should be executable by root only. # DO NOT replace /usr/etc/shutdown which is needed for this to work. # Author: Colin Allen <colin-allen@tamu.edu> # Date: June 06, 1997 # No warranties implied! # Place whatever commands you wish to run before shutdown # here using this format if you wish to see the output # print `command`; # E.g.: print `date`; # For example, if you are using Hideo Morishita's virtual # interface driver you may wish to uncomment this #print `/usr/local/etc/ps/ps_unload`; # This is for debugging. Uncomment as desired. #print `echo @ARGV`; # Uncomment the following line if you wish to execute # the shutdown exec "/usr/etc/shutdown @ARGV"; --END PERL SCRIPT -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: 3 Jun 1997 19:44:21 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5n1s6l$gdi$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > Hey folks, > > Yeah me again.... in my every expanding attempts to not get any > sleep at all, I have rendered my machine unbootable yet again.... Sometimes I really wonder what in the heck you are doing.? > I know what I did wrong & can fix it quite easily if I can boot > off the CD-ROM. However, any time I try I get thrown into the > installation process. What's the magical incarnation I'm looking for? > > This is my setup: > > (un)boot drive sd0a (SCSI ID=1... unfortunately I don't have a bootable > backup drive because I "haven't gotten around to it" ... which I will get > around to ASAB (as soon as bootable ;-) > > I've also got > at sd1a (id=2) a SyQuest drive > at sd2a (id=3) CD-ROM > at sd3a (id=4) second HD > > So how do I boot off the CD into single-user mode? > > Supposing I made a bootable SyQuest cart, how could I boot off that (can > it be done without changing the id=2)? > > Thanks for any help... I'm really rather stuck at the moment... Check out NeXT Answers (here is the URL that might help) http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1381.htmld/1381.html Title "Booting from CD-ROM" Randy rencsok at channelu dot com or spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
From: Jason Patrick <jason@4thdim.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting NEXT CD's under Linux Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 15:31:50 -0500 Organization: Obsidian Realm - The Crazy Fellow Message-ID: <33947F36.538F@4thdim.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to mount my OPENSTEP CD's on my Linux box, but I cannot figure out what type of filesystem to mount the CD's with. Can it even be done? I need to do this so I can see the DEVELOPER CD through NFS since I do not have a SCSI CDROM (nor do I intend on buying one if I can keep from it.) Thanks in advance for any help, Jason Patrick
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:05:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603124908.2333A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: rencsok@channelu.com In-Reply-To: <9706031949.AA05132@ascended.channelu.com> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 spammers@i.channelu.com wrote: > In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > > Hey folks, > > > > Yeah me again.... in my every expanding attempts to not get any > > sleep at all, I have rendered my machine unbootable yet again.... > > Sometimes I really wonder what in the heck you are doing.? Nothing as exotic as you might think... I'm trying to setup my machine to develop both NeXTStep & OpenStep..... there's a script out there that does this for you (it was designed for 4.0 and seems to have some problem with 4.1). anyway, I did this: % mkdirs /private/Developer/3.3 Permission denied # oh yeah, I need to do that as root, don't I.... % asroot mkdirs /private/Developer/3.3 % cd /private/Developer/3.3 % zcat /NeXTSTEP_3.3_DEV/NeXTCD/Packages/*/*.tar.Z | \ /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar xvf - (here I also got 'permission denied' messages % su - root Password: Root@localhost: zcat /NeXTSTEP_3.3_DEV/NeXTCD/Packages/*/*.tar.Z | \ /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar xvf - and it quietly went about installing NeXTStep 3.3 developer..... Anyone else see the problem with the above? That's right.... once I did 'su - root' I ended up at / rather than /private/Developer/3.3, so when the packages off the CD were unpacked, they over-wrote some of the OpenStep ones such as '/usr/lib/dyld' So assuming I can get booted onto CD I can fix the offending files and get back to work... TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: script at shutdown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xd8q3ux2t.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:43:22 GMT >>>>> "CA" == Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> writes: CA> Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? /usr/etc/halt is run at shutdown. Rename it to something like /usr/etc/halt.org. Name your script /usr/etc/halt and in the last line call /usr/etc/halt.org (you should conserve the original arguments to 'halt' and pass them on to 'halt.org'). Markus "n.s" Gloede
From: cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 4 Jun 1997 01:36:43 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5n2grb$bov$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <5mo726$97v$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <5moeb6$c12$1@maryj.bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5moeb6$c12$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Just a note of public thanks to Yi Liu and Francois Magnan for their patient help and toleration of giant e-mail messages in regard to this problem. You guys are great! --Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 21:12:02 -0600 From: Tracla@aol.com Subject: NeXT People Question Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Message-ID: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: Tracla@aol.com Hello - my name is Tracey.. I am working with AT&T in HR as a partner. We are looking for NeXT System Administrators.. But my question is, since this is a new software product for me is: Do people outside of NeXT software have these skills? Are there any dedicated websites where we can post job opportunities What are the salaries of people with this skill set? Thank you for any assistance you can provide Tracey Claybrooke 813-685-6004 Tampa, Florida -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: solved -- Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:57:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195316.25226F-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Thanks to all who pointed me to NS # 1381, that did it.... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: builddisk failed 'file system full' but it isn't... Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 20:06:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195730.25226G-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> I tried to make a backup of 4.1 using BuildDisk on my EZ-135 It claims to only need 98megs... Jun 3 22:30:13 peace mach: /Disk/tmp/BD222284: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME Jun 3 22:55:32 peace mach: /Disk/tmp/BD222284: file system full It fails at 98%..... neither /Disk nor the EZ-135 is full % df -i /Disk Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on /dev/sd3a 241664 168 241496 0% /Disk % df -i /dev/sd1a Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on /dev/sd1a 508800 69096 439704 14% What gives? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html e70000 652eac54 Jun 3 22:15:39 charisma last message repeated 2 times However it does work.... is there anything 'bad' about these errors? They do not seem to persist mount -t nfs intel:/usr/local /usr/local seems to work just fine if I do not put the /usr/local/stuff into NetInfo the Intel is setup to export /usr/local/..... Any help appreciated.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: builddisk failed 'file system full' but it isn't... Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:51:22 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603205303.6306A-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195730.25226G-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195730.25226G-100000@kira> Actually I made a mistake it was full.... df /Backups Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd1a 125645 125645 -6283 105% /Backups but it claims it only takes 98 megs and I have 116 on the disk!?!?! What's going on? TjL
Date: 4 Jun 1997 09:43:58 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <cancel.338F7A02.2E06@tcp-ip.or.jp> Control: cancel <338F7A02.2E06@tcp-ip.or.jp> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: NoboruYamada <danbo@tcp-ip.or.jp> Subject: cmsg cancel <338F7A02.2E06@tcp-ip.or.jp> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19970604.06 for further details
From: mcgredo@crl.crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 4 Jun 1997 08:37:43 -0700 Organization: Miskatonic University Department of Classics Message-ID: <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> In article <865389689.23631@dejanews.com>, <Tracla@aol.com> wrote: >Hello - my name is Tracey.. I am working with AT&T in HR as a partner. >We are looking for NeXT System Administrators.. > >But my question is, since this is a new software product for >me is: > >Do people outside of NeXT software have these skills? Since NeXT is BSD Unix under the skin, anyone with a Unix background should be able to pick it up fairly quickly. There's some flashy NeXT sysadmin tools that make life easier, but anyone who's competent should be able to pick that up quickly enough. Rhapsody might have enough flashy sysadmin tools for a non- unix type to get by, but that remains to be seen. >What are the salaries of people with this skill set? Uh, $500,000/yr. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-) -- Don McGregor | I did it for the children. mcgredo@crl.com |
From: heywood@american.edu (John Quentin Heywood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modem problems Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 01:45:24 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <33961818.2205671@news.american.edu> I am running NS 3.3pl1 on an Intel P5 box with a Hayes Optima internal 28.8 modem, and I am having some problems I hope someone can help me with. First, I have set up PPP2.2, and on booting the machine I get a message to the effect that all is well and PPP is up and running. But when I dial in to this machine, the modem does not answer. I have set /etc/ttys to allow dialup on serial port A (COM1). I can dial out on /dev/cua and /dev.cuaf. The problem is not in the modem, because ppp works fine in WinNT on the same box. I am muy confused. Any help would be appreciated. Second, I cannot get this modem to operate as a fax modem on NS. I am using the HSD modem choice. Is that correct? If this is a specific modem config file, can I get one for my modem? If so, where? Again, any help will be appreciated. Thanks, John Heywood John Quentin Heywood * heywood@american.edu * Room 115 * "On the Internet, Washington College of Law * nobody knows American University * you're a dog" 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW * Washington, DC 20016-8082 * vox: 202.274.4329 * fax: 202.274.4365 *
From: John Zachary <zachary@bit.csc.lsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OS 4.2 along side NT 4.0 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 15:55:57 -0500 Organization: LSU Robotics Research Laboratory Message-ID: <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may be a FAQ, but I haven't found the answer. I have a disk with NT 4.0 (no service packs). I want to install OS 4.2 on the same disk without having to reinstall NT. What are the hoops that one must jump through to install OS 4.2 on a disk on which NT 4.0 is already installed. Thanks. -- John Zachary LSU Robotics Research Laboratory
From: Gael Foulon <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 4 Jun 1997 21:51:13 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Hello, I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it and where I see it (I suppose in France, but it's certainly an world-wide product). I see the document in /pub/next/documents/misc concerning the Fortress UPS but there's I think another one... If someone use or know a product supporting alert and auto-shutdown for PC running OpenStep/NextStep system, please contact me by email. Thank you for your help. Gael FOULON gfoulon@imaginet.fr
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:27:10 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> In article <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr>, Gael Foulon <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad > that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it > and where I see it (I suppose in France, but it's certainly > an world-wide product). > > I see the document in /pub/next/documents/misc concerning > the Fortress UPS but there's I think another one... > > If someone use or know a product supporting alert and > auto-shutdown for PC running OpenStep/NextStep system, > please contact me by email. > > Thank you for your help. > > Gael FOULON > gfoulon@imaginet.fr Check Tim Luoma's page. I know he has something about some NeXT capable UPS on there, but I don't remember the name or if it works on Black or white hardware. www.peak.org/~luomat Mitch
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: 4 Jun 1997 07:37:55 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5n360j$bdq$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> > I've also got > at sd1a (id=2) a SyQuest drive > at sd2a (id=3) CD-ROM > at sd3a (id=4) second HD > > So how do I boot off the CD into single-user mode? > Enter sd(2)mach_kernel rootdev=sd2a -s at the boot prompt. The problem is that in most configurations your first hard drive will be mounted in read-only mode, which is not very helpful when you want to do some repair on it. You have to remount it in r/w mode using the mount -n option. In some cases this might not work. Try to boot from the installation floppy then, entering "-s" at the floppy boot prompt. (Don't panic, it will really boot into single user mode, even if it displays that your partition will be erased and re-installed.) After that, mounting the hard disk in r/w mode will work in every case. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu (m.b.komor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Weird Failure at Boot -- Need help! Date: 4 Jun 1997 22:52:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5n4rj1$ib9@agate.berkeley.edu> Please Cc: all replies to <jrudd@cygnus.com>. This morning my mon NeXTslab came up just fine, let me PPP in just fine, using Gatekeeper, and then experienced a kernel panic (about its 6th, since I've had it --about 4 months) and produced the following on reboot: Booting from SCSI target 4 lun 0 trap 5 at pc 0x4380b06, sr 0x2700 d0: 0x2000 a0: 0x4387544 d1: 0x2 a1: 0x87ffb72 d2: 0x0 a2: 0x43972c0 d3: 0x200f a3: 0x438a03c d4: 0x2 a4: 0x43972c0 d5: 0x0 a5: 0x87ff62e d6: 0x8 a6: 0x43bbf84 d7: 0x0 a7: 0x43bbf64 And there it dies. Reseating the harddrive scsi cable (at both ends), the ROM, the memory cards, *nothing* has changed this bootup failure (same message, every time). I'm not a NeXT (or any other kind of hardware) geek. John Carmack donated this machine to me four months ago because he didn't want to see it go to waste-- it's the machine he wrote the original DOOM code on, so I'd really hate for it to die like this ('sides, there's a bunch of things on it that I *need* --it's also the only machine I have that's capable of running PPP and a graphical browser at the same time ;) ). Can anybody help me get this fixed? *ThanQ!* Best, _*____* _////___ Meriday Beth & Velcro ~<:========--- & Majyk! >'=========^--- ~*~~~~* ~/~\~~>~> ---- -& little Zaphod! | | | | click here for in-lined image. ---- mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu | @goonsquad.spies.com & gneet@toys.fubarsys.com indigo@samsara.circus.com & umm@deeptht.armory.com & natter@nando.yak.net ambasadr@kosh.punk.net & little@reddragon.empire.net & hi@callamerica.net
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] Floppy Search on Boot Time Date: 5 Jun 1997 02:40:39 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5n58v7$i32$1@news.nuri.net> I'm using OPENSTEP 4.1 on my ThinkPad 560, which has attachable floppy drive. Usually, I boot the system without the floppy drive but my OPENSTEP always try three(3) times to find out the floppy drive. Each trial takes about a minute and it's little bit boring. Does anybody know how to adjust the boot time floppy drive seeking options? I want to reduce the number of trials to one or to reduce the time taken by each trial if possible. Thanx! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:jin@nuri.net Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineer phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
From: Mitchell Allen <alcmaeon@one.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo Server Question Date: 5 Jun 1997 02:50:45 GMT Organization: OneNet Communications HUB News Server Message-ID: <5n59i5$1ii@news.one.net> this may seem like a stupid question, but once a machine si set up as a NetInfro server, can it be turned off and back on and resume the service? I set up my cube as a netinfo server and then turned it off. When I turned it back on it started looking for a host itself. Mitch
From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-Writer and DVD-Drive under OpenStep Date: 5 Jun 1997 11:59:57 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5n69nt$8pf@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, Does anyone know how to use a CD-Writer (Philips or HP) under OpenStep as a normal CDROM-Drive? And how to use DVD-Drive (Toshiba) under OpenStep? Thanks a lot, Khanh,
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 5 Jun 1997 14:17:02 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5n6hou$4ul$2@inet-prime.comshare.com> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> Cc: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net In <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > In article <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr>, Gael Foulon > <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad > > that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it <munch> go to www.benatong.com -Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
Message-ID: <33946259.270E8632@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 12:28:42 -0600 From: "R.P." <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System Parameters for UNIX Compile Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have 2 HP-UX servers (dual processors) using the 10.20 OS. What parameters would I need to examine setting for say 10 users wanting to compile C++ code? I want to be sure that the system is not brought to the floor because of memory being used up for the compiles. I am using the C++ compiler for HP 10.20.01.
From: thompson@filoli.com (Peter Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-Writer and DVD-Drive under OpenStep Date: 5 Jun 1997 16:24:26 GMT Organization: Relax, don't worry! Have a homebrew! Message-ID: <5n6p7q$n0i$1@news.filoli.com> References: <5n69nt$8pf@news.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <5n69nt$8pf@news.tuwien.ac.at> On 06/04/97, Khanh P. Nguyen wrote: >Hi all, >Does anyone know how to use a CD-Writer (Philips or HP) under OpenStep >as a normal CDROM-Drive? And how to use DVD-Drive (Toshiba) under >OpenStep? >Thanks a lot, >Khanh, > For the CDWriter usage, you can use free software such as mkisofs and cdwrite, or you can use commercial software such as CDDesigner. For personal use, it is difficult to go wrong with CDDesigner (US$99). CDDesigner is a product of Ziegeler & Gehle Infosystems, their web page is: http://www.ip-service.com/gehle. As far as using the DVD, I haven't heard anything yet. If you hear of anything worthwhile, could you please post it? Thanks. Peter Thompson -- ************************************************************************** Peter Thompson ---- thompson@filoli.com ---- Filoli Information Systems. **************************************************************************
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 21:43:15 -0700 From: quinonez@ucla.edu (Gerardo Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NSFIP3.3, DozeNT4.0 on 4.5 GBW Scsi drive help Message-ID: <quinonez-0406972143150001@slip129-37-97-202.tx.us.ibm.net> Organization: UCLA Hello. This has probably been asked before but next answers did not help at this point. \ I just purchased a 4.5 GB Quantum wide scsi 34550W 7500rpm drive. I want to intstall as much(2GB) of this with NSFIP3.3 and the rest for NT. NS wont partition the drive for me. When tried with NT it did, but I couldnt install NS in it. Ive heard of disktabs, etc, but far too complicated for me. Is there an easier way of doing this? When I partition the drive with 2bg, 2 gb, 500gb and try to install next it tells me that "initialization program cant initialize disk". Can anyone help? Thanks Gerardo Quinonez
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: compiling SSLeay on NeXT 3.3 Date: 5 Jun 1997 15:02:03 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <5n6kdb$2h1@news.dialisdn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I'm following the compile instructions for SSLeay and they claim that it will compile on NeXT. However, not being the *most* proficient compiler in the world, I'm having problems that I'm not sure how to solve. Basically, my make exits as follows: ld: Undefined symbols: _RSAPrivateDecrypt _RSAPrivateEncrypt _RSAPublicDecrypt _RSAPublicEncrypt _R_GetRandomBytesNeeded _R_RandomFinal _R_RandomInit _R_RandomUpdate *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. There's a header file: rsaref.h that seems to define the above. Does anyone have a clue for me? Please. Thanks. David Geller arpad@hotspice.com
From: rbumpus@comp.uark.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printer Question Date: 5 Jun 1997 19:27:39 GMT Organization: The University of Arkansas Message-ID: <5n73vb$f14@picayune.uark.edu> I have a Turbo Station running OpenStep 4.1 and I'm trying to connect it to a printer. Does anyone know where I could find AppleTalk for OS 4.1? The machine originally came with 3.3 and AppleTalk was listed in preferences. With OpenStep, I haven't found anything related to AppleTalk. Does anyone know where I might look? Bob Bumpus rbumpus@comp.uark.edu
From: rbumpus@comp.uark.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with Mail Date: 5 Jun 1997 19:32:12 GMT Organization: The University of Arkansas Message-ID: <5n747s$f1b@picayune.uark.edu> I have a Turbo Station running OS 4.1 and I've been having problems with Mail. I can send mail out without a hassle and I can send mail from one user to another, also without problems. However, incoming mail does not arrive. When I send a message from my other account, I get a message from NeXT Mail Agent saying that there is a configuration error and the machine reports that "mail loops back to" itself. I have it setup with sendmail.cf linked to sendmail.mailhost.cf and I followed the advice in the docs and setup the machine as mailhost. I'm stumped as to what I should try. Is there something obvious that I'm overlooking? Bob Bumpus rbumpus@comp.uark.edu
From: asdlfj@soeiur.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mailloop v3.0 Released! Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:13:17 GMT Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Mailloop v3.0 is an industrial strength bulk mailer. Mailloop v3.0 is a bulk mailing program for the internet. It can take a single message and broadcast it to either a listing of e-mail addresses or to a listing of newsgroups. Creates custom newsgroup lists by filtering NNTP servers. Creates custom e-mail lists by extracting them from newsgroups. Can also extract e-mail addresses or newsgroup names from other protocols. Built-in NNTP, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP, EXEC, CGI, WHOIS and FINGER clients. Anti-cancelbot feature. Automatically processes remove requests. Includes extensive on-line help. The most powerful bulk mailer available. Requires Windows 95 or NT 3.51+ and internet access. The "Program" Mailloop is only available in English. For more info goto: http://205.199.4.219 http://205.199.4.219 Using it is easy: 1) Create a message ( http://205.199.4.219/editor.htm ) ...by using the pull down menus or ...by using any editor 2) Create a newsgroups list ( http://205.199.4.219/news3.htm ) ...by filtering an NNTP server or ...by importing from any text file or ...by manually creating with any editor or ...by extracting from any FTP file or ...by extracting from any HTTP file 3) Create an e-mail list ( http://205.199.4.219/em3.htm ) ...by extracting from newsgroups or ...by importing from any text file or ...by manually creating with any editor or ...by extracting from a WHOIS response or ...by extracting from a fingering response or ...by extracting from a UNIX response or ...by extracting from any FTP file or ...by extracting from any HTTP file or 4) Broadcast the message ...to the e-mail list or ( http://205.199.4.219/embc.htm ) ...to the newsgroup list ( http://205.199.4.219/ngbc.htm ) 5) Then process the remove requests ...by using the mailbox processor ( http://205.199.4.219/pop.htm ) 6) If you want you can use the Newsletter Sever ...The Newsletter Sever will allow you to have an topic-specific newsletter that other can subscribe and unsubscribe to. ...Customizing this server response files ( http://205.199.4.219/response.htm ) ...Creating a new newsletter ( http://205.199.4.219/create.htm ) ...Creating and Updating a newsletter the actual newsletter ( http://205.199.4.219/update.htm ) For more info visit http://205.199.4.219 http://205.199.4.219
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Synchronous SCSI Transfers Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:09:47 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5n76eb$dgv@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:09:47 GMT It has always been my impression that although the hardware in the black nexts could support sychronous transfers, that this ability was never included in the software. I thought this was the main reason for harddrives performing slower in NeXTstep than say WINNT. I was thinking of installing NS on an Intel machine and I have the NCR SCSI with the SYMBIOSLOGIC controller shown below. Is it possible for me to dramatically increase the performance of my harddrive by turning on synchronous transfers in the Configure panel? It seems that the driver supports this. Thanks, Jeromy Driver: SymbiosLogic53C8xxSCSIDriver Driver Overview: _NeXTanswer #2415_ Last Update: July 12, 1996 Special Features of Driver / Driver Notes: Cmd queuing is disabled. Synchronous and wide data transfers are selectable through the Configure panel. Support for multiple adapters. --
Message-ID: <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 16:51:34 +0000 From: doc@zipatoni.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: please help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Primary Network. http://www.primary.net I just bought a used 25mhz/040 cube sight unseen and it will not boot. It says it has NeXTstep 3.0. It runs through the self diagnostics at the beginning but stops on the line: localhost reboot: Reboot complete It hangs at this point and never launches the GUI. Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone has to offer.
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:58:01 GMT Control: cancel <5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Sender: asdlfj@soeiur.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: Kent Davis <kent.davis@bowne.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 00:39:44 -0400 Organization: Bowne Information Services Message-ID: <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 and when I shut down the screen goes blank and hangs. I had to use the reset. HELP! Kent
From: stephlise@telco.com (Steph&Lise.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <998b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Control: cancel <998b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Message-ID: <despam.998b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 01:00:00 -700 Cancel Spam.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Message-ID: <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> Sender: edew@netcom2.netcom.com Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 02:22:37 GMT In article <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> mcgredo@nospam.crl.com writes: >In article <865389689.23631@dejanews.com>, <Tracla@aol.com> wrote: >>Hello - my name is Tracey.. I am working with AT&T in HR as a partner. >>We are looking for NeXT System Administrators.. >> >>But my question is, since this is a new software product for >>me is: >> >>Do people outside of NeXT software have these skills? > >Since NeXT is BSD Unix under the skin, anyone with a Unix >background should be able to pick it up fairly quickly. There's >some flashy NeXT sysadmin tools that make life easier, but >anyone who's competent should be able to pick that up quickly >enough. > And NeXTs are easier to administer than PCs (running NT, for example) or Macs or Solarises or HP-UXes. You can get two NeXT sys admins to manage up to 200 machines with little problems. >Rhapsody might have enough flashy sysadmin tools for a non- >unix type to get by, but that remains to be seen. > >>What are the salaries of people with this skill set? > >Uh, $500,000/yr. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-) > It depends on the region. In the Silicon Valley, $500K is a little on the low side :-) EDEW
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting up Apple Laserwriter w/ NS 3.3 on Moto HW? Date: 6 Jun 1997 03:09:38 GMT Message-ID: <19970606030900.XAA20666@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Hi Just wondering -- how complicated to setup an Apple Laserwriter NT under NS 3.3 on a Nextstation ? any special wiring considerations ? thanks in advance for any and all insight and info :-) Bob K.
From: com@com.com (com@com.com) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 05:15:26 GMT Organization: com@com.com Message-ID: <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 02:22:37 GMT, edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) wrote: >>>What are the salaries of people with this skill set? >> >>Uh, $500,000/yr. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-) >> >It depends on the region. In the Silicon Valley, $500K is a little on the >low side :-) Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company").
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 6 Jun 1997 06:01:18 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5n893e$obh$3@news.xmission.com> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> com@com.com (com@com.com) wrote: > Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep > programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers > I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their > home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company"). Well, to inject some tiny hint of reality into this, the consultants charge what they can get, and that will vary greatly from one project to the next for most of them. If they are popular and well known, like Omni, they can get $250/hour on some contracts. If they don't have those sorts of credentials, they may be as cheap as, say a student who scrapes out code by night and goes for $15/hour. And there's a whole spectrum in between. So you could say that the NeXT developers are making something between $30k to $500k per year...though I _strongly_ suspect that most are nearer to the 60-100k range (depending upon skill) than either extreme. This is somewhat conjecture, somewhat based on what I know of others in the same field, but should be pretty close to the truth. I won't tell you what I make or charge, though, in any terms more precise than the above. :-) -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: jeff@tiag.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXTSTEP laptop at two network locations Date: 6 Jun 1997 15:07:40 GMT Organization: Told in a Garden Message-ID: <5n993s$r78@noc1.gwi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm setting up a laptop running NEXTSTEP and connecting to two different small NEXTSTEP networks. My passwd, group, hosts, etc files are all compatible on each network so I don't really have to have separate copies of each when I connect the laptop to each of the networks (for now), however.... The one feature I would like is: to use two different sets of imported mount directories when connected to each of the different networks without having to wait for timeouts if I were to niavely just add all the entries from each network and have some mounts always timeout for me depending upon which network I am currently connecting to.... Does anyone know if using some advanced features of netinfo or setting up the networks in certain ways will make this really straght forward? My initial idea, which may be too kludgey, is to add all the import mount entries into the netinfo database of the laptop as "noauto" and in my rc.local script do some sort of check like the following pseudo code: if (can see network#1 machine) mount machine#1:/importdir1 /atdir1 mount machine#1:/importdir2 /atdir2 else if (can see network#2 machine) mount machine#2:/otherimportdir1 /atdir1 .... Has anyone already done this an easier way? Does anyone know if there are major pitfalls with this type of method... Thanks for any info, Jeff -- Jeff Adams jeff@tiag.com Told in a Garden http://www.tiag.com
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Initializing EIDE partitions. Date: 06 Jun 1997 10:51:28 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <vee910nrdhr.fsf@shell.one.net> I'm in a quandry. I recently added a 3.1 EIDE drive to my Intel PC running NeXTSTEP. For various reasons, I have the NeXTSTEP FDISK-level partition of the drive partitioned into 2 BSD-level slices, so that I can kickstart from the EIDE drive to a SCSI drive if needed. [So the NeXTSTEP FFS partition is ~8M and contains the kernel and some drivers, the OpenStep FFS partition is ~1Gig and contains everything it needs and more. The SCSI disk has the reverse pattern, with OpenStep on a kickstart to the EIDE and NeXTSTEP with the large partition.] Anyhow, I've now realized that I did the FFS partition backwards. hd0a is the 8M partition, and hd0b is the 1G partition. No big deal _except_ that the system insists on automounting that 8M partition, rather than the 1G partition (Workspace automounts the ?d?a partition, not the ?d?b ...). So, I took a dump of the partitions, intending to reverse things, but now I found that "disk -i /dev/rhd0a" causes a system panic. It first displays enough to indicate that it _is_ getting the disk name and partition size right. Then it says something about "hdform doesn't exist yet..." And I've been unable to figure out how it was that I originally accomplished the trick - though I do remember I had a number of system panics before hitting on the right command. I suspect that I'm telling it the wrong device, but I just can't remember. /dev/rhd0h doesn't seem right for some reason. Thanks for any help, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:31:19 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 6-Jun-97 Re: NeXT People Question by com@com.com@com.com > Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep > programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers > I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their > home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company"). It depends on whether you choose to be a salaried employee or whether you want to play the consulting game. Consultants can make anywhere up to $250 an hour, but somewhere in the region of $125-$150 is going to be a lot more typical. Of course, a consultant has to find new work on a regular basis, and they can end up not working for a while if the market slows down. The low-end for salaried employees is about $30,000 - $35,000, and really good NEXTSTEP programmers can see over $100K, with $50K being a reasonable guestimate for the average salary for an experienced programmer. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: remote printer not working Date: 6 Jun 1997 15:47:15 GMT Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany. Message-ID: <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> hi, i'm having trouble getting a remote printer connected to a unix machine working. printing with lpr from the command line is no problem, neither is printing the test page from the print manager. when printing anything from print panel nothing seems to happen - a detailed inspection showed that a correctly formatted print request is sent over the network - with nothing to print, i.e. all the packets except from the first (job request) were empty. no error messages show up. this is the contents of my printcap database: courier:lp=:rm=nice:rp=courier:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/lw-2G:ty=PostScript: helvetica:lp=:rm=nice:rp=helvetica:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/djet-vm:ty=PostScript Color: avantgarde:lp=:rm=nice:rp=avantgarde:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/avantgarde:ty=PostScri pt: -- Dr. Lars Konieczny Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft Computerlinguistik tel. +49 681 302 4681 Universitaet des Saarlandes fax. +49 681 302 4700 Gebaeude 17.3, Raum 3.04 e-mail lkon@coli.uni-sb.de
From: glipof@pervasive-sw.com (Guy R. Lipof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing OS 4.2 along side NT 4.0 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 12:05:52 -0500 Organization: Pervasive Software Message-ID: <glipof-0606971205530001@supermac.pervasive-sw.com> References: <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu> i have done the below with nt server 4.0 and openstep 4.2. in order to be able to boot to either os using the openstep boot option screen, i had to do the following: - let's assume that my internal hd is a 2gb drive - i began the nt installation partitioning half the hard drive as ntfs and installed the software on the ntfs partition. - after rebooting and finishing the nt configuration, i began the openstep installation - in the openstep installation it prompts you to chose whether to install it on the entire 2gb partition(thus waxing your nt side) or chosing a separate partition/configuring other partions(go into this section). - openstep should recognize that a separate partition exists; however, it does not recognize the formating - select the free 1gb partition and install openstep on it - once you are done with the installation and openstep reboots, it will prompt you to boot into openstep or dos, if you choose dos then it will boot nt. this basically sets the openstep as the active partition. if you did openstep and then nt, then nt would have switched it to be the active partition and you would not be able to boot directly into openstep. guy r. lipof webmaster@pervasive-sw.com glipof@pervasive-sw.com http://www.pervasive-sw.com In article <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu>, zachary@premier.net wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but I haven't found the answer. > > I have a disk with NT 4.0 (no service packs). I want to > install OS 4.2 on the same disk without having to reinstall > NT. What are the hoops that one must jump through to install > OS 4.2 on a disk on which NT 4.0 is already installed. > > Thanks. > > -- > John Zachary > LSU Robotics Research Laboratory
From: glipof@pervasive-sw.com (Guy R. Lipof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: wu-ftpd for openstep Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 12:45:57 -0500 Organization: Pervasive Software Message-ID: <glipof-0606971245570001@supermac.pervasive-sw.com> i am trying to setup washington university's ftpd on openstep. i have downloaded the 2.4 version, and have tried to build it choosing the nextstep 3.3 setting(nx3) but it fails. i do not see a choice for openstep as one of the config files only the following os's: aix, bsd, dgx, dyn, gen, hpx, isc, lnx. nx2, nx3, osf, ptx, sco, sgi, sny, sol, s41, ult if anyone has had any success with compiling it on openstep that would be great. i need to setup a site with user login that only have access to the chroot(~ftp). i am running openstep 4.1 on white hardware. guy r. lipof -- webmaster@pervasive-sw.com glipof@pervasive-sw.com ------- http://www.pervasive-sw.com
From: mhovan@BLaCKSMITH.com (Michael A. Hovan III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 100Mbit Ethernet + NeXT ??? Date: 6 Jun 97 11:34:05 Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <MHOVAN.97Jun6113405@faulkner.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5n95fl$7c7@fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE's message of 6 Jun 1997 14:05:41 GMT > Has anyone a working 100Mbit network with Intel Next machines ? You bet, I have two 100Mbit subnets with around 30 machines on each. > We have tried a small network of two (Pentium+ PPro) machines > with SMC EtherPower 10/100 B 9332BDT autosensing cards SMC, Yuck. We use mostly Cogent EM110's and some Intel EtherExpress Pro's. > and we got 1MB/s transfer rate only. What was wrong ? Most likely the way you were testing them. You were probably using FTP which by nature is nice to routers so it doesn't eek out very much performance. I don't believe that it uses sliding windows, so the process waits for an ACK before sending the next packet. NFS will give you a better idea of performance, but under NS NFS is notoriously outdated. I did a test of our net earlier this year using the network performance (netperf) tools and did about 80Mb/s under NS on two PPro 180's. Same machines saw about 35Mb/s using NFS. I just did a quick test on my P-133 NS box talking to a PPro-180 FreeBSD box over NFS and the output looked like: faulkner:~ 8 %time dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=50 50+0 records in 50+0 records out 0.0u 4.9s 0:16 29% 0+0k 6428+0io 0pf+0w which times out to about (1024*1024*50/16*8) = 26.2Mb/s on a network the has some load. This about pegged my cpu load, so it would likely be faster if I had a PPro on my desk. IO on PPro's is about double what we see on Pentiums. Mike Hovan Mike_Hovan@BLaCKSMITH.com
From: dennis keane <dkeane@itsa.ucsf.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mounting Next NFS on Solaris Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 11:59:49 -0700 Organization: University of California, San Francisco Message-ID: <33985E23.1DE0@itsa.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I can't make a Solaris system see the files on a mounted Next directory on the network. The mount seems to work according to a 'df', the directory is there according to an 'ls', but the files inside aren't. Also the Next network comes crashing down when the Sun goes looking for the files. The directory is exported on the Next network, the host is listed in the Sun's host file, and the mount command seems to work. Maybe the Sun just can't understand the file system on the next - true? Thanks. Karen Vranizan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: sendmail question: Correct entry for FROM field Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 16:27:11 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Hello Everyone, I am currently running PopOver (a POP3 client) on NS3.0 The mail delivery is done directly to my SMTP mail host. I have the following problem: The 'From' field only has the entry <thas> instead of <thas@ibme.utoronto.ca>. This causes SOME mail servers to deny mail delivery. Note that there is a valid 'ReplyTo' field, but probably not all mail servers look at that field!? Could someone kindly tell me how/where I can modify the 'From' field in sendmail.cf (sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf)? Additional note: The 'ReplyTo' field is set using the PopOver program. It does not have provisions for setting the 'From' field. Thank you. -Thas
From: rvose@ix.netcom.com (R. Vose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Defaults Database Question Date: 7 Jun 1997 01:56:57 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm have a problem with the defaults database on my slab -- namely, I cannot alter it. If I attempt to change a default in an application or if I attempt to issue a "dwrite" command (from Terminal.app) to modify a default, I get the error: "Cannot write to database" Not too long ago I had a NetInfo problem with this machine. I was attempting to network my slabs together and got completely messed up and had to back it all out. I'm now running the machine standalone. The main point is that I had to recreate the user account with which I'm having the problem. I'm guessing that when I issue the "drwrite" the system is trying to access the original defaults database for this account, but since the UID changed when I recreated it, the system can't write to the database. I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a turbo slab. Any help would be appreciated! -- Randy V. rvose@ix.netcom.com Denver, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Message-ID: <1997Jun4.190146.538@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: emclean@slip.net Organization: Disorganization References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:01:46 GMT In <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > command line? > > Thanks, > > Emmett tail -f /tmp/console.log
From: com@com.com (com@com.com) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 05:30:21 GMT Organization: com@com.com Message-ID: <3398eef1.3101355@news.voyageronline.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <5n893e$obh$3@news.xmission.com> On 6 Jun 1997 06:01:18 GMT, don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: >com@com.com (com@com.com) wrote: >> Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep >> programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers >> I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their >> home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company"). > >Well, to inject some tiny hint of reality into this, the would the above, working off 'location', be in line with reality, in your opinion? >consultants charge what they can get, and that will vary >greatly from one project to the next for most of them. If >they are popular and well known, like Omni, they can get >$250/hour on some contracts. If they don't have those sorts I guess I was talking about what the individual takes home. I seem to remember reading somewhere. .that the "company" will bill (i.e.) $200./hour the programmer will get about 1/2 this. . which is still about 50% above what someone on salary gets (with the trade off, being. . salary=job protection, more benefits, more stable life, etc.) >of credentials, they may be as cheap as, say a student who >scrapes out code by night and goes for $15/hour. And there's I would be curious to know if such animals do exist? (in NextStep that is). >a whole spectrum in between. So you could say that the NeXT >developers are making something between $30k to $500k per >year...though I _strongly_ suspect that most are nearer to the >60-100k range (depending upon skill) Skill. . . . and location. . . a person making a $100k/year in the People's Republic of California. . or the Worker's Paradise of New York City, would probably not be living as well as someone that has left those type locales. .and relocated to the backwoods of wherever. Hence the question about working "off location". Even the most remote parts of the nation are connected now. >This is somewhat conjecture, somewhat based on what I know of >others in the same field, but should be pretty close to the truth. >I won't tell you what I make or charge, though, in any terms more >precise than the above. :-) And I wouldn't want you too! I'm looking more for "general" terms. I guess you have the 'low' and the 'high'---and most people probably fall into that bell curve in the middle. On the other hand, how many people that use NextStep are mediocre enough to be described as average? hmmm... Thanks for the input. > >-- >Later, > >-Don Yacktman >don@misckit.com ><a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a> >
From: com@com.com (com@com.com) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 05:31:22 GMT Organization: com@com.com Message-ID: <3398ef04.3120517@news.voyageronline.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> <5n9qga$cnu$4@news2.digex.net> On 6 Jun 1997 20:04:26 GMT, John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >I think it being a highly demanded, but short supplied market has >a lot to do with the higher rates.... All that will change in the >upcoming years (so live it up while you can :). This is a most interesting statement! Would you care to guess as to the figures? I know that NextStep was never a "wild" success in terms of lots of people using it, but WAS a success in terms of programmers making money. Are you talking 20% off the figures above? ---or something more drastic, like "80%"? Also, can you give a time frame? (lets assume Rhapsody ships on time etc.). When would the above figure(s) start to influence the market?
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 7 Jun 1997 05:42:29 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5nasc5$fva$1@news2.digex.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> <5n9qga$cnu$4@news2.digex.net> <3398ef04.3120517@news.voyageronline.net> com@com.com (com@com.com) wrote: > On 6 Jun 1997 20:04:26 GMT, John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> > wrote: > This is a most interesting statement! Would you care to guess > as to the figures? I know that NextStep was never a "wild" success > in terms of lots of people using it, but WAS a success in terms > of programmers making money. Are you talking 20% off the figures > above? ---or something more drastic, like "80%"? > Also, can you give a time frame? (lets assume Rhapsody ships on > time etc.). When would the above figure(s) start to influence > the market? Well, my best guestimate would be for those figures to asymtotically approach the industry average...The rate of change would depend upon how quickly and in what numbers people will go to the environment. I image w/in 3 years that OPENSTEP salaries get inline with the rest of the industry... Then again, it's pretty much speculation on my part :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: auto power on Date: 5 Jun 1997 11:05:22 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5n66hi$q9@rumah.pc.my> I have a slab that I selected the Preference for Auto on after power failure. It works OK if I pull the plug and reconnect soon after, but the doesn't seem to stick very long. A day or so later, and it won't auto start. I just put in a fresh battery, but no luck. Also, I keep turning off the preference for it to start up at a preset date & time, but it keeps showing up checked again. TIA for any info Mike
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 Date: 6 Jun 1997 11:56:58 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5n8tua$h7l$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Cc: kent.davis@bowne.com In <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Kent Davis wrote: > I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 and when I shut down the screen > goes blank and hangs. I had to use the reset. > Enter the line: "Shutdown Graphics" = "No"; in your /NextLibrary/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table (just after the "Boot Graphics" = "No"; line) ...and everything should be fine. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 100Mbit Ethernet + NeXT ??? Date: 6 Jun 1997 14:05:41 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <5n95fl$7c7@fu-berlin.de> Hi! Has anyone a working 100Mbit network with Intel Next machines ? We have tried a small network of two (Pentium+ PPro) machines with SMC EtherPower 10/100 B 9332BDT autosensing cards and we got 1MB/s transfer rate only. What was wrong ? (Both LED showed 100Mbit enabled, NS3.3 was booting up with IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet") Any help welcome, Thomas -- || Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel MIKS - Meteorologische Informations- || EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE und Kommunikations-Systeme || Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 an der Freien Universitaet Berlin || FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13 - 12165 Berlin
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 6 Jun 1997 20:04:26 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5n9qga$cnu$4@news2.digex.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > It depends on whether you choose to be a salaried employee or > whether you want to play the consulting game. Consultants can > make anywhere up to $250 an hour, but somewhere in the region of > $125-$150 is going to be a lot more typical. Of course, a > consultant has to find new work on a regular basis, and they can > end up not working for a while if the market slows down. > The low-end for salaried employees is about $30,000 - $35,000, > and really good NEXTSTEP programmers can see over $100K, with > $50K being a reasonable guestimate for the average salary for an > experienced programmer. Boy, I think it depends on region, b/c here in NY the salaries I've heard of are a LOT higher. I've heard consultants getting round $350/hr (sheesh as bad as lawyers :) but on average $175-225, and full time work for a decently experienced NeXT programmer (3+ years) is in the 80-100k on average, and 130k on up for the super duper guys... I think it being a highly demanded, but short supplied market has a lot to do with the higher rates.... All that will change in the upcoming years (so live it up while you can :). -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: builddisk failed 'file system full' but it isn't... Message-ID: <EBEJEI.9qE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603205303.6306A-100000@kira> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:49:29 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603205303.6306A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > Actually I made a mistake it was full.... > > df /Backups > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd1a 125645 125645 -6283 105% /Backups > > > but it claims it only takes 98 megs and I have 116 on the disk!?!?! > First, there goes a certain amount of space for the i-nodes. And second, there is a filesystem build parameter which tells how many headroom there is to be used. A regular user can't write to this space if 100% full was reached at open, only 'root' can. 'df' therefore displays partitions to be more than 100% full. But still there is some room, just not for the regular user. See man-pages on 'mkfs' and 'newfs' for details. (As usual it's all in the manuals, you just ought'a look for it ;-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: mounting Next NFS on Solaris Message-ID: <EBEJpp.9r2@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <33985E23.1DE0@itsa.ucsf.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:56:13 GMT In article <33985E23.1DE0@itsa.ucsf.edu> dennis keane <dkeane@itsa.ucsf.edu> writes: > I can't make a Solaris system see the files on a mounted Next directory > on the network. The mount seems to work according to a 'df', the > directory is there according to an 'ls', but the files inside aren't. > Also the Next network comes crashing down when the Sun goes looking for > the files. The directory is exported on the Next network, the host is > listed in the Sun's host file, and the mount command seems to work. > Maybe the Sun just can't understand the file system on the next - true? > Not quite, IMHO. It might well be an expression of a well known NEXTSTEP <-> SOLARIS problem. NS still uses version 1 NFS while SOLARIS has version 2. The network block sizes don't match leading to buffer overruns on the NeXT. The block size must be explicitly set on the SUN to work correctly. I don't have SOLARIS here, so I don't recall the syntax. Refer to the FAQ on Peanuts for details. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP laptop at two network locations Message-ID: <EBEK7H.9rs@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5n993s$r78@noc1.gwi.net> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:06:53 GMT In article <5n993s$r78@noc1.gwi.net> jeff@tiag.com writes: > > Hi, > > I'm setting up a laptop running NEXTSTEP and connecting to > two different small NEXTSTEP networks. > > My passwd, group, hosts, etc files are all compatible on each > network so I don't really have to have separate copies of each when I connect > the laptop to each of the networks (for now), > > however.... > The one feature I would like is: > to use two different sets of imported > mount directories when connected to each of the different networks > without having to wait for timeouts if I were to niavely just add all > the entries from each network and have some mounts always timeout for > me depending upon which network I am currently connecting to.... > > Does anyone know if using some advanced features of netinfo or > setting up the networks in certain ways will make this really > straght forward? > > My initial idea, which may be too kludgey, > is to add all the import mount entries into the netinfo > database of the laptop as "noauto" and in my rc.local > script do some sort of check like the following pseudo code: > > if (can see network#1 machine) > mount machine#1:/importdir1 /atdir1 > mount machine#1:/importdir2 /atdir2 > else if (can see network#2 machine) > mount machine#2:/otherimportdir1 /atdir1 > .... > > Has anyone already done this an easier way? > Does anyone know if there are major pitfalls with this type of method... > There would be a rather hacky way do this by tampering with /etc/rc to inquire for the configuration and then exchanging two sets of 'local' NetInfo databases, /etc/fstab, and /etc/hostinfo files. You'd only be able to do verbose boots thereafter since the GUI boot won't be able to read from the console, I presume. But as you say "small network" why not moving the mount entries out of /etc/fstab and only do autonfsmount out of NetInfo. Then you could enter the mount instructions in the 'network' NI database for the root domain which can be different for both 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: please help Message-ID: <EBEKEu.9sG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:11:18 GMT In article <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> writes: > I just bought a used 25mhz/040 cube sight unseen and it will not boot. > It says it has NeXTstep 3.0. It runs through the self diagnostics at > the beginning but stops on the line: > > localhost reboot: Reboot complete > > It hangs at this point and never launches the GUI. Thanks in advance > for any assistance anyone has to offer. > Could you possibly give a bit more details. I certainly won't recognize a single line of boot status just out of context. And I think the other people on this group possibly go the same. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Printer Question Message-ID: <EBEKov.9t6@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5n73vb$f14@picayune.uark.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:17:19 GMT In article <5n73vb$f14@picayune.uark.edu> rbumpus@comp.uark.edu writes: > I have a Turbo Station running OpenStep 4.1 and I'm trying to connect it > to a printer. Does anyone know where I could find AppleTalk for OS 4.1? > The machine originally came with 3.3 and AppleTalk was listed in > preferences. With OpenStep, I haven't found anything related to > AppleTalk. Does anyone know where I might look? > IN NS 3.0 there used to be a EtherTalk client package that was a bit of buggy. It used to become part of the "dicontinued technologies" scandal due to the marketing shift away from the mass market "Super PC" metaphor to the "mission critical" buseness platform. Only one of many rather frivolous marketing blunders connected to NeXT on their products, IMHO. You could load that using a NS 3.0 CD. But a better way to get back EtherTalk capabilities (and much more consistent) is CAPer. Go get it from the Net. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: remote printer not working Message-ID: <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:23:31 GMT In article <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) writes: > hi, > > i'm having trouble getting a remote printer connected to a unix > machine working. printing with lpr from the command line is no > problem, neither is printing the test page from the print manager. > when printing anything from print panel nothing seems to happen > - a detailed inspection showed that a correctly formatted print > request is sent over the network - with nothing to print, i.e. > all the packets except from the first (job request) were empty. > no error messages show up. > > this is the contents of my printcap database: > > courier:lp=:rm=nice:rp=courier:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/lw-2G:ty=PostScript: > > helvetica:lp=:rm=nice:rp=helvetica:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/djet-vm:ty=Post > Script Color: > avantgarde:lp=:rm=nice:rp=avantgarde:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/avantgarde:ty= > Post Script: > But by now you should be aware that flat file Unix config data don't mean nothing to NEXTSTEP features unless they got loaded into the NetInfo database. You can learn about the correct way by refering to the section on "Mixed Networks" in the SysAdmin Manual (/NextLibrary/bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: setting up Apple Laserwriter w/ NS 3.3 on Moto HW? Message-ID: <EBEL6x.9uI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <19970606030900.XAA20666@ladder02.news.aol.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:28:09 GMT In article <19970606030900.XAA20666@ladder02.news.aol.com> rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) writes: > Hi > > Just wondering -- how complicated to setup an Apple Laserwriter NT > under NS 3.3 on a Nextstation ? any special wiring considerations ? > thanks in advance for any and all insight and info :-) > You need a special serial line cable with a NeXT side and an Apple side. And you need to set up the printer to accept a serial line connection. The NEXTSTEP setup is described in teh SysAdmin Manual in /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlv, the Apple side should be in some manual or one of the "Inside MacIntosh" books. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Message-ID: <EBF5wn.62B.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 18:55:34 GMT NeXT uses the Berkeley Fast File System (BFFS), described in the UNIX System Manager's Manual, chapter 14. Grab a copy via the Web, Archie, or ftp, and read it through. >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 26-May-97 Re: HELP with >WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net >> Well, first, this breaks down in the case of a system with two >> partitions (like mine :) because in that situation you WILL have >> the head going over some dead space to get to the swap all the >> time... There should be no dead space. I seem to remember that the BFFS purposely spreads out the files over different heads and cylinders to protect against total loss of data if a single head or cylinder is lost. >> Hmmm, that's true... My setup is two partitions (which might be >> a worst case scenario!) and typically you can almost FEEL the darn >> heads being moved away to get to swap... However, one point to >> make...if the drive is REALLY big... Let's say 9 gigs, and you >> have 3 partitons: a being 4gb for system, b being 1gb for swap, >> and c being 4gb for files/apps... Let's say you only have 1gb of >> data on both partitions a and c. Then the heads will have to travel >> over more space than had the person made a single partition with >> all 3gb's of data situated more tightly together...no? >> >> See what I mean... >> >> |aa-aaa-aa----------------|bbbbbbbb|cc-ccc-cc--------------| >> >> |-----------max head seek distance----------| >> >> vs. >> >> |a-c-aa-c-a-c-ac-bbbbbb-a-c-a-cc-b-b-----------------------| >> >> |---------max h.seek distance------| I guess you're assuming that each new file will be allocated with the lowest block numbers available in the partition. I cannot explain why you can feel the heads moving, but this just isn't true. The BFFS places file under 1MB in a contiguous sequence of blocks, but as far away as possible from other files in the partition (I may be exaggerating a bit here). BFFS also tries to use a different head or platter for each new file - obviously in a cyclic scheme - to protect against loss of all data when a single head crashes. This overall scheme may be thwarted by SCSI drives which do not accurately report their sector, head, and cylinder count - or by drives which change the number of sectors per track between the inner and outer cylinders - but the file system still treats things this way for allocation purposes. An interesting side note about the BFFS is that files above 1MB are "pre-fragmented." In other words, they are purposely broken into 1MB chunks that are spread out across the disk. If you think about this from one point of view, it actually makes sense. There is a maximum "run" of data that can be sucked from a drive non-stop without CPU or SCSI throughput necessitating a brief pause. Also, you wouldn't plan a file system for a multi-tasking operating system without considering that huge files can not be read in their entirety without breaking the I/O request up so that other processes can run. I would assume that different hardware would have a different optimal run size. I don't know if BFFS allows this 1MB chunk size to be changed, but I assume this is the sort of thing that people adjust when tuning their file system parameters to their system (a mysterious art that I have not mastered). >Yes, you're absolutely correct that partitioning the drives in the way >you describe would decrease performance. > >Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more fragmentation, >and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem tuning to adjust >the filesystem parameters more appropriately for the intended usage of >the partition. > >You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts >performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing too >far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt performance. It sounds like I've jumped into the discussion late. Although the ideas are sound, I think that some of the examples do not exactly apply to OPENSTEP, unless you both were talking about using FDISK to partition DOS formatted drives. We're not talking about a toy file system like DOS. Even though NeXT had been criticized for not having a "modern" file system (there are some out there with advantages), BFFS is a far cry better than a first hack, FAT-based file system that a certain software giant seems unwilling to move beyond. :-( -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA, U.S.A. Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Date: 7 Jun 1997 20:02:12 GMT Control: cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Sender: jasonben@aol.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: Hippykill@NextStation.digex.net (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail question: Correct entry for FROM field Date: 7 Jun 1997 21:46:28 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5nckrk$csr$1@news2.digex.net> References: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> In article <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) writes: > Hello Everyone, > > I am currently running PopOver (a POP3 client) on NS3.0 > The mail delivery is done directly to my SMTP mail host. > I have the following problem: > The 'From' field only has the entry <thas> > instead of <thas@ibme.utoronto.ca>. This causes SOME > mail servers to deny mail delivery. Note that there is a > valid 'ReplyTo' field, but probably not all mail servers > look at that field!? > > Could someone kindly tell me how/where I can modify the > 'From' field in sendmail.cf (sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf)? > > Additional note: The 'ReplyTo' field is set using the > PopOver program. It does not have provisions for setting > the 'From' field. if you are using mail.app (the mailer that comes with NS), you can set your from line it it and it'll pass the correct one along to sendmail. Otherwise, the only way I could make it work was to change my hostname on the NeXT to something the mail server would accept. Not a good solution, I think... -- *mikelea@access.digex.net* "imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known-there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, because I will not change." -de Sade
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 7 Jun 1997 18:47:58 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5ncacu$5fo3@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> Cc: com@com.com In <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> com@com.com wrote: EXPERT nextstep programmers who ALSO have some knowledge of one of the many application fields using NeXTstep earn low 6 figures from remote offices and mid 6 figures for on-site work. Add 25% for New York City and some other expensive areas. NOVICE nextstep programmers earn about standard fees 50-75k / year One reason fees are high (apart from supply and demand) is that expert nextstep programmers are capable of creating apps for vertical or horizontal markets very rapidly and inexpensively. Employers are pay a premium for the "opportunity costs" of distracting the programmers from building and selling their own apps. For instance, my company earns 7 figures for selling apps but only six figures for contract work. With nextstep, the risks of building apps without a paying customer are low. It is an extremely good business to be in right now.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Defaults Database Question Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 18:28:20 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970607150044.27278J-100000@kira> References: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "R. Vose" <rvose@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> as root find /path/to/account -print |xargs chown rightuser TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Kent Davis <kdavis@apk.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 01:57:12 -0400 Organization: APK Net, Ltd. Message-ID: <339A49B7.708BE6F2@apk.net> References: <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> <5n8tua$h7l$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: "Frank M. Siegert" <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > In <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Kent Davis wrote: > > I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 and when I shut down the > screen > > goes blank and hangs. I had to use the reset. > > > > Enter the line: > > "Shutdown Graphics" = "No"; > > in your /NextLibrary/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table (just after > > the > > "Boot Graphics" = "No"; > > line) > > ...and everything should be fine. > > -- > * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net > * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy I was missing the "Shutdown Graphics" Thanks I just put in a Matrox Millennium, It works great. Kent
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: please help Message-ID: <EBF6K6.655.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 19:09:41 GMT In article <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com>, <doc@zipatoni.com> wrote: >I just bought a used 25mhz/040 cube sight unseen and it will not boot. >It says it has NeXTstep 3.0. It runs through the self diagnostics at >the beginning but stops on the line: > >localhost reboot: Reboot complete > >It hangs at this point and never launches the GUI. Thanks in advance >for any assistance anyone has to offer. Could this have been a NeXTdimension (NeXTcube + Dimension video card) where someone sold the highly sought after Dimension video card and left you with the cube? The line you give above is the last thing I see on my NeXTdimension systems before the following: May 28 13:20:12 scream reboot: Reboot complete May 28 13:20:17 scream mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2: May 28 13:20:17 scream mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1 May 28 13:20:17 scream mach: 64 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured May 28 13:20:17 sounds netinfod local[107]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb May 28 13:20:18 scream mach: NeXTdimension server running (7936) May 28 13:20:20 scream mach: audio kernel server initialized IMHO, you have two choices: 1) Give up on any "free" software on the drive and reinstall NEXTSTEP. 2) Mount the internal drive in a case and connect it to another SCSI-based system running NEXTSTEP to grab anything off of it before reinstalling NEXTSTEP. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA, U.S.A. Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Defaults Database Question Message-ID: <EBGELG.AJ4@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 11:00:52 GMT In article <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> rvose@ix.netcom.com (R. Vose) writes: > I'm have a problem with the defaults database on my slab -- > namely, I cannot alter it. If I attempt to change a default in > an application or if I attempt to issue a "dwrite" command (from > Terminal.app) to modify a default, I get the error: > > "Cannot write to database" > > Not too long ago I had a NetInfo problem with this machine. I > was attempting to network my slabs together and got completely > messed up and had to back it all out. I'm now running the machine > standalone. The main point is that I had to recreate the user > account with which I'm having the problem. I'm guessing that > when I issue the "drwrite" the system is trying to access the > original defaults database for this account, but since the UID > changed when I recreated it, the system can't write to the > database. > Now you definitely know about the cause, i.e. the change in the UID for you account. Now why don't you act up on it, i.e. restore ownership to all (also the hidden!) files in the home directory of your account? BTW, the files in question are in ~/.NeXT. -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail question: Correct entry for FROM field Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:56:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970607145503.27278H-100000@kira> References: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Murugathas Yuwaraj <yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> Isn't this in the FAQ yet? There are two ways, set the expert header to From Murugathas Yuwaraj <yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu> or setup sendmail, which means mucking with sendmail.cf or installing it new.... ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.README TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
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 Supersedes: <26791865137630@digifix.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 03:57:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <14012865742421@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. 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From: rvose@ix.netcom.com (R. Vose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Defaults Database Question Date: 8 Jun 1997 05:46:08 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5ndgv0$l4l@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> References: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: rvose@ix.netcom.com In <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> R. Vose wrote: > I'm have a problem with the defaults database on my slab -- namely, I cannot > alter it. If I attempt to change a default in an application or if I attempt > to issue a "dwrite" command (from Terminal.app) to modify a default, I get > the error: > > "Cannot write to database" Big DUH for me... When I did the "chown" to reset the UID after the crash, it didn't recurse into ~/.NeXT, so the defaults database was owned by another user! Problem solved... Thanks for the responses! -- Randy V. rvose@ix.netcom.com Denver, CO
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ownership/home dir problems Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 23:12:18 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608225532.3728A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII After swapping in a new HD, I'm having some ownership problems. 1) can anyone tell me why / was 'drwxrwxrwt' ? 2) if I login as 'root' my home is / (even though NetInfo shows it clearly as /Users/root). a) if I login via terminal.app my home is set properly 3) if I logout and login as 'exit' a) sometimes the loginwindow will shake about 50-60 times and then act fine b) if I login as root, my homedir is /Users/root c) the loginwindow preferences are actually seen Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 23:33:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mike Selner <mike@tela.com> In-Reply-To: <339B8B4A.7FF8@tela.com> thanks... 'man mount' said: suid set-uid execution allowed (cannot be specified; default if root mounts the filesystem). but when I specified it, it worked.... I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, so if I should have something else there, please let me know.... thanks! TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: dnelson@slip.net (Dru Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep Intel/Mach tips page Date: 8 Jun 1997 04:05:27 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <5ne3ln$jdp@slip.net> I have made a web page that has some tips for dealing with some of the Openstep install issues. You can get to it here: http://www.slip.net/~dnelson/openstep.html Basically, it describes some of the problems I have had and some of the solutions. contact me here: dnelson@slip.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Message-ID: <EBIKqB.Cps@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: luomat@peak.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:08:34 GMT References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Timothy Luoma wrote: > > thanks... 'man mount' said: > > suid set-uid execution allowed (cannot be specified; > default if root mounts the filesystem). > > but when I specified it, it worked.... > > I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 I think the problem is that root is not mounting the system. Since you have noauto set for sd1a, it isn't being mounted until someone logs in and then under their user id. You should be able to remove both the suid and noauto directives from sd1a and have everything work as desired (that is how my system is set up and it works fine, although I have left noquota on as well). Note that your boot drive is the only drive with which you want to use the noauto directive. This is because it is already mounted in order to boot the operating system, before /etc/fstab can be checked. > BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, so > if I should have something else there, please let me know.... I would recommend changing the last number to a 2, as this will speed up recovery from a dirty shutdown. With my other advice this would give you: /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 -- Allan
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:44:24 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608183642.8121A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm in the process of setting up a dual-boot drive.... actually the dual-boot is working fine... The old single-boot drive is still setup as something of as backup... and besides I've already done the setup there... So I linked /Disk/usr/local (the old disk gets mounted as /Disk) to /usr/local: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 15 Jun 8 19:05 /usr/local -> /Disk/usr/local/ but now when I try to run certain setuid programs I get: "Setuid execution not allowed" Why is this and how can I override it? The drive is mounted in /etc/fstab: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noauto 0 1 I don't know what else to do... TjL
From: sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mux for 4.x ? Date: 8 Jun 1997 23:54:20 GMT Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <5nfgnc$9jq@news.nd.edu> Hi all, I need to run the MUX driver (for the Digiboard 8 port serial card) on OpenStep 4.0. It seems that Mux doesn't like to install itself on 4.0. I have it installed on an old 3.3 system at home, but this nifty new 4.0 system at the lab doesn't work the same. Anybody get MUX to work on OS 4.x? If you're interested in why, here's a quick run-down. I'm studying the nonlinear dynamics of body movements. This is a part of psychology called Perception-Action Systems. I'm working to establish serial communications with an odd "bird". This is a set of magnetic coil position trackers called a "flock of birds". Unfortunately, these people have a relatively non-standard serial interface that uses RTS to reset their electronics! Yech! I'm stuck with XON/XOFF protocol and I'm trying to synchronize a number of sensors simultaneously. Enter Digiboard and the MUX driver, right? Eight ports with 16 byte buffering, and if I'm clever, I can get enough data moving from each sensor to maintain a reasonable enough sampling rate to understand some of the low level processes in how we maintain balance and how we perform non-verbal communication. If anyone can help here, I'd be very thankful. I've been up and down and back and forth with a breakout box before I came to the inescapeable conclusion that the Flock of Birds wants to run at 57 kbaud without hardware flow control. Insane! I'm going to have to step down the speed and add more ports. All the best, Steve -- Dr. Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 16:51:33 GMT Control: cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Sender: Photorep45@ibm.net Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: remote printer not working Date: 9 Jun 1997 10:37:08 GMT Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany. Message-ID: <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> References: <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> In article <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > In article <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars > Konieczny) writes: > > hi, > > > > i'm having trouble getting a remote printer connected to a unix > > machine working. printing with lpr from the command line is no > > problem, neither is printing the test page from the print manager. > > when printing anything from print panel nothing seems to happen > > - a detailed inspection showed that a correctly formatted print > > request is sent over the network - with nothing to print, i.e. > > all the packets except from the first (job request) were empty. > > no error messages show up. > > > > this is the contents of my printcap database: > > > > courier:lp=:rm=nice:rp=courier:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/lw-2G:ty=PostScript: > > > > helvetica:lp=:rm=nice:rp=helvetica:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/djet-vm:ty=Post > > Script Color: > > avantgarde:lp=:rm=nice:rp=avantgarde:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/avantgarde:ty= > > PostScript: > > > But by now you should be aware that flat file Unix config data don't mean > nothing to NEXTSTEP features unless they got loaded into the NetInfo > database. > Sorry, I haven t mentioned that I did _niload_ the printcap data (I even restarted the computer). All printers do appear in the print-panel, and printing appears to be fine, except that no content is sent to the printer (although there is communication with the printer). Again, printing the "Test" page from PrintManager, as well as printing from command line works fine. Any other ideas? Lars
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joost Backus <joostb@plex.nl> Subject: NT 4.0 and Openstep Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <339C60C1.7DAC@plex.nl> Sender: news@plex.nl (Usenet News) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Plex -- a public access Internet provider -- References: <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu> <glipof-0606971205530001@supermac.pervasive-sw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:00:01 GMT L.s. I installed Openstep 4.1 Enterprise numerous time under NT 4.0 but is does not seem to work. Interface builder or other meaningfull sw starts and after a few disk rumblings no more action. In the installation notes is nothing special. Any ideas. I couldn't find any references to this problem until now. Joost Backus.
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@no.spam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: 9 Jun 1997 20:00:31 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5nhncv$4ek@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608183642.8121A-100000@kira> Organisation: RRR Hello Timothy et.al., Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: [...] > The old single-boot drive is still setup as something of as backup... > and besides I've already done the setup there... [...] > but now when I try to run certain setuid programs I get: > > "Setuid execution not allowed" > > Why is this and how can I override it? > > The drive is mounted in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noauto 0 1 ^^^^^^ remove the noauto line, it prevents the "mount -a" command in /etc/rc from mounting the second disk while booting. I suppose it's actually mounted because Workspace finds+mounts it. (The disklabel of the second disk is "Disk" right ? :) But when you are logged in as a non-root user you get the described behaviour of suid-executables. And then you followed up to yourself: >thanks... 'man mount' said: > > suid set-uid execution allowed (cannot be specified; > default if root mounts the filesystem). > >but when I specified it, it worked.... > >I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: > >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 > Funny :) I suppose you were logged in via Worspace as root!? This would explain the difference ... > BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, > so if I should have something else there, please let me know.... It determines in what order filesystems (fs) are fsck'ed. All fs with the same number are checked at the same time in parallel, starting with the number 1. So its best to give only the root-fs the number 1 (this brings you faster to a single user boot prompt after a real crash. And then give all your other fs the following numbers in a way that two fs that are on the same physical disk are not checked at the same time (speeds up fsck'ing due to less head movement). Hth, ceers Bastian -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
From: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Eberhard Mandler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dithering on 12Bit color displays Date: 9 Jun 1997 08:49:13 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Is there a possibility to avoid dithering in case of viewing 24Bit color images with a 12 Bit video card? -- best regards, eberhard mandler Daimler-Benz Research Center Ulm Wilhelm-Runge-Str. 11 89081 Ulm Germany Phone: ++49-731-505-2116 Fax: ++49-731-505-4113 Please reply to: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Re: NT 4.0 and Openstep Sender: news@news.mediahaus.de Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Message-ID: <EBJ1Hw.n3u@news.mediahaus.de> References: <339C60C1.7DAC@plex.nl> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 21:10:44 GMT Joost Backus <joostb@plex.nl> writes > L.s. > > I installed Openstep 4.1 Enterprise numerous time under NT 4.0 but is > does not seem to work. > > Interface builder or other meaningfull sw starts and after a few disk > rumblings no more action. > > In the installation notes is nothing special. > > Any ideas. I couldn't find any references to this problem until now. > > > Joost Backus. What language version of NT are you running? Here are two nasty topics that prevent OS 4.1 from working with the german language version of NT right after installation: 1. The Openstep daemons that have to be autostarted (if I remember correctly these were the window server and the pasteboard server) are installed to the program group "Startup" whereas in the german language NT version they have to be installed in the "Autostart" program group. Fix: just move them over to the other program group. 2. The file <NEXT_ROOT>\NextLibrary\Frameworks\AppKit.framework\Resources\German.lp roj\Printing.strings is corrupted, causing Openstep programs to crash. Fix: copy the version from the English.lproj folder. Regards Piers --- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Initializing EIDE partitions. Date: 09 Jun 1997 13:47:34 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <veewwo3fz2h.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <vee910nrdhr.fsf@shell.one.net> In-reply-to: shess@shell.one.net's message of 06 Jun 1997 10:51:28 -0400 In article <vee910nrdhr.fsf@shell.one.net>, shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) writes: I recently added a 3.1 EIDE drive to my Intel PC running NeXTSTEP. ... now I found that "disk -i /dev/rhd0a" causes a system panic. It first displays enough to indicate that it _is_ getting the disk name and partition size right. Then it says something about "hdform doesn't exist yet..." And I've been unable to figure out how it was that I originally accomplished the trick - though I do remember I had a number of system panics before hitting on the right command. Well, I managed to get through this. For unknown reason, the fdisk partitioning information wasn't being understood by NeXTSTEP. I rebooted to Linux, rewrote the partition table from Linux fdisk, and then NeXTSTEP was able to format the appropriate partition just fine. Has anyone noticed that NeXTSTEP fdisk gets confused by 3.1G EIDE disks? It reports: No partitions in use Unused Blocks Start Size ------------------------------- Free Space 0 2049 It is fully capable of initializing a NeXTSTEP FDISK partition created from some other fdisk program, it just doesn't seem to handle them itself. I've never tried partitioning with NeXTSTEP fdisk and writing the partitioning info, because I figure it's most likely to lose me the last Gig of space... Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Eberhard Mandler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Gamma Correction Date: 9 Jun 1997 08:47:38 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5ngfva$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 How can I adjust the "Gamma Correction" of a NeXTStep PC? -- best regards, eberhard mandler Daimler-Benz Research Center Ulm Wilhelm-Runge-Str. 11 89081 Ulm Germany Phone: ++49-731-505-2116 Fax: ++49-731-505-4113 Please reply to: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: NS3.3,white: changing IP-Adress Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:12:00 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970609091023.28413A-100000@kira> References: <5ngau3$7l6$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Niels Coelle <mwnc@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <5ngau3$7l6$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> On 9 Jun 1997, Niels Coelle wrote: > How can I change the IP-adress of my installation? When I tried it with the HostManager.App I > could not enter the IP field. > Any guesses? I think I just saw this on my machine... try selecting 'bind to netinfo server' and then unselect that (assuming that you are not and do not want to do so). That worked for me and let me set the IP (in fact it told me to!) This was under 4.1/white TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:53:22 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Ynb_K2W00UhB82Sxl4@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Jun-97 Re: "Setuid execution not a.. by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > but when I specified it, it worked.... > > I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 > > BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, so > if I should have something else there, please let me know.... I believe you should not specify 'noauto' for any drive you want automaticly mounted by root at system startup (excluding '/', which gets mounted as a special case). This might have been why suid was not the default behavior. As for the pass number entries, '/' should be at pass 1, and everything else should be at some higher pass number-- read 'man fsck' for a more complete description. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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From: wpbrown@xensei.com (WPBrown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 9 Jun 1997 03:11:56 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Greetings, I'm quite new to NeXT, and in running the user configuration application to change root's shell, I inadvertantly changed root's home directory from / to /root. Unfortunately I can not seem to change it back, the application will not accept my corrected entry. In checking /etc/passwd, the root directory is listed as /, although a finger will also show it to be /root. Any thoughts onhow to correct this? Thanks.
From: Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 44.1 and DECchip211440 Network driver 100 MB? Date: 10 Jun 1997 10:02:53 GMT Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany Message-ID: <5nj8od$drb@omega.gmd.de> Hello, when booting OPENSTEP 4.1 our DECchip211440 Network driver - configured for 100 MB - says it enabled 10MB. When we try a connection, it seems even slower. The network card is a SMC 9332 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter. Can anybody give us some hints? Can we believe the enabling of 10 MB and why does it not 100 MB? Or should we ignore that and search on the other end or the hub? Since I don't read the news regularly could You please send e-mail too to me <Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de> or to <BEC@gex.gmd.de> Many thanks j.k. -- Jelske Kloppenburg, +49 2241 14-2433, <Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de> GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology "Don't kill the Winners!" Dennis Tsichritzis
From: Kent Davis <kent.davis@bowne.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS3.3 with out the Network Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 23:41:16 -0400 Organization: Bowne Information Services Message-ID: <339CCCDC.D2651C99@bowne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I need to start NS3.3 with out the network. It is looking for the two NSF mounts and hangs. Any ideas? Kent
From: Photorep45@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Control: cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Message-ID: <despam.5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 06:00:00 -700 Cancel Spam.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gettytab questions (timeouts and drops) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:20:25 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970610120430.14148D-100000@cc344191-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have been mucking around with the 'im' field of /etc/gettytab to change the telnet greeting.... I was wondering if there was a way to set a timeout for ftp/telnet/rlogin users to put in their username and password man getty says: Getty can be set to timeout after some interval, which will cause dial up lines to hang up if the login name is not entered reasonably quickly. but does not say how... so I checked 'man 5 gettytab' Name Type Default Description <snip> to num 0 timeout (seconds) This is the standard entry in gettytab: default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: I tried putting it at the end, alphabetically: default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:to=60 or at the beginning default:\ :to=60:ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: and other places but could not get it to timeout. Speaking of which, is there a way to 'drop' a connection if they fail in say 3 attempts to enter a valid user and password? Thanks! TjL ps -- the lowercase % variables which I found work are: %d = 11:13am on Tues, 10 June 1997 %h = hostname %t = tty
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 10 Jun 1997 13:22:38 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5njkeu$120c@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> References: <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> Hi, In article <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> wpbrown@xensei.com (WPBrown) writes: > Greetings, > > I'm quite new to NeXT, and in running the user configuration application to > change root's shell, I inadvertantly changed root's home directory from / to > /root. Unfortunately I can not seem to change it back, the application will > not accept my corrected entry. In checking /etc/passwd, the root directory is > listed as /, although a finger will also show it to be /root. Any thoughts > onhow to correct this? > > Thanks. > Two choices... as root make a directory /root -or- Use NetInfoManager and change the value of the home property to be / Should be easy to fix... -Milo -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology Services -- Network Services University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't log into upgraded OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 Date: 10 Jun 1997 12:09:15 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> I just upgraded my 4.1 system to 4.2 and now when I try to log in I get the following message displayed in an alert panel, and my log in attempt fails. This account does not have a user shell. /usr/bin/bash will be executed and all output will be ignored. Do you still want to execute this command? Any help with this will be appreciated. Eric Marshall EMI Software Engineering
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fsck passnos (was: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed") Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:16:13 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970610151319.19865E-100000@cc344191-a> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> <Ynb_K2W00UhB82Sxl4@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Ynb_K2W00UhB82Sxl4@andrew.cmu.edu> On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Charles William Swiger wrote: > As for the pass number entries, '/' should be at pass 1, and everything > else should be at some higher pass number-- read 'man fsck' for a more > complete description. Complete, sure, but comprehendible? Right now this is what I have setup: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd3a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd3h /ap dos rw,noquota 0 3 does that look right then? # btw: why is 'noquota' necessary? I didn't think there was any quota # support in OS/NS? Thanks TjL
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pine setup question Date: 10 Jun 1997 20:33:30 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5nkdmq$ivo$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I'd like to use pine for email when I rlogin, and Mail.app when I'm at the keyboard. What I want to know are 1. should I anticipate any difficulties or problems? 2. what values should I enter in pine's setup/configure? Thank you for your help. Randy Jackson -- 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't log into upgraded OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:57:46 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <339DBFCA.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit EMI Software Engineering wrote: > > I just upgraded my 4.1 system to 4.2 and now when I try > to log in I get the following message displayed in an alert panel, > and my log in attempt fails. > This account does not have a user shell. > /usr/bin/bash will be executed and all output will be > ignored. Do you still want to execute this command? > > Any help with this will be appreciated. > It seems that /etc/shells does not have your login shell. Login single user (-s) and add your shell to /etc/shells. stefan -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Dual Booting Date: 10 Jun 1997 20:58:46 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I have a PP200 that has NS 3.3 and NT 4.0 installed on the hard drive. I have always been able to boot into either OS until today, now I can only boot into NS. I no longer have the option type 'n' for NS or 'd' for dos. I used fdisk to look at the disk partitioning, but all seemed ok. Also NS recognized the dos partition as a folder from the file viewer. Does anyone know how to get back the ability to dual boot? Thanks in advance. -- 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/ ________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com (Eric Chu) Subject: NS4.0 exabyte 8505 dump paraaters Message-ID: <EBKwu8.EqB@ceco.ceco.com> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co. Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:25:19 GMT Hello all, silly question. when i try to do a full system dump to my exabyte tape drive, NS4.0 comes back and says i need 15 8mm tapes to do a 1gb backup. So....what parameters am i missing? What should i set my block size to be? I am using standard 112m 8mm tapes. TIA stupid newbie named eric echu@ceco.com
From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 10 Jun 1997 17:19:09 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Message-ID: <5nkjst$552@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> <5njkeu$120c@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <5njkeu$120c@wiscnews.wiscnet.net>, Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> wrote: >> I'm quite new to NeXT, and in running the user configuration application to >> change root's shell, I inadvertantly changed root's home directory from / to >> /root. Unfortunately I can not seem to change it back, the application will >> not accept my corrected entry. In checking /etc/passwd, the root directory >is >> listed as /, although a finger will also show it to be /root. Any thoughts >> onhow to correct this? >> >Two choices... as root make a directory /root >-or- >Use NetInfoManager and change the value of the home property to be / also nu -m as root will let you manage existing accounts. change passwd, home directory, etc. hehe.. the good old /root bug. man i remember being hit by that when i first installed NEXTSTEP.. took me weeks to figure out what happened. andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
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From: jimbo@easyway.net (James C. Brost) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4mm DAT Date: 11 Jun 97 01:22:13 GMT Organization: Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions Message-ID: <339dfdc5.0@fiji.easyway.net> I'm trying to add a Archive Python 4mm DAT to my NeXT (BLACK 040) under NeXT STEP 3.3 with patch1. MAKEDEV doesn't seem to add it, as I get a IP error in TAR. Any Ideas? -- jimbo@easyway (posted in Alexandra.app)
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From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network printing insider question Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 06:01:58 GMT Message-ID: <339e3d72.3486276@8.1.30.1> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com Hi NeXT Insider I want to use some sort of printfilter (djf for examble) to render the postscript output on my NeXTstation running NeXstep 3.3 BEFORE sending it to an other computer on my network via lpr/lpd to print it on my HP deskjet printer. After some searching I figuerd out the scripts running before the printfile is send to the remote computer, but I dont know how to get the filter to do the real postscript to deskjet conversation ...... Any one out there who knows what to do ???? Please reply by email to: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com Thanks for your help Dieter
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From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't log into upgraded OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:26:37 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nlnft$8ac$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emi@cais.cais.com In <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> EMI Software Engineering wrote: > I just upgraded my 4.1 system to 4.2 and now when I try > to log in I get the following message displayed in an alert panel, > and my log in attempt fails. > This account does not have a user shell. > /usr/bin/bash will be executed and all output will be > ignored. Do you still want to execute this command? Let me guess, under 4.1 you put /usr/bin/bash in where it wasn't in the original distribution, and then made it your shell. Then you upgraded to 4.2 and it blew away /usr/bin/ and probably /etc/shells but left NetInfo in place. Now you have a login shell which does not exist or is not in /etc/shells? Assuming that root is not also /usr/bin/bash, you can login as root (however I am guessing you thought of this already) Otherwise you can boot single user, and either put /usr/bin/bash in place and make sure it is in /etc/shells, or change your shell to something that does exist and in in /etc/shells such as /usr/bin/zsh You may have to start netinfo by hand sh /etc/rc & in single user mode and then use 'nu -m' or nidump passwd . > /tmp/passwd and then edit /tmp/passwd and niload passwd . < /tmp/passwd Morals of the story: you should use /usr/bin/zsh you should not change all your login shells to a shell which is not part of the standard distribution you should not put a file in /usr/bin that should really be in /usr/local/bin (which I think would have survived the upgrade process). Hope it works.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: bernard@cyllene.uwa.edu.au (Bernard Cena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP: IDE OpenStep 4.1 setup Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:56:28 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5nlp7s$hqv$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Hi! I've got an EIDE/Intel based OpenStep 4.1 setup with two 3 GB hard disks set up as masters on the first (Disk A) and second (Disk B) EIDE channels with an ATAPI CD-ROM set up as slave on the primary channel (such is the install requirement for 4.1). I have successfully installed OpenStep 4.1 on a partition on the disk A (Windog 95 is on there too *blush*). >>>This is what I'd like to do: I want to shift OpenStep to live on disk B (master,second EIDE channel) on a 1.5GB partition (the rest will be a Linux partition) and be able to boot it from a floppy or Linux LILO bootloader. How do I do this so everything is happy ? >>>This is what I've tried: I used the build disk gizmo to make an OpenStep partition on disk B (it copied everything there for me that I had on my partition on disk A). The problem is I cann't boot it :( I tried doing the common sense thing at boot prompt: hd(1)mach_kernel root=/dev/hd1a (and related combinations ) - I get through quite a bit of the boot procedure until it looks for the root device where it gives up saying it cann't find it :( The other thing that I thought would be obvious was to ditch drive A and set up drive B as master/primary EIDE channel with the CD-ROM as slave and re-install OpenStep from scratch on that, except for some stupid reason (oh how I love PC's! *grrr*) the BIOS won't recognise the CD-ROM in conjunction with that PARTICULAR drive (works fine with the other!) *sigh*. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Bernard Cena
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: slow network behavior Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:26:15 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5nn8m7$f2r@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:26:15 GMT I am (still) trying to track down a problem with slow throughput between our NeXTs and the university modem bank, and I have noticed that when a process is sleeping, netstat shows that the associated tcp send queue is at 4096 bytes, whereas a linux machine on the same subnet has a send queue over 23000 bytes for a similar task. Could the way in which the NeXTs are queueing packets for transmission have something to do with slow output (e.g. 6 minutes to deliver a 20K file either by http or by cat to a tty)? Another thing I have noticed is that I'm getting collision rates around 5%, but I don't see why this would affect the NeXTs, but not the other machines on the same subnet. Pointers please! Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Hippykill@NextStation.digex.net (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 11 Jun 1997 23:59:48 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5nne5k$f3f$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5nkjst$552@plains.NoDak.edu> In article <5nkjst$552@plains.NoDak.edu> awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) writes: > also nu -m as root will let you manage existing accounts. > change passwd, home directory, etc. > hehe.. the good old /root bug. man i remember being hit by that > when i first installed NEXTSTEP.. took me weeks to figure out what > happened. Happened to me too...however, when I tried to do anything at all to change it I couldn't. So I just reset my NetInfo database and all was well...just had to create new accounts, and my NeXT is a home machine... -- *mikelea@access.digex.net* "imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known-there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, because I will not change." -de Sade
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP: Partition weirdness after 4.1 install Date: 12 Jun 1997 02:59:09 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nnolt$1c0c@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all! This has me stumped... I installed OS 4.1 on my new Dell Optiplex PPro, with a 4095MB internal SCSI drive. So, I told the installation program to put OpenStep on a 2.5GB partition, and to reserve the remaining 1.5GB for DOS. Now my system is up and running, and fdisk reports exactly the partitions I originally ordered. But the problem is that regardless of what fdisk reports, according to OpenStep, the 2.5 GB of OpenStep space appears to be distributed amount sd0a, sd0b, and sd0c; each reports about 800MB. sd0a is the root partition. The 1.5 GB DOS partition appears not to exist at all, from OpenStep's perspective. If it's any help... the Workspace InfoPanel reports "Disk: 0MB". What on earth is going on? Can I stop it? Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Novell support dropped in 4.x? Say it isn't so... Date: 12 Jun 1997 02:50:55 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nno6f$25s8@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, Graduating from my black hardware to a PPro entailed purchasing a new version of the NeXT OS. I have 4.1. Of course, on installing 4.1 on the new system, I noticed that /NextAdmin/NetWareManager.app doesn't exist. Someone please tell me I am having a bad dream. Has the Netware support simply been removed from the NeXT CDs? If so, where do I turn? Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
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From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Monitor Sync Problems! Ack! Date: 12 Jun 1997 03:45:34 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5nnrcu$nr6$1@brokaw.wa.com> I have a Colorstation ADB running NS 3.3/3.2 on it with a 17" megapixel std. next color monitor. For some reason, upon boot up the colorstation cant seem to sync with the monitor and ends up getting a jumbled image. It usually takes 5-6 power-ons before it can finally sync up. Whats going on here?? -b -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- Email: larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 2940 AU Date: 12 Jun 1997 05:28:23 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5no1dn$sqm$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi there, we just got a new Pentium computer on which we wanted to install Nextstep 3.3. Unfortunately, it seems that the driver for the SCSI Adapter does not work. The Adapter is a new Adaptec 2940AU. We are using the driver version 3.37, downloaded from Nextanswers several weeks ago. During install, we receive an error message saying "Cannot get config space, no SCSI adapter found". Any help would be appreciated. Markus
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: 12 Jun 1997 02:47:57 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, I know this one comes around regularly...I even kept an archive of old posts in anticipation of the arrival this week of my PPro system with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. But I can't seem to figure out what I need to do. The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my system. The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, nor how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in system panics on boot-up. Help, anyone? Cheers, Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: exere@intercon.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Product Annoucement Date: 12 Jun 1997 07:10:15 GMT Organization: DEC Inc. Message-ID: <5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Hey, just thought i'd share with everyone, I found a site with loads of nude CHEERLEADERs. The address is: http://www.mid-night.com/cheer.htm --Jason-- (Sorry for the intrusion, everyone needs some short skirts in their life) P.S. They also have a few thounsand celebrities but im not into that.
From: exere@intercon.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 12 Jun 1997 07:10:15 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Control: cancel <5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr. It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Thu Jun 12 13:34:15 1997 Original subject was: Product Annoucement
From: freeman@cornell-iowa.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programming Subject: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:30:36 GMT Organization: The University of Iowa Message-ID: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> I have been using perl 5.003 on 3.3 black for some time without problem. I needed to compile perl again, and I am having significant problems with the compilation. miniperl is dying with memory or bus errors in the middle of the make process. If you rerun the make several times, the errors will occur in diffferent parts of the process. I am not sure what is going on. Would anyone be willing to send me the configure.sh file you used to successfully compile perl 5.003? Thanks. Jim Freeman --- Dr. James H.Freeman freeman@Cornell-Iowa.edu (Nextmail OK) Department of Mathematics (Mime OK) Cornell College 319-895-4393(office) 600 First Street West 319-895-6866(home) Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314-1098
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: remote printer not working Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:48:31 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5nounf$4qa$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Cc: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de In <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Lars Konieczny wrote: > Sorry, I haven t mentioned that I did _niload_ the printcap data (I even > restarted the computer). All printers do appear in the print-panel, and > printing appears to be fine, except that no content is sent to the printer > (although there is communication with the printer). Again, printing the "Test" > page from PrintManager, as well as printing from command line works fine. Maybe you have not unlimited the file size...put a mx#0 in your printcap options. What does lpq say? -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pine setup question Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:28:36 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970612083842.4716B-100000@cc344191-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5nkdmq$ivo$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 10 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > I'd like to use pine for email when I rlogin, and Mail.app when I'm at > the keyboard. > > What I want to know are > > 1. should I anticipate any difficulties or problems? I've had PINE mess up the table_of_contents file of some Mail.app mboxes... no real problem except it takes time to be rebuilt when it is done... I think the TOC just sees that someone has touched the 'mbox' file and thinks it needs to update it.... You shoud _NOT_ use pine to delete messages, and you will not be able to read NeXTMail messages. NOTE: if you have Active.mbox open in Mail.app (which happens by default when you start Mail.app) PINE will have trouble trying to read the Active mailbox, because it waits for Mail.app to give up the lock, which it does not do until you close the window, so be sure and close Active.mbox or don't try to access it from the PINE session. If you forget and need to access it and are not in front of the computer, you can try this: kill -QUIT `/bin/ps -auxwww|fgrep Mail.app|grep -v fgrep|awk '{print $2}'` (which basically says: find Mail.app's PID and send the nice QUIT signal.) Then run 'ps' again to make sure it quit... (Man Rhapsody better do something about having no commandline news-reader, I've been waiting 6 years for one...) > 2. what values should I enter in pine's setup/configure? Well, it doesn't really matter all that much.... If you want easy access to the Mail.app mailboxes you need to make links from the 'mbox' file within the 'mbox' wrapper to wherever the PINE mailboxes are (usually ~/mail). IE if you want access to the Active.mbox you should do this in Terminal.app: cd ~/mail ; ln -s ../Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox ../mail/active I wrote a little script to find all your Mail.app mailboxes and try to help setup PINE links.... it's probably on my web page under 'mailserver' or send me mail with the SUBJECT send-help and you can get it via email... Oh, you might want to set PINE's outgoing mailbox to the same as Mail.app's, but I wouldn't because it will muck with the table_of_contents in the outgoing.mbox.... just keep them separate.... and you do not want to 'auto move read messages' ie from /usr/spool/mail/yourname to Active.mbox because that will also cause TOC problems.... email me if you have more questions TjL
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: 12 Jun 1997 14:44:46 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np20u$fsk@fu-berlin.de> References: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Cc: atl2@lehigh.edu In <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this one comes around regularly...I even kept an archive of old > posts in anticipation of the arrival this week of my PPro system with a > 4MB Matrox Millenium. But I can't seem to figure out what I need to do. > > The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the > WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT > 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory > mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my system. > The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, nor > how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in > system panics on boot-up. > > Help, anyone? I had the same problem. Swapping this card with another Matrox 4MB worked for me. Now the card is in a WinNT machine and works in all resolutions Strange, I know. Maybe it is a hardware problem (defective card, slot, etc ...) Ciao, Thomas -- || Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel MIKS - Meteorologische Informations- || EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE und Kommunikations-Systeme || Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 an der Freien Universitaet Berlin || FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13 - 12165 Berlin
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP JetDirect Printer on NS3.0 -- can it be done? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:54:17 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970612093709.270A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm wondering if I can hook up an HP printer with a JetDirect ethernet interface to an old black station running 3.0. Has anyone done it? Clearly it's not standard. What are my options? Thanks. Robert
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: lockd errors in Solaris when accessing Next NFS files Date: 12 Jun 1997 22:30:52 GMT Organization: UCSF, ITS Message-ID: <5nptas$kcm@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> The following errors occur in my Solaris console when I trying to run an data analysis program there that accesses Next NFS files. The files are Next files and are mounted on Solaris. They are generally usable, thanks to some of you suggesting I reconcile the read and write block size between the Next and Sun. Anyway, I have no trouble reading and writing the files with programs like the editor and vi, but when it comes to this particular data analysis program the errors occur. Is this due to incompatibility between the NFS versions that Solaris and Nextstep use? Jun 12 13:48:14 eclipse lockd[113]: create_client: no name for inet address 0xF09E7D18 Jun 12 13:48:14 eclipse lockd[113]: nlm1_call: RPC: Program not registered Thanks. Karen Vranizan
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 AU Date: 12 Jun 1997 23:06:12 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5npvd4$3b3$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5no1dn$sqm$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) writes: >Hi there, >we just got a new Pentium computer on which we wanted to install Nextstep >3.3. Unfortunately, it seems that the driver for the SCSI Adapter does not >work. The Adapter is a new Adaptec 2940AU. We are using the driver version >3.37, downloaded from Nextanswers several weeks ago. During install, we >receive an error message saying "Cannot get config space, no SCSI adapter >found". >Any help would be appreciated. >Markus Add 0x61789004 to the Auto Detect IDs" for the Adaptec Device. kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! weird emacs behavior Date: 13 Jun 1997 05:21:04 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jun 1997 05:21:04 GMT I'm running OpenStep on black hardware and sporadically I have been getting a problem when starting up emacs, which bombs out with the message "Illegal instruction" and screws up the tty (no character echo on input and no carriage return, just linefeeds). Any further attempts to run that copy of emacs will cause the same problem on other ttys too. But here's the really weird thing: if I run another copy of the executable (e.g. from the cd-rom) it runs fine. I have now taken to keeping a copy that I named emacs.clean on my disk drive and every time I get this problem (it happened twice today) I just cp it to /usr/bin/emacs and thenceforth everything runs fine (until the next time it happens!) The number of bytes on the screwed up copy of emacs is identical to the clean copy. Can anyone suggest an explanation for this bizarre behavior? Could I have a failing disk drive here? (But if so why would it affect only this program?) Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStep Installation Problems Date: 13 Jun 1997 05:57:08 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5nqnfk$q61$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi, Thanks you all for the many prompt answers I received to my question about how to get the new Adaptec 2940AU to work. Indeed, it was only necessary to add 0x61789004 to the Auto Detect IDs in the defaults.table (and in the instance0.table, too!). However, surely we got subsequently stuck with another problem. Apparently NextStep cannot make a connection to the serial (mouse) port during booting. We receive an error message saying that it cannot reserve IRQ4 and that SerialPort0 is not a valid device. Does anybody know what this might be? Thanks again, Markus
From: root@127.0.0.1 (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Phantom Printer Queue! Date: 13 Jun 1997 06:04:14 GMT Organization: Center for NEXTSTEP Research Message-ID: <5nqnsu$t06@tofu.alt.net> My NeXTcube used to have a NeXT laser printer connected to it until I recently moved it to my NeXTstation. Now, it seems, that I am unable to remove the queue for the NeXT laser in PrintManager. The NeXT laser queue in PrintManager is dimmed and as a result I cannot delete it from PrintManager. I tried manually removing it using NetinfoMangager but every time I reboot my NeXTcube it reappears. Does NEXTSTEP 3.3pl1 require a default print queue in PrintManager? Has anybody else experienced this? How can I remove the print queue? Regards.
From: root@127.0.0.1 (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sending email via PPP and sendmail.mailhost.cf Date: 13 Jun 1997 06:15:08 GMT Organization: Center for Space Research Message-ID: <5nqohc$7l@tofu.alt.net> My NeXTcube connects via PPP to my internet providor. I am using sendmail 8.8.5 and the NeXT supplied sendmail.mailhost.cf. The problem I am having is that I can't send email within my domain because sendmail thinks that I am the mailhost and doesn't forward the email to my internet providor. All other email is sent to it's appropriate destination. I am aware of the "hack" option that Francois Magnan has developed and I don't like that solution. It seems that there must be an easy sendmail rule which can solve this problem. Any ideas? Regards.
From: decoy_id@no_junk_on_the.net (L e e Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sending email via PPP and sendmail.mailhost.cf Date: 13 Jun 1997 09:25:02 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5nr3le$a1e$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5nqohc$7l@tofu.alt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: root@127.0.0.1 In <5nqohc$7l@tofu.alt.net> Charlie Root wrote: > > My NeXTcube connects via PPP to my internet providor. I am using > sendmail 8.8.5 and the NeXT supplied sendmail.mailhost.cf. > > The problem I am having is that I can't send email within my domain > because sendmail thinks that I am the mailhost and doesn't forward > the email to my internet providor. All other email is sent to it's > appropriate destination. > > I am aware of the "hack" option that Francois Magnan has developed > and I don't like that solution. It seems that there must be an easy > sendmail rule which can solve this problem. > > Any ideas? This works just fine: On Mon, 31 Mar 97, jth9904@pop.tamu.edu wrote: Modify your sendmail's config file so the rule that looks like this: R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain is commented out. Mail to <user>@tamu.edu will be processed properly. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100, Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenXber@mhpXcc.edu <Delete the "X"s; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~Xaltenber/ <Delete the "X"> =======================================================================
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: why does DECchip 21140 think it's a 21040? Date: 13 Jun 1997 15:17:25 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5nroa5$t12$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: Cogent EM 110, DECchip 21104, DECchip 21040 Hi, I have an interesting situation. Here is the story. The fellow in the next office just bought a new Dell OptiPlex GXpro 6200 (a pentium pro 200). It came with a built-in 3Com PCI 10/100 ethernet adapter (3C90x ?). He wanted to see if OPENSTEP 4.1 ran well on this system, so I told him I'd help him check it out. I had heard that this 3Com ethernet adapter was not (yet) supported under OPENSTEP, so we disabled it in the BIOS. We loaded OPENSTEP and all went well. I had an extra Cogent EM 110 (PCI 10/100) ethernet card, which uses the DECchip 21140. This card works fine on our DEC pentium pros, so I thought we could try it in the Dell. For some reason the Dell thinks it's a DECchip 21040 rather than a 21140. If we use Configure.app to load either the Cogent EM 110 driver or the DECchip 21140 driver, we get the following message during the reboot: DECchip 21140: unsupported PCI hardware However, if we use the DECchip 21040 driver, everything seems to work. We're not really complaining, since the ethernet card works this way, but we do find it curious. Has anyone else seen this? Are we doing something wrong? We installed the card and then used Configure.app to load the driver. Do we need to reverse this (use Configure.app to load the driver and then install the card)? Also, does the card have to go in a particular PCI slot? The messages during boot look like: DECchip 21040: PCI Dev: 11 Func: 0 Bus: 1 Registering en0 DECchip 21040 based adapter at port 0xec80 irq 10 interface TP One last question. Configure.app does not mention an IRQ being used, but booting gives this message about IRQ 10. This seems strange. Any comments would be welcome. Thanks in advance. Gregg =========================== Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: thinkpad 560 display driver Date: 12 Jun 1997 16:00:26 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np6eq$rnu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I just got myself a thinkpad 560 active matrix display. I tried the display driver from nextanswers but it does not seem to work: It detects the display adaptor (says chipversion 66) and then it gives an error "Unsupported PCI hardware" and proceeds to load the default VGA driver. Any one else have this problem? pasc
From: ashrafi@mit.edu (Babak Razzaghe Ashrafi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: thousand of input packets per second!? Date: 13 Jun 1997 14:38:01 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <5nrm09$8md@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> The network monitor on KPerMon has been maxed out on my NeXTstation for a few days. Netstat shows thousands of input packets per second, hundreds of errors, no collisions. Although everything, including ping, NewsGrazer, Apache httpd, and OmniWeb seem to be working normally, I would like to be sure that nothing has gone wrong on my machine, especially (horrors!) hardware. Thanks for any advice, Babak ashrafi@mit.edu
From: decoy_id@no_junk_on_the.net (L e e Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cover page on print jobs Date: 14 Jun 1997 01:38:58 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5nssni$smb$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I finally got the modified PPD file to work for printing duplex jobs on an HP Laserjet 4 SI/MX printer. But the cover page is printed at the end of the job, instead of the beginning. The cover page prints: User: Host: Class: Job: Where is this cover page created? I couldn't find any entries that refer to the cover page or its entries in HP_LaserJet_4Si%4SiMX_PS_600dpi.ppd or HP_LaserJet_4SiMX_Duplex_600DPI.ppd How can I get the cover page to be printed at the beginning? How can I alter its contents? -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100, Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenXber@mhpXcc.edu <Delete the "X"s; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~Xaltenber/ <Delete the "X"> =======================================================================
From: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (B. N. Bondoc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 13 Jun 1997 22:01:26 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <x7zpsurlhl.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> Hello, I would appreciate a thread of discussion on this I am new to perl thanks nick
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 13 Jun 1997 20:14:12 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> Hi, Could someone provide some suggestions on how I should go about connecting my NeXT Cube to my ISP with a ppp connection? Ah, I have a fresh install of NS 3.3 User/Dev. Ah, also have another cube. So in addition at some point I'd like to get these two machines to talk to each other as well. Ah, I don't have time to read a research paper on exactly what ppp and slip are. What I'd like would be a set of readings explaining how to set up my network, which IP addresses I should use for the two boxes, which NeXT Tools should be used for various administrative tasks. That or just some email advice. Thanks, Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: Test ignore Message-ID: <EBqz0t.Fzv@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 03:58:04 GMT test -- Lyle Parkyn ProSoft Solutions Inc. (http://www.prosoft.com) lparkyn@prosoft.com (NeXTmail, text or MIME formats welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)538-7694
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: test ignore Message-ID: <EBr30C.H14@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 05:24:12 GMT test -- Lyle Parkyn ProSoft Solutions Inc. (http://www.prosoft.com) lparkyn@prosoft.com (NeXTmail, text or MIME formats welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)538-7694
From: peis290731@aol.com (PEis290731) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Dual Booting Date: 14 Jun 1997 11:41:07 GMT Message-ID: <19970614114101.HAA29407@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL Bertelsmann Online GmbH & Co. KG http://www.germany.aol.com References: <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Hi Darryl, one solution for your problem is to boot into NT 4.0 and start the diskmanager. There you have to set the NS partition activ. The next time you will boot into NS. There you must log in as root. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a If you're using an IDE disk, substitute /dev/rhd0a for /dev/rsd0a. Note: You must execute this command as root. Incorrectly typing this command can have serious repercussions. Use caution when logged in as root. Hope this helps, Peter
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: samba and printer export Date: 14 Jun 1997 12:23:41 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would like to export my next laser printer from samba but can't seem to get it working. Could someone share their config file from samba that allows the standard laser printer to be exported? thanks vince
From: Tony Scott<summer@laoffices.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Distributors Wanted NOW!! Date: 14 Jun 1997 15:07:04 GMT Organization: World Wide Pants Promotion Message-ID: <5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Hi, This is a Solicitation Email, we are looking for new TUFF'97 DISTRIBUTORS. TUFF'97 is a promotional concept for a prospect follow-up system called "Simple Track". Software designed for Windows 95, 3.11 and NT machines. (Macintosh users read the NOTE below(*)) Concept: The TUFF'97 software includes a copy of Simple Track, so you can use this for your own personal administration (free). However, the TUFF'97 software is designed to give you BIG TIME credits for just taking the efforts to PROMOTE it. How do I get those credits?. Easy, just distribute/promote it. How? (Give away the software for free, put it on your website/homepage and let everyone download it. Give it to your friends, attach it by email etc). With a one time $40.00 (USD) validation code purchase, YOUR name becomes part of all sofware you sent out to your customers. When your TUFF'97 software gets validated, all your personal information is automatically integrated in the software, so everyone knows how to reach you by phone/fax or email and where to sent the check/money or cash orders. Basically this is the concept. Offcourse you need the software to grasp the whole thing. Believe it, there is absolutely no marketing knowledge required, just ask for the software package, join and start promoting your own TUFF'97 line. The only thing you DO need is a PC or Mac(*) and Internet. (*) TUFF'97 is only available for MacOS users running Connectix VirtualPC or Insignia's Sofwindows 95/3.11. A true MacOS version is not available. When you're interested in becoming a TUFF'97 distributor and create your own distribution line, sent a mailto:FiReStArTeR@frodo.com and ask for your copy of the TUFF software (We'll sent you a download location and install instructions). This is a serious opportunity, so only serious responses are processed. If you're not interested, have a nice day. Best Regards, Tony Scott Worldwide Pants Promotions 24H Support/Download requests, mailto:FiReStArTeR@frodo.com voice:(+01)779 698 4655 Fax :(+01)779 698 4555
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Date: 14 Jun 1997 17:40:06 GMT Control: cancel <5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Message-ID: <cancel.5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Sender: Tony Scott<summer@laoffices.com> Spam cancelled. Notice ID: 19970614.03. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce or http://spam.ohww.norman.ok.us/spam_notices/19970614.03.html for complete report. Original Subject: Distributors Wanted NOW!!
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dithering on 12Bit color displays Date: 14 Jun 1997 11:37:56 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nuoe4$l4@mpaque.mpaque> References: <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> In article <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Eberhard Mandler) writes: > Is there a possibility to avoid dithering in case of viewing 24Bit color > images with a 12 Bit video card? Not if you use the WindowServer to do the depth conversion for you. You could write a bit of code to convert your 24 bit image into a 4 bit per channel RGB image using your favorite depth conversion algorithm. Put the resulting 12 bit per pixel image in an NSBitmapImageRep object, and composite it to a window. You'll get the best performance if you pack the RGB data into 16 bit unsigned shorts, with red in the high nybble, followed by green, then blue, then 0xF in the bottom nybble. There may be some third party image manipulation apps that can do the dirty work for you. I haven't evaluated any, so I won't make a recommendation. > How can I adjust the "Gamma Correction" of a NeXTStep PC? A few PCs support gamma correction in hardware, mostly just in 8 bit pseudocolor mode. If the PC hardware supports gamma correction in the current display mode, you can use the NeXT PS extension 'setframebuffertransfer' to modify the hardware gamma. The transfer functions are stored in PostScript shared VM, so you'll need to do 'true setshared' before setting the new transfer functions. For a gamma of 1.6, the pft session to set the gamma looks like: % pft Connection to PostScript established. true setshared { 1 1.6 div exp } dup dup {} 0 setframebuffertransfer Here's the relevent documentation: setframebuffertransfer redproc greenproc blueproc grayproc fbnum setframebuffertransfer - Warning: This operator should only be used for the development of screen-calibration products. Sets the framebuffer transfer functions in effect for the framebuffer indexed by fbnum. fbnum ranges from 0 to countframebuffers-1. The framebuffer transfer describes the relationship between the framebuffer values of the display, and the voltage produced to drive the monitor. The initial four operands define the transfer procedures: Monochrome devices use grayproc (but see the Note below), color devices use the others. The procedures must be allocated in shared virtual memory. In addition, the Window Server assumes that the framebuffer values are directly proportional to screen brightness. This is important for the accuracy of dithering, compositing, and similar calculations. The default transfer for NeXT Color Displays is { 1 2.2 div exp } bind dup dup {} Note: setframebuffertransfer is unsupported on the current generation of NeXT monochrome displays. It's possible to make framebuffer transfer functions persist beyond the lifetime of the Window Server by storing a property in the NetInfo screens database. In the local NetInfo domain, /localconfig/screens holds the configuration information for the screens known to the Window Server (MegaPixel, NeXTdimension, and so on). These specify the layout and activation state of the screen. The NetInfo defaultTransfer property can contain a string of PostScript code suitable for execution by the setframebuffertransfer operator (without the fbnum parameter). For example, the following represents the NetInfo configuration for a NeXTdimension screen with a default gamma of 2.0: localhost:1# niutil -read . /localconfig/screens/NeXTdimension name: NeXTdimension slot: 2 unit: 0 defaultTransfer: {1 2.0 div exp } dup dup dup bounds: 0 1120 0 832 active: 1 _writers: * The defaultTransfer property is used to configure the screen each time the Window Server starts up. This allows monitor calibration products to save their settings so the next time the Window Server starts up, the new values will be used. Note that in some cases, the NetInfo configuration state for a monitor will not have active equal to 1, although the monitor is being used by the Window Server. If there are no active screens (screens that are explicitly marked as being active), the Window Server uses a suitable default, however, the other NetInfo properties for that screen are ignored. Thus, you must be sure that the screen for which you are adding a defaultTransfer value has active set to 1. -- Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. (With apologies to Joe Straczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NS4.0 exabyte 8505 dump paraaters Message-ID: <EBrB1y.Bvu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EBKwu8.EqB@ceco.ceco.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 08:17:58 GMT In article <EBKwu8.EqB@ceco.ceco.com> echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com (Eric Chu) writes: > Hello all, > > silly question. > Yes, indeed :-) > when i try to do a full system dump to my exabyte tape drive, NS4.0 > comes back and says i need 15 8mm tapes to do a 1gb backup. > So....what parameters am i missing? What should i set my > block size to be? > The man-page on 'dump' shows parameters 's' and 'd' for size and density of tape. They are remainders from the time of tape reels. You have to compute what size a tape reel would have if it had the capacity of your cassette and specify the parameters accordingly. -- 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: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Best ppp ? ppp2.2, Gatekeeper, or MorningStarPPP ? Compatibility ? Date: 14 Jun 1997 14:07:35 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nv16n$igi@slip.net> Hi, I'm interested in recommendations as to what is the best ppp package for NS 3.3 on blackhardware. Ah, I'd like to get going with ppp soon which means that one of the public packages, ppp2.2 or Gatekeeper is best suited to my immediate needs, but since I have TTYDSP, I'm considering purchasing MorningStarPPP. Ah, will MorningStarPPP be incompatible with either ppp2.2 or Gatekeeper? Thanks, Emmett
From: alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu (Alex Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: GSPrintFilter and Netware Printers? Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:21:07 GMT Message-ID: <5nv203$22rk@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, The subject line says it all. Can it be done? I have had no success so far... Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <14012865742421@digifix.com> Date: 15 Jun 1997 03:57:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3108866347221@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't find "/usr" in File Viewer Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:49:53 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> How to I get the File Viewer to display the files in /usr/bin? On the command line I can cd to / do an ls and see /usr, but I can't click on the leftmost broswer and see /usr eventhough File Viewer sees other directories such as /LocalApps. Ah, I want to put some application icons on the desktop and can't get to their icons. Thanks, Emmett
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to register an application with Librarian Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:55:23 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nvsjr$dcb@slip.net> References: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> Hi, How does one register the documentation of a package with Librarian? For example, I just installed co-Xist on NS 3.3 and when I search on xterm in Librarian nothing appears. However, co-Xist does have a documentation directory. Similarly I can't find documentation there on other common things like PPP. I recall reading a post which said the doc on PPP through Librarian was pretty good. Thanks, Emmett
From: chrisj@bellatlantic.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cheerleaders are so sweet...! Date: 15 Jun 1997 08:58:41 GMT Organization: Bell Atlantic Message-ID: <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Hey, just thought i'd share with everyone, I found a site with loads of nude CHEERLEADERs. The address is: http://www.mid-night.com --Jason-- (Sorry for the intrusion, everyone needs some short skirts in their life) P.S. They also a have spanish / latina women archive
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't find "/usr" in File Viewer Date: 15 Jun 1997 09:49:44 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5o0dro$4uj$1@news.inc.net> References: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: How to I get the File Viewer to display the files in /usr/bin? On the command line I can cd to / do an ls and see /usr, but I can't click on the leftmost broswer and see /usr eventhough File Viewer sees other directories such as /LocalApps. Ah, I want to put some application icons on the desktop and can't get to their icons... ---------------------------------------------- Oh, my. I'm sorry, but if you're a Mac user we're not allowed to tell you that. Remember, "UNIX Bad. Icons Good". Plus, why in the world would you want to put standard UNIX apps on your File Viewer Shelf? The Apple policy is: "Don't ask, don't tell" remember? Bad, bad, bad, curious boy! You're not supposed to **see** any of those nasty UNIX things... (which, is btw the default behaviour of NEXTSTEP for all you UNIXphobes - hidden UNIX) :)) Sorry, I couldn't resist. Please launch Preferences.app, which should be the 2nd app (default setting at any rate) on your Dock. Once it is up, please slide the scrollbar to the far right. You should see a "UNIX" icon. Please select it. The Pref's panel will change dynamically, and you will have the notice under the File System Options a check-off the box marked UNIX Expert. Please give it a check mark. If you will now return to your File Viewer, you shall see "/usr", probably right under "/tmp". I hope this helps you. You may want to read the brief on-line help for Preferences.app while you are there - it is really quite handy. Please, now would all the kind Mac folks now at least acknowledge that NeXT **tried** to make the user experience as simple, clean and pleasurable as the Macintosh? From all the vehement posts I've read lately, one would think that Steve & Co. had set out to purposely piss off Mac fans, when in fact he rarely attempted to "reinvent the wheel", as it where... Uggh. (not directed at Mr. McLean's post) -- Hans Rupert <rupert@noir.net> Direktor noir
From: chrisj@bellatlantic.net Organization: Bell Atlantic Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Control: cancel <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> References: <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:04:13 +1 EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "www.mid-night.com" or "summary of auto-cancellations" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: Cheerleaders are so sweet...!.
From: NOSPAM.michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (Michael Pieper, remove 'NOSPAM.' for reply) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior Date: 15 Jun 1997 12:23:04 GMT Organization: I.N.-Regionaldomain oche.de, Aachen, Germany Message-ID: <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> References: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) wrote: >I'm running OpenStep on black hardware and sporadically I have been >getting a problem when starting up emacs, which bombs out with the >message "Illegal instruction" and screws up the tty (no character echo >on input and no carriage return, just linefeeds). Any further >attempts to run that copy of emacs will cause the same problem on >other ttys too. But here's the really weird thing: if I run another >copy of the executable (e.g. from the cd-rom) it runs fine. I have >now taken to keeping a copy that I named emacs.clean on my disk drive >and every time I get this problem (it happened twice today) I just cp >it to /usr/bin/emacs and thenceforth everything runs fine (until the >next time it happens!) The number of bytes on the screwed up copy of >emacs is identical to the clean copy. Why don't you try a 'cmp emacs.clean /usr/bin/emacs' to see, if the original version is corrupted? Michael -- Michael Pieper, Bluecherplatz 14, D-52068 Aachen, Tel. : +49 - (0)241 - 902455 Fax: +49 - (0)241 - 902456 Mail : michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) PGP : Public Key on demand
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 15 Jun 1997 05:24:01 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nvu9h$68v$3@bashir.peak.org> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <x7zpsurlhl.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca In <x7zpsurlhl.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> B. N. Bondoc wrote: > Hello, > > > I would appreciate a thread of discussion on this > I am new to perl You might start here: http://www.omnigroup.com/MailArchive/next-prog/1993/1622.html (it's obviously old but might be some help) there's also this http://www.next.com/WebObjects/Extras/Perl-5.002.pkg.compressed which isn't the version you wanted either.... and ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/Perl5.0002.NISH.b.tar.gz isn't it either.... v 5.001 is what ships with 4.1, if that means anything to you.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to register an application with Librarian Date: 15 Jun 1997 05:27:33 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nvug5$68v$4@bashir.peak.org> References: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> <5nvsjr$dcb@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5nvsjr$dcb@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > How does one register the documentation of a package > with Librarian? If it has a bookshelf, open that, otherwise add the index to your Notepad or whatever it is called... > Similarly I can't find documentation there on > other common things like PPP. I recall reading a post > which said the doc on PPP through Librarian was > pretty good. That would only be under 4.x, release notes has a section on PPP TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Cover page on print jobs Message-ID: <EBtqB2.5s5@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5nssni$smb$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:42:38 GMT In article <5nssni$smb$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> decoy_id@no_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) writes: > I finally got the modified PPD file to work for printing duplex > jobs on an HP Laserjet 4 SI/MX printer. But the cover page is > printed at the end of the job, instead of the beginning. The cover > page prints: > > User: > Host: > Class: > Job: > > Where is this cover page created? I couldn't find any entries that > refer to the cover page or its entries in > HP_LaserJet_4Si%4SiMX_PS_600dpi.ppd or > HP_LaserJet_4SiMX_Duplex_600DPI.ppd > > How can I get the cover page to be printed at the beginning? How > can I alter its contents? I recollect this from memory, the system with NeXTlaser isn't accessible right now, sorry. It seems to me that I ran into such control parameters when I browsed the rather extensive tree in the 'printers' directory of the NetInfo database. I propose to look there for clues. And not only the leaves hold properties! The reason for the control sheet to be printed last is certainly a consequence of the NeXTlaser to eject the pages face up. Thus the last page printed is visible when you look at the tray. -- 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: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior Date: 15 Jun 1997 20:41:17 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5o1k1d$9po@news.tamu.edu> References: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jun 1997 20:41:17 GMT Michael Pieper, remove 'NOSPAM.' for reply <NOSPAM.michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de> wrote: >Why don't you try a 'cmp emacs.clean /usr/bin/emacs' to see, if the original >version is corrupted? Jolly good idea---I'll do it next time I get a problem. I've been using unix for over a dozen years now and never knew of cmp. That's why I love these newsgroups. Thanks! -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Frederic SAVOIR <fsavoir@dial.oleane.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: My original Openstep Device Drivers Disk Prerelease 4.2 is dead ! Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 23:22:31 +0200 Organization: Guest of OLEANE - PIPEX International Message-ID: <33A45D17.1BB72D66@dial.oleane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I received my Openstep for Mach (Intel) 4.2 prerelease 2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) but my second floppy disk is dead which is the Openstep device drivers disk prerelease 2.... Thus I can't install the software... If some got the same disk and could send it to me by Email (in raw format) or if someone knows where to get it.. please let me know because I would like to install it as soon as possible. Sincerely, Fred -- Email: Frederic SAVOIR <fsavoir@dialup.fdn.fr>
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 15 Jun 1997 19:54:57 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5o1hah$68v$6@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I found perl5.003 compiled quadfat on my system. Of course I don't have any idea about the libraries, etc thou.... I must have downloaded it from somewhere..... If someone can tell me the other parts of the package, I can try and rebuild it (ie I'm guessing there's more than just the executable). TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Novell support dropped in 4.x? Say it isn't so... Date: 16 Jun 1997 04:15:23 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5o2ekr$2d7$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <5nno6f$25s8@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: >Of course, on installing 4.1 on the new system, I noticed that >/NextAdmin/NetWareManager.app doesn't exist. Yup... OPENSTEP 4.0 and 4.1 do *not* have Netware support. You might try installing /usr/netware and the NetwareManager from 3.3 or whatever earlier release you own to see if it works. I tried and didn't get very far (but that could have been due to other reasons). >Someone please tell me I am having a bad dream. Has the Netware support >simply been removed from the NeXT CDs? If so, where do I turn? There is a Netware package in OPENSTEP 4.2 so there's hope, but it's another $299 for 4.2. Haven't tried it yet though. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: Melissa O'Neill <NoOnSePiAlMl@cs.sfu.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 15 Jun 1997 23:53:44 -0700 Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Message-ID: <5o2nto$8sh@alonzo.cs.sfu.ca> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> Summary: Ditch 5.003, use 5.004 Jim Freeman <freeman@cornell-iowa.edu> writes: > I have been using perl 5.003 on 3.3 black for some time without problem. > I needed to compile perl again, and I am having significant problems [...] > > Would anyone be willing to send me the configure.sh file you used to > successfully compile perl 5.003? The current version of Perl is 5.004, which has numerous bug-fixes, including fixes for some problems with NEXTSTEP installs (although I don't ever remember seeing the problems thats seem to plague when I did 5.003). Anyway, since 5.004 compiles out of the box on NeXTs, I suggest you try with that. If it doesn't work, something is probably broken elsewhere. Melissa. --- Should you wish to send an e-mail reply to this message, you must remove `N O S P A M' from my e-mail address. 'orrible, ain't it.
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programming Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programming Date: 15 Jun 1997 16:58:53 GMT Organization: Disorganized Bits Message-ID: <5o170d$ar8$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> freeman@cornell-iowa.edu wrote: : I have been using perl 5.003 on 3.3 black for some time without problem. I : needed to compile perl again, and I am having significant problems with the : compilation. Why would anybody bother with recompiling 5.003 when 5.004 is out for some time? Everything what I did was './Configure ; make ; make test ; make install' and it worked without any problems (black 3.2). I did have some trouble when compiling 5.003 a while ago, although I worked around. Michal
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need alpha testers for simple DNS helper app Date: 16 Jun 1997 10:30:53 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5o34kt$3no$2@gaea.omnigroup.com> I've whipped up a small OPENSTEP app for setting a system's domain name DNS servers, since the configuration apps that come with OPENSTEP don't provide a nice way of doing this. It's an OPENSTEP-only application (and has only been tested on OPENSTEP 4.2pr2). I'm hoping that I can get several alpha testers in the next couple of days so that I can make sure I didn't do anything stupid, after which time I'll make it publically available (including source). Preliminary guess at an open beta release is late this week. Potential alpha testers should be people who deal with /etc/resolv.conf or who set these values via NetInfoManager - typically, people using PPP or people with a lone OPENSTEP box on a non-NetInfo network. You should have some familiarity with what should be happening, so you can confirm whether or not things work as you would expect them to. Also, there's a help document that goes with this app - I'd like people to read over it and make sure that what I wrote 1) makes sense, 2) is correct, 3) doesn't leave gaping holes or lead anyone to screw up their machine. If you fit this profile and are willing to help please send me email. I plan on making this available to alpha testers sometime Monday afternoon. Also, if you are available and potentially willing to localize this app (for free), please note that fact - this app is targeted at new OPENSTEP users (especially the current flood from the Macintosh market), and I'd like the app to be as friendly as possible to other languages. -- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 16 Jun 1997 14:41:11 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5o3ja7$360$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <5o2nto$8sh@alonzo.cs.sfu.ca> More importantly, as some of you know, 5.004 fixes a security problem in suidperl (sperl) which was discussed in a CERT advisory last month. Rgds, Song
From: me_!SPAM_@traveler.uniscape.com (My Account) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Modem problems Date: 10 Jun 1997 00:57:11 GMT Organization: e-Scape Information Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5ni8p7$i3t$2@news.e-scape.net> References: <33961818.2205671@news.american.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: heywood@american.edu In /etc/ttys set ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on and in /etc/gettytab set default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#19200: # # Fixed speed entries # # The "std.NNN" names are known to the special case # portselector code in getty, however they can # be assigned to any table desired. # The "NNN-baud" names are known to the special case # autobaud code in getty, and likewise can # be assigned to any table desired (hopefully the same speed). # D19200:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#19200: D38400:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#38400: stef In <33961818.2205671@news.american.edu> John Quentin Heywood wrote: > I am running NS 3.3pl1 on an Intel P5 box with a Hayes Optima internal > 28.8 modem, and I am having some problems I hope someone can help me > with. > > First, I have set up PPP2.2, and on booting the machine I get a > message to the effect that all is well and PPP is up and running. But > when I dial in to this machine, the modem does not answer. I have set > /etc/ttys to allow dialup on serial port A (COM1). I can dial out on > /dev/cua and /dev.cuaf. The problem is not in the modem, because ppp > works fine in WinNT on the same box. I am muy confused. Any help > would be appreciated. > > Second, I cannot get this modem to operate as a fax modem on NS. I am > using the HSD modem choice. Is that correct? If this is a specific > modem config file, can I get one for my modem? If so, where? Again, > any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > John Heywood > > John Quentin Heywood * > heywood@american.edu * > Room 115 * "On the Internet, > Washington College of Law * nobody knows > American University * you're a dog" > 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW * > Washington, DC 20016-8082 * > vox: 202.274.4329 * > fax: 202.274.4365 * > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefanos Kiakas stefanos_!SPAM_@uniscape.com Remove _!SPAM_ to email me. e-Scape Travel Magazine http://www.uniscape.com/ e-Scape Information Systems Inc. (514) 878-1084
From: abridge@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us (Adam Bridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:09:50 -0700 Organization: Bridge Family Message-ID: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> I'm working with Prelude to Rhasody on an Intel box. I have an HP 5MP printer which I connect to my Mac over an AppleTalk link. I attached a parallel cable from the OPENSTEP box to the printer and have attempted to print. There's SOME form of communication when I try that because I can see the green "BUSY" light flashing but it doesn't print. I can still print from the Mac. Now part of this may be chosing the right PPD. There isn't one for the 5MP. I boldly went over to the Mac and pulled it's file across by floppy disk but I still can't print even though both ends are trying. How do I debug this? I look at Console and there's no report of errors. Thanks Adam Bridge -- Adam Bridge
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: 16 Jun 1997 16:41:34 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5o3qbu$iuj$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> Cc: abridge@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us In <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> Adam Bridge wrote: > I'm working with Prelude to Rhasody on an Intel box. I have an HP 5MP > printer which I connect to my Mac over an AppleTalk link. I attached a > parallel cable from the OPENSTEP box to the printer and have attempted to > print. There's SOME form of communication when I try that because I can > see the green "BUSY" light flashing but it doesn't print. I can still > print from the Mac. > > Now part of this may be chosing the right PPD. There isn't one for the > 5MP. I boldly went over to the Mac and pulled it's file across by floppy > disk but I still can't print even though both ends are trying. > > How do I debug this? I look at Console and there's no report of errors. > Most likely the following is happening: 1. You have attached the printer to the Intel box over a non-handshaking cable (PS printers ofter use a CTS-DTR handshake cable, so beware) 2. Your system is sending data quite fast, this overruns the printer thus resulting in PS errors which cause a flushing to end of job. You can test it by running 'kermit' or any other serial communication program on the Intel box, and (assuming kermit, printer on second serial interface): (type this after starting kermit) set port /dev/ttyb (or your port where the printer is attached to) set speed 19200 (or your speed you are talking to the printer in baud) c (now type slowly) 0 0 moveto 600 800 lineto stroke showpage (now type return) Ctrl-Alt-] quit you should now see a page coming out of your printer with a line on it. It proves the connection is ok, only the handshake is messed up. 3. If my assumption is valid you face two choices: - get a correct cable - run a Appletalk (Localtalk) to Ethertalk router on you Mac and attach the printer using my CAPer software over Ethernet (assuming your Mac has an Ethernet interface). See the CAP homepage (accessable over my CAPer page http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html) for a suitable software router. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 16 Jun 1997 20:25:27 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a standard next laser on my black hardware and I have finally gotten samba running with some great help from Michal Jaegermann. Can someone comment on what NT drivers they are using to produce NeXT friendly postscript? I have tried a couple apple ones and a few HP and still get offending postscript dialogs on the next. thanks vince
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: 16 Jun 1997 19:57:47 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5o45rr$l6k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> <5o3qbu$iuj$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: : In <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> Adam Bridge wrote: : > I'm working with Prelude to Rhasody on an Intel box. I have an HP 5MP : > printer which I connect to my Mac over an AppleTalk link. I attached a : > parallel cable from the OPENSTEP box to the printer and have attempted to : > print. There's SOME form of communication when I try that because I can : > see the green "BUSY" light flashing but it doesn't print. I can still : > print from the Mac. : > : > Now part of this may be chosing the right PPD. There isn't one for the : > 5MP. I boldly went over to the Mac and pulled it's file across by floppy : > disk but I still can't print even though both ends are trying. : > : > How do I debug this? I look at Console and there's no report of errors. : > : Most likely the following is happening: : 1. You have attached the printer to the Intel box over a non-handshaking : cable (PS printers ofter use a CTS-DTR handshake cable, so beware) He did write something about using a parallel cable so I would rather assume he's trying to use the centronics port of his PC. My guess is that his port is not producing valid interrupts (or that the irq is misconfigured) resulting in a single byte transmission every now and then (the page might appear after some days) First: check your IRQ configuration If this does not help (some parallel ports will simply not genrate interrupt requests) try the ParallelPort replacement driver you find on ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/hardware/driver/intel/ParallelPortDriver1.5.I.bs.tar.gz This one is capable of reverting to a polling mode when no IRQs are available from the parallel port hardware. HTH -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: "Craig Cook" <t-ccook@microsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't defeat auto reboot Date: 4 Jun 1997 15:59:51 GMT Organization: Microsoft Message-ID: <01bc7100$3e993d20$78b5369d@chewie.dns.microsoft.com> When I power off my color slab restarts. I've UNCHECKED the restart after power off in the prefs but it still restarts. Does anyone have a clue?
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: 16 Jun 1997 21:32:21 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5o4bd5$ljc$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> <5o3qbu$iuj$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5o45rr$l6k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Cc: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de In <5o45rr$l6k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Axel Habermann wrote: > He did write something about using a parallel cable so I would > rather assume he's trying to use the centronics port of his PC. > Hups, I missed this one. Seems driving a PS printer on a line without backchannel is not part of my mindset. :-) Sorry for the wasted space... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't remember the root password Date: 16 Jun 1997 22:52:07 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I recently changed the root password after local network security break-ins on my NS3.2/Intel system and subsequently didn't have any need to use the root account. So of course, I've now forgotten the password. This is the first time I've forgotten the root password on any Unix system, and I'm not quite sure what to do about it. How can I change the root password to something new without knowing the current password and without re-installing NS completely from scratch. -Karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: question: Soundblasters for NS 3.3 - what gives ? Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:02:00 GMT Message-ID: <19970617000201.UAA25054@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Howdy I'm attempting to sort out the mysteries of life with Soundblasters and NS 3.3 -- We have a SB 16 PnP and have been having no luck whatsoever in getting it to function with a Triton motherboard-based 166 mhz PCI system running NS 3.3 - any and all suggestions most appreciated - it appears at this point as if the entire boot process just kind of ignores the board completely - thanks again Also, is anyone aware of big time benefits ( vis-a-vis Soundblaster support ) by moving onto OpenStep 4.2 for Intel ? Bob Kurhajetz PS - please reply to work e-mail robertk@ansel.dt.navy.mil
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Date: 17 Jun 1997 02:26:35 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5o4skr$5tq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone provide some suggestions on how > I should go about connecting my NeXT Cube > to my ISP with a ppp connection? Ah, I > have a fresh install of NS 3.3 User/Dev. get ppp2.3 off peak.... or (better) get it and compile it from the PPP page > Ah, also have another cube. So in addition > at some point I'd like to get these two machines > to talk to each other as well. Ethernet crossover cable or a small hub... > Ah, I don't have time to read a research > paper on exactly what ppp and slip are. You can't get Dynamic SLIP for NS without serious backflips and convolutions... > What I'd like would be a set of readings > explaining how to set up my network, which > IP addresses I should use for the two boxes, > which NeXT Tools should be used for various > administrative tasks. That or just some > email advice. /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ 192.42.172.1 and 192.42.172.2 are probably the IPs you'll use. SimpleNetworkStarter is the main tool to use. Read the docs first and learn about NetInfo Masters, figure out which one will be it, set that machine up with SNS and then plug the other one in. This is not my forte, so I can't offer much help beyond that.... If you can get two static IPs from your ISP life will be much simpler. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: root@snaefell.tamu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: failing disk? (Was Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior) Date: 17 Jun 1997 04:15:21 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5o530p$919@news.tamu.edu> References: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jun 1997 04:15:21 GMT In article <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de>, Michael Pieper wrote: >>other ttys too. But here's the really weird thing: if I run another >>copy of the executable (e.g. from the cd-rom) it runs fine. I have >>now taken to keeping a copy that I named emacs.clean on my disk drive >>and every time I get this problem (it happened twice today) I just cp >>it to /usr/bin/emacs and thenceforth everything runs fine (until the >>next time it happens!) The number of bytes on the screwed up copy of >>emacs is identical to the clean copy. > >Why don't you try a 'cmp emacs.clean /usr/bin/emacs' to see, if the original >version is corrupted? snaefell> cmp emacs emacs.clean emacs emacs.clean differ: char 34711, line 120 Ok--so what does this mean? How can the executable copy of emacs get corrupted? Is this an early sign of disk failure? Thanks.
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: 17 Jun 1997 04:26:34 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu I've got a stumper here. Two machines, one Intel, one slab. Intel has a static IP Slab does not (no I cannot get one for it) Intel has two ethernet cards, Cogent and Intel EtherExpress I have a hub and 3 "patch" cables (aka "straight"), one "crossover" cable. My Internet connection comes in to a cable modem that has a 'twisted pair' connector (looks like a phone jack plug). I am trying to connect the Intel to the slab so I can print from the Intel to the slab. If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection (the Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, I think it could work. I tried to read 'man gated' but some grey muck started leaking from my ears..... I'm not even sure that would help.... All I really need to do is be able to connect to the slab's printer.... Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BuildDisk behaviour Date: 17 Jun 1997 05:39:10 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5o57tu$m2i$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Can someone clue me in on the intended behaviour of BuildDisk? I'm running on 4.1 Intel. I tried to use it to install OS onto a new 2.14 Gb SCSI disk from an existing 1Gb SCSI disk. The intention was to use the 2Gb as the boot disk. I wanted a Win partition, so I used fdisk to create 141Mb space, the remaining 1867Mb as the active OS partition (only 2008Mb was available by the BIOS, hooray IBM). BuildDisk seems to format and build the disk, respecting the partitioning information, but always assuming the whole disk is OS (so I get 104% completed builds!). That's bearable... What's really crazy is BuildDisk gives you all the packages from the old disk to optionally install and generally seems to copy across the whole disk (1Gb old to 2Gb new) , but then makes a point of not copying across Drivers/i386/System.config and the Instance0 tables for the drivers, so you can't boot off the damn thing! My solution was to use BuildDisk to make the disk bootable with a minimal install and use tar to retrieve everything off tape (I had user partitions on tape that were not on the 1Gb disk, so I just restored everything). This is crazy and a friend using two IDE drives has had even more problems trying to simply duplicate one disk to another. If you are going to make a app front end, NeXT/Apple, at least make it easier to use *properly* than command line tools! Please someone tell me I've just missed the point... -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) "Home pages are the pet rock of the 90s. We all have them, we all think they're very cute. But in a few years we're going to look back and be pretty embarrassed." -- Tony Shepps <toad@pond.com> "Why wait?" -- Peter Langston
From: sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question: Soundblasters for NS 3.3 - what gives ? Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:22:35 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5o5l0r$o73@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <19970617000201.UAA25054@ladder02.news.aol.com> Hi. for us (P166, NS3.3, SoundBlaster PnP) the following worked (after some days of trying around): newest drivers ISA/EISA Bus (v3.35) with PnP enabled, 16Bytes at 0x0, IRQ 2 SoundBlaster 16 PnP (v4.01)!! with DMA 1 and 5, 20Bytes at 0x220, IRQ 5 the second driver is for Openstep, but it works much better than all NS-drivers :-). both should be availible at next-answers. Sven
From: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: remote printer not working Date: 17 Jun 1997 12:19:25 GMT Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany. Message-ID: <5o5vcd$spf@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> References: <5nounf$4qa$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> In article <5nounf$4qa$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) writes: > In <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Lars Konieczny wrote: > > Sorry, I haven t mentioned that I did _niload_ the printcap data (I even > > restarted the computer). All printers do appear in the print-panel, and > > printing appears to be fine, except that no content is sent to the printer > > (although there is communication with the printer). Again, printing the > "Test" > > page from PrintManager, as well as printing from command line works fine. > > Maybe you have not unlimited the file size...put a mx#0 in your printcap > options. > What does lpq say? Thanks for the hint. Unfortunately, it doesn t change anything. I still cannot print from the PrintPanel, but printing via lpr is ok. lpq says: hu-pc1: lkon 7 > lpq avantgarde@nice 0 jobs BTW, the problem occurred after the technicians had changed the printer names and the printserver. Adapting the printcap database (and niloading) didn t help ... Still more ideas? Thanks, Lars -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9G-W:7-S($AE;'9E=&EC83M]"EQM M87)G;#$R,`I<;6%R9W(Q,C`*7'!A<F1<='@U,S-<='@Q,#8W7'1X,38P,5QT M>#(Q,S5<='@R-C8X7'1X,S(P,EQT>#,W,S9<='@T,C<P7'1X-#@P,UQT>#4S M,S=<9C!<8C!<:3!<=6QN;VYE7&9S,C1<9F,P7&-F,"!);B!A<G1I8VQE(#PU M;F]U;F8D-'%A)#%`;W)I<W1A+FEP8RYU;FDM='5E8FEN9V5N+F1E/B!F<F%N M:T!T:&ES+DY/7U-004TN;F5T("A&<F%N:R!-+B!3:65G97)T*2!W<FET97,Z M7`H^($EN(#PU;F=M8VLD-C)L0&AA9&5S+G)Z+G5N:2US8BYD93X@3&%R<R!+ M;VYI96-Z;GD@=W)O=&4Z7`H^(#X@4V]R<GDL($D@:&%V96X@="!M96YT:6]N M960@=&AA="!)(&1I9"!?;FEL;V%D7R!T:&4@<')I;G1C87`@9&%T82`H22!E M=F5N("!<"CX@/B!R97-T87)T960@=&AE(&-O;7!U=&5R*2X@06QL('!R:6YT M97)S(&1O(&%P<&5A<B!I;B!T:&4@<')I;G0M<&%N96PL(&%N9"`@7`H^(#X@ M<')I;G1I;F<@87!P96%R<R!T;R!B92!F:6YE+"!E>&-E<'0@=&AA="!N;R!C M;VYT96YT(&ES('-E;G0@=&\@=&AE('!R:6YT97(@(%P*/B`^("AA;'1H;W5G M:"!T:&5R92!I<R!C;VUM=6YI8V%T:6]N('=I=&@@=&AE('!R:6YT97(I+B!! M9V%I;BP@<')I;G1I;F<@=&AE(%P*/B`B5&5S="(@(%P*/B`^('!A9V4@9G)O M;2!0<FEN=$UA;F%G97(L(&%S('=E;&P@87,@<')I;G1I;F<@9G)O;2!C;VUM M86YD(&QI;F4@=V]R:W,@9FEN92X@7`H^(%P*/B!-87EB92!Y;W4@:&%V92!N M;W0@=6YL:6UI=&5D('1H92!F:6QE('-I>F4N+BYP=70@82!M>",P(&EN('EO M=7(@<')I;G1C87`@7`H^(&]P=&EO;G,N(%P*/B!7:&%T(&1O97,@;'!Q('-A M>3]<"EP*5&AA;FMS(&9O<B!T:&4@:&EN="X@56YF;W)T=6YA=&5L>2P@:70@ M9&]E<V["="!C:&%N9V4@86YY=&AI;F<N($D@<W1I;&P@8V%N;F]T('!R:6YT M(&9R;VT@=&AE(%!R:6YT4&%N96PL(&)U="!P<FEN=&EN9R!V:6$@;'!R(&ES M(&]K+EP*7`IL<'$@<V%Y<SI<"EP*:'4M<&,Q.B!L:V]N(#<@/B!L<'%<"F%V M86YT9V%R9&5`;FEC92`@,"!J;V)S7`I<"D)45RP@=&AE('!R;V)L96T@;V-C M=7)R960@869T97(@=&AE('1E8VAN:6-I86YS(&AA9"!C:&%N9V5D('1H92!P M<FEN=&5R(&YA;65S(&%N9"!T:&4@<')I;G1S97)V97(N($%D87!T:6YG('1H M92!P<FEN=&-A<"!D871A8F%S92`H86YD(&YI;&]A9&EN9RD@9&ED;L)T(&AE M;'`@+BXN7`I<"@I<<&%R9%QT>#4R,%QT>#$P-C!<='@Q-C`P7'1X,C$R,%QT M>#(V-C!<='@S,C`P7'1X,S<R,%QT>#0R-C!<='@T.#`P7'1X-3,R,%QF8S!< M8V8P(%-T:6QL(&UO<F4@:61E87,_7`I<"E1H86YK<RQ<"EP*3&%R<UP*"GT* `
From: Serge Smadja <serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Drivers, more Drivers are needed Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:50:23 +0200 Organization: EDF - DER/IMA/ICI/ODI Message-ID: <33A6A42F.2577BC9F@der.edfgdf.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello All, I have installed OpenStep 4.1 on a G6 200XL from Gateway 2000, however my graphic adapter is a STB Virge velocity 3D and my network adapter is a 3COM Etherlink III PCI (PCI is very important) and it seems that there aren't adequate drivers on the CD or on the Next Site. Any help would be appriciated. Does anybody knows if those drivers will be available anytime soon. Thanks. -- Serge Smadja EDF - Direction des Etudes et Recherches - FRANCE Ingnieur Chercheur - Dpartement Ingnierie de la Communication en Informatique Groupe Outils de Dialogue pour l'Informatique Tl : +33 (0)1 47 65 31 31 fax : +33 (0)1 47 65 35 23 email : serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:21:24 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617101953.5497M-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Karl Pfleger <kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/vfaq/no-password.html I wrote: Goto the ROM Monitor and then boot into Single User mode , then start NetInfo with this command sh /etc/rc & . Use the nu -m command to modify the root password, and reboot the machine! Easy as cake! TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk behaviour Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:27:06 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617102258.5497N-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Leigh Smith <leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <5o57tu$m2i$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> On 17 Jun 1997, Leigh Smith wrote: > What's really crazy is BuildDisk gives you all the packages from the old disk > to optionally install and generally seems to copy across the whole disk (1Gb > old to 2Gb new) , but then makes a point of not copying across > Drivers/i386/System.config and the Instance0 tables for the drivers, so you > can't boot off the damn thing! To quote someone who knows a lote more about this than me: "BuildDisk really doesn't work at all for Intel hardware". Yes the bug you are describing is very much there, and very much dumb. It doesn't make some links and the files you mentioned. They dropped HP, there are what, 4 people in the world with Sparcs for their own use running *Step, and NeXT hardware is EOL with 4.2. I'd say support for Intel had best improve a lot in the coming months... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: failing disk? (Was Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:29:42 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617102748.5497O-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Operator <root@snaefell.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5o530p$919@news.tamu.edu> On 17 Jun 1997, Operator wrote: > snaefell> cmp emacs emacs.clean > emacs emacs.clean differ: char 34711, line 120 > > Ok--so what does this mean? How can the executable copy of emacs get > corrupted? Is this an early sign of disk failure? It means they differ. Could be a diskfailure.... Could be a patch applied to one and not the other. Could be someone tried to edit the emacs binary by hand. My first guess would be the patch... I generally don't think disks are nice enough to give such warning signs, but who knows.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba and printer export Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:28:22 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5o66u6$gvk@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: vkoser@biggun.com,sanguish@digifix.com,bill In <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Vincent Koser wrote: > I would like to export my next laser printer from samba but can't seem > to get it working. Could someone share their config file from samba > that allows the standard laser printer to be exported? > > thanks > vince > I also would like the same thing: I tried a few months ago but got wierd behavior- only one page of the file would print then nothing... Is there a SAMBA Printing FAQ somewhere? Maybe we could make a comp.sys.next(Rhapsody).samba discussion group? -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Dual Booting Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:32:51 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5o676j$gvk@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu In <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Darryl L. James wrote: > I have a PP200 that has NS 3.3 and NT 4.0 installed on the hard > drive. I have always been able to boot into either OS until today, > now I can only boot into NS. I no longer have the option type 'n' for > NS or 'd' for dos. I used fdisk to look at the disk partitioning, but > all seemed ok. Also NS recognized the dos partition as a folder from > the file viewer. Does anyone know how to get back the ability to dual > boot? Thanks in advance. > > On a similar note, I have a system with dual boot NS4.2 and Win3.1(yeeesh) If I want to upgrade to Win95 or NT what do I do? Step by step please, so I won't screw it up! I have full (non upgrade) packages for both. -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Date: 17 Jun 1997 15:37:03 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5o6auv$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> <5o4skr$5tq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> >You can't get Dynamic SLIP for NS without serious backflips and >convolutions... I beg to differ - its not that hard and Mamakos' SLIP package had a sample script that pretty much did dynamic IP assignment and is easy to modify. I submitted a "how to" for setting up dynamic SLIP to ftp.next.peak.org a while back. That said, unless you _have to_ use SLIP I'd also recommend using PPP. It is more widely supported and has a few nice GUI front ends available. - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: 17 Jun 1997 15:49:05 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> >If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection (the >Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, I >think it could work. If this is going to work at all you're going to need to be able to assign your Intel host multiple IP addresses. There's a package on ftp.next.peak.org called ps_if that supports virtual hosting multiple IP addresses on a single NEXTSTEP host (the NeXT kernel doesn't allow this by default). Of course, you still have the problem of tying these two IP's to different devices - sorry, can't help you there. If you already have a hub then you could just assign your slab any old IP address (making sure you _never_ use it to try and get out onto the net via your modem), plug both machines into the hub and just run a little LAN off it. You'll need to tinker with the routing tables on the Intel box to route IP requests for your NeXT out via en0 rather than ppp0. Hope it helps. - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:09:42 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc. Message-ID: <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: : I have a standard next laser on my black hardware and I have finally : gotten samba running with some great help from Michal Jaegermann. Can : someone comment on what NT drivers they are using to produce NeXT : friendly postscript? I have tried a couple apple ones and a few HP : and still get offending postscript dialogs on the next. From Win95 I generally use an "Apple LaserWriter II NTX v47.0", and simply set the printer's memory preference up to a few megs. I've not had much trouble with this. This also has worked A-OK under WinNT 3.51. If you have NT 4, get the NeXT printer driver that John Michopoulos put together from the Peak archive (next-ftp.peak.org). --Chris Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst -------------------------------------- computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by | chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad | http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk behaviour Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:14:09 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5o6k5h$btu@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617102258.5497N-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > To quote someone who knows a lote more about this than me: > [snip] > "BuildDisk really doesn't work at all for Intel hardware". > [snip] > > TjL > > -- > TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ > NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html > "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." > - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College > We had some bad disks in our NS/Intel machines at our department but I was able to build the new one with BuildDisk from 3.2. It worked acceptable except that it decided to leave some dwrite in the me account that told the system that it wasn't fully configured so I had to delete that dwrite. I hear that the 3.3 BuildDisk doesn't work on Intel, but the 3.2 version does. -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:58:05 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Endh0hi00iWm05lMs0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jun-97 Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethe.. by bestor@cs.wisc.edu >> If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection >> (the Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, >> I think it could work. > > If this is going to work at all you're going to need to be able to assign > your Intel host multiple IP addresses. Yes...that's why the Intel box is multihomed-- ie, has two network interface cards. The solution is to give a different IP address to each of the Intel's interfaces, and set up local routing so that the Intel and the NeXT can communicate with each other. You see, hosts aren't assigned IP addresses; _interfaces_ are. Generally, each host only has one interface, so the distinction doesn't matter. However, it does in this circumstance because of what TjL is trying to do. > There's a package on ftp.next.peak.org called ps_if that supports virtual > hosting multiple IP addresses on a single NEXTSTEP host (the NeXT kernel > doesn't allow this by default). Virtual IP addresses solve roughly the opposite problem of what's going on. Attempting to use the ps_if software would only add confusion. > If you already have a hub then you could just assign your slab any old IP > address (making sure you _never_ use it to try and get out onto the net via > your modem), As I posted in my previous article, there are reserved IP address spaces which _should_ (strong emphasis) be used in this circumstance. Arbitrarily assigning IP numbers is a good way of causing yourself or someone else some evil problems down the line. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfo question Date: 17 Jun 1997 19:05:30 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have NSFIP 3.3 on a machine at home. I use ppp to connect to the internet. Now my problem: For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message "Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. Now since I have not needed to add new users or make any other system changes, I have just carried happily on. But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be messed up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers (recall that UserManager won't launch) 2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? Thanks. Randy Jackson -- 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Drivers, more Drivers are needed Date: 17 Jun 1997 19:37:54 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5o6p2i$9qe$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <33A6A42F.2577BC9F@der.edfgdf.fr> In comp.sys.next.advocacy Serge Smadja <serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr> wrote: : Hello All, : I have installed OpenStep 4.1 on a G6 200XL from Gateway 2000, however : my graphic adapter is a STB Virge velocity 3D and my network adapter is : a 3COM Etherlink III PCI (PCI is very important) and it seems that there : aren't adequate drivers on the CD or on the Next Site. There is a generic driver for the Virge chipset, I would give it a try, maybe it works with your graphics card. There is no such thing an Etherlink III PCI adapter, at least not according to 3com's website. There is an Etherlink XL PCI adapter for which a driver is available: NeXTanswers #2165, #2166, #2534 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
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From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA printer question Date: 17 Jun 1997 20:31:42 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am not doing this right... We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: [printers] print command = lpr -r %s lpq command = lpq lprm command = lprm %j comment = All Printers browseable = yes printable = yes public = yes path = /tmp writable = no create mode = 0700 Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| So how does the user on the win box know which printer it's going to to select? Will the names show up in NetworkNeighborhood somehow? Now all I get is "printers" under the server name.... -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: John Harris <john@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help removing banner page on HP Laserjet 4mplus Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:17:27 -0600 Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Message-ID: <33A6D4B7.EACFFE2D@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have a networked system on NeXT 3.2 and have setup an HP Laserjet 4Mplus. It works fine, but we don't know how to remove the last page - which is a banner page. Any help would be kindly appreciated. John Harris john@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:40:08 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5o6lm8$sng$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > >If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection > (the > >Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, I > >think it could work. > > If this is going to work at all you're going to need to be able to assign > your Intel host multiple IP addresses. There's a package on ftp.next.peak.org > called ps_if that supports virtual hosting multiple IP > addresses on a single NEXTSTEP host (the NeXT kernel doesn't allow this by > default). Of course, you still have the problem of tying these two IP's to > different devices - sorry, can't help you there. No. No. No. He doesn't need virtual interfaces because he's got more than the normal quota of real interfaces. (a.k.a. "Multihoming"). The answer is simply to treat each interface as if it was a separate host and set it up in netinfo using HostManager.app, making sure to include the correct ether_addr field --- the rc.net script will then sort out all of the interfaces and set everything up automatically on boot-up. For extra credit, you can hardwire all of the config info by editing /etc/iftab (man iftab for details), but that's too much effort. Any Unix worth the name can cope with multiple interfaces, and NeXT/mach is no exception, despite the mutterings from NeXT that gateway configurations were "unsupported"... Otherwise, it would be impossible to run PPP simultaneously with a local ethernet interface. Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: 17 Jun 1997 22:04:18 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5o71l2$9e0$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 06/17/97, Randall W. Jackson wrote: >I have NSFIP 3.3 on a machine at home. I use ppp to connect to the >internet. Now my problem: > >For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, Whoops, actually, if I log in as root, I can launch HostManager, but not >NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message >"Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" Let me correct that, too, sorry. The precise error message is "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain" > >I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. > > Now since I have not needed to add new users or make any other > system changes, I have just carried happily on. > >But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to >the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, > > 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up > the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be > messed up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers > (recall that UserManager won't launch) Okay, and I found that if I opened /etc/netinfo/local.nidb/Collection as a text file, the uid's are readable. > >2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? and if so, what will I need to do to restore ppp functionality? > Or 3. Is there some way to correct the problem without resorting to using a fresh netinfo directory? Thanks. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon,comp.sys.psion From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: jaӵo] Distribution: inet Followup-To: comp.sys.northstar Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <EBy1tp.Ly3@nonexistent.com> References: <01bc7b59$5462d400$84b046cb@cs.ncku.edu.tw> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:41:49 GMT Your full name (replace_your_name@mail.ttn.com.tw) wrote: [snip] : ϥκ NETSCAPE ϥΪ : : 1)}NETSCAPE NEWSAbs(Netscape Navigator)q\ : WindowsAANETSCAPE : NEWSAYiҰNETSCAPENEWSCMI̥䪺syTO Netscape? On a Northstar??
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:28:47 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <5o6dvv$cqq$1@radjah.navigator.de> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: vkoser@biggun.com In <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Vincent Koser wrote: > I have a standard next laser on my black hardware and I have finally > gotten samba running with some great help from Michal Jaegermann. Can > someone comment on what NT drivers they are using to produce NeXT > friendly postscript? I have tried a couple apple ones and a few HP > and still get offending postscript dialogs on the next. I use the packet available on NeXT ftp archives. However, you have to set "PageIndepence" to "Yes" in the printing options panel before each job. This is annoying, but I haven't found the registry key to change the default yet. And, I would not use Samba for printing, NT is capable of the LPR protocol. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Fabien_Roy@no.spam.free.fdn.fr (Remove no.spam to reply) Subject: Re: Dithering on 12Bit color displays Message-ID: <EBy2Ez.MC@free.fdn.fr> Sender: news@free.fdn.fr Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant. References: <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5nuoe4$l4@mpaque.mpaque> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:54:34 GMT mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) wrote: [snip] > > > How can I adjust the "Gamma Correction" of a NeXTStep PC? > > A few PCs support gamma correction in hardware, mostly just in 8 bit > pseudocolor mode. If the PC hardware supports gamma correction in the > current display mode, you can use the NeXT PS extension > 'setframebuffertransfer' to modify the hardware gamma. > > The transfer functions are stored in PostScript shared VM, so you'll need > to do 'true setshared' before setting the new transfer functions. For a > gamma of 1.6, the pft session to set the gamma looks like: > > % pft > Connection to PostScript established. > true setshared > { 1 1.6 div exp } dup dup {} 0 setframebuffertransfer > > Here's the relevent documentation: > > setframebuffertransfer > > redproc greenproc blueproc grayproc fbnum setframebuffertransfer - > > Warning: This operator should only be used for the development of > screen-calibration products. > > Sets the framebuffer transfer functions in effect for the framebuffer > indexed by fbnum. fbnum ranges from 0 to countframebuffers-1. The > framebuffer transfer describes the relationship between the framebuffer > values of the display, and the voltage produced to drive the monitor. > > The initial four operands define the transfer procedures: Monochrome > devices use grayproc (but see the Note below), color devices use the > others. The procedures must be allocated in shared virtual memory. In > addition, the Window Server assumes that the framebuffer values are > directly proportional to screen brightness. This is important for the > accuracy of dithering, compositing, and similar calculations. > > The default transfer for NeXT Color Displays is > > { 1 2.2 div exp } bind dup dup {} > > Note: setframebuffertransfer is unsupported on the current generation of > NeXT monochrome displays. > > It's possible to make framebuffer transfer functions persist beyond the > lifetime of the Window Server by storing a property in the NetInfo screens > database. In the local NetInfo domain, /localconfig/screens holds the > configuration information for the screens known to the Window Server > (MegaPixel, NeXTdimension, and so on). These specify the layout and > activation state of the screen. The NetInfo defaultTransfer property can > contain a string of PostScript code suitable for execution by the > setframebuffertransfer operator (without the fbnum parameter). For > example, the following represents the NetInfo configuration for a > NeXTdimension screen with a default gamma of 2.0: > > localhost:1# niutil -read . /localconfig/screens/NeXTdimension > name: NeXTdimension > slot: 2 > unit: 0 > defaultTransfer: {1 2.0 div exp } dup dup dup > bounds: 0 1120 0 832 > active: 1 > _writers: * > > The defaultTransfer property is used to configure the screen each time the > Window Server starts up. This allows monitor calibration products to save > their settings so the next time the Window Server starts up, the new values > will be used. Note that in some cases, the NetInfo configuration state for > a monitor will not have active equal to 1, although the monitor is being > used by the Window Server. If there are no active screens (screens that > are explicitly marked as being active), the Window Server uses a suitable > default, however, the other NetInfo properties for that screen are ignored. > Thus, you must be sure that the screen for which you are adding a > defaultTransfer value has active set to 1. > > -- > Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) > > Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding > that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, > so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so > what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future > can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. > (With apologies to Joe Straczynski) Mike On my Millenium 4 meg @ 1024 by 768 RGB:888/32 niutils reports fabien@p133> niutil -list . /localconfig/screens 148 MegaPixel and fabien@p133> niutil -read . /localconfig/screens/MegaPixel name: MegaPixel slot: 0 unit: 0 bounds: 0 1120 0 832 active: 0 _writers: * any clues ? -- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 (0)1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 (0)1 48 55 09 90 GSM: 33 (0)6 60 46 36 83
From: you@somehost.somedomain (guest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 18 Jun 1997 03:10:34 GMT Organization: Your Organization Message-ID: <5o7jja$8ta$1@nnrp3.snfc21.pbi.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, SvenDroll says... > >Hi > >We have got the same problem here (white machine exports a disk, black does >not mount it). As far as I know, this is a problem with the permissions (the >black machine has not the right to mount the disk). The permissions for our >black machine was granted through NFSManager, but it seems that this do not >work. > >Any hint how to solve this problem would be nice. >ciao >-- >Sven Droll __ >______________________________________________________/ / ______ __ >sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/ > /_ _/ _/ > =====\_/======= > LOGOUT FASCISM! >___________________________________________________________________ >NeXT-mail, MIME-mail welcome ;-)) Although not the same combination of platforms, I have similar problems between BSDI and NeXT, and Between Novell's NFS Gateway and NeXT. However, I drop to a shell and verify from "importing Host's" console "showmount -e <exporting host>." If this looks good then create directory /<new directory off root> then "mount -o soft <importing host>:path /<new directory off root>" seems to work every time so far. Hope this is useful to someone.
From: peter@select-tech.si (Peter Levart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin.misc Subject: Format of NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP bitmap fonts Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:58:19 GMT Organization: SELECT Technology Message-ID: <5o6fnb$4ar$1@ned.select-tech.si> Keywords: fonts bitmap Hello! I am searching for information about the format of bitmap fonts for NEXTSTEP 3.x (and I think also OPENSTEP for mach). NEXTSTEP uses Adobe Type 1 fonts for DPS and can benefit from specialy rendered characters in bitmap form. NeXT supplies those bitmaps with the standard set of fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier, Ohlfs). Times-Roman.font in NS 3.3 for example looks like this: Screen-Times-Roman.10.afm Screen-Times-Roman.12.afm Screen-Times-Roman.14.afm Screen-Times-Roman.18.afm Screen-Times-Roman.7.afm Screen-Times-Roman.9.afm Times-Roman Times-Roman.afm Times-Roman.lepf I'm searching for info about the format of *.lepf files. In pre 3.3 versions of NEXTSTEP, there were *.bepf files. -- Peter Levart - SELECT Technology mailto:peter@select-tech.si phone: +386 61 1319244 fax: +386 61 1315047
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Wayne Barkhouse <barkhous@astro.utoronto.ca> Subject: HELP! can't log on Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <33A70E7E.41C67EA6@astro.utoronto.ca> Sender: nntp@utcc.utoronto.ca (News) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: UTCC Campus Access Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:23:58 GMT IMPORTANT NOTICE: I messed up my system so badly that I can't use it. I borrowed an account from a friend to make this post. If you can help, the only way to reach me is by mailing the following address: 105655.2105@compuserve.com PLEASE DON'T MAIL THE OWNER OF THIS ACCOUNT. HOW THINGS WERE: I had my NeXT on the net at shool as part of a network consisting mostly of SUN workstations. The campus sys-admin had fixed my slab so that it would run under AFS just like the suns. Hoping for the best, I turned the machine on at home without an internet connection. I knew the machine would complain but I thought it might not crash. Well, it worked, sort-of. After a VERY long time I'd get a login window and could log in as root (I have the passssword for my machine). I also managed to log into my own account ONCE and only once. After that, I could only log in as root. Either way, logging in took at least half an hour as the machine contemplated the password for some reason. WHAT I DID: I decided to try and convince the machine that it was no longer at school in the hopes that less time would be spent looking for a non-existant eithernet connection. I renamed "/etc/rc" and renamed "/etc/rc.standard" to replace the "/etc/rc" file. I renamed the "/etc/fstab" file since I did not wish to mount any of those file systems. I comentented out the first four lines of the "/etc/hostconfig" file and inserted replaacement lines with all entreis set to "-AUTOMATIC-" except for the "RROUTER" line which I changed to "ROUTER=-ROUTED- Things went very badly from this point so I guess that I made some REALLY dumb mistakes. I did read the NeXT sys-admin book VERY carefully before trying this but I am no expert. WHAT HAPENED: When I boot the machine now, I get a big white window that says "NexT mach operating system" across the top and the following messages: checking disks can't open checklist file /etc/fstab rebbbot failed... help! mouint: can't locate file system list faking root mount entries configuring ethernet interface to -AUTOMATIC- using default broadcast address the network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it ifconfig: automatic address: the network is down setting hostname to localhost erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U # The pound seems to be the prompt for the root account. I can list all the files on the disk but it says that the file system is read only. I kept copies of all files that I tinkered with and could put everything back as it was if only I had werite perrmission. Can you please help?
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SAMBA printer question Date: 18 Jun 1997 06:04:20 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o7tp4$bpm@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> In article <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) writes: >I am not doing this right... >We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. >Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: > >[printers] > print command = lpr -r %s > lpq command = lpq > lprm command = lprm %j > comment = All Printers > browseable = yes > printable = yes > public = yes > path = /tmp > writable = no > create mode = 0700 > >Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: >HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I believe this name is too long for SAMBA. As I recall, I had to make all printer names in the first entry 8 chars or less. Also, don't forget to create /etc/printcap by nidump printcap / >/etc/printcap (this will dump public entries) And, if you have NeXT 400 dpi laser, disable page reversal for jobs coming from the PC side (filter the first line to just "%!"), or disable page reversal entirely by commenting out the line: *DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse change this to *%DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/NeXT_400_dpi_*.ppd Windows PS from many programs/drivers cannot withstand page reversal because they are broken with respect to DSC conformance. (Checking DSC conformance in setup doesn't do it.) Here's mine which works fine for exporting 4 different printers. I didn't have to do anything special for each printer and the following comes directly from one of the examples: [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = no printable = yes public = no writable = no create mode = 0700
From: "Markus Lankeit" <mlankeit@foxinternet.net> Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5o7jja$8ta$1@nnrp3.snfc21.pbi.net> Message-ID: <01bc7bb5$28139400$4ad308d0@amadeus> Date: 18 Jun 97 08:15:34 GMT > In article <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, SvenDroll says... > > > >Hi > > > >We have got the same problem here (white machine exports a disk, black does > >not mount it). As far as I know, this is a problem with the permissions (the > >black machine has not the right to mount the disk). The permissions for our > >black machine was granted through NFSManager, but it seems that this do not > >work. I've exported/mounted disks between all permutations of available hardware (m68k, i486, hppa, and sparc). This is a setup issue--nothing wrong with the hardware. Email me the results of: cat /etc/fstab nidump exports . nidump fstab / I'll tell you what you need to do then... markus
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 18 Jun 1997 13:21:36 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5o8nd0$jvl$1@news2.gte.net> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 17 Jun 1997 14:09:42 GMT, csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) wrote: >From Win95 I generally use an "Apple LaserWriter II NTX v47.0", and simply >set the printer's memory preference up to a few megs. I've not had much >trouble with this. This also has worked A-OK under WinNT 3.51. doens't seem to like this driver from NT 4, still get the postscript error dialog on next. >If you have NT 4, get the NeXT printer driver that John Michopoulos put >together from the Peak archive (next-ftp.peak.org). can someone help me find this? I looked around there but didn't see it. thanks vince
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SAMBA printer question Date: 18 Jun 1997 13:27:41 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5o8nod$ih5$1@news9.gte.net> References: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> <5o7tp4$bpm@agate.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Page reversal problem was what was wrong with mine. thanks a ton.... vince On 18 Jun 1997 06:04:20 GMT, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) wrote: >In article <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) writes: >>I am not doing this right... >>We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. >>Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: >> >>[printers] >> print command = lpr -r %s >> lpq command = lpq >> lprm command = lprm %j >> comment = All Printers >> browseable = yes >> printable = yes >> public = yes >> path = /tmp >> writable = no >> create mode = 0700 >> >>Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: >>HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >I believe this name is too long for SAMBA. As I recall, I had to >make all printer names in the first entry 8 chars or less. > >Also, don't forget to create /etc/printcap by >nidump printcap / >/etc/printcap >(this will dump public entries) > >And, if you have NeXT 400 dpi laser, disable page reversal for >jobs coming from the PC side (filter the first line to just "%!"), >or disable page reversal entirely by commenting out the line: >*DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse > change this to >*%DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse > >in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/NeXT_400_dpi_*.ppd > >Windows PS from many programs/drivers cannot withstand page reversal >because they are broken with respect to DSC conformance. >(Checking DSC conformance in setup doesn't do it.) > >Here's mine which works fine for exporting 4 different printers. >I didn't have to do anything special for each printer and the following >comes directly from one of the examples: > >[printers] > comment = All Printers > browseable = no > printable = yes > public = no > writable = no > create mode = 0700 > >
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:52:50 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618094849.11436A-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> <5o4skr$5tq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <5o6auv$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: bestor@cs.wisc.edu In-Reply-To: <5o6auv$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> On 17 Jun 1997 bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > >You can't get Dynamic SLIP for NS without serious backflips and > >convolutions... > > I beg to differ - its not that hard and Mamakos' SLIP package had a sample > script that pretty much did dynamic IP assignment and is easy to modify. I > submitted a "how to" for setting up dynamic SLIP to ftp.next.peak.org a while > back. I'll defer to your experience, however, when I was first starting out with my NeXT and was trying to get setup, reading the "how to" was very confusing to me because I didn't have all that much experience doing it. > That said, unless you _have to_ use SLIP I'd also recommend using PPP. > It is more widely supported and has a few nice GUI front ends available. Obviously I'd agree with that, and there is source code available, which makes it nice if you want to tinker with things (I had mucked around with PPP's source code to make it easier for me to reconnect automatically if the PPP connection unexpectedly died). There's also a listserv for PPP. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any busmastering EIDE drivers? Date: 18 Jun 1997 14:12:14 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97May20123253@howard.one.net> Purchased a 3.1G EIDE drive and a 12x ATAPI CD-ROM at a computer fair this weekend. I've more-or-less got things all installed and booting and loving each other, but ... Under NeXTSTEP, my 2.1G SCSI Seagate Hawk does around 3.5MB/s, and the EIDE drive does 1.6MB/s. Heheh, glad I went with SCSI Back When. Under Linux, my 2.1G Hawk does 4.5MB/s, and the 3.1G EIDE drive does 4.2MB/s. Ho ho, looks like Linux has better drivers than NeXTSTEP. Anyone know if NeXT is going to be releasing busmastering EIDE drivers? Or does anyone else have such a driver? I like SCSI, it's easy to setup, works well with most operating systems I run, but that 2.1G Seagate drive still costs about 2x when the 3.1G Western Digital cost. That can be tough to justify for single-user workstations ... Thanks, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a question of disks Date: 18 Jun 1997 14:12:40 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97May22195122@ra.one.net> References: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> In-reply-to: Bob Kurhajetz's message of Thu, 22 May 1997 12:52:39 -0400 In article <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> writes: We've got an Intel 166 running NS 3.3 and we've had various heartburn in getting a reliable 2 GB disk installed and opearational on the system ( not as a boot disk, just a 2 GB disk in two 1 Gig partions ) - have tried a 2 Gig Quantum and have had a variety of problems - given the Intel system what seems to the most reliable device that others are using with NS ? Thanks in advance for any and all insight / info / etc. I've a 1Gig Seagate Hawk which has been working wonderfully for a year or so, now, which lead me to get a 2Gig Hawk which has been working similarily well for the last six months. Recently I put in a Western Digital EIDE drive, and it seems to be working fine, too - I had no problems installing it (well, none with _NeXTSTEP_, WindowsNT doesn't like my system reconfiguring much), but I can't vouch for reliability as it's only been in there for a week. No error messages or anything yet. Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! can't log on Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:18:41 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618100520.11436C-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <33A70E7E.41C67EA6@astro.utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: 105655.2105@compuserve.com In-Reply-To: <33A70E7E.41C67EA6@astro.utoronto.ca> On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Wayne Barkhouse wrote: > I renamed "/etc/rc" and renamed "/etc/rc.standard" to replace the > "/etc/rc" file. Eeek. > I renamed the "/etc/fstab" file since I did not wish to mount any of > those file systems. good god > I comentented out the first four lines of the "/etc/hostconfig" file and > inserted replaacement lines with all entreis set to "-AUTOMATIC-" except > for the "RROUTER" line which I changed to "ROUTER=-ROUTED- ack > Things went very badly from this point so I guess that I made some > REALLY dumb mistakes. I did read the NeXT sys-admin book VERY carefully > before trying this but I am no expert. Ok, we can fix this. Did you read the top part of /etc/fstab that says: # # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING # It was right :-) Ok, sarcasm aside (like I haven't fubar'd my machine 4k times). When you get to the # prompt, speak in gentle terms to the computer. Then do /usr/etc/mount -o remount / if that doesn't work, try /usr/etc/mount -o remount,rw / then do cat /etc/fstab (just to see if it is there) If it isn't, try this: echo "/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1" > /etc/fstab or /bin/cp /usr/template/client/etc/fstab.sd330 /etc/fstab basically you need to tell the NeXT there is a hard drive attached, and /etc/fstab needs to look like this /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 Then you need to replace the /etc/rc* files. You can get the default ones in /usr/template/client/etc/ I'd probably do: /bin/mkdir /etc/FUBAR.rc /bin/mv /etc/rc* /etc/FUBAR.rc/ just in case you ever want them back. Then I'd do /bin/cp /usr/template/client/etc/rc* /etc/ Then I would once again speak nicely to the computer, and reboot (command key and the "~" key over the 7 on the keypad, then 'r for reboot') NOTE: this may not work! You may have to boot off the CD, which will require a SCSI CD-ROM drive and the original CD. You may not have these. Do not worry. You will get the machine back up and running, and you probably will not have to reinstall the OS. Don't panic. I've done worse. At the very least you'll know better next time ;-) Feel free to email me directly if you so desire. Tj "FUBAR King" Luoma -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:03:54 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 17 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, > NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message > "Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" I had this problem at one point also.... > I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. right... if this were totally hosed you couldn't login at all... > But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to > the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, I take it 'nidump passwd .' in terminal.app gives the same error? > 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up > the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be messed > up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers (recall that > UserManager won't launch) If nidump won't work, then I don't think so... well, unless you have 'id' and login as each user and record what 'id' says..... Actually, if 'id' works (and id does not depend on NetInfo) then there must be a way..... someone else may even know what it is... I've got a NeXT&Intel binary of 'id' if you need it.... > 2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? Probably not.... but if you have setup sendmail for PPP (which I guess you have) then you will need to set that up again. I think the real issue is figuring out what caused this problem in the first place. I _think_ it has something to do with the machine trying to connect to NetInfo and NetInfo not realizing that the machine is the same machine that owns the NetInfo database.... Did you change the loopback address (127.0.0.1) by any chance? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: marc@htl.com (Marc Respass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep 4.2 PR on NT network? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:13:12 GMT Organization: HTL Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <33a7f9ff.883683@htlmst.htl.com> Hi, I recently got the Prelude to Rhapsody (Openstep 4.2 Pre-Release). I installed it on my Pentium PC in a dual-boot config with Win95. I'd like to put the Openstep system on the local network but I'm having a hard time of it. It seems Samba is installed and I haven't taken a look at the docs for it but mostly, I can't figure out how to setup my network config so that I can get to our DNS server. I can't get on the internet but I can see other machines by IP address, though not by name. I don't know the first thing about NetInfo but editing the network files by hand didn't seem to matter - adding an entry to /etc/hosts didn't let me see that machine by name. If anyone can give me some tips on setting up Openstep to work on our local network and the internet, I'd appreciate it. Thanks --Marc Respass High Technology Logistics mailto:marc@htl.com http://www.htl.com
From: ***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch (Will Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unbootable OpenStep 4.2 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 16:35:46 GMT Organization: IFI, Uni Zurich Message-ID: <5o8vd1$b21@bioko.ifi.unizh.ch> I have tried to run OpenStep 4.2 "Prelude to Rhapsody" on my homebrew PC with great difficulty and very little success. My system has an Intel Triton II motherboard (AMI BIOS 1.00.04.BS0) and four IDE drives: Primary Interface ----------------- Master -> Western Digital AC2700H 720 MB Slave -> Conner CFS 1621A 1.6 GB Secondary Interface ------------------- Master -> Quantum Fireball TM3840A 3.8 GB Slave -> Goldstar CRD-8160B ATAPI 16 speed cdrom drive I intended to have OpenStep reside on a 620 MB partition at the beginning of the Quantum drive (i.e. hd(2)), and I would like to be able to leave these drives as they are currently set up, as I have 3 other operating systems and don't want to disturb them too much. I could possibly switch the Quantum and Conner drives around, but the Western Digital drive will remain the first disk no matter what. I managed to successfully install the OS by removing the two drives from the first IDE interface and putting the Quantum and Goldstar cdrom in their place. The system boots fine if nothing is connected to the secondary interface. However, if I attach those other two drives to the secondary interface, the system boots to a desktop, but is completely unresponsive. When I replace the drives back in their original configuration, I can't boot at all, even from the floppy with the installation CD in the drive and a "boot: hd(2)mach_kernel -s" command line. The drives all appear to be successfully identified during bootup, but after the "power management enabled" message, I just get lots of spurious IDE timeout and error messages. So much for a PC operating system! I have followed all the instructions and advice in NeXTanswers documents 1839, 1487, and 1933, including removing the installation "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE/ATAPI" driver and installing two normal "EIDE/ATAPI" drivers with the appropriate ports and IRQs, but I am still stuck with an unusable OpenStep system. Any help appreciated. Cheers - Will Harris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANTI-SPAMBOT NOTE: For email contact, remove the ***RemoveMe*** prefix ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I was going to be a Neo-Deconstructivist, but Mom wouldn't let me..." Institut fuer Informatik EMAIL: ***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch der Universitaet Zuerich WWW: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/harris.html Winterthurerstr. 190 TEL: +41-1-257-4346/4566 (office/lab) CH-8057 Zuerich +41-1-251-0135 (home) Switzerland FAX: +41-1-363-0035 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:58:46 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970618114537.543A-100000@lubra> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> yOn Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > On 17 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > > > > For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, > > NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message > > "Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" > > I had this problem at one point also.... > > > > I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. > > right... if this were totally hosed you couldn't login at all... > > > > But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to > > the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, > > I take it 'nidump passwd .' in terminal.app gives the same error? > No, "nidump passwd ." does, in fact, execute as expected. > > > 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up > > the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be messed > > up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers (recall that > > UserManager won't launch) > I got the user id' successfully. > If nidump won't work, then I don't think so... well, unless you have 'id' > and login as each user and record what 'id' says..... > > Actually, if 'id' works (and id does not depend on NetInfo) then there > must be a way..... someone else may even know what it is... I've got a > NeXT&Intel binary of 'id' if you need it.... > > > > 2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? > > Probably not.... but if you have setup sendmail for PPP (which I guess you > have) then you will need to set that up again. > > I think the real issue is figuring out what caused this problem in the > first place. I _think_ it has something to do with the machine trying to > connect to NetInfo and NetInfo not realizing that the machine is the same > machine that owns the NetInfo database.... Did you change the loopback > address (127.0.0.1) by any chance? > I did have some kind of loopback problem in ppp connections at one point, but I don't recall what I did to remedy the problem. How/where do I check the loopback address? In hostconfig, my INETADDR=127.0.0.1 Thanks for the reply. > TjL > > -- > TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ > NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html > "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." > - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College > > > 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 http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
Message-ID: <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:07:41 -0600 From: Kris Magnusson <kmagnusson@novell.com> Organization: Novell Java Class Libraries MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 in Hungarian? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXTstation I want to loan to my friend, who is Hungarian. Is there a Hungarian language option for OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 someplace? It's not on the media.... ................kris
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk behaviour Date: 18 Jun 1997 17:24:10 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5o95jq$pfk$3@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <5o57tu$m2i$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) wrote: > Can someone clue me in on the intended behaviour of BuildDisk? > I'm running on 4.1 Intel. I've successfully been able to use BuildDisk on a 4.1 system, but it requires some postprocessing. First, run BuildDisk on the new disk. Then, create the missing symlink in /private: cd /private ln -s Drivers/i386 Devices Now for the extra step: BuildDisk does not create the System.config entry, nor does it copy any Instance0 tables. Hence, at least copy (e.g. via Workspace drag and drop) System.config from the original disk to the corresponding /private/Drivers/i386 on the new disk. You'll then be able to boot "config=Default" with the new disk, and then change settings to match your system. Alternatively, copy over the complete folder Drivers/i386. This will preserve all Instance0 tables and hence give an identical driver setup. This approach is useful when you have to build a disk for an identical or almost identical Intel system like the one you created the disk with. After this, you're done. Power down and you are ready to boot from the new SCSI disk! :-) HTH, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: david@wood.net (David R. Perry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: routing IP Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:47:21 -0700 Organization: USF InfoTech Message-ID: <david-1806971047210001@tiggr.usfca.edu> does anyone use a NeXTCube as an IP router? I'd like to be able to use my cube as a PPP client and then route IP to the other machines I have hooked up to ethernet... any ideas? David...
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:08:11 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618120516.13336H-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.970618114537.543A-100000@lubra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970618114537.543A-100000@lubra> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: >On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > > On 17 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > > > But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to > > > the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, > > > > I take it 'nidump passwd .' in terminal.app gives the same error? > > No, "nidump passwd ." does, in fact, execute as expected. You could try to 'niload' the user information, just don't set a password, then login as that user and set a password with Preferences.app (can you change your password? > I did have some kind of loopback problem in ppp connections at one point, > but I don't recall what I did to remedy the problem. How/where do I check > the loopback address? In hostconfig, my INETADDR=127.0.0.1 /etc/ifconfig -a look for the lo0 address > Thanks for the reply. no problem... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Fam.Moser@t-online.de (Familie Moser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: glib++ for NextStep 3.0 Date: 17 Jun 1997 10:50:05 GMT Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway Message-ID: <5o5q4t$q0s$1@news02.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everybody, I am looking for a port of glib++ on NS 3.0. At had a look at the sources of glib2.0, but I am afraid that the effort in porting it is too much for me. So I was wondering if there is somebody out there who has a port available. It need not be the latest version, I am just interested in hacking a little bit C++. Any kind of advice or pointer is welcome. Please mail to either martin@shiratori.riec.tohoku.ac.jp or fam.moser@t-online.de. Thanks in advance for your kindness, Martin
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Zip Drive Icons Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:31:42 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sorry for this question. I tried to search DejaNews but for some reason without success. Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. Could you give me a pointer? Thanks Rudy. blazek@stt.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones) Subject: Paradox Runtime 3.0 - anyone using it? Message-ID: <cjonesEBzw5M.KJ4@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:34:33 GMT Sender: cjones@netcom.netcom.com anyone using the Paradon Runtime Engine Version 3.0 ? we are, with Windows for Workgroups I'd like to make contact with anyone who has or has had experience with that environment. I am picking up some pieces of what some people have left (where have you heard that before). BTW anyone use PXNetTblRefresh call? One of our routines does and 3 others do not. What are pros/cons? thanks, carl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: SAMBA printer question Message-ID: <EBz54x.82L@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:50:57 GMT In article <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) writes: > I am not doing this right... > We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. > Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: > > [printers] > print command = lpr -r %s > lpq command = lpq > lprm command = lprm %j > comment = All Printers > browseable = yes > printable = yes > public = yes > path = /tmp > writable = no > create mode = 0700 > > Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: > HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| > > So how does the user on the win box know which printer it's going to to > select? Will the names show up in NetworkNeighborhood somehow? Now all I > get is "printers" under the server name.... > -- > "A measure of a man is what he will do for > someone who can offer but nothing in return." > -Unattributed. > MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted > Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com The [printers] section is one of the three special sections in the smb.conf file (along with [global] and [homes]). These have some sort of alias function, which means that you shouldn't set them 'browseable = yes' but 'browseable = no'. The [printers] section represents all printers specified in your printcap file. The winbox user needs to connect to a service named HPI_corporate_Color for example (out of the printcap). There will be a new service created on the fly with this name and the parameters specified in the alias section. You could of course also create one section for each printer and set those browseable. Then they will also show up in the NetworkNeighborhood. If you had 100 printers, this isn't the easy way of course, hence the alias sections (same for [homes]). You should also set 'load printers = yes' in the [global] section. This should make at least the first printer specified in your printcap file show up in the NNeighborhood. Hope this helps, Robert. ========================================================================== Robert Wunderer OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ==========================================================================
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 18 Jun 1997 21:04:57 -0500 Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5oa449$opj$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> NNTP-Posting-User: bettis csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) writes: >If you have NT 4, get the NeXT printer driver that John Michopoulos put >together from the Peak archive (next-ftp.peak.org). I am using that driver and have no problems with most programs (as long as I set the page independence) EXCEPT for Adobe Acrobat Reader 3. You would think that adobe would be the one program that generated real postscript, but I guess not. It seems to notice that the printer is PS and ignore the driver and generate its own postscript. I get the first and last page then an error panel. Any ideas?
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bad sendmail header Date: 19 Jun 1997 02:55:59 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> I am having a frustrating problem with outgoing mail that can be traced to one bad header. Lately some of my mail has been returned with messages such as: >----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><KLJensen01@aol.com> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >.... while talking to e.mx.aol.com.: >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 ><<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found in DNS(see >RFC 1123, sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.18). >554 <KLJnsen01@aol.com>... Service unavailable And another came back like this: > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><tmccarth@usc.edu> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >.... while talking to usc.edu.: >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=696 ><<< 553 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Unknown host ganesh.bitstream.net >501 <tmccarth@usc.edu>... Data format error (This one took three days to come back.) By way of a test I sent myself a message, from my cube to my PC's CompuServe account, and saw the following headers: >Sender: cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net >Received: from bitstream.net (marley.bitstream.net [204.73.77.85]) by >dub-img-1.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) > id UAA08494; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:59:24 -0400 >Received: from ganesh.bitstream.net by bitstream.net (8.8.2/SMI-4.1.R930813) > id TAA25614; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:59:18 -0500 (CDT) >Received: (from cejensen@localhost) > by ganesh.bitstream.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00269 > for 105012.2377@compuserve.com; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:54:53 -0500 (CDT) >Message-Id: <199706190054.TAA00269@ganesh.bitstream.net> >Content-Type: text/plain >MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) >X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b6) >Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) >Sender: Christian Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> >From: cejensen@bitstream.net>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 19:54:51 -0500 >To: 105012.2377@compuserve.com >Subject: test 6/18 >Reply-To: cejensen@bitstream.net The very fist header is the one that some (not all) mail servers are choking on. All the others look OK (cejensen@bitstream.net is my real email address, ganesh is my machine name.) Somehow these mail servers won't accept mail from an "unknown host"; The problem is, I'm not mailing from an unknown host! I've just got this headache-making header. Does anyone know how to supress, remove, or correct this header? Any help would be most appreciated! Thanks to all who respond. --Chris -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 in Hungarian? Date: 19 Jun 1997 03:08:42 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun18223039@slave.doubleu.com> References: <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> In-reply-to: Kris Magnusson's message of Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:07:41 -0600 In article <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> Kris Magnusson <kmagnusson@novell.com> writes: I have a NeXTstation I want to loan to my friend, who is Hungarian. Is there a Hungarian language option for OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 someplace? It's not on the media.... Offhand, I don't think there has been a Hungarian option for any _previous_ NeXT operating system, not sure why there'd be one for this one. [And if there is, someone needs to go in and kick some butt at Apple. Don't get me wrong, we need those Hungarians behind Rhapsody - but what's the point of doing Hungarian nibs and documentation for a system which is likely to be heavily rewritten anyhow?] Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / (solution) Date: 19 Jun 1997 07:05:24 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Hi. In article <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, SvenDroll says... > >Hi > >We have got the same problem here (white machine exports a disk, black does >not mount it). As far as I know, this is a problem with the permissions (the >black machine has not the right to mount the disk). The permissions for our >black machine was granted through NFSManager, but it seems that this do not >work. > >Any hint how to solve this problem would be nice. >ciao >-- >Sven Droll The solution is that our black machine is known by more than one name. For access to exported directories you must give NFSManager the FIRST(!) name by which the client is known (in the hosts.equiv?) throughout the network. After changing the hostname in NFSManager the black machine mounts the directory like any other machine in our mixed network. For checking the names of machines which are allowed to mount the directories use "showmount -e <exporting host>." (thanx to x@mail-gw3.pacbell.net) Hope this helps someone Sven
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / (solution) Date: 19 Jun 1997 13:30:27 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5obc9j$nak@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> In article <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) writes: > The solution is that our black machine is known by more than one name. > For access to exported directories you must give NFSManager the FIRST(!) > name by which the client is known (in the hosts.equiv?) throughout the > network. After changing the hostname in NFSManager the black machine > mounts the directory like any other machine in our mixed network. An easy alternative to all this is to use netgroups. Assign every machine you want NFS access to a netgroup, say, nfstest. Now list nfstest (for access rights) in NFSManager. note: netgroups can't be used to assign root access. This way, when you add a machine to your network, you don't need to update your NFS servers. -- 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: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:30:34 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970619092214.6504F-100000@cc3441910a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christian Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Note: followups set to comp.mail.sendmail, as this is only loosely a NeXT related issue On 19 Jun 1997, Christian Jensen wrote: > I am having a frustrating problem with outgoing mail that can be traced to one > bad header. Lately some of my mail has been returned with messages > such as: This is an anti-spam measure. Your host 'ganesh.bitstream.net' is not registered in the DNS (ie: I cannot ping or traceroute to 'ganesh.bitstream.net'). Solution #1: get a static IP tied to the name 'ganesh.bitstream.net' (contact the sysadmin there). This will cost you $$ more than likely. Solution #2: fix sendmail. This will cost you time. If you use the sendmail 8.8.5 instructions (linked to my web site, also on next-ftp.peak.org) you can tell your machine to 'masquerade_as' a host (in your case I would suggest 'mail.bitstream.net' and then tell it to just use the domain name). This will correct the 'Message-ID' hostname. AOL and many other places are tightening their restrictions on how they accept mail, in an effort to squash spam. Sendmail.8.85 should take about 30 minutes to read, re-read, read again without the TV on, and configure. Most of the work has already been done and notes taken.... all you need to do is follow them. Sure if you want you can muck with sendmail rulesets rather than upgrade your sendmail. I'm not that daring, however. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unbootable OpenStep 4.2 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:28:00 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5obflg$300@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5o8vd1$b21@bioko.ifi.unizh.ch> Will Harris (***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch) wrote: : [...] : Any help appreciated. : It is necessary to adapt the 'hd' (or 'sd' in case of SCSI) entry in /etc/fstab to reflect the actual number of the disk with the root (/) filesystem - in your case i would guess /dev/hd2a where it now reads /dev/hd0a. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail and virtual ip Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:52:03 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:52:03 GMT Having used Hideo Morishita's code to add some virtual ips to this machine, I now find that sendmail has a problem with mail sent to users at a virtual address. For example, logic.tamu.edu is one of my virtual addresses and mail sent to colin@logic.tamu.edu gets bounced with the following message: While connected to logic.tamu.edu: >>> HELO snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu <<< 553 snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself 554 <colin@logic.tamu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable I have set up my sendmail.cf file to accept mail for logic.tamu.edu and curiously, mail sent to @snaefell.tamu.edu:colin@logic.tamu.edu is delivered just fine. What else do I need to change to tell sendmail to accept mail sent to the virtual address? Thanks in advance. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: Anyone upgraded from NS3.3 to OS4.2? Message-ID: <EC15MA.63v@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:56:34 GMT I recall sometime ago a post about problems resulting from a direct upgrade from NS3.3 to OS4.1. Has anyone succeeded upgrading directly to OS.4.2 from 3.3? In particular I am thinking about doing this to an Intel system so I'd appreciate any comments. -- Lyle Parkyn ProSoft Solutions Inc. (http://www.prosoft.com) lparkyn@prosoft.com (NeXTmail, text or MIME formats welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)538-7694
From: Matthias Klose <Matthias.Klose@cs.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ThinkPad 760ED drivers? Date: 19 Jun 1997 19:11:28 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <784tauiklb.fsf@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since NeXT has a driver for the Thinkpad 760ED display, support for the other devices should available as well; unfortunately I cannot configure the following ports correctly: Sound, Serial, Parallel, InfraRed and the internal modem. Does somebody could email me the correct config files? Many Thanks, Matthias
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / (solution) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:13:55 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33A968D3.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5obc9j$nak@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rex Dieter wrote: > An easy alternative to all this is to use netgroups. > Assign every machine you want NFS access to a netgroup, say, nfstest. And... if you use netgroups with NIS, don't forget that the lookupd in 4.0 and 4.1 is unable to handle this. Lookups of NIS-netgroups was fixed in 4.2. 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: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and virtual ip Date: 19 Jun 1997 16:16:07 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5obm07$hud$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > Having used Hideo Morishita's code to add some virtual ips to this > machine, I now find that sendmail has a problem with mail sent to > users at a virtual address. For example, logic.tamu.edu is one of > my virtual addresses and mail sent to colin@logic.tamu.edu > gets bounced with the following message: > > While connected to logic.tamu.edu: > >>> HELO snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu > <<< 553 snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself > 554 <colin@logic.tamu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable Add *all* of the addresses for which you will do final delivery to class w. Also, check your DNS configuration --- from the looks of <snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu> I'd guess you are missing a "." on the A record. > I have set up my sendmail.cf file to accept mail for logic.tamu.edu > and curiously, mail sent to @snaefell.tamu.edu:colin@logic.tamu.edu > is delivered just fine. > > What else do I need to change to tell sendmail to accept mail sent > to the virtual address? In general, you don't need to muck about with virtual interfaces to configure sendmail. Grab the source code to sendmail-8.8.6 (ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/) and read the sendmail-8.8.6/cf/README file, paying particular attention to the sections describing masquerading and the virtusertable database. You will also need to set up an MX record for all of your virtual mail domains pointing at your server: logic.tamu.edu. IN MX 0 snaefell.tamu.edu The whole deal with virtual interfaces has been blown out of all proportion: it's only necessary for WWW servers because of an oversight made in the design of the HTTP 1.0 protocol --- this was (by definition) way back before the WWW took off, and no-one had really considered that there would be a demand to run several different web sites on a single machine. Anyhow, this is fixed in the current HTTP 1.1 version of the protocol so the egregious was of the limited IP namespace caused by virtual interfaces should start to slowly disappear. Matthew [Mailed and posted] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and virtual ip Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:28:50 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <UneOGGy00iWm08tA00@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Jun-97 sendmail and virtual ip by Colin Allen@snaefell.tam > While connected to logic.tamu.edu: > >>> HELO snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu > <<< 553 snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself > 554 <colin@logic.tamu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable > > I have set up my sendmail.cf file to accept mail for logic.tamu.edu > and curiously, mail sent to @snaefell.tamu.edu:colin@logic.tamu.edu > is delivered just fine. > > What else do I need to change to tell sendmail to accept mail sent > to the virtual address? Ah, the classic looping error; add "logic.tamu.edu" to the list of hostnames your machine recognizes as being local...ie, to the line in sendmail.cf beginning with 'Cw'. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:31:23 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gneOIf600iWm08tAU0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Jun-97 Bad sendmail header by Christian Jensen@bitstre > I am having a frustrating problem with outgoing mail that can be traced to > one bad header. Lately some of my mail has been returned with messages > such as: > >> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >> <KLJensen01@aol.com> >> >> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >> .... while talking to e.mx.aol.com.: >> >>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 >> <<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found in >> DNS(see >RFC 1123, sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.18). >> 554 <KLJnsen01@aol.com>... Service unavailable Your hostname doesn't appear in the DNS: 81-tertius% nslookup -type=any ganesh.bitstream.net. Server: NETSERVER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU Address: 128.2.35.50 *** NETSERVER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU can't find ganesh.bitstream.net.: Non-existent hostname 82-tertius% nslookup -type=any ganesh.bitstream.net. bitstream.net. *** Can't find server name for address 204.73.77.85: Timed out *** Default servers are not available Tell your service provider to create at least an 'A' and 'PTR' record for your machine, and preferably an 'MX' record as well if you get mail delivered directly to your machine. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and virtual ip Date: 20 Jun 1997 01:33:02 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5ocmke$2rt@news.tamu.edu> References: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> <UneOGGy00iWm08tA00@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jun 1997 01:33:02 GMT Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >Ah, the classic looping error; add "logic.tamu.edu" to the list of >hostnames your machine recognizes as being local...ie, to the line in >sendmail.cf beginning with 'Cw'. Indeed I had done this already, but what I did not realise is that one must reboot for the change to take effect. All's well now. Thanks! -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip Drive Icons Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:36:58 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970619213532.5087A-100000@cc344191-a> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > Sorry for this question. I tried to search DejaNews but for some reason > without success. Did you try sending me an email with the SUBJECT search-peak zip > Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. > Could you give me a pointer? had you done the above you would have gotten to see: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README TjL, who isn't asking how this is 'sysadmin' related ;-) -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What happened to /NextApps/Mail.app/safetar ? Date: 20 Jun 1997 03:06:35 GMT Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowlege,Inc Message-ID: <5ocs3r$6e8$1@bashir.peak.org> I see that safetar has been removed from Mail.app What does what it used to do? TjL -- -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 19 Jun 1997 16:34:15 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <5obn27$omv@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <5o8nd0$jvl$1@news2.gte.net> Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: : >From Win95 I generally use an "Apple LaserWriter II NTX v47.0", and simply : >set the printer's memory preference up to a few megs. I've not had much : >trouble with this. This also has worked A-OK under WinNT 3.51. : doens't seem to like this driver from NT 4, still get the postscript : error dialog on next. You need to set the preferences for the driver so that it sends PostScript is the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions format (ADSC), which is in the advanced preferences, as I recall. --Chris Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst -------------------------------------- computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by | chris@computerActive.com (NeXT/MIME) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad | http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
From: creator@null.net (Anton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hardware Password! ..help.. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:09:22 GMT Organization: nodupplikuble Message-ID: <33ab2aa0.1648466@news.isource.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've got my hands on a NeXTstation which i got all the manuals for, but not a single password. When I was trying to reset the root password through ROM monitor, I was asked for a hardware password, which I don't have either.. . There's a fat battery inside of the machine which I removed for an 1/2-hour (pc experience). That did not seem to help. All that manual advises is not to lose HW passwd or else. Big help. If anybody have any idea about how to change or wipe out this sucker, your help would be so much appreciated. Maybe you will even get flowers (joke). Thanks. Anton.
From: sieg@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Arne Sieg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: shutdown-script Date: 20 Jun 1997 11:17:18 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5odoru$db9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Hello! I have to execute a program before I can shutdown. This should be automatic. The only solution I see is the following: Writing a shutdown script. Link /etc/shutdown to /etc/.../script This script calls at the end /usr/etc/shutdown Has anyone done this? Is there a better solution with bsd 4.3 unix? Thanks in advance. --- Arne Sieg, StuMi-Sysadmin-PST url: http://www.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~sieg/ pgp: key fingerprint = 79 78 8E 76 B5 B6 AA 71 D8 1A C4 41 ED 86 46 C9
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Zip Drive Icons Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EC12o6.C8K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:52:54 GMT References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > >Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. >Could you give me a pointer? > Not to slam whoever made them, but they're a little ugly. ;) Only 2-bit greyscale was my main complaint. Hmmm...maybe I should digitise a Zip disk and head over to Pixelsight? -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME 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: sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: make mail folder searchable? Date: 20 Jun 1997 12:27:53 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5odt09$brd$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hello after more than 4 years of NextMail the problem of finding old mails gets harder and harder. So: is there a good easy solution to search within NeXTMail in all folders ? Something like another button in the active Mailfolder? Or a Service? thanx alot later SfR
From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: bus error with rsh... Date: 20 Jun 1997 14:02:52 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oe2ic$js3@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, I'm using OpenStep4.1/Intel. Sometimes I got an error "Bus error" when I use rsh, rlogin, telnet or talk. Before upgrading to 4.1, I have never face with such a problem (but the problem might come from other softwares that I installed). When it happens, reboot the machine does help, but after a while, the problem appears again. Any idea/clue/help ? Thanks very much, Khanh Nguyen
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hardware Password! ..help.. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:52:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970620075208.23419E-100000@kira> References: <33ab2aa0.1648466@news.isource.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Anton <creator@null.net> In-Reply-To: <33ab2aa0.1648466@news.isource.net> Remove the battery for a longer time.... and hour.... overnight... somewhere in between should be long enough :-) TjL
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:53:53 -0600 From: tguyette@is.com Subject: Intel next 3.3 not launching Opener.app and OpenSesame.app Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <866824852.2236@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I have been running 3.3 on Intel for some time now. I have had several system crashes and subsequent disk repairings happen. After one such incident (it may or may not be the cause), Opener.app and now OpenSesame.app give me the following errors: OpenSesame: execute: [/bin/su -c /NextAdmin/Configure.app/Configure] asRoot: 1 OpenSesame: subprocessError: 'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.' OpenSesame: Open on highlander OpenSesame: execute: [rsh highlander /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail -NXHost orchid] asRoot: 0 OpenSesame: subprocessError: 'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.' OpenSesame: Open on highlander OpenSesame: execute: [rsh highlander /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -NXHost orchid] asRoot: 0 OpenSesame: subprocessError: 'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.' Can anyone tell me how to repair this problem? I have tried to contact ask_next and they have not responded after 1 month with my repeat appeals. They must be developing apple's attitude toward customer's fixing problems themselves. I have a disk full of lots of stuff I am not wanting to reinstall. Tom -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
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From: walker@imap1.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: (Simple) Memory Upgrade Doesn't Take Date: 20 Jun 1997 21:01:10 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <5oer2m$h23@news.asu.edu> Quite simply, my Intel-based 3.3 system doesn't like it when I upgrade from 32mb to 64mb. I am going from 2 16mb chips to 4 16mb chips on a PCI bus. It hangs while trying to start network service (towards the very end of the sytem boot up sequence). Things are just peachy when I go back down to 32mb. Any ideas? Much obliged, -Robin
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: make mail folder searchable? Date: 20 Jun 1997 23:01:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5of257$nam$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5odt09$brd$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) wrote: > >hello > > >after more than 4 years of NextMail the problem of finding >old mails gets harder and harder. > >So: is there a good easy solution to search within NeXTMail >in all folders ? >Something like another button in the active Mailfolder? >Or a Service? > >thanx alot >later >SfR Try the MailSearch.app, you can find it at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/MailSearch.3.0.NIHS.b.tar. gz It isn't part of Mail.app, but it does provide a service from the Services menu. --Ryan Scott
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Commandline process to 'check for disks'? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:50:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970620134906.13946D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII How do I achieve a 'Check for Disks' from the commandline? My floppy drive doesn't automount :-( TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip Drive Icons Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:42:50 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970620194200.14174C-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <EC12o6.C8K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <EC12o6.C8K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, David Evans wrote: > In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, > Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > > > >Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. > >Could you give me a pointer? > > > > Not to slam whoever made them, but they're a little ugly. ;) Only 2-bit > greyscale was my main complaint. Hmmm...maybe I should digitise a Zip disk and > head over to Pixelsight? > The links Tim posted in a reply to my question are quite nice. Have a look: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README Rudy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: shutdown-script Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7x205wkg6r.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: sieg@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Arne Sieg) Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) References: <5odoru$db9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:28:12 GMT >>>>> "AS" == Arne Sieg <sieg@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> writes: AS> Writing a shutdown script. Link /etc/shutdown to AS> /etc/.../script This script calls at the end /usr/etc/shutdown AS> Has anyone done this? Is there a better solution with bsd 4.3 AS> unix? The better way is to use /etc/halt but other than that you're on the right track.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: wirehead@netcom.com (David J Harr) Subject: Internal 4 GB HD and IDE zip drive Message-ID: <wireheadEC4CH7.JxC@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: The Programmers who say NEE! Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:17:31 GMT Sender: wirehead@netcom.netcom.com OK, I've been trying to get this to work for weeks. What is the magic incantation necessary to partition and use a 4 GB internal SCSI hard disk with and OPENSTEP/Intel system? Everytime I try to use BuildDisk, it calims it is a 61 Mbyte drive and attempts to turn it in to a swap disk. mkfs refuses to allocate more than 800 Mbytes of storage on the disk.How can I get this to work? If I have to split it into two partitions, I'd like to make each of them just under 2GB, and leave about 200 MBytes to use as a swap disk. Any pointers to the right thing to do would be appreciated... Problem, the second...I have an IDE internal zip drive installed in my machine, It would be spiffy if I could actually use it...Ocasionally, if I have a DOS disk in the drive at bootup, the disk will actually mount, but then the WorkSpace Manager thinks it is a fixed device and won't let me eject it.Any idea on how to get the system to recognize this as a removable media drive? Problem, the third. How do I keep the Workspace mamnger from attempting to mount an internal hard disk containing an NTFS partition from my other work. It is very irritating to get the "SCSI drive damaged, ignore, initialize" dialog box every time I sogn on. Is there a way to tell the WorkSpace Manager that a particular device is forever off limits? Problem, the fourth. Is ther a way to keep the damn OS from attempting to start up every SCSI device on the bus? Of course the CD-ROM players and the zip drive may or may not have anything in them. If they do not, the computer keeps waiting for the device to time out, then it tries again. Again, I would like to make it easy to just ignore whether these devices are spun up at startup, and have the OS just drive on, because it knows that a removable drive can be inserted at any time... Well, these are my peeves about MacOS/Rhapsody. We'll see if anyone can help me with them. Thanks... David
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: 21 Jun 1997 20:15:39 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> I have a problem with a file in /dev. I first noticed errors on the Console: %>localhost_fax: /dev/cufa is locked. Then the next time I booted, the same message appeared among the usual startup lines referring to NXFax. I also could not connect to my ISP, so I knew something was SNAFUed royally. I peeked into /dev, and saw that cufa no longer has question mark icon as per the other /dev files. It now has a text file icon. I checked the permissions and saw he following: cua, cub, and cufb all look like- crw------- But cufa looks like- -rw------- Who knows how this ever got changed, but needless to say I can't figure out how to change the file type back to c. As root, I tried to copy the file from the NS 3.3 CD /private/dev directory into /private/dev, but the copied file still has the -rw------- permissions and text icon, and is still "locked". I tried to copy cufa from a command line with a -p, but this hung. At the moment I have reconfigured everything to use port B, but this just sidesteps the problem. Anyone know how to fix this?? What little step am I overlooking... :-) Many thanks.... -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:47:30 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nf3rWe00iVG028t40@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Jun-97 Corrupted /dev/cufa? by Christian Jensen@bitstre > Anyone know how to fix this?? What little step am I overlooking... :-) Run '/dev/MAKEDEV std', which will ensure that all standard device files get recreated appropriately, or do 'mknod cufa c 11 224; chmod 600 cufa ; chown uucp cufa', which will just fix /dev/cufa. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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From: Scott Klein <sklein@panix.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PERL install problems Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 20:06:01 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Message-ID: <33AC6C66.7A41@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install the PERL.pkg on my black hardware ns3.3... First, it says "The Perl package contains programs that will be run during this operation. Continue?" -- I click Continue. As soon as Installer is done with the checking progress, the install stops and I get the following error: Running installation program ... /private/tmp/.Perl.tmp/Perl.pre_install: Permission denied. Now, I'm logged in as root, and I haven't fiddled with the permissions at all since I got the thing. What am I doing wrong? Is this a problem with the installer? I heard that there was a 5.0004 package that fixes installation problems. Any chance someone could point me toward that? Thanks for your advice, Scott.
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From: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: 21 Jun 1997 13:24:17 GMT Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowlege,Inc Message-ID: <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> On 06/21/97, Brian Wotring wrote: >On Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400, Dario Ringach ><dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: > >>I installed NS4.1/Mach and set aside a DOS partition on which >>I want to install Windows-95. However, when I boot with the >>Win-95 startup diskette it wants to format my entire disk... >> >>How do I install Win-95 on the DOS partition? >>Thanks... > >Windows sucks. Well that's one of the most useless responses I've ever heard, regardless of the veracity of the claim. Man I long for the days when sysadmins setup their news server so you couldn't quote more than you wrote. It saved us from these one liners, or at least made it more difficult. Dario -- a more helpful answer (although unfortunately not much more) is that if you can, it is much easier to partition the drive using Win95 or something else, and install W95 on the first partition. 4.1 will see the partition and ask where you want to install 4.1. W95 is a fascist system that will easily install itself over any non-M$ system without worry. 4.1 is a smart OS that recognizes that people sometimes decide to have more than one OS, even if the other OS isn't as good. TjL -- -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: netinfo config in 3.3 & 4.2 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 01:12:22 -0400 Organization: personal Message-ID: <33ACB436.57A0@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need to upgrade from NS/intel 3.3 to 4.2. Since I would be the first one to do so in the company, I wonder how netinfo works in 4.2. If I save the netinfo config in 3.3 on a disk and copy it to /etc after upgrade to 4.2, will it work? Thanks, ZiZi
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 Supersedes: <3108866347221@digifix.com> Date: 22 Jun 1997 03:57:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== 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. 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. 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From: prak@usl.edu (Brian Wotring) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 04:55:23 GMT Organization: Continual Flux Message-ID: <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> On Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400, Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: >I installed NS4.1/Mach and set aside a DOS partition on which >I want to install Windows-95. However, when I boot with the >Win-95 startup diskette it wants to format my entire disk... > >How do I install Win-95 on the DOS partition? >Thanks... Windows sucks.
From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: entering NMI monitor Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:17:06 +0000 Organization: RIKEN Message-ID: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm running NS 3.3/Intel booting from Linux LILO on an NS/Linux dual boot machine. I would like to enter the NMI monitor. Right-Alt + NumLock puts up a window that seems just to give the options of restarting or halting. What I really want to do is go to the ROM monitor and set the "verbose test mode" parameter to No. Any suggestions? Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Saitama, Japan
From: aa056@chebucto.ns.ca (George White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba and printer export Date: 22 Jun 1997 11:44:07 GMT Organization: Chebucto Community Net Message-ID: <5oj367$o9t$1@News.Dal.Ca> References: <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> <5o66u6$gvk@corporate.hesta.com> Michael Verruto (michael@hesta.com) wrote: : In <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Vincent Koser wrote: : > I would like to export my next laser printer from samba but can't seem : > to get it working. Could someone share their config file from samba : > that allows the standard laser printer to be exported? : > : > thanks : > vince : > : I also would like the same thing: I tried a few months ago but got wierd : behavior- only one page of the file would print then nothing... : Is there a SAMBA Printing FAQ somewhere? : Maybe we could make a comp.sys.next(Rhapsody).samba discussion group? : -- : "A measure of a man is what he will do for : someone who can offer but nothing in return." : -Unattributed. : MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted : Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com I'm running Samba on 3.0 NeXT and printing works fine from an OS/2 Warp 4.0 client. From a Win 3.11 client, only one printer works, but this is mentioned somewhere as a bug in Win 3.11. I did have to work a bit to compile Samba, as some of the settings in the default configuration were incorrect. As I recall, it wanted fcntl flags F_SETLK, F_GETLK, etc. I did not try to use any OS calls for file and record locking. The printers are both external networked printers running BSD-style lprd. -- George White <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca> <gwhite@bionet.bio.dfo.ca>
From: jasonben@aol.com (jasonben) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Control: cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Date: 9 Jun 1997 12:40:39 -0400 Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com/ Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <-5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Please cancel this posting
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: 22 Jun 1997 17:40:08 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: luomat@peak.org This might sound like a hardware problem, given the Subject but it isn't. Here's the deal, I have 2 ethernet cards in my Intel, one at "en0" and the other at "en1". If I connect the en0 to the cable modem that gives me my internet access, and use HostManager to set all my correct Internet parameters, then I can access the Internet quite well (as I am doing now). In this scenario I use en1 to connect to the slab, using the IP address of the NeXT defined C class for private use (192.42.172.xxx) HOWEVER, in order to use NetInfo more easily, I'd prefer that en0 = my connection to the slab and en1 = my connection to the Internet. I set that up and tell the slab to do autohost-config and things go smoothly between the two machines. When I try to set it up that way, the Internet connection never is made, ie the network seems to be down. My guess is that I need to set up some sort of routing so that en1 knows to look out over the Internet? Any guesses on what I should do NeXT would be deeply appreciated. I can give more information via email if necessary. Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: 22 Jun 1997 16:27:43 GMT Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <5ojjpv$ps5@news.nd.edu> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org> In article <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org>, Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >On 06/21/97, Brian Wotring wrote: >>On Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400, Dario Ringach >><dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: >> >>>I installed NS4.1/Mach and set aside a DOS partition on which >>>I want to install Windows-95. However, when I boot with the >>>Win-95 startup diskette it wants to format my entire disk... >>> >>>How do I install Win-95 on the DOS partition? >>>Thanks... >> >>Windows sucks. > >Well that's one of the most useless responses I've ever heard, >regardless of the veracity of the claim. > Opinion aside, I just went through this yesterday, so I can give you a fresh memory trace on it. If you format with NS Mach first and leave an area for DOS, and then boot up with the Win-95 startup disk it will _say_ it's going to format the whole disk, but it doesn't. It formats the first partition. Go ahead and let Windows do that. When you are through with the windows format, you'll need to get a DOS boot disk with FDISK.EXE on it. Boot up using that and set the active partition to the NeXTSTEP partition. Now you can boot to NS. As root, run the following command: /usr/etc/fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setNeXTActive -useBoot0 This will re-install the boot manager that Win-95 so thoughtfully erased. All will be well again! Good luck, Steve -- Dr. Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Date: 22 Jun 1997 17:31:36 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> wrote: >I'm running NS 3.3/Intel booting from Linux LILO on >an NS/Linux dual boot machine. I would like to enter >the NMI monitor. Right-Alt + NumLock puts up a window >that seems just to give the options of restarting or >halting. What I really want to do is go to the ROM >monitor and set the "verbose test mode" parameter to >No. Any suggestions? This is an easy one - buy a NeXT, Intel boxes have no ROM monitor! :-) If you want the verbose boot sequence on an Intel box then wait for NeXT's booter to start up and when it displays the "boot:" prompt type "-v". - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: 22 Jun 1997 19:07:50 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ojt66$1c4k@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:25:28 GMT Organization: Systemix, Inc. Message-ID: <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> References: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) wrote: > How can I change the root password to something new without knowing the > current password and without re-installing NS completely from scratch. Greetings Karl, My personal alternative to the solution Timothy suggests is if, as sysadmin, your personal account is in the wheel group, then you can boot single user, go to /bin and set the high order (seduid) permission bits on su.wheel to be the same as su.nowheel, finish booting (^D) and then use su.wheel in combination with your own password to become root and then reset root's password via passwd. Of course, remember to unset the permissions on su.wheel when you're done if you don't normally support it policy-wise. I find this simpler to remember but it only works if you're a member of the wheel group. - Christopher
From: urban@athena.onramp.net (Marcus Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail problems Date: 23 Jun 1997 06:48:16 GMT Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP Message-ID: <5ol67g$7vl@nntp.onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii After finally getting ppp set up, WWW, newsgroups, and telnet work fine. Receiving mail (via PopUp) works fine, as well. I have NS 3.3/Intel on a stand-alone machine connected to the provider via ppp. The machine's name is set to athena. However, sending mail is a complete catastrophe. First, I tried the "easy" method described in the Help for PopUp. As a result, all non-local mail worked fine, but I local mail was getting sent to the wrong addresses. For example, mail to localuser was getting sent to localuser@remote.somewhere. My next try was to attempt to install sendmail 8, which totally bombed. Once I installed that, no mail went anywhere, whether it was local or remote email. I de-installed sendmail and re-copied the old sendmail program. Things still weren't right, but I played with some of the sysadmin utilities and got things into the following state: Local mail works fine. It gets delivered within the local system without even trying to contact the mailhost. Remote mail fails. Here's a sample: athena> mail -v urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu Subject: Remote Mail This won't go anywhere useful. Cc: urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu... Connecting to mailhost via ether... mail exchanger is mailhost.onramp.net Trying 199.1.11.3... connected. 220 mailhost.onramp.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:45:40 -0500 (CDT) >>> HELO 501 HELO requires domain address >>> QUIT 221 mailhost.onramp.net closing connection urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu... Service unavailable Saving message in /Users/urban/dead.letter /Users/urban/dead.letter... Sent ======================== In case you're wondering, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: domain onramp.net nameserver 199.1.11.2 nameserver 199.1.1.15 The mail host should be mailhost.onramp.net, which is set up as an alias for mailhost in NetInfo. I don't know what to do. I've searched through a great number of previous postings, and I only saw one posting with this symptom ("HELO requires domain address"), and the only way the poster could resolve it was to re-install his system, which I really don't want to do. Please direct replies to urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu.
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Hardware and Cable Modems Date: 23 Jun 1997 19:29:05 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <5omiq1$djj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, Cable modems have just been introduced in my area. I'm not much of a sysadmin, so I'm wondering if its possible to run them with a turbo slab. From what I gather, they simply plug into your ethernet port. Is there more to it than that? Anyone using one out there? thanks! -- |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Mark Trombino | J A M S o f t | | mtrombin@ix.netcom.com | Audio DSP Tools for Openstep & Rhapsody | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: root@radiation.me.ttu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CDPlayer.app help Date: 23 Jun 1997 19:19:36 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5omi88$2jh@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I have several students that would like to use the CDPlayer.app. I am aware of the help in Nextanswers and have modified the CDPlayer accordingly. The problem is that some of the students can play a CD while others cannot and are given the error message (no CD-ROM found). All the students have similar (network) accounts and belong to the same group. Does anyone know what could possibly causing this unique behavior? Thanks in advance for any help. Darryl James
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: 22 Jun 1997 19:11:42 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ojtde$1c4k@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) wrote: > I have a problem with a file in /dev. I first noticed errors on the > [snip] > I peeked into /dev, and saw that cufa no longer has question mark icon > as per the other /dev files. It now has a text file icon. I checked > the permissions and saw he following: cua, cub, and cufb all look > like- > > crw------- > > But cufa looks like- > > -rw------- > [snip] > Anyone know how to fix this?? What little step am I overlooking... :-) Sorry for the previous empty post. (Oops, I can't control my new mouse!) What you want to do is delete the bad /dev/cufa and then run ./MAKEDEV std in the /dev directory as root. That should fix it after a reboot. -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: 23 Jun 1997 19:10:59 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5omho3$2st$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> Christopher Lane wrote: > My personal alternative to the solution Timothy suggests is if, as sysadmin, > your personal account is in the wheel group, then you can boot single user, > go to /bin and set the high order (seduid) permission bits on su.wheel to be > the same as su.nowheel, finish booting (^D) and then use su.wheel in > combination with your own password to become root and then reset root's > password via passwd. Of course, remember to unset the permissions on > su.wheel when you're done if you don't normally support it policy-wise. This won't work. You'll still be prompted for the root password when you use su.wheel, even if you set it to mode 4755. It's one of those essential security things. The only way to change the root password is to be logged in as root's UID, and the only way to do that without having to give the root password is to boot single user. Most unixen behave in this way, although some of the more security conscious ones will demand either the root password or a "hardware password" to boot into single user mode. Changing the root password in single user mode is more complicated under OpenStep, since you have to manually start up the Netinfo system, but otherwise follows this behaviour. The whole point of su.wheel and su.nowheel is to control who can use su to become root. "su.nowheel" will allow anyone to us it to become root, so long as they know the right password --- this is the standard behaviour on most unices, and also what the GNU version of su supports. The "su.wheel" program only lets people that are members of group wheel become root, again, only if they know the right password. By setting the SUID bit on whichever version you want to use and changing the /bin/su symbolic link to point at it, you can switch the behaviour of the su command. Nb. the SUID bit on either of su.wheel or su.nowheel must be set for the program to work at all. Matthew [posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No Login Screen Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 18:25:24 -0800 Organization: Avanthar Software Message-ID: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> Hi, I've been busy the last week assembleing my "Compatible Intel Based System" and have OPENSTEP installed on it. To be more specific, I upgraded the drives in my old 486 running Linux that acts as an Appletalk server, and installed OPENSTEP on that. At which point I decided a 486DX/33 was too slow for OPENSTEP 4.2 and took the drives and used them as the basis for building a Pentium 133. OPENSTEP runs very nicely, there is just one slight problem, where is the Login screen? When it boots it dumps me directly into a user session for the default user. If I log out, it dumps me right back into that session. I'd like to be able to set up a normal user account, plus I'd like to use the root account to install some additional software (i.e. the Developer stuff). Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? Has anyone else had this problem? It existed in both the install I did for the 486 and the one that I did for the Pentium (I had to reinstall it so I could reformat the hard drive to use all 3.1Gb instead of the 500Mb the 486 let me have). BTW I've got an EIDE HD and CD-ROM if that matters, and that is all that has been in both systems. Any help would be appreciated, I can see how this system can be useful for more than just a tool to get used to programming for Rhapsody. I love the UNIX underpinnings. Thanks, Zane
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:02:20 -0600 From: sidney@postman.riken.go.jp Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <867127679.754@dejanews.com> Organization: RIKEN References: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu> In article <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu>, bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > > Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> wrote: > >I'm running NS 3.3/Intel booting from Linux LILO on > >an NS/Linux dual boot machine. I would like to enter > >the NMI monitor. Right-Alt + NumLock puts up a window > >that seems just to give the options of restarting or > >halting. What I really want to do is go to the ROM > >monitor and set the "verbose test mode" parameter to > >No. Any suggestions? > > This is an easy one - buy a NeXT, Intel boxes have no ROM monitor! :-) > > If you want the verbose boot sequence on an Intel box then wait > for NeXT's booter to start up and when it displays the "boot:" > prompt type "-v". > > - Gareth Actually what I want is the opposite. The computer now always boots in verbose mode even without the -v option, just by hitting "return" at the "boot:" prompt, and I want to shut this off. I realize that the Intel machine has no NeXT ROM, but I would expect some of boot options still reside in the system somewhere and are accessible, including the "verbose test mode" flag. I'm assuming this is a purely NeXT configuration problem and not the result of some LILO setting in Linux. Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:32:20 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nfpjYG00iWp0BzRw0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jun-97 NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet.. by Timothy J. Luoma@peak.or [ .... ] > I am trying to connect the Intel to the slab so I can print from the Intel > to the slab. If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 > connection (the Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 > connection, I think it could work. Yep. Take a look at 'man iftab' and /etc/iftab. Alternatively, you can manually configure the second interface on en1 and set up the appropriate local route in /etc/rc.local. You want to assign the second interface on the Intel box and the primary interface on the NeXT to two IP addresses within one of the reserved private IP ranges, which are (from RFC1918, which is worth reading): 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) [ IP ] [ netmask ] > I tried to read 'man gated' but some grey muck started leaking from my > ears..... I'm not even sure that would help.... Gated is overkill for what you're trying to do (gated is used mainly by ISP's who are using BGP or EGP to peer with other autonomous regions)-- routed is sufficient. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No Login Screen Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:39:50 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nfpqaq00iWp0BzEg0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 23-Jun-97 No Login Screen by Zane H. Healy@ix.netcom. > OPENSTEP runs very nicely, there is just one slight problem, where is > the Login screen? When it boots it dumps me directly into a user > session for the default user. If I log out, it dumps me right back into > that session. I'd like to be able to set up a normal user account, plus > I'd like to use the root account to install some additional software > (i.e. the Developer stuff). It's very simple-- just give the "me" account a password via /NextApps/Preferences.app or the CLI 'passwd' command; logout; and the system will present a login panel instead of automatically logging you in as "me". You can then login as "root" to install software and/or create user accounts (via /NextAdmin/UserManager.app). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 00:10:24 +0100 Organization: VANTeC Message-ID: <33ADB0E0.E4D4FF17@individual.EUnet.pt> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Christian Jensen wrote: > = > I have a problem with a file in /dev. I first noticed errors on the > Console: > = > %>localhost_fax: /dev/cufa is locked. Look somewhere in /etc/uucp for the lock file and delete it. = > = > I peeked into /dev, and saw that cufa no longer has question mark icon > as per the other /dev files. It now has a text file icon. I checked > the permissions and saw he following: cua, cub, and cufb all look > like- > = > crw------- > = That=B4s a special character file. So run /dev/MAKEDEV std. -- = Albino Santos Email albino@vantec.pt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VANTeC Tel +351 2 6107420 Rua da Preciosa, 306 - 1 Fax +351 2 6107419 4100 PORTO MIME & NeXTmail welcome PORTUGAL URL: http://www.cibertribe.pt/vantec/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: netinfo config in 3.3 & 4.2 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 24 Jun 1997 07:13:09 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5ons25$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <33ACB436.57A0@worldnet.att.net> zizi zhao (ziziz@worldnet.att.net) wrote: : I need to upgrade from NS/intel 3.3 to 4.2. Since I would be the first : one : to do so in the company, I wonder how netinfo works in 4.2. If I save : the : netinfo config in 3.3 on a disk and copy it to /etc after upgrade to : 4.2, : will it work? It should work fine. No changes to the database format were made between 3.3 and 4.2, to my knowledge. -- Luke
From: healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:04:14 -0800 Organization: Avanthar Software Message-ID: <19970623220414891856@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org> <5ojjpv$ps5@news.nd.edu> Steven M. Boker <sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu> wrote: > When you are through with the windows format, you'll need to get > a DOS boot disk with FDISK.EXE on it. Boot up using that and set > the active partition to the NeXTSTEP partition. Now you can boot I was able to do this from the DOS box under Win95, of course I've only got the upgrade so I first had to install DOZ & Windoz 3.11 for all I know that might be why I was able to do it that way. > to NS. As root, run the following command: > > /usr/etc/fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setNeXTActive -useBoot0 > > This will re-install the boot manager that Win-95 so thoughtfully > erased. All will be well again! I REALLY wish I'd seen this prior to reinstalling OS4.2 to get this back :^( I knew there had to be an easy way. Zane PS now that I've embarassed myself by admiting to having Win95, let me try to dig myself out of the hole by stating it's because of the lack of new strategy games under MacOS :^)
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: bus error with rsh... Date: 24 Jun 1997 08:23:48 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oo06k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5oe2ic$js3@news.tuwien.ac.at> Khanh P. Nguyen (knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at) wrote: : Hi all, : I'm using OpenStep4.1/Intel. Sometimes I got an error "Bus error" when I : use rsh, rlogin, telnet or talk. Before upgrading to 4.1, I have never : face with such a problem (but the problem might come from other : softwares that I installed). When it happens, reboot the machine does : help, but after a while, the problem appears again. Are you using DNS? Sounds like a known problem with lookupd in 4.1. Solution: upgrade to 4.2. Alternatively, backup /usr/etc/lookupd and copy your old 4.0 lookupd (this ain't guaranteed to work, but it should) to your 4.1 system. (You do have the original CDs, don't you? :-)) -- Luke
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: 24 Jun 1997 08:22:12 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5oo03k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : This might sound like a hardware problem, given the Subject but it isn't. : Here's the deal, I have 2 ethernet cards in my Intel, one at "en0" and the : other at "en1". Excuse my ignorance -- I didn't know NEXTSTEP supported multi-homing. : My guess is that I need to set up some sort of routing so that en1 knows to : look out over the Internet? You could put a static route in /etc/gateways and turn routed on in /etc/hostconfig... -- Luke
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Date: 24 Jun 1997 11:21:50 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ooake$kjc$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <867127679.754@dejanews.com> In article <867127679.754@dejanews.com> sidney@postman.riken.go.jp writes: > > >I'm running NS 3.3/Intel ... > > ... [at] the "boot:" prompt type "-v". > Actually what I want is the opposite. The computer now always > boots in verbose mode even without the -v option, just by hitting > "return" at the "boot:" prompt, and I want to shut this off. In Configure.app, select the "Expert" options button from the main window. There, most probably the entry "Boot Graphics" is set to "No". Set it to "Yes" to switch to the graphic boot mode. Beware - booting with "Boot Graphics" = "Yes" triggers a known bug on motherboards with the "Triton" chipset in combination with S3-based graphic adapters. If you have such a combination, you should stay with the non-graphic boot mode. [Except for the look there is no technical or speed difference between both boot modes anyway.] If you have a "kick-start" partition for NS remember to copy the changed .config files to it since Configure.app will only change the "local" copys on the system disk. Detlev -- Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Emil: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
From: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Hardware and Cable Modems Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:13:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <5ooh59$7gl$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5omiq1$djj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) writes: >Hello, >Cable modems have just been introduced in my area. I'm not much of a >sysadmin, so I'm wondering if its possible to run them with a turbo slab. >From what I gather, they simply plug into your ethernet port. Is there more >to it than that? Anyone using one out there? If your provider is Time-Warner and the product is Road-Runner, then you will have a problem. They have a Windows and Mac client that contacts their firewall and lets you through once you have authenticated. Phil Karn of Qualcomm in San Diego reverse-engineered it and ported it to UNIX, so maybe you can find him and get his code. Ask your cable company if you need a PC client to use the cable modem system. If it's just a standard cable modem with no extra security, it should just work with your ethernet port. I'm using my NeXT with a Zenith cable modem - the Zenith is just a bridge.
From: carl@norumrez.usask.ca (Carl Norum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail 3.3 w/ mailapp-utilities. Date: 22 Jun 1997 20:28:07 GMT Organization: Hand of Evil Web Productions Message-ID: <5ok1sn$man@tribune.usask.ca> Hello everyone! I've just got one question, that I hope someone can answer for me. I'm using procmail and appnmail in conjunction in order to sort the messages from different mailing lists into separate mailboxes. (Oh, and I also have EnchanceMail 2.0b6 installed.) My problem is that although EnhanceMail checks all of the mailboxes for new mail and shows the results in the mailboxes panel, the fancy fanning bit that happens with the Mail.app icon doesn't work. Right now, to be able to see new mail when it comes, I have taken to keeping the Mailboxes panel open all the time. This is starting to get rather annoying, though, so I thought I'd ask about getting the icon to behave properly. Thanks a lot! Carl Norum carl@norumrez.usask.ca
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:43:44 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gnfzZ0G00iWQ03eiU0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> <5oo03k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> In-Reply-To: <5oo03k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jun-97 Re: 2 ethernet cards and "m.. by Luke HOWARD@ecr.mu.oz.au > Excuse my ignorance -- I didn't know NEXTSTEP supported multi-homing. Actually, NeXT does not support multihomed systems under NEXTSTEP. But such systems do work fine, from what I've seen. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: eide problem Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:09:29 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. I can have the 2 ide on primary controller, then the cd dosn't work on the secondary controller. I can have the 1 ide and cd on the primary controller, then the second ide dosn't work on the secondary controller. The secondary controller is not broke, I can see the 2 ide and the cd in windows 95 (I got 2 oses on the same machine). Any ideas? siffi@treknet.is
From: thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding new SCSI partioned disk Date: 24 Jun 1997 18:27:31 GMT Organization: Not Sure Yet Message-ID: <5op3ik$94b$1@brockman.serv.net> I am having a bit of a problem getting a new disk added to my NS/I system. I have a 1 gig boot drive that has NT and OPENSTEP installed on it. Obviously that isn't enough room so I decided to add another 1 gig disk. With NT I selected a 500 meg partion FAT and left the other free. Using NeXT's fdisk set the other free partion to NeXTSTEP. fdisk reports that that went ok. Now the bits that I am confused on. NS mounts the dos partition as /dev/rsd1h /unlabled. How do I see the other partion? And how do I get it to be the standard /dev/sdn stuff? Also does the naming convention go with the sd's? From the Sysadmin book it looks like if the drive is SCSI 2 that the disk would be /dev/sd2a. What about the partition? Since it really is the second partition on the drive (dos being the first one) why is it not sdxb? Anyway, before I ramble too much. What about initializing the NS partition. How do I specify the second partition? I don't want to mess up the dos partition. Thanks in advance for any help or tips, dean johnson
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: 24 Jun 1997 21:00:23 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun24142827@howard.doubleu.com> References: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> In-reply-to: clane@stem.com's message of 17 Jun 1997 16:25:28 GMT In article <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) writes: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) wrote: > How can I change the root password to something new without knowing the > current password and without re-installing NS completely from scratch. Greetings Karl, My personal alternative to the solution Timothy suggests is if, as sysadmin, your personal account is in the wheel group, then you can boot single user, go to /bin and set the high order (seduid) permission bits on su.wheel to be the same as su.nowheel, finish booting (^D) and then use su.wheel in combination with your own password to become root and then reset root's password via passwd. Of course, remember to unset the permissions on su.wheel when you're done if you don't normally support it policy-wise. I find this simpler to remember but it only works if you're a member of the wheel group. If you can boot singleuser, you could just source /etc/rc.net (do ". /etc/rc.net"), and then "passwd root". If that doesn't work (I'm _not_ going to reboot just to test it :-), you could do "nidump passwd . >/tmp/passwd", edit to remove root's password, and "niload passwd . </tmp/passwd". Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No Login Screen Date: 24 Jun 1997 21:00:29 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> In-reply-to: healyzh@ix.netcom.com's message of Mon, 23 Jun 1997 18:25:24 -0800 In article <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com>, healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) writes: OPENSTEP runs very nicely, there is just one slight problem, where is the Login screen? When it boots it dumps me directly into a user session for the default user. If I log out, it dumps me right back into that session. I'd like to be able to set up a normal user account, plus I'd like to use the root account to install some additional software (i.e. the Developer stuff). As noted elsewhere, give me a password. I'm actually posting for another reason. Generally, you shouldn't even have to login as root to install stuff. "Simply", select the app you want to run as root in Workspace, and choose Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is a demo program (and thus may not be installed unless you installed the demos). In any case, that opens the app as root, and away you go. You can also select a document file and do the same thing. So you don't have to know Installer.app is in /NextAdmin. You can also su root from a command-line, and then execute /NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer. Of course, there are other valid reasons to not want to automagically login as user me... -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding new SCSI partioned disk Date: 24 Jun 1997 19:33:31 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5op7eb$o0$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5op3ik$94b$1@brockman.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5op3ik$94b$1@brockman.serv.net> Dean Johnson wrote: > With NT I selected a 500 meg partion FAT and left the other free. > Using NeXT's fdisk set the other free partion to NeXTSTEP. fdisk > reports that that went ok. > > Now the bits that I am confused on. > > NS mounts the dos partition as /dev/rsd1h /unlabled. How do I see the > other partion? And how do I get it to be the standard /dev/sdn stuff? You've got to initialize the file system on the new Next partition before the system can mount it. You need to log in as root and run something like: newfs -v /dev/rsd1a where you should be very careful that /dev/rsd1a is the correct partition --- if you happen to newfs on top of one of your other partitions you will completely destroy the contents. > Also does the naming convention go with the sd's? From the Sysadmin > book it looks like if the drive is SCSI 2 that the disk would be > /dev/sd2a. What about the partition? Since it really is the second > partition on the drive (dos being the first one) why is it not sdxb? No --- not quite. Under OpenStep, SCSI disks are numbered counting from zero in the order that they occur along the SCSI bus. Thus the disk with the lowest SCSI ID will be /dev/sd0 (the default boot disk, btw.), and the next lowest SCSI ID will be /dev/sd1 and so on. Furthermore each disk can have several partitions on it, and on intel machines there are two types of partition. (Uh --- a 'partition' is Unix-speak for what most other OS's would call a 'drive'). The first is that established by 'fdisk', or the equivalent FDISK.EXE under windows. Typically this establishes partitions each of which can be assigned to a different operating system. If you disk is partitionned this way, you will see the 'Press n for nextstep, d for dos...' message when you boot up --- for a machine that runs nothing but openstep, you don't have to do this sort of partitioning at all, and can use just the second type. The second type of partition is the native BSD 4.3 unix partitioning mechanism, which results in the devices /dev/rsd0a, /dev/rsd0b, /dev/rsd0c ... dev/rsd0g, as established by using the 'disk' command. The partition dev/rsd0h is special, and is meant to be an image of the whole surface of the disk. Typically nowadays it is used to denote the 'foreign' filesystem partitions. Each of these partitions a -- g can contain precisely one unix filesystem with a maximum capacity of 2Gb: however, unless you build a custom disktab file, the system will by default split the available space into 1Gb partitions. Well, actually, it is possible to use the -p parameter to the 'disk' command to change the size of the first partition it creates. > Anyway, before I ramble too much. What about initializing the NS > partition. How do I specify the second partition? I don't want to mess > up the dos partition. Once you've run the newfs command, the Workspace will recognise your second OpenStep partition and automount it as if it was a removable disk when you log in. That means that all files on the disk will belong to the *currently logged in user* --- which is often a problem on machines used by more than one person. Also the disk is mounted at the root of the file system. You can override this behaviour and get the system to mount the disk wherever you want at boot time by editing the /etc/fstab file. This will give you the standard unix ownership/permissions behaviour. Add a line similar to the following to the /etc/fstab file: /dev/sd1a /some/mount/point rw,noquota 0 2 Nb. You *don't* want the 'noauto' option in there for second and subsequent disks. Also note that parent directories of the mount point must exist, ie some/mount must already exist in our example. Read the man pages for fstab and mount for more details. Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Installing stuff as root Message-ID: <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: scott@doubleu.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:15:02 GMT References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Scott Hess wrote: > Generally, you shouldn't even have to login as root to install > stuff. "Simply", select the app you want to run as root in > Workspace, and choose Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is > a demo program (and thus may not be installed unless you installed > the demos). In any case, that opens the app as root, and away > you go. > > You can also select a document file and do the same thing. So > you don't have to know Installer.app is in /NextAdmin. You can > also su root from a command-line, and then execute > /NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer. This is one of the things I hope they improve in Rhapsody. Namely, given that many of the other applications in /NextAdmin will ask you for the root password when it is needed, it would be really nice if Installer.app did the same. It is irritating to have to do the launch from an su'd terminal window trick, and many folks aren't aware of it. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.821.6317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." --- Les Lamport
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Mail 3.3 w/ mailapp-utilities. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xen9r39yk.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: carl@norumrez.usask.ca Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) References: <5ok1sn$man@tribune.usask.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:36:03 GMT >>>>> "CN" == Carl Norum <carl@norumrez.usask.ca> writes: CN> My problem is that although CN> EnhanceMail checks all of the mailboxes for new mail and shows CN> the results in the mailboxes panel, the fancy fanning bit that CN> happens with the Mail.app icon doesn't work. The fancy fanning thang only happens when mail ends up in you regular mail spool file. If all messages are sorted into different mailboxes this doesn't happen. With the latest appnmail appending to open mailboxes also works so even when you have mail appended to Active[.mbox] there is no fanning action. (Before that you should have directed in your last recipe all unsortable mail to /usr/spool/mail/$USER (in most .procmailrc files this is also set as DEFAULT).) CN> I have taken to keeping CN> the Mailboxes panel open all the time. This is starting to CN> get rather annoying, though, so I thought I'd ask about CN> getting the icon to behave properly. Here's something nice I do for some mailboxes: :0 * [matching conditions] { :0 ic | /usr/bin/sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/[some.snd] :0 w | appnmail [some mailbox] } Maybe you like that idea. Markus "n.s." Gloede -- *DON'T* remove "no.spam" from my address.
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Date: 24 Jun 1997 22:33:38 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5opi02$568$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu> <867127679.754@dejanews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sidney@postman.riken.go.jp In <867127679.754@dejanews.com> sidney@postman.riken.go.jp wrote: > Actually what I want is the opposite. The computer now always > boots in verbose mode even without the -v option, just by hitting > "return" at the "boot:" prompt, and I want to shut this off. Boot Graphics = no in configure.app / expert this causes problems with some video cards TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing stuff as root Date: 25 Jun 1997 00:15:27 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5opnuv$3i9$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: allan@ali.bc.ca In <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Allan Noordvyk wrote: > In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Scott Hess wrote: > > Generally, you shouldn't even have to login as root to install > > stuff. "Simply", select the app you want to run as root in > > Workspace, and choose Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is > > a demo program (and thus may not be installed unless you installed > > the demos). In any case, that opens the app as root, and away > > you go. > > > > You can also select a document file and do the same thing. So > > you don't have to know Installer.app is in /NextAdmin. You can > > also su root from a command-line, and then execute > > /NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer. > > This is one of the things I hope they improve in Rhapsody. > Namely, given that many of the other applications in /NextAdmin > will ask you for the root password when it is needed, it would > be really nice if Installer.app did the same. It is irritating to > have to do the launch from an su'd terminal window trick, and > many folks aren't aware of it. > > You don't have to do that. In Workspace, single click on the package you want to install. Go to the "Services" Menu -> "OpenSesame" -> "Open as Root". It'll ask you for the root password, and poof the Installer is running as root. Given that there are packages you can install under your UID (like apps in ~/Apps), I can see the rational for NOT having it ask for the root password when you directly run Installer (or run it via double-clicking on a package). You may just be trying to install something as you. But then, that means the Installer program isn't for Admin use only, and belongs in /NextApps, not /NextAdmin -- and thus /NextAdmin would have the consistancy you mention. I guess another option would be to have Installer have two "open" menu items. One would be "Open" (implying 'open this package under my current uid'), and one "Open as root", which would then ask for the root password. This wouldn't help those who are trying to install by clicking on the package though. -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Thought for the day: According to the supreme court, proof of innocence isn't enough to avoid execution if you've exhausted your appeals.
From: George Sperling <sperling@uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: unable to add new users Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:03:33 -0700 Organization: UCI Message-ID: <33B09895.53118ECC@uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: sperling@uci.edu We are using nextstep 3.3 on a black box --color NeXT Station After a period of normal use, we are unable to add new users Running UserManager gives a bus error msg Does anyone know how to resolve this problem without reinstalling the system?
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No Login Screen Date: 25 Jun 1997 06:54:42 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5oqfbi$k5s$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> In-Reply-To: <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> On 06/24/97, Scott Hess wrote: >I'm actually posting for another reason. Generally, you shouldn't >even have to login as root to install stuff. "Simply", select the app >you want to run as root in Workspace, and choose >Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is a demo program (and thus >may not be installed unless you installed the demos). In any case, >that opens the app as root, and away you go. I may be mis-remembering but I believe OpenSesame (and many of the other demos which live in NeXTDeveloper/Demos) are only shipped with the Developer release and thus may not be available to everyone. It's such a useful tool (for just the reasons that you describe) that it always frustrates me if I find a machine where it's not installed. - Chris -- _______________________________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf -- WolfWare -- NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody Developer For info about NewsFlash the lightning fast NeXTSTEP news-reader visit our newly revised web site at: http://www.wolfware.com _______________________________________________________________________
From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: bus error with rsh... Date: 25 Jun 1997 09:36:38 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oqor6$311@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <5oo06k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> In article <5oo06k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) writes: > Khanh P. Nguyen (knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at) wrote: > : Hi all, Hi Thanks to all the people who pointed out that there is a bug in lookupd of OpenStep4.1. I replaced it with lookupd4.0 and it works. cheers, khanh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 From: wrich@lyceum.com (Walter Rich) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> Date: 25 Jun 97 02:43:21 GMT I know you've seen this question before: [ Win 95 and NeXT OS Ver. 3.3 ] Can they happily co-exist in two partitions? I would think I would install Win95 first, then install NeXT which would see I have another partition? Third question: Anybody have NeXT 3.3 to sell? Or know of a place to get it? Walter wrich@lyceum.com
From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DNS problems Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:00:55 +0000 Organization: RIKEN Message-ID: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The problem is that I can't connect to hosts by hostname using ping or telnet. If I use IPs instead of hostnames everything works. /etc/resolv.conf is: domain riken.go.jp nameserver 134.160.4.5 nslookup works, output is: Default server: ns.riken.go.jp Address: 134.160.4.5 I also tried going into NetInfo and setting up the /locations/resolver directory to read: name resolver domain riken.go.jp nameserver 134.160.4.5 When outgoing mail is rejected because of "host unknown" it also says: (Valid name but no A or MX record) Judging from previous posts to this group, this problem happens a lot, but the posted solutions haven't worked for me. Thanks, Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan
From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS problems Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:03:57 +0000 Organization: RIKEN Message-ID: <33B195CD.779@postman.riken.go.jp> References: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sidney Lehky wrote: > > The problem is that I can't connect to hosts by hostname using ping > or telnet. If I use IPs instead of hostnames everything works. In the previous message I forgot to mention that the system is NS 3.3/Intel. Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eide problem Date: 25 Jun 1997 12:59:58 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5or4oe$34e@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson (siffi@treknet.is) wrote: : Hi all : : I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. : : I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. : : [...] : Any ideas? Did you add a second instance of the eide driver for the second controller in Configure(.app)? Otherwise only the first controller is known! Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: benjy@vt.edu (Ben E. Cline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS version 3 for OpenStep? Date: 25 Jun 1997 13:38:56 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <5or71g$931$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I'm posting this for a friend, so forgive me if I get the terminology wrong. He's looking for NFS version 3 (abiility to run NFS over tcp instead of just udp) for NeXTStep/OpenStep. Do any versions of OpenStep support this or is there an NFS port to NeXT with this support. Benjy -- Benjy Cline, AC4XO, Ph.D. Virginia Tech Academic Projects benjy@vt.edu http://benjy.cc.vt.edu:1951/~benjy/
From: james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getty Date: 25 Jun 1997 15:00:00 GMT Organization: BCTEL Advanced Communications Message-ID: <5orbpg$ges$1@news.bctel.net> I have configured getty to be turned on for dialup on a remote system. When I dial in getty fires up properly with the login prompt. I enter the username and then I get a password prompt. I enter the password, hit enter and everything just stops. I do not enter the system and I have to hang up the modem. Is this because of something to do with getty, I don't think it is because I thought getty dealt with the login prompt and that was it. I am running NeXTStep 3.3 on Intel. Thank you. -- James
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail problems Date: 25 Jun 1997 14:54:38 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5orbfe$pi7$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <5ol67g$7vl@nntp.onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: urban@athena.onramp.net There are very good instructions for setting up sendmail 8.8.5 that can be found here: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz (thanks to Francois Magnan for this!) A precompiled, installer-.pkg of sendmail 8.8.5 can be found here: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.README (Thanks to Robert La Ferla for doing this!) Using those you should be up and running in about 30 minutes & a reboot. BTW there is a 8.8.6 version of sendmail out, but the web page says: 8.8.6 contains many mostly minor fixes -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for details. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP to LAN connection problem Date: 25 Jun 1997 16:11:38 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5orfvq$f12@uni2f.unige.ch> Hi I have 3 Computers: 1. Linux-box 2. NeXTstation 3. Intel-box with NeXTstep. Acts as Server for Everything The connections are as follows: _____________ ___________ ___________ |NeXTstation|<===PPP===>|Intel-box|<===Ethernet===>|Linux-box| ------------- ----------- ----------- From the Intel-box I can ping to both other hosts. The NeXTstation can ping to the Intel-box, but not to the Linux-box (no message from ping). The Linux-box can not ping to any other host ("ping: unknown host xy"). The Linux-box is a NIS client of the Intel-box. So, I can not telnet from the NeXTstation to the Linux-box directly, but by first telnetting to the Intel-box and then to the Linux-box. My question is: Whats wrong with my configuration? What do I have to change? Especially the connections from the NeXTstation to the Linux-box are important for me. Thanks for all replies! Phil
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS problems Date: 25 Jun 1997 13:20:19 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5or5uj$lp6$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Sidney Lehky wrote: > The problem is that I can't connect to hosts by hostname using ping > or telnet. If I use IPs instead of hostnames everything works. > > /etc/resolv.conf is: > domain riken.go.jp > nameserver 134.160.4.5 > > nslookup works, output is: > Default server: ns.riken.go.jp > Address: 134.160.4.5 > > I also tried going into NetInfo and setting up the > /locations/resolver directory to read: > name resolver > domain riken.go.jp > nameserver 134.160.4.5 If you're using OS 4.x, check out the /locations/lookupd netinfo directory, as this can be configured to cause lookupd to skip using DNS for lookups. Documentation is in the release notes for 4.x. If you're running 3.x or the /locations/lookupd stuff doesn't exist, the default behaviour is to look up hosts first in netinfo, then in DNS, plus optionally in NIS if you're running that. Refresh the lookupd cache by doing kill -HUP `cat /etc/lookupd.pid` --- lookupd can cache the results (both positive and negative) of hostname lookups for nonsensically long times. > When outgoing mail is rejected because of "host unknown" it > also says: (Valid name but no A or MX record) Hmmm... Are you trying to get your hosts to masquerade using the domain name 'riken.go.jp'? That name only has NS and SOA records --- you should get your DNS admin to add an MX record for it pointing at your mailhost. Otherwise everything in your domain looks OK to me. Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dial-in problems Date: 25 Jun 1997 20:02:59 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5orthj$4r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> I apologize if this is too trivial a problem for most of you seasoned SA's. I just set up a system at the college where I teach to enable dial-in. I followed the NS SysAdmin Manual, edited the /etc/ttys file, and I configured the modem to allow dial in. I am able to connect but I do not get the login: prompt. What do I do to get this prompt? Thanks. Vicki Bragin -- ********************************************************** Victoria M. Bragin E-mail: vbragin@ix.netcom.com Associate Professor of Chemistry, Physical Sciences Division Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA Phone: (818) 585-7147 Fax: (818) 585-7919 **********************************************************
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: csh question. cd with an ls every time? Date: 25 Jun 97 16:18:10 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone tell me how I can do a ls -Fsa everytime I do a cd? something like: alias cd "cd ; ls -fsa" (the above doesn't work, but hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do.) rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: pjb@nospam.imaginet.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: csh question. cd with an ls every time? Date: 25 Jun 1997 22:18:46 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5os5g6$sck@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> In article <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> writes: > > Can anyone tell me how I can do a ls -Fsa everytime I do a cd? something > like: > > alias cd "cd ; ls -fsa" > > (the above doesn't work, but hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do.) You should use 'Alias substitution' (cf. csh(1)): alias cd "cd \!* ; ls -fsa" __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eide problem Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:56:09 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33B193F9.6ED0@treknet.is> References: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> <5or4oe$34e@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > > Sigthor Hrafnsson (siffi@treknet.is) wrote: > : Hi all > : > : I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. > : > : I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. > : > : [...] > : Any ideas? > > Did you add a second instance of the eide driver for the second > controller in Configure(.app)? > Otherwise only the first controller is known! > > Greetings, > Ruediger Oberhage > -- > H.-R. Oberhage > Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE > Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE > S05 V07 E88 > Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 > D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120 Hi Yes, I have tryed that with all the drivers i could find with the correct addresses and all: 0x170 and IRQ 15 , but no luck :-( If I put the 2 ide on the primary and cd on secondary. I put a listing in fstab to mount the second eide, and when I boot the system I get the error: inconsitency bla bla... cant mount disk, run fsck manualy. When I try to run fsck /dev/rhd1a, I get: disk not found... I did not mention earlier that I have each disks partitioned in two 500 mb partitions. One for win95 and one for next. Sigthor Hrafnsson siffi@treknet.is
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eide problem Date: 26 Jun 1997 08:11:55 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5ot88b$7fl@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> <5or4oe$34e@sun3.uni-essen.de> <33B193F9.6ED0@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson (siffi@treknet.is) wrote: : [...] : Yes, I have tryed that with all the drivers i could find with the : correct addresses and all: 0x170 and IRQ 15 : , but no luck :-( : : If I put the 2 ide on the primary and cd on secondary. : I put a listing in fstab to mount the second eide, and when I boot the : system : I get the error: inconsitency bla bla... cant mount disk, run fsck : manualy. That's very strange. For quite some time I had such a combination ((E)IDE + ATAPI-CD on controller1, EIDE on controller2) running under NS3.3 and OS4.1 (and there are SCSI-devices attached, too). All had two or more partions, no WIN95, though, just DOS or NS. : When I try to run fsck /dev/rhd1a, I get: disk not found... Strange: Any trouble in (E)IDE-lookup? (direct mapping vs LBA etc.)? Trivial question, but anyhow: Was the second disk jumpered as slave (correctly)? : : I did not mention earlier that I have each disks : partitioned in two 500 mb partitions. : One for win95 and one for next. Not unusual (except for WIN95) for me. I have similar configs. What would happen, if the first controller is left empty for a test and something (a disk) is attached to only the second controller? Let's find out if it is the device or the controlling unit/ adapter or a resource problem (DMA, IRQ, Port). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: No sync when NeXT Station shut down Message-ID: <ECDIqD.64A@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <5obqka$ona$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:11:01 GMT [crossposted to csn.sysadmin because that is where it belongs] This is probably a software problem. This may happen when you start processes that end up in the same process group as the loginwindow program (which is responsible for the login panel and shutdown). When the loginwindow program starts killing all processes, one of the processes in turn makes that the loginwindow program is killed (because of it being in the same group). This happens before the loginwindow program can finish the shutdown procedure. The system is left with some process running, under which the WindowServer. I have had this behaviour when I started a cern httpd daemon from /etc/rc.local, by combination with backgroun (&) and shell script or something like that. I posted the solution to this problem a while ago. Normally, running the NMI panel and hitting 'r' will cleanly reboot the system (no fsck's needed). If you have a fsck on every reboot, the culprit might be a program you are running. Samba is one that has this property. This may not have anything to do with the reason why you get the unsynced disk. To be sure, have a look at the file /etc/rc.local and tell me what is started there. Or, before shutting down, run the command 'ps axww' in a shell window and send me the output. This IMO is not likely to be a hardware problem. Yours, Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >When I want to shut down the NeXT Station Turbo Color of my >friend, >1) >I click on the power button in the loggin window or on the >restart button if I want to restart the station, and I get a >panel which tell me if I realy want to shut down or restart the >computer. After I click on the button and normaly the station >should stop after killing all the proccess. >2) I just obtain that all panels disappear and nothing more. >To stop completely the station I need to press at the same moment >the right Command Key and the upper left keys of the numeric >keyboard. >After that I obtain a mini panel telling me if I want to Power >off the computer or to restart it or stay like that. >I have to press the power button or the r and after that to press >simultaneously the right Cmd key and the upper left numeric key >and press after the r or the power key. >Normally the station stop. >The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take >approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I >think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. > >A) Is it a hardware failure or a part of the OS is broken ? >B) What do I do to repair ? >C) Is the checking of the HD not good for the HD' life time ? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One fool can state more than a thousand wise men can question."
From: Laurent Vinet <vinet@ina.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fr.comp.sys.next Subject: OpenStep4.2 on PC Asustek/T2P4, Cyrix 166, MatroxMystique ? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:03:31 +0200 Organization: INA - France Message-ID: <33AE3BE3.41C6@ina.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We are trying to install Prelude to Rhapsody on a PC: - Asustek/T2P4 (mother board), Cyrix 166(CPU) - Matrox Mystique as video card - Dual IDE Primary/Secondary - IDE Disk - IDE CD ROM (GoldStar) - US Robotics Modem (intern) with a lot of pb: 1: The first step of installation (Boot on disk and copy of the system) does not work in French but it's ok in English (default language). Some files does not exists ?? 2: Now i trying second step of installation after reboot. So i need to choose my hardware drivers. It's ok and then i have to finish the installation by installing "OpenStep Essential (78Mo) and some other applications. But It always failed after two or three files (???). All I can do it's reset my computer. The only solution that i found it's to do the first step, then to boot in single user, to remove the CDRom in the fstab file, then reboot. So the "OpenStep Essential 78Mo" is skipped by this way and i finished the installation by copying all files that i guess to be on the hard drive!!! Unbeleivable but it seems to works!!!! 3: Now i don't found any driver for my video card MatroxMystique(2Mo). In 640x480 it's impossible to work correctly. So if someone have a cool driver, can you send it to me. 4: I need also a driver for my modem but if i don't have it doesn't matter to much, all i want it's to work with OpenStep 4.2 correctly. Any idea ? Thank you -- Laurent VINET INA Phone (33) 01.49.83.22.63 4 avenue de l'Europe Fax (33) 01.49.83.25.82 94366 Bry sur Marne Cedex Mailto:vinet@ina.fr France http://www.ina.fr/People/Laurent.VINET/
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 Date: 26 Jun 1997 12:17:55 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5otmlj$qph$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> Walter Rich <wrich@lyceum.com> wrote: : I know you've seen this question before: : [ Win 95 and NeXT OS Ver. 3.3 ] : Can they happily co-exist in two partitions? Yes. : I would think I would install Win95 first, then install NeXT which : would see I have another partition? Yes. -- 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: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: csh question. cd with an ls every time? Date: 26 Jun 1997 14:21:00 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5ottsc$oqc@newstand.syr.edu> References: <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> In article <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235>, Robert A. Decker <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how I can do a ls -Fsa everytime I do a cd? something >like: > >alias cd "cd ; ls -fsa" > >(the above doesn't work, but hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do.) > Try: alias cd 'cd \!:1 ; ls -Fsa' If it does what you want, add the line to ~/.cshrc. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
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From: Eric Smalling <Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: System Commander and Netware woes with OS4.1 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:02:24 -0500 Organization: The SABRE Group Message-ID: <33B29290.8C63D67F@amrcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install OS4.1 for Mach on Intel and, thank God had no problems with my EIDE HD/CDROMs! My two problems are: 1. It seems that System Commander's (a multiple OS loader) boot block on my HD is causing OPENSTEP to not recognize my DOS partition. When I have the NeXT installed boot block everything is peachy keen, OS mounts the DOS partition automatically, but with System Commander installed the DOS partition will not mount. (I entered "-v" at the BOOT: prompt and there is some kind of error that flies by when it is, apparently, trying to mount the DOS partition.) I have one HD, an EIDE 2GB with 3 partitions: 700MB as DOS (FAT16), 300MB for UNIX/OpenStep, 1GB NTFS (WinNT) and I need system commander to choose between the 3 OS's. 2. I have TCP/IP connectivity but, here at work, we have many Novel NetWare 3.x and 2.x file servers I need to be able to see. The doc's say to just go to the NextAdmin folder and run the NetWare Manager --- well, it's not there! I checked NeXTAnswers and, in the 4.1 release notes it says that NetWare support is not included in 4.1. Is the NetWare client software available anywhere like it is for Win95/NT/3.1? (I didn't see it on Novell's wed site). Any help would be greatly appreciated! -es -- ____________________________________________________________________ Eric A. Smalling Ft Worth, Texas USA --=== ------=== The Any views expressed are mine alone and are in no ----------- SABRE way the views of AMR or any of it's subsidiaries. ------=== Group --=== email:Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com Corp Web Site: http://www.sabre.com ____________________________________________________________________ --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Eric Smalling Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Eric Smalling n: Smalling;Eric org: The SABRE Group email;internet: Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com title: Programmer Associate x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE end: vcard --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536--
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netgroups not working? Date: 24 Jun 1997 17:06:43 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> I'm trying to setup some netgroups to simplify administering NFS on our NetInfo network. I've added a netgroup name to a client with HostManager and similarly listed this name in the read/write and root access table in NFSManager on the NFS server. However, the server gives a "Host Unknown" error for the netgroup name when it tries to export that mount, and if the client tries to import it it gets an authentication error. As far as I can tell netgroups are only defined indirectly when they are added to a host in HostManager. Any ideas? - Gareth
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 Date: 26 Jun 1997 17:45:07 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5ou9r3$r27$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> In-Reply-To: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> On 06/24/97, Walter Rich wrote: >I know you've seen this question before: >[ Win 95 and NeXT OS Ver. 3.3 ] > >Can they happily co-exist in two partitions? Yes. >I would think I would install Win95 first, then install NeXT which >would see I have another partition? Yes, if indeed you do have two partitions. I and others recommend PowerQuest's PartitionMagic application for creating these. A terrific app. -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: 26 Jun 1997 17:04:45 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu wrote: > I'm trying to setup some netgroups to simplify administering NFS on our > NetInfo network. I've added a netgroup name to a client with HostManager and > similarly listed this name in the read/write and root access table in > NFSManager on the NFS server. However, the server gives a "Host Unknown" > error for the netgroup name when it tries to export that mount, and if the > client tries to import it it gets an authentication error. A common problem is that you can't mix real hostnames and netgroups in the read only, read/write or root access columns of NFSManager.app --- each of those columns must contain either all netgroup names or all genuine host names. Unlike the /etc/exports file on most Unices, NFSManager.app doesn't use the @ sign to mark netgroup names, even when dumping an exports format file from netinfo, something that would be a useful improvement and relatively easy to implement. There are also reported problems with OS 4.1 machines and use of netgroups, but all our machines, even those running OS 4.1 seem to work just fine with the netgroups we have set up here. > As far as I can tell netgroups are only defined indirectly when they are > added to a host in HostManager. Something like that. The netgroups mechanism on NeXTstep/OpenStep seems to be different to the mechanism on, say, Solaris in respect of the way that the configuration data is managed. Not only do NeXT boxes read the data out of Netinfo, but there seems to be no clear correspondance between the netinfo data and the standard Unix flat file /etc/netgroups, as there is for /etc/fstab or /etc/printcap. I've certainly never succeeded in geting an OpenStep box to read a flat /etc/netgroups file. Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: jayg@fuga.com (J. Goyal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: JOBS: program managers/UI leads -- handheld device - fuga corp. Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:08:09 +1000 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <jayg.32.00B0467D@fuga.com> Keywords: prgram managers, UI, software Fuga Corporation (www.fuga.com), a Palo-Alto startup in consumer products, is looking for Software Engineers. Working with NexT/UNIX is a plus. If you have the following credentials, please contact Jay at jayg@fuga.com or 415 691 9424. see link--> www.fuga.com\www\jobs.html Job Role 1 - Program Manager (Software Engineering) Requires Project Leadership. Responsible for the entire product-line. Requirements/Roles (Experience in shipped "consumer retail" products a plus) -Product Architect (includes product strategy; prioritizing features/enhancements) -Leading debugging sessions -Defining processes (Design, Code reviews, Doc. guidelines) -Release Coordination (Development,Testing, Bug Tracking, Backups) -C programming (solid experience required) -BS or MS. Job Roles 2 & 3 - User Interface Project Leads (Software Engineering) Should have the potential to take on major responsibility, especially project leadership (includes defining product architecture & leading debugging/testing sessions) for a product-line. Requirements (Experience in shipped "consumer retail" products a plus) -C programming (LINUX/UNIX or DOS; solid experience) -UI experience (a plus) -BS or MS. These are very important job roles where the engineer is involved in programming & testing & being an integral part of a "start-up team" to release a globally available mass consumer product. The product, an exciting consumer handheld device, will be available in retail stores (circuit city, office depot, fry's). You get an opportunity to exercise creativity and to apply technology such that it solves problems of an everyday mass consumer. We are looking for exceptionally bright and driven people. Company offers very attractive compensation and stock-options. ********** End of Message *****************
Message-ID: <33B2E3B7.3D48@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:48:39 -0600 From: Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Testing Facility Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need a testing facility where the equipment is HP. This facility would house all of the equipment and such and I would be charged for the usage of said equipment. So basically I would have all of the disk space, memory and dedicated line for developing applications and all I would have to pay for is the time or however it is setup. I have heard of this existing, but no names have been mentioned. Any help would be appreciated....
Message-ID: <33B2E2F5.15C9@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:45:25 -0600 From: Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Testing Facility Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need a testing facility where the equipment is HP. This facility would house all of the equipment and such and I would be charged for the usage of said equipment. So basically I would have all of the disk space, memory and dedicated line for developing applications and all I would have to pay for is the time or however it is setup. I have heard of this existing, but no names have been mentioned. Any help would be appreciated....
From: hanske@ratatosk.ratatosk.gol.com (Hans Shimizu Karlsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Merging, exporting mail addressbooks Date: 27 Jun 1997 01:52:29 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan Message-ID: <5ov6ct$33l$1@godzilla.gol.com> Hello I need to merge the address books of several users on my machine and then export all these addresses for use on a PowerBook. How do I go about doing this? ______________________________________________________________________________ Hans Karlsson hanske@ratatosk.com www@ratatosk.com info@ratatosk.com
From: Jason<jlsb@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Don't read this message! Date: 27 Jun 1997 02:43:20 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5ov9c8$g16@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> CALLING ALL LITERARY MINDS! I am trying to compose a coffee table book on the topic of EXCUSES. To add an original flavor to my project I am attempting to derive my research entirely from people I come in contact with on the Net. If you have, or know of, any interesting, unique, or even bizarre excuses, and would like to participate in this experiment in creative literature, please reply to this message with your excuse. Any excuse that is used in the published version will receive full literary credit. Thank you in advance for helping a fellow netizen. Long live free speech! Sincerely yours, Jason
From: pwm@cbr.dit.csiro.au (Peter Milne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding a 2.1Gbyte disk under NS3.3 Date: 27 Jun 1997 04:22:04 GMT Organization: C.S.I.R.O Australia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ovf5c$lbb@hercules.its.csiro.au> Folks I have upgraded my NeXTSTATION to NS3.3 and have my new 2.1G disk set up as an external drive. The first time I started my machine after upgrading to NS3.3 and adding the external drive it saw the new disk and asked if I wanted to initialise it. It initialised the disk successfully but Workspace reported its free space as being about half what it should be. Consulting the console log showed the following: /usr/etc/disk -i -h gringo -l "NeXTDisk" -d -2124974080 /dev/rsd3a disk name: SEAGATE ST52160N disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/boot creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd3a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd3a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3a 1059490 81 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 314 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd3a: 1059490 sectors in 3271 cylinders of 4 tracks, 81 sectors 1084.9Mb in 205 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.31Mb/g 1280 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ...... ...... ...... creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd3b /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd3b /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3b 1059491 81 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 313 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd3b: 1059491 sectors in 3271 cylinders of 4 tracks, 81 sectors 1084.9Mb in 205 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.31Mb/g, 1280 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ...... ...... ...... initialisation complete Jun 26 17:19:10 Workspace: Mounted hard disk at /NeXTDisk Question: Is the reason why Workspace is only reporting half the free space on the disk due to the initialisation process creating two partitions but mounting only rsd3a? I ran BuildDisk hoping that this would help. It correctly saw the external disk as having 2069Mbytes. It built the disk successfully (I didn't specify any partitions) and reported that there were 1656Mbytes free (413 Mbytes used). (In BuildDisk I changed the disk's name to ST52160N). After running BuildDisk Workspace reports the external disk has 704Mbytes free and df returns: kbytes used avail 1023390 199132 721919 22% /ST52160N I'm confused. I thought NS3.3 knew how to initialise and build 2.1Gbyte drives. How should I proceed? Do I have to mess with disktab and fstab entries? My ultimate aim once the new disk is correctly built is to copy all my files over to it from the existing internal drive, then replace the internal drive with it. Cheers, Peter (peter.milne@cmis.csiro.au)
Message-ID: <33B14855.1F9D188C@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:33:26 -0400 From: Robert Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Organization: U S Navy, Code 3441, NSWC CD, Bethesda, MD MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a problem : no mouse control on Intel NS3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Have a problem with an NS3.3 / Intel - a vendor that we are working with was installing the ISAserial driver and after loading it he has lost control of the mouse - any clues on how to free this problem up ? He is not real familiar with the NS environment on Intel -- and he's indicating that he is not able to locate the NS alt-key on the PC keyboard - any and all help on this issue much appreciated - thanks again Bob K. --
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: 26 Jun 1997 23:50:48 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5ouv8o$8cj@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) writes: > A common problem is that you can't mix real hostnames and netgroups in > the read only, read/write or root access columns of NFSManager.app --- > each of those columns must contain either all netgroup names or all > genuine host names. I don't know exactly if you can mix/match hostnames and netgroups... but... I DO know that: You CANNOT use netgroups for root access. These MUST be listed by hostname only. -- 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: rrer@drtwthy.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: New Service for your Pager!! Date: 27 Jun 1997 09:04:03 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <5ovvm3$h5n@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE: U.S.A, VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND PUERTO RICO CANADA* BE SURE TO GO TO OUR SITE AND CHECK OUT OUR FREE TRIAL. Call everyone and tell them to throw away all of your old home, office, fax, pager, voice-mail, and cellular numbers and give them your New "Virtual Office" 800/888 number! The only number any one will ever need. Are you tired of giving out all of your different phone numbers to everyone? Wouldnt it be nice to be able to give everyone just ONE phone number that will find you anywhere you are? Even out of town, or in a restaurant, or even on the golf course. Now you can. We have the answer to all your communication needs. Its called the "Virtual Office". And this new service is loaded. It comes with features like: An automated Call Attendant, Live Call Connect (in real time), Fax Sending, Fax Receiving, Even without a fax machine! E-Mail Notification and Delivery, Without a PC!, Outbound calling, Low Cost Long Distance Service, Inbound/Outbound 800/888 Number, Worldwide Call Transfer, Call Forwarding, Call Screening, Full Service Voice Mail, Nation Wide Pager Notification, Conference Calling, Speed Dialing, Auto Dial, Auto Messaging, Temporary Greeting, Unavailable Greeting, Password Protection, Pager Notification, and No Equipment or Software to buy, "Ever". Priced from $9.95* per month, Plus 10.9 cents per minute per event. Thats less than one phone line would cost per month. For more information please visit our web site: http://www.mynumber.com * Based on our best priced plan. * Canada has a higher per minute rate.
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: 27 Jun 1997 09:16:59 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5p00eb$e64@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew Seaman (Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk) wrote: : In <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu wrote: : [...] : : There are also reported problems with OS 4.1 machines and use of netgroups, : but all our machines, even those running OS 4.1 seem to work just fine with : the netgroups we have set up here. Yes, there is a problem with NIS/yp netgroups(!) in at least OS 4.0 and OS4.1 for which a patch-lookupd does exist, don't know if it is publicly available, though. Don't know about the state of OS4.2 with respect to this either, yet. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
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From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 in Hungarian? Date: 27 Jun 1997 10:19:05 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5p042p$j0a$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> References: <SCOTT.97Jun18223039@slave.doubleu.com> In article <SCOTT.97Jun18223039@slave.doubleu.com> scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: > In article <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> Kris Magnusson <kmagnusson@novell.com> writes: > I have a NeXTstation I want to loan to my friend, who is Hungarian. Is > there a Hungarian language option for OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 someplace? It's > not on the media.... > > Offhand, I don't think there has been a Hungarian option for any > _previous_ NeXT operating system, not sure why there'd be one for this > one. [And if there is, someone needs to go in and kick some butt at > Apple. Don't get me wrong, we need those Hungarians behind Rhapsody - > but what's the point of doing Hungarian nibs and documentation for a > system which is likely to be heavily rewritten anyhow?] > I know of a dozen of Hungarian NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP users in Hungary. They are all hardcore NeXTSTEPpers who speak English, so they don't really need the Hungarian version. But if Rhapsody wants to go mainstream, it would be nice if Apple taught Rhapsody some Hungarian, Polish and all those extreme languages :-). This should not be a huge problem I guess. Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------
From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No sync when NeXT Station shut down Date: 27 Jun 1997 10:32:50 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5p04si$k8p$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> References: <ECDIqD.64A@AWT.NL> Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> wrote > The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take > approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I > think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. In article <ECDIqD.64A@AWT.NL> G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes: > [crossposted to csn.sysadmin because that is where it belongs] > > This is probably a software problem. This may happen when you start processes > that end up in the same process group as the loginwindow program (which is > responsible for the login panel and shutdown). I have the same problem. Is there any way to trace the shoutdown process in a verbose manner (I would like something I see when booting in verbose mode)? I think it is the debugger (GDB) which causes the fsck for my station, but I'm not sure at all, and I could not find a way to track down which process goes wrong. Any ideas or similar symptoms? Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Installing stuff as root Message-ID: <ECFtMv.Irs@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: jrudd@cygnus.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:01:43 GMT References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <5opnuv$3i9$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin John Rudd wrote: > In <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Allan Noordvyk wrote: > > ... > > This is one of the things I hope they improve in Rhapsody. > > Namely, given that many of the other applications in /NextAdmin > > will ask you for the root password when it is needed, it would > > be really nice if Installer.app did the same. It is irritating to > > have to do the launch from an su'd terminal window trick, and > > many folks aren't aware of it. > > You don't have to do that. > > In Workspace, single click on the package you want to install. Go to the > "Services" Menu -> "OpenSesame" -> "Open as Root". Yeah, I know that (it is even mentioned in the quoted bit from Scott to which I was replying). Unfortunately, this is just as obscure as the su'd terminal thing. Furthermore, OpenSesame isn't present on 90% of the machines on which I need to install a package since it is an optional application and not used by our customers. Thus I only mentioned my default, never fails, method of installing root ownership packages. > Given that there are packages you can install under your UID (like apps in > ~/Apps), I can see the rational for NOT having it ask for the root password > when you directly run Installer (or run it via double-clicking on a package). > You may just be trying to install something as you. But then, that means > the Installer program isn't for Admin use only, and belongs in /NextApps, not > /NextAdmin -- and thus /NextAdmin would have the consistency you mention. My expectation was that the Installer wouldn't ask for the root password unless you were installing files into a directory which required root's permission to write. Thus if I left the install directory as ~/Apps and the package doesn't also want to write a little file into /usr/local or something, the application would behave just as it does now and the files would be written with the current user's ownership. If however, I choose to install in /LocalApps instead of ~/Apps by using the existing GUI to change the install location, or the package contains some file which must be written into a restricted directory, then the root password would be requested. This seems to be the simplest and most fool-proof means of enhancement. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.821.6317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." --- Les Lamport
Message-ID: <33B3CF0D.21AF@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 08:32:45 -0600 From: Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Time Synchronization Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a K250 class HP server. During shutdown, there is an error with stopping the TIME SYNCHRONIZATION. What and where is the error being sent from and what is the fix?
From: marc@marc.htl.com (Marc Respass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding new user Date: 27 Jun 1997 14:38:59 GMT Organization: HTL Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <5p0ja3$6q5@htlmst.hlt.com> Hi, I'm almost done setting up my Openstep 4.2 PR (Prelude to Rhapsody) system. I want to change the user name of the "me" account but I can't so I thought I'd make a new user but it's not working out. I tried to run PopOver.app from the new account and it couldn't write to my home directory (/marc) because it didn't have permissions. I did chmod 777 /marc which set the directory for full permissions but it still didn't work. Logged out and back in; still nothing. Can anyone help me setup a new account that's identical to "me" so that I can add users. Thanks a lot -- --Marc Respass High Technology Logistics http://www.htl.com mailto:marc@htl.com
From: Gerald Wildgruber <gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Help on DAT Problem please! Date: 27 Jun 1997 18:30:10 +0200 Organization: Apatheia Corp. Sender: gewil@ue801be Distribution: world Message-ID: <x7205oau0d.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> I'm about to purchase a new DAT drive, perhaps anyone can give me some hints on the following: 1.) Has anyone experienced problems or joys using the HP 1536A or the Sony STD 5000 streamers, what is technically different in both devices? 2.) My old DAT streamer (HP 15480A) seems to fade away, yet shows strange inconsequences in doing so: whenever I try any operation using mt, cpio, gnutar (devices /dev/nrst0 or /dev/rst0, OS is NeXT Intel v.3.3), the streamer starts spooling forth and back, the process is no more killable (even with -9), everything ends with read or write errors. Yet strangely: dump/restore apparently continue to work flawlessly: no errors, the tapes are readable after having been written by a level 0 dump. Does anyone know of the internal differences of the above mentioned Unix programs: what does dump differently than, say, cpio when backing up / writing to a tape device? Does the different behavior give any hints of what could be wrong with my tape drive ? 3.) Are ther known problems of any tape drives running under NeXTSTEP on Intel 3.3. especially concerning the HP 1536 and the corresponding Sony models? Thanks for your time and help Gerald -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gerald Wildgruber No one can have an idea gewil@ue801be.ppp. once he starts really lrz-muenchen.de listening. - John Cage
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From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting up printing? Date: 27 Jun 97 15:20:13 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFD98AB8-3D2E17@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have an Apple Laserwriter 16/600 with an I.P. address. I want to print using that printer (I assume it just sends the ps files to the printer). How do I set this up? rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding a 2.1Gbyte disk under NS3.3 Date: 27 Jun 1997 13:51:58 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p0ghu$h14$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5ovf5c$lbb@hercules.its.csiro.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5ovf5c$lbb@hercules.its.csiro.au> Peter Milne wrote: > I have upgraded my NeXTSTATION to NS3.3 and have my new 2.1G disk set > up as an external drive. > > The first time I started my machine after upgrading to NS3.3 and adding > the external drive it saw the new disk and asked if I wanted to initialise it. > It initialised the disk successfully but Workspace reported its free space as > being about half what it should be. > > Consulting the console log showed the following: > > /usr/etc/disk -i -h gringo -l "NeXTDisk" -d -2124974080 /dev/rsd3a Yup. The disk command by default will try and partition a disk into 1Gb chunks. You can access all of your disk, but you're going to have to mount each partition (/dev/rsd3a, /dev/rsd3b) separately. You can override this behaviour from the command line, but only for the first partition: /usr/etc/disk -i -b -h gringo -l "NeXTDisk" -p 2097152 /dev/rsd3h The -p 2097152 part creates the 'a' partition as 2Gb, which is the maximum possible. The -b flag causes the disk to be made bootable, which you will need if you're going to use it as your system disk. Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Have you been "reengineered"? Date: 28 Jun 97 15:58:18 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFDAE521-35B0E5@141.214.134.235> References: <5p28if$l97$302@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit No, but I have a feeling your net access is going to be reengineered out of existence... rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting up printing? Date: 28 Jun 97 15:56:36 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFDAE4B8-359822@141.214.134.235> References: <AFD98AB8-3D2E17@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 3:20 PM, Robert A. Decker <mailto:comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > We have an Apple Laserwriter 16/600 with an I.P. address. I got things working thanks to some help from a couple people. One of the problems I had was that the Laserwriter 16 doesn't accept connections on port 9100, so I had to use a NextAnswer to set up lpr printing (which goes to port 515 on the Laserwriter). thanks, rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Possible ppp problem? Date: 28 Jun 1997 19:50:03 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5p3ptb$6mm$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Lately I have been experiencing connection problems with my ISP, and among various things I have been checking one thing I have noticed happening is the following message popping up from time to time (not every time I connect) on the Console: ppp0: no input netbufs! ppp0: no input netbufs! This strange message does not seem to point to any specific problem AFAIK, but it can't be a good sign. Can anyone diagnose this? Thanks to all who respond. -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
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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 Supersedes: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Date: 29 Jun 1997 03:56:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <1452867556825@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== 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. 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. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Misc Networking Questions Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:19:59 -0800 Organization: Avanthar Software Message-ID: <19970628211959219891@[197.2.200.2]> References: <199706272307371108046@por-or13-24.ix.netcom.com> <5p3bif$dvh$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: > Not there, it was in there in Nextstep 3.0 for m68k but discontinued later. Amazing, I thought Linux had some dated documentation, but that about takes the cake! > http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html will most likely solve your > problems. It did at that, many thanks! > Configure your Openstep system as standalone (Give it an IP, Subnetmask, and > enter this and all other local system in the netinfo hosts) and enter your > Linux system as gateway in HostManager. I could have sworn that's what I'd done in the first place, anyway it's working now. I suspect my problem was the default broadcast address, but I'm terrified at the thought of going back into the settings and checkings! :^) Anyway thank you for your comments, I'm happy to say that at this moment my Linux server is on the net, and I'm accessing the internet from both my Mac and my OPENSTEP system. I've also got the Appletalk volumes from the Linux server mounted on the OPENSTEP system. Zane
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Misc Networking Questions Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:45:19 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5p3bif$dvh$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <199706272307371108046@por-or13-24.ix.netcom.com> Cc: healyzh@ix.netcom.com In <199706272307371108046@por-or13-24.ix.netcom.com> Zane H. Healy wrote: > The first question is, where is the Appletalk networking that the online > manual talks about??? According to it I should see something when > running "Preferences.app". Not there, it was in there in Nextstep 3.0 for m68k but discontinued later. http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html will most likely solve your problems. > However, ideally I'd like to be able to access the net from the OPENSTEP > system. From the Mac I can do this by going through the Linux server > which is configured to act as a Firewall, and has IP-Masqurading set up > on it. > From the Mac I just go into the TCP/IP control panel, tell it to connect > via ethernet, put in the machines IP address, the subnet mask, list the > Linux system as the router, put in NETCOM's DNS server addresses, and > list 'ix.netcom.com' as my starting domain. Simple. Configure your Openstep system as standalone (Give it an IP, Subnetmask, and enter this and all other local system in the netinfo hosts) and enter your Linux system as gateway in HostManager. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multi-Homing and sendmail: "My unqualified host name (xxxx) unknown, sleeping for retry Date: 29 Jun 1997 05:23:37 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5p4rgp$1q6$2@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have just about completed the multi-homing of the Intel w/2 Ethernet cards. The last piece that broke is sendmail, which isn't too surprising, since it was setup under PPP. When I try to send email, I get this: Jun 29 01:00:01 peace sendmail[603]: My unqualified host name (peace) unknown; sleeping for retry Jun 29 01:01:01 peace sendmail[603]: unable to qualify my own domain name (peace) -- using short name "peace" is the name of the Intel _on the local net_, it is not the real Internet address. How can I tell sendmail what the FQDN is? (I've tried adding an entry for 'peace.full.domain.name' in NetInfo, and that didn't work, but perhaps I've done something wrong?) Alternately: how can I tell sendmail to use my real Internet address? (Note: I want my machine to MASQUERADE_AS peak.org for hopefully obvious reasons) I'm relatively sure it is my sendmail.cw file, but I have no idea what I am doing with sendmail, as I have really only set it up for PPP before now. Thanks all. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: "Mike Schardt" <mtschardt@internetMCI.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 Date: 29 Jun 1997 06:38:41 GMT Organization: Internet MCI Message-ID: <01bc8456$f0ef4dc0$392637a6@default> References: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> In answer to your first question, yes they can happily co-exist. Many of the PC's we use at work have this setup. Order of installation is of prime concern since '95 is not very friendly when installing multiple bootable OS's. You are correct that '95 needs to be installed first, but not so NeXT can see the partition, but because the NeXT installation can implement it's own boot manager. This allows you to boot either '95 or NeXT. Mike mtschardt@internetMCI.com
From: "Greg Meece" <gregm@pcdocs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Driver for Novell/Anthem NE 2000 Ethernet card Date: 24 Jun 1997 15:52:33 GMT Organization: PC DOCS, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc80b6$72aa5520$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> Does anyone have any experience using this card with OpenSTEP for Intel? It's the only card I've got and I'd like to connect the machine to the rest of the LAN while in OpenSTEP mode (I have System Commander to allow me to boot to Microsloth's OS's). Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Greg Meece SQA Engineer PC DOCS, Inc. 124 Marriott Drive Tallahassee, FL 32301
From: Attila Suicmez <sunny@chemie.fu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 21:09:01 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitt Berlin Message-ID: <33B6B2CD.C655B215@chemie.fu-berlin.de> References: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the > WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT > 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory > > mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my > system. > The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, > nor > how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in > system panics on boot-up. > > Help, anyone? > > Hi Alex, I had the same problem when I upgraded my Matrox Millenium BIOS from 2.4 to version 2.5. The deal is to get the newer beta driver from NeXT-Answers (from their WWW-Site). This brings you back to the resolutions you want again. Cheers, Sunny
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Sender: ap38@ap38.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <33b4efd6.0@news.genesisnetwork.net> Control: cancel <33b4efd6.0@news.genesisnetwork.net> Date: 30 Jun 1997 11:13:21 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.33b4efd6.0@news.genesisnetwork.net> Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. A report will be published shortly on news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solution: Multi-Homing an Intel, NetInfo, and all the rest Date: 30 Jun 1997 08:30:41 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5p7qrh$b8b@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5p7bgs$7it$1@bashir.peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface : 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 10461 lo0 : default 123.456.789.1 UG 3 12312 en1 : 123.456.789 123.456.789.1 U 0 0 en1 : Questions: : Can I 'limit access to administrative data to the local network' without : breaking anything else? : : What other NetInfo stuff should I do to make it more secure? You can restrict access to NetInfo by doing something like: # niutil -createprop . / trusted_networks 123.456.789 Also look at the security_options (as I recall) property in NetInfo. It's documented in the online sysadmin manual. -- Luke
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS problems Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:29:50 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33B298FE.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> <5or5uj$lp6$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Refresh the lookupd cache by doing > > kill -HUP `cat /etc/lookupd.pid` > do this only in 3.3. 4.x netinfo lookupd can't be restarted. The kill might crash your system. The 4.x lookupd can be restarted by rebooting only. stefan ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 12:25:22 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33B39512.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5p00eb$e64@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > Yes, there is a problem with NIS/yp netgroups(!) in at least OS 4.0 and > OS4.1 for which a patch-lookupd does exist, don't know if it is publicly > available, though. > Don't know about the state of OS4.2 with respect to this either, yet. Hallo Ruediger, der lookupd ist in 4.2 wirklich neu drin. Meine 4.2 Kiste lief "out of the box" mit NIS netgroups. Ich findet es allerdingt ein Unding, dass die 4.0 und 4.1 Inhaber dies nicht als NextAnswer bekommen sondern fuer DM 600,-- als 4.2 kaufen muessen oder sich bei NeXT so lange (penetrant) durch mailen muessen bis sich einer erbarmt und das Ding (auch fuer 4.0 und 4.1) rausrueckt. Der Doku-Bug wegen falsche Schreibung des Wortes "LookupOrder" ist in 4.2 immer noch drin. gruss stefan ------------------------------ this works --------------------------- nidump -r locations . / name = locations; CHILDREN = ( { name = lookupd; LogFile = /usr/adm/lookupd.log; MaxThreads = 12; CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = users; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }, { name = groups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }, { name = netgroups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }); }); ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: David J Harr <david@daikin-comtec.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: My console is read only even when I'm root - how to fix? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 02:30:23 +0000 Organization: DAIKIN U.S. Comtec Laboratories Message-ID: <33B71A3E.5317@daikin-comtec.com> References: <paul-2906971841480001@max1-np-ca-19.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Nicholson <paul@eisusa.com> Paul Nicholson wrote: > > Hi > > The console window is read only and I can't type my favorite > UNIX commands into it. I am logged in as root. What's the > secret to getting it to work. It worked once before, but that > was before I completely reinstalled OpenStep after having > hardware problems. > > Paul Actually Paul, it is very simple...the console is _SUPPOSED_ to be read-only. What you are thinking of is the fact that you probably had terminal.app running at one point in time. Terminal.app is the command-line interface to NeXTStep. To open Terminal.app, just select the icon in the dock that looks like a computer monitor and has "Mach" written all over it. This should open up a command-line window and allow you to type command-lines to your herarts content. I know that it has a lot of historical justification, but I too feel that the artificial division of console and terminal is very confusing... ------------------------- Hastening the heat death of the universe since 1961! David J Harr Senior MPEG Engineer david@daikin-comtec.com (The Tick jumping off the roof of a building...) Tick: I'll bounce off that flagpole and flip to safety! (SNAP! WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB......>SMACK<) Tick: AHA! I'll bounce off that broad, flat surface and be in a lot of pain! --The Tick: Issue #1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Getty Message-ID: <ECHEM3.9Lu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5orbpg$ges$1@news.bctel.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 10:32:27 GMT In article <5orbpg$ges$1@news.bctel.net> james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) writes: > I have configured getty to be turned on for dialup on a remote > system. When I dial in getty fires up properly with the login > prompt. I enter the username and then I get a password prompt. > I enter the password, hit enter and everything just stops. I do > not enter the system and I have to hang up the modem. Is this > because of something to do with getty, I don't think it is because > I thought getty dealt with the login prompt and that was it. I > am running NeXTStep 3.3 on Intel. > The moment 'getty' turns over to 'login' the serial line protocol is switched and since you got a very unlucky combination the modem or terminal gets stuck and nothing is displayed. You must adjust the settings for 'getty' and 'ttys' in a compatible way. The matter is tricky and since serial line terminals are unfamiliar stuff now, almost no one seems to remember how it worked... (I must admit, that I also almost forgot about it ;-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: 30 Jun 1997 10:12:43 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <5p80qr$nti@fu-berlin.de> References: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> <33B6B2CD.C655B215@chemie.fu-berlin.de> Cc: sunny@chemie.fu-berlin.de In <33B6B2CD.C655B215@chemie.fu-berlin.de> Attila Suicmez wrote: > atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > > > The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the > > WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT > > 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory > > > > mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my > > system. > > The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, > > nor > > how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in > > system panics on boot-up. > > > > Help, anyone? > > > > > > Hi Alex, > > I had the same problem when I upgraded my Matrox Millenium BIOS from 2.4 > to version 2.5. The deal is to get the newer beta driver from > NeXT-Answers (from their WWW-Site). This brings you back to the > resolutions you want again. > I cannot verify this, sorry. Yesterday I installed a new system with 4mb Matrox, Asus XP55T2P4, NCR SCSI 64 MB etc ... Under WinNT and Win95 4MB are recognized and displayed under NS3.3p1 only the 2MB-Driver works, the 4MB-driver gives me a black screen (These are the latest NeXT-Answers-Drivers, BIOS 2.5) So at the moment I am clueless :-( Greetings, Thomas -- || Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel MIKS - Meteorologische Informations- || EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE und Kommunikations-Systeme || Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 an der Freien Universitaet Berlin || FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13 - 12165 Berlin
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: weird message from nidump Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:55:09 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970630075422.16043B-100000@peace> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm getting this message every now & again from nidump: Jun 30 05:00:01 peace nidump[14424]: ***warning: Object compatibility method 'release' in class NXPropertyList has been executed at least once Jun 30 05:00:01 peace nidump[14424]: ***warning: Object compatibility method 'dealloc' in class NXPropertyList has been executed at least once Has anyone seen this before?? Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. *** n process in a > verbose manner (I would like something I see when booting in verbose mode)? > > I think it is the debugger (GDB) which causes the fsck for my station, but I'm > not sure at all, and I could not find a way to track down which process goes > wrong. Any ideas or similar symptoms? > > Balazs > ------ > pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu > ------ > I suggest that when you want to shut down your computer you firstly log out. Then at the login panel, login as "console". This will cause the Window server to exit, which may be the process not allowing your filesystem to be unmounted properly -- but we can't really know for sure at this point. Anyway, you will be presented with a login prompt from the console window that is presented to you and you should then log in as root (you do need to know the root password). Once logged in, use the "shutdown" command to shutdown your system: shutdown -h now or shutdown -hp now if your intent is to power down the system. Caveat: Personally, I simply use the "halt" command directly because I am familiar with my system and know I have no applications that need to run through their own "shutdown scripts". However, I don't know yours nor your environment, so it is safer for you to use the "shutdown" command. While the system shuts down, watch closely for any error messages that may hint you towards why your filesystem(s) are not being unmounted properly. Good luck... -- Regards, Kevin Barth (kjb@amdahl.com) phone: +44-1252-346307 Open Systems Staff Support fax: +44-1252-346406 Amdahl Corporation
From: smarqzDOG@unm.edu (mtn biker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: boot error message on 'Cube Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:56:58 GMT Organization: univ of new mexico Message-ID: <33b7acc8.1052778@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am receiving the following error message when booting a newly acquired 040 25Mhz cube: exception #2 (0x*)@1006C92 It proceeds no further. Any suggestions? TIA my return adress anti spammed please remove the animal from my return address, or respond to smarqz at unm dot edu (thanks)
Message-ID: <33B7CF0E.8542C339@polaris.umuc.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:21:50 -0400 From: Steve Beavers <sbeavers@polaris.umuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: missing init Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I just got a used NeXT machine and I am seeing the following error when booting up: (Window title is "Next Mach 3.3") [...about a dozen lines of messages removed...] load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 2, trying /etc/init load of /etc/init failed, errno 2 (system stops booting) I am wondering if maybe the files on the hard drive were deleted? Is there any way I can boot up and see if there is anything on the hard drive? I tried creating a boot disk from the image file that NeXT provides on their website, but it asks for a CD (which I don't have). Is there anything like Norton Utilites that would allow me to see if these files were deleted and undelete them? Or, am I jumping to conclusions, is there something else I should try? The system is a Next Station N1100 68040-25MHz CPU, 20 MB RAM, 105 MB HD, 17" mono monitor Any help would be appreciated, Steve
From: sjohnson@myriad.net@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header Date: 30 Jun 1997 15:40:48 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5p8k20$ne9@news.tamu.edu> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jun 1997 15:40:48 GMT In-Reply-To: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> On 06/20/97, John Beck wrote: >Christian Jensen (cejensen@bitstream.net) wrote: >> ... I am having a frustrating problem with some outgoing mail that can be >> traced to one bad header. > >> >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 >> ><<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found in snip > >But ganesh.bitsteam.net is unknown to DNS; add an A record for it. Some >anti-spam rules don't allow MAIL FROM: values that DNS can't resolve. >Also, you may want to read up on masquerading in general: > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html > >-- John Beck <jbeck@eng.sun.com> > I'm posting here since I haven't gotten a reply on comp.mail.sendmail and it seems like it may be more of a NEXTSTEP issue since it involves NEXTSTEP client/mailserver I have a similar problem, the difference is the name that is trying to be resolved is just the host name without the domain, ie foo w/o ..bar.com. But here is THE twist - when mailing directly from the mail server (foo) the message goes through fine BUT when mailing from one of the clients that forwards to the server the message is returned invalid host or domain. The error says it's the server (foo w/o ..bar.com) that it's not able to find, so the client is forwarding the message to the server to be sent out. But for some reason the server isn't adding the domain. But why isn't the server sending its full name when sending a client's message? Could be a problem on the client side? Any ideas anyone? Stephen -- -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net@ Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty." Thomas Jefferson NOTE: delete the second @ to email to me.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Time Synchronization Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:48:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5p8o0j$716$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <33B3CF0D.21AF@mail.amsinc.com> Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> wrote: >I have a K250 class HP server. During shutdown, there is an error with >stopping the TIME SYNCHRONIZATION. What and where is the error being >sent from and what is the fix? I would suggest posting this to comp.sys.hp.hpux. You might have better luck with getting a useful response. --Ryan
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ZyXEL FAX Modem won't receive FAXes Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:46:58 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p8nu2$30l@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have NXFax.app (a license'd copy) and a ZyXEL Omni 2864 Fax Modem. What does it take to get the modem to receive faxes? I've installed NXFax and configured a fax modem in the PrintManger.app. It can send faxes fine, I just cant receive faxes (unattended). The modem just doesn't answer. I've set the fax configuration in PrintManger to answer in 1 ring and I've tried a few other things (see below). I've tried using 'cu' to manually set things like ATS0=1 AT+FAA=1 ATAA=1 +FAA=1 but the thing still doesn't answer the phone. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss something? Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What happened to eXTRAPRINT and GSCorp Date: 30 Jun 1997 17:03:06 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p8osa$30l@news.acns.nwu.edu> Does anyone know if GSCorp is still in business? I've been trying to reach GSCorp to purchase eXTRAPRINT and eXTRASCAN. There phone seems to be still connected and they have an answering machine to leave messages on. I've also left email requesting them to contact me. In 2 weeks I haven't heard a thing. I hope they haven't gone the way of Optimal Object.... David A. Johnson
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5p7g1s$945$2880@cadmium.aware.nl> Date: 30 Jun 1997 15:42:04 GMT Control: cancel <5p7g1s$945$2880@cadmium.aware.nl> Message-ID: <cancel.5p7g1s$945$2880@cadmium.aware.nl> Sender: <remove@freemail.nll> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: My console is read only even when I'm root - how to fix? Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:08:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5p7bgn$neb$1@news.digifix.com> References: <paul-2906971841480001@max1-np-ca-19.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <paul-2906971841480001@max1-np-ca-19.earthlink.net> On 06/29/97, Paul Nicholson wrote: >Hi > >The console window is read only and I can't type my favorite UNIX commands >into it. I am logged in as root. What's the secret to getting it to work. >It worked once before, but that was before I completely reinstalled >OpenStep after having hardware problems. > If by the 'Console Window' you mean the Window that you can bring up in the Workspace, its not a terminal window that you can type into. Its strictly status.. You need to launch /NextApps/Terminal.app -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header - new ? Date: 30 Jun 1997 18:49:25 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5p8v3l$ph@news.tamu.edu> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <5p8k20$ne9@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jun 1997 18:49:25 GMT In-Reply-To: <5p8k20$ne9@news.tamu.edu> On 06/30/97, Stephen Johnson wrote: >On 06/20/97, John Beck wrote: >>Christian Jensen (cejensen@bitstream.net) wrote: >>> ... I am having a frustrating problem with some outgoing mail that >can be >>> traced to one bad header. >> >>> >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 >>> ><<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found >in >snip >> >>But ganesh.bitsteam.net is unknown to DNS; add an A record for it. >Some >>anti-spam rules don't allow MAIL FROM: values that DNS can't resolve. >>Also, you may want to read up on masquerading in general: >> http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html >> >>-- John Beck <jbeck@eng.sun.com> >> > >I'm posting here since I haven't gotten a reply on comp.mail.sendmail >and it seems like it may be more of a NEXTSTEP issue since it involves >NEXTSTEP client/mailserver >I have a similar problem, the difference is the name that is trying to >be resolved is just the host name without the domain, ie foo w/o >...bar.com. But here is THE twist - when mailing directly from the mail >server (foo) the message goes through fine BUT when mailing from one >of the clients that forwards to the server the message is returned >invalid host or domain. The error says it's the server (foo w/o >...bar.com) that it's not able to find, so the client is forwarding the >message to the server to be sent out. But for some reason the server >isn't adding the domain. >But why isn't the server sending its full name when sending a >client's message? Could be a problem on the client side? > >Any ideas anyone? > >Stephen > -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net@ Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 NOTE - remove the trailing @ char. to mail to me.
From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Making a second NS/OS Partition? Date: 30 Jun 1997 21:36:49 GMT Organization: (dis)organised Message-ID: <5p98th$143@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> Greetings helpful NeXTians. I'm driving myself mad trying unsuccessfully to create a second NS partition and filesystem on a disk which already has OS4.0 Intel installed. It's a 2Gb SCSI disk which has a ~250Mb dos partition, around 1Gb of OS4.0 (/dev/sd0a) and the rest used to be a Linux partition. I'm running out of space on the OS4.0 partition. Simple - I thought! I'll just blow away the Linux partition and put another OS4.0 filesystem there, mounted as /dev/sd0b. WRONG! Now I know that the OS4 fdisk can only cope with a single NeXT filesystem, so I've been reading the manpages for disk, newfs scsimodes et. al. until my head spins. Nothing works as I think it should - which probably means I've misunderstood something fundamental. It's easy to kill the Linux partition, and just as easy to put it back again. "disk /dev/rsd0b" in interactive mode tells me politely "/dev/rsd0b: No such device or address" "newfs -N /dev/rsd0b" says "newfs: /dev/rsd0b: no disk label" and any attempt to put a disk label in place with something like "disk -l diskname" or even "disk -h phaedrus -l diskname -i /dev/rsd0b" gives the familiar "dev/rsd0b: No such device or address". HELP, please. Just in case it's useful, here is what fdisk sees: NeXT fdisk v1.02 Device: /dev/rsd0h Type Start Size Status -------------------------------------------- DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 251 - NEXTSTEP 251 1035 Active Type 92 1286 777 - Partition Table ---------------- Act H S Cyl Id H S Cyl Begin Size --- - - --- -- - - --- ----- ---- 0 1 1 0 6 fe 3f 1f 3f 7d7e1 80 0 1 20 a7 fe 3f a3 7d820 205b84 0 0 1 a4 92 fe 3f 106 2833a4 1844a3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Disk Information ----------------- Disk statistics according to device driver and bios: device: 2064 Megabytes, 4226725 sectors bios: 2063 Megabytes, 4225095 sectors cylinders = 263, heads = 255, sectors/track = 63 It's the type 92 partition starting at 1286 and ending at 2063 which I want to replace with a second OS4 partition, but how to do it? Many Thanks, Neville Wilford -- Internet: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100042,3501 j.n.wilford@ncl.ac.uk PGP 2.x public key available
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Swap and Partioning... Date: 30 Jun 1997 23:22:12 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> Well here's the latest results of my trials... I took some advice and setup my system as so: Partition1--OPENSTEP4.2, developer, eof, webobjects...1.7Gb Partition2--285Mb swapdisk, with lowat256Mb, hiwat 280Mb (made a single file while drive was empty. Partition3--2Gb for: LocalApps, LocalLibrary, LocalDeveloper, and User. The results... The system feels _slower_ than it did before with partitions 1&2 together. I think that is because of the following... First, It seems like there are upto about 5 types of disk activity that can and generally do go on at anyone time: 1) Accessing system files (unix utilities, filesystems...basic core OS type stuff). 2) A utility/app might will access /tmp (or some scratch like spot). This can be very HEAVY use when compiling things (not necessarily apps, but lists and caches too). 3) Swap, this can and is very heavy access. 4) Userfiles, your spreadsheet files, etc... This can vary in intensity, but let's just callit average/lite use. 5) Apps, your spreadsheet application resources, etc. Now, Ideally you would have a drive for each type of access, and when you compile something big and heavy in PB/IB, and all the above gets accessed simultaneously, you'll have a huge speed up... But, now when we deal with partitions that isn't the case... And I think because use 2 and 3 are perhaps the HEAVIEST uses, it pays to have them near each other. And when I didn't split the swap space from the rest of the system stuff, they were closer together on average, and the access was better. Now, it wouldn't do to put /tmp into the swapdisk...it's generally known to make weirdness happen and the system less stable...so that's not an option... Also, some drives don't use /tmp, and have their own .../customTMP location... Which leads me to my original observation...that partitioning is an overall performance drag, and that partitioning a slot for swapspace leads to decreased performance by increasing head travel/thrashing... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: gregor@crosslink.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: ZyXEL FAX Modem won't receive FAXes Date: 1 Jul 1997 03:40:20 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p9u74$d98$1@kronos.crosslink.net> References: <5p8nu2$30l@news.acns.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: daj@nwu.edu In <5p8nu2$30l@news.acns.nwu.edu> daj@nwu.edu wrote: > I have NXFax.app (a license'd copy) and a ZyXEL Omni 2864 Fax Modem. > What does it take to get the modem to receive faxes? Dave: Try this. It fixed my problem and sounds like the same thing I ran into: -login as root -launch Terminal app -type the following command: dwrite <your modem name> AuxATCommand "ATS18=0 note: use the name of your modem as shown in print manager app. the last line is 18 equals 0. My eyes are getting tired and I cant tell whether it is` showing up as an equals symbol. -press enter in order for the dwrite to take effect, you must restart the fax driver from a terminal window by issuing the following command: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes -press enter hope this works for you! Best regards Gregor
From: lin@localhost.com (Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: rdump to a tape drive on a NeXT Date: 1 Jul 1997 04:55:52 GMT Organization: Univ. of Maryland Message-ID: <5pa2ko$hh0$1@hecate.umd.edu> Due to the restriction of rlogin as root in NeXTStep 3.3, I can't seem to do a rdump to a tape drive on that NeXT machine from a Sun on the same LAN. I have modified /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts and still can't even rlogin as root. This topic seems has been discussed long time ago but I forgot the conclusion. Was there any way to rlogin to a NeXT as root ?
From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: 23 Jun 1997 23:48:37 GMT Organization: Systemix, Inc. Message-ID: <5on20l$mjj@iserver.stem.com> References: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> <5omho3$2st$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) wrote: > In <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> Christopher Lane wrote: >> My personal alternative to the solution ... go to /bin and set the >> high order (seduid) permission bits on su.wheel ... > > This won't work. You'll still be prompted for the root password when > you use su.wheel, even if you set it to mode 4755. It's one of those > essential security things. ... The "su.wheel" program only lets people > that are members of group wheel become root, again, only if they know > the right password. It does work. I know, I've done it. When I started here as NeXT sysadmin, there were four root passwords in use but only three were known. I used the approach I described whenever I encounted clients using the unknown one. Also, NeXT's man page confirms my description: 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. I don't disagree that this may not be the best thing for su.wheel to do and I'm not claiming what other Unicies do. As far as reseting the root password on a NeXT system, the scheme I described works -- try it yourself. - Christopher
From: cunningh@direct.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Driver for Novell/Anthem NE 2000 Ethernet card Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:23:45 -0800 Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <cunningh-ya02408000R2906971523450001@news.direct.ca> References: <01bc80b6$72aa5520$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <01bc80b6$72aa5520$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com>, "Greg Meece" <gregm@pcdocs.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience using this card with OpenSTEP for Intel? > It's the only card I've got and I'd like to connect the machine to the rest > of the LAN while in OpenSTEP mode (I have System Commander to allow me to > boot to Microsloth's OS's). > There is a driver called NEx000 v.97 on peanuts (see OpenStep resources on the Net). It is in the i486 directory. I have used it on my PC running OpenStep 4.2, although the driver was written for 3.3. I have heard of a newer driver NE2000 v3.0 that apparently has extra features for using the Columbia Appletalk Package; if you find this driver, please let me know! Ken
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Making a second NS/OS Partition? Date: 1 Jul 1997 08:12:12 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5pae4s$7id$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5p98th$143@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) wrote: > Now I know that the OS4 fdisk can only cope with a single NeXT > filesystem, so I've been reading the manpages for disk, newfs > scsimodes et. al. until my head spins. > Nothing works as I think it should - which probably means I've > misunderstood something fundamental. You are mixing up filesystems and DOS partitions. NEXTSTEP and OpenStep can only have one partition per physical disk. The documentation (see man fdisk) calls this a "DOS partition". However, it is possible to have more than one filesystem in such an area on the disk. The documentation calls this a "filesystem partition", and these are referenced by /dev/sd0a, sd0b, sd0c... So we have two different concepts of "partitions" here and the general concept is totally different from that of LINUX. This way, it is unfortunately not possible to simply add an OS partition on the same physical disk. To have more space for OS, you would have to delete your OS partition, create a new one with bigger size and then reinstall your system again. Well, it might be simpler to buy a second disk... 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: "Oscar J. Shearer" <merlin4@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fr.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: OpenStep4.2 on PC Asustek/T2P4, Cyrix 166, MatroxMystique ? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:47:05 -0700 Organization: SafeNet Service & Support Message-ID: <33B88BC9.134CC185@pacbell.net> References: <33AE3BE3.41C6@ina.fr> <neil-2706971420050001@mail.calliopeinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Neil Rhodes wrote: > Larent, > > As I found out, Prelude to Rhapsody is not compatible with the Cyrix > chip. > I had a Cyrix 200, and had a few crashes while installing. Once I got > it > installed, > it would intermittently crash, except that opening OmniWeb would crash > > every time. Apparently any app using muliple threads will definitely > crash. > > Returned my Cyrix for a Pentium and all is OK. > AMAZING!!! I've just gone through the same experience, even the OmniWeb thing, but with a slightly different Hardware List. Trying to install OpenStep 4.1 on a PC: - HSB Cheyenne (mother board), Cyrix PR166+(CPU) - Matrox Millenium video card - Adaptec 2940US Host Adaptor - Quantum 2.25gig Atlas II - SCSI 12speed (Toshiba) - CISCO CPA0762 Exchanged the Cyrix for a 166mhz Intel P54C and all is well. Oscar J. Shearer merlin4@pacbell.net SafeNet Service & Support
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From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@love.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: rdump to a tape drive on a NeXT Date: 1 Jul 1997 10:06:58 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5paks2$g6e$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5pa2ko$hh0$1@hecate.umd.edu> Lin <lin@localhost.com> wrote: : Due to the restriction of rlogin as root in NeXTStep 3.3, I can't seem to : do a rdump to a tape drive on that NeXT machine from a Sun on the same LAN. : I have modified /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts and still can't even rlogin : as root. This topic seems has been discussed long time ago but I forgot the : conclusion. Was there any way to rlogin to a NeXT as root ? It's not possible to get a root login without password prompt, but rsh will work when ~root/.rhosts is correctly set up. (Im using ~root to indicate root's homedirectory as 3.3's UserManager likes to set this to /root) -- 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: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Making a second NS/OS Partition? Date: 1 Jul 1997 10:20:45 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5pallt$k36@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5p98th$143@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> Neville Wilford (jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Greetings helpful NeXTians. : : I'm driving myself mad trying unsuccessfully to create a second NS : partition and filesystem on a disk which already has OS4.0 Intel : installed. : : It's a 2Gb SCSI disk which has a ~250Mb dos partition, around 1Gb of : OS4.0 (/dev/sd0a) and the rest used to be a Linux partition. : As sad as it is, but there are different concepts of partitions around: The PC/DOS FDISK-partitions sit on top of 'UNIX'-partitions if they exist on a disk. This means you have (now) a single NS (FDISK) partition which you could (sub-)partitionize(?) as partitions (sd0)a, b, c and so forth - won't help you with your problem. And you have a free (FDISK) partition-space on which to put some other filesystem. But as only one NS filesystem per disk is allowed (or more exactly recognised and accepted), you can't do anything with the second (fdisk) NS partition. Could you 'mount it', it would probably be labeled sd1..., although not being another physical device. Maybe that's one of the problems NeXT had/Apple has with FDISK-partitions. Then your partition wouldn't be a 'b' one, although logically correct - same device another part of it -, but an 'a' one of the next unit - who knows, who cares now (that you can't use/have it anyway). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: NXImage.... Date: 1 Jul 1997 10:33:28 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5pamdo$3b6$3@news.cc.umr.edu> Hi, I have a problem. I am working on a image processing application on NextStep 3.2. I am using NXImage class with NXBitmapImageRep to specify the bitmap for the image. For this I provide the image data as a unsigned char array to the "initData: pixelsWide: pixelsHigh:.... procedure of NXBitmapImageRep. Now I make some changes to the image data (by changing pixel value in the array)!! How do I make it visible on the window. I mean when I say display should the changes not show up on the window??? Please help... If I need to take some other path to composite the NXImage please let me know... Thanx in advance ... Sanjeev
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: timing out telnet/etc Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:09:13 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970701090649.6876F-100000@peace> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If I telnet to my machine and do not enter a login/password, it takes 5 minutes to timeout. I would like to make this less, like 60 seconds. I read 'man gettytab' and saw this to num 0 timeout (seconds) as an option, but it didn't seem to work when I edited gettytab Anyone done this? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: missing init Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:27:07 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970701091701.7050B-100000@peace> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Steve Beavers <sbeavers@polaris.umuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <33B7CF0E.8542C339@polaris.umuc.edu> On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Steve Beavers wrote: > I just got a used NeXT machine and I am seeing the following error when > booting up: > > load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 2, trying /etc/init > load of /etc/init failed, errno 2 > > I am wondering if maybe the files on the hard drive were deleted? Sounds like it > Is there any way I can boot up and see if there is anything on the hard > drive? Possibly. I had this happen to me about 2 years ago, the files in /etc were just gone, and I still don't know why.... Anyway, Marc Majka @ NeXT suggested I try bsd -i -s from the ROM monitor, and then when it asks for an init program tell it /usr/etc/init and hopefully that will let you boot into single user mode and check things out there.. > I tried creating a boot disk from the image file that NeXT > provides on their website, but it asks for a CD (which I don't have). It's not really a boot disk as most people think of a boot disk. It is really a 'kick disk' that allows you to boot a NeXT off a CD-ROM. > Is there anything like Norton Utilites that would allow me to see if > these files were deleted and undelete them? No. If the files are deleted, they are gone forever. Welcome to UNIX. > Or, am I jumping to conclusions, is there something else I should try? Not much. Where did you buy this from? Whoever sold it to you should have 1) told you that it wouldn't boot or 2) made sure it did TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
Message-ID: <33B93F8B.B2428EA@zipatoni.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 11:34:03 -0600 From: doc <doc@zipatoni.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Need Boot Floppys Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Primary Network. http://www.primary.net Hi, Does anyone have a copy of the NS 3.3 bootfloppy? I am looking for both Motorola and Intel. I have tried to download the disk images from the NeXT web site but I can't get RAWRITE to work in either DOS or Windows. If anyone has a bootfloppy that they could e-mail me or if someone could talk me through creating the bootfloppy from the floppyimage I would appreciate it. thanks very much. doc@zipatoni.com
From: ashrafi@mit.edu (Babak Ashrafi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: panic: kernel page fault failure & MMU invalid descriptor Date: 1 Jul 1997 16:04:05 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <5pb9pl$cs2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> My Turbo Color NeXTstation just rebooted itself. I was not doing anything unusual at the time, just browing the web. What do the following entries in /usr/adm/messages mean? syslog: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Bad file number mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0xffff000c mach: trap: pc 0x402ddf0 sp 0xffec0 sr 0x2008 mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x101c4100 proc 0x1019cd90 pid 6873 pcb 0x101c5430 mach: traceback: fp 0x111e2f94 mach: called from pc 0x0402db3e fp 0x111e2fb4 4-args 00000003 101c5c5c 000ffeec 05007814 mach: called from pc 0x040a562c fp 0x111e2ff4 4-args 000ffef0 00000096 00000000 00000000 mach: called from pc 0x04001eaa fp 0x101c5c94 4-args 101c5c5c 111fb000 040b437a 00000002 mach: called from pc 0x000ffec0 fp 0x000fff00 4-args 00000500 782e0090 75736867 72617068 mach: last fp 0xfff00 mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 3.3 v74 mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K mach: syslogd: going down on signal 15 Thanks for any help, Babak
From: Henry McGilton <henry@trilithon.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Support for ZIP in 3.2/3.3 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:07:16 -0700 Organization: Pacific Research and Trading Message-ID: <33B92B34.3879@trilithon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What Ho, I tried using a ZIP drive (NextStep 3.2) to move large files from Windows 95 to NextStep. NextStep doesn't appear to understand DOS file systems on those ZIP disks. I installed the DOS file system patch, too. Anybody have the definitive story on support for ZIP drives ? Cheers, ........ Henry
From: Marc Respass Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding new user Date: 1 Jul 1997 17:37:25 GMT Organization: HTL Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <5pbf8l$1f1@htlmst.hlt.com> References: <ECHDqB.9Iq@nidat.sub.org> <5p0ja3$6q5@htlmst.hlt.com> In Re: Adding new user comp.sys.next.sysadmin Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes, > In article <5p0ja3$6q5@htlmst.hlt.com> marc@marc.htl.com (Marc Respass) > writes: > > Hi, > > > > I'm almost done setting up my Openstep 4.2 PR (Prelude to Rhapsody) > > system. I want to change the user name of the "me" account but I can't > > so I thought I'd make a new user but it's not working out. I tried to > > run PopOver.app from the new account and it couldn't write to my home > > directory (/marc) because it didn't have permissions. I did chmod 777 > > /marc which set the directory for full permissions but it still didn't > > work. Logged out and back in; still nothing. Can anyone help me setup > > a new account that's identical to "me" so that I can add users. > > > Oh boy, will some people ever read the manuals? Oh boy. Will some people ever read the post? > If you set a password for account 'me' (in one of the Preference panels) > and log out you get a login panel and are asked for the account and > password. You then enter 'root' where you possibly should also add a > password. This account is able to modify the user entries through > UserManager.app... Peter, I appreciate the response but apparently I wasn't clear. I know how to log in as root, I know how to set a password, I know how to run UserManager. What I need to do is create a new account that's exactly like "me". The "me" account works perfectly. I created a new user called "marc" but that account didn't have the same permissions and groups as "me". What I want to do is duplicate "me" then edit it. Frankly, the online help isn't that good and I don't have a book. I worked with UserManager a bit but maybe not enough. Thanks again
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding new user Date: 1 Jul 1997 18:39:51 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5pbitn$j7i@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <ECHDqB.9Iq@nidat.sub.org> <5p0ja3$6q5@htlmst.hlt.com> <5pbf8l$1f1@htlmst.hlt.com> Hi Marc, You can set group for a user in UserManager by switching to "Group" option after opening the user information and click "/" under "Domain". "me" is set as "wheel" and "staff" while the default for the new user's group is "other". You might set your new account as wheel for convenience of system managements. Did you create new directory for the new user? For PopOver problem, check under "Expert" of "Preferences" to see where you set the place for downloading the mails and check whether the new user has write permission to that folder. The default is /usr/spool/mail/"UserName" which should have no problem. Hope this help. You better back the file modes for /marc back to the default instead of 777 for safety reason. --- Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome) >Marc Respass wrote: >Peter, I appreciate the response but apparently I wasn't clear. I know how to log in as root, I know how to set a password, I know how to run UserManager. What I need to do is create a new account that's exactly like "me". The "me" account works perfectly. I created a new user called "marc" but that account didn't have the same permissions and groups as "me". What I want to do is duplicate "me" then edit it. Frankly, the online help isn't that good and I don't have a book. I worked with UserManager a bit but maybe not enough. Thanks again
From: paul@eisusa.com (Paul Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: My console is read only even when I'm root - how to fix? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:41:47 -0700 Organization: Electronic Imaging Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <paul-2906971841480001@max1-np-ca-19.earthlink.net> Hi The console window is read only and I can't type my favorite UNIX commands into it. I am logged in as root. What's the secret to getting it to work. It worked once before, but that was before I completely reinstalled OpenStep after having hardware problems. Paul
From: Brad Elmore <bee@bk2k.gsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange dial-out problem (NeXTSTEP 3.3) Date: 01 Jul 1997 15:07:37 -0400 Organization: Georgia State University Message-ID: <v8n2o6r3pi.fsf@bk2k.gsu.edu> I have a turbo slab running NeXTSTEP 3.3 that is having a very strange dialout problem. I had a serial port cable built as per the online documentation (one that does hardware flowcontrol), and am trying to connect to campus Unix machines from home. Here's the symptoms: I can talk to the modem fine, the modem can dial campus modems fine, the NeXT (via tip) can talk to the terminal server at the other end fine, but when I try to telnet from there to any of the Unix boxes (I've tested with solaris and AIX), I get a login: and Password: prompt just fine, but no matter what I type (including logging into my own workstation), I can't login. If I take the same modem and hook it to my ancient 286 running Kermit, everything works fine-- so I'm presuming there's something strangely wrong with my NeXT setup. More details: I can connect to the echo port, and characters I type there are echoed immediately. Also, while trying to login, things like ctrl-D (to try to end the failing telnet) don't work. I've tried a number of different things in /etc/remote, to no avail. I'll post or forward them if anyone wants to know, but I started by taking the default one that comes with the system and upping the baud rate (to 38400-- I figured that'd be fast enough for talking to a 14.4 modem). Has anyone run into this kind of problem before? Brad Elmore bee@gsu.edu Internet member since 1987
From: Robbin <axeman@dds.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstation trouble Date: 1 Jul 1997 22:30:20 GMT Organization: none Message-ID: <33B9937D.7783@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit problem no. 1 machine refuses to shut down (really!), workspacemanager quits and the mouse disappears but then nothing happens, it just sits there with a grey screen staring at me... I have to do a ROM-monitor shutdown, which results in a longer boottime due to "fsck" fixing the filesystem. (BTW, I'm running NS3.2 on a NeXTstation Turbo with 40 MBs of RAM, 512 MB HD). problem no. 2 not really a problem but more of a nuisance; when starting apps or mini'ing folders they do not apear in the bottom-right corner but one square to the left, which leaves me puzzled because with first use, things appeared correctly. question no. 1 when in unix expert mode, I sometimes have files that have "#" before and after their names, e.g. "#.macros#", what does this exactly mean? Does this indicate some file is in use, broken or what? If it is in the manuals, I sure couldn't find it...:-) question no. 2 about system releases, what is the best system i should use on my box does 3.3 offer any (speed) improvements or should I switch to 4 ? And off course where should I get these releases cheaply? When you know any answers to the above questions please mail to: igorvo@euronet.nl Thanks in advance! Greetings, Igor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Black Hardware rocks! Reminds me of the time when were people asking; "What the hell is that state of the art computer on your desk", pointing at my 5 year old Mac.
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap and Partioning... Date: 1 Jul 1997 23:49:02 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5pc51e$6ug$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > First, It seems like there are upto about 5 types of disk activity > that can and generally do go on at anyone time: > 1) Accessing system files (unix utilities, filesystems...basic > core OS type stuff). 2) A utility/app might will access /tmp > (or some scratch like spot). This can be very HEAVY use when > compiling things (not necessarily apps, but lists and caches > too). 3) Swap, this can and is very heavy access. 4) Userfiles, > your spreadsheet files, etc... This can vary in intensity, but > let's just callit average/lite use. 5) Apps, your spreadsheet > application resources, etc. > Now, Ideally you would have a drive for each type of access, and > when you compile something big and heavy in PB/IB, and all the > above gets accessed simultaneously, you'll have a huge speed > up... Ok with a little thought...here's what I've come up with thus far: Frequency Intensity 1 Swap High High 2 /tmp Med High 3 /User Med Medium 4 /Apps,/Library,/Developer Med Low 5 /systemStuff Med Low Ok, there are the five basic uses...and I put next to it guestimates as to how the related files are accessed on the average user's setup...no facts, just gut feeling as to it... Frequency deals more with how many different seeks might be made of that item within say an hour...and intensity is how long the access is for (frequency relating more to seek times, intensity to throughput). Ok, so based on the above in part I've come to the conclusion that you want to lay things out in the exact opposite way depending if you have a single physical drive with multiple partitions or multple physical drives. I.E. If you have a single physical drive, Locality of Reference will make things faster if you keep heavier used things near each other. If you have two physical drives you want to split apart the two heaviest used things to take advantage of the simultaneous use. So, for example...If you have a single 4Gb drive, you would want to keep your 1&2 (above) together because they are heavily used, and you wouldn't want the drive to have to travel really far between the two... But, if you had two physical drives you might want to split the /tmp and the swapfile apart so they may both be accessed at the same time... Ok, onward... I thought a little more about it was trying to come up with "ideal" setups based on use... Sadly I miserably failed, but a few things came about. Several basic types of tasks are: Activity: Type of activity(Degree of use relative to above avg) Launching: 4(Heavier),1(Mild) Compiling: 2(H),1(Avg),4(H),3(Avg),5(H) Web: 1(H),2(H)--Translating all those images with Omni is heavy :) RunningApp:3(Avg),1(Avg) LogInFlush:4(H),1(M),2(H) Ok, the only thing that stands out is that 1(swap) is used everywhere and deserves some consideration. Also, /tmp (2) type stuff is used in a lot of cases too... Anyway, Here are my suggestions for two scenarios... Scenario A is for a 4Gb drive that must be partitioned (because of the 2Gb limit into two 2Gb partitions), and Scenario B is for a two drive setup, a 1Gb and a 2Gb drive. For both I'm assuming that items 3&4 (the user and localapps/library stuff) will take close to 2Gb's worth of space (since that's the reality for me :) Scenario A: Here we would want to keep the big heavy tasks as close together as possible. a) Anyway, I'd likely put 1,2,3 & 5 on partion 1, and 4 on partition 2. b) It might be even better to put 4&5 on partion 1 and 1,2,3 on partition 2--However, a) above might be a little easier to manage in the way of future upgrades... Scenario B: Here we want to split up all the heaviest tasks onto seprate drives to get the best simultaneous access rates possible. a) Put 1&5 on the 1Gb drive, and 2,3,4 on the 2Gb drive...this is likely really nice unless your 1Gb drive is significantly slower than the 2Gb drive (If the 1Gb drive isn't at least 65% the speed of the 2Gb drive, the swap being on the 1Gb drive might be a performance penalty--relatively). Anyway, doing so would seperate the swap (the heaviest process/access) from the other heavy processes. b) Put 2,3,5 on the 1Gb, and 1&4 on the 2Gb. This would ensure that the swap is on the fastest drive and still splits the loads rather decently. Perhaps you might even try c) put 2&5 on the 1Gig, and 1,3&4 on the 2Gb drive...i.e. moving the user files to the larger faster drive. This might be done just for ease of administering...having all the /Local* and /User files in one spot... Also, it would allow more room on the 1Gb drive for system stuff (i.e. with 4.2, developer, eof, webobjects, a couple of servers (and maybe even the 3.3 developer stuff) 1Gb is going to start getting tight). Anyway, I have no idea if any of this will work out in practice...just some musings I hope might prove useful to someone else... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. 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From: "T.E. Biesinger" <teb@eng.cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Frameworks.compressed Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 20:02:13 +0100 Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department Message-ID: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, unintenionally, I compressed /NextLibrary/Frameworks and OpenStep 4.0 (Intel) does not start up any more. Could I use the CD drive (how to access after having booted to the Mach Operating System Level?) to uncompress it? Which is the appropriate command? Perhaps, this is much more tricky but it would be essential to find a solution since I do not have a backup... Thanks for all your help! Thomas P.S. Reply-to: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk --- 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. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Frameworks.compressed Date: 2 Jul 1997 03:26:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5pchpq$jp4$1@news.digifix.com> References: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> On 07/01/97, "T.E. Biesinger" wrote: >Hi, > >unintenionally, I compressed /NextLibrary/Frameworks >and OpenStep 4.0 (Intel) does not start up any more. > Oh oh... running as root were we? :-) >Could I use the CD drive (how to access after having >booted to the Mach Operating System Level?) to uncompress >it? Which is the appropriate command? > You can boot into single user mode and then decompress it from the command line. >Perhaps, this is much more tricky but it would be >essential to find a solution since I do not have a >backup... > >Thanks for all your help! > >Thomas > > -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: panic: kernel page fault failure & MMU invalid descriptor Date: 2 Jul 1997 07:21:32 GMT Organization: 21st Century Software, New York City Sender: daver@ts3-4.nj.cnct.com Message-ID: <5pcvhs$e60$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5pb9pl$cs2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Jul 1997 02:21:32 CDT Cc: ashrafi@mit.edu In <5pb9pl$cs2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Babak Ashrafi wrote: > mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk I'm a little curious too; I saw this twice after I chaned the memory configuration from 80M to 128M in my Turbo Cube. I never saw it again. What gives? -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net :: :: independant software and network guy ::::: new york, new york :: :: PGP fingerprint :: 89F5 E75D 4749 3FF4 :: ED92 1B6D 9871 9B93 :: g to do with the level of Service Packs that are installed? Any hints or insights are appreciated, -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Support for ZIP in 3.2/3.3 Date: 2 Jul 1997 08:07:32 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5pd284$qdh@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <33B92B34.3879@trilithon.com> Henry McGilton (henry@trilithon.com) wrote: : What Ho, : I tried using a ZIP drive (NextStep 3.2) to : move large files from Windows 95 to NextStep. : NextStep doesn't appear to understand DOS file : systems on those ZIP disks. I installed the : DOS file system patch, too. : : Anybody have the definitive story on support : for ZIP drives ? : ZIP drives are ok. You can use and format them for NEXTSTEP filesystem (BSD 4.3) or MacIntosh from within NS and use a (preformatted) DOS (only!) Cartridge, as long as it holds conventional FAT (12bit, 16bit) filesystems with DOS/Windows3.x format. NS and OPENSTEP can't use W95 filesystems (long names and/or 32bit) without the help of the 'vmount' utility, and then it's not working as elegant (automounting) as the others (at the moment - its author is working on a solution for automatic mount). So ZIP drives work with NS, Win95 systems won't (without manual overhead). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] OPENSTEP 4.1 on NT daemons fail Date: 2 Jul 1997 07:52:21 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Sender: fygir@194.229.196.70 Message-ID: <5pd1bl$ck5$1@news2.xs4all.nl> Has anyone else experienced problems with OPENSTEP Enterprise on Windows NT? This is on Windows NT 4.0, with Service pack 3, and OPENSTEP 4.1. Sometimes when you log on, A Dr. Watson message appears immediately complaining that it cannot execute nmserver.exe or WindowServer.exe, making it impossible of course to run OpenStep programs. Even worse these executables sometimes seem to disappear. Reinstalling OPENSTEP did not help either. In one case we think it started when some other program package was installed. Could it have anything to do with the level of Service Packs that are installed? Any hints or insights are appreciated, -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Knight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] OPENSTEP 4.1 on NT daemons fail Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 09:00:43 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <867834043.6193.0.nnrp-4.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk> References: <5pd0mb$cbm$1@news2.xs4all.nl> In article <5pd0mb$cbm$1@news2.xs4all.nl> jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) writes: > Has anyone else experienced problems with OPENSTEP Enterprise on Windows NT? > This is on Windows NT 4.0, with Service pack 3, and OPENSTEP 4.1. > Sometimes when you log on, A Dr. Watson message appears immediately > complaining that it cannot execute nmserver.exe or WindowServer.exe, making > it impossible of course to run OpenStep programs. > Even worse these executables sometimes seem to disappear. Reinstalling > OPENSTEP did not help either. In one case we think it started when some other > program package was installed. > Could it have anything to do with the level of Service Packs that are > installed? > > Any hints or insights are appreciated, > Hi, Though not particularly helpful I can confirm that after some of our people installed an "upgraded" NT video driver we experienced the same problem. We confirmed this by re-installing NT and OpenStep 4.1 which worked, then re-installed the video driver and the same problem occured. Our engineering department have it on their NT list of things to diagnose !! --- Regards David Knight OneStep Solutions Plc | UK phone: 01702 426400 | Vendors of NS/OS 351 London Road | fax: 01702 551515 | MCCAs, Hardware Hadleigh | Int'l prefix: +44 1702 | Apps, Networks Essex | | ISDN, Training SS7 2BT | Email: david@onestep.co.uk | Maintenance England | (NeXTMail/MIME ok) | and Support
From: blenko@cs.yale.edu (Tom M. Blenko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding new user Date: 2 Jul 1997 05:11:38 -0400 Organization: Computer Science Dept., Yale University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5pd60a$5hu@ruebezahl.cs.yale.edu> Peter Nitezki writes: |In article <> marc@marc.htl.com (Marc Respass) writes: |> Hi, |> |> I'm almost done setting up my Openstep 4.2 PR (Prelude to Rhapsody) |> system. I want to change the user name of the "me" account but I can't |> so I thought I'd make a new user but it's not working out. I tried to |> run PopOver.app from the new account and it couldn't write to my home |> directory (/marc) because it didn't have permissions. I did chmod 777 |> /marc which set the directory for full permissions but it still didn't |> work. Logged out and back in; still nothing. Can anyone help me setup |> a new account that's identical to "me" so that I can add users. |> |Oh boy, will some people ever read the manuals? If Rhapsody is targeted to the same market as MacOS, I 100% guarantee that they will not. Now, I haven't been able to determine who Rhapsody is targeted to, but if it is the existing base of MacOS users there's a big problem to be addressed here. Tom
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] OPENSTEP 4.1 on NT daemons fail Date: 2 Jul 1997 08:12:40 -0500 Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5pdk48$5ve$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> References: <5pd0mb$cbm$1@news2.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-User: bettis jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) writes: >Has anyone else experienced problems with OPENSTEP Enterprise on Windows NT? >This is on Windows NT 4.0, with Service pack 3, and OPENSTEP 4.1. >Sometimes when you log on, A Dr. Watson message appears immediately >complaining that it cannot execute nmserver.exe or WindowServer.exe, making >it impossible of course to run OpenStep programs. You must have networking configured. Either a network card, or remote access must be enabled. Even if you never dial out, you still must have networking installed >Even worse these executables sometimes seem to disappear. Reinstalling >OPENSTEP did not help either. In one case we think it started when some other >program package was installed. I have never seen that.
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap and Partioning... Date: 2 Jul 1997 13:01:22 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jul2081311@howard.doubleu.com> References: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> <5pc51e$6ug$1@news2.digex.net> In-reply-to: John Kheit's message of 1 Jul 1997 23:49:02 GMT In article <5pc51e$6ug$1@news2.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: Ok, the only thing that stands out is that 1(swap) is used everywhere and deserves some consideration. Actually, I have a theory about swap... swap should generally be the access of last resort. If the currently active application is swapping, the machine starts to approach unusability. So, the first thing to assume is that you have enough RAM that the active application doesn't swap much if at all. [Put another way, if you don't have enough RAM, then tuning the swapfile isn't going to do you any good.] From there, you have to look at the lifetime of apps (or perhaps projects would be better - projects being a set of apps you use to do a job). Assuming the current project fits in RAM, then when you quit the current project and move on to another, there's suddenly a lot of free space for the next project to use, without necessarily having to swap in anythat that was swapped out already. [This is why I tend to quit apps rather than hide them. That way they don't clutter up my desktop _or_ my swapfile.] So I'd not rate swap "Frequency" as High, I'd rate it at Med, or even Low. [All the while keeping in mind that until recently I had 64M of RAM, and now I have 128M, so indeed I _don't_ swap much. I swapped noticably more with 64M, though :-).] Beyond that, though, you need to consider what accesses go together, not just which are high frequency or intensity. The most important swap accesses will be those involved with getting free space for a program you just executed, because they'll be on the critical path. These will come right in the middle of the system trying to read data from one of your other partitions. Sort of a lose-lose situation, because you might reference data on _every_ partition in launching an app, but generally you can decide in terms of size - the executable code accessed in a launch will generally be larger and more spread out than the data files, so that's where to concentrate. OTOH, when you're in some steady state just "operating" your program, and you keep growing things in memory, it's likely that you're doing most accesses to the swapfile, and not many to anything else. Another thing to consider is that apps and resources type files will often be mapped into memory, rather than loaded into memory. Meaning? That when the system needs some free space and some app is inactive, it can map out that app's code pages _without_ sending them to the swapfile. Later, it calls them back in from the app's executable. Shared and Dynamic libraries also do this, though older dynamically loaded NXBundle code does not. So when you bring back that inactive app, you're going to pull pages from the swapfile and from the executable's home, and possibly from resource files. Sigh, this isn't answering much, is it? My personal layout-of-choice is to have two disks, one booting the current version of the OS, the other booting the earlier version. That way I can easily back off if need be. Nowadays, that means NS3.3 on one disk and OS4.2 on another. From there, I have them each mount the other on /Disk, and swap to it's swapfile at /Disk/private/vm/swapfile. Works out pretty nicely. In the past it's been asked if it's worth swapping out to an older 400M disk which only does (say) 2MB/s rather than your new 2Gig disk which does 5MB/s. I would still consider swapping to the older disk, because a) I don't swap much as it is, and b) when I do swap, it's the _seek_ time that's important, not the transfer rate. Say the new disk is 5400RPM, the old is 3600RPM. When seeking to the swapfile, the new disk requires an average 9ms seek time, plus an average 6ms or so waiting for the right area of the disk to come around. Then it has to write the block. Then it has to seek back to what it was doing, adding another 15ms. During that 30ms of wastage, the old disk could have written perhaps 64k or so of data. Oh, well, not getting anywhere, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: "Jean-Claude" <murdocks@mbox.vol.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: USING TAR AND GUNZIP PLEASE HELP ME Date: 22 Jun 1997 12:56:00 GMT Organization: Telecom Italia - Video On Line Message-ID: <01bc7f0c$2f86cdb0$00010101@murdock> Hi my helper friend... i've got another problem and i'm here for ask you some help... I've downloaded the NET SURFER from a ftp site... but.... HOW CAN I LET NEXTSTEP TO SEE IT AS A PACKAGE ???!?!? the was a blablabla_tar.gz... i've decompressed it under winNT UNZIP and it have made the directory structure of the package.. but NEXTSTEP don't see it as a package.. i've tried to use UNIX command but NEXTSTEP says that cannot exctract files beacuse file name too long (???).. when you've send to me the matrox pkg. the file name was long !! but i don't remember how i have used it.. I've this problem ever when i download a file from internet under WINNT... can you take me a WEB BROWSER for NEXTSTEP and explain me to install correctly the modem, the needed protocol and the software,, to let me navigate the web... and don't disturb you no more ? THANK YOU very much. and i'm very happy to talk with you about Nextstep because i like very much that OS but i'm very beginner to that OS.. eheh.... thank you a lots.. I hope that you can help me..!! Jean-Claude murdocks@mbox.vol.it
From: "Jean-Claude" <murdocks@mbox.vol.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP ME PLEASE Date: 22 Jun 1997 12:55:45 GMT Organization: Telecom Italia - Video On Line Message-ID: <01bc7f0c$26af9eb0$00010101@murdock> Hi my helper friend... i've got another problem and i'm here for ask you some help... I've downloaded the NET SURFER from a ftp site... but.... HOW CAN I LET NEXTSTEP TO SEE IT AS A PACKAGE ???!?!? the was a blablabla_tar.gz... i've decompressed it under winNT UNZIP and it have made the directory structure of the package.. but NEXTSTEP don't see it as a package.. i've tried to use UNIX command but NEXTSTEP says that cannot exctract files beacuse file name too long (???).. when you've send to me the matrox pkg. the file name was long !! but i don't remember how i have used it.. I've this problem ever when i download a file from internet under WINNT... can you take me a WEB BROWSER for NEXTSTEP and explain me to install correctly the modem, the needed protocol and the software,, to let me navigate the web... and don't disturb you no more ? THANK YOU very much. and i'm very happy to talk with you about Nextstep because i like very much that OS but i'm very beginner to that OS.. eheh.... thank you a lots.. I hope that you can help me..!! Jean-Claude murdocks@mbox.vol.it
From: alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu (Alex Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Installing NS3.3 on a syquest cartridge Date: 2 Jul 1997 14:46:22 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5pdpju$190o@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, Has anyone successfully installed NS3.3 on a syquest EZ135 cartridge? I've made several attempts, but never gotten very far. The Adaptec2940 driver on the original driver floppy wouldn't load at all. I got updated boot- and driver-disk images from NeXTAnswers, and now the SCSI driver loads and the NS installer sees my disks. However, installation inevitably crashes shortly after I select the Syquest drive (with disk inserted) as the target. I get something like: /etc/rc.cdrom [33] Memory fault /etc/rc.cdrom [34] Memory fault test: argument expected And then all processes die. Note that I have done this with BIOS enabled for removable disks, then again with BIOS enabled for removable disks only for booting. I have also set the Syquest drive (SCSI ID 4) as the boot device (in the Adaptec configuration utility). Any ideas? Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu (Alex Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Public window server on OS4.1/NT Date: 2 Jul 1997 14:38:22 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5pdp4u$190i@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, One of our boxes here runs NT 4.0 (SP 3), and I installed WebObjects on it. WebObjects comes with a stripped-down version of OpenStep, and with that package installed, I am able to run applications compiled for OS/NT. It would be nice to remotely run applications on that machine from another box running OS/Mach 4.1, using the -NXHost option. Now, I have heard that this works. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to enable the public window server option on the NT machine. Can it be done with this version of OpenStep? Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Support for ZIP in 3.2/3.3 Date: 2 Jul 1997 18:11:54 GMT Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated Message-ID: <5pe5la$hvr$1@news.istar.ca> References: <33B92B34.3879@trilithon.com> <5pd284$qdh@sun3.uni-essen.de> In-Reply-To: <5pd284$qdh@sun3.uni-essen.de> On 07/01/97, H.-R. Oberhage wrote: >: I tried using a ZIP drive (NextStep 3.2) to >: move large files from Windows 95 to NextStep. >: NextStep doesn't appear to understand DOS file >: systems on those ZIP disks. I installed the >: DOS file system patch, too. Last year I was running NEXTSTEP 3.2 with the DOS file system patch. My NeXT could not recognize DOS-formatted Syquest EZ135 cartridges. I suspect you need NEXTSTEP 3.3 or better to get this functionality. Unfortunately, as mentioned previously you cannot perform a DOS format under NEXTSTEP with a removable cartridge drive. -- -===================================================================- Jean-Paul C. Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca (NeXTmail & MIME welcome) -=============- http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jeanpaul -=============- -===================================================================- "Microsoft is a fact of life. They're like the air we breathe. Perhaps a better analogy is bottled water, because you have to buy it." -- Steve Jobs, Apple Computer's Worldwide Developers Conference, May 16th, 1997 -===================================================================-
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTstation trouble Date: 2 Jul 1997 11:04:31 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5pdcjv$h2c$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <33B9937D.7783@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <33B9937D.7783@dds.nl> Robbin wrote: > problem no. 1 > > machine refuses to shut down (really!), workspacemanager quits and the > mouse disappears but then nothing happens, it just sits there with a > grey screen staring at me... > I have to do a ROM-monitor shutdown, which results in a longer boottime > due to "fsck" fixing the filesystem. (BTW, I'm running NS3.2 on a > NeXTstation Turbo with 40 MBs of RAM, 512 MB HD). Happens sometimes, usually due to a process that won't die correctly or due to problems unmounting all the filesystems. You can sometimes get the system to still shutdown cleanly by using the right-hand command key + ` combination which will give you the option to halt or reboot the computer *with* sync. You may need to do this repeatedly. Some apps are well known for producing this effect --- samba servers particularly. > problem no. 2 > > not really a problem but more of a nuisance; when starting apps or > mini'ing folders they do not apear in the bottom-right corner but one > square to the left, which leaves me puzzled because with first use, > things appeared correctly. Each new app tile or miniaturised window gets placed one space to the right, even if the previous app/window has since been closed. It's just the way the WM works. > question no. 1 > > when in unix expert mode, I sometimes have files that have "#" before > and after their names, e.g. "#.macros#", what does this exactly mean? > Does this indicate some file is in use, broken or what? If it is in the > manuals, I sure couldn't find it...:-) You're an emacs user. Emacs keeps a backup of the original file renamed by surrounding it in '#' characters while you're editing. When you save, this file gets renamed to foo~ --- if you kill emacs with unsaved changes or emacs dies, the file won't get renamed. > question no. 2 > > about system releases, what is the best system i should use on my box > does 3.3 offer any (speed) improvements or should I switch to 4 ? And > off course where should I get these releases cheaply? All upgrades cost exactly the same amount so there's no financial motive to choose one over another. Either NS 3.3 or OS 4.2 performs very well --- certainly no worse than 3.2. OS 4.2 has several bug fixes and security enhancements over NS 3.3, plus it has all the OpenStep libraries. Unfortunately we're still awaiting stocks of 4.2 to be delivered. > When you know any answers to the above questions please mail to: > igorvo@euronet.nl > Thanks in advance! Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: standalone user needs networking reality check Date: 2 Jul 1997 21:31:21 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5pehb9$cao$1@maryj.bitstream.net> I have a NeXTcube and an Intel box running Win95. Because it was easy to do, I have connected them with thin ethernet cable. I am a fairly knowledgeable PC user, am still getting to know NS, and know only enough about networking to get the SMC card in my Intel PC installed and configured, and to hook up and terminate the cables. Of course, at the moment both machines, though connected, are completely unable to "see" each other. From here, I need help with getting the machines to communicate, either one-way or both ways. My ideal situation would be two-way communication with both machines able to write/read each other's HDs, the Intel printing on the NeXT printer (I found the driver), and so on. I would be happy to settle for either machine seeing the other one-way. I have heard of Samba, but before attempting to tackle it, or any other app necessary for this chasm-bridging enterprise, I thought I'd risk the heckling and raspberries of more knowledgeable folks and post something here to ask if what I'm thinking about is impossible or just maybe worth the trouble after all. Thanks to all who reply! --Chris -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap and Partioning... Date: 2 Jul 1997 22:04:22 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5pej96$21n$2@news2.digex.net> References: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> <5pc51e$6ug$1@news2.digex.net> <SCOTT.97Jul2081311@howard.doubleu.com> scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) wrote: > In article <5pc51e$6ug$1@news2.digex.net> John Kheit > <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: > Ok, the only thing that stands out is that 1(swap) is used > everywhere and deserves some consideration. > Actually, I have a theory about swap... swap should generally be > the access of last resort. If the currently active application > is swapping, the machine starts to approach unusability. So, > the first thing to assume is that you have enough RAM that the > active application doesn't swap much if at all. [Put another > way, if you don't have enough RAM, then tuning the swapfile isn't > going to do you any good.] > From there, you have to look at the lifetime of apps (or perhaps > projects would be better - projects being a set of apps you use > to do a job). Assuming the current project fits in RAM, then > when you quit the current project and move on to another, there's > suddenly a lot of free space for the next project to use, without > necessarily having to swap in anythat that was swapped out already. > [This is why I tend to quit apps rather than hide them. That > way they don't clutter up my desktop _or_ my swapfile.] Yea, I agree with you...but sometimes some apps will just eat into swap no matter what. And quiting them every 5 minutes can be a pain... OmniWeb and Tiffany come to mind. If you use them relatively intensily they just will make it into swap...so it's somewhat of a reality for those with less than 128Mb of ram :) But I do agree with all you said... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UserManager won't run - Help, please ASAP Date: 2 Jul 1997 22:49:46 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5pelua$n5p@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jul 1997 22:49:46 GMT Within the past week or so UserManager.app has quit working on my server, NS 3.3 on a Cube. It will startup, prompt for the root password, which I enter and then it just quits. If run from the root account it just starts up and quits. If run from a command line, it does the same but in the terminal window it says "Bus error". If the same copy of the app is run on another computer it works fine. I have tried rebooting, no difference. Any ideas as to the problem? -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net@ Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 NOTE - remove the trailing @ char. to mail to me.
From: Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ZIP disk woe! How can I get files off a disk that suddenly came up as "Unformatted/Damaged"? Date: 2 Jul 1997 22:03:04 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Message-ID: <5pej6o$s4n@chile.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 SUBJ: ZIP disk woe! How can I get files off a disk that suddenly came up as "Unformatted/Damaged"? ================= SCENARIO: I purchased MAC-formatted disks and reformatted them as NS. I believe one or two of them wouldn't format from Workspace and I had to bsd-s and "disk-format" them. Then I loaded them up with files. One disk (maybe not even one of these two) I got error messages (incomplete file transfer / i/o prob.) and had to reformat it via sdformat while booted up as singel user. One week later, I try to pull a file off of one of them and get error messages, and then I'm told that the disk isn't formatted. When I try fsck to repair it tells me I need an alternate superblock, but #16 doesn't work and I don't know how to determine what other superblock to use. These are extremely important files and I have no others! How can I get them off that disk? Do I have defective Zip disks or a defective Zip Drive? Any help to get the files off would be greatly appreciated. Error messages: Jul 1 18:19:55 midnight mach: sd3 (5,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x25 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0 Jul 1 18:19:55 midnight mach: sd3: UNIT ATTENTION Jul 1 18:19:55 midnight mach: sd3 (5,0): ERROR op:0x25 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 Jul 1 18:19:55 midnight mach: sd3 (5,0): sense key:0x6 additional sense code:0x29 Jul 1 18:19:55 midnight mach: SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) Jul 1 18:19:55 midnight mach: sd3 (5,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x25 sd_state:0 scsi status:0x0 AND ALSO SOMETHING LIKE THIS: (I tried manually fsck'ing them to no avail) sd3 (5,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x25 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0 sd3: UNIT ATTENTION sd3 (5,0): ERROR op:0x25 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd3 (5,0): sense key:0x6 additional sense code:0x29 SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) probing for mac probing for cdaudio probing for HFS_XFer /usr/etc/disk -i -h midnight -l "UntitledDisk" /dev/rsd3a sd3 (5,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd3 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) disk name: IOMEGA ZIP 100 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label sd3 (5,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x25 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0 sd3: UNIT ATTENTION sd3 (5,0): ERROR op:0x25 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd3 (5,0): sense key:0x6 additional sense code:0x29 SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) Writing /usr/standalone/boot creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd3a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd3a setting optimization for space with minfree less than 10 /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3a 98144 614 2 8192 1024 16 5 60 4096 s Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due to cylinder group size, using 8790 bytes per inode Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode. Warning: 96 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd3a: 98144 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 614 sectors 100.5Mb in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 20.12Mb/g, 2048 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: 16, 20280, 39312, 59576, 78608, sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 1 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 2 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 3 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 4 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 5 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 6 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 7 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 8 sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0xfff, resid = 0x1, retry 9 sd3 (5,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x28 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0 sd3: UNIT ATTENTION sd3 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd3 (5,0): sense key:0x6 additional sense code:0x29 SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) read error: 24 rdfs: I/O error /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd3a failed (status 1) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Message-ID: <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 03:44:29 GMT I am contemplateing installing OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sparc 5. I've downloaded the free user environment from Sun's web site. I assume 1.0 the latest release, I couldn't find anything newer. Does anyone have any comments on their experience? In particular I am wondering about performance, reliability, stability, interaction with CDE, installation gotchas and any other comments you have to offer. *** *** Please reply to: parkyn@mdd.comm.mot.com *** -thanks -- Lyle Parkyn ProSoft Solutions Inc. (http://www.prosoft.com) lparkyn@prosoft.com (NeXTmail, text or MIME formats welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)538-7694
From: scott@*cacti.org (Scott Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP to LAN connection problem Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 03:28:28 -0700 Organization: Cacti.org Distribution: world Message-ID: <scott-0307970328280001@sculptor.vip.best.com> References: <5orfvq$f12@uni2f.unige.ch> In article <5orfvq$f12@uni2f.unige.ch>, moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch wrote: > The connections are as follows: > _____________ ___________ ___________ > |NeXTstation|<===PPP===>|Intel-box|<===Ethernet===>|Linux-box| > ------------- ----------- ----------- On the ethernet network, which one's running DNS, and which one's connected to the router (assuming that the ethernet network has a net connection). Are they all on the same subnet? - Scott -- Scott Stevenson scott@*cacti.org http://www.cacti.org <-- Macintosh Resources 100% Spam-free -- Please remove the "*" from my email address to respond - Thanks!
From: scott@*cacti.org (Scott Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Resources Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 03:33:11 -0700 Organization: Cacti.org Message-ID: <scott-0307970333110001@sculptor.vip.best.com> Could somebody point me some information to help me get ppp running on Prelude to Rhapsody (OS 4.2 for Mach). Please respond via email if possible. Thanks in advance! - Scott -- Scott Stevenson scott@*cacti.org http://www.cacti.org <-- Macintosh Resources 100% Spam-free -- Please remove the "*" from my email address to respond - Thanks!
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP Resources Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 13:41:21 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33BB8FE1.2781@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <scott-0307970333110001@sculptor.vip.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scott Stevenson <scott@*cacti.org> Scott Stevenson wrote: > > Could somebody point me some information to help me get ppp running on > Prelude to Rhapsody (OS 4.2 for Mach). Please respond via email if > possible. Get Gatekeeper.app. Read the informations in there or read /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/PPP.rtf on you OpenStep-System. ______________________________________________________________________ /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: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP to LAN connection problem Date: 3 Jul 1997 13:16:49 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5pg8o1$gkg@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <scott-0307970328280001@sculptor.vip.best.com> <5orfvq$f12@uni2f.unige.ch> In Re: PPP to LAN connection problem comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x91b58> writes, > In article <5orfvq$f12@uni2f.unige.ch>, moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch wrote: > >> The connections are as follows: >> _____________ ___________ ___________ >> |NeXTstation|<===PPP===>|Intel-box|<===Ethernet===>|Linux-box| >> ------------- ----------- ----------- > On the ethernet network, which one's running DNS, The server for everything: The Intel-box with OpenStep running on it. > and which one's > connected to the router I dont understand what exactly you mean with connected. We have a CISCO router. > (assuming that the ethernet network has a net > connection). If you mean an Internet connection, youre right. The router is connected to an ISDN modem. And we have a continuing ISDN connection. > Are they all on the same subnet? Yes, in fact, we have no subnets on the ethernet part. Regards Phil
From: sjohnson@myriad.net@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: standalone user needs networking reality check Date: 3 Jul 1997 13:44:06 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5pgab6$q9n@news.tamu.edu> References: <5pehb9$cao$1@maryj.bitstream.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jul 1997 13:44:06 GMT In-Reply-To: <5pehb9$cao$1@maryj.bitstream.net> On 07/02/97, Christian Jensen wrote: >I have a NeXTcube and an Intel box running Win95. Because it was easy >to do, I have connected them with thin ethernet cable. I am a fairly >knowledgeable PC user, am still getting to know NS, and know only >enough about networking to get the SMC card in my Intel PC installed >and configured, and to hook up and terminate the cables. Of course, at >the moment both machines, though connected, are completely unable to >"see" each other. From here, I need help with getting the machines to >communicate, either one-way or both ways. > >My ideal situation would be two-way communication with both machines >able to write/read each other's HDs, the Intel printing on the NeXT >printer (I found the driver), and so on. I would be happy to settle >for either machine seeing the other one-way. > >I have heard of Samba, but before attempting to tackle it, or any >other app necessary for this chasm-bridging enterprise, I thought I'd >risk the heckling and raspberries of more knowledgeable folks and post >something here to ask if what I'm thinking about is impossible or just >maybe worth the trouble after all. > >Thanks to all who reply! --Chris >-- >******************************** >Chris Jensen >cejensen@bitstream.net >MIME, NeXTMail OK > > Before samba, you have to get the ethernet addresses on both setup. If you are not using Netinfo on the NeXT, you can edit the /etc/hostconfig file to config the NeXT and the /etc/hosts to tell it about other machines on the net, just use the local example ip numbers from /etc/hosts. After getting this configured and rebooting you should be able to telnet and then you can start trying to setup samba. If you need the NEXTSTEP binaries for samba, email me. Stephen -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net@ Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty." Thomas Jefferson NOTE: delete the second @ to email to me.
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 4mm DAT Date: 3 Jul 1997 16:11:41 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5pgivt$p0k@q.seanet.com> References: <339dfdc5.0@fiji.easyway.net> Cc: jimbo@easyway.net In <339dfdc5.0@fiji.easyway.net> James C. Brost wrote: > I'm trying to add a Archive Python 4mm DAT to my NeXT (BLACK 040) under NeXT > STEP 3.3 with patch1. MAKEDEV doesn't seem to add it, as I get a IP error in > TAR. Any Ideas? > > Hi James, Under NeXT OS3.2 we access out Archive Python 4mm DAT with /dev/nrst0 Hope this helps. Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen V. Roller <sroller@roller.seanet.com> Stop by and visit at: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: [HELP] Error: Can't create Master NetInfo Server Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:41:02 -0600 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-0307971141020001@128.146.141.134> Hello, I've been running a NS/OS web server for about 2 years, and recently had to switch the IP number on the machine. At the same time as switching the IP, I shut the machine off as the NetInfo server, as the 2 other OS boxes we're using have become standalone. Now, I'd like to switch the machine back so it is a netinfo server, and I keep getting this message (I'm trying to do this w/ Simple Network Starter) Error: Can't Create Master NetInfo Server: (Duplicate domain tag: can't save it) I'm at a bit of a loss... can anyone help? Email appreciated, Thanks, John
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 00:10:22 GMT Organization: Applied Chaos Lab Message-ID: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> I'm getting ready to install a new HD into my Intel box and need some advice on what tools to use and how I should organize the transfer of my OS. Right now I have two internal SCSI drives, each partitioned into Next/Windows. Sd0 has everything except /Local/Apps which resides on sd1. Without doing a cold install of Next/OpenStep, is there a good way to migrate onto my new drive. I've got my system tricked out and it would save a lot of time if I don't have to reinstall and tweak every application. In addition I've got an external Jazz drive available. Any and all advice is appreciated. Brian Meadows ______________________________________ Brian K. Meadows Applied Chaos Laboratory School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 phone: (404) 894-1448 fax: (404) 894-9958 email: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu WWW: http://acl.gatech.edu ______________________________________
From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Making a second NS/OS Partition? Date: 3 Jul 1997 20:59:31 GMT Organization: (dis)organised Message-ID: <5ph3rj$2ah@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> References: <5p98th$143@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> <5pallt$k36@sun3.uni-essen.de> In-Reply-To: <5pallt$k36@sun3.uni-essen.de> Thanks to all who replied to me, both here and by mail. The easiest option would just be to get hold of another SCSI drive. I've also got backups on both tape and zip of my current OS4 partition so I ought to bite the bullet, destroy it and re-create a larger partition. In the mean time I'm going to try using a linux boot disk to create an "empty" ext2fs partition and then mount this under OS4 using Christian Starkjohann's useful vmount utility. Many Thanks, Neville Wilford -- Internet: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100042,3501 j.n.wilford@ncl.ac.uk PGP 2.x public key available
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: [HELP] Error: Can't create Master NetInfo Server Date: 3 Jul 1997 19:07:12 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5pgt90$399$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <jray-0307971141020001@128.146.141.134> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <jray-0307971141020001@128.146.141.134> John Ray wrote: > I've been running a NS/OS web server for about 2 years, and recently had to > switch the IP number on the machine. At the same time as switching the IP, > I shut the machine off as the NetInfo server, as the 2 other OS boxes we're > using have become standalone. Now, I'd like to switch the machine back so > it is a netinfo server, and I keep getting this message (I'm trying to do > this w/ Simple Network Starter) Simple Network Starter does what it says --- starts up simple networks. Once you've done that you should switch to the more general tools like NetInfoManager.app Fear not --- it's easy really. Netinfo takes a bit of effort to get your head round, but once you do get it, you'll rapidly come to the conclusion that it's the best network management tool since sliced bread. > Error: Can't Create Master NetInfo Server: (Duplicate domain tag: can't > save it) Right. The 'tag' for a netinfo domain is simply the name of the directory where the data is stored on disk: a domain with the tag 'foo' will be stored in the /etc/netinfo/foo.nidb directory. Common tags are 'local' --- the default domain that all machines have, 'network' for the next level up and 'world' or 'super' for the top level in a three level heirarchy. Most installations can get by with a two or three level structure, but you can have as many as you want. Oh, yeah. Domain tags are quite arbitrary: your network domain could be tagged 'network' on the master server, whilst the copy on the clone server can be tagged 'strawberryjam'. > I'm at a bit of a loss... can anyone help? Sure can. The fact that SNS is complaining about duplicate tags suggests that you already have a network.nidb on your machine. You may not be *binding* to the domain, so you don't see any of the contents when doing lookups, but it's there alright. You can list the netinfo databases served by a machine by running 'nidomain -l' in a teminal shell. You can look at the contents of your network domain by using NetInfoManager.app and doing 'Domain:Open By Tag...' To reactivate the old network domain, all you need to do is tell your machines to bind to it. You do that by using NetInfoManager.app to open the /machines/broadcast host directory in the local domain of each machine and adding the key 'serves' with the value '../network'. Then either reboot the machines (netinfo master first) or restart the netinfo servers on the machines by doing 'kill -HUP `cat /etc/nibindd.pid`' in a terminal shell on each machine, again doing the netinfo master first. You'll have to be root to do that though. To get the old network domain out of the way while you create a new one, you can simply rename the .nidb directory and then restart netinfo using the 'kill -HUP `cat /etc/nibindd.pid`' command. Or you can delete the domain for good and all using the command 'nidomain -d network' Once you've got a master netinfo server up and running, I strongly recommend you to make one of the other machines a clone server which you can do via NetInfoManager.app's Domain:Servers... menu. Otherwise, powering off your master server will leave your other machines completely stymied, and if you have a clone server you can transmogrify[*] it into a master server should your master have some sort of mishap. > Email appreciated, [Posted and mailed] Matthew [*] But that requires wizardry beyond the scope of this message... -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how-to unpartition a drive? Date: 4 Jul 1997 04:21:12 GMT Organization: @Home Networks Message-ID: <5phtno$fi7$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> I ran BuildDisk on a drive which had previously been partitioned. BuildDisk saw the entire disk, I told it not to partition it, and yet the partitions remain. How do I get rid of the old partition and get one big drive back? TjL, cleansing his machine of non-UNIX OSes :-) ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat@peak.org>
From: holger@object-factory.REMOVETHIS.com (Holger Hoffstaette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Frameworks.compressed Date: 2 Jul 1997 10:17:46 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <5pd9sa$lep$1@leonie.object-factory.com> References: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> <5pchpq$jp4$1@news.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Scott Anguish wrote: > On 07/01/97, "T.E. Biesinger" wrote: > >unintenionally, I compressed /NextLibrary/Frameworks > >and OpenStep 4.0 (Intel) does not start up any more. Bad move. *Really* bad move. > You can boot into single user mode and then decompress it from > the command line. Can he? holger>otool -L /usr/bin/gnutar /usr/bin/gnutar: /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 117.17.0) Same goes for /bin/tar. I'm not sure WHO THE F*CK had the *great* idea of making some of the essential tools dynamically linked..especially mount, so that you can't even mount something into /NextLibrary :-( I'd say this 'needs work'. On the other hand, this behaviour is consistent with Windows, where you just have to reinstall everything every couple of weeks. Hey! It might even open a 'Third Party Opportunity' for SystemDoctor apps! (just make sure they don't use any shared libs, haha) Holger ..with probably too much coffee.. -- holger"at"object-factory.com (NeXTMail, MIME) 'Where I come from it's important to develop stuff that doesn't suck.' -- David Young <dwy"at"ace.net>
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From: healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Misc Networking Questions Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 23:07:37 -0800 Organization: Avanthar Software Message-ID: <199706272307371108046@por-or13-24.ix.netcom.com> Hi, Well, I'm back this time with some networking questions. I'm running "Prelude" on a homebuilt Intel system. The first question is, where is the Appletalk networking that the online manual talks about??? According to it I should see something when running "Preferences.app". The Appletalk would be nice, instead I've got to xfer data from my Mac to the Linux server I've got set up (running netatalk for Appletalk networking), and then from the OPENSTEP machine ftp it from the server. While far from ideal it works. However, ideally I'd like to be able to access the net from the OPENSTEP system. From the Mac I can do this by going through the Linux server which is configured to act as a Firewall, and has IP-Masqurading set up on it. From the Mac I just go into the TCP/IP control panel, tell it to connect via ethernet, put in the machines IP address, the subnet mask, list the Linux system as the router, put in NETCOM's DNS server addresses, and list 'ix.netcom.com' as my starting domain. Simple. Under OPENSTEP I've been racking my brains big time, I'm doing good to be able to ping my server using the hostname instead of IP address. I'm fast reaching the conclussion it isn't worth the effort. Any help would be appreciated. Zane
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: default database Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 17:58:07 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33BD2B9F.1421@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a i386, Pentium. I'm having problems with writing to the default database when loged in as root. If I change some values in preferences app, the changes take place in the current login, but when I log out and in again the changes I made are all gone. When I try to read from the default database with dread -l, I get the following error: Can't open defaults database. When I try to write to the database, I get: Couldn't write into database. This only hapends when I'm loged in as root, the database works fine for my other users. p.s. Funny thing just happend, I was going to spellcheck this letter in edit.App (as root) and the spellchecker panel does not appear??? neather does edit check the spelling? I wonder if the 2 are related? any ideas? Sigthor Hrafnsson siffi@treknet.is
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: default database Date: 4 Jul 1997 20:27:56 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5pjmcc$8li$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <33BD2B9F.1421@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> wrote: : Hi all : I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a i386, Pentium. : I'm having problems with writing to the default database : when loged in as root. Using 3.3's UserManager on the root account makes /root home of root. This is wrong and a bug in UserManager. Change it back to be / using NetInfo-Manager. Don't touch root's account with UserManager again. -- 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: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 4 Jul 1997 20:36:39 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> Brian K. Meadows <bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu> wrote: : I'm getting ready to install a new HD into my Intel box and need some : advice on what tools to use and how I should organize the transfer of : my OS. Right now I have two internal SCSI drives, each partitioned : into Next/Windows. Sd0 has everything except /Local/Apps which : resides on sd1. Without doing a cold install of Next/OpenStep, is : there a good way to migrate onto my new drive. I've got my system : tricked out and it would save a lot of time if I don't have to : reinstall and tweak every application. In addition I've got an : external Jazz drive available. This should really go to the FAQ. Depending on what version of NS/OS you use you might not want to use possibly buggy GUI Tools like BuildDisk. I have successfully transferred whole installations using either of two methods: Connect the new disk, using a spare ID. If it's smaller than 2GB and you wnat to use the whole disk for NeXTSTEP, you might let the Workspace initialize it, else use fdisk and/or a disktab entry and disk When the newly created NS partition is mounted, copy the whole stuff over using cd / gnutar -cf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) or cd /newdisk dump 0f - / | restore rf - When using dump/restore, be sure you have a working restore (restore had a bug in 3.3 IIRC, the 3.3patch should be ok) Depending on what you want to achive, you can repeat the last step for /LocalApps After having copied everything, the newdisk is identical to your old /, so now you could change the id of the new disk to something lower an boot off it or make a kickdisk configuration on /. HTH -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Default Database Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 20:47:12 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33BD5340.12EB@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi all I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on i386. I'm having problems with writing to the default database when loged in as root. If I change some values in preferences app, the changes take place in the current login, but when I log out and in again the changes I made are all gone. When I try to read from the default database with dread -l, I get the following error: Can't open defaults database. When I try to write to the database, I get: Couldn't write into database. This only hapends when Im loged in as root, the database works fine for my other users. p.s. Funny thing just happend, I was going to spellcheck this letter in edit.App (as root) and the spellchecker panel does not appear??? neather does edit check the spelling? I wonder if the 2 are related? any ideas? Sigthor Hrafnsson siffi@treknet.is
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: missing init Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 06:04:41 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33BDD5E9.11EC@treknet.is> References: <33B7CF0E.8542C339@polaris.umuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve Beavers wrote: > > Hi, > > I just got a used NeXT machine and I am seeing the following error when > booting up: > > (Window title is "Next Mach 3.3") > > [...about a dozen lines of messages removed...] > load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 2, trying /etc/init > load of /etc/init failed, errno 2 > > (system stops booting) > > I am wondering if maybe the files on the hard drive were deleted? Is > there any way I can boot up and see if there is anything on the hard > drive? I tried creating a boot disk from the image file that NeXT > provides on their website, but it asks for a CD (which I don't have). Is > there anything like Norton Utilites that would allow me to see if these > files were deleted and undelete them? > > Or, am I jumping to conclusions, is there something else I should try? > > The system is a Next Station N1100 > 68040-25MHz CPU, 20 MB RAM, 105 MB HD, 17" mono monitor > > Any help would be appreciated, > Steve I had the same problem. I was able to boot with floppy and CD. I found out that mach_init and init were currupted, they were 0 bites in size. There were allso some other files currupted. The only solution I found was to reinstall nextstep. I hope you find a solution! siffi@treknet.is
From: root@bert.psyc.upei.ca (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail problems Date: 4 Jul 1997 20:10:37 GMT Organization: University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI Canada Message-ID: <5pjlbt$712@atlas.cs.upei.ca> Help. I'm trying to get a small network of NeXT computers talking to each other. The current problem (among others) is that when one user sends mail to another (even two users on same next), the mail fails to send. The error message I get from mail, in verbose mode, is that it doesn't have permission to append the message onto the appropriate mail file. Like the file /usr/spool/mail/user1 Unless it is root who is mailing, who always has permission to append, I guess. Any ideas? I've even changed permission on the mail file to 666 (universal access), which allows mail to be received for a while, but eventually the permission level drops back to 600, with user "agent" My email - that works - is at mikel@math.ucalgary.ca (Here's another clue. When we print over a networked printer, same access problems to the printer spool, except for root again.) Michael Lamoureux
From: 3gmp@qlink.queensu.ca (Glenn Parsons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Want a Win 95 <-> NextStep 4.0 TCP\IP connection Date: 4 Jul 1997 20:16:02 GMT Organization: Queen's University Message-ID: <5pjlm2$e79@knot.queensu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I would like to connect my Win 95 box to my NeXT slab via Ethernet. I would like a TCP/IP connection. I don't know how to do it. Could one of you techies help me out? Thanks in advance, Glenn ----------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Parsons BSc CISC (Computing Science) Queen's University Kingston, On. Canada 3gmp@Qlink.QueensU.ca parsonsg@declab.queensu.ca (*Note: all mail forwarded to qlink) http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3gmp "We shall not have much reason to complain of the narrowness of our minds, if we will but employ them about what may be of use to us; for of that they are very capable." John Locke, 1690. -----------------------------------------------------------------
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Frameworks.compressed Date: 4 Jul 1997 18:58:41 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5pjh51$iln$1@news.digifix.com> References: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> <5pchpq$jp4$1@news.digifix.com> <5pd9sa$lep$1@leonie.object-factory.com> In-Reply-To: <5pd9sa$lep$1@leonie.object-factory.com> On 07/02/97, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: >Scott Anguish wrote: >> On 07/01/97, "T.E. Biesinger" wrote: >> >unintenionally, I compressed /NextLibrary/Frameworks >> >and OpenStep 4.0 (Intel) does not start up any more. > >Bad move. *Really* bad move. > >> You can boot into single user mode and then decompress it from >> the command line. > >Can he? > >holger>otool -L /usr/bin/gnutar >/usr/bin/gnutar: > /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System >(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 117.17.0) > Yeah, that does bite... OK... then how about booting single user, mounting the CD and doing a cp -r <CDNAME>/NextLibrary/Frameworks /NextLibrary/Frameworks ? -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: "Rex Dieter" <rdieter@math.unl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 5 Jul 1997 06:54:35 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska Lincoln Message-ID: <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> wrote in article <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>... > Brian K. Meadows <bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu> wrote: > : I'm getting ready to install a new HD into my Intel box and need some > : advice on what tools to use and how I should organize the transfer of > : my OS. Right now I have two internal SCSI drives, each partitioned > I have successfully transferred whole installations using either of > two methods: > > When the newly created NS partition is mounted, copy the whole > stuff over using > > cd / > gnutar -cf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) Eek... You lose some permissions (like SUID bits) using just tar. > or > > cd /newdisk > dump 0f - / | restore rf - better. Why not just use 'ditto'?? I guess if ditto'ing a WHOLE disk, you'd better be careful not to say: ditto / /newdisk (That might get into recursive copying... trying to copy /newdisk into /newdisk/newdisk, etc...). OK, then do: ditto /all /root /dirs /except /newdisk (You get the idea). (-; --- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNL http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: 3gmp@qlink.queensu.ca (Glenn Parsons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Want a .. should read OpenStep 4.0 Date: 4 Jul 1997 22:43:02 GMT Organization: Queen's University Message-ID: <5pju9m$lnb@knot.queensu.ca> References: <5pjlm2$e79@knot.queensu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I would like to connect my Win 95 box to my NeXT slab via Ethernet. I would like a TCP/IP connection. I don't know how to do it. Could one of you techies help me out? Thanks in advance, Glenn ----------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Parsons BSc CISC (Computing Science) Queen's University Kingston, On. Canada 3gmp@Qlink.QueensU.ca parsonsg@declab.queensu.ca (*Note: all mail forwarded to qlink) http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3gmp "We shall not have much reason to complain of the narrowness of our minds, if we will but employ them about what may be of use to us; for of that they are very capable." John Locke, 1690. -----------------------------------------------------------------
From: stark@easynet.fr (Frederic Stark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Frameworks.compressed Date: 5 Jul 1997 00:22:39 GMT Organization: Self Message-ID: <5pk44g$qbh@buggy.news.easynet.net> References: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> <5pchpq$jp4$1@news.digifix.com> <5pd9sa$lep$1@leonie.object-factory.com> <5pjh51$iln$1@news.digifix.com> > On 07/02/97, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > >Scott Anguish wrote: > >> On 07/01/97, "T.E. Biesinger" wrote: > >> >unintenionally, I compressed /NextLibrary/Frameworks > >> >and OpenStep 4.0 (Intel) does not start up any more. > > > >Bad move. *Really* bad move. > > > >> You can boot into single user mode and then decompress it from > >> the command line. > > > >Can he? > > > >holger>otool -L /usr/bin/gnutar > >/usr/bin/gnutar: > > /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System > >(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 117.17.0) > > > > > Yeah, that does bite... > > OK... then how about booting single user, mounting the CD and > doing a Nice try :-) folie:9# otool -L /etc/mount /etc/mount: /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 117.17.0) folie:10# cd /NextLibrary folie:11# cd Frameworks folie:12# cd System.framework folie:13# nm System | grep mount System(mount.o): 0507a3c4 T _mount System(unmount.o): 0507aa8c T _unmount folie:14# Is it possible to boot from the install disks and mount the CD as root partition (but avoiding to executee install scripts ?) Cheers, -- fred
From: siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: panic: kernel page fault failure & MMU invalid descriptor Date: 4 Jul 1997 21:23:23 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <5pkb6r$itb@surf.pangea.ca> References: <5pb9pl$cs2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I sometimes get those on a non-turbo cube. Rebooting usually gets the same message, but not always at the same place. Cycling the power usually fixes it for a few weeks.
From: "Brian Wotring" <prak@usl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP with OS 4.1 Date: 5 Jul 1997 02:38:54 GMT Message-ID: <01bc88ec$65bbd800$d89c48a6@c35.ucs.usl.edu> Where can one get info on how to set up PPP on OS 4.1 for MACH on an intel machine? ..stand-alone. -- Brian Wotring mail: prak@usl.edu web: http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~bjw5371/flux.html
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 5 Jul 1997 07:31:33 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> "Rex Dieter" <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: > Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> wrote in article > <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>... > > Brian K. Meadows <bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu> wrote: I have > > successfully transferred whole installations using either of > > two methods: When the newly created NS partition is mounted, > > copy the whole stuff over using > > > > cd / gnutar -cf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) > Eek... You lose some permissions (like SUID bits) using just tar. Zactly.... "ditto [source] [destination]" works fantastic for this... I just wish I knew a way to ditto|tar|gz !!! Then I could make nice perfectly compressed backups and restore gz|tar|ditto back to the drive... But for duping a disk, ditto is great. > ditto / /newdisk > (That might get into recursive copying... trying to copy /newdisk > into /newdisk/newdisk, etc...). > OK, then do: > ditto /all /root /dirs /except /newdisk > (You get the idea). (-; I usually kick off an optical drive and ditto from one or another. Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... I make a bom file, then change the swapfile.front file to swapfile.fronz and put an empty file in the same directory as swapfile.front titled swapfile.fronz...That way I can do a ditto on the active drive in its entirety doing a ditto bom [source] [destination]. But rather than hassel with that I just kick from the optical... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 5 Jul 1997 07:37:20 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5pktjg$m6a$2@news2.digex.net> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > I usually kick off an optical drive and ditto from one or another. > Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The > solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... I make a bom > file, then change the swapfile.front file to swapfile.fronz and > put an empty file in the same directory as swapfile.front titled > swapfile.fronz...That way I can do a ditto on the active drive > in its entirety doing a ditto bom [source] [destination]. But > rather than hassel with that I just kick from the optical... It's late and I ought to be asleep :) BTW, happy 4th to all us yankees (and all our friends across the pond that are glad to be rid of us :). Anyway, when I said "change the swapfile.front file" above...I mean edit the bom file... That's why I just change the one character in it, b/c bom files are binary and not ascii...and as a general rule it's a bad idea to edit and then manipulate binaries like that... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: nicolev@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au (Nicole Vincent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dial-in problems Date: 5 Jul 1997 09:10:29 GMT Organization: Swinburne University of Technology Message-ID: <5pl325$62t$1@lucy.cc.swin.edu.au> References: <5orthj$4r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> <ECHE7A.9L2@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I had similar problems enabling logins on a computer. The problem was solved by making sure that the modem was set correctly, to send correct messages to the getty process. Basically, I had to set the modem to "AT&C1" to get one of the lines to follow the carrier rate. Other than that, make sure that the getty process is running. Hope this helps Cheers Nicole Peter Nitezki (Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org) wrote: : In article <5orthj$4r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> vbragin@ix.netcom.com : (Vicki Bragin) writes: : > I apologize if this is too trivial a problem for most of you seasoned : > SA's. I just set up a system at the college where I teach to enable : > dial-in. I followed the NS SysAdmin Manual, edited the /etc/ttys : > file, and I configured the modem to allow dial in. I am able to : > connect but I do not get the login: prompt. What do I do to get this : > prompt? : > : Several possible reasons. The serial line cable could have a problem : (some lines permuted or not connected). Are you sure you got one that : meets your needs? Check the manuals for your interface and modem. The : serial line protocol could be misconfigured in either modem and/or : NEXTSTEP side. Are you sure character size, parity, stop bits, and speed : do match? : Have you achieved dial out capabilities? Most of the above problems can : be worked out if you first try to get an outgoing connection through 'tip' : or '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 -- ---------------------- NeXTmail and MIME Accepted ---------------------- Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIA The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8
From: stark@easynet.fr (Frederic Stark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Frameworks.compressed Date: 5 Jul 1997 12:26:40 GMT Organization: Self Message-ID: <5plei0$kl6@buggy.news.easynet.net> References: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> <5pchpq$jp4$1@news.digifix.com> <5pd9sa$lep$1@leonie.object-factory.com> <5pjh51$iln$1@news.digifix.com> > On 07/02/97, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > >Scott Anguish wrote: > >> On 07/01/97, "T.E. Biesinger" wrote: > >> >unintenionally, I compressed /NextLibrary/Frameworks > >> >and OpenStep 4.0 (Intel) does not start up any more. > > > >Bad move. *Really* bad move. > > > >> You can boot into single user mode and then decompress it from > >> the command line. > > > >Can he? > > > >holger>otool -L /usr/bin/gnutar > >/usr/bin/gnutar: > > /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System > >(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 117.17.0) > > > > > Yeah, that does bite... > > OK... then how about booting single user, mounting the CD and > doing a Nice try :-) folie:9# otool -L /etc/mount /etc/mount: /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 117.17.0) folie:10# cd /NextLibrary folie:11# cd Frameworks folie:12# cd System.framework folie:13# nm System | grep mount System(mount.o): 0507a3c4 T _mount System(unmount.o): 0507aa8c T _unmount folie:14# Is it possible to boot from the install disks and mount the CD as root partition (but avoiding to executee install scripts ?) Cheers, -- fred
From: cunningham@medicalrounds.com[nospam] (Ken Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Almost but not quite there with XNext... help, please. Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 07:09:17 -0800 Organization: Ken Cunningham, MD, Inc. Message-ID: <cunningham-ya02408000R0507970709170001@news.direct.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have a current version of XNext installed on my PC running OpenStep 4.2; it installs fine, and I get to the X Screen. After creating a .xinitrc file, and setting the prefs to that (file contents: xterm & twm ) I get to the blank X Screen (nothing running) - on the status screen -- Missing }. fifModern: Command not found }: Command not found paperw9840: Command not found paperh8400: Command not found and some similar stuff... Any ideas? thanks, all Ken -- remove [nospam] from email address to send me email please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: how-to unpartition a drive? Message-ID: <ECuG4w.785@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5phtno$fi7$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 11:34:08 GMT In article <5phtno$fi7$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > I ran BuildDisk on a drive which had previously been partitioned. > > BuildDisk saw the entire disk, I told it not to partition it, and > yet the partitions remain. > > How do I get rid of the old partition and get one big drive back? > I can't speak from experience since I never removed a partition from a disk, but I'm confident I know my share on disk drives and the NEXTSTEP tools for maintaining them. BuildDisk.app and /etc/disk have built in heuristics that control the partitioning of disk drives. In all cases where no matching entry in /etc/disktab is found, the drive is partitioned according to these heuristics. One of these is that disks that have a raw capacity between 2GB and 4GB will be partitioned in two and that by default partitions are about equal in size. I don't doubt your observation regarding BuildDisk.app, although with respect to partitioning it is just a front end to /etc/disk. You'd better try 'disk' from a Terminal window. This puts you more directly in command. You have mainly two (possibly three) options. First, you could explicitly order 'disk' to use the whole available capacity for the first partition. Second you could use 'disk' to issue a format command to the drive, erasing all old partitioning information in the process. And you could come up with a matching 'disktab' entry specifying only one partition. There used to be a nice article on NeXTAnswers called "Adding on without flipping out" by Mike Tacchi giving clear instructions on that (I got my copy from the Peanuts Archive Disks, I suppose). But remember, there are no partitions beyond the 2 Gigabyte limit! -- 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: cunningham@medicalrounds.com[nospam] (Ken Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is there Java for OpenStep 4.2 on Intel Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 08:32:49 -0800 Organization: Ken Cunningham, MD, Inc. Message-ID: <cunningham-ya02408000R0507970832490001@news.direct.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thanks. Ken -- remove [nospam] from email address to send me email please
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 15:55:13 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <AnjeOVG00iWp03KEM0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> In-Reply-To: <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Jul-97 Re: Seeking advice on trans.. by "Rex Dieter"@math.unl.ed >> When the newly created NS partition is mounted, copy the whole >> stuff over using >> >> cd / >> gnutar -cf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) > > Eek... You lose some permissions (like SUID bits) using just tar. That's what the 'p' option is for. From 'man tar': p This modifier says to restore files to their ori- ginal modes, ignoring the present umask(2). Setuid and sticky information will also be restored to the super-user. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UserManager won't run - SOLVED & Caution Date: 5 Jul 1997 19:45:19 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5pm88f$9o9@news.tamu.edu> References: <5pelua$n5p@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jul 1997 19:45:19 GMT In-Reply-To: <5pelua$n5p@news.tamu.edu> On 07/02/97, Stephen Johnson wrote: >Within the past week or so UserManager.app has quit working on my >server, NS 3.3 on a Cube. It will startup, prompt for the root >password, which I enter and then it just quits. If run from the root >account it just starts up and quits. If run from a command line, it >does the same but in the terminal window it says "Bus error". If the >same copy of the app is run on another computer it works fine. I have >tried rebooting, no difference. > >Any ideas as to the problem? >-- I finally figured out the problem in my situation - In trying to solve the problem of hosts with new security measures rejecting mail from hosts without the domain, in the hostconfig file I added the domain to the name of the host there but I should have just changed the host name in netinfo. Now that I have gone back and put the FQHN in netinfo and just the hostname without domain in hostconfig, mail and UserManager.app work fine. SO, watch what you do there!!! MAJOR PAIN ~:oooooo -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net@ Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 NOTE - remove the trailing @ char. to mail to me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ergo@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Olaf Foellinger) Subject: Re: Default Database Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <ECvGDI.D6r@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Sender: news@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Cc: siffi@treknet.is Organization: none References: <33BD5340.12EB@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 00:36:54 GMT In <33BD5340.12EB@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson wrote: > Hi all > > I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on i386. > > I'm having problems with writing to the default database > when loged in as root. > > If I change some values in preferences app, the changes take place > in the current login, but when I log out and in again the changes I made > are all gone. > > When I try to read from the default database with dread -l, I get the > following > error: Can't open defaults database. > > When I try to write to the database, I get: Couldn't write into > database. This sounds as if UserManager has moved the homedirectory of root to /root. If so one can change it back to / using NetinfoManager. Greetings Olaf -- Olaf Foellinger homepage: http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ergo/ NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap and Partioning... Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 18:30:44 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8njggIy00iWn04hUo0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 30-Jun-97 Swap and Partioning... by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > I took some advice and setup my system as so: > > Partition1--OPENSTEP4.2, developer, eof, webobjects...1.7Gb > Partition2--285Mb swapdisk, with lowat256Mb, hiwat 280Mb (made a > single file while drive was empty. Partition3--2Gb for: LocalApps, > LocalLibrary, LocalDeveloper, and User. How much space on partition 1 does the system consume? You may well have 700 MB to a 1 GB of unused space there. > The results... The system feels _slower_ than it did before with > partitions 1&2 together. I think that is because of the following... > > First, It seems like there are upto about 5 types of disk activity > that can and generally do go on at anyone time: > > 1) Accessing system files (unix utilities, filesystems...basic core OS type > stuff). > 2) A utility/app might will access /tmp (or some scratch like spot). This > can be very HEAVY use when compiling things (not necessarily apps, but > lists and caches too). Use 'cc -pipe' or 'gcc -pipe'. If you have a reasonable amount of memory, this will greatly speed up compiles by pipelining the compiler stages together instead of creating temporary files in /tmp. > 3) Swap, this can and is very heavy access. It should not be, if your system has an adequate amount of memory. > 4) Userfiles, your spreadsheet files, etc... This can vary in intensity, > but let's just callit average/lite use. > 5) Apps, your spreadsheet application resources, etc. > > Now, Ideally you would have a drive for each type of access, and > when you compile something big and heavy in PB/IB, and all the > above gets accessed simultaneously, you'll have a huge speed up... Of course-- the more drive spindles you have available, the better the parallel throughput you'll get. > But, now when we deal with partitions that isn't the case... And > I think because use 2 and 3 are perhaps the HEAVIEST uses, That should not be the case. How much memory do you have, and what does vm_stat look like after your system has been up for a while (say at least a week of reasonable usage)? > it pays to have them near each other. It would be better to have /tmp and swapspace on different drives if you are hitting both frequently. That shouldn't be the case, however-- normally, one does swap activity when changing and/or starting up new processes; one does /tmp activity in the middle of a process. > And when I didn't split the swap space from the rest of the system stuff, > they were closer together on average, and the access was better. You should size your root partition appropriately to put them close together. > Now, it wouldn't do to put /tmp into the swapdisk...it's generally known to > make weirdness happen and the system less stable... 208-tertius% ls -l /tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 11 Nov 12 1994 /tmp -> private/tmp@ 209-tertius% ls -l /private/tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 Apr 24 1996 /private/tmp -> swapdisk/tmp@ You're mistaken. The default behavior of NEXTSTEP if a disk labelled "swapdisk" is present is to put both swapspace and /tmp onto that disk. > Which leads me to my original observation...that partitioning is > an overall performance drag, and that partitioning a slot for > swapspace leads to decreased performance by increasing head > travel/thrashing... I strongly suspect that you haven't correctly partitioned your drives and/or that your machine is RAM-deficient for the workload it runs, but let's see what df and vm_stat say. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT as nameserver under PPP? Date: 5 Jul 1997 22:46:11 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5pmirj$pe3$1@shadow.skypoint.net> I know this can be done, I just need to have someone point me to the correct literature starting point. I want to use a NeXT (O.S. 3.3) connected to a Internet Provider via PPP as a nameserver for a local TCP/IP network. I.E., while the NeXT is connected to the IP via PPP I want other machines that are connected to the NeXT via TCP/IP to be able to access the Internet through the same PPP connection. The operating systems on the other machines are mainly OpenStep 4.2, Linux, and very rarely NT. All cements welcome. I will summarize to the newsgroup and on my WEB site with full acknowledgement. Peace -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap and Partioning... Date: 5 Jul 1997 23:05:40 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5pmk04$5dn$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> <8njggIy00iWn04hUo0@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 30-Jun-97 Swap and > Partioning... by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net How much space on > partition 1 does the system consume? You may well have 700 MB to > a 1 GB of unused space there. No, not that much. About 300Mb. > > 3) Swap, this can and is very heavy access. > It should not be, if your system has an adequate amount of memory. Well in an ideal world...But When using T2 and or OmniWeb things just do spew into swap. Especially when developing web stuff...YOu have WebobjectBuilder.app and Create.app and OmniApp and PixelMagician churning... Granted the system has only 64mb, but that's not that bad...and swap just, practically, does get hit and eaten into... > > But, now when we deal with partitions that isn't the case... > > And I think because use 2 and 3 are perhaps the HEAVIEST uses, > That should not be the case. How much memory do you have, and > what does vm_stat look like after your system has been up for a > while (say at least a week of reasonable usage)? > > it pays to have them near each other. > It would be better to have /tmp and swapspace on different drives > if you are hitting both frequently. That shouldn't be the case, > however-- normally, one does swap activity when changing and/or > starting up new processes; one does /tmp activity in the middle > of a process. You misunderstand what I'm getting at. Of course if you can split them up onto different drives that's great...but if you only have one drive, splitting them up to different partitions isn't so great, IMO. > > And when I didn't split the swap space from the rest of the > > system stuff, they were closer together on average, and the > > access was better. > You should size your root partition appropriately to put them > close together. It's pragmatically not doable. I left about 400mb free, which is necessary as I add things, like EOF, WO, etc...now there's about 300mb free. Heck, you know, I even think a fragmented swapfile, in this case maybe BETTER because it get's intersprinkled with all the other files I may use. Anyway, administratively it would be too annoying...let's say I only leave 20mb free on the system partition, then add something or cannot addsomething to it b/c it's too small... I have to redo the entire drive to get it to all fit...that's too much a pain. And quite honestly, I think at BEST the performance will just match when things are on the same partition... > > Now, it wouldn't do to put /tmp into the swapdisk...it's > > generally known to make weirdness happen and the system less > > stable... > 208-tertius% ls -l /tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 11 Nov 12 > 1994 /tmp -> private/tmp@ 209-tertius% ls -l /private/tmp lrwxrwxrwx > 1 root 12 Apr 24 1996 /private/tmp -> swapdisk/tmp@ > You're mistaken. The default behavior of NEXTSTEP if a disk > labelled "swapdisk" is present is to put both swapspace and /tmp > onto that disk. I stand corrected (well I'm sitting but you know what I mean :). But I still think my general proposition holds... That in the general avg case, a single partition single physical drive will perform better than a single physical drive split into 3 sections. > > Which leads me to my original observation...that partitioning > > is an overall performance drag, and that partitioning a slot > > for swapspace leads to decreased performance by increasing head > > travel/thrashing... > I strongly suspect that you haven't correctly partitioned your > drives and/or that your machine is RAM-deficient for the workload > it runs, but let's see what df and vm_stat say. I disagree. I think this is a case where the "theoritical should be" doesn't jibe with the "pragmatic is." I definatly _feel_ a decrease in performance this way... This machine has 64Mb of ram. I set the middle partition to be a swapdisk and the swapfile is 256mb's... The machine is running only 2 days straight with several users logging in and out in that time... Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 343. Pages active: 4235. Pages inactive: 2303. Pages wired down: 928. "Translation faults": 17561420. Pages copy-on-write: 592792. Pages zero filled: 5990993. Pages reactivated: 871487. Pageins: 63359. Pageouts: 97236. Object cache: 74480 hits of 85222 lookups (87% hit rate) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5plv9j$im1@news1.mnsinc.com> Date: 5 Jul 1997 21:57:39 GMT Control: cancel <5plv9j$im1@news1.mnsinc.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5plv9j$im1@news1.mnsinc.com> Sender: Robert Anderson<megacash4u@hotmail.com> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 6 Jul 1997 01:42:49 GMT Organization: The PEAK ftp site for OpenStep and NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <5pmt6p$j3e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> Cc: luomat@peak.org John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The >solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... Why would you want to? The swapfile.front file is not a real file, but just a file used in making a compressed swapfile. There's no real reason to copy that, or the regular swapfile, for that matter. Well, the original swapfile might have value because it can be re-used, and usually you want a swapfile that is around 16 megs. When you reboot it will be trimmed back to the LOWAT. Still, there's no need to copy the swapfile.front TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat@peak.org>
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: rdump to a tape drive on a NeXT Date: 5 Jul 1997 12:37:24 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <5plf64$qma$1@radjah.navigator.de> References: <5pa2ko$hh0$1@hecate.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: lin@localhost.com In <5pa2ko$hh0$1@hecate.umd.edu> Lin wrote: > Due to the restriction of rlogin as root in NeXTStep 3.3, I can't seem to > do a rdump to a tape drive on that NeXT machine from a Sun on the same LAN. > I have modified /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts and still can't even rlogin > as root. This topic seems has been discussed long time ago but I forgot the > conclusion. Was there any way to rlogin to a NeXT as root ? There's no need to. If you have write access to /dev/rst0 enabled for group wheel or operator, you only need a normal user account that belongs to that group which a .rhosts file. Then issue a ufsdump 0cuf user@nexthost:/dev/rst0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s? on the Sun. Works great for me. But don't forget to set the DAT to 512 byte fixed block size. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: mark@harry.com Subject: July 4th WAR DECLARED Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: NO BETTER NEWS! Message-ID: <33bf0e24.0@news1.ibm.net> Date: 6 Jul 97 03:16:52 GMT Pissed of Private Investigator, tells "the rest of the story." What Mark Fraunfelder with Wired forgot to tell... http:/michaelenlow.by.net/spamwar.htm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) Subject: OpenStep Enterprise on dual PPro Message-ID: <ECu8Gr.G3@tamtam.xs4all.nl> Sender: hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl (Hugo Burm) Organization: datagram Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 08:48:27 GMT I installed OpenStep 4.2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) on a no name Pentium. No problems at all. Then I tried it on a system with two Pentium Pro's. On this system the Windowserver.exe dies immediately with an alert panel telling me that the application has died unexpectedly. The title of that alert panel says: "C++ application error". The dual PPro system has an Asus MB and a Matrox Millenium VGA. Both systems are running NT 4.0 with SP3. My question: is there anybody who has running OS4.2 on a dual PPro (or dual Pentium) system? Or is there a problem with OS Enterprise on an SMP system? Which version of the MFC dll's are required for OS? hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 6 Jul 1997 10:01:47 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5pnqeb$2c4$1@news2.digex.net> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pmt6p$j3e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > >Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The > >solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... > Why would you want to? I dont, but ditto does... > The swapfile.front file is not a real file, but just a file used > in making a compressed swapfile. > There's no real reason to copy that, or the regular swapfile, > for that matter. > Well, the original swapfile might have value because it can be > re-used, and usually you want a swapfile that is around 16 megs. > When you reboot it will be trimmed back to the LOWAT. > Still, there's no need to copy the swapfile.front Righto. The problem is if you try to ditto your root (i.e. "/") to another drive, say "/myDrive"...by doing a "ditto / /myDrive" then ditto TRYS to copy swapfile.front, and fails b/c it cant (for just the reasons you state above)... that hack I showed in the previous post get's around this problem if you don't have an extra drive to boot off to do a safer ditto...(hope I was a little more clear...) (BTW Tim, I've been trying to send you email, but they keep bouncing...seems that my ISP set up a new spam filter system that filters some of my outgoing email to certain domains--arg--so I wasn't able to respond directly to some of your posts...but hopefully you saw them posted...weird thing is that I can GET email from just about anyone so go figure what the heck they have going on w/ them spam filters...) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 6 Jul 1997 11:55:42 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5po13u$b9h$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <AnjeOVG00iWp03KEM0@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Jul-97 Re: Seeking : advice on trans.. by "Rex Dieter"@math.unl.ed : >> When the newly created NS partition is mounted, copy the whole : >> stuff over using : >> : >> cd / : >> gnutar -cf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) : > : > Eek... You lose some permissions (like SUID bits) using just tar. : That's what the 'p' option is for. From 'man tar': : p This modifier says to restore files to their ori- : ginal modes, ignoring the present umask(2). : Setuid and sticky information will also be : restored to the super-user. Thanks Chuck, but there's still something to desire... So being root, do the following: cd / gnutar -clf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) The l pretends gnutar from entering other filesystems mounted somewhere. -- 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: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep on dual PPro Date: 6 Jul 1997 12:22:05 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5po2ld$rjo@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <ECu8Gr.G3@tamtam.xs4all.nl> In OpenStep Enterprise on dual PPro comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x289f50> writes, > My question: is there anybody who has running OS4.2 on a dual PPro (or > dual Pentium) system? Or is there a problem with OS Enterprise on an SMP > system? Which version of the MFC dll's are required for OS? Thats something I also would like to ask: Will future multiprocessing version of Rhapsody be able to run on Intel multiprocessors boards? Phil
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From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] DNS with PPP on Laptop Date: 7 Jul 1997 03:00:30 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5ppm4e$ct8$1@news.nuri.net> I'm using NEXTSTEP 3.3 on my ThinkPad 560. I use Xircom PS-CE2 PCMCIA ethernet card to connect the laptop to LAN at work and IBM PCMCIA modem to connect the system to the network by PPP at home. I set the IP #, broadcast and default router address for the system to use it in the LAN and made /etc/resolv.conf too. The system works very nicely in the LAN but in case of PPP, it can not resolve DNS. I tried to sending SIGHUP to nibindd or lookupd. After killing -HUP nibindd, the DNS problem cleared but the Netinfo user authentication went down and thus, I couldn't get any application to work. Before, I used OPENSTEP4.1 -- I downgraded it for the locale problem -- and there wasn't those kind of problem. How can I set my laptop to work with DNS properly in PPP connection witout crashing Netinfo or changing the network setting in ethernet connection? Thanx a lot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:jin@nuri.net Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineer phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 6 Jul 1997 16:00:24 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5pofeo$r4d$4@bashir.peak.org> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <AnjeOVG00iWp03KEM0@andrew.cmu.edu> <5po13u$b9h$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de In <5po13u$b9h$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Axel Habermann wrote: > Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Jul-97 Re: Seeking > : advice on trans.. by "Rex Dieter"@math.unl.ed > : >> When the newly created NS partition is mounted, copy the whole > : >> stuff over using > : >> > : >> cd / > : >> gnutar -cf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) > : > > : > Eek... You lose some permissions (like SUID bits) using just tar. > > : That's what the 'p' option is for. From 'man tar': > > : p This modifier says to restore files to their ori- > : ginal modes, ignoring the present umask(2). > : Setuid and sticky information will also be > : restored to the super-user. [snip] > cd / > gnutar -clf - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) > > The l pretends gnutar from entering other filesystems mounted somewhere. I'm pretty sure you meant 'prevent' rather than 'pretend'. Would you need to specify the 'p' flag when you make the archive as well as when you un-archive? gnutar -clfp - | (cd /newdisk; gnutar -xpf -) TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat@peak.org>
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp trouble and character set for Terminal and Mail.App Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 01:44:12 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33C03BDC.725A@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a i386, Pentium. I'm trying to connect to the net with PPP2.2 and Gatekeeper, I can't seem to be able dial up the provider. The init string for GateKeeper.App is : /usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file /Apps/GateKeeper.app/options connect "/Apps/GateKeeper.app/chat -v -f /Apps/GateKeeper.app/pppup" And I get this output: Jul 7 00:06:21 localhost pppd[411]: pppd 2.2.0 started by siffi, uid 101 Jul 7 00:06:21 localhost pppd[411]: Removed stale lock on cufb (pid 382) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Setting aborts Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (BUSY) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (ERROR) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Resetting the modem Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: send (AT&F^M) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: expect (OK) Here the log stoped. I crated a tiphost to try the connection, it looks like this: b288|cufb28800|Dial-out on cufb at 28800 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:pa=none:br#38400:tc=BASIC: When I try to use: % tip b288, I get: all ports busy. I looked in etc/ttys, all tty's are off secure except one line that is commented out, here she is: #ttya "/usr/etc/getty knj.9600" vt100 on secure I'm not sure about this, but it must be for Japanize alphabet. Here I come to my second problem: I have been trying to set up NeXTSTEP to use Icelandic character set. For instance: I want to be able to use icelandic chars in terminal when I'm using sed or awk on some file, but all my icelandic chars come out garbled. When I receive mail with Icelandic chars, they are garbled. Icelandic character set works in edit and other next apps, but not in the shell and mail.App. Does someone know how to switch on alternative char sets for the term and Mail? Any ideas Sigthor Hrafnsson
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp trouble and character set for Terminal and Mail.App Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 01:15:12 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33C03510.6B80@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a i386, Pentium. I'm trying to connect to the net with PPP2.2 and Gatekeeper, I can't seem to be able dial up the provider. The init string for GateKeeper.App is : /usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file /Apps/GateKeeper.app/options connect "/Apps/GateKeeper.app/chat -v -f /Apps/GateKeeper.app/pppup" And I get this output: Jul 7 00:06:21 localhost pppd[411]: pppd 2.2.0 started by siffi, uid 101 Jul 7 00:06:21 localhost pppd[411]: Removed stale lock on cufb (pid 382) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Setting aborts Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (BUSY) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (ERROR) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Resetting the modem Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: send (AT&F^M) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: expect (OK) Here the log stoped. I crated a tiphost to try the connection, it looks like this: b288|cufb28800|Dial-out on cufb at 28800 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:pa=none:br#38400:tc=BASIC: When I try to use: % tip b288, I get: all ports busy. I looked in etc/ttys, all tty's are off secure except one line that is commented out, here she is: #ttya "/usr/etc/getty knj.9600" vt100 on secure I'm not sure about this, but it must be for Japanize alphabet. Here I come to my second problem: I have been trying to set up NeXTSTEP to use Icelandic character set. For instance: I want to be able to use icelandic chars in terminal when I'm using sed or awk on some file, but all my icelandic chars come out garbled. When I receive mail with Icelandic chars, they are garbled. Icelandic character set works in edit and other next apps, but not in the shell and mail.App. Does someone know how to switch on alternative char sets for the term and Mail? Any ideas Sigthor Hrafnsson
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp trouble and character set for terminal and Mail.App Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 01:08:45 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33C0338D.6D7A@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I'm using NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a i386, Pentium. I'm trying to connect to the net with PPP2.2 and Gatekeeper, I can't seem to be able dial up the provider. The init string for GateKeeper.App is : /usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file /Apps/GateKeeper.app/options connect "/Apps/GateKeeper.app/chat -v -f /Apps/GateKeeper.app/pppup" And I get this output: Jul 7 00:06:21 localhost pppd[411]: pppd 2.2.0 started by siffi, uid 101 Jul 7 00:06:21 localhost pppd[411]: Removed stale lock on cufb (pid 382) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Setting aborts Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (BUSY) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: abort on (ERROR) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Resetting the modem Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: # Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: send (AT&F^M) Jul 7 00:06:26 localhost chat[413]: expect (OK) Here the log stoped. I crated a tiphost to try the connection, it looks like this: b288|cufb28800|Dial-out on cufb at 28800 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:pa=none:br#38400:tc=BASIC: When I try to use: % tip b288, I get: all ports busy. I looked in etc/ttys, all tty's are off secure except one line that is commented out, here she is: #ttya "/usr/etc/getty knj.9600" vt100 on secure I'm not sure about this, but it must be for Japanize alphabet. Here I come to my second problem: I have been trying to set up NeXTSTEP to use Icelandic character set. For instance: I want to be able to use icelandic chars in terminal when I'm using sed or awk on some file, but all my icelandic chars come out garbled. When I receive mail with Icelandic chars, they are garbled. Icelandic character set works in edit and other next apps, but not in the shell and mail.App. Does someone know how to switch on alternative char sets for the term and Mail? Any ideas Sigthor Hrafnsson
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 00:15:07 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nk6p=200iVE02emw0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <AnjeOVG00iWp03KEM0@andrew.cmu.edu> <5po13u$b9h$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <5pofeo$r4d$4@bashir.peak.org> In-Reply-To: <5pofeo$r4d$4@bashir.peak.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 6-Jul-97 Re: Seeking advice on trans.. by Timothy J. Luoma@peak.or > Would you need to specify the 'p' flag when you make the archive as well as > when you un-archive? No-- it wouldn't make any difference. When making an archive, tar and gnutar preserve the same information regardless of whether the 'p' flag is specified. The 'p' flag only controls whether the program ignores the umask when extracting files from an archive. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: dix.lorenz@hamburg.netsurf.de (Dix Lorenz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PTR: Problems and questions Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 21:42:36 +0200 Organization: EDV - Beratung Message-ID: <199707062142361722270@dip039-2.hamburg.netsurf.de> Hi, recently I received the Prelude to Rhapsody package and while it cleared up some questions for me, it opened up some new ones. 8 weeks ago I bought OpenStep Developer/Mach 4.1 and have been fiddling around with it, creating small apps, sometimes also using C++. No problem. What I wanted to know from PTR: How does all this work under Windows? Result: Win 3.51: Developing is just the same. Apps I wrote under Mach I could just recompile and they would run under Windows, just as promised. Cool. BUT: Everything that I tried to compile using C++ complained about a missing header file <new>. I am pretty sure this is not my problem, but a compiler problem. Question: I know PTR is a prerelease version. Is this fixed in the final release? Has someone managed to compile Objective-C++ using PTR? Win95: Mixed results: Some of the apps which got installed ran, some didn't. Mine didn't. Again: Is this because it is prerelease? In other words: how is the current release of OpenStep Developer/NT different from the one in PTR? Thanks, Dix
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From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Omni DNS Helper for configuring Internet domain name and DNS entries Date: 7 Jul 1997 12:17:59 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5pqmpn$d00$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> As many people know by now (and others are yet to learn), configuring your Internet domain name and nameserver (DNS) entries under OPENSTEP/Mach (AKA Prelude to Rhapsody) requires either creation/modification via a text editor of /etc/resolv.conf or manual manipulation of /locations/resolver in NetInfo (usually via NetInfoManager). While not especially difficult, neither is a very friendly solution. I've written a small app, called Omni DNS Helper which I'm now releasing as a public beta. (Assuming all goes as well as expected, I'll promote it to an official release shortly.) This app provides a pretty simple graphical interface for configuring this data, as well as some detail on exactly what this data does for you, and some other notes on network configuration of OPENSTEP/Mach in a non-NetInfo world (NetInfo being OPENSTEP's network configuration technology). If you are interested in this application (full source is provided), see http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniDNSHelper/. If you wish to wait until I promote this to an official release, send me email. -- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: How to set up Renderman printing? Date: 7 Jul 1997 14:31:00 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5pquj4$p0v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Every time I use a RenderMan-based plotting app, the data displays nicely on the screen. But whenever I try to print it, I get a panel asking for a renderer host (which the only choice is localhost), and then error panel complaining that it can't connect to localhost. What should I do to get this working? Thanks. William Clocksin wfc@CL.cam.ac.uk
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as nameserver under PPP? Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 10:42:34 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nkE1Oe00iWR02OTg0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5pmirj$pe3$1@shadow.skypoint.net> In-Reply-To: <5pmirj$pe3$1@shadow.skypoint.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Jul-97 NeXT as nameserver under PPP? by jalegre@andante-systems. > I know this can be done, I just need to have someone point me to the > correct literature starting point. > > I want to use a NeXT (O.S. 3.3) connected to a Internet Provider via > PPP as a nameserver for a local TCP/IP network. Easily done. Run /usr/etc/named from rc.local, by adding something like: if [ -f /usr/etc/named ]; then /usr/etc/named > /dev/console 2>&1 & (echo -n ' named') >/dev/console fi Note that you must configure /etc/named.boot and the requisite DB files (for at least 127.0.0 and in-addr.arpa) as you would on any other machine running BIND. Read 'man named' and/or the BIND Operations Guide. Also note that NEXTSTEP ships with BIND-4.8.3, which is very stable but also vulnerable to some of the nameserver attacks discovered since the onset of the web...you might want to upgrade to the most recent version. > I.E., while the NeXT is connected to the IP via PPP I want other machines > that are connected to the NeXT via TCP/IP to be able to access the Internet > through the same PPP connection. That is a different issue from providing name service. Change the invocation of 'routed -q' in /etc/rc to 'routed -g' to broadcast routing information to your local network. Read 'man routed'. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: boehring@biomed.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Daniel Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 7 Jul 1997 16:19:03 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5pr4tn$1it$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pktjg$m6a$2@news2.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The > solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... solution: unmount the swapfile.front file before dittoing. (this worked for me). daniel
From: jweiss@MCS.COM (Jerry S. Weiss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trashed SuperBlock- How to fix? Date: 7 Jul 1997 11:59:00 -0500 Organization: MCSNet, Chicagoland's finest Internet provider - 312-803-6271 Message-ID: <5pr78k$6aa$1@Mercury.mcs.net> Anyone know how to fix a trashed SuperBlock I manually fsck'ed the disk several times and it doesn't appear to fix this problem (is it supposed to?). The first alternate Superblock works okay, but the others do not. I dumped several superblocks and they all generally look the same (ie: no obvious garbage written though them.) I can mount/boot from the drive and all the files are intact. This filesystem was a duplicate created using gnutar and some pipes. I also used disk to make it bootable. Any pointers appreciated! jweiss@mcs.com
From: enterprise@freeatlast.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BEWARE OF HACKS? Date: 7 Jul 1997 07:41:30 GMT Organization: Rights to Free Enterprise Message-ID: <5pq6ja$d962307@odin.telapex.com> Angered Spy/Research Expert and now, Leading Business Consultant, tells "the rest of the story." What the news & Wired forgot to tell... Just search the Web - we're now the largest chain of WEB SITES on the net for supporting entrepreneurs and businesses wishing to grow using his techniques. He gave them fair warning... But they didn't listen... CH http://michaelenlow.by.net/spamwar.html
From: "Greg Meece" <gregm@pcdocs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk support in OS 4.x? Date: 1 Jul 1997 13:56:44 GMT Organization: PC DOCS, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc8626$443da0a0$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> I have the "Prelude to Rhapsody" release (AKA 4.2) for Intel. The SysAdmin manual says there's support for AppleTalk (and even details configuring it), but I can't find a driver or install package anywhere on the CD or on my HD after the install. Does NeXT still support this? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Greg Meece SQA Engineer PC DOCS, Inc. 124 Marriott Drive Tallahassee, FL 32301
From: Henry Koplien <koplien@vnet.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on a syquest cartridge Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 08:16:33 +0200 Organization: IBM HD MicroCode Message-ID: <33BB43C1.167E@vnet.ibm.com> References: <5pdpju$190o@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alex Levine wrote: > > Hi all, > > Has anyone successfully installed NS3.3 on a syquest EZ135 cartridge? > I've made several attempts, but never gotten very far. The Adaptec2940 > driver on the original driver floppy wouldn't load at all. I got updated > boot- and driver-disk images from NeXTAnswers, and now the SCSI driver > loads and the NS installer sees my disks. > > However, installation inevitably crashes shortly after I select the > Syquest drive (with disk inserted) as the target. I get something like: > > /etc/rc.cdrom [33] Memory fault > /etc/rc.cdrom [34] Memory fault > test: argument expected > > And then all processes die. Note that I have done this with BIOS enabled > for removable disks, then again with BIOS enabled for removable disks only > for booting. I have also set the Syquest drive (SCSI ID 4) as the boot > device (in the Adaptec configuration utility). > > Any ideas? Yes, I have a running bootable EZ135, called "EmergencyDisk". I have a full graphical Interface with 25MBytes left on the device. I start my system from this device if I want to do a clean system dump of my disks. They have therefore to be unmounted... I tackled several month with 1.44 floppys before without success. I was close to the aim but I then switched to a Syquest. What I have done... (I think the way You want to do the installation is not common) I have made an installation on a normal disk. Afterwards I made a bootable disk from the existing OS. I believe You have no chance to make a small installation on the Syuest media. (You don't know exactly which drivers to load at the very first installation, I have only the ones really needed on the Syquest.) If You running into further problems doing it this way fell free to contact me. Henry ----------- http://www.ti6.tu-harburg.de/~ti6hk/index.html ------------ snail mail : Henry Koplien, Micro Code Development, IBM 71032 Boeblingen/Germany voice : +49-7031-16-3516 \|/ fax : +49-7031-16-3328 o(O O)o voice,BBS & fax : +49-7031-276113 (private) \ / ------------------ Email: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com ----ooOo---(_)---oOoo---
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: 7 Jul 1997 19:21:21 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5prfjh$oa1@q.seanet.com> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > This might sound like a hardware problem, given the Subject but it isn't. > > Here's the deal, I have 2 ethernet cards in my Intel, one at "en0" and the > other at "en1". Hi Timothy, NeXT doesn't support multi NIC's. But we worked in a Wireless Ethernet network on our NeXT 3.2 server running Token Ring. You will need to track down the "ipforward" program and add it to your /etc directory. Then setup your rc.local file to forward IP on your second NIC: /etc/rc.local # (echo -n 'local daemons:') >/dev/console # # Run your own commands here # # (echo '.') >/dev/console (echo -n "Starting Wireless IPForwarding") >/dev/console fbshow -B -I "Starting Wireless Networking" -z 94 /etc/ipforward on /etc/ifconfig en0 inet 172.16.50.240 /etc/route add net 172.16.50.0 172.16.50.240 0 /etc/route delete 172.16.0.0 172.16.50.240 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For your other NeXT workstations to see the other network, they will also need a static route added to their rc.local: /etc/rc.local # # Add a route to the Wireless network # /etc/route add net 172.16.50.0 hostname 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This allows our Wireless network to see the NeXT systems, and NeXT system to see the Wireless networks. Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen V. Roller <sroller@roller.seanet.com> Stop by and visit at: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:57:29 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970707145507.5011C-100000@peace> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pktjg$m6a$2@news2.digex.net> <5pr4tn$1it$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Daniel Boehringer <boehring@biomed.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <5pr4tn$1it$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> On 7 Jul 1997, Daniel Boehringer wrote: > John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > > > Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The > > solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... > > solution: unmount the swapfile.front file before dittoing. (this worked for > me). This strikes me as a bad idea, or at least a dangerous one, because the .front file is used to make the compressed swapfile. As I said earlier, there's no real reason to want to copy it via ditto, so the fact that it fails is unimportant, unless it breaks ditto altogether. swapfile.front is not a real file. It is a necessary file, however, at least if you want a compressed swapfile. TjL
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From: Michael Giddings Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Date: 7 Jul 1997 22:17:33 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> Cc: lparkyn@prosoft.com In <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> Lyle Parkyn wrote: > I am contemplateing installing OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sparc 5. I too am contemplating this. We have a number of people interested in seeing our OpenStep based software on Solaris. Any advice or info related to experiences with OS/Solaris would be appreciated. Also, has anyone heard anything recently about the future of OS/Solaris? In the field I'm in, Sun boxes are used extensively, so it would be nice to have ongoing support for OpenStep/Solaris. Thanks for any information. -- Michael Giddings, Ph.D. (anti-spam: please change "at" to @ in an address below to respond) giddings at whitewater.chem.wisc.edu giddings at barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html http://www.barbarian.com
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 8 Jul 1997 00:44:57 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5ps2i9$kt6$8@news2.digex.net> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pktjg$m6a$2@news2.digex.net> <5pr4tn$1it$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970707145507.5011C-100000@peace> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > On 7 Jul 1997, Daniel Boehringer wrote: > > John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: solution: unmount > > the swapfile.front file before dittoing. (this worked for me). > This strikes me as a bad idea, or at least a dangerous one, > because the .front file is used to make the compressed swapfile. > As I said earlier, there's no real reason to want to copy it via > ditto, so the fact that it fails is unimportant, unless it breaks > ditto altogether. > swapfile.front is not a real file. It is a necessary file, > however, at least if you want a compressed swapfile. Hmmm, i'm failing rather severly at expressing this... Ok, lets try this. If log in as root, and mount a blank 2Gb drive on your root called /myBlank. Then you want to ditto your current root to the blank, so you do the following: ditto / /myBlank After doing that, ditto will FAIL when it gets to swapfile.front because it's not a real file. I.e. making it impossible or difficult to ditto your root to another drive. So in essence you want ditto to copy everything BUT swapfile.front...but there is no easy way to tell ditto this...sooooo... What you do is make a BOM file, in effect remove swapfile.front from the BOM file, and then do this: ditto -bom myBomFile / /myBlank Now, the ditto will work since your modified myBomFile has a listing of every file on your hard drive EXCEPT the swapfile.front file which ditto is incapable of copying... Hope that was a little better... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Omni DNS Helper for configuring Internet domain name and DNS entries Date: 7 Jul 1997 22:19:33 GMT Organization: The PEAK ftp site for OpenStep and NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <5prq1l$t5f$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <5pqmpn$d00$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> I used this under 4.1/mach/intel and it seemed to work just fine. Thanks Andrew & OmniGroup! TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat@peak.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Frameworks.compressed Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <ECx7Bu.IEE@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 23:16:42 GMT References: <33B95435.74BF@eng.cam.ac.uk> <5pd9sa$lep$1@leonie.object-factory.com> <5pjh51$iln$1@news.digifix.com> <5pk44g$qbh@buggy.news.easynet.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5pk44g$qbh@buggy.news.easynet.net>, Frederic Stark <stark@easynet.fr> wrote: > >Is it possible to boot from the install disks and mount the CD as root partition (but >avoiding to executee install scripts ?) > Should be able to do "bsd -sab" or whatever; apparently that will cause init to not execute /etc/rc.boot. The -a should let you pick the CD-ROM as your root device. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME 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: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 07:45:00 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33C0906C.8CF@treknet.is> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pmt6p$j3e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy Luoma wrote: > > John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > > >Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The > >solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... > > Why would you want to? > > The swapfile.front file is not a real file, but just a file used in making a > compressed swapfile. > > There's no real reason to copy that, or the regular swapfile, for that > matter. > > Well, the original swapfile might have value because it can be re-used, and > usually you want a swapfile that is around 16 megs. When you reboot it will > be trimmed back to the LOWAT. > > Still, there's no need to copy the swapfile.front > > TjL > > ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so > please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 > semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits > > -- > TjL <luomat@peak.org> Hi ditto worked great for me! siffi@treknet.is
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: 8 Jul 1997 03:47:41 GMT Organization: The PEAK ftp site for OpenStep and NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <5psd8t$2ck$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> <5prfjh$oa1@q.seanet.com> sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) wrote: >NeXT doesn't support multi NIC's. But we worked in a Wireless Ethernet >network on our NeXT 3.2 server running Token Ring. You will need to >track down the "ipforward" program and add it to your /etc directory. >Then setup your rc.local file to forward IP on your second NIC: I have the ipforwarding binary. I've never been able to figure out exactly what it does.... >/etc/ipforward on easy enough >/etc/ifconfig en0 inet 172.16.50.240 where '172.16.50.240' is the real internet IP of the machine? >/etc/route add net 172.16.50.0 172.16.50.240 0 is '172.16.50.0' the router? [ '172.16.50.240' is still assumed the be the real IP ] >/etc/route delete 172.16.0.0 172.16.50.240 what is '172.16.0.0' ? [ '172.16.50.240' is still assumed the be the real IP ] >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >For your other NeXT workstations to see the other network, they will >also need a static route added to their rc.local: > >/etc/rc.local ># ># Add a route to the Wireless network ># >/etc/route add net 172.16.50.0 hostname 1 is '172.16.50.0' the router? < same question as above > and what is 'hostname' ? Is that the local hostname or the real Internet hostname (and if the real, is it the FQDN)? Thanks Steve TjL
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Format an Extra Density disk to more than 2.5 Megs Date: 7 Jul 1997 23:02:49 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5psl69$kkq@slip.net> Hi, When I insert an Extra Density disk into a cube running NS 3.3, NS will, after a prompt, automatically format the diskette. After formatting the df command says there are 2575 available kilobytes. It turns out that I want to copy some disks which df says has 2647 available kilobytes. How might I format the ED disks so as to have 2647 kilobytes? Is there a way to find the formatting information such as block size on the 2647 disks? BTW, typing : dd if=/dev/rfd0a of=/tmp/ed.image conv=sync bs=8k ejecting the disk and typing dd of=/dev/rfd0a if=/tmp/ed.image conv=sync bs=8k panic'd my machine. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Emmett
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: How to set up Renderman printing? Date: 8 Jul 1997 07:31:26 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5psqce$jsf$2@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5pquj4$p0v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote: > [...] I get a panel asking for a > renderer host (which the only choice is localhost), and then error panel > complaining that it can't connect to localhost. This will happen if your computer has never been connected to a network or you kept the NetInfo database in its initial state. The initial local NetInfo settings for RenderMan don't work in most configurations. Start /NextDeveloper/Demos/RenderManager.app and configure the real name of your machine (or again localhost if you aren't in a network) as public renderer. After that, rendering will hopefully work fine. 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: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 03:14:11 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0nkSX3O00iWp0C7Yw0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> <5prfjh$oa1@q.seanet.com> <5psd8t$2ck$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <5psd8t$2ck$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Jul-97 Re: 2 ethernet cards and "m.. by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > I have the ipforwarding binary. > > I've never been able to figure out exactly what it does.... Specificly, it manually sets the kernel _ipforwarding variable, which controls whether the machine will route packets between interfaces. Normally, the kernel automaticly sets this variable correctly depending on the number of available network interfaces, so this program isn't needed for standard multihomed usage as a gateway between networks. However, if you want to run a machine as a firewall with various proxy services between the two interfaces instead of routing packets, this program will let you override the kernel's default behavior, resulting in a more secure configuration. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: 3gmp@qlink.queensu.ca (Glenn Parsons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to setup Samba and Win 95 for FTP? Date: 8 Jul 1997 15:33:19 GMT Organization: Queen's University Message-ID: <5ptmjv$74v@knot.queensu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I have a Slab with Samba installed. I also have an ethernet card in my Win 95 box. I want them connected and able to send files across. I don't need file sharing, however if you know that trick, I'd be very interested! Thanks in advance. Glenn ----------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Parsons BSc CISC (Computing Science) Queen's University Kingston, On. Canada 3gmp@Qlink.QueensU.ca parsonsg@declab.queensu.ca (*Note: all mail forwarded to qlink) http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3gmp "We shall not have much reason to complain of the narrowness of our minds, if we will but employ them about what may be of use to us; for of that they are very capable." John Locke, 1690. -----------------------------------------------------------------
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Date: 8 Jul 1997 16:21:10 GMT Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ptpdm$upg$1@news2.apple.com> References: <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu> In article <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu> Michael Giddings writes: > Also, has anyone heard anything recently about the future of OS/Solaris? In > the field I'm in, Sun boxes are used extensively, so it would be nice to have > ongoing support for OpenStep/Solaris. Sun has discontinued this product, and removed it from their price lists. So I guess the future is pretty much non-existent. joe
From: 3gmp@qlink.queensu.ca (Glenn Parsons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: More Info: How to setup Samba and Win 95 for FTP? Date: 8 Jul 1997 16:59:36 GMT Organization: Queen's University Message-ID: <5ptrlo$cfe@knot.queensu.ca> References: <5ptmjv$74v@knot.queensu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <5ptmjv$74v@knot.queensu.ca>, 3gmp@qlink.queensu.ca says... > > I have a Slab with Samba installed. I also have an ethernet card in my >Win 95 box. I want them connected and able to send files across. I don't need >file sharing, however if you know that trick, I'd be very interested! > >Thanks in advance. > >Glenn > Sorry, I'm running OpenStep 4.0 on the Slab. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Parsons BSc CISC (Computing Science) Queen's University Kingston, On. Canada 3gmp@Qlink.QueensU.ca parsonsg@declab.queensu.ca (*Note: all mail forwarded to qlink) http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3gmp "We shall not have much reason to complain of the narrowness of our minds, if we will but employ them about what may be of use to us; for of that they are very capable." John Locke, 1690. -----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Hippykill@NextStation.digex.net (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to setup Samba and Win 95 for FTP? Date: 9 Jul 1997 00:02:23 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5pukef$m9g$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5ptmjv$74v@knot.queensu.ca> In article <5ptmjv$74v@knot.queensu.ca> 3gmp@qlink.queensu.ca (Glenn Parsons) writes: > I have a Slab with Samba installed. I also have an ethernet card in my > Win 95 box. I want them connected and able to send files across. I don't need > file sharing, however if you know that trick, I'd be very interested! > > Thanks in advance. > I haven't set up samba on my next, but I have set it up on my Linux box, so it should be similar. First thing is to make sure that samba is set up correctly. In the smb.conf (i think that's the name...) you have to set yourself up an account using whatever name you use to log into the Win95 box. Look at the examples at the bottom of the example smb.conf file to see how to do this. Then make sure that nmbd and smbd are running as daemons. If all this is set up correctly, you should be able to go to the "connect network drive" icon in explorer, and mount your NeXT there. The naming is the only weird thing--I named my linux box LINUX (original, huh?), so I mapped the drive like this: \\LINUX\mikesdir and it shows up as the next available drive letter (i:, in my case) It might be easier, tho, just to use FTP to ftp from the Win95 box to the NeXT...that's what I tend to do when I want to transfer files over. Hope this helps... -- *mikelea@access.digex.net* "imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known-there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, because I will not change." -de Sade
From: architectura@mindspring.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: networking problems: Mac<->SGI<->NeXT 68k Date: 9 Jul 1997 02:21:35 GMT Organization: Architectura Message-ID: <architectura-0807972122250001@user-2k7i3bn.dialup.mindspring.com> We recently obtained a Color Turbo NextStation from Deepspace and hope to use it as a file and mail server and PostScript editor. I found a section (Chapter 11 of the System Administrator's Manual: Mixed Networks) in the on-line documentation (NS 3.3 was pre-installed and appears to be slightly incomplete) which explains that AppleTalk connectivity is a simple matter of activating a single check box beneath an apple icon in the preferences app. Problem #1: there is no apple icon in my preferences app. Does this mean that something was not installed, or merely that I've not set the computer up correctly? Connecting NeXT black hardware to UNIX machines should, according to the documentation, be similarly straightforward. Neither the NeXT nor the SGI will acknowledge the physical existence of a 10BaseT network connection. Problem #2: The machines are all physically connected through a DaynaStar 10BaseT hub, but the Macs are the only ones talking. I would appreciate any suggestions!
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 14:42:26 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970708142855.2283E-100000@peace> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pktjg$m6a$2@news2.digex.net> <5pr4tn$1it$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970707145507.5011C-100000@peace> <5ps2i9$kt6$8@news2.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5ps2i9$kt6$8@news2.digex.net> On 8 Jul 1997, John Kheit wrote: > After doing that, ditto will FAIL when it gets to swapfile.front > because it's not a real file. I.e. making it impossible or difficult > to ditto your root to another drive. So in essence you want ditto > to copy everything BUT swapfile.front...but there is no easy way > to tell ditto this...sooooo... Ah... I see... ditto is one of those programs that decides to shoot itself in the head when it gets a hangnail.... Sure I can see why it might think it is important to notify you that a file wasn't transferred, but couldn't it just log it and continue? I suppose I couldn't just use (as root): /usr/local/gnu/bin/cp --one-file-system --verbose --recursive \ --preserve --no-dereference / /NewDisk/ I'm not sure how '--preserve' does at special files, etc TjL ps -- does anything special have to be done when using these comands to make the disk 'bootable' or is any HD under Unix bootable by default? I've had to deal with some dumb operating systems that had two types of disks, bootable and nonbootable
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From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 9 Jul 1997 03:26:18 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5pv0cq$eep$1@news2.digex.net> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pktjg$m6a$2@news2.digex.net> <5pr4tn$1it$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970707145507.5011C-100000@peace> <5ps2i9$kt6$8@news2.digex.net> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970708142855.2283E-100000@peace> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > Ah... I see... ditto is one of those programs that decides to > shoot itself in the head when it gets a hangnail.... > Sure I can see why it might think it is important to notify you > that a file wasn't transferred, but couldn't it just log it and > continue? I'm not sure what it's supposed to do...just that it fails at that spot :( And I used that hack/brute force method to get around it... But now others showed that tar can do similiar things...now if someone could show me how to use gnutar to do a ditto like backup, and pipe that through gz...and for the entire thing to write in say 200Mb chunks that can be used and rejoined off of opticals...that would be neet :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: cunningham@medicalrounds.com[nospam] (Ken Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk support in OS 4.x? Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 22:42:13 -0800 Organization: Ken Cunningham, MD, Inc. Message-ID: <cunningham-ya02408000R0807972242130001@news.direct.ca> References: <01bc8626$443da0a0$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <01bc8626$443da0a0$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com>, "Greg Meece" <gregm@pcdocs.com> wrote: > I have the "Prelude to Rhapsody" release (AKA 4.2) for Intel. The SysAdmin > manual says there's support for AppleTalk (and even details configuring > it), but I can't find a driver or install package anywhere on the CD or on > my HD after the install. Does NeXT still support this? > Download a package called "Caper v8" from any Next FTP site. It has all the Appletalk functionality in it, is free, and works like a hot tamale! You can find Next FTP sites at www.omnigroup.com. Ken -- remove [nospam] from email address to send me email please
From: cunningham@medicalrounds.com[nospam] (Ken Cunningham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Omni DNS Helper for configuring Internet domain name and DNS entries Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 22:47:35 -0800 Organization: Ken Cunningham, MD, Inc. Message-ID: <cunningham-ya02408000R0807972247350001@news.direct.ca> References: <5pqmpn$d00$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> <5prq1l$t5f$1@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5prq1l$t5f$1@bashir.peak.org>, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > I used this under 4.1/mach/intel and it seemed to work just fine. > > Thanks Andrew & OmniGroup! On my 4.2/Mach/Intel machine, running the app works fine, but hitting any button other than "help" causes the app to immediately exit. ??? Ken -- remove [nospam] from email address to send me email please
From: blenderman <a0518@gate.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS3.3/Intel on Pentium II, 440FX chipset, Adaptec 2940UW ??? Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 02:40:42 -0400 Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Message-ID: <33C3326A.1F9E@gate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install Nextstep 3.3 on an Intel Pentium II 266Mhz machine. It is a dual processor motherboard currently with one cpu and 192MB of ram. It has the 440FX chipset. It has an Adaptec 2940UW and an Adaptec 1542CF. Will I need updated drivers for the PCI and IDE? Where can I find these drivers? Currently I'm trying to install to an IDE drive. The install fails with a memory fault after mounting the CD as rootdev and reading the rc files. TIA for any info. -jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <ED0rvC.ILA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 21:33:12 GMT References: <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <Michael Giddings> wrote: >I too am contemplating this. We have a number of people interested in seeing >our OpenStep based software on Solaris. Any advice or info related to >experiences with OS/Solaris would be appreciated. > I played with it briefly on a Sparc 10 running Solaris 2.4. It was *painful* since the machine had only 32MB RAM. I intend to try it on our Ultra 1 when I get the chance. Apart from the speed and the fact that the fonts were a little ugly it was fairly nice. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME 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
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From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cannot get sound device Date: 4 Jul 1997 14:43:54 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <5pj27a$bt@unity.westfalen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, somebody know what this means: Jul 4 16:40:23 unity Preferences[366]: cannot get sound device Its on Black Hardware and suddenly I cant use the sound options in prefs. thank you very much for help Peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail, MIME and SUN Solaris welcome URL Firma:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com URL Privat:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com/Private.html Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: Steve Dekorte <dekorte@slip.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Date: 9 Jul 1997 17:53:40 GMT Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <5q0j74$9qs$1@owl.slip.net> References: <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu> <ED0rvC.ILA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> > In article <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <Michael Giddings> wrote: > >our OpenStep based software on Solaris. Any advice or info related to > >experiences with OS/Solaris would be appreciated. Sun has not done such a great job with OpenStep on Solaris. The last time I saw it, porting an OpenStep Mach app to OpenStep Solaris was not trivial and simultaniously maintaining Solaris and non-Solaris versions looked painfull. If you want to run custom OpenStep GUI apps, I'd recommend running OpenStep Mach for Sparc on those desktop Sun machines. If you want to run custom servers written with Objective-C and the OpenStep Foundation libs, EOF, WebObjects, or DO, then just install NeXT PDO for Sparc on your Solaris boxes and you should be able to recompile your servers without problems. -- Steve Dekorte - OpenStep consultant - San Francisco
From: dredd@megacity.org (Derek Balling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Just got a cube Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 19:19:13 GMT Organization: Midwest Internet Exchange, Inc. Message-ID: <33c5e28e.19168873@news.mixi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have recently acquired (my friend was trying to clean out his basement) a NeXT Cube with b/w monitor. He says he believes it is a 68030/25 with 16MB RAM. He claims the optical drive may not be functional, and that the "networking support" is not currently installed. However, when it boots up the net support APPEARS to be installed (it seems like it tries to use RARP or some such to get an IP address from the local ethernet). Combine this with a lack of manuals or a copy of the installation software and you come up with a big mess. Anybody out there have any thoughts or suggestions for me? Derek Balling dredd@megacity.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Message-ID: <cdoutyED2I89.Bq0@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu> <ED0rvC.ILA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5q0j74$9qs$1@owl.slip.net> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:00:09 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom13.netcom.com In article <5q0j74$9qs$1@owl.slip.net>, Steve Dekorte <dekorte@slip.net> wrote: >> In article <5prptt$2b1e@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <Michael Giddings> wrote: >> >our OpenStep based software on Solaris. Any advice or info related to >> >experiences with OS/Solaris would be appreciated. > >Sun has not done such a great job with OpenStep on Solaris. >The last time I saw it, porting an OpenStep Mach app to OpenStep Solaris >was not trivial and simultaniously maintaining Solaris and non-Solaris >versions looked painfull. > >If you want to run custom OpenStep GUI apps, I'd recommend running >OpenStep Mach for Sparc on those desktop Sun machines. OpenStep Solaris is rather painful, but like another correspondent I only have a 32MB Sparc 10. It does look an awful like the NS 3.3 desktop though and is a good alternative to CDE. My big complaint with running OS Mach for Sparc is that it does not support UltraSPARC boxes. This leaves only the SPARC station 5 as current production platform. If you have a lot of SPARC 10's and 20's then you are probably OK. I really doubt that Apple is going to port to the Ultra line anytime soon with either Rhapsody or old Mach. _I'd_ like to hear experiences with PDO. -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serious fsck help needed!!! Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:10:15 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snkzsrC00iWV069V80@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970709125611.14694E-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970709125611.14694E-100000@kira> Excerpts from mail: 9-Jul-97 Serious fsck help needed!!! by Timothy Luoma@peak.org [ ...drive errors... ] > I know that I can run 'fsck /dev/rsd1a' and have it interactively prompt > me whether or not to fix whatever it finds -- do I just answer 'yes' to > them all and hope that it comes out OK? More or less, yes. You'll probably have to run fsck a couple of times to fix things, and you should pay attention to the filepaths mentioned (like /usr/spool/mqueue), since it's likely that you'll have to check and possibly recreate directories and/or fix permissions. > Is this just a weirdness or a sign of a dying HD? It's only a few months > old, Seagate Barracuda 2.1gb, I can't believe it's dying already. Probably, it's just the sign of a major crash while the system had a lot of files/directories open and not the knell of doom (ie, your HD dying). Still-- if you can, you should try to back up the drive ASAP. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disk full -- by magic Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:19:58 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970709171034.271A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I came back from a 5 minute break today and had a message on my screen: ------------------------------------------------------------ You're running low on disk space. You may want to quit a few applications or restart your computer to free up space. ------------------------------------------------------------ At the time I could see the File Viewer and it said I had 227 MB available on hard disk. I have WatchSwap running and I could see that the Swapfile was at 28.3 MB. I had a couple of minor apps running, but all the normal stuff I use (and no OmniWeb running). I closed a couple of them and suddenly got a message: "You're out of diskspace. Save your applications and reboot now." I looked and the File Viewer said "Your disk is full." I did a df and, sure enough, the /dev/hd0a and /private/vm/swapfile filesystems (both in a single partition) had no space available. How could that happen, all of a sudden? I rebooted and am back up to 248 MB (now that the swapfile is back to 16MB) and all appears fine. Any ideas? Thanks. Rob rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install NS3.2 on a cube Date: 9 Jul 1997 21:34:27 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5q1e73$cga@umbc8.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: unknown I recently got an 040 25mhz cube, 20mb ram, 100mb HD. got a floppy drive, and it seems connected properly, with an external Toshiba 3401b. connected one way, it couldn't initialize the floppy, flipped the cable and this went away. I have the boot floppy and the 3.2installation cd. how do I get rid of the Rom password? I just took the rom and the battery out, and will go try it in a few minutes, with them back in. and how is the floppy supposed to be plugged in? I am using a pc floppy cable with the a: end cut off. where is pin one on the next motherboard? as it is not labeled. is there a default password or something? at current, the machine tries to boot off the network, can't find it and just sits at "starting daemons" or similiar. thanks bryan
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP character set Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 04:15:14 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33C30242.329D@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I have been trying to set up NeXTSTEP to use Icelandic character set. For instance: I want to be able to use icelandic chars in terminal when I'm using sed or awk on some file, but all my icelandic chars come out garbled. When I receive mail with Icelandic chars, they are garbled. Icelandic character set works in edit and other next apps, but not in the shell and mail.App. Does someone know how to switch on alternative char sets for the term and Mail? Any ideas Sigthor Hrafnsson
From: Damn Yankee<damnyankee@yankee.inc> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Yankee Inc. Subject: I Am Very Sorry!!! Message-ID: <33c2597d.2@nntp.kalnet.net> Date: 8 Jul 97 15:15:09 GMT I would like to apologise to this newsgroup and everyone who reads this newsgroup!!! I promise never to post or send spam to this or any other newsgroup that does not pertain to my posting!!! Please accept my humble apology and again I will never post spam here again!!! Thank You!!! Andrew Schero yank714@kalnet.net
From: thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange message in Console Date: 10 Jul 1997 03:25:14 GMT Organization: Not Sure Yet Message-ID: <5q1kmq$kjp$1@brockman.serv.net> Lately I have been getting the following message showing up in the console. It doesn't happen all the time and it doesn't seem to screw anything up, but I am curious as to what it is. The message is: Jul 9 20:17:17 thrall netmsgserver[23]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102. Jul 9 20:17:17 thrall netmsgserver[23]: netname_main.port_type fails, kr = 4. or Jul 9 17:51:34 thrall netmsgserver[23]: srr_process_queued_request.srr_send_packet fails: 51 Jul 9 17:51:37 thrall netmsgserver[23]: srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 Jul 9 17:51:40 thrall netmsgserver[23]: srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 It happens with OmniWeb, some of the Lighthouse apps, and with CedarWord. It just started showing up at boot time as well. Is this a serious error message? Any tips or ideas are appreciated. Dean Johnson
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Date: 10 Jul 1997 05:14:34 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va. Message-ID: <5q1r3q$qhq@portal.gmu.edu> References: <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> <ED0rvC.ILA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5q0j74$9qs$1@owl.slip.net> <cdoutyED2I89.Bq0@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Question for folks in this thread, I have heard there's a cg3 hack out there somewhere for Sol OpenStep. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thanks much, Tim -- ____________________________________________________________________________ My words are my own. They are opinion and subject to change. If you don't like them, don't read them. They don't reflect anything other than sheer opinion at best, on a good day, with a tailwind.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Serious fsck help needed!!! Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:12:59 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970709125611.14694E-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Hans Rupert <rupert@blitzen.noir.net>, Patrick Gallagher <patrick@bifrostworks.com>, cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <9707090253.AA20091@blitzen.noir.net> Ever have a day you knew was going to be awful and it wasn't even 7am? I awoke to find that my hostname had been registered to TWO IPs (which I can't even begin to understand why, they are supposedly working on it). Then my rock-solid Intel froze, for no reason, under not very heavy CPU usage. Note: when it froze it was apparently running a bunch of sendmail processes to bring in all my email (about 125 messages) after I fixed the IP thing I mentioned above. The mailq file appears below as one of the files Rebooting the machine didn't work, fsck failed, telling me to run it manually. I've never had to do this before. I'm afraid of fubar'ing my HD. I installed 4.1 on a different HD and made that one the boot drive (which is how I am writing you now). I know that I can run 'fsck /dev/rsd1a' and have it interactively prompt me whether or not to fix whatever it finds -- do I just answer 'yes' to them all and hope that it comes out OK? Is this just a weirdness or a sign of a dying HD? It's only a few months old, Seagate Barracuda 2.1gb, I can't believe it's dying already. Note: I didd a 'verify disk media' via my Adaptec card and it did not report any errors on the disk -- but I'm not sure what to make of that. Here's the output of fsck -n /dev/rsd1a... sorry it is so long... I thought it might be helfpul is diagnosing the problem/chance of being fixed: ** /dev/rsd1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=16038 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51457 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51459 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51461 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51463 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51468 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51474 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51482 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51487 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no 217272 DUP I=51488 217273 DUP I=51488 INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51489 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51503 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51505 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51511 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51514 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51519 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51520 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51522 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51524 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51526 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51538 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51540 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51544 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51554 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no 217274 DUP I=51557 INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=51561 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=52801 (2 should be 0) CORRECT? no ** Phase 1b - Rescan For More DUPS 217272 DUP I=51200 217273 DUP I=51200 217274 DUP I=51200 ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames DUP/BAD I=51200 OWNER=root MODE=40770 SIZE=3072 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 DIR=/private/spool/mqueue REMOVE? no DIRECTORY CORRUPTED I=51200 OWNER=root MODE=40770 SIZE=3072 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 DIR=/private/spool/mqueue SALVAGE? no MISSING '.' I=51200 OWNER=root MODE=40770 SIZE=3072 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 DIR=/private/spool/mqueue FIX? no MISSING '..' I=51200 OWNER=root MODE=40770 SIZE=3072 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 DIR=/private/spool/mqueue FIX? no ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts UNREF FILE I=51201 OWNER=root MODE=100640 SIZE=125609 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51238 OWNER=root MODE=100640 SIZE=121838 MTIME=Jul 9 03:46 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51284 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=919 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51392 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=794 MTIME=Jul 9 07:17 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51395 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=5 MTIME=Jul 6 23:29 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51396 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=980 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51397 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51398 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=342 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51399 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51400 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=982 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51401 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51402 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=268 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51403 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1372 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51404 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=979 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51405 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51406 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51407 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2141 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51408 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1123 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51409 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1224 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51410 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1023 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51411 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1255 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51412 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1117 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51413 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51414 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51415 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51416 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=957 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51417 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=933 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51418 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2173 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51419 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51420 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2277 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51421 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=950 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51422 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51423 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2591 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51424 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51425 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51435 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51436 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1007 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51437 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51438 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1369 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51439 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2397 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51440 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51441 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1009 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51442 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1634 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51443 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1380 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51444 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51445 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1035 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51446 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1341 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51447 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51448 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=3956 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51449 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51450 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1384 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51451 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=609 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51452 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=506 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51453 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=897 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51454 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2559 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51455 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51456 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1726 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51457 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51458 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2980 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51459 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51460 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=468 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51461 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51462 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2317 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51463 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51464 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=537 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51465 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=755 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51466 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=3400 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51467 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1729 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51468 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51469 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1798 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51470 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1384 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51471 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1756 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51472 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51473 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=948 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51474 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51475 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=732 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51476 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1820 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51477 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=1797 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51478 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2566 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51479 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51480 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=3006 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51481 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51482 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51483 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2084 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51484 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=2600 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51485 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:26 1997 RECONNECT? 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no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51563 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=51564 OWNER=root MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jul 9 07:27 1997 RECONNECT? no CLEAR? no UNREF FILE I=308917 OWNER=luomat MODE=100644 SIZE=35688 MTIME=Jul 8 20:05 1997 CLEAR? no ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS SALVAGE? no 76099 files, 1598465 used, 429233 free (6913 frags, 52790 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation) File system may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean.
From: Steve Watt <steve@watt.com.nospam> Organization: USENET spam abatement Sender: Damn Yankee<damnyankee@yankee.inc> Date: 10 Jul 97 07:44:58 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.33c2597d.2@nntp.kalnet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <33c2597d.2@nntp.kalnet.net> Control: cancel <33c2597d.2@nntp.kalnet.net> I have cancelled this article which had a BI of more than 20. Spam is spam, even when it's an apology. The original subject was: }Subject: I Am Very Sorry!!!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: Disk full -- by magic Message-ID: <ED3pHq.2Ln@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970709171034.271A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:34:38 GMT Maybe your swap file has a high water mark? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, Den Haag/The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/prive/wierda/ The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. "Boeiend, maar vermoeiend"
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Date: 10 Jul 1997 13:07:24 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5q2mqc$org$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <5pjmsn$8li$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pktjg$m6a$2@news2.digex.net> <5pr4tn$1it$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970707145507.5011C-100000@peace> <5ps2i9$kt6$8@news2.digex.net> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970708142855.2283E-100000@peace> <5pv0cq$eep$1@news2.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: jkheit@cnj.digex.net In <5pv0cq$eep$1@news2.digex.net> John Kheit wrote: > ...now if someone could show me how to use gnutar to do a ditto like > backup, and pipe that through gz...and for the entire thing to write in say > 200Mb chunks that can be used and rejoined off of opticals...that would be > neet :) i) Install gnu textutils ii) gnutar -zcvf - /some-dir | split --bytes=200m - backup. Which will write a series of files backup.aa, backup.ab, ... To extract: cat backup.* | gnutar -zxvpf - Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT as nameserver under PPP? Message-ID: <ED3qH3.KGG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5pmirj$pe3$1@shadow.skypoint.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:55:51 GMT In article <5pmirj$pe3$1@shadow.skypoint.net> jalegre@andante-systems.com writes: > I know this can be done, I just need to have someone point me to the > correct literature starting point. > > I want to use a NeXT (O.S. 3.3) connected to a Internet Provider via > PPP as a nameserver for a local TCP/IP network. I.E., while the NeXT > is connected to the IP via PPP I want other machines that are > connected to the NeXT via TCP/IP to be able to access the Internet > through the same PPP connection. > > The operating systems on the other machines are mainly OpenStep 4.2, > Linux, and very rarely NT. > What you want to achieve doesn't only require the NEXTSTEP machine to be a DNS server but a router. NS contains all BSD 4.3 capabilities for networking, namely 'bind' and 'routed' (refer to man-pages for details). You should be able to use any literature on BSD networking setup. I'd propose the O'Reiley suite on TCP/IP networking... -- 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: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Stephen V. Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: 10 Jul 1997 16:43:32 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5q33fk$9f1@q.seanet.com> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> <5prfjh$oa1@q.seanet.com> <5psd8t$2ck$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Cc: luomat@peak.org sroller@roller.seanet.com In <5psd8t$2ck$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy Luoma wrote: > sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) wrote: > > >NeXT doesn't support multi NIC's. But we worked in a Wireless Ethernet > >network on our NeXT 3.2 server running Token Ring. You will need to > >track down the "ipforward" program and add it to your /etc directory. > >Then setup your rc.local file to forward IP on your second NIC: > > I have the ipforwarding binary. > > I've never been able to figure out exactly what it does.... > Since I posted this article, I've received inquiries on where to find the "ipforward" binary. Since my employer prohibits distribution of any software, could you post this at PEAK and it's directory location? Thanks! > >/etc/ifconfig en0 inet 172.16.50.240 > > where '172.16.50.240' is the real internet IP of the machine? Yes - this is your IP address of the NIC used for ipforwarding > >/etc/route add net 172.16.50.0 172.16.50.240 0 > > is '172.16.50.0' the router? > > [ '172.16.50.240' is still assumed the be the real IP ] The 172.16.50.0 address is the network that the ipfoward program is communicating with. The 172.16.50.240 address is your ipforward NIC. > > > >/etc/route delete 172.16.0.0 172.16.50.240 > > what is '172.16.0.0' ? > > [ '172.16.50.240' is still assumed the be the real IP ] We found this unwanted route created with our ipforward config. We issued this delete route statement to make our wireless system operate. 172.16.50.240 is the address of your ipforward NIC > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >For your other NeXT workstations to see the other network, they will > >also need a static route added to their rc.local: > > > >/etc/rc.local > ># > ># Add a route to the Wireless network > ># > >/etc/route add net 172.16.50.0 hostname 1 > > is '172.16.50.0' the router? < same question as above > > > and what is 'hostname' ? Is that the local hostname or the real Internet > hostname (and if the real, is it the FQDN)? 172.16.50.0 is the network that the ipforward program is communicating with. (Remember to use the /etc/resolv.conf to point your workstations to the ISP) Hostname is the name you gave your workstation thats using the ipforward binary. ** CAVEAT ** This works on our private Wireless network, and all NeXT workstations with the /etc/route add net * statement. Our corporate network cannot see the private wireless network! I would need to add a static route to the router supporting the NeXT network. Let me know if this works for your Internet connection! Thanks, Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen V. Roller <sroller@roller.seanet.com> Stop by and visit at: Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Draw.app screwing up fax cover sheets Date: 10 Jul 1997 16:23:07 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5q329b$2fr@corporate.hesta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I had made several fax covers using Draw.app several revs ago (like 3.2 or so ) and they worked fine until I tried to open and alter them now under 4.1 and 4.2 using the new Draw.app ... Can anyone corroborate this behavior? It renders elements invisible once saved and selected as the faxcover in the print panel, and if you re-open the file itself, the last letter in each text and/or form entry is missing until resized. Nothing on NeXT answers or release notes... AAARRGGH! -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to set up Renderman printing? Message-ID: <ED3q2I.KE4@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5pquj4$p0v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:47:06 GMT In article <5pquj4$p0v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk writes: > Every time I use a RenderMan-based plotting app, the data displays > nicely on the screen. But whenever I try to print it, I get a panel > asking for a renderer host (which the only choice is localhost), and > then error panel complaining that it can't connect to localhost. What > should I do to get this working? Thanks. > Run RenderManager.app from /NextDeveloper/Demo to set the network info of the rendering host. Default for a standalone conf is 'local'. Since this rendering function was only meant to run on a large network and the apps are considerd demos, they might have forgot to test all possible setups. Now, the thing isn't working properly in the out of the box state. Running RenderManager.app once to set the network info cures the problem. -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk full -- by magic Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:58:34 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970710105433.21991C-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970709171034.271A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970709171034.271A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Robert G. Jacobs wrote: > I came back from a 5 minute break today and had a message on my screen: > ------------------------------------------------------------ > You're running low on disk space. You may want to quit > a few applications or restart your computer to free up space. > ------------------------------------------------------------ [snip] > How could that happen, all of a sudden? I rebooted and am back up to > 248 MB (now that the swapfile is back to 16MB) and all appears fine. Hrm... that is strange. The WM size may not have been updated if it was not 'key' (I've seen this). I think the 'diskspace is low' message comes on when you have ~20megs free (or perhaps it is a % of the total drive??) If the swapfile wasn't growing (how often does WatchSwap update on your machine? It checks every 5 seconds on mine... I think the default is 30. The only other thing I can think of is some process like compiling or un-archiving a large .tar.gz or something else that would have written to the /tmp and filled the system up that way... BTW I think this is a neat feature of OpenStep (I don't _think_ it existed in NeXTStep). TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install NS3.2 on a cube Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:02:12 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970710105944.21991D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: hurley bryan <bhurle1@umbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <5q1e73$cga@umbc8.umbc.edu> On 9 Jul 1997, hurley bryan wrote: > how do I get rid of the Rom password? > > I just took the rom and the battery out, and will go try it in a few > minutes, with them back in. It may take awhile.... depending I think on how new the battery is... I'd try several hours if it needs to. > is there a default password or something? yes: <return> :-) > at current, the machine tries to boot off the network, can't find it and > just sits at "starting daemons" or similiar. it is trying to boot from an ethernet connection (en) rather than the HD (sd -- because it expects a 'scsi device' or 'scsi drive'). In the ROM monitor change the boot command from 'en' to 'sd' -- after you've gotten the HDpassword to go away TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Strange message in Console Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:05:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970710110302.21991E-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Dean Johnson <thrall@serv.net> In-Reply-To: <5q1kmq$kjp$1@brockman.serv.net> On 10 Jul 1997, Dean Johnson wrote: > Lately I have been getting the following message showing up in the > console. It doesn't happen all the time and it doesn't seem to screw > anything up, but I am curious as to what it is. I've seen it, I don't think it is fatal. > The message is: > > Jul 9 20:17:17 thrall netmsgserver[23]: netname_main.msg_send fails, > kr = -102. > Jul 9 20:17:17 thrall netmsgserver[23]: netname_main.port_type fails, > kr = 4. > It happens with OmniWeb, some of the Lighthouse apps, and with > CedarWord. It just started showing up at boot time as well. my WAG(*) is that OW is looking for other copies of OW running on the same network, and therefore is sending out some signal to check for it. I have no idea if this is the case or not, just a conspiracy theory. TjL ps -- WAG means, of course, 'wild ass guess'
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gathering sendmail statistics Date: 10 Jul 1997 18:49:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5q3as6$k7j$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> I am trying to get statistics for sendmail running on my machine (NS 3.3 on black running sendmail 8.7.5). According the the O'Reilly Sendmail Book, I should be able to run the mailstats program and get the info I am looking for. As indicated in the Sendmail Book, I have made sure that a sendmail.st file is declared in the sendmail.cf file and that it exists. Sendmail seems to recognize it and write to it (the time is updated with every sendmail run). However, mailstats does not return anything when run. Is there a problem with the mailstats program which comes with Nextstep? Or might I have a configuration problem? Any help would be appreciated. --Ryan
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: have I ruined my hard drive? Date: 10 Jul 1997 19:41:27 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5q3dt7$h3p$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: format, partition, SCSI, Intel Hi, Well, I've goofed up again. I have an Intel system and I think I've messed up my 4-gb SCSI disk. Sometimes it acts like a 4-gb disk and other times it acts like a 52-mb disk. There are a few really weird things going on here. This is a new drive. I was experimenting with different partitioning schemes. Most of these did not work, but that's another story. At one point I decided to use sdform to reformat the disk (this may be the problem). The program did not complete successfully and soon after that, the system did not recognize my disk. Even DOS did not see this disk when using fdisk. Then I hooked the disk up to a NeXT machine, let the system initialize it, ran sdformat (rather than sdform), and then initialized it again. When hooked up as a secondary disk on the Intel system, the boot log shows the drive capacity as 52 MB. After booting, the whole 4 GB shows up. This I could live with. I assumed that some label got messed up and that it wouldn't affect anything else. Well, it seems to affect loading NS on the disk, and in weird ways. I've tried many times to do a fresh install of NEXTSTEP 3.3 on this disk and it always fails. I get to the panel where I can choose what software I don't wanted installed (e.g. French, Spanish, etc.). The bottom part of the panel shows only 52 MB available. There is a message saying something like "not enough room to install NEXTSTEP" and my choices are Quit or Cancel. Neither one helps. If I choose Quit, it does not quit, but rather just comes back to the same panel. If I choose Cancel, the same thing happens. Finally, I have to just power off the machine. Does anyone know what's wrong and how to solve the problem? This is really frustrating. As an aside, if I hook this same disk up and boot from a "good" disk, I can see all 4 GB and I can use ditto to install a base system and eventually get the system loaded that way, but when I try later to do a fresh install, it still does not work. Here another interesting thing. I just tried booting from a DOS floppy. Using fdisk showed no partitions. I created a small (142-mb) primary DOS partition and then tried again to install NEXTSTEP. I chose the option to install NS in the remaining non-DOS space. This time the panel shows lots of space (4 GB - 142 MB), and NEXTSTEP installs OK. Does anyone understand what's going on here? Am I doing something really dumb? I can live with a small DOS partition. In fact, I thought I might want that. But I don't understand why the install works if I create a DOS partition, but not if I don't. HELP, please! Thank you in advance. Bye, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
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From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk full -- by magic Date: 10 Jul 1997 21:35:15 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5q3kij$155@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970709171034.271A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970710105433.21991C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > BTW I think this is a neat feature of OpenStep (I don't _think_ it existed > in NeXTStep). It did. BTW: it's quite ususal for me that the swapfile eats up my 300 MB free space on my HD. Of course, after a reboot, the 300 Megs are here again... Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine _____________________________________________________________________
From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to adduser? Date: 10 Jul 1997 19:00:01 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <5q3phh$kn6@umbc8.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: unknown just installed a fresh copy of 3.2 on a cube, got it to let me in as root. now how do I add a user? adduser/newuser/makeuser dont work.... eh? thanks bryan
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to adduser? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:58:54 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33C5D9AE.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5q3phh$kn6@umbc8.umbc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: hurley bryan <bhurle1@umbc.edu> hurley bryan wrote: > > just installed a fresh copy of 3.2 on a cube, got it to let me in as root. > > now how do I add a user? adduser/newuser/makeuser dont work.... > > eh? > 1. Give the use "me" a passwort (Preferences). Then you get a loginpanel and can really login as root. 2. Double klick in /NextAdmin/UserManager.app Klick /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/SysAdminManual/05_UserAccounts.rtfd for informations on Users 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\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Seeking advice on transferring OS to new drive Message-ID: <cdoutyED58Lz.ELD@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <33bc3f57.16224958@news.gatech.edu> <01bc8910$bda7bce0$18df9ece@sting> <5pkt8l$m6a$1@news2.digex.net> <5pmt6p$j3e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:25:10 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom6.netcom.com In article <5pmt6p$j3e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > >>Ditto, for example, cannot copy the swapfile.front file... The >>solution I have is a bit hacky but it works... > >Why would you want to? I dunno? Why, or is that a trick question? I recommend "ditto" like several other have. I actually built the system I'm running now via ditto -bom <stuff> from the NS CD-ROMs. I didn't want to use builddisk for various reasons (mostly I couldn't remember how to keep it from formatting my drive or at least to use my special disktab). I ran into a snag when attempting to boot the new OS for the first time. loginwindow.app came up in "install" mode and required some soothing to get into normal operation. My memory is a little fuzzy as to the details; this was several months ago. I think that it came up to the point where the install process asks which optional packages you want to install. I finally selected no additional packages and pressed "Continue." This flipped whatever semaphore loginwindow.app looks for to determine which mode to use and everything orked fine from then on. I do believe that it looks for a file like "first time" or something obvious which the normal CD install coppies on the the root directory. Just delete it and you can probably avoid the while mess. Someone also asked about what you need to do to make the disk bootable. The normal format with "disk" should install the boot block. I'm not too sure about interaction with Intel machine though. I did all my tricks on real black hw. One other thing to look out for using ditto though. If you use the BOM mode to copy files from the CD-ROM you will get a FAT install of the whole OS. I didn't quite realize this until I upgraded the machine I built using ditto and realized that everything is FAT. Now I have to lipo my whole disk! There is an option to ditto to thin the files on the way though, make sure to use it. I just realized what happened. I did use the -arch flag when building the disk, but my BaseSystem.bom listed everything as fat. You'll have to play arround with mkbom, lsbom and friends to fix up your BOM files after the copy. Good luck, Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ups/power fault detection for Next? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:39:32 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970711133731.11210A-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can somebody direct me to a dealer where i can buy such a thing? --- Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: have I ruined my hard drive? Date: 11 Jul 1997 08:40:52 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5q4rik$hkv@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5q3dt7$h3p$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> You might be hit by having 'Unix(/NEXTSTEP)' partitions in contrast to FDISK ones, and the first could be just 152 MB. This would explain most of the phenomenons you describe, to me; I just can't tell how this happened. But maybe if you use the 'disk' command (for information) on this drive it will report more than one partition like sda, sdb, ... and you 'autoload' only the first one. This would also explain that after the FDISK, when the disk is DOS scheme partitioning aware, you get the right amount of diskspace reported - without the FDISK paritition, NS administers the whole disk itself and doesn't write DOS/FDISK partitioning info to the drive, just its own (internal) one, which is incompatible to the FDISK scheme. To collect the whole disk for you (up to a maximum of 2 GB in the sense of 2 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024! not more, you'd have to use a second (UNIX) partition to access the rest) without FDISK partitioning run the 'disk' command for 'reformat' and manually give the right partition size (see man disk, '-p'). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ups/power fault detection for Next? Date: 11 Jul 1997 17:12:32 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5q5pi0$fna$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970711133731.11210A-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de,chuck@benatong.com In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970711133731.11210A-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > Can somebody direct me to a dealer where i can buy such a thing? http://www.benatong.com/ sells PowerGuardian software, which is the only such product I am aware of. Well, that's not true, there's ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Tools/ups/ but I am not sure how well or what UPSes those work with. I've been using PowerGuardian since around Feb or March, and it has justified its cost several times over. In fact I just emailed Charles Bennett <chuck@benatong.com> and Rick Sanford (who sold me a UPS) the other day that I was fixing my primary HD using 'fsck' and the power went down, up, down, and back up during an incredible T-storm. The TV went off, the lights flickered, but both my slab and my Intel never even noticed.... Other than working backups, a UPS is the most overlooked essential part of a system... TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat@peak.org>
From: maury@softarc.com (Maury Markowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Advice on troubleshooting network Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:06:47 -0400 Organization: SoftArc Inc. Message-ID: <maury-1107971406480001@199.166.204.230> Well I've got OS4.2 pretty much running now, but the networking refuses to act nice. The machine is a P166 with PCI, EIDE HD (Wester Digital) and a DEC21140 based ether card. I'm assuming that it's a 100Mb model (although we're on 10Mb) due to a light on the back reading 100M beside the TX and RX lights. I've selected the DECChip 21140 driver, which the OS presented to me automatically. I assume this means that the card is somehow managing to communicate with the system after some fashion. I' not too sure if the drivers for 10Mb and 100Mb really do anything different (anyone know?) so I tried both. No matter what I do I can't seem to "see" anything on the net. I tried a live ether feed on a working machine (NT) to eliminate that possibility, but the system just doesn't seem to see the net. I installed Novell and that comes up in the Net icon, but there's nothing inside it. SNS takes down my info OK (where do I put my DNS address?) but again nothing outside appears. There's really no error messages either. The Novell startup simply tells me it won't be running until I reboot - even after a reboot. SNS says pretty much nothing. Soooo, where too from here? I tried a few CLI utils like ftp, but no luck. Is there something a little more "to the metal" I should be using to diagnose the problem? Maury
From: "Eric D. Lopez" <elopez@icsi.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Performance NS3.3 vs OS4.2 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:59:54 -0700 Organization: International Computer Science Institute Message-ID: <33C682AA.23EE@icsi.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would like to know the performance differences between NS3.3 and OS 4.2. I currently have a 040/25 Dimension Cube with 64MB/32MB Ram. What major application break between the two OS? Also I am wondering is it possible to install Developer 3.3 on User 3.2 ? If so what are the problems and solutions. Thank you in Advance -- Eric D. Lopez ---- Systems Administrator Int'l Comp. Science Inst. (ICSI), 1947 Center Street, #600, Berkeley, CA 94704 PH: (510) 643-9153 ---- FAX: (510) 643-7684 PGP Key fingerprint = F7 77 27 18 62 0D FE D2 45 E8 A9 7D AB 00 F6 2C PGP public key available by fingering elopez@icsi.berkeley.edu
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unix Expert Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:25:34 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970711120844.318A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In the "Expert Preferences" section of the Preferences app, there is a box for "UNIX Expert." When I play with dotfile I do it from the commandline, so I unchecked the box. However, I still see all my dotfiles in the Workspace File Viewer. When I first unchecked it, the dotfiles disappeared for awhile, but then reappeared shortly. I have done this several times and it is repeatable. Any ideas? Thanks. Rob rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: tennant@alph.msfc.nasa.gov (Allyn Tennant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cogent/Adaptec ethernet card problem Date: 11 Jul 1997 23:27:24 GMT Organization: NASA/MSFC Message-ID: <5q6fgs$ddp$1@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov> I have two new machines both with a similar ethernet problem. In brief, if a new machine is connected to a small network (via a thinwire, i.e, coax) it will boot and communicate with other machines just fine. As soon as I unplug the terminator and connect the network to the local (MSFC) LAN, the new machine is no longer able to communicate with any other machine. Other machines on the local segment will still communicate (ping, nfs, rlogin, etc all work). BTW if I try booting fully connected to the MSFC LAN, it always hangs when trying to start the network (at the type ^C to continue without a network location). I've tried 3 IP addresses, one from a working machine that I switched off to steal it's address, and the other two were given to me as unused. Hence I don't think it can be an IP address conflict. (I've also tried lots of other things). By swaping ethernet cards, the problem swaps machines, hence there is something about the card. Of course, the IP address goes with the card, whereas the local netinfo database is on the disk which, of course, was not swapped so a little care/common sense is needed. The two cards that I am swapping are both Cogent EM960C. One was purchased a year ago, whereas the other is very recent. The cards look almost identical. It appears that Cogent was bought by Adaptec, so the manual is now printed by Adaptec and the model number is now (I think) ANA 6901 Combo. The print on the cards both say "emaster", with identical layouts, only a couple of minor chips are from a different vendor. Does anyone recognize the problem and have a fix (other than getting a 3Com card)? Does anyone know if there have been minor tweaks to the Cogent/Adaptec boards recently that could cause this type of problem? Maybe someone knows of a new driver (I've tried versions 3.37 and 4.02). A call to Adaptec technical support was a waste. After 20 mins of menus and being on hold, I was cut off, so I never got a human. So either hundreds of people have the problem or the one guy that does Unix ethernet problems was off for a while.... Thanks, Allyn
From: Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gathering sendmail statistics Date: 12 Jul 1997 00:35:42 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Message-ID: <5q6jgu$1pj@chile.earthlink.net> References: <5q3as6$k7j$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu In <5q3as6$k7j$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan Scott wrote: > I am trying to get statistics for sendmail running on my machine (NS > 3.3 on black running sendmail 8.7.5). According the the O'Reilly > Sendmail Book, I should be able to run the mailstats program and get > the info I am looking for. As indicated in the Sendmail Book, I have > made sure that a sendmail.st file is declared in the sendmail.cf file > and that it exists. Sendmail seems to recognize it and write to it > (the time is updated with every sendmail run). However, mailstats > does not return anything when run. Is there a problem with the > mailstats program which comes with Nextstep? Or might I have a > configuration problem? Side note: You might want to look at FileSpy.app, probably at the next-peak site. I have it running all the time when my link is up (reading the syslog). Don't know what stats your looking for, though. I get all the stats for incoming/outgoing. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" - Be well, Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: Austin Schutz <tex@collegenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Booting from da net Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 19:31:27 -0700 Organization: Structured Network Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <33C6EC7F.387F@collegenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been looking around for a document describing how one might go about getting a Nextstep 3.3 box to boot off the network from something other than a Next server. I've been battling it out with my Linux box at home. Here's what I've got so far: I got the next box to successfully yank it's ip address and the file it needs to boot from bootp. It not-very-nicely prepends two leading slashes making //mach from mach, which makes Linux's tftpd a little angry. This I fixed by hacking tftpd to not care. Now it gets the filename but complains about unknown architecture. I've tried forcing the tftpd to send both in binary and ascii mode but no luck so far. I've had it try to get mach, odmach and sdmach w/out success. Any ideas how I might do it or where I might find a faq by someone who has? I'm a bit of a Next newbie but I've looked in what appears to be the usual places. Oh.. and what's with the link from mach -> $BOOTFILE? There is no environment BOOTFILE in either the prom settings or the environment as far as I can tell. Pretty gosh darn bizarre if you ask me. Thank you so much for sitting through the better part of a boring post :-) Austin P.S. Mr Jobs, please make Rhapsody be X compatible so I don't have to goof around with with things that hack it on top of Postscript.
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From: dwy@ace.net (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unix Expert Date: 12 Jul 1997 09:15:47 GMT Organization: 21st Century Software, New York City Sender: daver@ts2-12.nj.cnct.com Message-ID: <5q7i03$pk5$1@darla.visi.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970711120844.318A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jul 1997 04:15:47 CDT Cc: rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU In <Pine.NXT.3.96.970711120844.318A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G. Jacobs" wrote: > In the "Expert Preferences" section of the Preferences app, there is a box > for "UNIX Expert." When I play with dotfile I do it from the commandline, > so I unchecked the box. However, I still see all my dotfiles in the > Workspace File Viewer. When I first unchecked it, the dotfiles > disappeared for awhile, but then reappeared shortly. I have done this > several times and it is repeatable. I've noticed that if you can get the File Viewer to display a path that would be hidden by UNIX Newbie mode in the main window, it reverts back to UNIX Expert mode. This is irritating and I haven't figured out a way around it except "Don't select stuff in /usr and /tmp when in the main viewer". Ah well. -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net :: :: independant software and network guy ::::: new york, new york :: :: PGP fingerprint :: 89F5 E75D 4749 3FF4 :: ED92 1B6D 9871 9B93 ::
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Seeking comments of experience with OpenStep 1.0 on Solaris Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <ED5rK2.67r@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:14:26 GMT References: <ECq525.9sA@prosoft.com> <5q0j74$9qs$1@owl.slip.net> <cdoutyED2I89.Bq0@netcom.com> <5q1r3q$qhq@portal.gmu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5q1r3q$qhq@portal.gmu.edu>, Tim <tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu> wrote: >Question for folks in this thread, I have heard there's a cg3 hack >out there somewhere for Sol OpenStep. Does anyone know where I can >find it? > This isn't for Solaris OpenStep (Solaris likes the cg3 just fine) but for OPENSTEP for Mach/SPARC. I don't really know more. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME 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: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+next@luomat.peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unix Expert Date: 12 Jul 1997 20:04:21 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5q8o05$ked$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970711120844.318A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> <5q7i03$pk5$1@darla.visi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dwy@ace.net In <5q7i03$pk5$1@darla.visi.com> David Young wrote: > I've noticed that if you can get the File Viewer to display a path that would > be hidden by UNIX Newbie mode in the main window, it reverts back to UNIX > Expert mode. This is irritating and I haven't figured out a way around it > except "Don't select stuff in /usr and /tmp when in the main viewer". Ah > well. I have a TickleService called 'Open Folder' that brings up an 'Open' panel and then allows me to select any folder and open it as its own window. It is simply this: set filename [dirpanel -directory $HOME -title "Open Folder" -return ] exec open $filename/. It has no 'return' types set. TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat@peak.org>
From: ian_cardenas@BLaCKSMITH.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unix Expert Date: 12 Jul 1997 21:20:14 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5q8sef$2to$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5q7i03$pk5$1@darla.visi.com> David Young writes > > I've noticed that if you can get the File Viewer to display a path that would > be hidden by UNIX Newbie mode in the main window, it reverts back to UNIX > Expert mode. This is irritating and I haven't figured out a way around it > except "Don't select stuff in /usr and /tmp when in the main viewer". Ah > well. > If you update the file viewer (View->update Viewers or cmd-u) after viewing a "UNIX file" it will revert to the normal - non-expert - view. I use this all the time so that I leave UNIX expert off and can hit type '/tmp' to pop into UNIX expert mode ('/' wil bring up the find panel) and then hit cmd-u to clear out all the dot-files. Hope this helps, -- Ian P. Cardenas (ian_cardenas@BLaCKSMITH.com) BLaCKSMITH, inc. Software Engineer "I am of the opinion that pizza and beer together are far superior to either in isolation." -James E. Quick on the Apple/NeXT merger
From: "Greg Meece" <gregm@pcdocs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting AppleTalk driver for Intel OpenSTEP Date: 9 Jul 1997 14:48:56 GMT Organization: PC DOCS, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc8c76$d76855e0$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> Here's one URL for the driver on Intel: <ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/macintosh/CAPer.V8.I.b.t ar.gz> -- Greg Meece SQA Engineer PC DOCS, Inc. 124 Marriott Drive Tallahassee, FL 32301
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: AppleTalk support in OS 4.x? Message-ID: <ED9JvE.JyI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc8626$443da0a0$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:18:49 GMT In article <01bc8626$443da0a0$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> "Greg Meece" <gregm@pcdocs.com> writes: > I have the "Prelude to Rhapsody" release (AKA 4.2) for Intel. > The SysAdmin manual says there's support for AppleTalk (and even > details configuring it), but I can't find a driver or install > package anywhere on the CD or on my HD after the install. Does > NeXT still support this? > Well known documentation bug. The referred features were discontinued after a brief stunt in rather buggy NS 3.0 (the last time NeXT cleared its name by releasing a cheaper bug fix upgrade; OS 4.0 went on unabriged >:-/ If you want/need Ethertalk support for NS/OS you can get CAPer from the known archives. And it is much ritcher and more stable than the old NeXT software. -- 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: Marco Cappuccio <nocturno@i-2000.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep on Virtual PC? Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:18:10 -0400 Organization: I-2000 Inc., Internet Services Message-ID: <33C91BD8.B73492DC@i-2000.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone tried installing OpenStep 4.2 with Mach for Intel on a Macintosh running Virtual PC? I got it up and running. It's slow. Too slow to be usable. Does anyone have a few performance improvement tips? What daemons can I delete from the startup to improve performance without crippling the system. When running Windows 95 Virtual PC "feels" like a 486 DX2/66. Is that too slow of a system for OpenStep Mach? I'm also stuck in 640x480 x2 video. Changing the configuration in configure.app and reinstalling the driver doesn't help. Virtual PC emulates a S3 928 PCI SVGA video chip set with 2 MB of video ram. OpenStep appears to have recognized this but it is stuck in the default video mode. Experience with Virtual PC shows that matching the video display mode to that of the Mac has a considerable speed boost. Thanks for your help. From a NeXT novice, Marco Cappuccio
From: luomat+next+usenet@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dev tools on separate HD Date: 13 Jul 1997 19:02:25 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5qb8o1$n41$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii HD #1 is the HD I am using now as the boot disk HD #2 is the HD I was using as the boot disk, which is now mounted as /Disk/. #2 has the developer tools on it. I need to use it, but don't have room on #1 to install it. Can I link the Dev tools from #2 to #1? If so, how do I figure out all the files that need to be linked? Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org>
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From: a17@a.a Subject: $$ NEW SYSTEM, BETTER THAN "ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST" $ Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: 9 Message-ID: <33c92486.0@news.unibe.ch> Date: 13 Jul 97 18:55:02 GMT I have participated in the standard "Please put me on your mailing list" letter and found it to be worth my time (I get 1 or 2 handfulls or letters every day) but I also found that it's results were nowhere near what I expected due mainly to people not sending in the money but rather spreading the letter without paying for it. I participated in that mainly as an experiment and found that there are a tremendous amount of people willing to do it. I thought about how to, first, eliminate the "non-pay" problem and, second, to create a monthly income. I came upon the solution and decided to start a new program. I decided that there were 3 things that this new program needed in order to work for everyone and they were: 1.) It needed to be very simple and easy for anyone to do, and, 2.) It needed to be inexpensive enough for even the poorest of people, and, 3.) It needs to be DUPLICATABLE. I think you will find this program to meet those requirements. I have put lots of thought into it and I ask that you PLEASE do NOT modify it. This WILL WORK if you follow it. This system is based on the unconditional "loaning" of money to people. Simply say, "I am loaning you this $2 as an act of goodwill to help you in your financial need, you may pay me back if and when you can." You should find 5 or more people who will send $2 to the 5 needy people on this list AND MAINTAIN 5 or more people who will do the same. You should put your name on postition number 5 and move each of the other names up one position. The name originally on position number 1 gets removed. You should be able to contact each of your 5 or more people to see if they are going to be active this month. If not then you need to find one or more people to be active in order to maintain at least 5. I am not speaking about the 5 people on the list but rather the 5 new people you have found. I would highly suggest having more than 5 in any given month. Now I know that this would be extremely easy to do since I can think of at least 20 people myself who will do this consistently. The key is to maintain at LEAST 5 active people. If you don't then you can't expect for the rest of the people to do it either and you can't expect for this system to work. This system is a no-brainer, and if someone can't afford the $10 + stamps for this then they truly ARE in need! It is OK to use the internet to find people but I think it would be easier to find them through people that you know. This way it will be easier for you to contact them every month to ask about their being active, unless someone is willing to give you their e-mail address. Here are some numbers: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 4 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 4 people = $8, Total now $8 Level 2: $2 x 16 people = $32, Total now $8 + $32 = $40 Level 3: $2 x 64 people = $128, Total now $8 + $32 + $128 = $168 Level 4: $2 x 256 people = $512, Total now $8 + $32 + $128 + $512 = $680 Level 5: $2 x 1024 people = $2048, Total now $8 + $32 + $128 + $512 + $2048 = *** $2728 *** Yearly income: $2728 x 12 months = $32,736 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 5 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 5 people = $10, Total now $10 Level 2: $2 x 25 people = $50, Total now $10 + $50 = $60 Level 3: $2 x 125 people = $250, Total now $10 + $50 + $250 = $310 Level 4: $2 x 500 people = $1000, Total now $10 + $50 + $250 + $1000 = $1310 Level 5: $2 x 2500 people = $5000, Total now $10 + $50 + $250 + $1000 + $5000 = *** $6310 *** Yearly income: $6310 x 12 months = $75,720 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 6 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 6 people = $12, Total now $12 Level 2: $2 x 36 people = $72, Total now $12 + $72 = $84 Level 3: $2 x 216 people = $432, Total now $12 + $72 + $432 = $516 Level 4: $2 x 1296 people = $2592, Total now $12 + $72 + $432 + $2592 = $3108 Level 5: $2 x 7776 people = $15552, Total now $12 + $72 + $432 + $2592 + $15552 = *** $18660 *** Yearly income: $18660 x 12 months = $223,920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 7 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 7 people = $14, Total now $14 Level 2: $2 x 49 people = $98, Total now $14 + $98 = $112 Level 3: $2 x 343 people = $686, Total now $14 + $98 + $686 = $798 Level 4: $2 x 2401 people = $4802, Total now $14 + $98 + $686 + $4802 = $5600 Level 5: $2 x 16807 people = $33614, Total now $14 + $98 + $686 + $4802 + $33614 = *** $39214 *** Yearly income: $39214 x 12 months = $470,568 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep in mind that it does not matter what day of the month that someone chooses to be active. It DOES matter that they are active on that day EVERY month. The key to this is DUPLICATION! You must treat this as a business. If you treat it like a hobby that is how it will treat you. You could even organize small meetings with your people and their prospects and work with your leaders. Think of how easy this would be for you, how reasonable this is, and of how good the chances are of it working for you. You may need to hire someone to open all the envelopes. NOTE: I decided on $2 instead of $1 because it is more feasible and it won't matter much for someone to send $2 as opposed to $1. Also I was against $5 as that becomes too expensive to duplicate. Mail $2 every month with a piece of paper saying "I am loaning you this $2 as an act of goodwill to help you in your financial need, you may pay me back if and when you can" to the following needy people: #1 Robert Jezil 114 Jefferson Ave. Slidell, LA 70460 #2 Phil Walther Jr. 9495 Annapolis Lane North Maple Grove, MN 55369 #3 C. E. Burkman 170 University Ave. W Suite 12-129 Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3E9 #4 A. Bailey 1207 Reeves Road Plainfield, IN 46168 #5 J. Martin P.O. Box 2292 Reston, Va. 20195
From: a15@a.a Subject: $$ LOAN BUSINESS, EASY MONTHLY INCOME, NO BRAINER $$$ Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: 1 Message-ID: <33c92495.1@news.unibe.ch> Date: 13 Jul 97 18:55:17 GMT I have participated in the standard "Please put me on your mailing list" letter and found it to be worth my time (I get 1 or 2 handfulls or letters every day) but I also found that it's results were nowhere near what I expected due mainly to people not sending in the money but rather spreading the letter without paying for it. I participated in that mainly as an experiment and found that there are a tremendous amount of people willing to do it. I thought about how to, first, eliminate the "non-pay" problem and, second, to create a monthly income. I came upon the solution and decided to start a new program. I decided that there were 3 things that this new program needed in order to work for everyone and they were: 1.) It needed to be very simple and easy for anyone to do, and, 2.) It needed to be inexpensive enough for even the poorest of people, and, 3.) It needs to be DUPLICATABLE. I think you will find this program to meet those requirements. I have put lots of thought into it and I ask that you PLEASE do NOT modify it. This WILL WORK if you follow it. This system is based on the unconditional "loaning" of money to people. Simply say, "I am loaning you this $2 as an act of goodwill to help you in your financial need, you may pay me back if and when you can." You should find 5 or more people who will send $2 to the 5 needy people on this list AND MAINTAIN 5 or more people who will do the same. You should put your name on postition number 5 and move each of the other names up one position. The name originally on position number 1 gets removed. You should be able to contact each of your 5 or more people to see if they are going to be active this month. If not then you need to find one or more people to be active in order to maintain at least 5. I am not speaking about the 5 people on the list but rather the 5 new people you have found. I would highly suggest having more than 5 in any given month. Now I know that this would be extremely easy to do since I can think of at least 20 people myself who will do this consistently. The key is to maintain at LEAST 5 active people. If you don't then you can't expect for the rest of the people to do it either and you can't expect for this system to work. This system is a no-brainer, and if someone can't afford the $10 + stamps for this then they truly ARE in need! It is OK to use the internet to find people but I think it would be easier to find them through people that you know. This way it will be easier for you to contact them every month to ask about their being active, unless someone is willing to give you their e-mail address. Here are some numbers: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 4 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 4 people = $8, Total now $8 Level 2: $2 x 16 people = $32, Total now $8 + $32 = $40 Level 3: $2 x 64 people = $128, Total now $8 + $32 + $128 = $168 Level 4: $2 x 256 people = $512, Total now $8 + $32 + $128 + $512 = $680 Level 5: $2 x 1024 people = $2048, Total now $8 + $32 + $128 + $512 + $2048 = *** $2728 *** Yearly income: $2728 x 12 months = $32,736 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 5 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 5 people = $10, Total now $10 Level 2: $2 x 25 people = $50, Total now $10 + $50 = $60 Level 3: $2 x 125 people = $250, Total now $10 + $50 + $250 = $310 Level 4: $2 x 500 people = $1000, Total now $10 + $50 + $250 + $1000 = $1310 Level 5: $2 x 2500 people = $5000, Total now $10 + $50 + $250 + $1000 + $5000 = *** $6310 *** Yearly income: $6310 x 12 months = $75,720 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 6 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 6 people = $12, Total now $12 Level 2: $2 x 36 people = $72, Total now $12 + $72 = $84 Level 3: $2 x 216 people = $432, Total now $12 + $72 + $432 = $516 Level 4: $2 x 1296 people = $2592, Total now $12 + $72 + $432 + $2592 = $3108 Level 5: $2 x 7776 people = $15552, Total now $12 + $72 + $432 + $2592 + $15552 = *** $18660 *** Yearly income: $18660 x 12 months = $223,920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monthly income model per level and total for maintaining 7 active members @ $2 each: Level 1: $2 x 7 people = $14, Total now $14 Level 2: $2 x 49 people = $98, Total now $14 + $98 = $112 Level 3: $2 x 343 people = $686, Total now $14 + $98 + $686 = $798 Level 4: $2 x 2401 people = $4802, Total now $14 + $98 + $686 + $4802 = $5600 Level 5: $2 x 16807 people = $33614, Total now $14 + $98 + $686 + $4802 + $33614 = *** $39214 *** Yearly income: $39214 x 12 months = $470,568 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep in mind that it does not matter what day of the month that someone chooses to be active. It DOES matter that they are active on that day EVERY month. The key to this is DUPLICATION! You must treat this as a business. If you treat it like a hobby that is how it will treat you. You could even organize small meetings with your people and their prospects and work with your leaders. Think of how easy this would be for you, how reasonable this is, and of how good the chances are of it working for you. You may need to hire someone to open all the envelopes. NOTE: I decided on $2 instead of $1 because it is more feasible and it won't matter much for someone to send $2 as opposed to $1. Also I was against $5 as that becomes too expensive to duplicate. Mail $2 every month with a piece of paper saying "I am loaning you this $2 as an act of goodwill to help you in your financial need, you may pay me back if and when you can" to the following needy people: #1 Robert Jezil 114 Jefferson Ave. Slidell, LA 70460 #2 Phil Walther Jr. 9495 Annapolis Lane North Maple Grove, MN 55369 #3 C. E. Burkman 170 University Ave. W Suite 12-129 Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3E9 #4 A. Bailey 1207 Reeves Road Plainfield, IN 46168 #5 J. Martin P.O. Box 2292 Reston, Va. 20195
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